Francis Merson -
Mar 29, 2012
McCartney takes on the American songbook.
Matthew Portius -
Feb 13, 2012
The rogue elements: Nigel Kennedy as composer veers off course.
Matthew Portius -
Feb 13, 2012
Calamitous crossover: Garrett’s musical experiment goes wrong.
Clive Paget -
Jan 25, 2012
Forza Vittorio: Grigolo gets stuck into Italian favourites.
Francis Merson -
Dec 8, 2011
While other singers of this stature (50 gold records, no less) churn out the old hits and count the megabucks, Streisand is still releasing new material that stands strong on its own merits, such as this stunning disc.
Francis Merson -
Nov 29, 2011
High-powered performances and clever arrangements from cello rockers.
Melissa Lesnie -
Oct 21, 2011
Amos goes classical: Night of Hunters is mostly successful.
Matthew Portius -
Sep 22, 2011
Popera fans rejoice: the Ten Tenors give a powerhouse performance.
Francis Merson -
Jul 19, 2011
Hayley’s big coup: Westenra teams up with Morricone.
Francis Merson -
Jun 7, 2011
The Dutch chanteuse serves up 1920s Chicago with contemporary studio sheen.
A welcome opportunity to enjoy Hobson as a purely popular entertainer.
Desplat conveys through music the restrained angst and regal grandeur of the film's hero.
Anthony Clarke -
Apr 5, 2011
Classical meets jazz here, as operatic mezzo-soprano Anne Sofie von Otter mixes it with jazz pianist and composer Brad Mehldau in a two-disc tribute to love in all its forms, from elation to deflation and regret.
Lost without words: the singing's great, the instrumentals are not.
Francis Merson -
Mar 29, 2011
This dark score is Swan Lake seen through a glass darkly.
Francis Merson -
Jan 19, 2011
Australian jazz singer and
trumpeter Vince Jones has
one of those perplexing
voices whose weaknesses are also
its strengths.
Aston are a group of Sydney Con
kids who, when teetering on the
abyss of penury that faces many
music graduates, decided to take
matters into their own hands.
Francis Merson -
Jan 19, 2011
Classical crossover must have the
smallest canon of any musical genre.
More than thirty years after his death, conductor Annunzio Paulo Mantovani makes a return to the Australian charts with this 40-track retrospective.
Francis Merson -
Jan 12, 2011
The popera albums of teen tenor Mark Vincent have been topping the ARIA charts for about a year, without getting much serious attention from anyone but his fans.
