The Brandenburg Christmas Cake recipe!

Paul Dyer

Paul Dyer
This is a very engaging video of Maestro Daniel Barenboim passing on his brilliant pianistic skills in a masterclass with pianist Saleem Abboud Ashkar, presently touring with the Australian Chamber Orchestra. The work being studied is Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 21 in C major, Op. 53, Waldstein.
Judging by its popularity amongst listeners of ABC Classic FM as Australia’s most popular composition by Mozart, the Clarinet Concerto in A Major K.622 is listened to an awful lot. Some of these performances would be on a modern ‘liquorice stick’ clarinet, not the basset clarinet, which was the instrument of Mozart’s time for which he would have written the…
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…
The Australian Brandenburg Orchestra will give its premiere performance of Handel’s oratorio Messiah, directed by Brandenburg’s Artistic Director Paul Dyer AO, with a line-up of international soloists and members of the Brandenburg Choir. Messiah, HWV 56,is one of the world’s most performed pieces, yet Dyer promises an entirely fresh reading of the masterpiece. Joining the…
The legendary Itzhak Perlman began playing the violin as a child. After a glittering career of over 40 years, he talks to The Huffington Post about the importance of teaching in his work as a performer and conductor. Infected with polio aged 4, he has given his support to the End Polio Now campaign aimed at the…
Watch the 21 year old winner of the 2015 17th Chopin Competition, Korean pianist Seong-Jin Cho, perform Chopin’s Scherzo No.2 in B flat Minor, Op.31 in stage III of the competition.