Australian Music Month | Winds from the South

If you are having trouble viewing this newsletter, please try the online version at the ABC website 2 - 9 November 2012 Greetings from ABC Classic FM.  This week: Australian Music Month kicks off; Sunday Live travels to Adelaide; Four Winds from Bermagui; Cheryl Barker gets bloody in Salome ... and much more. CELEBRATING AUSTRALIAN MUSIC It's Australian Music Month on ABC Radio, and ABC Classic FM has a lot in store for your listening pleasure. Many of your regular programs will broadcast special recordings and features throughout November, starting this weekend with a celebration of Peggy Glanville-Hicks. PEGGY GLANVILLE-HICKS As part of Australian Music Month, we focus on Australian composer Peggy Glanville-Hicks this weekend. In Keys To Music at 9am on Saturday , Graham Abbott presents a survey of her life and work, then in Sunday Opera at 7pm we'll hear the just-completed first full-length recording of Peggy Glanville-Hicks's opera Sappho, with libretto by the novelist Lawrence Durrell. Read more about Peggy Glanville-Hicks and the fascinating story behind Sappho - an opera 50 years in the making. FOUR WINDS FESTIVAL FROM BERMAGUI The Four Winds Festival is held every two years at Easter in a natural bush amphitheatre south of Bermagui on the NSW Far South Coast. In 2012 Festival director Genevieve Lacey put together an exciting blend of musicians, compositions and instruments. Next week, as part of Australian Music Month celebrations, we present Four Winds concerts on Tuesday , Wednesday and Thursday .  ABC Local Radio in Bega was at the Festival and produced videos of the performances which you can watch here . SUNDAY LIVE IN ADELAIDE Sunday 4 November, 3pm - Wind Principals, hosted by Julie Howard Your chance to hear two of Australia's finest wind players, Geoffrey Collins (flute) and Celia Craig (oboe). They are principal players with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra and together with pianist Michael Terace start the Adelaide season of Sunday Live. It's FREE and no booking is required. Come along to Studio 520, ABC Adelaide, 85 North East Road, Collinswood. Please be seated by 2.20pm as the live broadcasts begin promptly at 2.30pm Adelaide time. >>more FEATURES AND CONCERT HIGHLIGHTS: 2 - 9 November 2012 Some listening highlights for the weekend and next week...enjoy.  Friday 2 November - 8pm Evening Concert - Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra Mendelssohn's A Midsummer Night's Dream: Overture, Weber's Clarinet Concerto No 1 in F minor, Baermann's Adagio, Ravel Pavane for a Dead Infanta and Bizet's Symphony in C are performed by the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra in the Federation Concert Hall, Hobart. Saturday 3 November - 1pm Saturday Afternoon Concert - Opera Australia's Salome, LIVE Following a highly successful season with the English National Opera, Australian soprano Cheryl Barker returns to Australia to perform one of opera's grittiest female roles in Opera Australia's Salome. Live from the Sydney Opera House Opera Theatre.  Sunday 4 November - 7pm Sunday Opera - The Peggy Glanville-Hicks Centenary: Sappho As part of Australian Music Month and coinciding with this year's 100th anniversaries of the births of both composer and librettist, tonight's opera is a world premiere broadcast. Sappho is an in three acts to a libretto taken from Lawrence Durrell's play in verse with additions from Bliss Carman's 'Sappho - One Hundred Lyrics' (1963). Monday 5 November - 7pm Evening Concert - Aleksandar Madzar and Anthony Marwood Live from from the City Recital Hall, Angel Place, Sydney, long-time collaborators Aleksandar Madzar (piano) and Anthony Marwood (violin) perform a program, including Gordon Kerry's Martian Snow, Beethoven's Violin Sonata No 9 in A, Op 47 (Kreutzer), Debussy's Sonata for violin and piano and Schubert's Fantasy in C, D934. Tuesday 6 November - 1pm Afternoon Concert - Four Winds Festival Today's performers from the Four Winds Festival in Bermagui, NSW, include Miki Tsunoda (violin) Satsuki Odamura (koto), Bronwyn Kirkpatrick (shakuhachi) and Adam Szabo (cello). Wednesday 7 November - 8pm Evening Concert - Four Winds Festival Tonight's performers from the Four Winds Festival in Bermagui, NSW, include James Crabb (classical accordion), Genevieve Lacey (recorder), Caroline Henbest (viola), Helena Rathbone (violin) and Daniel Yeadon (cello). Highlights include Haydn's Piano Trio No 39 in G, Hob.XV:25 and Britten's Lachrymae, Reflections on a Song of Dowland, Op 48a. Thursday 8 November - 8pm Evening Concert - From the Philharmonie in Cologne Featuring pianist Kirill Gerstein, the WDR Symphony Orchestra performs a program including Beethoven's Coriolan Overture, Op 62, Schoenberg's Piano Concerto, Op 42 and Brahms' Symphony No 3 in F, Op 90. Friday 9 November - 7.30pm Evening Concert - LIVE: Adelaide Symphony Orchestra Live from St Peter's Cathedral, Adelaide, cellist Li-Wei Qin features in tonight's performance of Peter Sculthorpe's New Norcia, Stravinsky's Symphonies for Wind Instruments and Tavener's The Protecting Veil. 'Like' us on facebook Follow us on Twitter NEW FROM ABC CLASSICS Classic 100 - The Music Of France - The Top Ten and Selected Highlights Various Artists ABC Classic FM takes the listener on a journey through the beautiful music of France. Sure to feature all your French favourites, voted by you, this release is a must-have for any admirer of the rich, diverse and at times revolutionary contribution France has added to our musical landscape. LIMELIGHT MAGAZINE limelight - November 2012 In the November of issue of ABC Limelight, superstar mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli tells how she discovered a lost genius of the Baroque, and devoted her new album to his music. 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