There was more than music to celebrate the return of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra to the Sydney Opera House concert hall last night. There was sound. After two and a half years of refurbishment, it was time to replace the sound of hammers and saws with violins and horns. And what better way than to…
They were presented in equal quantities at last night’s concert. On the familiar side, we heard Prokofiev and Grieg while the unfamiliar belonged to Rautavaara and Cheetham. We were also treated to highly acclaimed piano soloist, Alexander Gavrylyuk, now an Australian citizen but Ukrainian born, playing a concerto written by a much-loved Russian, demonstrating, perhaps,…
Two mighty trees and a sapling: that summarised the SSO’s program last night in the Sydney Town Hall. In the mighty department were Tchaikovsky’s fourth symphony and Brahms’ fist piano concerto, supported by a sapling Uplift, a new Australian work in the Fifty Fanfares Commission. Uplift was the work of Jessica Wells who has made…