Angela Hewitt interview
Angela Hewitt talks on the Fazioli piano and electronic tuning.
Angela Hewitt talks on the Fazioli piano and electronic tuning.
Vincenzo Bellini, prolific composer of bel canto opera was born on November 3rd 1801. (D 1835 of amoebic dysentery). This is a wonderful performance of Casta Diva by Renée Fleming in the Palaces of the Czars.
Check out this video of City Girl a song written and performed by moth, Synergy’s splinter group headed by Timothy Constable. The film puts the viewer as a ‘fly on the wall’ in a 20-something woman’s apartment (played by Sophia Ndaba) as she prepares to go out into the city. The film was directed by Timothy…
Soprano Sarah Brightman has one of the most recognised voices in contemporary music. This week she releases her eleventh studio album Dreamchaser. Making the album, she says, takes back to her childhood, growing up in Hertfordshire, England, dreaming of spectacular, unknowable things. “My mind’s eye brings me a rush of images from all of the…
Excerpts from Fiona Campbell’s new debut solo CD, “Love+Loss”: three cantatas with a period ensemble led by Neal Peres Da Costa.
Gratitude and Grief ELIXIR Feat. Katie Noonan with Michael Leunig is a new album released today in which Katie Noonan and Elixir explore every nuance of Michael Leunig’s poetry. Elixir, one of Australia’s finest jazz trios led by five-time ARIA award-winning singer songwriter Katie Noonan, alongside National Jazz Award-winning Saxophonist/Composer Zac Hurren and Australia’s master of guitar Stephen Magnusson…
This clip from YouTube revisits the Wagner gala concert conducted by Sir Charles Mackerras at the opening of the Sydney Opera House. Two of the SSO’s present musicians Colin Piper and Ronald Prussing performed in that concert and recollect what it was like. Simone Young talks about inheriting the mantle from from Sir Charles.