Coming Up: Sutherland Trio’s Beethoven, Messiaen & Vasks
Elizabeth Sellars from The Sutherland Trio writes about their upcoming performance on 16 May. You can purchase tickets here. Rehearsing for this concert has been a constant reminder of how great it is to be playing chamber music. It doesn’t get better than Beethoven’s epic Archduke. The slow movement is breathtaking – there is an inherent grandeur, of … Read more
Coming Up: Ludovico’s Band is England Bound
Samantha Cohen from Ludovico’s Band writes about their upcoming performance on 15 May. You can purchase tickets here. When Ludovico’s Band formed 10 years ago, Melbourne was crying out for a chamber music venue. We couldn’t have imagined a better space than Melbourne Recital Centre’s Salon in which to create our sound and connect with … Read more
Four Stars: The Age Reviews The Consort of Melbourne’s Golden Light
Golden Light Martin Duffy, The Age, 4 May 2012 The 2012 Metropolis New Music Festival continued with vocal ensemble The Consort of Melbourne presenting a program of contemporary American choral music featuring the works of Morten Lauridsen, Eric Whitacre, Steven Stucky and Edwin Fissinger. Light, in its many and varied forms, was the unifying thematic element for … Read more
Coming Up: Flinders Quartet’s Zoe Knighton on Silent Inspiration
Ahead of their performance here on Monday 28 May, Flinders Quartet‘s Zoe Knighton ponders silent inspiration. What breeds creativity? Is it beauty? Hardship? Intelligence? If anyone has the answer, I’d love to know. In any case, it seems most composers have suffered in some way and this is what provides material for their creativity. Illness does … Read more
Reviewed: La Compañia’s La Melodica Antica
La Melodica Antica Martin Duffy, The Age, 20 April 2012 This concert featured the frottola, the popular secular song of northern Italy in the early 16th century with vocal works and instrumental interludes by some of its greatest exponents including composers Marchetto Cara and Bartolomeo Tromboncino. The dynamic consort of eight musicians, led by director Danny … Read more
Coming Up: Flinders Quartet’s Silent Inspiration
Jason Catlett, TimeOut Melbourne, 4 April 2012 What happens to music when hearing fails? That’s the question that Melbourne’s ace Flinders Quartet will explore in their concerts in Eltham and at the Melbourne Recital Centre this month. For some fans, the answer is technological: the roof of the MRC’s Elisabeth Murdoch Hall has boom microphones … Read more
Reviewed: Wilma & Friends #1
Wilma & Friends #1 Martin Duffy, The Age, 18 April 2012 Clearly enjoying the opportunity to perform chamber works, Melbourne Symphony concertmaster Wilma Smith and friends played to a sell-out audience in the intimate surroundings of the Salon. Part of the Melbourne Recital Centre’s Local Heroes series featuring Melbourne musicians, this twilight concert was the … Read more
Tomorrow: La Compañia – La Melodica Antica
Join La Compañia before they head off for their sold out European festival debut in Germany. La Melodia Antica with soprano Siobhan Stagg celebrates the joy of the popular Italian song known as the frottola. These songs, usually driven by a theme of love, were poetic, rhythmic and danceable in style and flourished during the … Read more
Reviewed: Benaud Trio’s Songs Without Words
Songs Without Words Clive O’connell, The Age, 16 April 2012 With Australian cricket’s avunculur figurehead as their inspiration, the Benaud Trio have taken on more elevated characteristics: steadiness under pressure, a latent flair that abruptly blazes into life, unfailing respect for the work, and an unaffected courtesy in their presentation. Violinist Lachlan Bramble and his … Read more
Coming Up: Wilma and Friends
In the first concert of her new chamber music series, MSO concertmaster Wilma Smith presents an enchanting programme of Dvorak and Brahms with an illustrious group of friends. Principal First Violinist of the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra Daniel Kossov, and well-known Melbourne violist Simon Oswell join Wilma to perform Dvorak’s ingenious and delightful Terzetto. Clarinettist Philip … Read more
