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    • 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…
    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.
    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…

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