Angus McPherson is a writer, editor and digital content specialist. He is a former Deputy Editor of Limelight and has written for BBC Music Magazine, RealTime Arts and CutCommon. A flute player by training, he holds a PhD in Music.
Ace Hotels will be presenting a full day of the composer’s music in lobbies and public areas on September 5. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
Lyle Chan, Peter de Jager, Speak Percussion, Moorambilla Voices and Tura New Music among the winners at this year's awards.
All 17 resigned following the response to Charlottesville, prompting the president to skip the upcoming Kennedy Center dinner. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
Flying into Sydney and Brisbane, the new music specialist talks Kate Moore, feminism and why she won't do a Pistol and Boo.
Anna Dowsley stuns as Lucretia in Kip Williams' deconstructed Britten.
On the final disc of Yevgeny Sudbin’s Beethoven concerto cycle with Osmo Vänskä, the Russian pianist gives a vivacious account of Beethoven’s first two published forays into the genre – Sudbin has been working backwards through the concertos. He’s accompanied on this release by the Finnish Tapiola Sinfonietta, rather than the Minnesota Orchestra, with whom he recorded the rest of the series. The First Concerto’s Allegro con brio is brilliantly articulate – every note is alive and charged with energy. Sudbin deliberately eschews Beethoven’s cadenzas in the first movement for one he describes as a “cocktail of material” based on one by Friedman – a shimmery, almost gushily romantic flourish that bounces into the final tutti. Sudbin traces crystalline melodies in the pulsing Largo and the Tapiola’s clarinet player draws clean lines in the prominent solo part. The finale barrels along with a relentless joy and a jocular cadenza (all Sudbin). The Tapiola’s sound is full and healthy – a little too healthy, perhaps, though this gives moments like the fugal section in the first movement of Piano Concerto No 2 plenty of heft. There are some dreamlike moments in the Adagio, before the comically bright Rondo… Continue reading Get…
ABC Classics has released an album of the beloved satirist’s stint as a guest presenter who brought “balance” to the station. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
Ahead of his performances in Guitarra, the Australian guitarist chats about his most recent recording projects. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
The humanoid robot YuMi will conduct the Lucca Philharmonic in an operatic highlights concert in Pisa. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
The artistic directors of the Lev Vlassenko Piano Competition talk about the competition they founded in 1999. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
How a boy playing flamenco passing his front door set this master on the path to musical fame and fortune.
Avi Avital, Ray Chen, Joyce Yang and András Schiff are all on the menu in next year’s season.
Stuart Skelton, Berlioz’s L’Enfance du Christ and Anne-Sophie Mutter are just some of the highlights among next year’s offerings.
