Australian Chamber Orchestra Principal Violin Satu Vänskä performs Locatelli’s notoriously difficult concerto The Harmonic Labyrinth in this Saturday’s ACO HomeCast. Recorded during the 2017 ACO Soloists tour, this performance showcases Satu’s virtuosity in a fierce test of physical and mental focus.
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Soprano Nicole Car celebrates a triumphant return to Australia with a starring role in a concert presentation of Massenet’s opera Thaïs in Sydney’s Town Hall. Nicole is one of Australia’s most exciting opera singers, with critically acclaimed performances in Luisa Miller at the Sydney Opera House and Eugene Onegin at Covent Garden, and the release of…
Mezzo-soprano Deborah Humble accompanied by pianist Stephen Mould, performs the first concert in the series Great Australian Wagnerians in Recital with a programme of songs by Brahms followed by Wagner’s Wesendonck Lieder. Sparked by the success of The Ring in Melbourne in 2013, Great Australian Wagnerians in Recital aims to bring the songs of Wagner and others to the recital…
Wrapped in the haze of Sydney’s present heatwave, it is easy to slumber through the wealth of talent that is in toen this weekend, specifically to perform in the Sydney Symphony’s concert version of Tchaikovsky’s opera Queen of Spades. Vladimir Ashkenazy who is conducting the performances has selected some of the best of Russian…
Soprano Nadia Piave and pianist Mauro Colombis have put together Cinema! a programme of songs by Nino Rota, Georges Delerue and Charles Chaplin from Italian and French movies from the 1950’s through to the 1980’s – the gorgeous themes of Fellini’s La Strada and Tornatore’s Cinema Paradiso, and those haunting songs from Colpi’s Une Aussi Longue Absence, Truffaut’s L’Amour a Vignt Ans and Sautet’s Les Choses de La Vie… this…
Handel’s Messiah, is perhaps the most famous oratorio ever written. Since it was composed in 1742, it has become a work that people seemingly never tire of hearing or performing. It is music infused with great drama and intense emotion, heightened by superb orchestral writing and word painting. As Sir David Willcocks said, “…. Handel was the exponent par excellence…
Sydney Youth Orchestras The Masterworks programme, conducted by Alexander Briger AO, features Brahms Symphony No. 4, Op. 98 and Dvorak’s Cello Concerto in B minor, Op. 104 with Italian soloist Umberto Clerici, Principal Cello for the Sydney Symphony, Cello Lecturer at the Sydney Conservatorium and the Salzburg Mozarteum University. Dvorak’s Cello Concerto is one of the most celebrated and recorded concertos of all…
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