Diversity meets quirkiness in mighty festival of folk
Diversity with its companion quirkiness will be front and centre in this year’s National Folk Festival gathering at EPIC over Easter, reports HELEN MUSA.
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LEN POWER reviews the National Capital Orchestra's first concert for 2025, which was centred on Shostakovich.
MICHAEL WILSON reviews Harmonic Curves: Romantic Piano, a "thought-provoking" performance by pianist Arnan Wiesel.
"A gifted storyteller with a relaxed stream-of-consciousness style, all her stories were around food." BILL STEPHENS reviews Michelle Pearson's Comfort Food Cabaret.
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Performance demonstrates power of music in stirring emotions
IAN McLEAN reviews Angels & Serenades, a performance by Musica Da Camera Canberra, conducted by Brad Tham.
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Choir’s polished performance of surprises and rarities
MICHAEL WILSON reviews Days of Miracle and Wonder, performed by the project choir Coro under the direction of David Mackay.
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Barefoot pianist’s intimate evocations of landscape
Reviewer ALANNA MACLEAN says Sophie Hutchings' Resonant Spaces performance was an unusual and rewarding evening.
ROB KENNEDY reviews Opera's Bad Girl, Sarahlouise Owens' one-woman performance recounting the remarkable life of Victorian Diva Anna Bishop.
LEN POWER reviews Across Space and Time, a piano recital by Stuart Long of moving movie music.
"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.
"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.
BILL STEPHENS reviews Opera Australia's production of Dido & Aeneas at Sydney Opera House.
BILL STEPHENS reviews the surprise musical package that was Berlin Electric, performed by tenor Brad Cooper and pianist Bev Kennedy.
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.
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