Review: Bluetongue – Australian Guitar Quartets (Guitar Trek)
Live long and prosper with Guitar Trek’s homegrown Australian classics.
Paul Ballam-Cross is a writer and classical guitarist. He holds a Bachelor of Music in Performance and a Doctor of Philosophy, majoring in Musicology. He loves collecting records and will happily spend hours researching everything from the Baroque to noise rock.
Live long and prosper with Guitar Trek’s homegrown Australian classics.
A feast of fine music re-opens QPAC’s new local performance series.
Fashionably late recital by Choni brings piano heavy-hitters to life.
Big questions answered with Esfahani in modernist harpsichord recital.
Paul Ballam-Cross pays tribute to the inspiring British classical guitarist and lute player, who has died at the age of 87.
Currentzis’ Beethoven confronts the axiomatic assumptions of musicological progenitors.
Diminishing in name, but not quality, in ye olde improvisations
All-Australian Beethoven concerti cycle brings zip and zing to favourites.
More than three decades later, a classic gets a sequel.
Violin variations showcase Biber’s retuned sounds.
Scarlatti delights, but is four discs too much of a good thing?
New drones, same as the old drones in Dessner string works.
Love is in the air in this neatly judged Valentine’s recital.