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May 2, 2013
Best of British compilation includes exciting surprises from lesser-known artists (some of them even Australian).
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Apr 26, 2013
The Melbourne-based new music ensemble is on a mission to make challenging and abstruse contemporary classical music accessible to all.
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Apr 12, 2012
Decibel undertakes the first complete performance of Cage's colossal Variations for the composer's centenary.
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Why the Italian icon of film music hears the term Spaghetti Western as an "insult".
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Feb 24, 2012
More Brahms with your Webern, sir?
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Live Review: The Pearl Fishers
Opera in the Park
Supreme Court Gardens WA
Saturday, February 18
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Feb 20, 2012
Perth Festival, February 11
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Sep 22, 2011
Conductor: Imre Palló/Director: John Milson
Sydney Conservatorium of Music
Until September 24
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Aug 17, 2011
High romanticism dominates the original score for Fritz Lang's 1927 futuristic masterpiece.
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Jul 28, 2011
Fry of the valkyries: Stephen’s homage to his musical hero.
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Jun 30, 2011
The Tippett Quartet gets intimate with the shower scene in a thrilling chamber suite arrangement of Psycho.
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Jun 27, 2011
Stuart Maunder, Soloists, SSO/Guy Noble
Concert Hall, Sydney Opera House
Saturday June 18, 2011
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Jan 18, 2011
Many conductors have led great recordings of this wonderful music, and the selection on this disc is familiar.
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Jan 18, 2011
‘Anima Eterna recreates early (and not so early) music with a view to approximating as closely as possible the composer’s original intentions.’ says the ensemble’s website.
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Jan 18, 2011
Written in response to the royal visit to India in 1911 and its spectacular durbar, Elgar was commissioned to write music for a masque to celebrate the event.
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Jan 18, 2011
Samuel Barber was arguably the greatest American composer after Aaron Copland.
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Jan 13, 2011
This selection of 16 choral works, largely a cappella, is designed to musically illuminate the church celebrations from Advent to the Ascension.
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Jan 13, 2011
Music as famous as this requires execution of the highest order. Sadly, this CD is a prosaic affair.
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Jan 13, 2011
Mullova teams up with fortepianist Bezuidenhout.
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Jan 13, 2011
Gustavo Dudamel makes short work of Stravinsky.