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Fine Music Showcase

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Fine Music Showcase returns this Sunday from 3pm. Recorded in our Founders' Studio, this program features performances by Graham Jesse and Michael Bartolomei, Justin Wang, Isobel Archer and The Fabulous Baker Boys. Sunday 11 February at 3pm.

Classics from Asia

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Classics from Asia presents the music of Asian civilisations, including practices with their roots in literati, court, folk, and early modern cosmopolitan music-making. Listen Live on Sunday 11th Feb at 6:00pm.

CD Review – Night Thoughts

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Chances are that you’ve heard Len Vorster. Born in South Africa, he has been resident in Australia for the last 40 years, and is a pianist, accompanist, and teacher. He has achieved recognition for his recordings of de Falla (with Merlyn Quaife) and a two-piano version of Holst’s The Planets (with Robert Chamberlain) and has also recorded with Deborah de Graaff and Lauris Elms.

100% Australian Made

Classical Interviews program previews

Starting this February, the first Monday of each month at 1pm, will feature a one hour program highlighting Australian composers and performers.

CD Review – Hearing

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As the title of pianist and composer Mike Nock’s newest recording indicates, it is all about the facility of perceiving sounds. More pertinently, interpreting them in a particular way.

CD Review – Don’t Quit Now

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Jane Irving’s’ ability to navigate the many sides of the jazz vocal genre is confirmed by this album of eleven engagingly diverse songs, some of which display her accomplished pianism and others, her superbly refined scatting skill.

CD Review – First Flight to Tokyo: The Lost 1961 Recordings

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This previously unreleased recording of Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers is exhilarating, captured at Hibiya Public Hall, Tokyo, on 14 January 1961. This was the final show of the band’s first-ever tour of Japan, recorded for a documentary that never happened, featuring one of the band’s all-time great line-ups in the long history of Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers.

Lauren White: 2024 Ken Weatherley Jazz Scholar

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The Ken Weatherley Jazz Scholarship was established following a generous bequest by passionate jazz lover and former 2MBS Fine Music Sydney presenter, Ken Weatherley. Our 2024 Weatherley scholar is bassist and songstress, Lauren White.

Mosaic: 2024 Jazz Artist in Residence

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The 2MBS Fine Music Sydney Artist-in-Residence program supports Sydney jazz ensembles. This year’s Jazz AiR goes to a young 10-piece jazz ensemble, the Mosaic Jazz Collective.

CD of the Week – Four Hands at Home

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Playing piano four-hands was both vital in the dissemination of music in the nineteenth century and also a popular domestic activity. The original 1853 Parisian Erard piano on which this recording was made demonstrates the clarity, warmth and differentiated timbres characteristic of the ‘straight stringing’ that was later replaced by the ‘cross-stringing’ of the modern concert grand.