sso Archives – J-Wire https://www.jwire.com.au/tag/sso/ Australia, NZ and worldwide Jewish news that matters Sun, 22 Jun 2025 06:01:38 +0000 en-AU hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 6446428 Lang Lang at the Opera House https://www.jwire.com.au/lang-lang-at-the-opera-house/ https://www.jwire.com.au/lang-lang-at-the-opera-house/#respond Sun, 22 Jun 2025 06:01:38 +0000 https://www.jwire.com.au/?p=170369 The Sydney Symphony Orchestra (SSO) hosted a beautiful evening of French music of the Romantic era featuring the dazzling pianist Lang Lang. Opening the program was the SSO’s premiere of D’un Matin de printemps (On a Spring Morning), a five-minute joyful, fresh and colourful work composed in 1918 by Lili Boulanger. Lili came from a […]

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]]> https://www.jwire.com.au/lang-lang-at-the-opera-house/feed/ 0 170369 Plenty to love in Mendelssohn and Bruckner https://www.jwire.com.au/plenty-to-love-in-mendelssohn-and-bruckner/ https://www.jwire.com.au/plenty-to-love-in-mendelssohn-and-bruckner/#respond Wed, 07 Aug 2024 22:14:48 +0000 https://www.jwire.com.au/?p=161024 A music review by Fraser Beath McEwing Whether a chunky, all-embracing symphony appealed, or the preference was for a romantic, highly virtuosic violin concerto, the audience came away from this SSO concert last night well satisfied, because both were generously delivered. Mendelssohn’s violin concerto in E minor, Op.64 opened the Emirates Master Series program with […]

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]]> https://www.jwire.com.au/plenty-to-love-in-mendelssohn-and-bruckner/feed/ 0 161024 Gustav made a great double with Camille https://www.jwire.com.au/gustav-made-a-great-double-with-camille/ https://www.jwire.com.au/gustav-made-a-great-double-with-camille/#respond Thu, 29 Feb 2024 07:24:37 +0000 https://www.jwire.com.au/?p=156332 A SSO review by Fraser Beath McEwing Once having decided upon Mahler’s Fifth Symphony for this concert, programmers must have been scratching their heads to find a curtain raiser. Mahler can gobble up even the worthiest companion works. In this case, the choice of the Camille Pepin violin concerto did the trick admirably. It steered […]

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]]> https://www.jwire.com.au/gustav-made-a-great-double-with-camille/feed/ 0 156332 Take it away Ludwig! https://www.jwire.com.au/take-it-away-ludwig/ https://www.jwire.com.au/take-it-away-ludwig/#respond Thu, 03 Aug 2023 06:14:46 +0000 https://www.jwire.com.au/?p=149601 A music review by Fraser McBeath McEwing Following the performance of Beethoven’s third symphony and third piano concerto last year led by Simone Young and Spanish pianist Javier Perianes, a different Beethoven symphony and a piano concerto had been juxtaposed featuring the same musicians, this time performing the Beethoven 6th symphony and 4th piano concerto. […]

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]]> https://www.jwire.com.au/take-it-away-ludwig/feed/ 0 149601 The new, the unfamiliar and the old friend https://www.jwire.com.au/the-new-the-unfamiliar-and-the-old-friend/ https://www.jwire.com.au/the-new-the-unfamiliar-and-the-old-friend/#respond Wed, 12 Jul 2023 21:34:44 +0000 https://www.jwire.com.au/?p=149098 A music review by Fraser Beath McEwing Last night’s concert was something of a reunion, with former SSO chief conductor David Robertson stopping by to swish air, Queensland violinist Ray Chen to scrape horsehair, and Sydney Con-trained composer Alice Chance to distribute manuscript paper. Like many of the composers featured in the 50 Fanfares Commission, […]

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]]> https://www.jwire.com.au/the-new-the-unfamiliar-and-the-old-friend/feed/ 0 149098 Wagnerian flavour of Tchaikovsky’s ballet music https://www.jwire.com.au/wagnerian-flavour-of-tchaikovskys-ballet-music/ https://www.jwire.com.au/wagnerian-flavour-of-tchaikovskys-ballet-music/#comments Tue, 11 Jul 2023 05:25:56 +0000 https://www.jwire.com.au/?p=149051 Perhaps in acknowledgement of NAIDOC Week, the customary acknowledgement of country was replaced with the Rhythmic Acknowledgement, based on rhythmic patterns first documented in the early 1800s. The piece, lasting five minutes, involved the entire percussion section of the SSO, augmented with the brass section seated in the same row, exchanging their usual instruments with […]

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]]> https://www.jwire.com.au/wagnerian-flavour-of-tchaikovskys-ballet-music/feed/ 2 149051 Fraser Beath McEwing reports: What the Sydney Symphony Orchestra has in store for 2021 https://www.jwire.com.au/fraser-beath-mcewing-reports-what-the-sydney-symphony-orchestra-has-in-store-for-2021/ https://www.jwire.com.au/fraser-beath-mcewing-reports-what-the-sydney-symphony-orchestra-has-in-store-for-2021/#respond Tue, 27 Oct 2020 03:32:30 +0000 https://www.jwire.com.au/?p=117966 Tossing aside the pandemic and the problem faced by wind players blowing through face masks, the SSO has announced the programs for its 2021 season.

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]]> https://www.jwire.com.au/fraser-beath-mcewing-reports-what-the-sydney-symphony-orchestra-has-in-store-for-2021/feed/ 0 117966 A briefish Mahler fest: Music review by Fraser Beath McEwing https://www.jwire.com.au/a-briefish-mahler-fest-music-review-by-fraser-beath-mcewing/ https://www.jwire.com.au/a-briefish-mahler-fest-music-review-by-fraser-beath-mcewing/#respond Wed, 04 Dec 2019 23:08:16 +0000 http://www.jwire.com.au/?p=106319 If you love Mahler, this was a concert for you.

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]]> https://www.jwire.com.au/a-briefish-mahler-fest-music-review-by-fraser-beath-mcewing/feed/ 0 106319 Music from beneath the Bolshevik boot: a music review by Fraser Beath McEwing https://www.jwire.com.au/music-from-beneath-the-bolshevik-boot-a-music-review-by-fraser-beath-mcewing/ https://www.jwire.com.au/music-from-beneath-the-bolshevik-boot-a-music-review-by-fraser-beath-mcewing/#respond Wed, 28 Aug 2019 23:28:34 +0000 http://www.jwire.com.au/?p=102177 Last night’s Masters Series concert was not for faint-hearted orchestral players, conductors or an audience that wanted orderly, familiar music.

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]]> https://www.jwire.com.au/music-from-beneath-the-bolshevik-boot-a-music-review-by-fraser-beath-mcewing/feed/ 0 102177 Move over Franz, Lang Lang is in the building: a music review by Fraser Beath McEwing https://www.jwire.com.au/move-over-franz-lang-lang-is-in-the-building-a-music-review-by-fraser-meath-mcewing/ https://www.jwire.com.au/move-over-franz-lang-lang-is-in-the-building-a-music-review-by-fraser-meath-mcewing/#respond Sat, 29 Jun 2019 23:01:51 +0000 http://www.jwire.com.au/?p=100375 You know it’s a Sydney Opera House gala celebrity event when the concerto is played last.

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