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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.

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...
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.
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   Read the full interview
24/12/2009
Winning the Queen Elisabeth music competition in Belgium in May hardly allowed Brisbane violinist Ray Chen to rest on his laurels. WINNING the Queen Elisabeth music competition in Belgium in May hardly allowed Brisbane violinist Ray Chen to rest on...
19/11/2009
KRISTIAN Winther sits at a South Melbourne cafe in the spring sunshine with his back to the Australian National Academy of Music. The classical bulk of the institution looms large, literally and figuratively, in the life of the young violinist....
1/11/2009
  Renowned lover of French music, Barry Humphries, is in town promoting his new book Handling Edna and touring with the Australian Chamber Orchestra. He joined fellow Melba Ambassadors, Barry Tuckwell and Barry Jones and Melba Managing...