Review: Bird Spirit Dreaming (HD Duo)
High-res performances from HD Duo with all-Australian repertoire.
Paul Ballam-Cross is a writer and classical guitarist. He holds a Bachelor of Music in Performance and a Doctor of Philosophy, majoring in Musicology. He loves collecting records and will happily spend hours researching everything from the Baroque to noise rock.
High-res performances from HD Duo with all-Australian repertoire.
Anderszewski finds new directions on a well-trodden pianistic path.
Mixed results for an attempt to look at guitar music from both sides.
There’s a confidence and assurance at play in the programming by Australian arts organisations for 2024.
What do our small to medium ensembles have on offer in the year ahead?
Hamelin colours Fauré’s night music with both light and shade.
Conservative programming yields some mixed results in the Joshua Bell-led Academy's Brisbane concert.
By turns muscular and tender, Umberto Clerici and the QSO deliver a triumphant Mahler 6.
Les Siècles impress with fiendishly tricky Ligeti chamber works.
Opera Queensland's Cosi is a lot funnier, fancier and fizzier than its advertising poster suggests.
An intimate subterranean recital by Ensemble Q makes a persuasive case for a string trio take on Bach’s famous Goldberg Variations.
A frustrating chimera of a lecture-performance hybrid buoyed by Aura Go’s Chopin.
More than a surfeit of drifty, dreamy guitar music from Slava.