ACO awarded prestigious Barbican Centre residency
The Australian Chamber Orchestra has announced a three-year partnership with London’s Milton Court Concert Hall.
The Australian Chamber Orchestra has announced a three-year partnership with London’s Milton Court Concert Hall.
The ACO’s new LP on ABC Classics will pair Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood’s Water with Mozart’s Eine Kleine Nachtmusik.
The Swiss flautist brought a powerful energy to match that of the ACO.
Tognetti and his world-class band scale the heights.
Slava Grigoryan and ABC Music's labels dominate the nominations, while a Kate Miller-Heidke inclusion raises eyebrows.
The flautist, who juggles a gig with the Berlin Philharmonic and a solo career, talks about old flute favourites and pinching a violin hit. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
Bold, high-energy Grieg from Kraggerud and the ACO.
In an exclusive interview with Limelight, Anna Netrebko speaks about life, art and the things she won't do anymore.
Highlights include Steven Isserlis, Nicole Car’s ACO debut, an arrangement of the Goldbergs plus four world premieres. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
Recorded live in Sydney’s City Recital Hall last year, this disc takes the listener from the beautifully spare, intertwining lines of JS Bach’s The Art of Fugue to the lush complexity of Beethoven’s Opus 130 Quartet. Tognetti and the ACO merely dip their toes into Bach’s contrapuntal water, offering the first four movements of the collection as a kind of musical primer for the Beethoven. The first Contrapunctus presents Bach’s subject before it’s accompanied by lively dotted rhythms in the second and inverted in the third, the ACO’s weaving voices lilting conversationally. The fourth Contrapunctus is all pizzicato, a motif from the subject’s tail brought to soft, haunting life by the voices of the instrumentalists – a quirky touch that, while effective, might scare off traditionalists. From the clean lines of the Bach, the ACO blossoms into the warmer – if no less cerebral – textures of Beethoven’s String Quartet in B Flat, the orchestra off-leash in the first movement, singing in the lyrical moments. The Presto is taken at a gallop while the Alla Danza Tedesca: Allegro Assai has a sweet naivety. The Cavatina throbs with expression before the climax: the Große Fuge, which the ACO attacks with vigorous…
Much to enjoy, but some missed programming opportunities.
Sheena Boughen, pro bono CEO for Four Winds Bermagui for a decade, honoured at the Creative Partnership Awards. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
The South African-born, Gold Coast-educated fortepianist talks Mozart and the therapeutic effect of mixing a cocktail. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in