This Saturday, ARIA award winning pianist Sally Whitwell teams up with soprano Allegra Giagu for an evening of music at Laguna Hall, Wollombi, just a short drive north of Sydney. Allegra and Sally have been friends for years and this, their first concert together will feature them as soloists as well as in ensemble. In this video/soundtrack, Sally and violinist Sophie Longmuir perform one of Sally’s compositions, The Insomnia Waltz.
Today, December 2nd 2013 marks the 90th birthday of the incomparable Maria Callas. Born Cecilia Sophia Anna Maria Kalogeropoulou in New York on December 2nd in 1934, she moved to Greece, her ancestral home at the age of 14 and entered the Athens Conservatory in 1940. In 1942 she sang Tosca in Athens and after several more roles…
On May 16th, the Philharmonia Orchestra of London conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen, performed the European premiere of an incomplete and forgotten by Dmitri Shostakovich – Orango, an opera originally commissioned by the Bolshoi Theatre in 1932, but which became a satire on the Russian bourgeois press. The world premiere was given in December 2011, performed by the Los…
Excerpts from Fiona Campbell’s new debut solo CD, “Love+Loss”: three cantatas with a period ensemble led by Neal Peres Da Costa.
In an age where perfection is an ideal and conformity a virtue, pianist Sally Whitwell refreshingly admits that she is not perfect. She sees beauty in imperfection, and the title of her newest ARIA Award winning album, All Imperfect Things affirms her view. Named the Best Classical Album at the 2013 ARIA Awards, Sally…
Allegra Giagu and Sally Whitwell perform in Wollombi on Saturday February 4th. Listen to Allegra here….
November 22nd commemorates the birthdate of Benjamin Britten as well as the Feast Day of the patron saint of music, Saint Cecilia. This is the Hymn to St Cecilia by Britten, with text by his friend W H Auden, performed by the Choir of King’s College Choir conducted by Sir David Willcocks I. In a…