This video will surely give you goosebumps – Mahler’s Symphony No 8 , which premiered in Munich on September 12th in 1910. The BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Jiří Bělohlávek in collaboration with hundred of voices performs at the Royal Albert Hall on the opening night of The Proms in July 2010.
Feel the calm! Willoughby Council presents J S Bach’s The sheep may safely graze in an arrangement for two flutes, violin and continuo, starring the Live at Lunch Artistic Director Jane Rutter (flute), Katrina Kelvin (flute), David Saffir (Violin) and Monika Kornel (Harpsichord). Jane Rutter also gives us a short intro on how Bach included…
Watch the video of pianist Yuja Wang recording her sixth CD for Deutsche Grammophon Yuja Wang – Ravel, with the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra conducted by Lionel Bringuier. She first played with the when she was15! Read our review of the CD.
When Harry Christophers and his vocal ensemble The Sixteen perform in Sydney in March, they will include in their programme a new version of Allegri’s famous motet Miserere. In this video, the ensemble performs this new version and Christophers and musicologist Ben Byram-Wigfield talk about how this version came to be.
The legendary Itzhak Perlman began playing the violin as a child. After a glittering career of over 40 years, he talks to The Huffington Post about the importance of teaching in his work as a performer and conductor. Infected with polio aged 4, he has given his support to the End Polio Now campaign aimed at the…
Joss Stone features on STVDIO’s Friday night 8.30 broadcast of the closing night concert from the 2011 Melbourne Festival. (See our post for more information.) In this video clip she delivers an unforgettable rendition of People Get Ready.
Pianist and composer Ludovico Einaudi is soon to appear in Sydney at the GRAPHIC festival at the Sydney Opera House. Check out his music from this video of a sell-out concert at the Royal Albert Hall.