Review: Corelli’s Band: Violin Sonatas (Augusta McKay Lodge)
Baroque violinist sheds light on the music of lesser-known followers of Corelli.
January 11, 2021
Review: Hans Werner Henze: Der Prinz von Homburg
Important 20th-century opera, well sung if uninterestingly staged.
December 29, 2020
Review: Alexander Kastalsky: Requiem
Kastalsky’s grand design is a powerful plea for the coming together of nations.
October 9, 2020
Review: Guarnieri: Choros I, Seresta
The "Brazilian Mozart" offers an alternative to Villa-Lobos.
October 6, 2020
Review: Stefano Landi: La Morte d’Orfeo (Dutch National Opera)
Audi’s swansong makes compelling case for Orfeo II, Revenge of the Maenads.
September 26, 2020
Review: Monteverdi: Complete Madrigals (Delitiae Musicae)
All-male performances show Monteverdi's madrigals in a new light.
September 24, 2020
Review: Douglas Weiland: String Quartets Nos 4 & 5 (The Melbourne Quartet)
ASQ founder’s quartets offer a delightful chamber music discovery.
September 14, 2020
Review: Bluetongue – Australian Guitar Quartets (Guitar Trek)
Live long and prosper with Guitar Trek’s homegrown Australian classics.
September 3, 2020
Vocal & Choral
Review: Michael Daugherty: This Land Sings (Dogs of Desire, David Alan Miller)
Woodie Guthrie inspires a musical monument for our troubled times.
August 28, 2020
Review: Dmytro Choni Piano Laureate Recital
Fashionably late recital by Choni brings piano heavy-hitters to life.
August 26, 2020
Review: Thomas Adès: Works for Solo Piano (Han Chen)
Han Chen delights in surface detail but misses Thomas Adès’ darker depths.
August 16, 2020
Review: Lucas Debargue: To Music
A year in the life of a most interesting young man
July 26, 2020
Review: Shostakovich: The Bedbug & Love and Hate
The young Shostakovich's incidental music for Mayakovsky's farcical play proves a delight.
March 17, 2020