The Hilliard Ensemble Bids Farewell At The Sydney Festival

The Hilliard Ensemble bids farewell with its appearances at the Sydney Festival.
The Ave Maria by Josquin des Pres is on their Sydney programme.

The Hilliard Ensemble bids farewell with its appearances at the Sydney Festival.
The Ave Maria by Josquin des Pres is on their Sydney programme.
Watch 20-year-old pianist Benjamin Grosvenor talks about his new CD Rhapsody in Blue – his debut concerto recording which features music from the French Romantics through to the swing of jazz.
Pianist and composer Daniel Rojas brings the music of the South American people to the concert hall in a recital this weekend. Read our interview with him at http://soundslikesydney.com.au/shows/daniel-rojas-plays-the-music-of-the-south-american-people/8185.html
Angela Hewitt talks on the Fazioli piano and electronic tuning.
When Harry Christophers and his vocal ensemble The Sixteen perform in Sydney in March, they will include in their programme a new version of Allegri’s famous motet Miserere. In this video, the ensemble performs this new version and Christophers and musicologist Ben Byram-Wigfield talk about how this version came to be.
The Scherzo from Brahms’ Trio in E flat major for piano, violin and horn, opus 40. The melody is thought to have been used by him 12 years earlier in his newly discovered Albumblatt in A minor for piano which will receive its world premiere performance this weekend on BBC Radio 3
From September 1973 – Sir Charles Mackerras conducts the Sydney Symphony Orchestra.