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This Week From The Met
Famous performances, rare operas and a dive into the archive. This week from the Met in New York: Thursday, July 9 Zandonai’s Francesca da Rimini Friday, July 10 Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin with Anna Netrebko, conducted by Valery Gergiev Saturday, July 11 Puccini’s Madama Butterfly Sunday, July 12 Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde Each stream becomes available…
What’s Next For the Arts? Musica Viva Examines The Road Ahead
One hundred days of lockdown, budget cuts, end-of-financial-year donation drives tinged with an added note of passion and a desperately uncertain future for the performing arts. It was against this stark backdrop that Musica Viva Australia grasped the helm and convened a webinar, What’s Next for the Arts? anchored by its CEO, Hywel Sims, with…
Selby & Friends Celebrate Beethoven 250 Online
Selby & Friends present their much-anticipated all-Beethoven program – shot in high resolution hi-fi under social distance protocols at Sydney’s City Recital Hall in its first concert since lockdown. The concert is available online to all from 4 July. Not letting the pandemic interrupt the Beethoven 250 anniversary, this tribute concert features Beethoven’s revolutionary ‘Ghost’…
Angela Hewitt Wins Wigmore Medal
Pianist Angela Hewitt has been awarded the Wigmore Medal in recognition of her international standing and contribution to Wigmore Hall, over the course of more than 80 performances since her debut there in 1985. The presentation was made on stage at Wigmore Hall after her Special Broadcast Recital on June 25. Ms. Hewitt had been…
UNSW Music Performance Unit Announces Two Composition Prizes For 2020
The Music Performance Unit UNSW has announced two composition prizes for 2020, the Willgoss Ensemble Composition Prize and the Willgoss Choral Composition Prize. Willgoss Ensemble Composition Prize is a new composition prize, on offer in 2020-only. The winning applicant will be commissioned to compose a short, new work for either: SATB choir with piano or…
More On Selby&Friends At Home
Selby&Friends are delighted to announce that Beethoven’s Triple Concerto is now available on the Selby&Friends YouTube channel Selby&Friends at Home. Pianist and founding artistic director, Kathryn Selby says “A few years ago I presented a program entitled ‘By Arrangement’ which featured Beethoven’s Triple Concerto in an extraordinary arrangement for piano trio by Carl Reinecke with…
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Album Review: Cinema/ Nadia Piave
In her newest recording Cinema, chanteuse Nadia Piave brings the luscious music of European cinema right into the intimacy of your lounge room. Accompanied variously by the piano, the guitar and violin, Nadia sings some of the most classic songs from European cinematic gems that represent the best in film direction and soundtracks. The 16…
Concert Review: Twilight Musical Dialogues – Musical Kin
Twilight Musical Dialogues – Musical Kin – Husband and Wife Sally Walker (flute and artistic director), Clemens Leske (piano), Ami Williamson (singer-songwriter), Naomi Blanch (saxophone), Alexander Quayle (percussion) Adamstown Uniting Church, Newcastle 21 June 2019 Written by Andrew Chubb Twilight Musical Dialogues’ concert “Musical Kin – Husband and Wife”, featured works by composers linked not…