Music Education &
Performing Arts Consultant
Barry The Rest: Reference & Enrichment for Pianists (Essential Keyboard Excerpts from Great Ensemble Literature) Selected and annotated by Janis Cook Published by Janis Cook 2014 (http://cookandco.com.au/shop ) Oftentimes, students and teachers can find anthologies of piano arrangements of orchestral music, but this new book is a completely new idea. The extracts contained therein are exactly … Read more
Steven Isserlis Mahler Chamber Orchestra Daniel Harding (conductor) Hyperion CDA67917 Not only is it a superb recording by one of the world’s leading cellists, this release is also a study in the genesis and metamorphosis of the great B minor Concerto (1894-95). Isserlis also details the remarkable and somewhat disputed origins and editorial transformations the … Read more
Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring Mahler: Symphony No 1 ABC 481 0847 It is rare to witness the genesis of a professional orchestra, which in its short life has gained an international reputation, such that it can command legendary conductors with which to work. This is the case with the Australian World Orchestra, a body … Read more
ABC 482 1059 It is impossible to suggest that one CD could contain all the highlights of an extensive recording career of Richard Bonynge, one of the world’s great maestros. This CD however, attempts to capture some of the gems of the Baroque era which Bonynge so loved and revived. Masterpieces (no less than seven … Read more
(This article first appeared in the December 2014 edition of Fine Music magazine.) Fifty years of performance for any music organisation these days is worth popping the champagne. For the Willoughby Symphony Orchestra, 2015 will potentially be its very best year with a bumper crop of outstanding artists. Considered the best regional orchestra, the WSO … Read more
The King’s School’s Annual Festival of Lessons & Carols will be held on Sunday 30 November at 7.30pm in Futter Hall. The boys of The King’s School Choir will help you celebrate Christmas at this very special event.
ABC 481 1112 Delving into the vaults, the ABC Classics team has compiled a lush array of music that should appeal to most listeners. Featuring the best orchestras and ensembles, including the Symphony Orchestras of Queensland, Tasmania, Melbourne, and Sydney, along with Orchestra Victoria and the Australia Ensemble, the choices are indeed, well-honed favourites. Included … Read more
(Reproduced from ACO Concert Programme: Tognetti’s Beethoven, 2014) Our good friend Peter was Australia’s foremost classical music composer, and one of our most original and distinctive creative voices in any medium. Born and schooled in Launceston, he undertook university studies at Melbourne, under Bernard Heinze, and Oxford, where in 1958 his tutor, composer Edmund Rubbra, … Read more
Nothing seems to be too daunting for the ground-breaking Artistic Director of the Australian Chamber Orchestra, Richard Tognetti AM, but he and his band of musicians have taken on three great works of Beethoven, and added a new work by one of the world’s leading rock musicians, Jonny Greenwood. They are really up against Beethoven … Read more
ABC 481 0032 Tin Pan Alley comes alive when Simon Tedeschi meets Gershwin in this sumptuous disc of piano music. You can feel the Manhattan energy in Tedeschi’s playing as he delves into the heart and soul of one of the world’s greatest song writers. Having spent years living and working in New York City, … Read more