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Universal Music Announces ‘Classics Direct’ – A New Online Store For CDs, DVDs, Bluray And Vinyl
Good news for music lovers who love the touch of a CD, its shimmer and the prospect of leaving an archive as a legacy for posterity. To complement the world of music streams and on-demand consumption, Universal Music Australia introduces Classics Direct – an online retailer specialising in classical and jazz music CDs, DVDs, Bluray…
The Latest Offerings From The Met Live In HD
The rest of this week’s offerings from the Met Live in HD archive: Wednesday, May 20 Verdi’s Un Ballo in Maschera Starring Sondra Radvanovsky, Kathleen Kim, Stephanie Blythe, Marcelo Álvarez, and Dmitri Hvorostovsky, conducted by Fabio Luisi. From December 8, 2012. Thursday, May 21 Puccini’s Turandot Starring Christine Goerke, Eleonora Buratto, Yusif Eyvazov, and James Morris, conducted…
Lisa Gasteen National Opera Program Streams The Merry Wives Of Windsor
The Lisa Gasteen National Opera Program has made available its 2019 production of Otto Nicolai‘s Die Lustigen Weiber von Windsor, recorded by 4MBS Classic FM. Directed by Heather Fairbairn and conducted by Ward Stare with Ensemble Q, the cast includes Joel Amosa as Sir John Falstaff, Morgan England-Jones as Frau Fluth, Anastasia Bickel as Frau…
Musica Viva Announces Its Newest FutureMakers
Violinist Harry Ward and chamber music ensemble Partridge String Quartet are the Musica Viva Australia FutureMakers for 2020-2021. This two-year, part-time initiative in leadership was launched by Music Viva in 2015, and aims to discover and enable brilliant early career artists to become Australia’s musical leaders of tomorrow offering artists a comprehensive professional development curriculum…
Sokolov Records Beethoven And Brahms For Deutsche Grammophon
Grigory Sokolov has a new album Beethoven Brahms, out now on the Deutsche Grammophon label. Three years after his last recording, Sokolov returns with a 31-track double album of live recordings from his triumphant 2019/20 tour. Included on the double album are Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 3 and the Bagatelles opus 119 along with Brahms’…
ARCO’s Young Mannheim Symphonists Keep The Tradition Alive
The Young Mannheim Symphonists is a youth orchestra program conducted by the Australian Romanric & Classical Orchestra (ARCO). It is a unique and exciting program designed to give students and emerging musicians the opportunity to discover the magic of approaching music in historical performance style. As the students are led through great musical masterpieces of…
Latest reviews
Concert Review: Oxana Shevchenko/ Sydney International Piano Competition
Oxana Shevchenko, Sydney International Piano Competition of Australia Verbrugghen Hall, Sydney Conservatorium of Music, 14 April, 2019 Written by Paul Bennett With a slightly bowed head and a confident walk without hint of strut or swagger, Oxana Shevchenko is all about the music. She welcomes her audience in the manner of a genial hostess with…
Concert Review: Music On Music/ Sydney Chamber Choir
Music on Music Sydney Chamber Choir Great Hall, The University of Sydney Saturday 30 March 2019 7.30pm Written by Victoria Watson Sydney Chamber Choir was formed in the 1970s by students of Sydney University. In the decades since, it has evolved into a fine, tightly knit ensemble of musicians, dedicated to presenting choral works that…