David Edmonds Fine Music Magazine The Australian World Record Club
WRC offered a number of different genres in addition to classical music, among them operettas, musicals, jazz, vocals, music hall, Christmas music, world music and spoken word.
The World Record Club (WRC) issued many types of non-classical recordings throughout its lifetime and this article describes other genres with examples taken from a much larger number of releases.
Classical Fine Music Magazine Rex Burgess
Born between June and November 1659, just before the restoration of the monarchy in 1660, Henry Purcell, singer, organist, composer and teacher, was one of the finest musicians of the baroque era.
Classical Fine Music Magazine
Asked to list Polish composers, most people would come to a grinding halt after Chopin. Perhaps, given the history of Poland over recent centuries, it is understandable that Poles would have focused more on survival rather than on creating music.
Behind the voice you hear on your drive home, or presenting Diversions in Fine Music or Concert Hall, is a woman with an impressive and varied CV.
Fine Music Magazine Program Highlights
In February 2026 we mark the 400th anniversary of the death of John Dowland, one of the Elizabethan era’s most brilliant lutenists and most influential composers. He is accepted to be the creator of the English lute-song, composer of a large collection of masterly and virtuosic repertoire for lute, and a musical voice which encapsulated the cultural and literary cult of melancholia which erupted in England during his lifetime.
CD Reviews Fine Music Magazine Jazz posts
If this album were a proposal, I’d be wed. It is a celebration of three songstresses and a delightful male voice, wrapped in a woven acoustic that is so very alluring.
It’s 150 years since the birth of Havergal Brian on 29 January 1876 but there would be no space for anything else if we were to program what is one of the longest, largest and most technically difficult symphonies ever composed.
Hoffmann was born in Königsberg in 1776. His parents separated quite early in his life and he spent his childhood with his maternal grandmother. At the age of 16 he was sent to university to study law.
