Met Opera Streams HD Productions Free

During this extraordinary and difficult time, New York’s Metropolitan Opera brightens the lives of our audience members and opera lovers around the world even while its stage is dark. Each day, a different encore presentation from the company’s Live in HD series is being made available for free streaming on the Met website, with each performance…

Trevor Pinnock Records JS Bach Well-Tempered Clavier Book 1 For Deutsche Grammophone

Available tomorrow, April 10, is British harpsichordist and conductor’s new recording on Deutsche Grammophon, J S BACH The Well-Tempered Clavier  I. Trevor Pinnock is a pioneer of the early music movement. As founder and former leader of The English Concert he enjoys a longstanding relationship with Archiv Produktion and Deutsche Grammophon. Among his celebrated recordings…

Australian Chamber Orchestra Launches Its Digital Content Season ACO Homecasts

The Australian Chamber Orchestra (ACO) presents its digital content season,  ACO HomeCasts, bringing extensive and innovative music from the musicians of the ACO into the homes of audiences and communities across Australia and abroad over the coming months, and beyond. Tonight, April 7 at 7 pm, ACO violinist Ike See and ACO violist Elizabeth Woolnough give…

Easter Music Online

If you’re missing your fix of concerts during the Easter season, here are some links that you might like to check out – performances of a variety of Easter musical fare by Australian and other composers and performers: Short listens: Sydney Chamber Choir performs Paul Stanhope’s Ubi Caritas This beautiful piece is a hymn of the…

These Unprecedented Times…SoundsLikeSydney Supports Performers And Audiences

At the risk of resorting to a clichè, we are witnessing unprecedented times around the globe.  The performing arts industry in Australia has suffered a double blow, through a complete shutdown of the performing arts for most of the rest of the year, as well as drastic cuts in Arts Council funding – there simply…

Sydney Conservatorium Calls For Beethoven Symposium Participants

The Sydney Conservatorium of Music is hosting this four-day symposium from 6 to 9 May 2020, Singing and playing in the era of Beethoven. Convened by Professor Neal Peres Da Costa, the theme of this symposium asks “What did singing and instrumental playing sound like in the era of Beethoven?” Contemporary written documentation gives us…

Jayson Gillham Plays Beethoven Piano Concertos On New ABC Classic 3 CD Set

ABC Classic has released a 3 CD recording of the complete piano concertos by Beethoven, performed by Jayson Gillham, with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra conducted by Nicholas Carter. This cycle is the first in twenty years, recorded by an all-Australian team, comprising pianist, conductor and orchestra, and is a major addition to the ongoing celebrations…

Buchbinder Performs New Diabelli Variations On Deutsche Grammophon

The Beethoven commemorations continue with a new release on 6 March, by celebrated pianist and renowned Beethoven specialist Rudolf Buchbinder. Buchbinder has released his first album on Deutsche Grammophon, a new series of works based on Beethoven’s monumental Diabelli Variations.  Buchbinder first recorded the Diabelli Variations early in his career. This time, he has invited…