An independent report has found that the Orchestra’s training programme addresses an unmet need in Australia. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
For one half of the 2Cellos duo there are only two kinds of music: good and bad. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
The Israeli violinist explains why he loves our open-minded culture, and what he finds in Tchaikovsky, Beethoven and Shostakovich. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
The Sydney Symphony Orchestra Fellows will provide the music for this headily-scented hardy perennial. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
Retiring in November, the SSO musician looks back at a career spanning seven Chief Conductors. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
Sydney Symphony Orchestra oboist Shefali Pryor will run in the New York City Marathon for Médecins Sans Frontières. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
The young Aussie’s studies have taken her overseas. Back on home soil, she’s landed a plum part in the SSO Fellowship programme. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
Gillham proved a poet, though Ashkenazy's Eroica dragged.
The Brazilian pianist is a connoisseur's artist if ever there was one.
The violinist will be honoured as Concertmaster Emeritus by the orchestra he has led for 23 years. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
Is there anything new that yet another recording of The Four Seasons can say? Probably not, and it’s certainly not said here. Nevertheless, this is a very fine (if traditional) recording by Canadian violin virtuoso James Ehnes. The Four Seasons formed part of a set of violin concertos composed for the occupants of a girls orphanage in Venice. Published in 1725, it is endlessly dazzling, virtuosic and irresistible, a toe-tapping set of pop songs. This recording makes no claims to historically informed performance or period arrangements (although mention must be made of Ehnes’ 1715 ex-Marsick Stradivarius); rather, The Four Seasons gets the full orchestral treatment, an ocean of shimmering violins working to magical effect, their upper-register interplay with Ehnes in Spring particularly transcendent. Two other violin showstoppers are featured here: Fritz Kreisler’s arrangement of Tartini’s Devil’s Trill Sonata, and Jean-Marie Leclair’s understated (in this company) Violin Sonata in D Major, Op. 9 No 3, Tambourin. Both are performed with American pianist Andrew Armstrong, renowned for his dazzling technique and expression; on this evidence also an astute and sensitive chamber player (he and Ehnes have recorded two critically acclaimed Bartók collections). The recording is rich, resonant and present,… Continue reading Get…
★★★★★ Robertson performs a gloriously exhilarating Resurrection. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
★★★★☆ Robertson and the SSO revel in all the fun of Stravinsky’s fair. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
