‘Spheres’ from Daniel Hope

Violinist Daniel Hope discusses the ideas behind the music on his new CD ‘Spheres’ in which he is joined by choir and solo instrumentalists conducted by Simon Halsey.
Click here for the CD review.

Violinist Daniel Hope discusses the ideas behind the music on his new CD ‘Spheres’ in which he is joined by choir and solo instrumentalists conducted by Simon Halsey.
Click here for the CD review.
Irish soprano Orla Boylan is currently thrilling Sydney audiences in her performances as Senta in The Flying Dutchman with the Sydney Symphony. She first sang in Sydney with the SSO in early 2006 in a performance of Britten’s War Requiem conducted by Paul Kildea. Since then she has given stellar performances in Australia winning…
Excerpts from Tafelmusik’s The Galileo Project, featuring the music of Monteverdi and Merula.
Check out this video recording of a recent performance of the 4th movement from Mahler’s Fourth Symphony by the Omega Ensemble with soprano Lee Abrahmsen. Click here to read our review of the concert.
May 1787 , and the First Fleet is ready to sail from England. Richard Morgan’s safe and respectable middle-class existence is shattered. He may as well be crossing into Hades as he endures the ocean journey to the colony of New South Wales. Colleen McCullough’s tale of Richard Morgan in her novel “Morgan’s Run“, has been transformed…
The Scherzo from Brahms’ Trio in E flat major for piano, violin and horn, opus 40. The melody is thought to have been used by him 12 years earlier in his newly discovered Albumblatt in A minor for piano which will receive its world premiere performance this weekend on BBC Radio 3
This video will surely give you goosebumps – Mahler’s Symphony No 8 , which premiered in Munich on September 12th in 1910. The BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Jiří Bělohlávek in collaboration with hundred of voices performs at the Royal Albert Hall on the opening night of The Proms in July 2010.