All Things Australian

Listening to all the music that creates the rich fusion of Australian sound, here’s William Barton – didjeridu player, performing the music of Matthew Hindson with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. Who knew he could sing?!

Listening to all the music that creates the rich fusion of Australian sound, here’s William Barton – didjeridu player, performing the music of Matthew Hindson with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. Who knew he could sing?!
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.
Watch 20-year-old pianist Benjamin Grosvenor talks about his new CD Rhapsody in Blue – his debut concerto recording which features music from the French Romantics through to the swing of jazz.
Guillaume Dufay, Franco -Flemish composer of the early Renaissance was born on August 5, c. 1397. (d 1474). This is his exquisite 3 part ballad Mon Chier Amy performed by an unnamed ensemble.
From September 1973 – Sir Charles Mackerras conducts the Sydney Symphony Orchestra.
Check out this video clip from the BBC of the recent world premiere of the newly discovered piano work by Johannes Brahms and given the name ‘Albumbatt’ by Christopher Hogwood, who discovered it in the Princeton University library. Pianist Andras Schiff performed the work on radio last weekend.
The Scherzo from Brahms’ Trio in E flat major for piano, violin and horn, opus 40. The melody is thought to have been used by him 12 years earlier in his newly discovered Albumblatt in A minor for piano which will receive its world premiere performance this weekend on BBC Radio 3