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.

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....
2/02/2010
Conductor Guillaume Tourniaire is restoring a forgotten cache of “lost” classical music to modern audiences, writes Robin Usher. The French conductor Guillaume Tourniaire is in Melbourne as part of his mission to restore forgotten gems of...
1/02/2010
Opéra (France) (February 2010)**LE DIAMANT D’OPÉRA**(Special Commendation)An Australian tenor and a French conductor transform Chausson’s celebrated Poème de l’amour de la mer partnered with some extremely rare and passionate works for voice and...
15/01/2010
Ray Chen is on the path towards a brilliant musical career, writes Philippa Hawker in The Age newspaper.
3/01/2010
Unusual choices have breathed life into the forgotten music of two French composers, Catherine Lambert writes. A Melbourne record label has brought previously buried music into the light. Melba Recordings has been attracting attention from the world...
1/01/2010
Interview between Xavier Barnich and Maria Vandamme, CEO and Founder of Melba Recordings, an Australian music label, Les Editions Romaines, France, in January 2010. Can you start by introducing us to Melba Recordings and outline what led to its...