Few – if any – Australian jazz exports can rival the significance of Errol Buddle. The great multi-instrumentalist, who has died at the age of 89, enjoyed phenomenal success in the US in the 1950s, and was the first musician anywhere to use the bassoon extensively in jazz. Born in…
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Concert Hall, February 25 8/10 Recreating with “authenticity” music from before the recording era is fraught with peril. The older the music the greater the danger of misinterpreting notated intentions and of reverentially setting in stone what was actually as fluid as water. Catalan Jordi Savall’s reputation as a preeminent…
SPINNING FORTH (Move) 8.5/10 Only two pieces on this enthralling album are genuinely “baroque”, but the Marais Project’s central instrument, Jennifer Eriksson’s viola da gamba, is a machine for imbuing all it touches with that stately grace of the music of 300 years ago. Sumptuously recorded, its bass notes are…