If you’d prefer to listen to a much-loved classic rather than try and get your mind around a new work, think again. It may well be worth the effort of listening to something new. Scientists at Rotman Research Institute, in Toronto, found that the brain’s reward centre showed increased activity when participants heard a new piece of music.
Read about the study and is implications at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22096764
After the highly acclaimed album Destination Rachmaninov – Departure Daniil Trifonov concludes his Rachmaninov recording project for Deutsche Grammophon with Destination Rachmaninov – Arrival, a programme that includes Rachmaninov’s Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 3, Trifonov’s own transcriptions of Rachmaninov’s lyrical Vocalise and virtuosic The Silver Sleigh Bells. The album is available now. The Grammy…
We have three copies of a fabulous new CD to give away! Violinist Daniel Hope’s Spheres on the DG label is a brilliant compilation of 18 tracks of mostly 20th century music by Arvo Part, Philip Glass, Elena Kats-Chernin, Gabriel Prokofiev (grandson of Sergei) and Alex Baranowski. Spotted by Yehudi Menuhin at the age of 11, Hope has he has…
Composer Max Richter announces the release of VOICES, a major new recording project inspired by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, The first single from this important new work, All Human Beings is already available on Decca Records, accompanied by a new music video. VOICES was released on 31 July, 2020. ‘VOICES’, described as a…
The Australian Brandenburg Orchestra’s Bittersweet Obsessions opens in Sydney tonight at the City Recital Hall and runs till 1 November. It is a dramatic staging of music from the Renaissance and the Baroque that fuses music, drama and design. Joining the ABO musicians on stage are rising New Zealand soprano Natasha Wilson with tenors Karim Sulayman from…
Gratitude and Grief ELIXIR Feat. Katie Noonan with Michael Leunig is a new album released today in which Katie Noonan and Elixir explore every nuance of Michael Leunig’s poetry. Elixir, one of Australia’s finest jazz trios led by five-time ARIA award-winning singer songwriter Katie Noonan, alongside National Jazz Award-winning Saxophonist/Composer Zac Hurren and Australia’s master of guitar Stephen Magnusson…
Tom Service of The Guardian begins a year – long journey which explores the symphony and how it changed our world. The word was first used in the 16th century and referred to music for various combinations of voices and instruments, like Gabrieli’s Sacrae symphoniae, 1597. The symphony as we know it today took shape…