Richter’s Vivaldi

A visual interpretation of Max Richter’s reworking of Vivadi’s The Four Seasons.

A visual interpretation of Max Richter’s reworking of Vivadi’s The Four Seasons.
Remember As It Is in Heaven and Les Choristes? Two popular movies that told the tales of life as a choral singer. There is a new movie about choral singers to be released nationally on April 23rd. Boychoir is about a troubled eleven-year-old boy at a prestigious American East Coast music school who clashes with the school’s demanding choir master played by Dustin Hoffman….
“The poem has not been completed until set to music” – Goethe. If Art Song needs to be re-invented to survive and evolve, the new CD “Serious Songs” from bass-baritone Teddy Tahu Rhodes (ABC Classics 476-4383) points in the right direction. The CD takes its title from Brahms’ Four Serious Songs,originally composed for bass and piano,…
Sergei Prokofiev and William Shakespeare were born on April 23rd in 1891 and 1564 respectively. Here’s a tribute to both these men of genius. Valery Gergiev conducts the London Symphony Orchestra playing the Dance of the Knights from Prokofiev’s ballet Romeo and Juliet.
The late dramatic soprano Elizabeth Connell who died on February 18th, sings Mild und Leise from Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde. She thrilled audiences around the world with the beauty and power of her voice. Her legacy will endure. RIP.
Avan Yu, 24 years old, from Canada, whose parents played Mozart to him as baby, has won the 2012 Sydney International Piano Competition. His prizes include recording contracts with ABC Classics and Naxos, and opportunities to perform a national tour as well as in festivals in Europe. hear him perform at the City Recital Hall in…
Here’s another timeless favourite In dulci jubilo, sung by the of King’s College, Cambridge.