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May Newsletter Out Next Week – Are You On Our Mailing List?
The May edition of SoundsClassic, our complementary monthly newsletter featuring the best of SoundsLikeSydney and of Classic Melbourne is out next week. Make sure you’re on our mailing list by subscribing from the top of our home page or our Facebook page. We’d love to hear your thoughts and we’d love you to tell your friends…
The Greatest Forgotten String Quartet: Have Your Say
How often have you returned to a forgotten book or piece of music only to re-discover or even uncover unrealised joys? Vexations 840 has begun a worldwide hunt for The Hunt for the Greatest Forgotten String Quartet and is inviting lovers of chamber music to have their say in a vote and help programme a…
James Eccles Talks About The Aurora Festival: Connecting With new Music
James Eccles is busy putting together the 2014 Aurora Festival. It is his first as Artistic Director of the event and he has to wear many hats which reach well beyond his role as curator and viola player. Nonetheless, he is ‘thrilled’ to be presenting this bi-ennial celebration of New Music, centred in Sydney’s…
Rachmaninov Manuscript Goes To Auction
A rare manuscript of Sergey Rachmaninov’s second symphony, signed by the composer and containing his handwritten notes, is to be auctioned at Sotheby’s in London in May, with an expected price of £1m-1.5m. According to Classical-music.com, the manuscript had been presumed lost since the 1917 revolution, when Rachmaninov fled St Petersburg with only a small suitcase of…
Classical Music In The Mainstream Media – Drowning and Waving
One of the reasons SoundsLikeSydney came into being was to address in some small way the rapidly developing void in classical music content in the mainstream media – and we’re not simply talking about advertising. Increasingly, classical concerts are not being reviewed unless they’re given by excellent, but predictable members of a ‘magic circle’ of…
Jansons To Leave The Royal Concertgebouw
He is only the 7th conductor in the 126 year history of what is regarded as the best orchestra in the world. Now, after 10 years as its chief conductor and leading the orchestra on a world tour to celebrate its 125th anniversary – a tour which included the orchestra’s first visit to Sydney- Mariss…
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Concert Review:Ottoman Baroque/Australian Brandenburg Orchestra
The sounds of the music and chanting ebbed away; the shadows on the stage faded. There was no applause, no cheering, no curtain calls. The audience rose and silently filed out of the City Recital Hall. This silence was no expression of displeasure; rather it was an acknowledgement that the concluding item on the Australian…
Concert Review: JS Bach Mass in B Minor/ The Song Company And Ironwood.
JS Bach’s Mass in B minor BWV 232 is described by Sir John Eliot Gardiner in his recent book Bach, as “unprecedented in its scale, majesty and sobriety.” An ensemble taking on a performance of this masterwork has an exacting task in doing it justice. That task becomes even more formidable when the ensemble reaches…