On the Australian Chamber Orchestra’s ACOHomeCasts this week, cellist Julian Thompson and a mysterious challenger go head to head in a charming performance inspired by Cumberland Gap, a bluegrass favourite by “banjo virtuoso” Adam Hurt.
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Virtuoso violinist and polymath Daniel Hope who recently performed in Sydney ‘introduces the world of the super-rich collectors and world-famous violinists’ in this documentary on SBS TV this weekend. “With Stradivari and Guarneri violins from Cremona in Italy fetching some of the highest prices in auction for any work of art (20 million euros and…
Daniel Barenboim, the acclaimed Argentine-Israeli conductor and classical music legend will lead an exclusive Australian appearance of the distinguished German orchestra, the Staatskapelle Berlin, in Sydney this November. One of the world’s most celebrated conductors and revered concert pianists, Barenboim’s unparalleled expertise with Romantic-era orchestral repertoire will captivate audiences over three extraordinary nights in the…
Join the Muffat Collective for Neapolitan Madness, an afternoon of musical drama and excitement, featuring Australian soprano, Anna Sandström. This concert is the last in the popular Spring Series for 2017 and explores passionate cantatas and dramatic concerti by Antonio Vivaldi and his contemporaries. As always, the concert includes a mouth-watering selection of cakes and…
Whilst many of us are breathless from weeks of watching the Rugby World Cup and are preparing for a summer of long cricket tests, there is a final looming in a contest that has outlasted even these. Singing competitions are rarely completed in short time spans. For five singers, several months of intense preparation will culminate in…
Opening this weekend February 21st in cinemas around Sydney is Richard Wagner’s grand comedy Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, filmed during a live performance at New York’s Metropolitan Opera and conducted by its Music Director James Levine Hosted by Renée Fleming, German baritone Michael Volle stars as Hans Sachs, with South African tenor Johan Botha as Walther. Botha was…
May 1787 , and the First Fleet is ready to sail from England. Richard Morgan’s safe and respectable middle-class existence is shattered. He may as well be crossing into Hades as he endures the ocean journey to the colony of New South Wales. Colleen McCullough’s tale of Richard Morgan in her novel “Morgan’s Run“, has been transformed…