News from Melba Recordings
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19/02/2008
The world is strange: a man goes to Prague to discover Australia, but more accurately he discovers Melba Recordings, an entrepreneurial CD company unknown to me until now.
This business is named after the legendary Australian Prima-Donna, who...
6/02/2008
Note Worthy
For the first time in more than 100 years, Camille Saint-Saëns’ one-act opera Hélène will get a public airing next week, though not in the composer’s native Paris. The Prague State Opera is staging a concert performance of the...
2/02/2008
Following Melba Recordings' acclaimed world premiere recording of Saint-Saëns’ Hélène and Nuit Persane, both works featured in a gala concert performance by the Prague State Opera.
Read the Gala Concert reviews ....
Galakonzert review - Prague Music...
31/12/2007
"A long lost opera, composed for the late Dame Nellie Melba, has its world premiere recording in Melbourne more than a century after its last performance."ABC News article by Greg Hoy, published 1 Jan 2008
11/11/2007
An interview with Maria Vandamme, Founder of Melba Recordings and producer of the SACD Recording of Wagner's Ring
Why did Melba record this Ring in Adelaide?
I have been recording operas for 20 years, and having worked with John Culshaw, and Sir...
30/10/2007
(1) Steve Davislim & Anthony Romanuik perform Winterreise. (2) Tinalley String Quartet perform Schubert's Rosamunde Quartet.
Melbourne audiences have the opportunity to hear internationally acclaimed tenor Steve Davislim, accompanied...
16/10/2007
A rediscovered opera written for Dame Nellie Melba, and recorded in Melbourne a century later, will be revived in Prague next February.
Hélène, written by French composer Camille Saint-Saëns and based on the Helen of Troy story, was considered old...
14/07/2007
It’s 2001 and the second round of competition for Symphony Australia’s elite Young Performers Award is under way.
The national judging panel is already impressed by the Queensland talent, but nothing can prepare them for what happens when a 16-...
13/07/2007
Different, so double take twice as rewarding
Pei-Jee and Pei-Sian Ng are two young, talented musicians with great stage presence, each playing a beautiful old cello with remarkable facility. And, by they way, they’re identical twins. As one...
4/07/2007
The cello lineage of twins Pei-Jee and Pei-Sian Ng can be traced back via the Elder Conservatorium to James Whitehead, teacher of Janis Laurs, teacher to these outstandingly gifted musicians.
Playing together, they fit as snugly as the...
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