15 December 2024

Above : Graham Abbott conducts Sydney Philharmonia Choirs’ Handel’s Messiah. Pic Keith Saunders

The French philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty argued the seemingly commonsense idea about the difference between recorded and live musical performance. Live music is never the same one performance …

This December, the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra and the Brandenburg Choir rung in the holiday season with their highly anticipated annual Noël! Noël! concert series in Sydney and Melbourne, including special performances in churches for an unmissable acoustic experience. The  season …