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Don Banks: remembered at 100

Classical Contemporary Music Fine Music Magazine James Nightingale

Born in October 1923, Don Banks grew up in a family surrounded by musical instruments and jazz. His father played in bands with jazz legends Roger and Graeme Bell, the same bands that he would himself play in as he grew up. This beginning to his musical education established the pattern of curiosity and experimentation that would be central to his work.

Born On This Day – Ferdinand Hiller: An Unsung Hero of Romantic Music (24/10/1811)

Born On This Day Classical

In the vast symphonic landscape of the 19th century, one name that often gets overshadowed by giants like Beethoven, Chopin, and Liszt is that of Ferdinand Hiller.

CD Review: The Art Of Collaboration – Simone Waddell

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Collaboration involves a group of people working together to complete a shared goal. This is a captivating journey through the realm of jazz. The album delivers a fresh perspective on a variety of compositional forms and innovative interpretations of well-known pop songs alongside some original compositions and arrangements from Jim Kelly and the vocalist Simone Waddell.

CD of the Week

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Brisbane's internationally acclaimed, Orava Quartet, has recently unveiled their second album titled "Orawa," a release paying tribute to their late mentor, Uzi Wiesel.

Passion, perseverance, precision: Celebrating Pablo Casals

Classical Fine Music Magazine

My father was a keen photographer, and our family used to enjoy slide nights where we would relive earlier times. Years later, he scanned a selection of these slides and put them on a disc for me. Mostly they were of the family, either at home or on holidays. But there was one which was a real anomaly: a photograph of Pablo Casals, not taken in the flesh but during a television program. What was that doing among the family snaps?

CD Review: Latin American Piano Music – Alejandro Alberto Téllez Vargas

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Latin American Piano Music presents the music of seven composers from the late 19th and early 20th centuries: one, Luis G Jordá, was born in Catalonia but spent most of his career in Mexico City; another, Ernesto Lecuona, was Cuban; the rest were Mexican.

IFAC Handa Australian Singing Competition

Classical

Tune in at 1pm, Tuesday 10 October to relive the breathtaking performances by five talented young vocalists as they competed for the prestigious IFAC Handa Australian Singing Competition.

Good Goliards!

Classical

In Yorkshire, the county in England where I grew up, there is a place called Mount Grace Priory. It is a partly ruined, but much-preserved Carthusian monastery with a physic garden, a fish farm, and cells for 17 monks living as hermits, engaged in devotional writing and pious contemplation. Except that they weren’t – at least not all the time.

Class Act – Sat 30th

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Musical Mastery in the Making The September 2023 edition of ‘Class Act’ includes works by several student composers. We hear...

On this Day: September 27, 1827 – Franz Schubert finishes his song cycle Winterreise

As It Happened Classical

Franz Schubert's Winterreise is not only a musical masterpiece but also a work steeped in the profound emotions of the Romantic era. Composed in 1827, a mere year before Schubert's untimely death at the age of 31, Winterreise is a song cycle for voice and piano, set to 24 poems by Wilhelm Müller, telling the story of a young man who, after being rejected by his beloved, sets out on a winter journey.