Stefano Montanari plays Vivaldi

Listen to Italian Baroque violinist Stefano Montanari play L’estate (Summer) from Vivaldi’s Four Seasons. He appears as soloist and guest director with the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra in July.

Listen to Italian Baroque violinist Stefano Montanari play L’estate (Summer) from Vivaldi’s Four Seasons. He appears as soloist and guest director with the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra in July.
Nick Mohammed is a character comedian based in Edinburgh. He appears at comedy festivals and makes programmes for BBC TV and radio. His caustic humour delivers insights that are suspiciously close to the truth! Belly laughs aplenty in this YouTube video parodying the conductor!
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.
It’s no easy task to select music for a compilation CD. The list needs to include signature works or styles of the performer, listener favourites, a smattering of less popular but respected works or composers, and finally, works that take the performer into the future. With her new CD “Seraphim”, soprano Sara Macliver achieves this easily and the release…
Here’s another timeless favourite In dulci jubilo, sung by the of King’s College, Cambridge.
Check out this video of Jessical Pratt singing O luce di quest ‘anima from Donizetti’s opera Linda di Chamonix. This week Jessica Pratt was awarded La siola d’oro an accolade given in Italy to outstanding coloratura sopranos, previously won by Joan Sutherland and Sumi Jo.
When Philip Glass handpicked some pianists to perform all of his Etudes together at the Barbican in London last year, Icelandic pianist Víkingur Ólafsson was one of them. The Financial Times claimed: “Best of all was Ólafsson in the supersensitive stillness of Etude 5.” To celebrate the 80th birthday of Philip Glass, Deutsche Grammophon have released a…