The Galileo Project – Tafelmusik

Excerpts from Tafelmusik’s The Galileo Project, featuring the music of Monteverdi and Merula.

Excerpts from Tafelmusik’s The Galileo Project, featuring the music of Monteverdi and Merula.
Check out the seductive and entertaining finale from the Tango Concerto for Two Violas da Gamba by René Schiffer which you can hear performed by dazzling Cuban gambist Lixsania Fernandez and Anthea Cottee in the upcoming tour by the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra.
Academy Award-winning director Ron Howard directs an intimate new biopic on the life of the legendary tenor Luciano Pavarotti. The movie trailer released today traces Pavarotti’s life and features iconic footage of The Three Tenors performing ‘Nessun dorma’ at the World Cup. Plácido Domingo, one of the world’s greatest living tenors and a close of friend of Pavarotti’s,…
An exquisite French carol, exquisitely performed by the gentlemen of Chanticleer.
Toronto based period music ensemble Tafelmusik launches Music Viva’s 2012 programme with The Galileo Project, a concert that is quite literally ‘out of this world’. Journey through space as Tafelmusik perform astronomically themed Baroque music, amidst a multimedia presentation of images from deep outer space taken through the Hubble telescope and by Canadian astronomers. Music from the…
Australian saxophonist Amy Dickson paves the way for the saxophone in the concert hall with her new CD ‘Catch Me If You Can’. Hear excerpts from her CD and her insights on the project:
Celebrating the rich legacy of Johannes Brahms, born May 7, 1833. This is his Double Concerto for Violin and Cello opus 102 with David Oistrakh (violin) and Mstislav Rostropovich (cello), directed by Kyril Kondrashin