The soprano and mezzo pair – who are close friends off stage – return to St George's Cathedral in a much-anticipated follow up to their Diva’s Delight concert two years ago.
Joseph Nolan saw colleagues’ jaws drop when he decided to move from London to Perth in 2008, but thanks to some enlightened West Australians, his cathedral, choir and career haven’t looked back.
The Perth-based organist's album Midnight at St Etienne du Mont is Limelight's Recording of the Month for March.
Music of the night: Perth’s prestidigitator conjures up some musical wizardry after dark.
The Queen of Sheba's long-awaited Perth arrival doesn't disappoint.
Ahead of its WA premiere, the organist reckons Handel’s oratorio offers more than just The Queen of Sheba’s ubiquitous arrival. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
Joseph Nolan brings his monumental Widow series to the gentlest of ends.
Perth Cathedral's Master of Music will finesse the Town Hall's mighty instrument for a whole week of French organ grandeur.
Walton's The Twelve the highlight in the Consort's latest offering.
Joseph Nolan pulls out all the stops and is 'knighted' for his pains.
Joseph Nolan plans to welcome the Queen of Sheba amongst a programme ranging from Bach to Britten. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
The fifth volume in Perth organist Joseph Nolan’s magisterial survey.
I’m not sure Charles-Marie Widor would have liked to be remembered simply as the man whose Toccata provides happy couples with the second most popular wedding recessional in history. But there’s not much danger of that with organists the calibre of UK-born Joseph Nolan (currently Organist and Master of the Choristers at St George’s Cathedral, Perth) keeping the sacred flame burning. Nolan here offers the first fruits of seven nocturnal recording sessions in a row, during which he put down all ten of Widor’s organ symphonies at the console of the superb four-manual, 60-stop, 4426-pipe Cavaillé-Coll organ of La Madeleine, Paris. The first two symphonies of Widor’s Opus 42 are grandly Romantic, five-movement behemoths that balance huge multicoloured edifices of devilish complexity with softer-lit landscapes populated by angelic choirs of varying dimensions. Nolan hovers over all like some musical demiurge, fleet of feet and fingers as he negotiates the massive chords and filigree passagework of faster movements such as the closing Vivace of Symphony No 6; thoughtful and sensitive yet smouldering with creative tension in slower movements such as the multi-faceted Andantino quasi allegretto and mellifluous Fifth Symphony Adagio. And “that” Toccata, with which the Fifth… Continue reading Get unlimited…
