Update on the ‘Ring’
Click here to read Matthew Westwood’s update on the Melbourne Ring cycle in The Australian.
Click here to read Matthew Westwood’s update on the Melbourne Ring cycle in The Australian.
As we emerge from lockdowns, conductor Sam Allchurch shares what drove him to perform ‘Garden of the Soul’ as the timely next concert of Sydney Chamber Choir, and his love for the music of Benjamin Britten.
Two features from The New Statesman – the first on elitism in classical music, and the second, a review of a new book Music as Alchemy by Tom Service, The Guardian’s music writer, examining the careers of six conductors and their orchestras: http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/music-and-performance/2012/07/classical-music-should-be-about-more-elite-parties-and-private-s http://www.newstatesman.com/culture/culture/2012/07/music-alchemy-review
The Goldner String Quartet is spending this week as Ensemble-in-Residence at the Oxford May Music festival. Their opening performance at the festival earned a glowing review from Andrew Clements of The Guardian who said “(their) appearances confirm them as one of the finest string quartets around today.” You can hear them perform in Sydney in late…
In this feature in The Guardian, rock music critic Paul Morley claims ‘classical music is the truly subversive form’ and explains why with 6 of his favourite pieces.
Sydney Chamber Choir announces this week’s digital release, Ah! Sun-flower from Jonathan Dove’s The Passing of the Year, a 7-part song cycle written for double choir and piano. It’s a return to the 21st century with this excerpt which is the 5th movement of the song cycle. Jonathan Dove’s music is about communicating, creating wonder…
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…