Gillham puts the romance back into Bach with a little help from his transcribers.

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The Aussie Heldentenor digs deep into his experience bank to offer insights into Rienzi, Lohengrin, Parsifal and Tristan. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in

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Jayson Gillham: Lion Tamer: The Aussie pianist takes on two fairly fearsome musical beasts and wins.

It’s Bach, Jim, but not always as we know it.

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Jayson Gillham is a 30-year-old pianist, originally from Queensland, who is now based in London. He has won several prizes, and his career is progressing nicely as he performs solo recitals, concertos and works with various chamber groups including the Jerusalem Quartet. He won the 2014 Montreal International Music Competition with a performance of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No 4, a work he recently played in Sydney as part of a national tour. Two previous solo discs are available on his website. At the 2016 Perth International Festival, a reviewer remarked on Gillham’s “bell-like tone and… sense of expressive lyricism”. The former is certainly in evidence in this recital from ABC Classics. It informs the final Allegro movement of Schubert’s A Major Sonata, D664, giving the music a fresh and unbridled pastoral feeling. Gillham captures the improvisatory style of Bach’s Toccata, BWV911, and once the work is fully underway his playing has real sinew and finely controlled momentum. Young pianists today (unless they are geniuses like Trifonov) fall into one of two broad approaches: either they attack music in a deconstructive way to make it sound newly minted, or they see themselves as part of a long concertising… Continue reading Get…

Jessica Cottis wrangles a fine ensemble of young Australian musicians in London.

★★★★☆ Tate and Gillham make a memorable evening for an orchestra celebrating 80 years of music making. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in

★★★★½ Aussie piano wunderkind’s chronological, conventional programme is a winner. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in