The Ancient Craft Of Making Stringed Instruments
BBC correspondent Peter Day spends time in Cremona, Italy, the home of hand crafted stringed instruments for 5 centuries, looking at how these instruments were created then and now.
BBC correspondent Peter Day spends time in Cremona, Italy, the home of hand crafted stringed instruments for 5 centuries, looking at how these instruments were created then and now.
Sadly Claudio Abbado is no more. Thanks to the digital age, his work lives on through his numerous recordings and videos. Gramophone magazine’s website has a selection of his 10 best recordingsĀ and the Berlin Philharmoniker concertsĀ on video.
We’re just back from Melbourne where, over the last week SoundsLikeSydney has been sitting in on the final rehearsals for Opera Australia’s 2016 production of Wagner’s Ring Cycle which opens tomorrow night at Melbourne’s State Theatre. The verdict? We can’t give away too much, but we can say that this is a superlative production of…
Sydney-based Omega Ensemble has today announced the appointment of Mr Rory Jeffes as incoming Chair.
Peter Phillips, founder and director of the Tallis Scholars is a regular columnist for The Spectator. He recently posed the question whether creative genius is compatible with ‘niceness’ as a person and warns that even a conductor’s time on the podium is transient. Click here for the link.
Dame Kiri te Kanawa who was watched by an estimated 600 million people when she sang Let the Bright Seraphim at the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer, has announced her retirement from singing. Dame Kiri shot to fame as the Countess in the 1971 Covent Garden production of the Marriage of Figaro….
The Australian String Quartet has two new players. http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/arts/dream-chamber-music-role-keeps-young-violin-star-here/story-fn9d2mxu-1226131720638