In a landmark innovation, Teldec releases its Complete Bach Edition on a USB stick!
The 32 GB USB memory stick contains recordings of cantatas, instrumental works and PDFs of notes from the original 154 disc collection made in 2000.
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Brandenburg One, the digital platform of the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra presents flautist Melissa Farrow performing the Bourée Anglaise from JS Bach’s Partita in A minor for solo flute, BWV 1013. Melissa Farrow, who is the Principal Flautist of The Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, has travelled close to this only surviving piece by JS Bach for solo…
Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons, composed in 1723, is so ‘accessible’, it has suffered the fate of overexposure. Its four heady concerti pass through summer, autumn, winter, and spring, depicting folk life and evocative landscapes in bite-sized chunks. Some of its passages are so instantly recognisable that they have suffered the ignominy of being used as background music in commercials. Enter German-born…
Sir Roger Norrington takes a look at Beethoven’s Symphony No 1 for Gramophone Magazine. Click here to read.
When: Wed Dec 16, 2020 Time: 8.30 pm Where: Melbourne Digital Concert Hall Bach Akademie Australia will present their third concert, Weihnachtsfreude on the stage of Melbourne Digital Concert Hall on Wednesday December 16 at 8.30pm in conjunction with presenting partner the National Art School. Join the Bach Akademie Australia for a program of Christmas…
The soundtrack to HBO’s Chernobyl, the 5-part TV mini-series. by composer, cellist and singer Hildur Guðnadóttir has won an EMMY for Outstanding Music Composition for a Limited Series, Movie or Special, announced at the Microsoft Theatre in Los Angeles. The series become the highest rated show on IMDb. Deutsche Grammophon has released the soundtrack to…
Dame Kiri Te Kanawa is refreshingly honest about the trend to fast-track singers to classical singing without the vital technical foundations. Click here to read The Guardian.