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News from Melba Recordings

Go behind the scenes for insights on our recordings, our artists and our future plans. Follow our artists' schedules and share the excitement of their journeys.

28/02/2007
Nothing, it seems, can stop Maria Vandamme. She started the classical record label, Melba, in 2000 and two years ago controversially persuaded the Federal Government to provide $1 million a year for five years. Financially secure, she looked...
15/02/2007
Melba has collaborated with virtuoso wind player Nick Byrne to bring the sounds of the ophicleide to twenty-first century music lovers. Berlioz and Meyerbeer in France, and Mendelssohn and Wagner in Germany wrote for it but these days no one plays...
17/01/2007
The name Melba will live again in opera circles with a glittering launch party at Jeanne Pratt’s New York apartment tomorrow. Rupert Murdoch and Alexander Downer will be among guests at the American launch of the Melba Foundation’s recordings of...
10/01/2007
Melba Recordings CEO, Maria Vandamme took the label into the huge, discerning American market when she flew to New York for the company’s North American launch in January. Mr Anthony Pratt and Mrs Jeanne Pratt AC hosted the launch party where the...
10/12/2006
Reviews have been staggering for Melba Recordings’ SACD release of State Opera of South Australia’s production of Wagner’s Ring Cycle, recently launched in the UK, USA and Europe. The level of international acclaim for the release of the first...
26/10/2006
Das Rheingold was launched at a private function at the Australian Club on October 26th by the Federal Minister for the Arts, Senator The Hon. Rod Kemp, in the presence of Dame Elisabeth Murdoch AC DBE, and Mrs Jeanne Pratt AC, Melba Foundation...
1/10/2006
David Tong, a twenty two year old piano virtuoso, is already considered to be one of the best pianists of his generation. He has performed not only in Australia, but also in Asia, the USA and Canada. ... on the occasion of his debut recording...
1/10/2006
  Walküre producer and Melba CEO Maria Vandamme accepting the award The voting has ended and the listeners have spoken: Melba Recordings has won the 2006 ABC Classic FM's Listeners' Choice Award for its first instalment of the...
1/09/2006
To celebrate the centenary of Dmitri Shostakovich’s birth, Melba Recordings is proud to present a stunning live recording of his Tenth Symphony by the Australian Youth Orchestra conducted by Alexander Anissimov. "These days there is always debate...
1/08/2006
Doubt that the dancing stars shine doubt even that the sun is bright, and that on the damp earth flowers grow; doubt tears, doubt smiling, and doubt that there are angels in paradise, but believe in love. Franco Faccio (Amleto, 1865) What is...