Bocelli Sings Music For Hope
On an Easter Sunday like no other, Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli gave the most extraordinary performance of his life. There was no audience present in Milan’s iconic Duomo, but across the globe people tuned in to witness his emotional performance, Music For Hope streamed live via YouTube. This unique performance, offered an uplifting message of…
Australian Chamber Orchestra Homecasts
This week’s programme on the Australian Chamber Orchestra’s Homecasts series: ACO BACKSTAGE – New Release Satu Vänskä plays Paganini -Principal Violin Satu Vänskä brings a quirky, isolation-inspired interpretation to Paganini’s fiendish Caprice for Violin No.5. Tue 14 Apr, 7pm ABC CLASSIC Duet: Timo-Veikko Valve Principal Cello Timo-Veikko ‘Tipi’ Valve joins pianist Tamara-Anna Cislowska for a…
Test Your Knowledge Of Books And Opera!
QUIZ: BOOKS INTO MUSIC Test your passion for books, opera, or both! Name these literary pieces and their author and then the operas on which they are based and the composers who wrote them. Good luck! In this novella from 1937, two homeless ranch workers George Milton and Lennie Small, traverse California looking for work…
Met Opera Streams HD Productions Free
During this extraordinary and difficult time, New York’s Metropolitan Opera brightens the lives of our audience members and opera lovers around the world even while its stage is dark. Each day, a different encore presentation from the company’s Live in HD series is being made available for free streaming on the Met website, with each performance…
The Metropolitan Orchestra Online
The Metropolitan Orchestra is bringing its music direct to your homes. Over the coming weeks, it will share a selection of video recordings of favourite concerts along with some specially created videos direct from their musicians’ homes to yours, keeping the music alive in this small way before we can enjoy live music again. Broadcast…
Trevor Pinnock Records JS Bach Well-Tempered Clavier Book 1 For Deutsche Grammophone
Available tomorrow, April 10, is British harpsichordist and conductor’s new recording on Deutsche Grammophon, J S BACH The Well-Tempered Clavier I. Trevor Pinnock is a pioneer of the early music movement. As founder and former leader of The English Concert he enjoys a longstanding relationship with Archiv Produktion and Deutsche Grammophon. Among his celebrated recordings…
Australian Chamber Orchestra Launches Its Digital Content Season ACO Homecasts
The Australian Chamber Orchestra (ACO) presents its digital content season, ACO HomeCasts, bringing extensive and innovative music from the musicians of the ACO into the homes of audiences and communities across Australia and abroad over the coming months, and beyond. Tonight, April 7 at 7 pm, ACO violinist Ike See and ACO violist Elizabeth Woolnough give…
Easter Music Online
If you’re missing your fix of concerts during the Easter season, here are some links that you might like to check out – performances of a variety of Easter musical fare by Australian and other composers and performers: Short listens: Sydney Chamber Choir performs Paul Stanhope’s Ubi Caritas This beautiful piece is a hymn of the…
These Unprecedented Times…SoundsLikeSydney Supports Performers And Audiences
At the risk of resorting to a clichè, we are witnessing unprecedented times around the globe. The performing arts industry in Australia has suffered a double blow, through a complete shutdown of the performing arts for most of the rest of the year, as well as drastic cuts in Arts Council funding – there simply…