Gramophone 2014 Recording Of The Year
Tomorrow, September 17, Gramophone Magazine announces its 2014 Recording of the Year as picked by its panel of critics from the 12 category winners.
Click here to check out the category winners and read more.
Tomorrow, September 17, Gramophone Magazine announces its 2014 Recording of the Year as picked by its panel of critics from the 12 category winners.
Click here to check out the category winners and read more.
Music has the incredible power to heal and to soothe. Building on this, Dr Catherine Crock, a physician at the Royal Melbourne Children’s Hospital established the the HUSH Foundation and working alongside other health professionals and musicians, she has curated numerous recorded collections of music that help to calm and soothe young patients, their families…
In a project reminiscent of Daniel Barenboim’s efforths at political and social reconciliation through music, composer Paul Stanhope has created “Exile Lamentations” , a work for chamber choir, soloists and oud, which was performed in Sydney by the Sydney Chamber Choir recently. This week Stanhope was awarded two APRA awards for composing both this (“Deserts of…
The conductor Lorin Maazel has died at his home in Virginia aged 84. “By his 11th birthday he had already shared a podium with Leopold Stokowski, while the no less legendary Arturo Toscanini was responsible for getting Maazel his first steady conducting job in 1942, when Maazel was only 12.” More in The Guardian. …
In our recent Q and A with mezzo-soprano Catherine Carby, she talked about her upcoming roles as Romeo in I Capuleti e i Montecchi for the Chelsea Opera Group and as the Voice from Above in Richard Strauss’ Die Frau ohne Schatten for the Royal Opera, Covent Garden. Read the glowing reviews of her performances as…
The Australian Brandenburg Orchestra opened its exotic and mystical season Ottoman Baroque at the City Recital Hall last night. Here’s what the concert looked like – scroll down to see all six stunning images. Images taken and provided by Steven Godbee Publicity and Photography. …
Tenor Stuart Skelton is soon to be performing again in Sydney. This is an interview he have to SoundsLikeSydney last year, on singing Wagner and on some of the characers he has portrayed in opera. If you’re one who believes that in the end, the tenor gets the girl, even a cursory look at the roles sung…