Melbourne Recital Centre, Primrose Potter Salon, Southbank
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Selby & Friends | From Romance to Reckoning – Melbourne
FeaturedMelbourne Recital Centre, Primrose Potter Salon, Southbank 31 Sturt Street, Southbank, VIC, AustraliaThis concert opens with an extraordinary Suite by eight accomplished Australian composers from every state and territory. Entitled Fire Dances and commissioned by the ABC, it follows the distinctive voices from across the country to create a narrative arc that journeys through the trajectory of a bushfire, from the haze of distant fires through the […]
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Selby & Friends | From Romance to Reckoning – Melbourne
FeaturedMelbourne Recital Centre, Primrose Potter Salon, Southbank 31 Sturt Street, Southbank, VIC, AustraliaThis concert opens with an extraordinary Suite by eight accomplished Australian composers from every state and territory. Entitled Fire Dances and commissioned by the ABC, it follows the distinctive voices from across the country to create a narrative arc that journeys through the trajectory of a bushfire, from the haze of distant fires through the […]
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Australian Haydn Ensemble | Divine Bohemians – Melbourne
FeaturedMelbourne Recital Centre, Primrose Potter Salon, Southbank 31 Sturt Street, Southbank, VIC, AustraliaHaydn, Richter, Mysliveček & Beethoven Composers hailing from the now proud Czech Republic were surprisingly numerous in the 18th century and, while far from household names today, had a significant impact on some that are. These Bohemians were neither the free’n’easy chums who kissed tiny frozen hands in garrets nor the future pictorial romantics devoted […]
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Selby & Friends | Bush, Borscht & Bonn – Melbourne
FeaturedMelbourne Recital Centre, Primrose Potter Salon, Southbank 31 Sturt Street, Southbank, VIC, AustraliaListening to Beethoven’s own wonderful piano trio arrangement of his famous Septet, one gets a real sense of what it must have been like to desperately want to play something at home you had only heard played by many artists publicly. This tradition of changing the forces to accommodate everyday folk was a prime method […]
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Selby & Friends | Bush, Borscht & Bonn – Melbourne
FeaturedMelbourne Recital Centre, Primrose Potter Salon, Southbank 31 Sturt Street, Southbank, VIC, AustraliaListening to Beethoven’s own wonderful piano trio arrangement of his famous Septet, one gets a real sense of what it must have been like to desperately want to play something at home you had only heard played by many artists publicly. This tradition of changing the forces to accommodate everyday folk was a prime method […]
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Flinders Quartet | New Light – Melbourne
Melbourne Recital Centre, Primrose Potter Salon, Southbank 31 Sturt Street, Southbank, VIC, AustraliaThe final concert of the year shines a “new light” on the quartet tradition. Beethoven’s String Quartet in E-flat major, Op.127 - the first of his groundbreaking late quartets - opens the program with majestic chords and profound emotional range. This is complemented by Grażyna Bacewicz’s String Quartet No.3, a work of brilliance, wit, and […]
$55 -
Flinders Quartet | New Light – Melbourne
Melbourne Recital Centre, Primrose Potter Salon, Southbank 31 Sturt Street, Southbank, VIC, AustraliaThe final concert of the year shines a “new light” on the quartet tradition. Beethoven’s String Quartet in E-flat major, Op.127 - the first of his groundbreaking late quartets - opens the program with majestic chords and profound emotional range. This is complemented by Grażyna Bacewicz’s String Quartet No.3, a work of brilliance, wit, and […]
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Selby & Friends | First Things First – Melbourne
FeaturedMelbourne Recital Centre, Primrose Potter Salon, Southbank 31 Sturt Street, Southbank, VIC, AustraliaThis concert was especially requested by guest artists, Timo-Veikko Valve and Andrew Haveron – both principal leaders in two of Australia’s finest large ensembles. S&F is thrilled to have them both back again, especially in this blockbuster program dedicated to the chamber music of the mighty Johannes Brahms. Incredibly soulful, melodic, satisfying and full of […]
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Selby & Friends | First Things First – Melbourne
FeaturedMelbourne Recital Centre, Primrose Potter Salon, Southbank 31 Sturt Street, Southbank, VIC, AustraliaThis concert was especially requested by guest artists, Timo-Veikko Valve and Andrew Haveron – both principal leaders in two of Australia’s finest large ensembles. S&F is thrilled to have them both back again, especially in this blockbuster program dedicated to the chamber music of the mighty Johannes Brahms. Incredibly soulful, melodic, satisfying and full of […]
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Australian Haydn Ensemble | Haydn’s Oxford – Melbourne
FeaturedMelbourne Recital Centre, Primrose Potter Salon, Southbank 31 Sturt Street, Southbank, VIC, AustraliaHaydn’s London Symphonies: Part 1 Part 1! How enticing. If a CD revival eventually eclipses the current vinyl vogue, can we look forward to a 300th birthday /Brisbane Olympics “boxed set” of all 12 by 2032? Violinist and impresario Peter Salomon was the guardian angel (slash shrewd businessman) who put Haydn on a boat to […]
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Changing Wilds Ensemble | 85 seconds to midnight
Melbourne Recital Centre, Primrose Potter Salon, Southbank 31 Sturt Street, Southbank, VIC, AustraliaA space for contemplation and agency at a time when every second counts. On January 27, 2026, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists set the Doomsday Clock to 85 seconds before midnight, the closest it has ever been to the symbolic threshold of global catastrophe. This unprecedented setting reflects a sharply heightened risk of civilisational […]
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Selby & Friends | Creation of the World – Melbourne
FeaturedMelbourne Recital Centre, Primrose Potter Salon, Southbank 31 Sturt Street, Southbank, VIC, AustraliaOur 2026 Season-ending concert program highlights one of Selby & Friends’ most important commitments – to foster the talents and experiences of the next generations of Australia’s artists. With this program, we welcome two young newcomers in Louise Turnbull and Ariel Postmus, and welcome back the superb skills of Kristian Winther and Miles Mullin-Chivers. The […]
$69 – $89