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Arvo Part: Taula Rasa
Over the last couple of decades, the solitary Estonian mystic composer Arvo Part has laboured away, quietly producing some of the most starkly beautiful music in modern - well, to be honest - any times. By way of a seventy-fifth…
Mozart: Requiem
ABC Classics does it again, taking standard repertoire and making it shine. Lovingly recorded by Antony Walker, conducting the Orchestra of the Anipodes, he has the choir Cantillation lending their beautiful blended tone to Monzart’s Requiem. Also included are Mozart’s…
Ravel: Piano Concertos & Miroirs
Ravel’s* Piano Concerto in G Major* is loved and hated by all musicians - let’s just put that out there. One of the most stunning piano concertos ever written, it’s also one of the hardest, both for the soloist and…
Karen Geoghegan Plays Mozart, Rossini, Kreutzer, Crusell Bassoon Works
Karen Geoghegan seems to be the next big thing in the bassoon, or in face the classical world. Discovered on BBC Two’s Classical Star, she’s gone to record three solo albums, which let’s face it, is unheard of for…
ReVisions, Steven Isserlis
Steven Isserlis is becoming increasingly known as one of the world’s greatest cellists currently alive. In this new CD he takes works originally for cello and piano, and handpicks his arrangers, he asks his friends and colleagues to rearrange the…
Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos 3 & 4
Leif Ove Andsnes and Antonio Pappano team up once again on this new recording of Rachmaninov’s third and fourth piano concertos. This completes the cycle for Andsnes and Pappano which began back in 2005 with the first two concertos. The…
Shack: In Praise of an Australian Icon by Simon Griffiths
The moment I saw the title of this book, I was hit by a wave of nostalgia for the many wonderful times I’ve spent in shacks – shacks that are sadly no longer part of my life. So how envious…
Noah's Law by Randa Abdel-Fattah
Randa Abdel-Fattah is one of the most impressive Australian YA authors around. She writes with passion and understanding, and doesn’t shy away from difficult topics. Her latest, Noah’s Law, is somewhatlighter fare – a legal thriller set in Sydney’s…
Real Wild Child: An Insider’s Tales From The rage Couch by Narelle Gee
As head programmer of rage – ABC TV’s late-night music video fixture since April 1987 – for nearly 14 years (1995-2008), Narelle Gee is well-placed to report from behind the camera lens trained upon some of music’s best-known names, while…
How It Feels by Brendan Cowell
Neil Cronk, precocious thespian and Sutherland Shire native, has graduated from high school and outgrown the cloistered community of Sydney’s southern beaches. Spurning the devoted Gordon, teenage soulmate Courtney and the brutish and drug-addled Stuart, Neil relocates to London via…
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