Hough rocks the Rach Pag while Edwards' Earth Spirit Songs soar again.

Get your copy of Limelight Magazine's July 2018 edition featuring Slava Grigoryan, Jennifer Higdon, Ross Edwards, and the women composers with a score to to settle.

Ahead of his birthday celebrations, the beloved Australian composer talks about studying with Sculthorpe, finding his muse, and the spiritual world that infuses his music.

The July 2018 issue of Limelight Magazine features guitar virtuoso Slava Grigoryan on why family is at the heart of music.

Australian compositions may not immediately spring to mind when you consider the great 20th-century symphonies but, argues Rhoderick McNeill, there is a significant body of work worth celebrating.

Ross Edwards’ emerald sparkles between Schubert and Shostakovich in a high-energy outing from the Australia Piano Quartet.

To expand an earlier piano quartet, the composer wrangled the sounds of summer, a 9th-century hymn and a parrot's shriek.

Australian music, Ross Edwards celebrates a milestone birthday, and a new music micro festival in CRH’s 2018. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in

The pianist will explore this question and more through the premieres of four new works in a setting of Lisztian opulence. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in

Bold, high-energy Grieg from Kraggerud and the ACO.

Ahead of his Musica Viva Festival, the Artistic Director talks about the allure of intimate performer-audience relationships.

Named for an Aboriginal word meaning pipe or flute, Ulpirra Sonatines places Ross Edwards and Mark Isaacs – who joins flautist Melissa Doecke on this disc – alongside Poulenc and Dutilleux. The disc opens with the lush first movement of Isaacs’ Sonatine, Doecke soaring over Isaacs’ undulating piano. The recording catches the complex edge of Doecke’s sound as she produces ethereal harmonics and earthy flutter-tonguing. Isaacs’ The River for alto flute and piano revels in the velvet sound of the lower instrument, while providing plenty of opportunity for Doecke to sweep up through the range with a light, flitting agility. The colour and virtuosity of Edwards’ Nura has no doubt contributed to its popularity in the flute repertoire. Wild Bird Morning channels Messiaen while Ocean Idyll is eerily tranquil. In this performance the normally fiery Earth Dance is given a carefully paced, detailed treatment. Doecke’s clean sound winds meditatively above gently flowing water in Edwards’ Water Spirit Song, originally a work for cello, while Ulpirra dances playfully. After this, it is jolting to be thrust into 20th-century neo-classicism with Poulenc’s oft-performed Sonata. Doecke’s tone is honeyed, however, as she… Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe…