Symphony orchestra goes to pot
Colorado Symphony gets into bed with cannabis companies in hopes of hitting new highs. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
Clive Paget is a former Limelight Editor, now Editor-at-Large, and a tour leader for Limelight Arts Travel. Based in London after three years in New York, he writes for The Guardian, BBC Music Magazine, Gramophone, Musical America and Opera News. Before moving to Australia, he directed and developed new musical theatre for London’s National Theatre.
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Strauss, Berlioz, Elgar and Grainger feature as Sir Andrew Davis takes his Aussie band on the road. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
Synergy’s committed, energised performances result in a 1-0 win for Xenakis. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
Chief conductor of one the world’s finest orchestras will lay down the baton after ten glorious years. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
Australia’s 21st-century string quartet reveal the whiteboard of dreams and the harpsichord of shame. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
Standing ovation greets 3000 years of musical history and a moving plea for peace.
British violinist Tasmin Little has been playing Vaughan Williams’ evocation of a lark in flight for most of her career – she and Sir Andrew Davis recorded it 20 years ago for Teldec – but this new recording on Chandos is something else altogether. It’s not just that Little’s tone is nigh on ideal, capable of an extraordinary ethereal sweetness, but her sense of phrasing makes the whole work into one long melody, seemingly untroubled by bar lines. Davis and Chandos support this flight with a gorgeous cushion of string sound, surpassing any other audio account that can recall. If that sounds like a rave for a new recording of The Lark, it should, but this disc, named for Vaughan Williams’ hit, is a cunning façade for a recording of one of the finest of British violin concertos – that of E J Moeran. It’s criminal that there are only four other versions of this appealing masterpiece in the catalogue – Sammons and Campoli (both with Boult and both in poor sound), Georgiadis on Lyrita and Lydia Mordkovitch’s fine account with Handley, also on Chandos. Little sweeps all before her with the most sensitive and nuanced account to date. Where she stands out… Continue reading…
The concerts that helped win the Battle of Britain are the basis of Patricia Routledge and Piers Lane’s hit show. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
What was Elgar doing in a mental institution in the 1880s? Writing polkas and quadrilles, apparently! Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
Catching up with the globetrotting countertenor whose chart topping recordings are going off down under. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
The Adelaide Guitar Festival Tsar talks about the challenges, reveals his guitar heroes and gives us his top picks. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
The ANU School of Music has announced that leading conductor, harpsichordist and fortepianist Dr Erin Helyard is to join the staff as a Lecturer in Music from July 2014.