The NSW Doctors Orchestra conducted by Dr David Banney presents Highlights of a Decade to celebrate the 10th Anniversary of Musicus Medicus, an ensemble founded in 2004 by General Practitioner Cathy Fraser to give NSW doctors and medical students an opportunity to enjoy music together. Every year 60-70 doctors come together from both metropolitan and rural…
“The Heavenly Spheres make music for us,…….All things join in the dance!” Gustav Holst Having recently recorded Max Richter’s re-composition of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons for Deutsche Grammophon, violinist Daniel Hope looks to the elements yet again for inspiration in this recording called Spheres (DG 0289479 0571), which debuted at number 3 in the US BIllboard…
Elena Kats-Chernin says she has been told she can write no more works for String Quartet. She displays a mischievous pleasure at my alarm. The Sydney composer has recently released a recorded collection of her ‘complete’ works for string quartet, entitled Blue Silence. ‘Complete’ to date, and therefore the end of a chapter. “But it’s only the…