Sadly Claudio Abbado is no more. Thanks to the digital age, his work lives on through his numerous recordings and videos. Gramophone magazine’s website has a selection of his 10 best recordings and the Berlin Philharmoniker concerts on video.
Psycho – The Music Of Bernard Herrmann Omega Ensemble Utzon Room, Sydney Opera House February 28, 2016 The Omega Ensemble launched its 2016 season with Psycho – the music of Bernard Herrmann last weekend. In a happy co-incidence I came upon a feature in Classical – music.com the online version of BBC Music Magazine….
It was in July that pianist Yuja Wang dazzled Australian audiences with her performances, described as “dazzling…tender…(and) stylish” (Sydney Morning Herald). She is now poised to release a new recording in Australia, entitled Ravel (available October 23, 2015) on the Deutsche Grammophon label, on which she performs with the celebrated Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich under young conductor Lionel…
The four young winners of Opera Australia’s Regional Student Scholarships for 2018 have been announced and they are Bonnie Staude from Albany, WA, Maddie Stephens from the Gold Coast, QLD, Declan Ross from Cairns, QLD and Leah Bateman from Alice Springs, NT. The four teenagers were selected from more than 30 finalists who auditioned during the…
Composer Elena Kats-Chernin has written a new work – a concerto for flute and orchestra and it is to premiere later this month. Called Night and Now, the concerto was commissioned by flautist Sally Walker, for whom it was written, with assistance from the Australia Council. Sally Walker revealed to SoundsLikeSydney, that she and Elena started…
The Australian Brandenburg Orchestra’s Bittersweet Obsessions opens in Sydney tonight at the City Recital Hall and runs till 1 November. It is a dramatic staging of music from the Renaissance and the Baroque that fuses music, drama and design. Joining the ABO musicians on stage are rising New Zealand soprano Natasha Wilson with tenors Karim Sulayman from…
With the recent news that the 2013 Nobel prize winner for medicine Thomas Sudhof drew on his classical music training for inspiration, this feature in the New York Times describes how music promotes creative thinking and success in other aspects of like. “Music training sharpens other qualities: Collaboration. The ability to listen. A way of thinking that…