Music for Recorder, Harpsichord, Voice, Cello by Australian Women Composers This is quite an eclectic disc which grows on you with repeated listening. It is by twists and turns an intimate disc of music but with some quite lively numbers by various Australian women...
A fascinating title for a really fascinating CD. One which grows on you with repeated hearings. The music on the disc is of the Baroque period, ie sixteenth and seventeenth centuries so what might be described as ‘early music’. But this is not the showy music of the...
North + South is an eclectic collection of ten folk songs covering the Northern and Southern hemispheres of the globe. So we have Australian, English and Irish folksongs and some interesting arrangements by Benjamin Britain and avant garde composer Luciano Berio....
Improvisation in music goes back centuries and is one of the great traditions in jazz, in organ music and in particular among French organists. So here we have a different disc by four classical music graduates from Sydney who started improvising for fun in a little...
If there were two words that united this marvellous evening it’s the words, 'colour' and 'atmosphere'. In the first half we had one of the seminal quartets of the last century by Maurice Ravel of Bolero fame. Apparently he applied for the post of Professor of Piano at...