Elysian Fields Debut Album ‘What Shall I Say?’
Australian electric viola da gamba ensemble Elysian Fields launches it debut album. Check out the music. More information.
Australian electric viola da gamba ensemble Elysian Fields launches it debut album. Check out the music. More information.
The style is possibly as difficult to define as the English meaning of their name – “Arrebato”, variously translated as “fury”, “something that rises rapidly” or “a wave of emotion”. It’s fair to say that any and all of these describe the music of this ensemble. Arrebato release their second CD “Absolucion” in June 2011….
Watch this video of mandolin virtuoso Avi Avital talking about his latest recording, Vivaldi due for release in Australia in early April. Read more about the CD.
Tenor Rolando Villazon is back in full voice with his first recording in three years. Released by Deutsche Grammophon, the collection of Verdi arias celebrates the 2013 bi-centenary of the composer’s birth. Recorded in Turin, Italy with the Orchestra del Teatro Regio di Torino conducted by Gianandrea Noseda, it includes classics like Brindisi, La donna e mobile, Lunge da lei, Dal labbro…
May 1787 , and the First Fleet is ready to sail from England. Richard Morgan’s safe and respectable middle-class existence is shattered. He may as well be crossing into Hades as he endures the ocean journey to the colony of New South Wales. Colleen McCullough’s tale of Richard Morgan in her novel “Morgan’s Run“, has been transformed…
The 2013 ABC Symphony Australia Young Performer of the Year, and best Chamber Music Performer, Hoang Pham gives a shimmering performance of Ravel’s Une barque sur l’océan, from Miroirs, at Hilton Head International Piano Competition, NYC, 2008.
Nick Mohammed is a character comedian based in Edinburgh. He appears at comedy festivals and makes programmes for BBC TV and radio. His caustic humour delivers insights that are suspiciously close to the truth! Belly laughs aplenty in this YouTube video parodying the conductor!