Julia Lezhneva – Handel
If you need convincing – watch this trailer of Julia Lezhneva recording her new album Handel with Il Giardino Armonico directed by Giovanni Antonini!
If you need convincing – watch this trailer of Julia Lezhneva recording her new album Handel with Il Giardino Armonico directed by Giovanni Antonini!
When a performer releases a “Best of” collection CD, it usually means that they have a large enough discography from which to make the compilation. In this latest release from ABC Classics, tenor David Hobson delivers his first compilation CD with “popular” tracks chosen from recordings of the last few years. Not that opera and Lieder aren’t…
From September 1973 – Sir Charles Mackerras conducts the Sydney Symphony Orchestra.
Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht, performed by the Thomanerchor of Leipzig. Composer Franz Xaver Gruber set the lyrics of Joseph Mohr to music in 1818, in the small town of Oberndorf bei Salzburg in Austria. UNESCO declared this carol an intangible cultural heritage in March 2011.
Listen to Italian Baroque violinist Stefano Montanari play L’estate (Summer) from Vivaldi’s Four Seasons. He appears as soloist and guest director with the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra in July.
It’s no easy task to select music for a compilation CD. The list needs to include signature works or styles of the performer, listener favourites, a smattering of less popular but respected works or composers, and finally, works that take the performer into the future. With her new CD “Seraphim”, soprano Sara Macliver achieves this easily and the release…
The National Choral School, hosted by Gondwana Voices is in full swing again and its young choristers are engaged in a fortnight of music making which will culminate in the Festival of Summer Voices, a series of concerts from January 18-21 in Sydney. Check out the enchanting sound of Gondwana Voices in this performance…