Allegra Giagu showreel

Allegra Giagu and Sally Whitwell perform in Wollombi on Saturday February 4th. Listen to Allegra here….

Allegra Giagu and Sally Whitwell perform in Wollombi on Saturday February 4th. Listen to Allegra here….
This excellent mini-documentary talks about the pacifist principles which propelled Britten’s War Requiem. at 5’30” you can see Britten conducting Peter Pears in the tenor solo Futility (‘Move him, move him’). And….. you can read our story about the electrifying 20th century master piece that is Britten’s War Requiem.
Archival footage of Jacqueline du Pré performing the Cello Concerto opus 85 by Edward Elgar, conducted by Daniel Barenboim.
October 22nd marked the 200th birth anniversary of Franz Liszt. Here’s one of his masterpieces played by Vladimir horowitz – the Consolation no 3 in D minor.
The rare 18th century keyed trumpet will be heard in concert this Sydney when virtuoso Gabriele Cassone performs with the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra. Listen to Gabriele Cassone perform Haydn’s Trumpet Concert in E flat, which is also featured in the Sydney recital.
Verdi was born in a small village in the Duchy of Parma where the baptismal register of October 11th states that he was ‘born yesterday’. As days were sometimes counted as beginning at sunset, it is not clear whether he was born on the 9th or the 10th of October in 1813. Whichever way, it would be legitimate by now to celebrate…
Sydney based pianist Sally Whitwell has created a finely crafted niche for herself as an exponent of the solo piano music of Philip Glass. In February 2013, she will perform alongside Glass at the Perth Festival, in a work partly commissioned by the Perth Festival. Glass’ Complete Piano Etudes comprises 20 works, the last three…