"The Infinite is an event prone to a bit of self indulgence but given the depth of The National, a couple of hours taking the mickey is not out of place." Reviewer ALANNA MACLEAN sees the curtain down on the National Folk Festival for 2025.
MICHAEL WILSON reviews Look at the Stars, a performance by the Australian Youth Orchestra Young Symphonists, conducted by Luke Dollman.
Arts editor HELEN MUSA reports from the opening performance of the National Folk Festival, which is off to a great start.
"Mobley sings with beautiful control and tone, each note perfectly placed, each word clearly enunciated" NICK HORN reviews Because, a memorable concert by counter-tenor Reginald Mobley and pianist Paul Grabowsky.
HELEN MUSA reviews The Llewellyn Choir's performance of Invictus: A Passion, at Wesley Uniting Church.
SARAH BYRNE reviews Water and Spirit, a Canberra Symphony Orchestra Chamber Classics performance at Albert Hall.
NICK HORN reviews Joyeux Anniversaire, a performance by Selby & Friends at the Australian Centre for Christianity and Culture.
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.
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.
IAN McLEAN reviews Angels & Serenades, a performance by Musica Da Camera Canberra, conducted by Brad Tham.
MICHAEL WILSON reviews Days of Miracle and Wonder, performed by the project choir Coro under the direction of David Mackay.
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.
