Witness musical history as chamber music masters, the Brodsky Quartet meet master yidaki artist William Barton to create a performance that revolutionises the idea of what a string quartet can become.

In this dialogue between traditions, baroque precision meets ancient breath; European chamber music encounters First Nations wisdom.

Barton’s yidaki doesn’t merely accompany the Brodsky’s pristine strings; it converses with them, in sonic dialogue spanning millennia. From Henry Purcell’s baroque geometries to Peter Sculthorpe’s Dreamtime landscapes. From Leoš Janáček’s intimate confessions to new works from Australia’s burning heart, this program traces an extraordinary arc through time and culture.

Music’s deepest truths emerge when profound traditions meet as equals. Together, the Brodsky Quartet and William Barton conjure moments of startling beauty where the ancient breath of the yidaki weaves through Stravinsky’s modernist fragments, and where Andrew Ford’s Eden Ablaze emerges like smoke from a burning continent.