Mandolin virtuoso Avi Avital features on a double CD release from Deutsches Grammophon Avi Avital: Bach (June 2012)and Between Worlds (January 2014), to coincide with his tour to Australia with the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra. The title of the first of the two CDs Bach needs little explanation except to add the initials ‘J S’ before…
Faure’s Requiem The Sydney Chamber Choir and The Metropolitan Orchestra, April 12 2014. the City Recital Hall, Sydney. In a world where concert producers seem to draw on a dizzying array of devices to tantalise audiences, the Sydney Chamber Choir delivered a potent reminder of the power of music, dispensing with distractions and focusing…
Madama Butterfly, G Puccini Handa Opera On Sydney Harbour 23 March 2014 This is the third year that Opera Australia has mounted a production on the waters of Sydney Harbour in Farm Cove. The location remains unsurpassable: the harbour waters in the foreground, then the lights of the city and the Opera House, and…