off the record – future directions in listening to music.
This is an interesting and useful article about how we will listen to music in years to come.
http://www.gramophone.co.uk/features/focus/listening-wirelessly
This is an interesting and useful article about how we will listen to music in years to come.
http://www.gramophone.co.uk/features/focus/listening-wirelessly
Ensemble Offspring has released a series of videos entitled Lone Hemispheres: The Solo Sessions as one of its responses to music-making in the COVID era. Sponsored by a COVID grant from the City of Sydney, Many months in the making, our series of 12 videos were recorded at Baker Street Studios, highlighting modern masterpieces alongside…
The Australian String Quartet and the Ngeringa Farm Arts Foundation launch a fund to own outright the four precious Guadagnini instruments presently played by the quartet – the first and only ensemble in Australia that plays instruments crafted by the same person. http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/four-fabulous-rarities-bridge-the-centuries-20120523-1z5m3.html
Some years ago I attended a concert at the Vienna Konzerthaus. Sopranos Montserrat Caballe and her Callas look-alike daughter Monserrat Marti gave a superb rendition of solos and duets for female voices. The hall was packed; the audience brought them out – and they graciously obliged – for three encores. On the premise that one good…
The 2018 Grammy for Best Classical Solo Vocal Album goes to Crazy Girl Crazy featuring music By Gershwin, Berg & Berio performed by Canadian soprano Barbara Hannigan with Orchestra Ludwig. Vale Dmitri Horostovsky, also nominated for the award. Other nominees: Bach & Telemann: Sacred Cantatas — Philippe Jaroussky; Petra Müllejans, conductor (Ann-Kathrin Brüggemann & Juan de la Rubia;…
Shauna Beesley wins the Willgoss Choral Composition Prize for 2024, for her work, Journey, as announced by the Music Performance UNSW.
Pianist Zubin Kanga recently performed a programme of ‘new music’ in London. It involved ideas that brooked traditional concepts of how the instrument is played. Read more at: http://www.icareifyoulisten.com/2012/03/piano-insideout-zubin-kanga-kings-place-london/