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Popular Music Recording

April 1, 2014

And the Band Played On: Music from the First World War

Artist/s: Various artists
Category: Popular
Label: ABC Records 481 0790
www.abcclassics.com.au
Reviewed by D L Lewis

One of the most perfidious and stupid lies to cross popular culture for a while was that while the Vietnam war may have been the most pointless war, it had the best soundtrack. Music is way too subjective, and what…

Classical Music Recording

April 25, 2014

Lady Sings the Viol: 700 Years of Songs for Voice & Viols

Artist/s: The Marais Project, Jennifer Eriksson director
Category: Classical, Contemporary, Early Music, New Music, Popular
Label: MOVE MCD 481
Reviewed by Anthony Linden Jones

Despite radical changes in composition processes in the last two hundred years and the introduction of electronic instruments and recording, Western orchestral instrumentation has changed relatively little. We accept it as normal to play musics from a very broad range…

Arrangements Music Recording

September 1, 2015

The Gershwin Collection

Artist/s: Simon Tedeschi, with James Morrison, Sarah McKenzie, Queensland Symphony Orchestra, Benjamin Northey
Category: Arrangements, Classical, Film Music, Musical Theatre, Popular
Label: 2 CDs - ABC Classics 481 1872
www.abcclassics.com
Reviewed by Gwen Bennett

Gershwin Take Three? Two previously released CDs of the music of George Gershwin – the top-selling Gershwin and Me (2012) and Gershwin Take Two (2013) are here combined in a double album featuring pianist Simon Tedeschi, who not only seems…

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