Classical Music

West Australian Symphony Orchestra: Brahms’ Triumph
West Australian Symphony Orchestra rounds out the year with Brahms’ Fourth and final Symphony, written in the Austrian Alps during the summers of 1884 and 1885. Its ever-evolving motifs were a further development of Brahms’ technique. Unsure of how it would be received, he wrote to the conductor Hans von Bülow, “I’m really afraid that it tastes like the climate here. The cherries don’t ripen in these parts; you wouldn’t eat them!” He needn’t have worried; it was received with rapturous applause at its premiere in Meiningen. Conducted by Asher Fisch, the program includes two other works by Brahms – the Academic Festival Overture and Berio’s arrangement of the Clarinet Sonata, played here by WASO Principal Clarinet Allan Meyer.
28–30 November, Perth Concert Hall, waso.com.au

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