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.
As the world celebrates the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989, SoundsLikeSydney remembers the legendary cellist Msitislav Rostropovich who arrived at the crumbling landmark and performed the cello suites of J S Bach through the night in an expression of spontaneous joy and freedom.
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.
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….
Opening night photos from the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra and Choir’s Bach Eternal programme. There are several more performances between now and May 19th. http://soundslikesydney.com.au/shows/brandenburg-earlybird-offer-for-bach-eternal/7136.html Images by courtesy of and taken by Steven Godbee.
Feel the calm! Willoughby Council presents J S Bach’s The sheep may safely graze in an arrangement for two flutes, violin and continuo, starring the Live at Lunch Artistic Director Jane Rutter (flute), Katrina Kelvin (flute), David Saffir (Violin) and Monika Kornel (Harpsichord). Jane Rutter also gives us a short intro on how Bach included…
Check out this trailer of Dream 13 (minus even) from Max Richer’s album Sleep, which he will perform through the night at the Sydney Opera House as part of Vivid Sydney. Click here to read more about the experience and booking link.