Beautiful black and white images from the rehearsals of the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra’s current season of Venice Secrets. The season continues at the City Recital Hall.
Images taken by Steven Godbee and reproduced with his kind permission.
Brandenburg One, the digital platform of the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra presents flautist Melissa Farrow performing the Bourée Anglaise from JS Bach’s Partita in A minor for solo flute, BWV 1013. Melissa Farrow, who is the Principal Flautist of The Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, has travelled close to this only surviving piece by JS Bach for solo…
This is the link to the SMH and SkyArts presentation of the 2009 production “In Search of Beethoven”. It features, amongst others, Emmanuel Ax, Roger Norrington and Riccardo Chailly. http://www.smh.com.au/tv/show/in-search-of-beethoven/in-search-of-beethoven-20111202-1oaij.html
Joshua Adams from Perth has won the 2018 Isabel Menton Composition Awards as announced by the Australian Catholic University (ACU). The award is for unpublished and previously unperformed choral works, valued at $1,500. Adams’composition In Id Ipsum Invicem was selected ahead of God is with Us by Fiona Dyball from Melbourne who won $500. Samantha Allen-Craig from…
The brilliant superstar pianist Lang Lang performs in Sydney next month, with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and in a solo recital at the Sydney Opera House. In his recital on June 8 he plays Tchaikovsky The Seasons, JS Bach’s Italian Concerto and Chopin Scherzos. With the Sydney Symphony, conducted by Manuel López-Gómez, on June 10 and 11, the focus…
Our friends at Elysian Fields, Australia’s innovative electric gamba ensemble are offering readers of SoundsLikeSydney two double passes to their concert on Thursday October 10, 8.30 pm at Foundry616, 616 Harris St, Ultimo. “Electric gamba band Elysian Fields presents a uniquely configured line up of saxophone, voice/violin, electric viola da gamba, piano, bass guitar and…
There is a new a capella vocal ensemble in Sydney. Calling themselves ‘Vocal Detour’ this quintet of elite singers plans to take its audiences and collaborators on a journey through roads less travelled, alongside the familiar classics.