A selection of videos Melbourne Recital Centre has chosen to test for the purpose of the Pilot Project for video content production and online streaming.
“While Danilova’s opera studies are evident in both the way she sings and the breadth of her vocal range, there’s also inherent fragility – as if emotion constantly threatens to overwhelm her.” – The Music In this video: American artist Zola Jesus (aka Nika Roza Danilova) […]
“The highlight would surely have to be their arrangement of Claude Debussy’s Passepied.” – Sydney Morning Herald In this video: Brooklyn based Bluegrass collective The Punch Brothers perform an evocative full-band arrangement of ‘Passepied’ from Claude Debussy’s Suite Bergamasque in their sold-out concert in Elisabeth Murdoch Hall […]
In this video: Inventi Ensemble explore a composer family tree, tracing a lineage through teacher and pupil all the way from 1760 to 2018; from German composer Christoph Willibald Gluck to Melbourne’s own Elliott Gyger. Hear Salieri, Franck and Copland among others as Inventi guide […]
In this video: Melbourne Art Song Collective (MASC) presents a concert that celebrates the songs of Claude Debussy. MASC has also commissioned new songs from four Australian composers in response to Debussy’s piano preludes. The texts are taken from the work of Cassie Lewis’s recently […]
About this video: Latitude 37 performs their 2018 concert Folias in the Salon at Melbourne Recital Centre. About the artists: Latitude 37 is an exciting Baroque trio whose members were drawn together by their passion for historically informed performance of 17th and 18th-century music. The special combination […]
In this video: Acclaimed harpsichord player Donald Nicolson (Latitude 37, Anja & Zlatna) takes us to the heart of the eighteenth century, demonstrating on two harpsichords the tonal and tuning possibilities that were known to Bach himself. About the artist: Donald Nicolson undertook postgraduate studies at […]
