The passion in wagner
Wagner-mania continues this month with this feature from Paul Mason in The Guardian.
Wagner-mania continues this month with this feature from Paul Mason in The Guardian.
Nominees for the 28th annual ARIA Awards have been announced and we have the list of contenders for the title of Best Classical Album in the Fine Arts Awards. Australian World Orchestra / Zubin Mehta – Stravinsky Rite of Spring / Mahler Symphony No.1 (ABC Classics/Universal Music Australia) Emma Matthews / Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra /…
In Richard Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen, otherwise known as The Ring Cycle, three Rhinemaidens guard the Rhinegold, a priceless treasure. Not quite Rhinemaidens, Director Neil Armfield and Associate Director Roger Press, along with their cast and creatives have the formidable task of acting as custodians for Opera Australia’s 2016 reprise of this monolithic work…
The Australian String Quartet celebrates AusMusic Month with two new releases, Stephen Pigram’s Walganyagarra Buru and Charles Edward Horsley’s String Quartet no 1. Both recordings will be available on the ASQ’s Australian Anthology digital release platform. Coinciding with NAIDOC celebrations last week, the ASQ released a recording of Stephen Pigram’s Walganyagarra Buru, a piece which…
The Music Performance Unit UNSW has announced two composition prizes for 2020, the Willgoss Ensemble Composition Prize and the Willgoss Choral Composition Prize. Willgoss Ensemble Composition Prize is a new composition prize, on offer in 2020-only. The winning applicant will be commissioned to compose a short, new work for either: SATB choir with piano or…
The British composer Sir John Tavener has died aged 69. Tavener is well remembered for his ethereal Song for Athene and the unaccompanied four-part choral setting of William Blake’s The Lamb. Many of his works had a religious theme and were infused with ideas from the ancient classics. At school in London, he was a contemporary…
Congratulations to Samuel Sakker with his success in the inaugural Grange Festival International Singing Competition which has just concluded with the Australian tenor gaining the second prize to British soprano Rowan Pierce’s winning performance. British-Serbian bass-baritone Božidar Smiljanić was placed third. Around 150 young singers aged 33 and under from 28 countries entered the competition…