Concert Review: Musica Viva/Macliver/The AAM/Egarr

“A glorious mastery over these sometimes-troublesome instruments” says Peter McCallum in the Sydney Morning Herald.
…..and Graham Strahle reviews the Adelaide concert for The Australian
“A glorious mastery over these sometimes-troublesome instruments” says Peter McCallum in the Sydney Morning Herald.
…..and Graham Strahle reviews the Adelaide concert for The Australian
Sarah Grunstein, Beethoven, Brahms And Schumann Utzon Room, Sydney Opera House 23, September, 2018 Based on the concept of improvisation, pianist Sarah Grunstein performed a program of 19th century masterworks in the Utzon Room of the Sydney Opera House. It was a creative pairing of two late works – Beethoven’s Sonata no 30 in E…
Specialist French Baroque ensemble Les Épopées, directed by Stéphane Fuget has recently released a CD, Airs sérieux & à boire. These songs composed by Marc-Anoine Charpentier continue the series of discs for this recording house Chateau de Versailles.
Comfort and Joy – Cantatas for Christmas Bach Akademie Australia Christ Church St Laurence, Sydney 29 November 2019 First there was Comfort – the cantata Süßer Trost BWV 151, by J S Bach, followed by his Orchestral Suite No 2 in B minor BWV 1067. Then the heavens opened in an outpouring of Joy with…
Ten Top Tenors is a double CD set which brings together the voices of some of the most prodigiously talented singers of our times. A compilation from Decca, it’s an entertaining collection that places these voices next to each allowing contrasts and comparisons. The recordings, taken from each of the decades since the 1960s, also…
The ‘Fab Four’ of chamber music, France’s Modigliani Quartet, returned to Sydney to perform under the auspices of Musica Viva earlier this week. Hamstrung by an injury to resident cellist François Kieffer on the rain washed streets of Paris during the week before they left for Australia, the tour was salvaged by friend and colleague…
Vincent Plush reviews The ACO’s Canberra performance of Beethoven’s 9th symphony with the Choir of Clare College, Cambridge: http://www.theaustralian.cot.au/arts/pure-joy-a-performance-for-the-history-books/story-e6frg8n6-1226443342722
Sarah Grunstein, Beethoven, Brahms And Schumann Utzon Room, Sydney Opera House 23, September, 2018 Based on the concept of improvisation, pianist Sarah Grunstein performed a program of 19th century masterworks in the Utzon Room of the Sydney Opera House. It was a creative pairing of two late works – Beethoven’s Sonata no 30 in E…
Specialist French Baroque ensemble Les Épopées, directed by Stéphane Fuget has recently released a CD, Airs sérieux & à boire. These songs composed by Marc-Anoine Charpentier continue the series of discs for this recording house Chateau de Versailles.
Comfort and Joy – Cantatas for Christmas Bach Akademie Australia Christ Church St Laurence, Sydney 29 November 2019 First there was Comfort – the cantata Süßer Trost BWV 151, by J S Bach, followed by his Orchestral Suite No 2 in B minor BWV 1067. Then the heavens opened in an outpouring of Joy with…
Ten Top Tenors is a double CD set which brings together the voices of some of the most prodigiously talented singers of our times. A compilation from Decca, it’s an entertaining collection that places these voices next to each allowing contrasts and comparisons. The recordings, taken from each of the decades since the 1960s, also…
The ‘Fab Four’ of chamber music, France’s Modigliani Quartet, returned to Sydney to perform under the auspices of Musica Viva earlier this week. Hamstrung by an injury to resident cellist François Kieffer on the rain washed streets of Paris during the week before they left for Australia, the tour was salvaged by friend and colleague…
Vincent Plush reviews The ACO’s Canberra performance of Beethoven’s 9th symphony with the Choir of Clare College, Cambridge: http://www.theaustralian.cot.au/arts/pure-joy-a-performance-for-the-history-books/story-e6frg8n6-1226443342722
Sarah Grunstein, Beethoven, Brahms And Schumann Utzon Room, Sydney Opera House 23, September, 2018 Based on the concept of improvisation, pianist Sarah Grunstein performed a program of 19th century masterworks in the Utzon Room of the Sydney Opera House. It was a creative pairing of two late works – Beethoven’s Sonata no 30 in E…
Specialist French Baroque ensemble Les Épopées, directed by Stéphane Fuget has recently released a CD, Airs sérieux & à boire. These songs composed by Marc-Anoine Charpentier continue the series of discs for this recording house Chateau de Versailles.
Comfort and Joy – Cantatas for Christmas Bach Akademie Australia Christ Church St Laurence, Sydney 29 November 2019 First there was Comfort – the cantata Süßer Trost BWV 151, by J S Bach, followed by his Orchestral Suite No 2 in B minor BWV 1067. Then the heavens opened in an outpouring of Joy with…
Ten Top Tenors is a double CD set which brings together the voices of some of the most prodigiously talented singers of our times. A compilation from Decca, it’s an entertaining collection that places these voices next to each allowing contrasts and comparisons. The recordings, taken from each of the decades since the 1960s, also…
The ‘Fab Four’ of chamber music, France’s Modigliani Quartet, returned to Sydney to perform under the auspices of Musica Viva earlier this week. Hamstrung by an injury to resident cellist François Kieffer on the rain washed streets of Paris during the week before they left for Australia, the tour was salvaged by friend and colleague…
Vincent Plush reviews The ACO’s Canberra performance of Beethoven’s 9th symphony with the Choir of Clare College, Cambridge: http://www.theaustralian.cot.au/arts/pure-joy-a-performance-for-the-history-books/story-e6frg8n6-1226443342722