Review: Simone Young conducts Mahler 2 (Sydney Symphony Orchestra)
SSO begins its 90th birthday celebrations with Mahler's Resurrection Symphony and a new commission by William Barton, as it reopens the SOH Concert Hall.
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SSO begins its 90th birthday celebrations with Mahler's Resurrection Symphony and a new commission by William Barton, as it reopens the SOH Concert Hall.
Stephen Hough takes Schuberts ‘heavenly lengths’ to greater heights.
Aristocratic by birth, noble by nature and cruelly cut off in her prime.
Marvellous performances as part of a curious concept.
Antonini & Co combine contemporary precision with old-fashioned charm.
Andsnes and Co. reap a bumper crop from a Mozart annus mirabilis.
Nelsons and Gewandthaus enter Bruckner Pantheon with culmination of cycle.
New conductor takes his place in the Pantheon of Sibelius interpreters.
The SSO's return to the concert stage after nine months was a marvellous occasion musically, though suffused with sadness.
This inspired program was an absolute tonic during dark times, and a triumph for the 20-strong string section.
Duelling guitars reveal Mozart as he might have been played in the 19th century.
This memorable performance of Fauré's Requiem offered balm for the soul in these bleak times.
An interesting take, though perhaps just too many notes.