Angela Hewitt interview

Angela Hewitt talks on the Fazioli piano and electronic tuning.

Angela Hewitt talks on the Fazioli piano and electronic tuning.
Grammy award winning new music ensemble Eighth Blackbird performs in Sydney for Musica Viva on its fourth tour, playing music from their two recent albums Filament and Hand Eye with a world premiere by Sydney composer Holly Harrison. Click here for more on their tour. Check out this excerpt from one of their tour items, By-by…
Verdi was born in a small village in the Duchy of Parma where the baptismal register of October 11th states that he was ‘born yesterday’. As days were sometimes counted as beginning at sunset, it is not clear whether he was born on the 9th or the 10th of October in 1813. Whichever way, it would be legitimate by now to celebrate…
Academy Award-winning director Ron Howard directs an intimate new biopic on the life of the legendary tenor Luciano Pavarotti. The movie trailer released today traces Pavarotti’s life and features iconic footage of The Three Tenors performing ‘Nessun dorma’ at the World Cup. Plácido Domingo, one of the world’s greatest living tenors and a close of friend of Pavarotti’s,…
On May 16th, the Philharmonia Orchestra of London conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen, performed the European premiere of an incomplete and forgotten by Dmitri Shostakovich – Orango, an opera originally commissioned by the Bolshoi Theatre in 1932, but which became a satire on the Russian bourgeois press. The world premiere was given in December 2011, performed by the Los…
A visual interpretation of Max Richter’s reworking of Vivadi’s The Four Seasons.
Violinist Daniel Hope discusses the ideas behind the music on his new CD ‘Spheres’ in which he is joined by choir and solo instrumentalists conducted by Simon Halsey. Click here for the CD review.