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Elysian Fields Releases A New Album
Elysian Fields, Australia’s only electric viola da gamba band, has released its debut album What Should I Say? – a heady blend of jazz, world, folk, and early music. Founded in 2015, as the brainchild of Australia’s only electronic gambist, Jenny Eriksson, in partnership with leading jazz musicians, saxophonist Matt Keegan and pianist under Melbourne’s…
Musica Viva Announces New Leadership Team
Musica Viva Australia today announced that Hywel Sims has been appointed CEO, while Anne Frankenberg will step into the newly created, Melbourne-based role of Deputy Chief Executive. Hywel Sims has been an integral member of Musica Viva’s senior management since 2014, initially as Director of Development and currently as General Manager, Victoria. The new role of Deputy…
Cecilia Bartoli Sings Vivaldi Arias
Cecilia Bartoli presents a brand new album of arias by Antonio Vivaldi, two decades after her ground-breaking ‘Vivaldi Album’, which sold over 700k copies. On this latest Decca album simply titled Antonio Vivaldi, Bartoli is joined by Bartoli is joined by French baroque experts Ensemble Matheus conducted by Jean-Christophe Spinosi. The original Vivaldi Album was a seminal…
Jayson Gillham Performs Bach On ABC Classics
Australian piano virtuoso Jayson Gillham presents Romantic Bach: From Intimate to Epic, his fourth album on ABC Classics. The album features 11 of J S Bach’s compositions transcribed and arranged, from Rachmaninoff’s transformation of the Partita for Violin in E major into a pianistic showpiece, to Myra Hess’s sublime Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring. Jayson Gillham’s latest release is…
Grigoryan Brothers Preview Soundtrack to A Boy Called Sailboat
The Grigoryan Brothers, Slava and Leonard, will preview the original motion picture soundtrack to the new cinematic release, A Boy Called Sailboat, playing famous tunes re-arranged for guitar duo – including Amazing Grace, The House of the Rising Sun, My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean and more. All the music on the soundtrack has been arranged by the Grigoryan…
Australian Chamber Orchestra Triumphs In London
The Australian Chamber Orchestra (ACO) has returned from a triumphant debut as artists-in-residence at London’s Barbican Centre, with The Times reporting “Richard Tognetti, leading from the front in every sense, embodies everything that makes his band special” and The Guardian heaping high praise on the ensemble describing a “A performance that buzzed with exuberance and a…
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Concert Review: Karakorum/ Australian Brandenburg Orchestra
Karakorum Australian Brandenburg Orchestra 25 July 2018 City Recital Hall, Sydney Written by Deen Hamaker The journey of an itinerant 13th century monk forms the basis of this fascinating syncretic concert that reinterprets the sound world of Medieval Central Asia. Charting William of Rubruck’s journey leaving Constantinople in 1253 across Central Asia to the…
Opera Review: Aida/ Opera Australia
Aida, Opera Australia 18 July, 2018 Joan Sutherland Theatre, Sydney Opera House, Written by Deen Hamaker Since opera emerged in late 16th century Italy, the art form has frequently been at the forefront of the use of new technology in the theatre. Many theatrical conventions common today, such as sophisticated lighting and complex set changes,…