There is an absolute treasure trove of German Art Song on a new album release from ABC Classic, Love’s Torment, Love’s Delight: Songs by Brahms, Schumann & Mendelssohn, available now. Four superb voices and four hands at one piano celebrate the delights of love. Soprano Jacqueline Porter, mezzo-soprano Anna Dowsley, tenor Andrew Goodwin and baritone…
The Australia Ensemble will begin its 2020 season with a powerful program, Storm and Tempest. Performing with guest artists, the ensemble will explore the tumult of stormy weather, tempestuous emotion, and the promise of new things rising from the ruins of the old. Australian composer Elena Kats-Chernin channels a revolutionary spirit and the anarchy of…
Soprano Sara Macliver and pianist Ian Munro, present well-known and not-so-well-known art songs about women in Songs My Mother Taught Me. The duo aim to nurture and develop the Art Song which is an increasingly rare format. “It is not that long ago that everyone knew what art song was” Macliver says, “and everyone performed it,…