The Ancient Craft Of Making Stringed Instruments
BBC correspondent Peter Day spends time in Cremona, Italy, the home of hand crafted stringed instruments for 5 centuries, looking at how these instruments were created then and now.
BBC correspondent Peter Day spends time in Cremona, Italy, the home of hand crafted stringed instruments for 5 centuries, looking at how these instruments were created then and now.
Opera Australia has announced the appointment to its Board of Simon Mordant AM, effective from 1st January 2014. He joins a recently re-structured Board chaired by David Mortimer AO who assumed his role in January this year and Mary Waldron who joined ahead of the Company’s AGM in April, 2013. In a press statement released today, David…
Congratulations to ALL the nominees and winners! Best Classical Album Winner: Sally Whitwell – Mad Rush: Piano Music of Philip Glass (ABC Classics) Karin Schaupp & Flinders Quartet – Fandango (ABC Classics) Latitude 37 – Latitude 37 (ABC Classics) Richard Tognetti (violin), Australian Chamber Orchestra – Mozart Violin Concertos Vol 2 (BIS) Teddy Tahu Rhodes…
The Latin Muse, a new album release on the Move label, presents some of the best-known works of five Hispanic composers: Piazzolla, Granados, de Falla, Albeniz and Ginastera, performed by pianist Nancy Tsou. The album, available on multiple platforms includes three of Piazzolla’s most popular works, Oblivion, Milonga de Angel and Libertango. Tsou also presents…
Deutsche Grammophon will release the soundtrack to the movie, Maestro played by the London Symphony Orchestra under Yannick Nézet-Séguin.
The Metropolitan Orchestra is bringing its music direct to your homes. Over the coming weeks, it will share a selection of video recordings of favourite concerts along with some specially created videos direct from their musicians’ homes to yours, keeping the music alive in this small way before we can enjoy live music again. Broadcast…
If you’d prefer to listen to a much-loved classic rather than try and get your mind around a new work, think again. It may well be worth the effort of listening to something new. Scientists at Rotman Research Institute, in Toronto, found that the brain’s reward centre showed increased activity when participants heard a new piece of music. Read…