Susan Graham’s recital reviewed

David Vance commends Susan Graham’s ambitious programme:

David Vance commends Susan Graham’s ambitious programme:
Life on Land’s Edge is music with an environmental conscience. Its pure sounds are pleasurable to listen to and intensely calming.
Jonas Kaufmann, In Concert, August 10, 2014, Concert Hall, Sydney Opera House. It was an evening to cherish. Presented by Opera Australia, German tenor Jonas Kaufmann gave his Australian debut, in concert at the Sydney Opera House, and the audience wouldn’t go home. I admit to certain reservations about this event. Was a recital of…
Don Giovanni, Mozart /Da Ponte Sydney Conservatorium, Opera School (Cast 1) 13 October, 2018 Music Workshop Sydney Conservatorium Written by Victoria Watson Con Opera presented a true masterpiece of Viennese Classicism, the opera Don Giovanni which followed on Mozart’s success with Le Nozze di Figaro and which was premiered in Prague in 1787. It is a notoriously challenging work…
Fast Blue Village has the perfect formula – an immensely popular living composer, an ensemble selected by her to record her music and a recording producer with a sharply honed instinct for how the composer wants her music to sound. The composer is Elena Kats-Chernin who heard the Acacia Ensemble play some of her music early in 2011. She decided they had the sound she…
Karakorum Australian Brandenburg Orchestra 25 July 2018 City Recital Hall, Sydney Written by Deen Hamaker The journey of an itinerant 13th century monk forms the basis of this fascinating syncretic concert that reinterprets the sound world of Medieval Central Asia. Charting William of Rubruck’s journey leaving Constantinople in 1253 across Central Asia to the…
Bach Magnificat Australian Brandenburg Orchestra and Choir City Recital Hall, Sydney February 21st 2014. The Australian Brandenburg Orchestra celebrating its 25th anniversary this year opened the 2014 season with a concert centred around the music of J S Bach. The programme reached back into history, performing two works which represent the stylistic origins of…