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Rosso: Italian Baroque Arias: Patricia Petibon, Venice Baroque Orchestra, Andrea Marcon
This is French soprano Patricia Petibon’s second recital CD for DG. Her first album Amoureuss won 2009’s BBC Music Magazine Award for Best Opera Album. And this one is likely to receive similar acclaim.
The voice, artistry and accompanying musicians…
Dvorak: Violin Concerto: Richard Tognetti, ACO, Christian Lindberg
The beauty of Dvorak’s orchestral writing is the star on this new recording. The consistently stunning Richard Tognetti is the soloist with Christian Lindberg at the helm of the Nordic Chamber Orchestra. Featuring the Legends Op. 59 and Dvorak’s Violin…
El Nuevo Mundo: Folias Criollas: Jordi Saval & Montserrat Figueras
The very prolific Jordi Savall has managed to produce, once again, a recording that will take the listener on a musical journey that transcends mere aural pleasure. Exploring the rich interplay of music and culture that occurred when Europeans first…
Mosquito Advertising
Mosquito Advertising is a highly engaging book full of everything a teenager could want: a massive decaying house, a great range of characters, wonderfully sleazy businessmen and friends every one would want. It’s about a 14-year-old Brisbane girl whose mum…
The Prince of the Mist: Carlos Ruiz Zafón
This fast-paced and exceedingly well-crafted book delivers the kind of chill on your neck that keeps you tucked well under your blankets. Strange things start happening when Max and his family move to their new seaside home to avoid the…
The Glass Demon: Helen Grant
When Lin Fox’s father decides to chase academic glory in Germany, Lin and her entire family have to move from London to a small German town for a year. Doctor Fox is researching the infamous Allerheiligen stained glass windows that…
Quarterly Essay 38: Power Trip: The Political Journey of Kevin Rudd: David Marr
Ah, David Marr. No wonder he is the darling of the political left. The man can not only write, but entertain. And he doesn’t just analyse politics in terms of a horse race (or any other sporting analogy). He gets…
Made The Harbor: Mountain Man
The three women who make Mountain Man describe themselves as ‘a creature growing from the mouths of’ Molly Erin Sarle, Alexandra Sauser Monnig and Amelia Randall Meath.
Their haunting, harmony-laden music combines elements of folk, country and traditional American music…
The Burning Wire: Jeffery Deaver
The imaginative premise of Jeffery Deaver’s The Burning Wire is somewhat terrifying and bleakly plausible. The New York electricity grid is attacked with horrific results – high-voltage arcs destroy a city bus, innocent citizens are electrocuted and set on fire…
If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This: Robin Black
‘There was a reckoning of some kind to come,’ one of Robin Black’s characters realises in this new collection, ‘there always seemed to be.’ The reckoning to come, the shifts of emotional retribution laying in wait – these are the…
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