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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.

March – Notes from the Editor

Fine Music Magazine

The March issue of Fine Music Magazine features a celebration of the 150 anniversary, of the under-appreciated, Max Reger. We explore the diverse wealth of talented Australian female musicians and composers, in honour of International Women's Day. There is even a poem exploring Bach's The Art of Fugue...

Nina Simone – Gifted and Black

Born On This Day Fine Music Magazine Jazz

Louise Levy looks at Nina Simone, on what would have been her 90th Birthday. Born Eunice Kathleen Waymon in 1933 in Tryon, North Carolina, Nina Simone came from a family filled with music. She was the sixth of eight children, and though her mother rarely showed any affection, she encouraged classical piano. By the time Nina had turned six, she had become the regular church pianist in Tryon.

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. While his...

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.

February Fine Music Magazine

Fine Music Magazine

The February issue of our Fine Music Magazine features a tribute to Australian jazz and soul singer, Renée Geyer who passed away last month. Also in this edition Michael Morton-Evans traces the highs and lows of the prodigiously talented Strauss dynasty,

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.

Fine Music Magazine – January 2023

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January's Fine Music Magazine features articles on The Bluesberries' song for peace in Ukraine, anniversaries of Milt Jackson and Edouard Lalo and a preview of our Operatic offerings in 2023.

CD Review – Estonian Premieres

CD Reviews Fine Music Magazine Paul Cooke

One of Europe’s most vibrant musical cultures is that of Estonia, one of the Baltic states that gained independence after the breakup of the USSR.

2MBS Fine Music Sydney Magazine – September Out Now!

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The September issue of the 2MBS Fine Music Sydney Magazine has just been released. This month Virginia Ginnane talked to the 2019 Winner of the 2MBS Fine Music’s inaugural Ken Weatherly Jazz Scholarship, Kate Wadey, about her third album, the song-writing collaboration with the musicians she works with, and the relief of coming out of lockdown. Our cover features Ensemble Offspring’s Listen Up!, a micro festival of new music at the National Art School in Darlinghurst this month.