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A Life of Max Reger

Classical Fine Music Magazine

The German composer and musician Max Reger was both a conservative and a visionary, looking back to the musical forms of the 18th century and forward to the harmonic adventures of the 20th. Reger inherited the gifts of his musician father, quickly developing an ambition to become a composer. This resulted from hearing Wagner’s Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg and Parsifal during his first pilgrimage to Bayreuth.

Coy Composers Round 6 – A Word Puzzle

Classical Trivia and Crossword

Can you help to find these composers who are all born in February before the month ends?

Hubert Clifford: A true pioneer

Classical Fine Music Magazine

Paul Cooke surveys an early Australian symphonist Hubert Clifford’s Symphony 1940 was something of an anomaly among his compositions....

CD Review – Felicity Wilcox: Threading the light

CD Reviews Classical Fine Music Magazine

Felicity Wilcox’s major composition, the chamber opera Threading the light, was completed and recorded in 2012 as part of her PhD in composition. It has now been released, spurred on by its recent world premiere performance by The Cooperative at Pitt Street Uniting Church.

2MBS Fine Music Sydney – Showcase

Classical Fine Music Showcase Jazz posts Program Highlights

2MBS Fine Music Sydney’s Showcase returns this Sunday from 3pm with highlights from our 2022 season, captured live in our Founders Studio.

Édouard Lalo – bicentenary

Classical Program Highlights

2MBS Fine Music Sydney has recognised the magnificence and import of French composer, Édouard Lalo, in a three-part broadcast of...

Coy Composers Round 5 – A Word Puzzle

Classical Trivia and Crossword

Can you help to find these composers who are all born in January before the month ends?

Born on this day – Johann Christian Sinding (11/01/1856)

Born On This Day Classical

Christian August Sinding studied music in addition to his academic studies throughout his school years, taking violin with Gudbrand Bøhn and music theory with L.M. Lindeman, one of the most important musicians in Christiana (later renamed Oslo). In 1874 he followed the path of his famous countryman Edvard Grieg by going to Leipzig to study.

Class Act: Encore!

Classical Jazz posts Programs

In the midst of seasonal activities, did you catch Class Act: Encore! on new years eve? This broadcast featured a broad selection of previously unaired performances from the students at Fort Street High School; Presbyterian Ladies' College, Sydney; St Joseph’s College; and Winmalee High School.

CD Review – Rautavaara: Lost Landscapes

CD Reviews Classical Fine Music Magazine

Lost Landscapes is the title of one of the last pieces composed by the Finnish composer Einojuhani Rautavaara. It’s a violin concerto based upon reminiscences of places that were of great importance to Rautavaara’s creative journey in the mid-1950s.