The lasting memory
An intriguing feature on how music is remembered when other aspects of memory are impaired.
An intriguing feature on how music is remembered when other aspects of memory are impaired.
A second Grammy for the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra’s album Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5; Barber: Adagio with its win for Best Engineered Album, Classical: Mark Donahue, engineer (Manfred Honeck & Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra). The recording also won the Grammy for Best Classical Recording. Other nominees: Danielpour: Songs Of Solitude & War Songs — Gary Call, engineer (Thomas Hampson, Giancarlo…
Visiting Sydney in late November was Stéphane Fuget, French conductor, keyboard player and, along with his partner, soprano Claire Lefilliatre, founder of the specialist French Baroque ensemble, Les Epopées. Fuget is recognised as one of the most prominent experts of French early and Baroque music
Finding Fondness for Two Flutes is a new album released as an ABC Classic Composer Commission containing a set of five duets for flute, performed by flautists The Emerald Ruby and Sally Walker.
Kasper Holten, the Director of Opera at the Royal Opera, Covent Garden since 2011, has announced that he will be stepping down from this role in 2017. Sydney audiences will be familiar with his work from his direction of Tchaikovsky’s opera Eugene Onegin for Opera Australia in 2014. Read the feature in Gramophone.
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…
The 2018 Grammy for Best Choral Performance goes to Philadelphia new music chamber choir The Crossing for The Fifth Century, featuring the music of the English composer Gavin Bryars (b 1943). Bryars: The Fifth Century — Donald Nally, conductor (PRISM Quartet; The Crossing) Other nominees: Handel: Messiah — Andrew Davis, conductor; Noel Edison, chorus master…