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.
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 […]
In this video: Sonya Lifschitz and Stephen Emmerson – four hands, one piano – share the duties here to give us a game of doubles. The pair partner the works of Bach with the heartfelt and delightful transcriptions and reimaginings by the great Hungarian composer […]
In this video: Peter de Jager has made a name for himself as a performer of unusual, virtuosic and contemporary repertoire. But like all musicians, he reserves a special place in his soul for Bach. This rumination on Bach will take us on an undefined […]
