A little lunch music

A little lunch music

Looking for shelter from Sydney’s winter winds at lunchtime this Tuesday June 12th, you could seek out winds of a far more pleasurable sort at the The City Recital Hall’s lunchtime concert. For this concert, pianist and anchor of the series Kathryn Selby teams up with the New Sydney Wind Quintet to present the music of Jacques Ibert,…

Selby and friends present ‘A Ghost at the Cafe’

Selby and friends present ‘A Ghost at the Cafe’

  When Carl Czerny learnt piano from Beethoven, he was about 10 years old. Young and impressionable, it is possible that Beethoven played to him a piano trio he was composing. The young Czerny apparently described it (in the vernacular of the day) as ‘spooky’, giving Beethoven’s Piano Trio in D major, opus 70 No 1 the nickname by which it continues…