News
Sydney Chamber Choir – Life Begins at 40 With 2015 Season
The Sydney Chamber Choir celebrates 40 years of music making with the launch of its 2015 programme. Musical Director Paul Stanhope observes…
Month: December 2014
Reviews
‘A Brandenburg Christmas’ – the CD
A Brandenburg Christmas (ABC 476 4687) is the The Australian Brandenburg Orchestra and Choir’s 2010 live recording of their annual festive concert Noel! Noel!, which enters…
News
Sydney festival 2015 Line-Up Announced
Put the dates in your diary! The 2015 Sydney Festival will run from January 8 – 16, and will include theatre and…
Reviews
CD Review: Handel’s ‘Messiah’/Minkowski/Deutsches Grammophon Virtuoso
Handel Messiah/Marc Minkowksi/Deutsches Grammophon Virtuoso. Nearly three centuries after Handel’s Messiah was first performed in 1742, and nearly a century after…
News
“Why I’m Not Going To The Opera”
“The announcement of Sydney’s 2015 main stage program reveals 11 shows more limited in repertoire, more traditional in style and more narrow in their appeal than…
Shows
Play Me A Story….The Nutcracker
Lisa Stewart, violinist with the Acacia Quartet has a second string to her bow – quite literally. Lisa is not only a…
News
Roland Peelman To Step Down From The Song Company
Roland Peelman, Artistic Director of the Song Company since 1990 is to step down from this post at the end of 2015,…
Reviews
Review: Handel’s Messiah/St Mary’s Singers
Handel: Messiah St Mary’s Singers St Mary’s Cathedral, Sydney 6 December 2014 Performances of Handel’s Messiah are a habitual prelude to…
Reviews
CD Review: A Celtic Christmas/Australian Brandenburg Orchestra And Choir
With all the frisson of a live recording, the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra’s newest release A Celtic Christmas, from their 2013 Christmas concerts…
Shows
A Christmas Concert Of Fiddles, Griddles, Baroque tales, Cocktails…And more
Soprano Nadia Piave and friends present a Christmas concert in two acts – A Café Christmas Carol and The Blue Gem Shining amongst the…