Saturday night was the first ot two performances by the Sydney Symphony of a concert version of Tchaikowsky’s Queen of Spades.
Not performed in Sydney since 1979 it is a rare opportunity to hear this masterpiece, and the out-of -this-world soloists who have gathered in Sydney to sing with the orchestra conducted by Vladimir Ashkenazy.
Click to read the review by Peter McCallum for the Sydney Morning Herald
and Murray Black’s review in The Australian
The national youth choir Gondwana Chorale, conducted by Paul Holley and Carl Crossin, has released its debut recording SOAR. Featuring 16 tracks, both sacred and secular, most works are by living Antipodean composers. This repertoire is the hallmark of the ensemble, established in 2008, which has drawn its singers from around the nation. Contrasting with the…
Angela Hewitt Music Viva City Recital Hall, May 8, 2017 In August 2016 Angela Hewitt embarked on a Bach Odyssey. Her mission was to perform all the major keyboard works of J.S. Bach over 4 years, in a series of 12 recitals. Daniel Barenboim performed the piano works of Beethoven and Eliot Gardiner with his…
Here they are: http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/musicals/even-decades-on-it-remains-an-enchanted-evening-20120812-242p4.html http://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/stage/world-of-lovers-but-a-dream/story-fn9d344c-1226448683157 http://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/review/bartlett-shers-production-of-south-pacific-remains-younger-than-springtime/story-fn9n8gph-1226446080649
‘A feeble French travesty of a German literary monument.’ Such was Wagner’s view, in 1867, of Charles-François Gounod’s opera Faust which premiered in Paris in 1859. No matter that Faust was one of the most successful operas of its time, being performed at the Royal Opera, Covent Garden, every season from 1863 to 1911 and…
Bach’s Concertos/ Bach Akademie Australia Paddington Uniting Church 4 October 2019 It was a deeply satisfying confluence of music and musicians when the Bach Akademie Australia presented their programme Bach’s Concertos. Founder and artistic director Madeleine Easton led her band adeptly through music which illustrated the expansive genius of JS Bach’s concerto writing in many…
Czech mezzo-soprano Magdalena Kožená has added to her discography of early music with Monteverdi, a collection of 9 arias for solo voice and vocal ensemble by Claudio Monteverdi. Also on this Archiv Produktion recording are three instrumental works by Monteverdi’s contemporaries Marco Uccellini,Tarquinio Merula and Biagio Marini. Monteverdi represents a return to the style of…