Review In Search of Haydn screening at the Hayden Orpheum and Roseville cinemas:
http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/movies/in-search-of-haydn-20120314-1v39p.html
John Bell talks about the competition for opera from HD cinema productions:
http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/opera/bell-gives-stravinsky-a-rakeover-20120315-1v82g.html
and read Peter McCallum’s review of The Song Company’s Love in Venice
The Sydney Harbour Bridge turns 80 today! Eleven musicians from the brass section of the Sydney Symphony scaled the bridge to perform from the top. Guess what they played?! Check out these features: http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/featurenews/view/1189848/1/.html http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/world/13205823/sydney-harbour-bridge-turns-80/
Violinist Simone Slattery and cellist Anthony Albrecht have released a new CD themed around birdsong, Where Song Began. The tracks include classics like Vaughan Williams’ The Lark Ascending and JS Bach’s Prelude from Cello Suite No.1, with traditional items like Ngarra Burra Ferra, a traditional Yorta Yorta hymn and contemporary works like Ross Edwards’ Ecstatic…
A second date in August 2017 has been announced for Opera Australia’s presentation of Verdi’s Requiem in the Concert Hall of the Sydney Opera House. Dubbed by the conductor Hans von Bülow as ‘Oper in Kirchengewande’ (opera in ecclesiastical dress) Verdi’s Requiem is brimming with the drama of operatic ideas. In fact, Verdi based the Lacrymosa on…
This somewhat heartbreaking feature in the New York Times looks at the increasing costs of maintaining a quality piano, and the disposabiity of lower end instruments: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/30/arts/music/for-more-pianos-last-note-is-thud-in-the-dump.html?_r=1&ref=todayspaper
Two of Australia’s finest storytellers, actor John Bell and pianist Simon Tedeschi, break new ground with this new recording for ABC Classics, of the great melodrama Enoch Arden – a deeply moving tale of love, loss, redemption and shipwreck, told through spoken word and solo piano. The album, available on CD and as a digital…
Scarlatti’s Steinways at Melbourne is a new release on Move Records, featuring Professor Ian Holtham performing 23 of Domenico Scarlatti’s 555 keyboard sonatas on the Steinway pianos of Melbourne Conservatorium.