Check out this fascinating video of Dan Russell, violinist and founder of the Phoenix Collective as he takes a 9000+ km road trip across Australia accompanied by his family which includes his 2009 Cremona made violin.
Read our interview with Dan as he shares his vision for the Phoenix Collective.
More about the March inaugural concert of the Phoenix Collective’s collaborative recital series.
Check out this video of City Girl a song written and performed by moth, Synergy’s splinter group headed by Timothy Constable. The film puts the viewer as a ‘fly on the wall’ in a 20-something woman’s apartment (played by Sophia Ndaba) as she prepares to go out into the city. The film was directed by Timothy…
Brilliant, entertaining and lucid – baritone Thomas Hampson talks to BBC’s Hardtalk about understanding classical music.
This excellent mini-documentary talks about the pacifist principles which propelled Britten’s War Requiem. at 5’30” you can see Britten conducting Peter Pears in the tenor solo Futility (‘Move him, move him’). And….. you can read our story about the electrifying 20th century master piece that is Britten’s War Requiem.
Listen to Italian Baroque violinist Stefano Montanari play L’estate (Summer) from Vivaldi’s Four Seasons. He appears as soloist and guest director with the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra in July.
Archival footage of Jacqueline du Pré performing the Cello Concerto opus 85 by Edward Elgar, conducted by Daniel Barenboim.
Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht, performed by the Thomanerchor of Leipzig. Composer Franz Xaver Gruber set the lyrics of Joseph Mohr to music in 1818, in the small town of Oberndorf bei Salzburg in Austria. UNESCO declared this carol an intangible cultural heritage in March 2011.