This third and final chamber music concert curated and performed by WASO players offers yet another perfect opportunity, musically speaking, to make new friends and reacquaint oneself with the old.

Aaron Wyatt’s Cirrus (2022) is both descriptive – the view from Melbourne’s Djerring Trail, wispy clouds in a cold blue sky, the sound of suburban trains – and deeply meditative. As WASO Principal Bass Clarinet Alex Millier writes, the “combination of violin (Semra Lee), double bass (Giovanni Vinci), vibraphone (Brian Maloney) and bass clarinet (Millier) somehow draw us in to a soothing mellifluous soundscape.”

Musicians of the West Australian Symphony Orchestra: Serenade. Photo supplied

A soundscape filled with fluctuating tensions, variegated textures, gentle ostinati and floating motifs, all of which the performers savour, especially highlighting Wyatt’s adept contrasts between the earthier utterances of the bass instruments and the ethereal poetry of violin and vibes.

Selected by former Edgar Meyer student Robin Brawley, double bass virtuoso Meyer’s foot-stomping String Quintet was written in 1995 for himself and the Emerson Quartet to perform. The four-movement work might have classical underpinnings but its inspirations are as wide-ranging...