Forming part of a series of reconstructions, Peres Da Costa with the Australian Haydn Ensemble, performing all of Beethoven’s piano concertos, this recording of the 1st and 3rd concertos is remarkable for a number of reasons. Principal of these is the exacting...
Monthly BYO-café-style gigs in Kempsey The HOT CLUB organisers make solid efforts to import out-of-town talent to their regular, monthly, BYO-café-style evenings at the Oddfellows Club Hall, at 22 Kemp Street, Kempsey. Focusing their search on jazz, blues, fusion and...
Essentially a re-issue of their 1997 album, this version of Future Road contains additional material in the form of a DVD of the ‘making of’ Future Road, which includes the official clip of ‘Far Shore’ – incidentally the first ever official Seekers film clip, all...
This latest release from the Academy of Ancient Music continues their established tradition of: “great music performed with conviction and passion” Rather than the birth of the symphony it should perhaps be called the gestation of the symphony, or if that is a bit too...
For those less versed in Baroque instruments and music, the viol may be something of a mystery, resembling as it does the cello, but with C-holes rather than the f-shaped-holes of other stringed, bridged and fretted instruments, but its round-shouldered, flat-backed...
The Platinum Album, the latest release from Judith Durham, most famously the former lead singer of '60s folk-pop band, The Seekers, demonstrates that she has lost none of her vocal prowess over the years. Resembling many of her post-Seekers releases, it contains a few...