Selby and Friends review
Harriet Cunningham reviews “Friends and Admirers” from Selby and Friends:
Harriet Cunningham reviews “Friends and Admirers” from Selby and Friends:
Behold – the sea! Sydney Chamber Choir 6 October, 2018 Verbrugghen Hall, Sydney Conservatorium of Music The Sydney Chamber Choir looked to the 9th century in its call to celebrate maritime themes in song. Launched with the haunting solo voice of Sebastian Maury delivering the words of Psalm 130 De proundis clamavi te (Out of…
When I spoke to Benjamin Grosvenor in 2012 during a brief visit to Sydney to launch his album Rhapsody in Blue, the young British pianist commented that although his repertoire embraced composers from JS Bach through Chopin and Scriabin, to Saint-Saëns, Ravel and Gershwin, the Romantics have been his first love. His favourite composer at the time…
The Obbligato Sonatas…a vital and impressive accomplishment by the Bach Akademie Australia in Sydney’s music calendar.
……and this from Murray Black in The Australian. http://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/ashkenazy-conjures-up-an-outstanding-account-of-brittens-anti-war-masterpiece/story-e6frg8n6-1226757609556
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…
“Oh, we’re your real opera buffs! Give us tunes that we can hum!” So plead the Lyricists in the prologue of Prokofiev’s madcap opera The Love for Three Oranges, whilst the Tragedians demand “blood and thunder…sex and souls” and the Comedians angle for “genuine comedy”. Sadly for the Lyricists, Prokofiev did not write many “tunes…