Avital’s Vivaldi

Watch this video of mandolin virtuoso Avi Avital talking about his latest recording, Vivaldi due for release in Australia in early April.

Watch this video of mandolin virtuoso Avi Avital talking about his latest recording, Vivaldi due for release in Australia in early April.
Sergei Rachmaninov, born April 1, 1873. Lush! Evgeny Kissin performs Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18 with the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir Andrew Davies.
Listen to excerpts from Andreas Ottensamer’s new recording Portraits – The Clarinet Album, out on the Deutsch Grammophon label. He performs a diverse array of music by Spohr, Cimarosa, Debussy, Copland, Amy Beach and Gershwin, with the Rotterdam Philharmonic conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin.
Irish soprano Orla Boylan is currently thrilling Sydney audiences in her performances as Senta in The Flying Dutchman with the Sydney Symphony. She first sang in Sydney with the SSO in early 2006 in a performance of Britten’s War Requiem conducted by Paul Kildea. Since then she has given stellar performances in Australia winning…
Here’s another timeless favourite In dulci jubilo, sung by the of King’s College, Cambridge.
The style is possibly as difficult to define as the English meaning of their name – “Arrebato”, variously translated as “fury”, “something that rises rapidly” or “a wave of emotion”. It’s fair to say that any and all of these describe the music of this ensemble. Arrebato release their second CD “Absolucion” in June 2011….
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.