Violonist Aiko Goto of the Australian Chamber Orchestra and koto master Satsuki Odamura perform a superb programme of Eastern and Western classical music which will include JS Bach’s Solo Sonata for Violin No. 2 in A minor, Yatsuhashi’s Six Variations, Sawai’s Dosei for Koto and Violin, Fujeida’s Patterns of Plants and a piece written for Odamura by the Australian composer Linsey Pollak, Pretang…
Chamber/cello – There are two outstanding chamber music events in April with the Sitkovetsky Trio presented by Music Viva performing the music of Smetana, Beethoven (the Archduke Trio) and the world premiere of a new work by Carl Vine, commissioned for Music Viva by Julian Burnside AO QC to commemorate the composer’s 60th birthday. April…
On hearing that I was attending the opening night of Danielle de Niese’s concert season with the Australian Chamber Orchestra in Sydney, a friend asked me to let him know whether I thought he should go along to hear her. Twenty four hours after the concert, I’m still deliberating on my response to him. Danielle de Niese is…