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Fremantle Chamber Orchestra: Ellie Malonzo plays Max Richter’s Vivaldi 4 Seasons Recomposed

PHC Synagogue 28 Freedman Road, Menora, WA, Australia
Fremantle Chamber Orchestra celebrating its 20th Anniversary performs the beautiful fusion of Vivaldi’s enduring Four Seasons and postmodernist minimalism by Max Richter featuring amazingly talented 15-year-old Ellie Malonzo. Mozart’s rarely played but beautiful Symphony 33 is uplifting with a sweet slow movement and a fiery finale. With the eminent Paul…
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Adelaide Symphony Orchestra: Blaze

Elder Hall University of Adelaide, North Terrace, Adelaide, SA, Australia
ASO Principal Tuba Stanley McDonald (see Playing Up on page 64) plays Vaughan Williams’ Tuba Concerto, written for Philip Catelinet who helped shape the work before its premiere in 1954 as part of the London Symphony Orchestra’s 50th jubilee at the Royal Festival Hall. Here it is bookended by Miriam Hyde’s…
Editor's Choice Young Mannheim Symphonists 2025

Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra: Young Mannheim Symphonists 2025 QLD State Academy Concert

St Peters Lutheran College Performing Arts Centre 66 Harts Road, Indooroopilly, QLD, Australia
Fresh from a tour of regional Queensland in Mozart’s Clarinet, the Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra holds its first Young Mannheim Symphonists Academies for 2025. Coached in Historically Informed Performance by the orchestra’s players, this year’s cohort will perform Haydn's Drumroll Symphony from 1795 and Beethoven's Symphony No. 1, first…
A Reflection in Time

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra: A Reflection in Time

Arts Centre Melbourne Forecourt, 100 St Kilda Road, Southbank, VIC, Australia
The twentieth century produced some of the most passionate and dramatic music ever written. MSO Principal Conductor Benjamin Northey joins forces with Australian violin wunderkind Christian Li to deliver this riveting program of symphonic powerhouses.
Beethoven & Brahms

Queensland Symphony Orchestra: Beethoven & Brahms

QPAC Corner Melbourne St and Grey St, South Bank, QLD, Australia
Brahms was fully aware that he lived in Beethoven’s shadow and how could he (or anyone) follow in the footsteps of a legend like Ludwig van Beethoven? One way is to write a concerto that’ll bring down the house – so that’s exactly what Brahms tried to do. It would…
Editor's Choice Donald Runnicles conducts Strauss & Beethoven

Sydney Symphony Orchestra: Donald Runnicles conducts Strauss & Beethoven

Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
Cinematic in scale, this concert is built around Richard Strauss’s tone poem Ein Heldenleben (A Hero’s Life) from 1898. Strauss wrote, “While it has no funeral march, it does have lots of horns, horns being quite the thing to express heroism,” so look forward to yet another tour de force from Samuel Jacobs…
The Music of John Williams

West Australian Symphony Orchestra: The Music of John Williams

Riverside Theatre, Perth 21 Mounts Bay Rd, Perth, WA, Australia
From aliens and superheroes to ancient artefacts and prehistoric giants, go on a journey through time and space with WASO and conductor Nicholas Buc as they perform the epic film music of John Williams. Hosted by popular podcasters from Art of the Score, Dan Golding and Andrew Pogson, buckle up…
A Reflection in Time

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra: A Reflection in Time

Arts Centre Melbourne Forecourt, 100 St Kilda Road, Southbank, VIC, Australia
The twentieth century produced some of the most passionate and dramatic music ever written. MSO Principal Conductor Benjamin Northey joins forces with Australian violin wunderkind Christian Li to deliver this riveting program of symphonic powerhouses.
Editor's Choice To The Silent Earth, I Flow

Dark Mofo: To The Silent Earth, I Flow

Odeon Theatre, Hobart 167 Liverpool Street, Hobart, TAS, Australia
Robert Ames, Co-Artistic Director and conductor of the London Contemporary Orchestra, curates this symphony of abstract waterscapes, prefaced by the final stanza of Rainer Maria Rilke’s Let This Darkness Be a Bell Tower: “And if the world has ceased to hear you, / say to the silent earth: I flow. /…
Beethoven & Brahms

Queensland Symphony Orchestra: Beethoven & Brahms

QPAC Corner Melbourne St and Grey St, South Bank, QLD, Australia
Brahms was fully aware that he lived in Beethoven’s shadow and how could he (or anyone) follow in the footsteps of a legend like Ludwig van Beethoven? One way is to write a concerto that’ll bring down the house – so that’s exactly what Brahms tried to do. It would…
Editor's Choice Donald Runnicles conducts Strauss & Beethoven

Sydney Symphony Orchestra: Donald Runnicles conducts Strauss & Beethoven

Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
Cinematic in scale, this concert is built around Richard Strauss’s tone poem Ein Heldenleben (A Hero’s Life) from 1898. Strauss wrote, “While it has no funeral march, it does have lots of horns, horns being quite the thing to express heroism,” so look forward to yet another tour de force from Samuel Jacobs…

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