Das Rheingold in Brisbane reviewed
If you didn’t make it to Brisbane to hear Simone Young conduct the Hamburg State opera and Philharmonic Orchestra in concert performnce of Das Rheingold, here’s a review by Matin Buzacott for The Australian.
If you didn’t make it to Brisbane to hear Simone Young conduct the Hamburg State opera and Philharmonic Orchestra in concert performnce of Das Rheingold, here’s a review by Matin Buzacott for The Australian.
The Vienna Boys Choir CD Jubilate Deo was released by ABC Classics (476 5094) earlier this year to coincide with the choir’s tour to Australia. This would explain the Antipodean content amongst the 17 tracks on the hour long collection of old and new choral classics, many of which sound best when peformed by the lucent voices of…
Apollo’s Gift: Music and the Mind, Twilight Musical Dialogues, Musical Luminati Adamstown Uniting Church, 2 March, 2018 At an intimate, classical soirée, a model human skeleton, electrodes and computer avatars perhaps do not comprise the typical paraphernalia for such an event. Yet, the first of the Musical Luminati series, Apollo’s Gift: Music and the Mind,…
Garrick Ohlsson/ Musica Viva City Recital Hall, Sydney 24 February 2020 American pianist Garrick Ohlsson’s electrifying second Sydney recital for Music Viva was, in some ways, the story of the Romantic piano. Performing the music of just two 19th century composers, Chopin – with whose music Ohlsson has had a lifelong affiliation – and Brahms,…
Peter Grimes – Benjamin Britten Four Seasons Theatre, Toronto 8 October 2013. Opera Australia’s 2009 production of Britten’s Peter Grimes by Neil Armfield was a co-production with the West Australian Opera, Houston Grand Opera and the Canadian Opera Company. The Canadians have delayed showing the production until this year and it is now their contribution…
Spanish Baroque The Australian Brandenburg Orchestra C!RCA City Recital Hall, Sydney May 3, 2017 It was as though a nomadic band of acrobats complete with trobairitz and Baroque instrumentalists had somehow how transcended time and found themselves in Sydney, when the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra directed by the ever-inventive Paul Dyer AO, presented the electrifying Spanish…
A Brandenburg Christmas (ABC 476 4687) is the The Australian Brandenburg Orchestra and Choir’s 2010 live recording of their annual festive concert Noel! Noel!, which enters its 14th season in 2012. Under the leadership of Artistic Director Paul Dyer, the orchestra is known for its inimitable presentation of both popular and rare Baroque music performed on period instruments. This core is…