“If there is a definitive way to enjoy music, this is it,” Limelight wrote, following the Goldner’s appearance at last year’s Blackheath Chamber Music Festival. Now in its 30th year, the quartet has decided to call it a day, and begins its farewell tour with these three performances, each one dedicated to a particular decade of music in its repertoire. The final concert includes the Australian premiere of Pēteris Vasks’ String Quartet No. 6, as well as a performance of the Goldner Variations – 30 short variations by Australian composers on Beethoven’s Ode to Joy.

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Join us for one of the final Adelaide concerts of the great Goldner String Quartet as we celebrate their exceptional musicianship and tremendous contribution to Australian music.

At the 2000 Adelaide Festival, the Goldner String Quartet performed a 10-concert retrospective of great quartets of the 20th century. Over two decades later, the Quartet brings three concerts to Adelaide Festival as part of their 30th and final season. These concerts offer a continuation of that 2000 retrospective, adding music from the 21st century. Each of the concerts is devoted to a different decade, concluding in this Adelaide Town Hall concert with great works from the 2020s.