The fine art of reinvention
Composer Elena Kats-Chernin and Recorder virtuoso Genevieve Lacey on reimagining J.S. Bach's inventions.
Composer Elena Kats-Chernin and Recorder virtuoso Genevieve Lacey on reimagining J.S. Bach's inventions.
We look at Broadway’s operatic lineage with a nod to Sondheim, Bernstein & Co.
This month's list of Australia's top 20 classical music albums.
Two works embracing the evolutionary journey of musical and emotional transfiguration.
An investigation into the Federal Budget’s controversial arts funding reforms is due by September.
The Russian-born pianist and conductor is the first appointment in the orchestra’s new mentoring programme.
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These ten trailblazing talents are leading the way for women conductors all over the world.
This is smashing programming: Beethoven’s last piano concerto and final piano sonata performed by two Decca war horses. Beethoven dedicated the concerto (as well as the Op. 111 Sonata) to Archduke Rudolf; the imperial epithet was coined by his English publisher (not the first or last time a publisher ‘re-interpreted’ a composer’s intentions!). In the context of a work in E Flat, the curious key relationship of the nocturnal second movement in B emphasises the movement’s reflective and subdued character. Brazilian pianist Nelson Freire first performed it in 1957 at the age of 12. Now 70, Freire changes gear effortlessly between rhythmic vitality and deliquescent lyricism in the prolonged opening movement. The Leipzig Gewandhaus occasionally seems more brawny in interpretation of this audacious music than Freire. The Piano Sonata No 32 arrived about ten years after the Emperor Concerto and falls into Beethoven’s late period. Not uniquely it is in two movements: a sonata-allegro followed by a set of variations including the famous proto-boogie-woogie third variation. The rhetorical vigour of the first movement comes off with genius. The herculean second movement is elegant, Freire poetic in tone and line. If really great playing by artists at the top of…
On the eve of their national tour, the Australian Chamber Orchestra give a sneak peek of their Golden Age programme.
An afternoon of sun and romance to chase away the winter blues. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in