Operaquatics – more production shots from La traviata on Sydney Harbour
Into Silence, the new album from ABC Classics released today, features pianist Tamara-Anna Cislowska performing the music of an extraordinary generation of composers from the Baltic states: Henryk Górecki (born Poland, 1933), Arvo Pärt (Estonia, 1935), Pēteris Vasks (Latvia, 1946) and Georgs Pelēcis (Latvia, 1947). The album features works for solo piano along with concertos…
Melbourne based pianist Hoang Pham, 28, took out the award for the 2013 ABC Symphony Australia Young Performer of the Year with a performance of Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto no. 1, opus 23 at last night’s Grand Final held at the Melbourne Town Hall. He performed with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Christopher Seaman. He wins…
The National Art School is to join Melbourne Digital Concert Hall as a presenting partner for a series of spring concerts in the school’s Cell Block Theatre, bringing live performance to music lovers at home, wherever they are and enabling Sydney musicians to perform on this global network, despite the lockdowns. From 24 September to…
Till now, it was the All Night Vigil by Rachmaninoff that held the dubious honour of asking for the lowest note to be sung in choral music – the third B flat below middle C. This 97 year long record has now been shattered with Paul Mealor’s setting of the De Profundis in which he…
Deutsche Grammophon continues the widely acclaimed, Grammy winning Shostakovich Symphony cycle with Music Director Andris Nelsons and the Boston Symphony Orchestra with the release on 6 July, 2018 of a disc containing the Symphony No 4 and the Symphony no 11, subtitled The year 1905 Andris Nelsons is the Music Director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra…
Cellist Sophie Kauer, the Breakout Star of TÁR will release her debut EP in March on the Deutsche Grammophon label.