Melissa Lesnie bid a tearful farewell to Limelight in 2013 to move to Paris, where Warner Music kindly sorted her visa. She now works for Radio France and spends her spare time singing in the Latin Quarter jazz bars. Follow her adventures at @francemusique and @throwingmyarmsaroundparis.
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This is no daddy-daughter vanity project; 24-year-old Lily Maisky is an impressive pianist in her own right with a felicitous musical rapport with her famous cellist father. He might count Martha Argerich as a long-standing duo partner, but in this selection of popular Spanish songs and dances – recorded live in concert – it’s hard to imagine a more fresh or sympathetic union. Lily’s buoyant accompaniment perfectly matches Mischa’s bright, crisp pizzicatos in the third movement of Falla’s Suite populaire espagnole; both bring searing intensity to the sixth’s rapidly repeated notes. A gift for expressive cantabile must be in the Maisky blood, as heard in the phrasing of Granados’s Intermezzo and in his lilting Andaluza from the 12 Danzas españolas (the cellist’s own arrangement). There is plenty of mystery in their fragrantly ornamented reading of Ravel’s Habanera, and it’s lovely to hear the full range of Mischa’s cello, especially the rich, resplendent nether end, in the stately Playera by Sarasate. What I long for on this album though, after all that Mediterranean lyricism, is a lively, virtuosic contrast. Falla’s Danse espagnole No 1 from La Vida Breve is a good effort but the cellist’s uncharacteristically… Continue reading Get unlimited digital…
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The conductor joins his late wife Dame Joan Sutherland as Companion of the Order of Australia. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
Strauss’s Elektra is the Perth Festival’s most bloodthirsty offering.
The American tubist takes the reins following Kim Walker’s stormy exit. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
