Adelaide Guitar Festival Artistic Director Slava Grigoryan. Photo © Nate Schilling

Classical Music

Australian Brandenburg Orchestra: Handel’s House
Japanese soprano Yukie Sato makes her Australian debut in this showcase of Handel’s genius. She breathes new life into arias from his first comic opera Partenope, written in 1730, and Alcina, which he composed for his first season at Covent Garden five years later. Pisendel’s Violin Concerto in D major also gets an outing.
30 August – 15 September, venues in Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne, brandenburg.com.au

Australian Chamber Orchestra: Tognetti. Mendelssohn. Bach.
This program is bookended by Icelandic composer Anna Thorvaldsdottir’s pulsating Illumine and Mendelssohn’s own Octet, written when he was just 16. It also features JS Bach’s Violin Concerto in A minor, performed here by Richard Tognetti who has...