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Albert Einstein is credited as saying: ‘Before Beethoven, music was written for the immediate. With Beethoven, you start writing music for eternity.’ I’m not sure that last night’s Opera House audience was quite so philosophical, but the crowd certainly showed unbridled enthusiasm for the two major Beethoven works while, for Australian Brett Dean, there was…
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…
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…