The Brandenburg Christmas Cake recipe!
Paul Dyer
The Brandenburg orchestrates A meeting of ‘beautiful minds’
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…
A truly dazzling virtuoso – the keyed trumpet premieres in Sydney
Gabriele Cassone playing the keyed trumpet with The Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, directed from the fortepiano by Paul Dyer, truly brought to life the title of the present series Dazzling Virtuoso with a breathtaking performance. A deliberate choice of adjective. The keyed trumpet, an instrument of the 18th century sits between the Baroque and the newer valved instruments, representing…