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.
Sydney has a new music festival and this one is dedicated to the classical guitar! Sydney’s inaugural Classical Guitar Festival kicks off next Thursday 16th November and runs till Sunday 19th November. There are eight concerts featuring luminaries of the classical guitar world aong them, Guitar Trek, Australia’s most respected guitar ensemble, French super star Thibaut Garcia, Spanish…
Sad news today that the music world has lost two of its great conductors – Sir Jeffrey Tate and Jiří Bělohlávek. Sir Jeffrey Tate (74), was well-known to Australian audiences as Principal Guest Conductor and Artistic Adviser of the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra. He was scheduled to conduct them again in October this year. He is reported…
The Music Performance Unit UNSW has awarded its 2020 Willgoss Ensemble Composition prize jointly to Elizabeth Younan and Michael Grebla. The prize is aimed at encouraging and promoting the creation of an original, short work for ensembles, in support of a thriving instrumental and choral program at UNSW Sydney. The winners each receive $2500 and…
The Australian Chamber Orchestra’s (ACO) upcoming performance of J S Bach’s Goldberg Variations will be broadcast live via Facebook from the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall on Sunday 12 August, 2pm AEST. Audiences across Australia will be able to experience the ACO perform one of the greatest pieces of music ever written, in an illuminating string…
Cecilia Bartoli and Sol Gabetta – two of the most captivating women in classical music – are joining together for a new album Dolce Duello to be released on Decca Classics today. Performed with Cappella Gabetta led by concertmaster Andrés Gabetta, Dolce Duello is a collection of Baroque masterpieces which showcase the stunning combination of voice and…
Laura Bennett of The Guardian interviews counter-tenor Andreas Scholl: Click here to read.