Following Bryce Dessner’s Réponse Lutosławski earlier in the month, the Australian Chamber Orchestra is releasing its performance of the music that directly inspired it, Lutosławski’s extraordinary Overture for Strings, for its Saturday Homecast, filmed live at their Indies & Idols concert.
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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…
Clash or confluence? Ensemble Offspring, Sydney’s innovative New Music ensemble, and Ironwood, specialists in early music join forces to create new sounds in Broken Consorts. Ensemble Offspring says “Like floating through a forest, Broken Consorts envelops the audience in a cocoon of bristlings, warblings and ethereal reverberations—a musical experience that exists across and beyond time.”…
Australia’s premier drumming ensemble Taikoz presents The Beauty Of 8, an unusual blend of Tennyson’s poetry with taiko drumming and exquisite Japanese traditional dance. Featuring guest artists master taiko player, Chieko Kojima and Shakuhachi Grandmaster Riley Lee, the production has all the elements Taikoz is famous for – hypnotic rhythms and adrenalin-fuelled performance. Guest artist Chieko’s…
The Australian Haydn Ensemble under its Artistic Director Skye McIntosh presents Emperors & Armies, a program inspired by eighteenth century leaders and armies including Haydn’s Emperor Quartet and Military Symphony. Boccherini’s playful flute quintet Las Parejas (The Couples) opens the season. The title refers to a Spanish horse race in which two horsemen ride hand in…
“Well may we say ‘God Save The Queen’, because nothing will save the Governor General!” Whoever thought that Whitlam could be made to in a waltz?! Forty years after Gough Whitlam made this famous proclamation, the phrase has been turned into a waltz which will be performed at the Australia Ensemble@UNSW’s concert Big Decisions. Composer and double bass…
Commemorating Sydney Eisteddfod’s 80th anniversary and the 25th anniversary of the Sydney Cove Rotary Club, the Sydney Eisteddfod presents the inaugural Australian Choral Grand Prix, an event which carries $25,000 in prize value and will undoubtedly be hotly contested by the 6 choirs competing for the title. Vying for the prize are the 1st and 2nd placegetters of the Sydney Eisteddfod…