The Secrets Of The Harpsichord Maker
Nick Galvin talks to harpsichord maker Carey Beebe as he prepares the keyboard for the tour by the Academy of Ancient Music.
Nick Galvin talks to harpsichord maker Carey Beebe as he prepares the keyboard for the tour by the Academy of Ancient Music.
Book your holiday in Hamburg! With the opening of the Elbphilharmonie, the world has a magnificent new concert hall and the line-up from resident and visiting artists is spectacular. The ‘heart’ of the Elbphilharmonie will be the 2,150 seat Great Hall with the smaller 500 seat hall available for chamber music. Not abashed to espouse ‘classical’…
Leading early music expert Winsome Evans presents the final chapter in her ground-breaking project to transcribe and record Bach’s solo instrumental works for the harpsichord, with JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH a 3-CD recording of the Six Cello Suites and the Partita for Solo Flute, on ABC Classics. Evans’ project, some 30 years in the making, is based on…
The Seraphim Trio, comprising pianist Anna Goldsworthy piano, violinist Helen Ayres and cellist Timothy Nankervis, has released a new recording Beethoven’s Piano Trios on ABC Classics. Considered to be amongst the finest works in the chamber canon, Beethoven’s piano trios take the form devised by Mozart and Haydn and develop it into a musical genre which reached symphonic proportions…
Some early impressions of the set and site design for Madame Butterfly, the 2014 production from Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour. Scroll down to see all three images. Set Design by Alfons Flores. Images courtesy of Opera Australia
Tonight’s the night!! Sydney Harbour has been transformed and for the next three weeks the city will be in the thrall of a history making event as Verdi’s immortal opera La Traviata is presented on a floating stage surrounded by icons of the city and under a giant chandelier that seems like it has been strung…
The Sydney Symphony Orchestra has appointed 13 leading young musicians from across Australia to its internationally renowned 2024 Fellowship program.