Our autumn program at Yarralumla pairs Classical icon Joseph Haydn with Norwegian Romantic composer Edvard Grieg. We open with Grieg’s light-footed First String Quartet in G minor. A surging undercurrent propels this fast-moving piece forward, the drama interspersed with moments of sublime lyricism and steeped in the folk traditions of…

CSO brass return to Albert Hall in spring for another Best of Brass, with music from the Medieval period to the current day. We open with a captivating arrangement of the overture to Mozart’s popular two-act opera, The Magic Flute. The program also features highly virtuosic brass quintets from Russian civil…

This program explores creative and personal affinities between Czech composer Antonín Dvořák and his protégé and later son-in-law, Josef Suk. Family and connection is a common thread woven through the program, from Dvořák’s Songs My Mother Taught Me to Suk’s Elegy from Opus 23, composed to honour his friend and collaborator, Czech…