Playing for Fun
Annabel Crabb and Leigh Sales are all set to collaborate with Richard Tognetti and the Australian Chamber Orchestra. We get the low-down.
Sydney-based writer Harriet Cunningham is a music and theatre critic for The Sydney Morning Herald. She manages content and brand at Musica Viva Australia. She was recently awarded a doctorate for her work on a history of Dartington International Summer School, and has been known to play the violin.
Annabel Crabb and Leigh Sales are all set to collaborate with Richard Tognetti and the Australian Chamber Orchestra. We get the low-down.
Ahead of its world premiere at Canberra International Music Festival, composer Andrew Ford talks about the evolution of a hymnal to the land.
Dharug composer Christopher Sainsbury has written a new opera for Victorian Opera, with a libretto by First Nations playwright Jane Harrison.
These two tiny operas by Charpentier, created to be performed in Louis XIV's private appartments, offer another kind of chill today.
This month’s performance highlights from ABC Classic, independent radio and streaming.
Arabella Steinbacher discusses joining the Sydney Symphony Orchestra for Georges Lentz’s new violin concerto and warns that it's a little wild.
This month’s performance highlights from ABC Classic, independent radio and streaming.
Featuring cellist Elinor Frey, the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra’s Spanish Steps is a fascinating lesson in un-learning for an ensemble of expert players.
"It is what I burn for, it is what I breathe." A new documentary, Knowing the Score, brings the audience up to date with conductor Simone Young.
In TÁR, Cate Blanchett plays a formidable conductor at the pinnacle of her profession. She tells us how she worked intensively to prepare herself for the role.
Eric Whitacre's writing for voice is deft, while the words are unremittingly touching in this moving piece about love, death, anger and grief.
Ensemble Offspring's micro-festival was a tribute to the transformative power of living new music, and sent the audience home grinning.
This month’s concert highlights from ABC Classic, independent radio and streaming.