Ilario Colli

Recent articles by Ilario Colli

Live review: Metropolis New Music Festival, Melbourne

Best of British compilation includes exciting surprises from lesser-known artists (some of them even Australian).

Syzygy: Destroying the Fourth Wall

The Melbourne-based new music ensemble is on a mission to make challenging and abstruse contemporary classical music accessible to all.

Caged animals unleashed: Decibel's John Cage odyssey

Decibel undertakes the first complete performance of Cage's colossal Variations for the composer's centenary.

No spaghetti for Ennio Morricone

Why the Italian icon of film music hears the term Spaghetti Western as an "insult".

Live review: The Escher Quartet at Perth Festival

More Brahms with your Webern, sir?

Pearl fishing in a pond in a park in Perth

Live Review: The Pearl Fishers
Opera in the Park
Supreme Court Gardens WA
Saturday, February 18

Live review: Elektra – WA Opera

Perth Festival, February 11

Live review: Mozart's La Finta Giardiniera (Con Opera)

Conductor: Imre Palló/Director: John Milson
Sydney Conservatorium of Music
Until September 24

METROPOLIS: Original motion picture score (Berlin Radio Orchestra/Strobel)

High romanticism dominates the original score for Fritz Lang's 1927 futuristic masterpiece.

Wagner and Me (Stephen Fry)

Fry of the valkyries: Stephen’s homage to his musical hero.

HERRMANN: Psycho Suite; Echoes; Souvenirs de Voyage (Tippett Quartet)

The Tippett Quartet gets intimate with the shower scene in a thrilling chamber suite arrangement of Psycho.

Live review: The Very Best of Gilbert & Sullivan

Stuart Maunder, Soloists, SSO/Guy Noble
Concert Hall, Sydney Opera House
Saturday June 18, 2011

RAVEL Daphnis et Chloé Suite No. 2; Valses Nobles et Sentimentales; La Valse; Ma Mère L’Oye – Suite (Rotterdam PO/Nézet-Séguin)

Many conductors have led great recordings of this wonderful music, and the selection on this disc is familiar.

BERLIOZ Symphonie fantastique; Le Carnival Romain (Anima Eterna Brugge/Van Immerseel)

‘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.

ELGAR The Crown of India; Imperial March; Coronation March; Empire March (BBC PO; Sheffield PO/Davis)

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.

BARBER 100th Anniversary (various performers)

Samuel Barber was arguably the greatest American composer after Aaron Copland.

A Year at King's (Choir of King’s College Cambridge/Cleobury)

This selection of 16 choral works, largely a cappella, is designed to musically illuminate the church celebrations from Advent to the Ascension.

MENDELSSOHN A Midsummer Night’s Dream (sopranos: Jenny Wollerman, Pepe Becker; Varsity Voices; Note Bene; NZSO/Judd)

Music as famous as this requires execution of the highest order. Sadly, this CD is a prosaic affair.
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