A little festival taster to whet your appetite for the weekend ahead. Voices sing to us from the past in a program of dances and heartbreak. From Bartók’s toe-tappin’ moves to Piazzolla’s deep wells of emotion. Festival artists Slava and Sharon Grigoryan present a special musical surprise.

The world-class Orava Quartet return to the Southern Cross stage for a program of love songs, without words. Wood Works brings the simple sound of Nordic folk tunes into our own time, while the teenaged Felix Mendelssohn drew on one of his own songs for this passionate, heart-on-the-sleeve work. It…

The AHE quartet return to Haydn’s Op. 76 with No. 6 in E flat major. It’s often called the Fantasia after its utterly captivating slow movement, but the true sense of the word - the composer’s “fancy” running freely - applies equally to the whole quartet, from the euphoric riffing…

Alexandra Flood, with “a voice to drown in” (The Courier Mail), joins Sholto Kynoch, one of the world’s great lieder pianists, for a recital program of captivating beauty. Robert Schumann’s exquisite Frauen-Liebe und Leben forms the centrepiece, a journey from love at first sight to marriage to motherhood to beyond.…

ACO Principal Violin Satu Vänskä leads an ACO ensemble with pianist Konstantin Shamray in this moving exploration through music of majesty, heartache, and reflection. Arvo Pärt called the Ukrainian composer Valentin Silvestrov “one of the greatest composers of our time.” Filled with longing and quiet contemplation, Silvestrov’s music embraces a…

An intimate, candlelit performance of Bach in Shambala’s chapel. Slava and Sharon Grigoryan trade movements of the exuberant Third Cello Suite, complemented by the quiet beauty of music by Anna Clyne and Eve Beglarian.