Fresh from their tour to Europe, Sydney choral ensemble Bel a cappella presents Brahms’ A German Requiem and Liebeslieder Waltzes and the delightful motet Abendfeir in Vendig by Clara Schumann. Featuring soloists soprano Celeste Lazarenko and bass Alex Knight, with pianists Jo Allan and Michael Curtain and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra’s Richard Miller on Timpani, Musical…
Pinchgut Opera continues its 2014 programming trend in 2015, once again presenting two rarely heard masterpieces of drama and comedy at Sydney’s City Recital Hall. Their winter offering (July 4,5,7 and 8) is Vivaldi’s Bazajet (RV 703), a tragedia per musica in 3 acts, with libretto by Agostino Piovene. The musical content comprises Vivaldi’s own arias dedicated…
Commemorating the centenary of the outbreak of World War One and to honour the Gallipoli campaign, the Sydney University Graduate Choir has commissioned composer and Music Director Christopher Bowen OAM to write An Australian War Requiem. World War One– the ‘war to end all wars’ – broke out in August 1914 and was a conflict which…