The 2013 ABC Symphony Australia Young Performer of the Year, and best Chamber Music Performer, Hoang Pham gives a shimmering performance of Ravel’s Une barque sur l’océan, from Miroirs, at Hilton Head International Piano Competition, NYC, 2008.
Sheku Kanneh-Mason has released his solo composition Melody on Decca Classics.
“Baroque Duets” a new CD release, has a lot to say for itself. First and foremost, it is a superb compilation of Baroque vocal music, eminently listenable but away from the beaten track; it is also a historically informed and technically well executed performance by singers and instrumentalists on period instruments; it even contains a…
On May 16th, the Philharmonia Orchestra of London conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen, performed the European premiere of an incomplete and forgotten by Dmitri Shostakovich – Orango, an opera originally commissioned by the Bolshoi Theatre in 1932, but which became a satire on the Russian bourgeois press. The world premiere was given in December 2011, performed by the Los…
Cellist Daniel Müller-Schott, Guest Artist with the ACO2 this month, talks about his recording of the Cello Symphonies by Britten and Prokofiev.
Hoang Pham, the 2013 ABC Symphony Australia Young Performer of the Year returns to Sydney with a piano recital titled Mostly Chopin, in which he plays a broad selection of Chopin’s most famous works including the Ballade in G minor, Fantaisie-Impromptu, Scherzo in B-flat minor and a selection of nocturnes, waltzes and mazurkas. As a chamber music bonus,…
Pianist Sally Whitwell puts a glaze on the music of Philip Glass with a CD “Mad Rush” (ABC Classics) to be released on June 3rd. Check out her video here! To whet your appetite, the first track from this CD “Opening”, is already available on itunes. www.itunes.apple.com Sally Whiltwell had this to say about the track: “It’s funny, when you look…