Honour for Harnoncourt
Nikolaus Harnoncourt, now 84 and retired from conducting has been made an Honorary Member of the Berliner Philharmoniker.
Nikolaus Harnoncourt, now 84 and retired from conducting has been made an Honorary Member of the Berliner Philharmoniker.
Selby & Friends have added a haunting new piece to their YouTube Channel. The Quartet Movement for Piano, Violin, Viola and Cello in A Minor by a very young Gustav Mahler performed by Elizabeth Layton (violin), Glen Donnelly (viola), Julian Smiles (cello) and Kathryn Selby (piano) from a 2012 program entitled My Song is Love…
There are three copies of Nicola Benedetti’s new CD release The Silver Violin from Universal Records to be won, just in time for Christmas – spoil yourself, or someone else! Read our review and interview with Nicola Benedetti How to enter: email [email protected] by 5 pm on Friday 7th December 2012 with subject heading please enter ‘Silver Violin’. Winners…
Ensemble Offspring has an exciting venture. It is a new annual recording series, Offspring Bites, celebrating the creation of new art music in Australia today, featuring an audio release alongside newly commissioned video art created by video artists Samuel James and Oliver Miller paired with the recordings. It is a start towards realising what Ensemble Offspring…
Scholars of J S Bach have studied his music for centuries. Is there anything more to learn? Paul Elie’s book ‘Reinventing Bach’ (Union Books) is reviewed by Ivan Hewitt of The Telegraph. Elie is an American writer, editor and is a senior fellow at Georgetown University’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs. Read the book revew…
The Grammy-nominated mandolinist Avi Avital dazzled Sydney audiences when he made his debut with the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra in 2014. Avital’s virtuosity and the unusual sound of the mandolin with the period instruments of the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra – including the rarely heard lirone – had audiences enthralled. This extraordinary performance has been captured in…
When: Thursday December 31, 2020 At: 11.15 pm Where: Online Cellist Rachel Scott will entertain on New Year’s Eve, with a programme of solo Bach in her popular series Bach in the Dark. She will play Bach’s 3rd cello suite – full of joy, hope and energy as we turn to face a new year….