Wireless listening
Confused by the proliferation of wireless devices and listening formats?
Gramophone Magazine has published a comprehensive guide to wireless listening.
Confused by the proliferation of wireless devices and listening formats?
Gramophone Magazine has published a comprehensive guide to wireless listening.
Christopher Lawrence, ABC ClassicFM broadcaster, author and arts administrator, has joined Sydney Youth Orchestras (SYO) as its Chief Artistic Advisor. Mr Lawrence said he was honoured to join the team alongside Alexander Briger AO, who now resides in Paris to better pursue his international conducting career. Mr Briger remains the orchestra’s Chief Conductor and will…
The Australian Brandenburg Orchestra opened its exotic and mystical season Ottoman Baroque at the City Recital Hall last night. Here’s what the concert looked like – scroll down to see all six stunning images. Images taken and provided by Steven Godbee Publicity and Photography. …
He grabbed a worldwide audience during the closing ceremony of the London Olympics and has had a 40 year career at the pinnacle of performance. Sadly, cellist Julian Lloyd Webber played his final public performance on May 2nd. A slipped disc has caused the 63-year-old musician to call an end to public performing. The Guardian…
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…
It was not so long ago that we heard with heavy hearts, that the SBS Youth Orchestra was to be disbanded in 2013 after 25 very successful years of performing, touring and nurturing young musicians. Out of this ending though, came a new beginning with the formation of a new symphony orchestra for young musicians…
Decca Classics has released a compilation album of the Takács Quartet performing its award-winning recordings of the complete String Quartets of Beethoven. This anthology comprises a multi-media presentation of the Beethoven quartets on 7 CDs, 1 Blu-ray Audio disc, and a bonus DVD. The release of this package presages the Takács Quartet’s August 2017 tour to…