Soprano Ayşe Göknur Shanal performs with pianist Evgeny Ukhanov in Russian Nights, an exclusive recital of vocal and piano masterworks by Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov, Scriabin, Rimsky-Korsakov and Dvorak’s Gypsy Songs.
The recital will be compered by Victoria Watson with insights into the poetry and music of these wonderful songs and piano works.
A new lieder CD will also be launched!
Tickets $50
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Judging by its popularity amongst listeners of ABC Classic FM as Australia’s most popular composition by Mozart, the Clarinet Concerto in A Major K.622 is listened to an awful lot. Some of these performances would be on a modern ‘liquorice stick’ clarinet, not the basset clarinet, which was the instrument of Mozart’s time for which he would have written the…
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