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2014 Concert Special From The Art Gallery For Readers of Sounds Like Sydney
Great news for the readers of SoundsLikeSydney – whom we know are music lovers – but who also love their art. The Art Gallery of New South Wales has extended their member’s discount to readers of our pages who attend concerts in the Art Gallery Society’s 2014 Resonate series. These concerts present sumptuous music in…
Double Pass Giveaway To Children And Art At The Art Gallery
The Art Gallery of NSW has a double pass to give away to the May concert in their Resonate series Tyran Parke: Children and art on May 2nd. The concert will be preceded by a champagne reception and private viewing of Afghanistan: hidden treasures. To win the double pass, be the first to email [email protected] with the…
Stuart Skelton and Simone Young Win in the 2014 International Opera Awards
Stuart Skelton was named the Best Male Singer at the 2014 International Opera Awards ceremony held under the auspices of Opera magazine at the Grosvenor House Hotel on London’s Park Lane last night. Simone Young featured as well, having conducted the Hamburg Staatsoper which won the award for Verdi anniversary production. Read the full list…
A New Venue At The Four Winds Festival
From April 17-20, 2014, the idyllic coastal community of Bermagui will again host the award winning Four Winds Festival a biennial event showcasing rich and vibrant talent from around the world and close to home. In his first festival as Artistic Director, Paul Kildea has gathered four spectacular artists from around the world…
Little Birds – A New CD Hatching Music For Cello And Accordion
Rachel Scott, cellist, creator and curator of the Bach in the Dark concert series writes of news about a new CD Little Birds: “Excitement is building here at Bach in the Dark headquarters as Little Birds is nearing completion. In January, accordion virtuoso Anthony Schulz and I met in Melbourne and recorded all our…
Class, Race And Classical Music
“….perhaps a conscious effort to introduce some of the younger, edgier classical musicians, including some of colour, into music coverage aimed at their younger demographic – many of whom can’t even conceive of classical music as music – might serve to break down some of these increasingly arbitrary walls. “ A fascinating read from Candace…
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Concert Review: Beethoven’s Piano Concerto/The Australian Haydn Ensemble
Beethoven’s Piano Concerto, The Australian Haydn Ensemble, Utzon Room, Sydney Opera House, Monday 29th September 2014. When Daniel Barenboim undertook his recently completed mission to perform and record all of Beethoven’s piano concertos, he did so playing a ‘concert grand’ piano, with a full orchestra – in the case of the recordings, the Staatskapelle…
CD Review: Williamson -The Complete Piano Concertos
What could Ludwig van Beethoven and Malcolm Williamson possibly have in common? The measure, for the purposes of this feature, is that they each wrote five concertos for piano (including the concerto for two pianos by Williamson). By any comparison, this is a substantial output. Apart from the…