Love is in the air as the West Australian Symphony Orchestra rolls out the romantics and a new work from local composer Olivia Davies. Angela Ho is smitten.
Tag Archives: Asher Fisch
Reviews
Fisch’s big gamble richly rewarding
27 May 2023
The orchestra is huge and so is the music. Bourby Webster revels in the masterful direction of two of opera’s greatest composers and welcomes the next generation to the stage.
Reviews
WASO’s masterful Mahler
4 December 2022
The West Australian Symphony Orchestra delivers a searing and unforgettable performance of Mahler’s Third Symphony, writes Stewart Smith.
Reviews
Plea for peace as powerful as ever
21 August 2022
A fine association between WASO and guests demonstrates that the chilling message in Britten’s War Requiem is as pertinent as when it was composed, writes Penny Shaw.
Reviews
A lament for two outsiders
11 June 2022
WASO’s double bill of Elgar and Bruckner is the ideal escape on a rainy Perth night, writes Varnya Bromilow.
Features
How to listen to an orchestra
11 April 2022
Are you put off by the idea of classical music as high-brow and inaccessible? Bourby Webster has 10 tips to help you have the experience of your life at an orchestral concert.
Reviews
WASO plays a symphony for tumultuous times
21 March 2022
Tchaikovsky’s ‘Sixth Symphony’, or the ‘Pathetique’, has always carried a sense of darkness, which makes WASO’s performance of the composer’s final work perfect for these uncertain times, writes Rosalind Appleby.
Features
An orchestra of her own
15 October 2021
Olivia Bettina Davies is the first woman composer in residence with the West Australian Symphony Orchestra. Her new work ‘In Waves’ will be premiered on 5 March and she chats with Rosalind Appleby about the unexpected pleasure in “making stuff up”.
Reviews
Orchestral magnificence
13 September 2021
Asher Fisch and the West Australian Symphony Orchestra demonstrate the delicacy and power of symphonic music, says Rosalind Appleby.
Podcasts
From the conductor’s chair
10 September 2021
WASO’s Principal Conductor Asher Fisch chats with Rosalind Appleby about his personal insights into the 2022 program, his tips on surviving quarantine and why it is important for the orchestra to have a composer-in-residence.
