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Fascinating Rhythm
Undoubtedly in a critical minority, Gershwin is seen as one of the great Modern composers – certainly one of the greatest American composers. He’s had a tough road to critical acceptance. You can...
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Our water in Germany
Recent guest Marion sent us these candid pics of Suurbraak, our guys repairing our wall and most importantly, a bottle of Augusta de Mist Pure Swellendam Water, which made it very safely back to...
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Seonae Music & Food
Swellendam has the pleasure of hosting a traditional Korean Music Performance on Saturday 24 November at the at Seonae Eco Centre right here in the centre of Swellendam.This is the second performance...
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Slave to Love
The punchy beginning to Bryan Ferry’s Jazz Age inspired instrumental album articulates from the outset that this is an album to take notice of. To celebrate Ferry’s 40 years as both an artist and as...
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Heaven on a CD
Harmonia Mundi has long been our go-to label when we want to get a nice new take on well-known repertoire on indeed, discover something new and very fresh. So it comes as no surprise that when Harmonia...
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Summertime…in Vein
It’s a sure sign of the changing seasons when the strains of Summertime sound a little more melancholy than usual and you wistfully think of days past. AND if the strains are from the new...
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We will BaRoque you
Celebrate the arrival of Spring with the inaugural Swellendam House Concerts: BAROQUE SPRING at Schoone Oordt on September 1 at 17.30. Tickets cost - R130 pp,and that includes a glass of wine and...
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Get a Handel on it
Solo recitals of arias from Handel operas and oratorios are common, so it’s a pleasure to hear an album devoted to his duets, particularly when they’re performed as well as they are here by soprano...
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Transfigured Night
Verklärte Nacht is possibly one of our favourite pieces of music ever. It was controversial when it was premiered in 1902. This was due to the highly advanced harmonic idiom as well as, perhaps,...
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Cape Classic is Bach in Swellendam
In 2014 Cape Classic is celebrating a special birthday: its tenth anniversary! The festival is starting in Cape Town on 12 February and will end in Swellendam on 22 February. Enthusiasm for South...
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Violons du Roy
When we think of 18th century piano concertos, we usually think of Mozart. But it takes only a few seconds of listening to the opening track on Marc-André Hamelin’s lastest album to realise that Joseph...
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Queen of Carthage
Just because its winter here in Swellendam and therefore very romantic with gusty windy and shards of dappled light, it feels like the perfect time for a little baroque levity with a dollop of tragedy...
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The Jazz Epistles
The Jazz Epistles – The Complete Recordings (2014) MP3 320 kbps CBR | 71:19 min | 172 MB Genre: Jazz | Label: Trunk Records Experienceby The Jazz Epistles. Fashioned after Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers,...
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Salon Sounds for a Perfect Sunday
The perfect Pianist Joanne Polk is renowned for her recordings and performances of exceptional repertoire by such female composers as Amy Beach, Judith Lang Zaimont, Clara Wieck Schumann, and Fanny...
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The South African National Anthem: a history on record
Ever since I heard Gideon Nxumalo’s very subtle piano hint to Nkosi Sikelel iAfrika in the opening bars of his 2nd Movement on the classic 1962 live recording, Jazz Fantasia, at the Wits Great Hall,...
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