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…
A music review by Fraser Beath McEwing This was an opportunity for me to revisit Umberto Clerici’s conducting and Diana Doherty as oboe soloist in the Richard Strauss concerto. However, Diana called in sick, and the program had to be hastily changed. The concert then comprised two overtures, an opera suite and a symphony. Where…
The SSO hit the popularity bullseye last night with symphonies by Mozart and Schubert along with Haydn’s trumpet concerto. It also hit a personal bullseye for me because I’d been wanting, for some time, to review a concert where Umberto Clerici cut the air with a baton instead of a cello bow. This time it…