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False Idols
Mutter der liebe
Prokofiev & Tchaikovsky - SSO 2024
*RECITAL REVIEWS
Orava Quartet - Folk music 2024
Omega Ensemble - Re: Classical
Omega Ensemble - Echappsodie
Alma Moodie Quartet - 2023
Perianes - 2023
Bavouzet - 2022
Wallis Giunta - 2019
Omega Ensemble - Requiems
Lewis - 2019
Lancaster - 2019
Moser & Stott - 2019
Car & Dupuis - 2019
Tedeschi & Orava Quartet - 2019
Piers Lane - 2019
Lisa Moore - 2019
Selby - Smetana - 2019
Bradman
Freddy Kempf - 2019
Opera Australia - Lieder aus Wien
Omega Ensemble - Quintets
Alessio Bax - 2019
Omega Ensemble - Farrenc
Grosvenor 2018
Osborne
Trpceski
Hampson in recital
Avdeeva in recital
Allerseelen - Memorial
Stalin's Piano
Orava Quartet - Shostakovich
Alexander Gavrylyuk
Kats-Chernin Birthday Bash
Songs of My Country
Piano Lessons - Goldsworthy
Omega Ensemble - Anderson
Debussy String Quartet
Conservatorium - Bartok, Debussy, Ravel
Omega - Brahms & Borodin
Imogen Cooper
Orava String Quartet - Schumann & Schubert
Romantic Russians - Chamber Music
Selby & Friends - Ravel
Orli Shaham
Behzod Abduraimov
Nobuyuki Tsujii
Leslie Howard
Daniil Trifonov
Selby & Friends 2
Jayson Gillham
Aust Hayden Ensemble
Freddy Kempf
Nelson Freire
Selby & Friends
Omega Ensemble - Elgar
Kats-Chernin
Garrick Ohlsson
Benjamin Grosvenor
*THEATRE REVIEWS
The President - 2024
An Inspector Calls - 2024
The Seagull
Twelfth Night
A little night music
Macbeth
The Goat or Who is Sylvia
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Peer Gynt
A Room of One's Own
Can't Pay Won't Pay
Deep Blue Sea
Songs for Nobodies
The Ladykillers
Cosi
Life of Galileo
Lord of the Flies
The Torrents
Things I Know To Be True
Cat on a hot tin roof
Mary Stuart
A Cheery Soul
Accidental Death of an Anarchist
Nell Gwynn
Gloria
Assassins
St. Joan
Importance of Being Earnest
Arturo Ui
The Crucible
Van de Maar Papers
Cloud Nine
Speed-the-plow
Testament of Mary
Three Sisters
1984
August: Osage County
Away
Flea in her ear
Under Milk Wood
Superhal
Cabaret
King Charles III
Machu Picchu
Arcadia
Golden Age
Lear
Orlando
Arms & the Man
*ORCHESTRAL REVIEWS
Gurrelieder - SSO
AWO - Mahler
SSO - Britten & Shostakovich
SSO - Britten & Holst
SSO - Brahms & Vaughan Williams
SSO - Shostakovich, Adams
SSO - Schumann, Mozart, Skipworth
ARCO - Britten, Bruch
SSO - Bruckner & Messiaen
SSO - Elgar & Vaughan Williams
SSO - Shostakovich
SSO - Liszt, Schubert, Ledger
SSO - Ravel & Gershwin
SSO - Canteloube, Saint Saens
ACO - Indies & Idols
SSO - Dvorak, Bizet, Ravel
MSO - Britten, Debussy, Sibelius,
SSO - Nielsen, Sibelius, Lovelock
SSO - Janacek, Reich, Bartok
SSO - Korngold, Mahler
SSO - Saint Saens, Sibelius
SSO - Brahms Revelation
ARCO - Grieg, Dvorak, Mendelssohn
SSO - Mahler & Britten
SSO - Debussy, De Falla, Anderson
SSO - Verdi
SSO - Elgar & Prokofiev
SSO - Bernstein
Australian World Orchestra - Muti
SSO - Mozart Festival
SSO - Shostakovich
Philharmonia Choirs - Vaughan Williams
SSO Ravel
SSO MAHLER
SSO and Dutoit
Greenwood & Dessner
SSO Vaughan Williams, Elgar & Knussen
SSO Brahms, Strauss, Dorman
SSO Rautavaara
SSO Stravinsky
SSO Night Music
Bruckner & Berg
SSO Strings
Organ Symphony
*OPERA REVIEWS
La Traviata - 2024
Idomeneo - 2024
Foss, Barber, Menotti and Orff
Menotti - The Medium
Symonds, Poulenc, Saariaho
Cilea - Adriana Lecouvreur
Britten - Canticles
Atilla
Il Trovatore
Mefistofele
Lohengrin
La Juive
Bluebeard's Castle
Ernani
Janacek & Belling
Don Giovanni
Il Viaggio a Reims
Le Nozze di Figaro
Ghost Sonata
Madama Butterfly
Oscar & Lucinda
Peter Grimes
Whiteley
Anna Bolena
Salome
Werther
Wozzeck
Candide
Metamorphosis
Aida
Rigoletto
William Tell
Don Quichotte
The Nose
The Merry Widow
Bluebeard's Castle
Rape of Lucretia
Verdi - Messa da Requiem
THAÏS
Pelleas et Melisande
Nixon in China
Philharmonia Choirs - Opera
La boheme
La Traviata
King Roger
Porgy and Bess
Il Tabarro
Simon Boccanegra
Luisa Miller
Pearlfishers
The Rabbits
Don Carlos
Trovatore
Awash in Tribal Guilt
The White Man's Burdensome Ways
*N E W
Broadway Baby
I made a vow
A deadly pulse
Pleasures recalled - II
Pleasures recalled - I
So many lonely men
This mutable world
The end of the Anthropocene
Masculinity all at sea
A man scorned
Funeral Blue
Doubt and Omission
Windbaggery
Bayreuth 1924
Exiles (1)
Souvenirs de la mort (ii)
In sorrow and desire
Town and Gown in Ruins
Souvenirs de la mort (i)
Children after the fire
Silent Love
Quiet, he might hear you!
The leader was barren
Immenso Jehovah
Tipping Point
Landline Blues
Sydney town is falling down
Landscape Blues No. 2
Delayed Gratification
Riff on Ruckert
Giselle
Landscape Blues No. 1
Der Einsame - Nicht
Man unto child
Man to man - the judgement reads
At the same time
Angry Men - Christchurch 2019
Mio Superbo Guerrier
The Plagues of Climate Change
Schumann
Sommer im Suden
*POETRY - Composers
All Currents Connected
Jeg elsker deg
In the Utzon Room
Brothers in Arms
1929 - echoes of Wagner
Ramble on Rosenkavalier
Brahms recycles a tune
The Composer Dying
Entente Cordiale - Debussy
Sing Nachtigall Sing
Two English Boys
"The Sea" - composer to composer
Women Composers
*POETRY - Opera
All Currents Connected
Meditation on Baron Ochs
O rimembranza - Forza live
On listening to Aida
Turandot
At the opera
Italian Road Trip
Pity floods the stage
There is a moment in "Butterfly"
Falstaff
*POETRY - Singers
Joan Sutherland
Schwarzkopf: Habe Dank
La Nostra Divina
What kind of aspic
1949: on the road to Brisbane
Rest in Peace
On Listening to Lenya
*POETRY - Lieder
Winter im Suden
Morike's Aeolian Harp
Sein Kuss
An Die Musik
Abends ist's
Four Last Songs
Die Alte
*POETRY - the natural world
Winter im Suden
Plein Air
The Glenbrook Tree
Go now as your soul expires
Silent Stranger
Eclipse
Still Life
World Heritage Gamble
Birdsong
A spider in the garden
Penrith Rise
Visitation
*POETRY - language
Death be not proud
A Rebel receives her judgement
'the' english on the sidewalk
The Muse is rarely beautiful
On the Bathurst Train
*POETRY - learning
Vocations and the life-force
The Vice President
The Political Obituary
A millionaires town
Elongated Thought
The slough of human rights
Vaccination Queen
*POETRY - living
Design for living
Wicker Basket
Fette Kinder
Online and disconnected
Harmony Day
The old man's tale
Coogee Beach
Mignon's Cry
Dead on Arrival
Anzac Day
On the train (1)
The homeless and the bourse
misstep
Everyone Knew
Children at the waters edge
On the bus (1)
POETRY - loving
On Leaving Ireland
Old Love
Mete the end
A birthday hansel
Desire/Tolerance/Demise
Little Dogs
An imaginary lovescape
the imagined confined
Such Calm Terror
All things possible
These bluebeard men
That Flickering Light
This Gathering
This skein of desire
First Rites
*MUSICAL DRAMA
Absolutely Weill
Absolutely Weill - 1987
*MONOLOGUES
Little Alma's Tale
*SONGS - for a composer
Longtime Companion
There is a rose (1)
Song of a failed seduction
*SCENA - in search of a composer
Vigil - love duet
His Sharp Mistress
BAX
Mr Bax Expires
BERLIOZ
Berlioz stamps his foot
Berlioz - unhappiness bestirs
BRITTEN
Belsen 1945
Anecdote from Aldeburgh
Mr Britten is laid to rest
O Palpitation
On listening to Britten's Violin Concerto
Composing Mortals
DELIUS
Delius Alone
Delius Alone II
JANACEK
Janacek Sinfonietta
Czech Mate
RAVEL
Ravel - before life and after
La Valse
Music and the French
SHOSTAKOVICH
On Listening to Shostakovich
21 November 1937
Dmitri Dmitrievich waited for death
TCHAIKOVSKY
Swan Lake
Paolo and Francesca
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Air Raid
Eden in reverse
*MOST VIEWED - Reviews
Aida
Deep Blue Sea
Under Milk Wood
Il Tabarro
La Traviata
Benjamin Grosvenor
Organ Symphony
Jayson Gillham
Bruckner & Berg
King Roger
SSO Strings
Simon Boccanegra
Porgy and Bess
Orlando
Luisa Miller
Lear
The Rabbits
Arcadia
Garrick Ohlsson
Machu Picchu
King Charles III
Salome
*Short Scenes
Digging for Bill
*Provocations
Must I Worship Bach
Grenfell Tower
*MOST VIEWED - Poetry
Winter im Suden
All Currents Connected
Joan Sutherland
Janacek Sinfonietta
Jeg elsker deg
Design for living
Meditation on Baron Ochs
Swan Lake
Morike's Aeolian Harp
Belsen 1945
Vocations and the life-force
O rimembranza - Forza live
On listening to Aida
Longtime Companion
Schwarzkopf: Habe Dank
On Listening to Shostakovich
Ravel - before life and after
Plein Air
The Vice President
On Leaving Ireland
Peer Gynt
Opera League Tables
About
False Idols
Mutter der liebe
Prokofiev & Tchaikovsky - SSO 2024
*RECITAL REVIEWS
Orava Quartet - Folk music 2024
Omega Ensemble - Re: Classical
Omega Ensemble - Echappsodie
Alma Moodie Quartet - 2023
Perianes - 2023
Bavouzet - 2022
Wallis Giunta - 2019
Omega Ensemble - Requiems
Lewis - 2019
Lancaster - 2019
Moser & Stott - 2019
Car & Dupuis - 2019
Tedeschi & Orava Quartet - 2019
Piers Lane - 2019
Lisa Moore - 2019
Selby - Smetana - 2019
Bradman
Freddy Kempf - 2019
Opera Australia - Lieder aus Wien
Omega Ensemble - Quintets
Alessio Bax - 2019
Omega Ensemble - Farrenc
Grosvenor 2018
Osborne
Trpceski
Hampson in recital
Avdeeva in recital
Allerseelen - Memorial
Stalin's Piano
Orava Quartet - Shostakovich
Alexander Gavrylyuk
Kats-Chernin Birthday Bash
Songs of My Country
Piano Lessons - Goldsworthy
Omega Ensemble - Anderson
Debussy String Quartet
Conservatorium - Bartok, Debussy, Ravel
Omega - Brahms & Borodin
Imogen Cooper
Orava String Quartet - Schumann & Schubert
Romantic Russians - Chamber Music
Selby & Friends - Ravel
Orli Shaham
Behzod Abduraimov
Nobuyuki Tsujii
Leslie Howard
Daniil Trifonov
Selby & Friends 2
Jayson Gillham
Aust Hayden Ensemble
Freddy Kempf
Nelson Freire
Selby & Friends
Omega Ensemble - Elgar
Kats-Chernin
Garrick Ohlsson
Benjamin Grosvenor
*THEATRE REVIEWS
The President - 2024
An Inspector Calls - 2024
The Seagull
Twelfth Night
A little night music
Macbeth
The Goat or Who is Sylvia
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Peer Gynt
A Room of One's Own
Can't Pay Won't Pay
Deep Blue Sea
Songs for Nobodies
The Ladykillers
Cosi
Life of Galileo
Lord of the Flies
The Torrents
Things I Know To Be True
Cat on a hot tin roof
Mary Stuart
A Cheery Soul
Accidental Death of an Anarchist
Nell Gwynn
Gloria
Assassins
St. Joan
Importance of Being Earnest
Arturo Ui
The Crucible
Van de Maar Papers
Cloud Nine
Speed-the-plow
Testament of Mary
Three Sisters
1984
August: Osage County
Away
Flea in her ear
Under Milk Wood
Superhal
Cabaret
King Charles III
Machu Picchu
Arcadia
Golden Age
Lear
Orlando
Arms & the Man
*ORCHESTRAL REVIEWS
Gurrelieder - SSO
AWO - Mahler
SSO - Britten & Shostakovich
SSO - Britten & Holst
SSO - Brahms & Vaughan Williams
SSO - Shostakovich, Adams
SSO - Schumann, Mozart, Skipworth
ARCO - Britten, Bruch
SSO - Bruckner & Messiaen
SSO - Elgar & Vaughan Williams
SSO - Shostakovich
SSO - Liszt, Schubert, Ledger
SSO - Ravel & Gershwin
SSO - Canteloube, Saint Saens
ACO - Indies & Idols
SSO - Dvorak, Bizet, Ravel
MSO - Britten, Debussy, Sibelius,
SSO - Nielsen, Sibelius, Lovelock
SSO - Janacek, Reich, Bartok
SSO - Korngold, Mahler
SSO - Saint Saens, Sibelius
SSO - Brahms Revelation
ARCO - Grieg, Dvorak, Mendelssohn
SSO - Mahler & Britten
SSO - Debussy, De Falla, Anderson
SSO - Verdi
SSO - Elgar & Prokofiev
SSO - Bernstein
Australian World Orchestra - Muti
SSO - Mozart Festival
SSO - Shostakovich
Philharmonia Choirs - Vaughan Williams
SSO Ravel
SSO MAHLER
SSO and Dutoit
Greenwood & Dessner
SSO Vaughan Williams, Elgar & Knussen
SSO Brahms, Strauss, Dorman
SSO Rautavaara
SSO Stravinsky
SSO Night Music
Bruckner & Berg
SSO Strings
Organ Symphony
*OPERA REVIEWS
La Traviata - 2024
Idomeneo - 2024
Foss, Barber, Menotti and Orff
Menotti - The Medium
Symonds, Poulenc, Saariaho
Cilea - Adriana Lecouvreur
Britten - Canticles
Atilla
Il Trovatore
Mefistofele
Lohengrin
La Juive
Bluebeard's Castle
Ernani
Janacek & Belling
Don Giovanni
Il Viaggio a Reims
Le Nozze di Figaro
Ghost Sonata
Madama Butterfly
Oscar & Lucinda
Peter Grimes
Whiteley
Anna Bolena
Salome
Werther
Wozzeck
Candide
Metamorphosis
Aida
Rigoletto
William Tell
Don Quichotte
The Nose
The Merry Widow
Bluebeard's Castle
Rape of Lucretia
Verdi - Messa da Requiem
THAÏS
Pelleas et Melisande
Nixon in China
Philharmonia Choirs - Opera
La boheme
La Traviata
King Roger
Porgy and Bess
Il Tabarro
Simon Boccanegra
Luisa Miller
Pearlfishers
The Rabbits
Don Carlos
Trovatore
Awash in Tribal Guilt
The White Man's Burdensome Ways
*N E W
Broadway Baby
I made a vow
A deadly pulse
Pleasures recalled - II
Pleasures recalled - I
So many lonely men
This mutable world
The end of the Anthropocene
Masculinity all at sea
A man scorned
Funeral Blue
Doubt and Omission
Windbaggery
Bayreuth 1924
Exiles (1)
Souvenirs de la mort (ii)
In sorrow and desire
Town and Gown in Ruins
Souvenirs de la mort (i)
Children after the fire
Silent Love
Quiet, he might hear you!
The leader was barren
Immenso Jehovah
Tipping Point
Landline Blues
Sydney town is falling down
Landscape Blues No. 2
Delayed Gratification
Riff on Ruckert
Giselle
Landscape Blues No. 1
Der Einsame - Nicht
Man unto child
Man to man - the judgement reads
At the same time
Angry Men - Christchurch 2019
Mio Superbo Guerrier
The Plagues of Climate Change
Schumann
Sommer im Suden
*POETRY - Composers
All Currents Connected
Jeg elsker deg
In the Utzon Room
Brothers in Arms
1929 - echoes of Wagner
Ramble on Rosenkavalier
Brahms recycles a tune
The Composer Dying
Entente Cordiale - Debussy
Sing Nachtigall Sing
Two English Boys
"The Sea" - composer to composer
Women Composers
*POETRY - Opera
All Currents Connected
Meditation on Baron Ochs
O rimembranza - Forza live
On listening to Aida
Turandot
At the opera
Italian Road Trip
Pity floods the stage
There is a moment in "Butterfly"
Falstaff
*POETRY - Singers
Joan Sutherland
Schwarzkopf: Habe Dank
La Nostra Divina
What kind of aspic
1949: on the road to Brisbane
Rest in Peace
On Listening to Lenya
*POETRY - Lieder
Winter im Suden
Morike's Aeolian Harp
Sein Kuss
An Die Musik
Abends ist's
Four Last Songs
Die Alte
*POETRY - the natural world
Winter im Suden
Plein Air
The Glenbrook Tree
Go now as your soul expires
Silent Stranger
Eclipse
Still Life
World Heritage Gamble
Birdsong
A spider in the garden
Penrith Rise
Visitation
*POETRY - language
Death be not proud
A Rebel receives her judgement
'the' english on the sidewalk
The Muse is rarely beautiful
On the Bathurst Train
*POETRY - learning
Vocations and the life-force
The Vice President
The Political Obituary
A millionaires town
Elongated Thought
The slough of human rights
Vaccination Queen
*POETRY - living
Design for living
Wicker Basket
Fette Kinder
Online and disconnected
Harmony Day
The old man's tale
Coogee Beach
Mignon's Cry
Dead on Arrival
Anzac Day
On the train (1)
The homeless and the bourse
misstep
Everyone Knew
Children at the waters edge
On the bus (1)
POETRY - loving
On Leaving Ireland
Old Love
Mete the end
A birthday hansel
Desire/Tolerance/Demise
Little Dogs
An imaginary lovescape
the imagined confined
Such Calm Terror
All things possible
These bluebeard men
That Flickering Light
This Gathering
This skein of desire
First Rites
*MUSICAL DRAMA
Absolutely Weill
Absolutely Weill - 1987
*MONOLOGUES
Little Alma's Tale
*SONGS - for a composer
Longtime Companion
There is a rose (1)
Song of a failed seduction
*SCENA - in search of a composer
Vigil - love duet
His Sharp Mistress
BAX
Mr Bax Expires
BERLIOZ
Berlioz stamps his foot
Berlioz - unhappiness bestirs
BRITTEN
Belsen 1945
Anecdote from Aldeburgh
Mr Britten is laid to rest
O Palpitation
On listening to Britten's Violin Concerto
Composing Mortals
DELIUS
Delius Alone
Delius Alone II
JANACEK
Janacek Sinfonietta
Czech Mate
RAVEL
Ravel - before life and after
La Valse
Music and the French
SHOSTAKOVICH
On Listening to Shostakovich
21 November 1937
Dmitri Dmitrievich waited for death
TCHAIKOVSKY
Swan Lake
Paolo and Francesca
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Air Raid
Eden in reverse
*MOST VIEWED - Reviews
Aida
Deep Blue Sea
Under Milk Wood
Il Tabarro
La Traviata
Benjamin Grosvenor
Organ Symphony
Jayson Gillham
Bruckner & Berg
King Roger
SSO Strings
Simon Boccanegra
Porgy and Bess
Orlando
Luisa Miller
Lear
The Rabbits
Arcadia
Garrick Ohlsson
Machu Picchu
King Charles III
Salome
*Short Scenes
Digging for Bill
*Provocations
Must I Worship Bach
Grenfell Tower
*MOST VIEWED - Poetry
Winter im Suden
All Currents Connected
Joan Sutherland
Janacek Sinfonietta
Jeg elsker deg
Design for living
Meditation on Baron Ochs
Swan Lake
Morike's Aeolian Harp
Belsen 1945
Vocations and the life-force
O rimembranza - Forza live
On listening to Aida
Longtime Companion
Schwarzkopf: Habe Dank
On Listening to Shostakovich
Ravel - before life and after
Plein Air
The Vice President
On Leaving Ireland
Peer Gynt
Opera League Tables
Words and Music - Reviews and Poetry - Gar Jones
BRITTEN
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