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‘Songbirds’ A New Album For Ensemble Offspring On ABC Classic
Sydney’s Ensemble Offspring celebrates its 25th anniversary with Songbirds, a new album of contemporary Australian music that celebrates birds – nature’s own composers. Released on the ABC Classic label, Ensemble Offspring’s new album, Songbirds, is a beguiling collection of chamber works for flute, clarinet and vibraphone inspired by butcherbirds, blackbirds, lorikeets and leafcutter ants, frogs…
Spooky Men’s Chorale Online Big Sings
The Spooky Men’s Chorale is offering a regular on-line community sing, led by Spookmeister Stephen Taberner, that has attracted up to 500 singers of all ages and background, weekly and worldwide! The weekly ‘Massive Singlets’ has an adult edition, a kids’ edition, a ukulele edition and a massive ‘spooky’ edition and promises to ‘gloriously transcend’…
This Week From The Met
This week’s programme from New York’s Metropolitan Opera: Tuesday, June 16 Rossini’s Semiramide Wednesday, June 17 Gluck’s Iphigénie en Tauride Thursday, June 18, and Friday, June 19 Verdi’s La Forza del Destino Saturday, June 20 Philip Glass’s Akhnaten Sunday, June 21 Philip Glass’s Satyagraha Monday, June 22 Verdi’s La Traviata Each stream becomes available at…
Selby & Friends At Home With Tchaikovsky
Selby&Friends At Home have added another gem to their You Tube channel. In September 2013, Selby & Friends received a visit from the Concertmaster of the Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra, Ilya Konovalov. Ilya came for a tour which included an extraordinary performance of Beethoven’s great Kreutzer Sonata. In this video, Ilya perfoms with pianist and founding…
Joseph Tawadros ‘Live’ With The Sydney Symphony Orchestra On ABC Classic
Joseph Tawadros and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra release a new album, Live at the Sydney Opera House, on ABC Classic tomorrow, June 12. Recorded in the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall, Joseph Tawadros performs with James Tawadros playing Egyptian percussion and Benjamin Northey conducting the entire ensemble. The album features the world premiere of Tawadros’ own…
Beethoven 100 8 CD Set On ABC Classic
Last weekend, music lovers listened in and voted for their all-time favourites composed by Ludwig van Beethoven in this, the 250th anniversary of his birth in ABC Classic’s annual Classic 100 countdown. Not surprisingly, his Symphony No 9 roared into top spot yet again, having been voted into the top spot when the ABC conducted…
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Concert Review: A Royal Affair/ Sydney Chamber Choir/ The Muffat Collective
A Royal Affair Sydney Chamber Choir/ The Muffat Collective Great Hall, Sydney University, 1 June 2019 It was a splendid liaison between music and history when the Sydney Chamber Choir presented A Royal Affair, conducted by newly appointed Music Director, Sam Allchurch. If not for royal patronage, Europe’s rich repository of music would be a…
Concert Review: The Art Of Disappearing/ Halcyon/ Geist String Quartet
The Art of Disappearing Halcyon/ Geist String Quartet Saturday June 1st 2019 Annandale Creative Arts Centre Written by Victoria Watson The Art of Disappearing is a new song cycle by exciting young Sydney composer, Cameron Lam, set to the poetry of celebrated Queensland writer Sarah Holland-Batt. The work has been recorded on the Kammerklang label…