MOZART REQUIEM – SYDNEY CHAMBER CHOIR – CITY RECITAL HALL
4 ½ stars
It’s been a long time since the City Recital Hall in Sydney CBD was as jam packed as it was on Sunday afternoon (28 April 2024). The seats were filled all the way to the back of …
City Recital Hall
AUSTRALIAN HAYDN ENSEMBLE | HEAVENLY SOPRANOS – JEWELS OF THE BAROQUE
4 1/2 stars
A big crowd assembled last night at City Recital Hall for the final night of Australian Haydn Ensemble’s “Heavenly Sopranos” tour. The audience were treated to a superb baroque music concert with a program hand picked to …
notre-dame | australian brandenburg orchestra | city recital hall
Australian Brandenburg Orchestra are well known for their collaborations with artists of other disciplines. With the chaos of the past few years, many showbiz projects around the world were put on the shelf for a better day. One of the …
sydney festival : soliloquy @ city recital hall
Recorder virtuoso Genevieve Lacey conceived of SOLILOQUY, an experiment in involving the public in her solo performance. 38 volunteers from the public, in various shapes and sizes, used hand and arm movements to accompany the recorder playing. The music was …
rinaldo by handel – pinchgut opera
It’s a knock out!
Both circle and stalls were full for the opening night of Pinchgut Opera’s much awaited production of Handel’s Rinaldo in Sydney’s City Recital Hall. Known to be his most celebrated opera, the work features glorious music …
lilya zilberstein in recital – city recital hall sydney
Russian born Lilya Zilberstein in concert, Sydney Australia October 2023
Monday night was an interesting addition to the series “International Pianists in Recital”. Sydney Symphony has partnered with Theme & Variations Piano Services to bring great pianists to Sydney …
pinchgut opera – pleasures of versailles
Saturday 9 September 2023 Sydney’s City Recital Hall held a full house of keen classical music lovers, ready to experience some rarely heard Baroque works presented by Pinchgut Opera. Pleasures of Versailles focussed on the works of composer Marc-Antoine Charpentier.…
die stille nacht – australian haydn ensemble
4 ½ stars
Sydney had an unexpected treat last night when the Australian Haydn Ensemble presented a unique program of rarely heard music. Titled “Die Stille Nacht” the crowd were expecting a fairly predictable line-up of well known Baroque pieces. …
giustino with pinchgut opera, city recital hall
Sydney’s City Recital Hall hosted the opening night to a fresh opera production from Pinchgut Opera last night. The opera is “Giustino” (pronounced Joo-STEEN-orh) by Giovanni Legrenzi. Have you heard of Legrenzi before? Maybe not. Yet, through the late 1600’s …
gloria & the four seasons – australia brandenberg orchestra
It’s been a very long time since I’ve attended a performance that was literally breathtaking. The thrill of feeling the body fill up with high vibration tingling, the eyes starting to stream, the grin like a Cheshire Cat and then …