Selby & Friends | Joyeux Anniversaire 8 April, 2025, Primrose Potter Salon, Melbourne Recital Centre, VIC ARTISTS Daniel Dodds - violin Julian Smiles - cello Kathryn Selby - piano PROGRAM W.A. Mozart Piano: Trio No 5 in C major K548 - Allegro, Andante Cantabile,...
Articles + Reviews By Peter Hagen
Bendigo Chamber Music Festival | Day 5 – You really must go!
Bendigo Chamber Music Festival | Day 5 9 February, 2025, Bendigo, VIC ____________________________________ Read other reviews from this festival: WEDNESDAY + THURSDAY concerts >> FRIDAY concerts >> SATURDAY concerts >>...
Bendigo Chamber Music Festival | Day 4 – Great depth
Bendigo Chamber Music Festival | Day 4 February 8th, 2025, Bendigo, VIC ____________________________________ Read the other reviews of this festival: WEDNESDAY + THURSDAY concerts >> FRIDAY concerts >> SUNDAY concerts >>...
Bendigo Chamber Music Festival: Day 3 – Enlightening
Bendigo Chamber Music Festival | Day 3 7 February, 2025, Bendigo, VIC ____________________________________ Read the other reviews of this festival: WEDNESDAY + THURSDAY concerts >> SATURDAY concerts >> SUNDAY concerts >>...
Bendigo Chamber Music Festival: Days 1 & 2 – a fine start!
Bendigo Chamber Music Festival | Wednesday + Thursday 5th and 6th February, 2025, Bendigo, VIC Covering the whole festival in some detail, this is a long review broken up over 4 articles. I strongly encourage readers NOT to read this entire review in one go; instead...
From your roving “reporter” on the Bendigo Chamber Music Festival
Bendigo Chamber Music Festival | 2025 February 6 - 9, Bendigo, VIC I am currently sitting in a cafe writing up my notes for this 4 day event and feeling very satisfied that music in the regions is growing. This festival has brought in international performers as well...
CD Review | The Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra
Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra|Illuminate Bruch, Britten and Tchaikovsky for strings and soprano Max Bruch (1838-1920), Serenade on Swedish Melodies (1916) Benjamin Britten (1913-1976), ‘Les Illuminations’ Op.18 (1938) Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky...
…soulful, rhapsodic joyful, ecstatic – you should move mountains to hear Musica Alchemica
Lina Tur Bonet and Musical Alchemica November 23, 2024, Melbourne Recital Centre, VIC LINA TUR BONET artistic director & baroque violin MARCO TESTORI baroque cello GIANGIACOMO PINARDI theorbo KENNETH WEISS harpsichord Programme BIBER Sonata No. 1 in D minor ‘The...
The excellent musicianship of Selby and Friends
Selby And Friends | Lonely Angel November 12, 2024, Melbourne Recital Centre, VIC Artistic Director/Pianist - Kathryn Selby Violin - Dimity Hall Violoncello - Julian Smiles Joaquín Turina Piano Trio No. 2 in B minor, Op. 76 Lento, Molto Vivace, Lento Fauré Piano Trio...
The divine peace and beauty of Gesualdo Six (hope they visit soon)
Secret Byrd | Gesualdo Six and Fretwork 12 July 2024, Mediaeval Hall, Salisbury UK This stunning concert was the highlight of a recent trip I made to England. Set in the Mediaeval Hall in Salisbury, we were permitted to enter in small groups of no more than eight to...