The Australian Brandenburg Orchestra opened its season Mozart Requiem: 100 Voices at the City Recital Hall last week. The orchestra was joined by the gifted singers of the Australian Brandenburg Young Voices and the Australian Brandenburg Choir in diverse choral classics ending in an awe-inspiring performance of Mozart’s Requiem.
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Best Orchestral Performance, 2018 -The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra conducted by Manfred Honeck for Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5; Barber: Adagio. This recording was also judgedthe Best Engineered Album, Classical for Sound Engineer Mark Donahue. Other nominees Concertos For Orchestra — Louis Langrée, conductor (Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra) Copland: Symphony No. 3; Three Latin American Sketches — Leonard Slatkin, conductor…
Popular broadcaster Graham Abbott’s fifteenth episode of his fascinating podcast series ‘Classics Unlocked’, is available now on YouTube, Apple Music and all other podcast platforms. Every episode is also hosted on the Classics Direct website. In this episode of ‘Classics Unlocked’, Graham explores the piano music of Béla Bartók whose music was strongly influenced by…
The Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra has announced the release of its debut album, Perspective & Celebration on its brand new recording label, ARCOLIVE.
Soprano Julia Wee, pianist Lucas Allerton and guest soprano Pamela Andrews present Songs Jessye’s Sung,a landmark recital this weekend, which celebrates four decades of Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras and showcases the songs of the incomparable Jessye Norman. Julia share some of her insights as she prepares for her recital: “Jessye Norman burst onto the…
Sydney Chamber Opera (SCO) presents the modern classic The Lighthouse by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. The one-act opera with libretto by the composer, is his second and centres around three lighthouse keepers and the true story of the mysterious desertion of the Flannan Isles lighthouse in 1900. The opera opens with a prologue set…
Concerto writing for the violin in the 21st century is alive and well with the works of these celebrated living composers listed by Gramophone magazine. http://gramophone.co.uk/editorial/ten-violin-concertos-by-living-composers …and as a sequel to its list of 21st century violin concerti, Gramophone magazine nominates its list of top 10 20th century violin concerti. http://gramophone.co.uk/editorial/top-ten-20th-century-violin-concertos