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Your guide to
enjoying the
Classics without
really trying!
We all like to slow down in the winter
months. What’s better than a weekend
curled up on the couch being soothed by
the classics? Nothing to make you bump
your glass of wine or scare the cat. Try
this:
The Classic 100 – Swoon
. Completely
voted for by the Australian public.
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Braveheart, Titanic, Avatar…
what’s next? A fabulous, cinematic
new piece from film composer
extraordinaire
James Horner
called
Pas de Deux
, where cello
and violin get intimate with each
other. There’s also music by
Einaudi on the same album.
The great Jazz
Label. The brilliant
Jazz artists. The
must-have Jazz
tracks . All on one
4 CD-set.
And one more Blue Note title
you can’t be without…
Gregory Porter’s
Liquid Spirit
. Did
you know Gregory is the featured
vocalist on the first single from the
new
Disclosure
album?
And who wrote the
soundtrack for
Babe
?
None other than Australian
composer
Nigel Westlake
.
The world’s best-loved
pig turns 20 this year and
Nigel has just re-recorded
the updated soundtrack
with the Melbourne
Symphony Orchestra.
Did you get rapped on the knuckles for not
practicing your scales? Nothing like it to turn you
completely off the piano. But we have good news.
You don’t need to practise your scales any more.
You just need to sit back, relax and err… enjoy a
relaxing flight through 111 piano pieces on this
one-box-fits-all set:
111 The Piano
. All nicely
compacted across 40 CDs. Gift, anyone…?
2015 is THE year for the first ladies of
jazz. First Diana Krall’s Wallflower, and
now Melody Gardot’s
Currency of Man
.
Just hear the strength and grace of that
extraordinary voice try ‘Same To You’
and ‘Preacherman’.
HITCHHIKER’S
GUIDE
to
Rocking
the
Classics
CLASSICAL
ALBUM OF
THE MONTH
THE JAZZ
ALBUM OF
THE MONTH
Pete Townshend’s
classical re-
working of his
mod classic
Quadrophenia
originally
recorded by his
band The Who,
will make your
spine tingle.
Enjoy the
minimalism of
Philip Glass or
Michael Nyman?
You’ll love
Australian
musician Sally
Whitwell’s
I Was
Flying
.
What happens
if you spice up
timeless Michael
Jackson tunes
with salsa? You
snap to life with
thrilling energy,
and get
Unity –
The Latin Tribute
to Michael
Jackson
.
Mahan Esfahani
is setting the world abuzz by turning
the harpsichord on its head. Listen to his album –
Time
Past and Time Present
– that merges Baroque with
Minimalism.
I am grandpa-once-removed of the piano
Like all old things I am more in vogue than
ever before
My sound was described as resembling two
skeletons copulating on a tin roof
I am…
THE HARPSICHORD
BLUE NOTE FOCUS
BUILDING A LIBRARY
WHO AM I?
BALLET FOR BABES