Filming hits the wrong note with pianist Zimmerman
Pianist Krystian Zimmerman made a point about audience filming during recitals at a recent performance in Germany.
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Pianist Krystian Zimmerman made a point about audience filming during recitals at a recent performance in Germany.
Click here to read the article from the BBC.
Australian clarinettist Andreas Ottensamer presents his debut album ‘Portraits – The Clarinet Album’ on Mercury Classics/Deutsche Grammophon. Released August 2 in Australia, Portraits – The Clarinet Album features concertos by Copland, Spohr and Cimarosa, along with arrangements of shorter pieces by Gershwin, Debussy and Amy Beach, a 19th century American composer. Andreas Ottensamer is accompanied…
” I must be crazy!” exclaims Sally Whitwell. Perhaps she is… just a little bit. More to the point, she’s bursting with creativity and it’s this energy that she has channelled into her latest venture – a new musical production called Cog in the Machine for which Sally has written both the libretto and the…
A sneak peek at Opera Australia’s revival production of Verdi’s La Traviata which opens on Thursday night in the newly refurbished the Joan Sutherland Opera Theatre at the Sydney Opera House. The popular Moshinsky production will be recreated by revival director Constantine Costi with Nicole Car in the title role and Ji Min Park as Alfredo….
It is with great sadness that Australia awoke this morning to the news that Sir David Willcocks, the legendary conductor, organist and pedagogue, has died aged 95. It is impossible for any chorister not to have been touched by his work, whether through his recordings, arrangements, patronage or through firsthand experience of his conducting. “Sir…
Reviews of Opera Australia’s Ring adventure in Melbourne with the performance of the first in the cycle Das Rheingold: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/feathers-and-cossies-the-ring-comes-full-cycle/story-e6frg8n6-1226762861675 http://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/stage/neil-armfields-das-rheingold-from-wagners-ring-cycle-is-utterly-human/story-fn9d344c-1226763200219 Murray Black reviews Vladimir Ashkenazy’s tenure in The Australian: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/were-all-the-better-for-ashkenazys-sso-tour/story-e6frg8n6-1226762785028 A Polish pianist recreates the piano designed by Leonardo da Vinci: http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/leonardo-da-vincis-wacky-piano-is-heard-for-the-first-time-after-500-years-20131118-2xpqs.html Mariss Jansons – ‘the greatest conductor on earth’: http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/sound-and-style-20131114-2xhk2.html
It was July 2009 in Bali’s hill town of Ubud, tucked in by the Ayung river gorge. The wild clanging of a goat’s bell from the Greek island of Mykonos shattered the tranquility of tropical bird calls and the cascading river. Jennifer Condon was celebrating. The emerging conductor was achieved a nine year ambition to…