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Concert & Recording Reviews

CD Review: "Piano Quartets 1 & 2" Limelight (23rd September, 2019)
...​There’s a contemplative feeling throughout [the second quartet], with overlapping melodies and peaceful sunny passages, occasionally interrupted by dark clouds. This is a lovely disc, beautifully performed and recorded. It makes one hanker to hear his music played live.
CD Review: ​"Piano Quartets 1 & 2" Records International (August, 2019)
gloriously rich and atmospheric
CD Review: "Piano Quartets 1 & 2" Classical Music Daily (16th August, 2019)
...I believe that this composer has a special talent, writing music which is compelling and unique. This is reinforced by the quality of the Australia Piano Quartet's performances, which are committed and of a very high quality. I have seldom had such pleasure as in listening to these new works, and I hope that this composer is recognised widely. His music is very accessible and never trite. This is a must listen to CD!
CD Review: "Piano Quartets 1 & 2" MusicWeb International
... ​that lovely, rich lyricism which made such an impression in the First Quartet still blossoms in the second, and now all the more poignantly because it often represents a greater release of tension, after some slightly more dissonant passages.
CD Review: "Piano Quartets 1 & 2" Pizzicato (28th June, 2019)
...What is astonishing is how natural and perfectly proportioned the two quartets are. Nothing sounds forced or hard-working, the construction is well proportioned, the themes are characteristic and testify to a wonderful ingenuity.
CD Review: “Andrew Anderson: Piano Quartet, Violin Sonata, In Black Ink”: The best classical CDs of 2018. readings.com.au​
​This collection highlights Anderson’s gift for expansive melodies in intimate form.
CD Review: “Andrew Anderson: Piano Quartet, Violin Sonata, In Black Ink”. ​​Limelight​ July 2018, pg 77
​[The album is] a gentle entry point into contemporary classical music - and a fulfilling end point, too. This is the sort of album that makes one proud of Australian composition.
​CD Review: “Andrew Anderson: Piano Trio in E Minor” Limelight June 2016, pg 77
​...the trio begins with a commanding Dramatico and Emma Jardine (violin), William Hewer (cello), and Benjamin Kopp (piano) present the simple and thematic opening on equal footing.... The piano opens Religioso - described in the notes as "a contemplative movement of hope". It's emotionally effective through resounding independent lines... The spirit of Saint-Saëns can be heard in the following Poco agitato, a frisky movement that leads into Inquieto. After a firery opening, it comes to a serene conclusion.
This work certainly has enough presence to hold its own on the album.
​Concert Review (Miniatures for clarinet & piano, City Recital Hall, Sydney): Small Scale Wonder – Full of Delight (18th October, 2017). ​garjones.com.au
This playful and at times moving work was surprisingly sharp within the taut constraints of its small scale. … These were tasty morsels, full of wit and craft.  One wanted to taste them again.

Interviews

Andrew Anderson: Performing local works helps you “shape the musical voice of the country” (2nd July, 2019). Lewis Ingham, CutCommon
​Composer Interview by Kiera Stevens (2nd September 2018; rebroadcast 7th September 2018). Reflections, 3MBS Fine Music - Melbourne
​All Things Great and Small : Andrew Anderson talks Miniatures (8th October, 2017). omegaensemble.com.au
​Dr. Andrew Anderson: A Musical Way of Life (26th November, 2014) mivision
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