Brooke Green wins 2019 UNSW Jonathan Blakeman National Composition Prize
The composer, who is the second ever winner of the $5000 biennial award, will have her work performed by the Australia Ensemble.
The composer, who is the second ever winner of the $5000 biennial award, will have her work performed by the Australia Ensemble.
Tributes are flowing in from the music community for the pioneering former judge and extraordinary arts philanthropist, who has died aged 78.
The musicologist, author and critic passed away in Sydney at the age of 88.
The rising star composer will have the opportunity to write two works for the Australia Ensemble over 12 months.
It celebrates its 40th year with six inventive programs next year.
This double CD presents some of Mozart’s best-loved instrumental works but in arrangements that will be unfamiliar to most modern listeners. However, 200 years ago it wasn't so easy to listen to works in their original incarnations. Thus it is in anonymous 19th- century arrangements for string quintet and sextet that members of the Australia Ensemble (basically the Goldner Quartet with another musician or two) present these works. I must admit to having only heard Grieg’s arrangement of the familiar Sonata facile No 16 for two pianos, in a fine live performance by Argerich and Anderszewski (EMI) and while Julie Adam and Daniel Herscovitch may lack some of their flashy virtuosity, they make a convincing and sympathetic case for this and the other three sonatas presented here. The other works date from much earlier in the 19th century by now unknown composers. In the case of the Sinfonia concertante, the work is scored for much reduced forces – in fact one instrument per part. All of these arrangements were made in order that the works be heard and similarly as string players were more common than virtuosic clarinettists, the much loved Clarinet Quintet took on a new life as a string quintet. So, as…