Review: Strauss: Don Quixote, Violin Concerto (Melbourne Symphony Orchestra/Davis)
Davis’ and Müller-Schott’s Knight Errant portrait doesn’t err.
Greg Keane has been a Limelight contributor since 2008. He is a copywriter and has also lectured in music appreciation in the adult education sector. He has a prodigious collection of LPs and was previously a producer (aka the Dark Lord of Vinyl) of ABC Classic FM.
Davis’ and Müller-Schott’s Knight Errant portrait doesn’t err.
A teacher and his wife-cum-pupil speak in similar voices.
Jordan’s non-period band offers Beethoven in a hurry.
Gerhardt’s solo Bach shrugs off the straitjacket for a set to live with.
Wilson reveals the other side of a British film composer.
Two superstars plumb the depths to poetic effect, despite the name.
The Resurrected Minnesotans excel in Mahler’s Symphony No 2.
Nelsons’ triumphant Shostakovich series continues in a blaze of glory.
Yuja Wang proves that the hype (for once) is justified.
Endless inspiration from out of the Habsburg Boondocks.
Davis pays homage to the dreamers and the Glorious Dead.
Brahms and Schumann bring out the softer side of Gardiner.
FX Roth and his band blow hot and cold most beautifully.