Friday’s ACO Homecast features Artistic Director Richard Tognetti and Principal Violin Satu Vänskä performing in a new release of the music of JS Bach, Paganini and Leclair from their Manly home.
There is a HIP new orchestra on Sydney’s music scene. In the case of orchestra seventeen88 their HIP style refers to Historically Informed Performance – surely one of the coolest trends of our times. Four of Australia’s most renowned musicians – conductor and educator Richard Gill OAM, violinist Rachael Beesley, clarinettist Nicole van Bruggen and…
The Massive Spooky Singlet – an all-comers big sing led by Stephen Taberner and a handful of handpicked gentlemen from The Spooky Men’s Chorale host an online big sing. The black clad, bearded, steam powered male choir has been charming audiences around the world since 2001. Those signing up join 500 other online participants worldwide…
One hundred years after her birth in 1912, and her untimely death in 1952 aged 41, the English contralto Kathleen Ferrier remains a revered and much-loved figure. In her honour, mezzo-soprano Prudence Dunstone and pianist Maryleigh Hand present A Tribute to Kathleen Ferrier to recreate some of the aura around Ferrier and the songs she sang. Kathleen Ferrier started her…
“The most perfect expression of human behavior is a string quartet”. Jeffrey Tate (English conductor) The Australian String Quartet brings their own special perfection to Sydney in June with a programme that starts with Romantic repertoire and moves into the 21st century. In the programme is the world premiere of Processions by Perth based Australian composer…
The Muffat Collective presents Cafes and Cathedrals, an evening of rare 17th century German music performed on period instruments. From coffee-house to church hall, enjoy pieces from an era when music was at the height of its ability to “move heart and spirit.” “All of music’s pleasantness grows out of her ability to move heart and spirit…”…
Soprano Ayse Göknur Shanal and pianist Patrick Keith will be presenting Cannakale-Gallipoli Songs, a program of 4 newly commissioned song cycles which were written for the centenary of the Gallipoli campaign, 1915. The songs are written by Ross Fiddes, Wayne Dixon, Diana Blom, and Erberk Eryilmaz, who first took soldiers’ personal accounts of these times, which…
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