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28/12/2012
Best of the Year Discs for 2012   Audiophile Audition has listed  “A Lotus Blossoming” as one of the best of the year discs for 2012. Click this link for the full list: http://audaud.com/2012/12/best-of-the-year-discs-for-2012/
16/10/2012
It is hard to believe that it’s almost eight years since this complete cycle was recorded. It took a while for the sets to be issued, one part at a time, and I was privileged to review them all. The response was positive, to say the least, and many...
12/10/2012
 Lucas Irom’s detailed review in Classique News was filled with extravagant praise. Now Classique News have listed this in their top five CDs of the year. Click here to read the entire review, or see some excerpts below:   “Listeners...
21/08/2012
Ian Perry speaks with Benaud Trio members, Lachlan and Ewen Bramble following the release of their debut recording. Ian Perry:         The two of you, Lachlan and Ewen, are brothers, your father was a highly...
17/08/2012
**** 4 stars performance/**** 4½ stars sound this remarkable Australian achievement.  .... this compelling Australian Ring.... SA-CD.NET (UK), Graham Williams The Melba recordings of the State Opera of South Australia's performances of the four...
16/08/2012
…Never has the inspiration of the great Liszt, that demon of stentorian keyboard recitals, been more imaginative and immediately subservient to Wagner’s intentions. …It is a miracle which issues forth through the nuanced and spiritual pianism of...
10/08/2012
From Australia comes a new double CD release on Melba Recordings dedicated to one of the great soprano voices from the antipodes: Nance Grant. Gifted with a beautiful and powerful voice, superlative technique and perfect phrasing, Nance Grant was...
1/07/2012
Asher Fisch's debut solo piano recording with Melba Recordings. Meistersinger, Der Fliegende Holländer, Tannhäuser, Lohengrin, Tristan und Isolde Fisch displays a depth of scholarship and understanding of historical context in his performance,...
30/06/2012
Timothy Young’s debut solo recording for Melba Recordings confirms the exceptional promise he showed as an accompanist on marvellous discs of Stravinsky and Koechlin previously featured in these pages. Recording quality is predictably fine,...
7/05/2012
Appeals have fallen on deaf ears, but the federal government's tightened purse strings must not reduce a classical music institution to silence. WAGNER'S Ride of the Valkyries plays with clairvoyantly crystal-clear sound and this archetypal German...