The Met’s first Ring Cycle is completed

The first of three complete ‘Ring’ cycles, directed by Robert Lepage and staged by The Met this spring, is over. The NY Times has its say:

The first of three complete ‘Ring’ cycles, directed by Robert Lepage and staged by The Met this spring, is over. The NY Times has its say:
The Music Performance Unit UNSW has awarded its 2020 Willgoss Ensemble Composition prize jointly to Elizabeth Younan and Michael Grebla. The prize is aimed at encouraging and promoting the creation of an original, short work for ensembles, in support of a thriving instrumental and choral program at UNSW Sydney. The winners each receive $2500 and…
The music of Christmas comes to life on this album from the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Chorus with pianist and conductor Bramwell Tovey. The orchestra is joined by a 100-voice choir in a performance of favourite festive tunes for a very special symphonic Christmas. Available from today on CD and in…
Pianist Lang Lang in collaboration with Deutsche Grammophon will release a new recording of J S Bach’s Goldberg Variations on 4 September 2020. The culmination of a 20-year journey and his most personal project yet, the album features a studio recording and a live performance from the legendary Thomaskirche in Leipzig. For Lang Lang, recording…
This weekend the Sydney Chamber Choir (see our post), presents their concert “Bach to the Future” performing three of JS Bach’s great motets, and building on them with the works of contemporary composers who include Richard Marlowe, Stephen Paulus, and Gabriel Jackson. Amongst this cohort is a young Australian composer, Joseph Twist who is in fact, a…
The Music Trust’s Freedman Classical Fellowship finalists have been announced for 2021 after a competitive search for Australia’s most creative classical musician under 30, NSW double bassist Will Hansen (24) has been named along with three Victorian artists, violist Molly Collier-O’Boyle (27), violinist Kyla Matsuura-Miller (28) and flautist Eliza Shephard (28) as the 2021 Freedman…
Omega Ensemble announces the release of a new collection of recordings in conjunction with ABC Classic. Over the coming weeks, the recordings will explore the masterworks that have defined chamber music across history. In celebration of the 250th Anniversary of Beethoven, what better way to start than with his glorious Quintet for Piano and Winds….