Review: Musicians and Addiction: Research and Recovery Stories (Dr Paul Saintilan, Ed.)
Musicians and Addiction looks at the implications of addiction for individual musicians and the industry of which they are a part.
July 2, 2020
Brett Allen-Bayes
Educated at Adelaide and Sydney universities. Radio – presenter and production at 5UV and 5MBS. Winner of SA Bilby award. Writing since the early 1990s and published in DB and Rhythms magazine as well as Limelight since 2014. Liner notes for Artworks and ABC Classics.
Articles by Brett Allen-Bayes
Review: David Lang: The Loser (Bang on a Can Opera Ensemble)
Lang’s new opera counts the cost of knowing Glenn Gould.
June 22, 2020
Review: Incantation (Virgil Boutellis-Taft)
Strong tonal palette, but arrangements and choices prove less successful.
June 11, 2020
Review: Adès Conducts Adès (Thomas Adès, Boston Symphony Orchestra)
Thomas Adès’s complex new works benefit from the master’s touch.
June 1, 2020
Review: The Soldier: From Severn to Somme (Christopher Maltman, Joseph Middleton)
Maltman ranges the continent in search of war and its victims.
April 16, 2020
Review: William Robinson: A New Perspective (Nick Earls)
One craftsman pays tribute to another in a unique novella.
April 9, 2020
Review: Composer & Citizen 2 & One Among Many (Adelaide Festival, UKARIA Cultural Centre)
A very rare afternoon of truly eloquent chamber music performances at the UKARIA Cultural Centre.
March 12, 2020
Review: 150 Psalms: Celebration of Life (Adelaide Festival)
The final program in 150 Psalms demonstrated the excellence, precision and mastery of all singers involved.
March 6, 2020
Review: Ginastera: Harp Concerto, Variaciones Concertantes (Sidsel Walstad, Norwegian Radio Orchestra/Harth-Bedoya)
Norwegian band heads south for a pair of hot Latin discoveries.
March 4, 2020
Review: 150 Psalms: Powerlessness (Adelaide Festival)
The Song Company proves adept across styles in this spiritually uplifting concert.
March 4, 2020
Review: Roger Smalley: Piano, vocal and chamber music (Fiebig, Davie)
A dose of Smalley proves less can be considerably more.
February 25, 2020
Review: Riley: Sun Rings (Kronos Quartet)
Collaborators from way back realise their magnum opus.
January 13, 2020
Review: Shostakovich: Piano Sonatas, 24 Preludes (Andrey Gugnin)
Gugnin rehabilitates Shostakovich’s 24 Preludes.
December 12, 2019