Seeing is believing……
The La Traviata chandelier arrives! Images by James Morgan courtsey of Opera Australia
The La Traviata chandelier arrives! Images by James Morgan courtsey of Opera Australia
Flowers Still Bloom is a new album from guitarist, composer and creative educator, Michelle Nelson. It is the result of her experiences in the midst of Melbourne’s first lockdown, encountering what so many other musicians did – the lack of work and isolation. It gave her the time and space to contemplate life as we…
A signed photo of Gustav Mahler, previously owned by Arnold Schoenberg is the subject of a tussle between the Schoenberg family and its present owner who’s willing to part with it for a fee. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/11/lost-gustav-mahler-photo_n_1957333.html?utm_hp_ref=music-news
Russian pianist Arseny Tarasevich-Nikolaev, runner-up at the 2016 Sydney International Piano Competition, is to release his debut album Reflections on the Decca label. Avaiable from tomorrow, the album features two concert études composed by Arseny Tarasevich-Nikolaev’s grandmother, the Russian concert pianist Tatiana Nikolayeva. Reflections is a very personal album which also features the music of Russian composers Rachmaninov, Medtner,…
Celebrating the 80th birthday on January 31 of the legendary Philip Glass, Deutsche Grammophon has released a new album of the music of the founder of minimalist music by DG debut artist pianist Víkingur Ólafsson. A year ago Philip Glass handpicked some pianists to perform all of his Etudes together at the Barbican in London….
It’s on again! The world’s biggest music festival, the BBC Proms, will run for nearly 2 months in 2013 from July 12th to September 7th. Paganini and the sea feature in the famed opening night programme with Britten’s Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes, and Vaughan Williams’ Sea Symphony alongside Paganini inspired compositions by Rachmaninov and Lutoslawski….
Last week, SoundsLikeSydney reviewed a concert by the Australian Haydn Ensemble which included important transcriptions of two major works for smaller ensembles. One arrangement was of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto no 2 in B flat major opus 19 (1795) arranged by Stephen Yates for piano solo and string quintet (2014) and the other, Mozart’s Symphony No 39 in E flat major…