Ensemble Offspring Releases Solo series On YouTube
Ensemble Offspring has released a series of videos entitled Lone Hemispheres: The Solo Sessions as one of its responses to music-making in the COVID era. Sponsored by a COVID grant from the City of Sydney, Many months in the making, our series of 12 videos were recorded at Baker Street Studios, highlighting modern masterpieces alongside…
Sydney Symphony Orchestra Free Digital Concert
The Sydney Symphony Orchestra has released a digital recording Simone Young Conducts Great Romantics with Chief Conductor Designate Simone Young, available free on the Sydney Symphony Orchestra’s website. The programme opens with Australian composer Paul Terracini’s brass attack, before floating onto the heavenly melodies of Mahler and Fauré. A contemporary piece by Michael Daugherty slices…
German Love Songs on New ABC Classic Release
There is an absolute treasure trove of German Art Song on a new album release from ABC Classic, Love’s Torment, Love’s Delight: Songs by Brahms, Schumann & Mendelssohn, available now. Four superb voices and four hands at one piano celebrate the delights of love. Soprano Jacqueline Porter, mezzo-soprano Anna Dowsley, tenor Andrew Goodwin and baritone…
Enigma Quartet And Riley Lee Release New Album On ABC CLassic
World-renowned shakuhachi master Riley Lee has joined forces with the Sydney-based Enigma Quartet to create a new genus of music in one of the most ambitious commissioning and performance projects in recent years. Their new album, The Five Elements takes the listener on a kaleidoscopic journey through the Australian landscape that traverses universal concepts linking…
Bach In The Dark On New Year’s Eve
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….
Australian Haydn Ensemble At the City Recital Hall
The Australian Haydn Ensemble returns to the City Recital Hall in December, under the artistic direction of Skye McIntosh presenting Tempora Mutantur with guest director and fortepiano soloist Erin Helyard. On the programme are Boccherini’s Piano Quintet Op. 57 No. 3 in E minor, Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 6 in B flat major K. 238…
Bach Akademie Australia On Melbourne Digital Concert Hall
When: Wed Dec 16, 2020 Time: 8.30 pm Where: Melbourne Digital Concert Hall Bach Akademie Australia will present their third concert, Weihnachtsfreude on the stage of Melbourne Digital Concert Hall on Wednesday December 16 at 8.30pm in conjunction with presenting partner the National Art School. Join the Bach Akademie Australia for a program of Christmas…
Pinchgut Opera’s Messe de Minuit Now Online
Pinchgut Opera’s recent highly acclaimed performance of Messe de Minuit written over 400 years ago by Marc-Antoine Charpentier, is now available to watch online. Charpentier wrote the Messe de Minuit, or midnight mass, for Christmas Eve mass, while master of music at the Church of Saint-Louis in Paris. Professionally filmed and recorded, the concert includes…
Global Poll Seeks Today’s Best-Loved Classical Musician
A brand new global poll is launching to find today’s best-loved classical musician. The uDiscover Classical 100 is the first of its kind – a major international initiative, offering fans worldwide the chance to vote for their favourite living artist via a newly-created online portal: vote.udiscovermusic.com/classical100 Based on global sales data, The uDiscover Classical 100…