The ACO’s ‘Beethoven 9’ concert reviewed
Vincent Plush reviews The ACO’s Canberra performance of Beethoven’s 9th symphony with the Choir of Clare College, Cambridge:
Vincent Plush reviews The ACO’s Canberra performance of Beethoven’s 9th symphony with the Choir of Clare College, Cambridge:
Opera Australia’s new production of Puccini’s Tosca was premiered on 6 July, just three years after they launched their previous new production. That 2010 production was widely regarded as a dramatic disaster – a travesty which completely reinvented the work so that it bore only a passing resemblance to the plot for which Puccini wrote…
The Elixir of Love (L’elisir d’amore) Melodramma giocoso in two acts by Gaetano Donizetti to a libretto by Felice Romani, after Eugène Scribe’s text for Daniel-François-Esprit Auber’s Le philtre (1831); Opera Australia, Joan Sutherland Theatre, Sydney Opera House, August 11th, 2014. After a very popular and beautifully executed season of Donizetti’s Don Pasquale in 2013,…
The style is possibly as difficult to define as the English meaning of their name – “Arrebato”, variously translated as “fury”, “something that rises rapidly” or “a wave of emotion”. It’s fair to say that any and all of these describe the music of this ensemble. Arrebato release their second CD “Absolucion” in June 2011….
Wilcox proves that as she presses the ‘play’ button on the music of the future, she doesn’t hit the ‘delete’ button on music of the past. She has drawn on it for inspiration, inclusion and elaboration.
The SMH reviews Musica Viva’s presentation of Diana Doherty with the St Lawrence String Quartet. They perform again at the City Recital Hall on Saturday April 21st at 2 pm. http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/from-weighty-adventurism-to-arcadian-perfection-20120418-1x7e6.html
The sound was beautifully blended in the ensemble moments and carefully balanced in the solo passages. The Australian Haydn Ensemble a cornerstone of keeping alive the incomparable music and the elements of the Classical era.