Avital’s Vivaldi
Watch this video of mandolin virtuoso Avi Avital talking about his latest recording, Vivaldi due for release in Australia in early April.
Watch this video of mandolin virtuoso Avi Avital talking about his latest recording, Vivaldi due for release in Australia in early April.
A week into December and there is an abundance of music that we hear but once a year. Mercifully in some cases, but in others, an all too infrequent excuse to indulge in some of the most beautiful works ever composed. Over the next few weeks we’ll bring you some of the rarely heard classics of…
Cellist Daniel Müller-Schott, Guest Artist with the ACO2 this month, talks about his recording of the Cello Symphonies by Britten and Prokofiev.
This week on September 25th and 26th, Harbour City Opera presents Puccini’s Suor Angelica at Paddington Uniting Church. Listen to soprano Sarah Anne Walker who sings the title role in the production, performing the aria ‘Senza Mamma’ from the opera, accompanied by Glen Amer.
Brilliant, entertaining and lucid – baritone Thomas Hampson talks to BBC’s Hardtalk about understanding classical music.
A visual interpretation of Max Richter’s reworking of Vivadi’s The Four Seasons.
On May 16th, the Philharmonia Orchestra of London conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen, performed the European premiere of an incomplete and forgotten by Dmitri Shostakovich – Orango, an opera originally commissioned by the Bolshoi Theatre in 1932, but which became a satire on the Russian bourgeois press. The world premiere was given in December 2011, performed by the Los…