Melba Recordings

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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.

14/12/2011
Stepping into its second decade this year, Melba Recordings was formed to promote Australia’s classical music sector and to provide its talents, both established and emerging, with a platform at home and abroad. Such ambition was matched by one...
1/12/2011
Anthony Clarke:  Read the full article in THE AGE here MELBA Recordings has already established itself as one of the world's premier classical music labels. Its focus is on the highest possible quality, both in artistry and in...
30/09/2011
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Our highlights video from the Gala Dinner at the Myer Mural Hall to celebrate Dame Nellie Melba, born 150 years ago and still a shining light.
15/08/2011
Daniel Barenboim (left) and Pierre Boulez (middle) with Henry Fogel (right), who was CSO Association President, 1985-2003
28/07/2011
Incandescent French conductor Guillaume Tourniaire returned to Australia to continue a collaboration with Orchestra Victoria which is propelling it into the international scene. What began with the recording in 2008 of the opera Hélène written for...
3/11/2010
Transcript of Maria Vandamme's speech. Imagine having a father who built:    a city church (Scots' Church in Collins Street) in which you could pray;     a college (PLC), where you were educated;   ...
30/09/2010
Interview with Maria Vandamme, Founder of Melba Recordings In just about a decade, Melba has established itself as a label of consistent high quality. It has brought to the attention of the world some superb Australian artists, it has discovered...
13/05/2010
Melba Foundation supporters were treated to a lively and candid conversation between conductor Richard Bonynge and Michael Shmith, opera critic and senior writer with The Age, at The Opera Centre in Melbourne. Maestro Bonynge spills the beans on his...
1/05/2010
HF: Melba began in 2001 - just about at a time when people were predicting the death of the recording industry? What possessed you and your colleagues to start a new recording company at that time?Reports of the death of the recording industry were...
24/02/2010
THE Queensland Symphony Orchestra's first Maestro Series concert for 2010 featured a masterly program of Mozart and Mahler pieces. Mozart's celebrated Clarinet Concerto is a technically astonishing piece to test the greatest of clarinettists....