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Nicola Benedetti ‘The Silver Violin’ giveaway
There are three copies of Nicola Benedetti’s new CD release The Silver Violin from Universal Records to be won, just in time for Christmas – spoil yourself, or someone else! Read our review and interview with Nicola Benedetti How to enter: email [email protected] by 5 pm on Friday 7th December 2012 with subject heading please enter ‘Silver Violin’. Winners…
‘Gershwin and Me’ – Simon Tedeschi CDs to be won
There are three copies of Simon Tedeschi’s new CD releases Gershwin and Me from Universal Records to be won just in time for Christmas – spoil yourself, or someone else! Read our review and interview with Simon Tedeschi: Gershwin and Me How to enter: email [email protected] by 5 pm on Friday 7th December 2012 with subject heading please enter…
Behind the scenes with Louise Callinan – ‘Mercedes’ at the Opera National de Paris
Louise Callinan as Mercedes in ‘Carmen’ at the Opera National de Paris. Image by David Bacher. As this post goes live, mezzo -soprano Louise Callinan would have just come off stage after opening night at the Paris Opera, where she is singing the role of Mercedes in Bizet’s Carmen. Paris based photographer David Bacher’s images from the final…
Lunch with Vengerov
Maxim Vengerov was appointed Menuhin Professor of violin at the Royal Academy of Music in London, earlier this year. He has concerts coming up in Moscow, London, Baku, Lausanne and Munich – all in the next 2 weeks. Click here to read his interview with Andrew Clark of the Financial Times.
conducting matters
This feature from npr asks whether good orchestras really need conductors. If you were at the Sydney Symphony’s opening night of Tchaikovsky’s ‘Pique Dame’ on Saturday, the answer would be quite obvious. A scientist at the University of Maryland has tried to define the relationship between musicians and their conductor: Click here to read
Stuart Skelton interview
Listen again to Margaret Throsby talking to Stuart Skelton in an interview first broadcast on ABC Classic FM Thursday November 29th. Click here
Latest reviews
Vienna Boys Choir ‘Jubilate Deo’ – classics amidst innovation and the traditional
The Vienna Boys Choir CD Jubilate Deo was released by ABC Classics (476 5094) earlier this year to coincide with the choir’s tour to Australia. This would explain the Antipodean content amongst the 17 tracks on the hour long collection of old and new choral classics, many of which sound best when peformed by the lucent voices of…
Simply beautiful: ‘North + South’ from Jane Sheldon, CD review
Soprano Jane Sheldon is a well respected and popular exponent of two broad styles of music at opposite ends of the timeline – Baroque and early music and, ‘New’ music. Her latest venture a CD with the title North + South (Phosphor Records PR 0001), released earlier this month, demonstrates her mastery of yet another style. North + South is a…