Sydney Symphony Live | Plans for 2013

If you are having trouble viewing this newsletter, please try the online version at the ABC website 15 February 2013 Greetings from ABC Classic FM. Another week of magnificent music ahead for you, including tonight's season opening concert from the Sydney Symphony with Vladimir Ashkenazy conducting Sibelius, Debussy and Faure LIVE from the Sydney Opera House at 8pm. Also, see highlights below for details of next week's featured performances from the 2012 Huntington Festival. Enjoy. LOOKING AHEAD Now that 2013 is well and truly upon us, it's a good time to get those diaries out and plan for this year's unmissable listening on ABC Classic FM. From big anniversaries to festivals and of course The Classic 100, you will not want to miss a note. Read more about what's in store . >>more WIN WITH SUNDAY OPERA Join Simon Healy for Sunday Opera for this week's Metropolitan Opera Broadcast Trivia questions and you could win a fantastic CD from ABC Classics. At the end of every Sunday night's opera from the Met Simon will invite you to answer a couple of questions relating to the following week's opera. Each week one lucky Sunday Opera listener will win copy of the 2CD set Nessun Dorma: Opera's Greatest Arias from ABC Classics. Good luck! Sunday Opera - Sunday 7pm - more information here . >>more BEST OF SUNDAY LIVE Sunday 3pm - Songmakers Australia This week's Best of Sunday Live is from last May In Melbourne. Songmakers Australia is made up of Merlyn Quaife, soprano, Sally-Anne Russell, mezzo-soprano, Nicholas Dinopoulos, bass-baritone and pianist Andrea Katz. The program includes Other Love Songs by Stephen Hough and then Brahms' Neue Liebeslieder. >>more FEATURES AND CONCERT HIGHLIGHTS: 8 - 15 February Some listening highlights for the weekend and next week...enjoy.  Friday 8 February - 8pm Evening Concert - Sydney Symphony Master Series: LIVE Live from the Sydney Opera House mezzo-soprano Jacqueline Porter and the Sydney Symphony perform Faure's Pelleas and Melisande, Op 80: Suite, Debussy's La mer - Three Symphonic Sketches and Sibelius's Legends, Op 22 (Lemminkainen Suite). Saturday 9 February - 8pm Saturday Evening Concert - Shan Deng and Wei Deng At the Tasmania Conservatorium Hall, Hobart, last year, Shan Deng (piano) and Wei Deng (pipa) perform a selection including Wang's Dance Music of Yi Group, Biguang's Liuyang River, arr Jianzhong Wang and Being's The Wave Playing with the Sand. Sunday 10 February - 1pm Sunday Afternoon Concert - London Meets Shanghai The BBC Symphony Orchestra and Li-Wei Qin (cello) are conducted by Long Yu in this performance in the Barbican Hall, London. We'll hear Cockaigne's (In London Town) Overture, Qigang Chen's Reflets d'un temps disparu (Reflection of a Lost Time), Yiu's The London Citizen Exceedingly Injured and Haydn's Symphony No 104 in D (London). Monday 11 February - 8pm Evening Concert - Huntington Festival 2012 From Mudgee we hear Narek Arutyunian (clarinet), mezzo-soprano Fiona Campbell, Andrea Lam  (piano), Anthony Marwood, (violin/director), Ian Munro (piano), the ANAM Chamber Orchestra and the Enso String Quartet perform a selection including Haydn's String Quartet in C, Op 20 No 2. Tuesday 12 February - 1pm Afternoon Concert - Huntington Festival 2012 This afternoon's concert includes Purcell's What power art thou?, Dowland's Now, o now, I needs must part, Barber's Dover Beach,  Weber's Clarinet Quintet in B flat, J182 and Tchaikovsky's Serenade for Strings in C. Wednesday 13 February -1pm Afternoon Concert - Haydn at the Royal Festival Hall Haydn's The Creationis performed by the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightement, Sophie Bevan (soprano), Andrew Kennedy (tenor), Andrew Fischer-Williams (bass) and the Schola Cantorum of Oxford. Conducted by Adam Fischer. Thursday 14 February -1pm  Afternoon Concert - Huntington Festival  2012 From Mudgee, today's concert includes Ginastera's String Quartet No 2, Francaix's Clarinet Quintet, Mozart's Piano Concerto No 14 in E flat and Handel's Theodora: As with rosy steps. Friday 15 February - 1:30pm Afternoon  Concert - Australian chamber Orchestra - LIVE Live from City Recital Hall Sydney, Richard Tognetti (electric violin) and the Australian Chamber Orchestra perform Haydn's Symphony No 49 in F minor (La Passione), Brett Dean's Electric Preludes, Mozart's Violin Concerto No 3 in G and Symphony No 25 in G minor. 'Like' us on facebook Follow us on Twitter NEW FROM ABC CLASSICS Amy Dickson - Catch Me If you Can One of the most brilliantly talented and internationally respected saxophonists, Australia's Amy Dickson, will be releasing her next album Catch Me If You Can through ABC Classics, in what is a major coup for the label. LIMELIGHT MAGAZINE limelight - February 2013 The February issue of Limelight tells opera's greatest untold story - the journey of Joan Sutherland from Sydney secretary to opera superstar, including some never-before-seen pictures of Joan. We also examine one a miraculous period in music, the last year of Franz Schubert, in which he wrote his most dazzlingly inspired works. You are subscribed to this ABC newsletter with the email address: "idouska1.scan@blogger.com" If you no longer wish to receive this newsletter, please unsubscribe here. If someone forwarded this newsletter to you, please feel free to subscribe here. Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 700 Harris Street, Ultimo NSW 2007 © 2011 ABC | Conditions of Use | Privacy Policy | Discover other ABC email newsletters