The cinema world has a long practice of drawing on classical music for its soundtracks. Ligeti, Verdi, Richard Strauss, Johann Strauss and Mozart are just some of the composers whose music has enriched our filmic experience.
It is arguably the music of Puccini that has been most frequently used on the big screen. Ian Haydn Smith tracks the course of Puccini’s music in film from 1932 to as recently as last year in Gramophone magazine.
Marais meets Muffat The Independent Theatre, North Sydney July 16, 2017 Written by Ria Andriani Through the dialogue of two ensembles, the Marais Project and Muffat Collective brought their virtuosic skills, specialised period instruments and knowledge of historical performance to the stage. For two ensembles which do not perform together regularly, this concert and its…
Available from today, a recording by the Lucerne Festival Orchestra, conducted by Riccardo Chailly on Decca Classics, featuring some of the greatest works in the orchestral repertoire by Richard Strauss, recorded live at the opening concert of the Lucerne Festival, 2017. This collaboration between the LFO and Chailly, follows their world premiere recording of Stravinsky’s…
Sydneysiders in New York this week could do worse than to spend the evening of April 30th (Monday) at the Carnegie’s Zankel Hall to hear the “badass classical band” (Time Out New York) The Australian Chamber Orchestra and Richard Tognetti perform with soprano Dawn Upshaw. They will perform the New York premiere of Winter Morning Walks, a cycle of 9…
Two of Australia’s finest storytellers, actor John Bell and pianist Simon Tedeschi, break new ground with this new recording for ABC Classics, of the great melodrama Enoch Arden – a deeply moving tale of love, loss, redemption and shipwreck, told through spoken word and solo piano. The album, available on CD and as a digital…
Small group travel with fellow music lovers, personal care and a tenor for company – a tempting formula from the Sydney-based, newly launched, unique, small group opera tour, The Travelling Tenor. Hosted by professional opera singer Adam Player, who performs with Opera Australia and Pinchgut Opera as well as throughout the UK, The Travelling Tenor takes…
The unique operatic heritage of two of Australia’s greatest icons, Dame Joan Sutherland and Richard Bonynge will be celebrated and preserved for posterity in a limited release collection from Universal Music in association with the Joan Sutherland & Richard Bonyge Foundation. Only 90 copies have been produced of this deluxe limited edition exclusive to the…