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Australia’s biggest orchestral beast announces a positive result for 2012, if not as good as last year.
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The Sydney Symphony announce a 2013 three city Russian tour.
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Thoughts on the premature demise of an ensemble whose grand dreams were dashed against the rocks of financial reality.
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Vladimir Ashkenazy and Stuart Skelton on Tchaikovsky's supernatural riddle.
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Why did Rachmaninov spend decades revising his Piano Concerto No 4 when there was nothing wrong with the original?
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Ahead of his Australian debut, the pianist opens up about injury, depression and why jazz musos "shame" their classical colleagues.
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The violinist accepts degree from Norwegian University of Science and Technology.
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The winner of the 2012 Sydney International Piano Competition recounts his journey, round by gruelling round.
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None of the five Australian candidates have progressed to the last stage of the Sydney International Piano Competition.
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Delving into the "maestro myth": why are our best conductors overlooked?
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The festival teams the world’s hottest bands with orchestras and innovative composers.
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The SSO Fellowship is a baptism of fire for young musicians that includes a trip to jail.
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Four British rhapsodies for lost worlds.
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In
Film -
Melissa Lesnie -
Jan 24, 2012
Bernstein's masterpiece screens at the Sydney Opera House with live orchestral backing.
Review
Lacking inspiration: the playing is a joy, the reading less so.
Review
Balanced Beethoven: Fliter’s easy flowing pianism takes every technical hurdle in its stride.
Review
Not enough swagger from this athletic young conductor in the blazing grandeur of Heldenleben.
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Excerpts from Star Wars, Harry Potter, Superman etc.
Shaun Micallef; SSO/Guy Noble
Sydney Opera House Concert Hall, August 12
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Liszt Tasso, Lament and Triumph
Schumann Piano Concerto in A minor
Mussorgsky/Ravel Pictures at an Exhibition
Ingrid Fliter, piano/Pinchas Steinberg
Sydney Opera House, July 1
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The principal flautist of the Berlin Philharmonic returns to Australia with Mozart, Bach and an exciting premiere.
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Stuart Maunder, Soloists, SSO/Guy Noble
Concert Hall, Sydney Opera House
Saturday June 18, 2011
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On the centenary of WS Gilbert’s death, Tom Ford sheds light on the life without Sullivan.
Review
An astounding talent Freddy Kempf embraces fearsome works.
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The Scottish pianist on improvisation, Mozart, and a broken finger.
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A new portrait of the maestro has been unveiled to celebrate his continuing work with the SSO.
Review
The Enigma Variations are fine: Troyte blusters, Dorabella lisps beautifully and Nimrod radiates nobility.
Review
Ashkenazy recorded the Rachmaninov Symphonies many years ago with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and the first movement of the Second was played and conducted at a much higher voltage than here.
Review
I’ve always thought Mahler’s Eighth
Symphony something of a trial:
the idea of yoking the medieval
hymn Veni, Creator Spiritus with
the final scene of Goethe’s Faust,
seems bizarre alongside its theme of
redemption.
