Review: Christmas with HIP Company
The gift of Christmas music flawlessly delivered by Perth early music specialists HIP Company.
Will Yeoman is a former senior arts writer and current travel journalist for The West Australian newspaper. A regular contributor to Limelight and Gramophone, he is also Artistic Director of the York Festival and a keen classical guitarist.
The gift of Christmas music flawlessly delivered by Perth early music specialists HIP Company.
Maurizio Pollini goes gentle into that good night with contemplative Schubert.
WASO ends its 2024 classical concert season on a towering high.
This vivid account transports you to 19th-century Vienna.
The combined forces of WASO, Clara Jumi-Kang and conductor Vasily Petrenko make for a splendid night indeed.
A gracious yet robust entry point into Dvořák’s symphonies.
Ford’s non-linear storytelling weaves a multicoloured web of musical history.
Brett Dean proves brevity is the soul of wit in Hamlet-orbiting works.
William Barton continues to expand the horizons of the instrument of which he is arguably Australia’s leading player.
The sonic effect of around 400 musicians successfully grappling with this choral and symphonic colossus was something to behold.
Vondráček thrills; WASO responds in kind; audience thunders applause. And that was before the emotional highpoint of the concert.
A sensuous, evocative debut recital disc from a young Australian soprano.
Karen Gomyo's technical assurance and expressive power much in evidence in a concert of music by Debussy, Barber and Franck.