Baroque orchestra thrills with fresh, crisp, seamless playing
"The ensemble’s dramatic approach to the work brought out a new experience of Mozart’s astonishing harmonic adventurism." NICK HORN reviews the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra.
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"The applause grew and was sustained as the audience realised that they had just heard something quite remarkable." GRAHAM McDONALD reviews Gesualdo Tenebrae, a performance by the Luminescence Chamber Singers.
"David Bridie’s songs are observational, usually reflective, sometimes meditative, seeking the essential spirit of a scene or subject, perhaps in the same way a painter does," writes reviewer MICHAEL WILSON.
"This was a very polished and impassioned performance of a brilliantly curated set of works, which saw our CSO step up yet again to further extend its reputation." Reviewer MICHAEL WILSON enjoyed the Canberra Symphony Orchestra.
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Daring concept honours a work that’s survived centuries
BILL STEPHENS reviews Opera Australia's production of Dido & Aeneas at Sydney Opera House.
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A performance of satire, hedonism, innuendo and gay abandon!
BILL STEPHENS reviews the surprise musical package that was Berlin Electric, performed by tenor Brad Cooper and pianist Bev Kennedy.
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Delightful plucking and scratching from Apeiron Baroque
GRAHAM McDONALD reviews Pluckers and Scratchers, a concert performance by Apeiron Baroque at Wesley Uniting Church.
ALANNA MACLEAN reviews the Oriana Chorale's performance of music of loss, grief and healing.
The Phoenix Collective Quartet has made a fine start to the year with its American Dreams concert, says reviewer GRAHAM McDONALD.
"The ensemble developed a strong rocking, ocean rhythm, building at the end of each movement towards a dramatic moment as the musicians together held still, frozen in time," writes NICK HORN in his first review for CityNews.
Few people would've expected Fred Smith to be appearing as a poet at the launch of the National Folk Festival held on Wednesday but there he was – Canberra's most famous troubadour performing some truly dreadful rhymes of his own devising.
Big-band buffs and video game enthusiasts will be heading for the Belconnen Community Centre at the end of the month for the second edition of Connexion Big Band’s video game music night, reports HELEN MUSA.
In another musical coup for Snow Concert Hall’s artistic director Ana de la Vega, a German orchestra with a unique conductor-less model is coming to Canberra next week.
SARAH BYRNE reviews Exquisite Harmonies, a Marais Project performance by Jennifer Eriksson and Anthony Abouhamad.
LEN POWER reviews the debut performance of the Penta Harp Ensemble.
In a piece of good news for opera-starved Canberrans, Canberra Theatre has announced a professional production of Puccini’s La Bohème for July, reports HELEN MUSA.
Beatles great and peace advocate John Lennon's life and career is being celebrated with the launch of a commemorative coin in the UK.
LEN POWER reviews the Australian Haydn Ensemble's performance of Haydn’s Sunrise.
"It is only occasionally that you don’t want a concert to finish." GRAHAM McDONALD reviews the Song Company's performance of Journeying to Finisterre.
