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ArtsJournal: music
2019-10-22 12:32:18
Australia Changes The Way It Funds Major Performing Arts Companies
“A meeting of Australia’s arts and cultural ministers in Adelaide … has seen a major overhaul of the way the Major Performing Arts sector is funded through the Australia Council for the Arts, and contemporary circus company Circa – whose Artistic Director Yaron Lifschitz once described the system as a ‘protectorate of the privileged’ – […]
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Faces of classical music
2019-01-05 07:26:00
The Faces of Classical Music Choose the 20 Best Albums of 2018
By Alexandros Arvanitakis *The Faces of Classical Music Choose the 20 Best Albums of 2018.1. Anima Sacra – Jakub Józef Orliński, Il Pomo d'Oro, Maxim Emelyanychev"Anima Sacra" presents a unique selection of early 18th century masterpieces of sacred music by still to be rediscovered Italian composers of the Neapolitan School like Fago and Sarro, combined with some well known composers working at the catholic Dresden Court such as Hasse, Zelenka and Heinichen – and – last but not least: Antonio Vivaldi.The compositions are united by their captivating beauty and technical perfection in displaying a most intimate yet theatrical essence of baroque spiritual life – the Anima Sacra.The young Polish countertenor Jakub Józef Orliński, Grand Finals winner of the 2016 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions and winner of the 2015 Marcella Sembrich International Vocal Competition, is quickly gaining a reputation as a singer of striking vocal beauty and daring stagecraft.In his first […]
2018-10-04 09:51:00
London Piano Festival: one plus one equals a hundred
Charles Owen & Katya Apekisheva. Photo: Viktor Erik Emanuel I had a whale of a time at the London Piano Festival opening last night, trying to puzzle out what makes the duo of Katya Apekisheva and Charles Owen quite so special. It's just one of those crazy things: even if there's an argument that they are such different pianists that together they have a kaleidoscopic range at their disposal, there's also something magical about the chemistry. What's more, Kings Place has a new Steinway and it sounds pretty bloody marvellous. I''ve reviewed the concert for The Arts Desk. Read the whole thing here.Can't help remembering my hideous experience on last year's opening night when I got the cough from hell in the middle of the Rachmaninov Suite No.2. Blissful breathing this time. phew.Lots more LPF to go: Konstantin Lifschitz tonight, Leszek Możdżar tomorrow, on Saturday a full afternoon and evening […]
2018-09-20 05:43:13
The Conversation AUReview: En Masse, Brisbane Festival. According to their artistic director, Yaron Lifschitz, Circa's En Masse “speaks of fresh starts and old endings, of violence and tenderness, of groups and individuals, of destruction and abundant hope”. This world ...
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