Dido and Aeneas, Sasha Waltz and Guests, Vocal Consort Berlin, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Sydney Festival, Lyric theatre, Pyrmont, Sydney; January 16th, 2014. The production of Dido and Aeneas by Sasha Waltz and Guests, presented by the Sydney Festival is an abstraction of the opera by Purcell. Movement and singing are equal partners in…
The Hilliard Ensemble Great Hall, University of Sydney 15 January 2014 “A Hilliard Songbook” The Hilliard Ensemble was formed in 1974 by Paul Hillier, who directed their early performances. The composition of the four members of the group has changed slowly over time and now only the counter-tenor David James remains from the founding…
Dido’s Lament is the debut release by pianist Joe Chindamo and violinist Zoë Black on their newly formed recording label Mo’OzArt. For the ‘classically’ trained Black and Chindamo, the pianist with the reputation as a jazz musician, it is a fusion of styles which seeks to shatter pre-conceptions and create what Chindamo describes as a…