What is it about early music that's so welcoming. Do we have it in our bones the memory of the occasional troubadour visit? They didn't have the Berlin Phil online to listen to and watch any instant. Their experience was a visiting musician for a dance occasionally with baroque or earlier instruments but so earthy and so welcomed. Austral Harmony visited and they were somewhat like that. AH is Jane Downer with her fellow musicians in each town, in Canberra with Ariana Odermatt. We heard the whistle tones of descant and tenor (alto?) recorders and the reedy tone of the baroque oboe along with the plucky harpsichord. Lovely. There's always a tune by that most prolific composer, Anon. Here it was the story of a storm downing a wind vane on St Paul's Cathedral. Then some Handel sounding unusually early and William Babel and two tunes of considerable imagery by Geminiani, Sleepy body and Auld Bob Maurice. The troubadour's visit was much appreciated.
Austral Harmony performed at Wesley. AH comprised Jane Downer (recorder, baroque oboe) and Ariana Odermatt (harpsichord).
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