“Tis better to have loved and lost…”
Excerpts from Fiona Campbell’s new debut solo CD, “Love+Loss”: three cantatas with a period ensemble led by Neal Peres Da Costa.
Similar Posts
The Song Company: Bach And Forward
The Song Company begins a new era in 2016 as Antony Pitts joins the ensemble from the UK as its new Artistic Director. His first program in their new season together, Into Something…, explores the legacy of the vocal music of one of the greatest composers of all time – Johann Sebastian Bach and features guest…
Bach Akademie Australia Brings ‘Comfort And Joy’ With Cantatas For Christmas
Acclaimed violinist and concertmaster Madeleine Easton leads her Bach Akademie Australia with 36 of Australia’s finest baroque instrumentalists and singers through J S Bach’s most sublime and joyous Christmas cantatas in three Sydney concerts. Easton’s remarkable period instrument ensemble, now celebrating its third year, will perform Comfort and Joy – Cantatas for Christmas, comprising the…
Brahms ‘Albumblatt’ in A minor (1853), opus posthumous,
Check out this video clip from the BBC of the recent world premiere of the newly discovered piano work by Johannes Brahms and given the name ‘Albumbatt’ by Christopher Hogwood, who discovered it in the Princeton University library. Pianist Andras Schiff performed the work on radio last weekend.
Thomas Hampson on the Language of Music
Brilliant, entertaining and lucid – baritone Thomas Hampson talks to BBC’s Hardtalk about understanding classical music.
du Pré performs Elgar concerto with Barenboim
Archival footage of Jacqueline du Pré performing the Cello Concerto opus 85 by Edward Elgar, conducted by Daniel Barenboim.
Christmas Musings: Amarcord sing ‘Es ist ein Ros Entsprungen’
A week into December and there is an abundance of music that we hear but once a year. Mercifully in some cases, but in others, an all too infrequent excuse to indulge in some of the most beautiful works ever composed. Over the next few weeks we’ll bring you some of the rarely heard classics of…