Following Bryce Dessner’s Réponse Lutosławski earlier in the month, the Australian Chamber Orchestra is releasing its performance of the music that directly inspired it, Lutosławski’s extraordinary Overture for Strings, for its Saturday Homecast, filmed live at their Indies & Idols concert.
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Australia’s premier vocal ensemble, Song Company presents the internationally renowned lutenist, Nigel North, as guest artistic director for the second concert in their 2013 season entitled Dowland’s Lute. Celebrating the 450th anniversary of the birth of English Renaissance composer, singer and lutenist John Dowland, the Song Company has invited celebrated lutenist Nigel North for an all-out…
There is an an exceptional opportunity this weekend to hear Simone Young talk about Wagner when the Wagner Society of NSW presents their patron and renowned conductor in conversation with Francis Merson, editor of Limelight Magazine, moderated by President of the society, Jane Mathews Prior to this is a screening of Act 2 of Tannhäuser, with Stig Andersen in the…
There is a project coming to life in Sydney that is about to overturn long held ideas about composing and performing music. Most of the time, composing would be considered an act of deliberate planning. The composer sets out to express an intensely personal statement in harmony, melody and style. Score markings tell the performer…
Fresh from their successful tour of Asia, Sydney Chamber Choir starts the year with their Easter concert of which the centrepiece is Fauré’s Requiem, with The Metropolitan Orchestra and soloists Belinda Montgomery and Alexander Knight. Conducting this concert will be Richard Gill OAM, the incoming music director of the Sydney Chamber Choir. Fauré’s Requiem is more a lullaby of…
The Omega Ensemble presents A Brahms Affair – a celebration of chemistry, romance and love that will engage your senses and leave you breathless. Featuring the music of Brahms, Borodin and Schumann, co-artistic directors of Omega Ensemble, David Rowden and Maria Raspopova are joined by guest artist Alexandra Osborne, violin who appears by courtesy of the National Symphony…
Celebrating the extraordinary life and career of Dame Joan Sutherland on the second anniversary of her death, Maestro Richard Bonynge returns to Sydney to conduct a single performance of Handel’s opera Rodelinda, presented by the Joan Sutherland and Richard Bonynge Foundation. Rodelinda was Handel’s 7th full-length opera. Composed for the Royal Academy, he was enjoying…