After the last year’s ceremony was moved online, the 2022 ARIA Awards returned in-person to honour a web of powerful musical collaborations across last year. William Barton, the Australian Chamber Orchestra and Joseph Tawadros, who picked up awards, are familiar faces at the ceremony, while seminal Australian composer Carl Vine received his first win.

The Best Classical Album was awarded to The Enchanted Loom, featuring orchestral works from Carl Vine performed by Melbourne Symphony Orchestra under Sir Andrew Davis. The eponymous symphony is Vine’s eighth and refers to the term used by British neuroscientist Charles Sherrington to describe the patterns and interaction of the human brain.

Commissioned by the MSO while Vine served as its 2018 Composer in Residence, the album features a recording of its world premiere. The album received a Limelight Editor’s Choice selection in October – reviewer Will Yeoman gave the album 4 ½ stars, noting the “fine performances of works by one of Australia’s most cerebral and yet most accessible composers”.

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