This concert is live streamed on Melbourne Digital Concert Hall Live studio audience tickets are also available Tune in to experience two of the most popular cello and piano sonatas of the 20th century. Kalina Krusteva and Stefan Cassomenos are thrilled to perform their recital featuring Debussy and Shostakovich - a musical journey through light…
This concert is live streamed on Melbourne Digital Concert Hall Ending our chamber music year with fireworks and fizz! Korngold’s utterly virtuosic string sextet is a pièce de resistance of the repertoire, fusing the indulgent textures and melodies of Viennese Romanticism with his unique musical signatures. Louis Spohr’s sextet helps us romp to the finish…
Our title for this program is quite obviously tongue in cheek! One cannot possibly label either of the great melody masters, Rachmaninov and Schubert, as anything remotely close to being thorns, but the idiom seemed apt in the context of the largely underestimated Fanny Mendelssohn as a composer to be admired in her own right.…
Arias and Cantatas by Bembo and de la Guerre Glorious music by two remarkable women – Antonia Bembo and Elizabeth Jacquet de la Guerre. From entirely different backgrounds, they both created a path for themselves in times when to do so as a woman was no piece of cake. Thoroughbass presents Bembo’s Produzioni Armoniche, a collection…
This concert is live streamed by Melbourne Digital Concert Hall Dive into the crystalline world of Bach’s Goldberg Variations in the famous arrangement for String Trio. Hear this ‘variation of a variation’ and experience this divine work through a totally new lens – not to be missed! Wilma & Friends Artists: Wilma Smith – violin…
This is a live streamed event by Melbourne Digital Concert Hall Live studio audience tickets at the Atheneum Theatre are also available Chris Howlett performs Bach’s most famous cello suites in an intimate and evocative recital. Throughout the journey Chris gives insight into the history of Bach, the suites and the performance expectations. "A performance…
A song cycle for voice and string quartet written by Elvis Costello and the Brodsky Quartet. “So there was this professor in Verona who answered letters addressed to Juliet .... Well, if that sounds like the start of a tall story I suppose it is… Quite how he came by these letters in the first…
A song cycle for voice and string quartet written by Elvis Costello and the Brodsky Quartet. “So there was this professor in Verona who answered letters addressed to Juliet .... Well, if that sounds like the start of a tall story I suppose it is… Quite how he came by these letters in the first…
A song cycle for voice and string quartet written by Elvis Costello and the Brodsky Quartet. “So there was this professor in Verona who answered letters addressed to Juliet .... Well, if that sounds like the start of a tall story I suppose it is… Quite how he came by these letters in the first…
Plague-themed music! A broadside ballad, a prayer of thanksgiving by John Thorne, and a high-art lament about the pain of solitude by Monteverdi. We honour three composers who died of the plague: Jacob Obrecht, Alessandro Grandi and Robert White. Excessive melancholy could create an overabundance of black bile and leave one susceptible to illnesses such…
For 20 years the Sydney Symphony Fellowship program has helped develop the careers of Australia’s next generation of professional musicians. This concert celebrates decades of achievement with a program of joyous music. Strauss’ cheeky and vivacious music and Martinů’s infectiously cheerful Nonet is sure to leave you with a smile. In between you’ll hear Mozart’s bubbly…
Now based in Sydney and including a widely recognised, prize-winning Italian-born cellist, the Streeton Trio was formed in 2008 in Geneva, Switzerland from three young Australian musicians. It is the only Australian ensemble to be selected for the European Chamber Music Academy. Now with four well-received recordings, this trio is securing its place amongst Australia’s…