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Chamber, Classical Music
Live Review

Review: The Class of ’85 (Bach Akademie Australia)

Music from great composers born in the same year makes for a zesty survey of the German, French and Italian Baroque styles.

May 31, 2025
Vocal & Choral
Live Review

Review: Hark! (The Song Company)

A nativity-themed program of sublime singing, complex harmonies and exemplary musicianship.

November 30, 2024
Classical Music
Live Review

Review: Bach’s Christmas Oratorio (Bach Akademie Australia)

It is fashionable to marginalise European composers of the past, but Bach’s music still electrifies and BAA is doing invaluable work keeping his brilliance alive.

November 9, 2024
Chamber, Classical Music
Live Review

Review: Bach – the Benefactor (Bach Akademie Australia)

J.S. Bach's work as a teacher and mentor is spot lit in Bach Akademie Australia's season opening concert for 2024.

April 16, 2024
Classical Music
Live Review

Review: Temperament (Bach Akademie Australia & Sydney Festival)

Madeleine Easton’s Akademie band gives this Bach mini-festival an intimate and fitting lift-off.

January 24, 2024
Classical Music
Live Review

Review: Music in the Castle of Heaven (Bach Akademie Australia)

Bach Akademie Australia celebrates the tercentenary of the composer's appointment to his longest and most successful job.

November 21, 2023
Chamber, Classical Music, Vocal & Choral
news

The Song Company announces 2024 season

For the ensemble's 40th anniversary, its new co-Directors offer four bold programs - and a monumental Australian centrepiece.

October 24, 2023
Vocal & Choral
Live Review

Review: Songs from a Strange Land (The Song Company)

The Song Company pays homage to the enduring brilliance of the English composer William Byrd, 400 years after his death.

October 9, 2023
Classical Music
Live Review

Review: Bach A Child of the Stars (Bach Akademie Australia)

The lecture-recital format may divide opinion, but Bach Akademie's music lifted hearts and souls heavenwards.

September 23, 2023
Chamber, Classical Music
Live Review

Review: Of Fairies and Fools (Canberra International Music Festival)

A satisfying selection of musical fairy tales and nursery rhymes in a program that didn't quite cohere.

May 5, 2023
Chamber, Vocal & Choral
Live Review

Review: Bach at Easter – Missa Brevis in F (Bach Akademie Australia)

Bach Akademie Australia's Easter presentation sets a new measure of excellence for baroque vocal performance.

March 25, 2023
Classical Music, Vocal & Choral
news

The Song Company announces 2023 season

From sacred music to intimate promises, three touring programs explore the astonishing breadth and diversity of vocal music, across Australia and around the world.

February 3, 2023
Chamber, Classical Music, Vocal & Choral
Live Review

Review: Grazie In Grazia (Bach Akademie Australia)

Madeleine Easton’s recreation of Monteverdi’s thanksgiving for the end of the plague hits home with Sydney audiences.

November 17, 2022

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