The conductor Lorin Maazel has died at his home in Virginia aged 84.
“By his 11th birthday he had already shared a podium with Leopold Stokowski, while the no less legendary Arturo Toscanini was responsible for getting Maazel his first steady conducting job in 1942, when Maazel was only 12.”
The UK Telegraph has been running a seriesof live streamed debates on various aspects of classical music. As part of thisseries they’ve published a gorgeous picture gallery of 10 of opera’s greatest singers: 5 men and 5 women. Guess who they are! Click here for the link.
The capabilities of a trained voice are often not fully understood by composers, and few opportunities exist to work with skilled experienced solo singers. Halcyon ‘s ‘First Stones 2021’ workshops are, an intensive opportunity to discover more about the voice and its capabilities.
SoundsLikeSydney is excited to announce the launch this week of our free monthly newsletter SoundsClassic. Our inaugural edition is packedwith news – we have the ‘wrap’ on Melbourne’s Ring cycle, musings on Christmas music, a Messiah quiz to challenge you, reviews of some of the many CDs released during 2013 in case you’re stuck for…
ABC Classics celebrates the 60th birthday of pre-eminent Australian composer Elena Kats-Chernin with The Elena Kats-Chernin Collection, a 10 CD boxed set, also available as a digital collection, bringing together her iconic works with pieces recorded especially for this collection. Kats-Chernin is one of the most cosmopolitan and successful composers working today, with a prolific…
Pianist, composer, and producer Nat Bartsch will deliver the 2024 Peggy Glanville-Hicks Address which will take place in Melbourne (Naarm) on 2 December.
Two of Australia’s finest storytellers, actor John Bell and pianist Simon Tedeschi, break new ground with this new recording for ABC Classics, of the great melodrama Enoch Arden – a deeply moving tale of love, loss, redemption and shipwreck, told through spoken word and solo piano. The album, available on CD and as a digital…