The ANU School of Music contoversy continues
The conroversy continues over Professor Adrian Walter’s appointment to the Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts:
The conroversy continues over Professor Adrian Walter’s appointment to the Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts:
Oh the joy of a serendipity….of discovering a lost score long after its composer is no more. This is the story of Igor Stravinsky’s 1908 piece, Pogrebal’naya Pesnya (Funeral Song) written in memory of his teacher, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, shortly after Rimsky’s death in June that year. The 12-minute work was performed only once, in a Russian symphony…
Released last week on the Deutsche Grammophon label, Andris Nelsons, the leading conductor of his generation, takes on a full cycle of Beethoven’s eternal symphonies – directing the Vienna Philharmonic in a series of new recordings made at the historic Vienna Musikverein. These will be released in a deluxe boxed set on 5 CDs, featuring…
The Board of Opera Australia has announced two new members. Joining the board are soprano Greta Bradman and Professor Warren Bebbington AM, Professorial Fellow in Music at the University of Melbourne.
Dr Nicholas Milton Dr Nicholas Milton, Chief Conductor of the Willoughby Symphony has been appointed General Music Director and Chief Conductor of the State Theater of Saarland, Germany (Saarländischen Staatstheater) for four years from 2014. Dr Milton was selected to the position following an international search which attracted over 100 applicants. Dr Milton has been the…
Vladimir Ashkenazy’s prolific career continues with the completion of a project to record the piano works of Rachmaninov. The latest release on the Decca label (Decca Classics 4785346) contains the Trio élégiaque No. 1 in G minor and the Trio élégiaque No. 2 in D minor Op. 9. Performing with him are violinist Zsolt-Tihamér Visontay, leader of the…
Decca presents a new album, Cinema, a handpicked collection of music from film and TV by Ludovico Einaudi, the composer behind Oscar-winning films Nomadland and The Father. To be released on June 4, 2021, Cinema is a collection of Einaudi’s greatest works from film and television including two previously unreleased tracks.