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Abstract Touring: Guitarra

Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
Abstract Touring proudly presents the highly anticipated collaboration of the world-renowned flamenco guitarist, Paco Peña, and Australia's own virtuosos, the Grigoryan Brothers. Joining them on their 2024 National Tour is none other than flamenco master Rafael Montilla. Prepare to be mesmerized by an unforgettable evening of solo performances, building up…

Event Series Concertante

Omega Ensemble: Concertante

Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
—  Finnish composer Olli Mustonen's music is greatly influenced from his own performance practice, including early studies on the harpsichord. His Nonet II takes up ideas from the 17th and 18th centuries, with gorgeous, warmly expressive melodies and delicate interplay, eventually building to a riveting rhythmic finale. — A new…
Event Series Ensemble Q & William Barton

Musica Viva Australia: Ensemble Q & William Barton

Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
What are the sonic possibilities when the oldest wind instrument in the world – the didgeridoo – teams up with instruments that found their final form only two centuries ago? And who better to explore them than distinguished artist and composer William Barton? Ensemble Q is a group powered by…
Event Series Mostly Mozart

Melbourne Recital Centre: Mostly Mozart – Sinfonia Concertante

Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
In most of his work, including his much-loved Violin Concerto and Adagio for Strings, Samuel Barber is the USA’s great Romantic composer of the 20th century. His music is informed by a deep respect for tradition, as demonstrated with directness and power in this homage to Bach. Taking Bach’s harmonisation…
Event Series Aurora

Australian String Quartet: Aurora

Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
Haydn’s Op 76 No 5 quartet shows the composer at the height of his craft. The miraculous slow movement, in the radiant key of F sharp major, is one of the most sublime movements Haydn ever wrote. In distinct contrast with the effervescent music around it, it is almost as…
Featured Featured Event Series The Mendelssohns

Flinders Quartet: The Mendelssohns

Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
“Ever since we performed Fanny Mendelssohn’s string quartet in 2021 and learned of her letters to her brother, Felix, we knew there was the nucleus of an idea that could help illuminate Felix and Fanny’s world for us today. Given Felix’s very successful and much loved incidental music for the…

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra: Transformations

Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
A lush work by a young Schoenberg and an elegy by Richard Strauss written in his later years are featured in this program for string orchestra led by Principal Viola Chris Moore. Influenced by Goethe's poetry, Strauss composed Metamorphosen for 23 solo strings, with each playing an independent part in…
Event Series Musica Alchemica

Musica Viva Australia: Musica Alchemica

Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
Introducing Lina Tur Bonet, a fearless musical imaginista, and her crack team of period-instrument professionals. Regarded as one of the most exciting violinists of her generation, Tur Bonet has delighted and fascinated fans across Europe with her performances of repertoire ranging from Bach to Messiaen. Now she makes her Australian…
Event Series Mostly Mozart

Melbourne Recital Centre: Mostly Mozart – Splendour of Vienna

Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
How can we call any music by Mozart or Schubert ‘late’ when both composers died in their 30s? Yet, under Howard Penny’s direction, this compelling program brings you works of fascinating contrast from the adolescence and maturity of two of the greatest composers who ever lived.
Event Series Handel’s Messiah

Melbourne Recital Centre: Handel’s Messiah

Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
Hallelujah! Experience the transcendence of Handel’s Messiah in a fresh light, as Melbourne Chamber Orchestra, Polyphonic Voices, and brilliant vocal soloists combine to present this enduring wonder of the Baroque. Messiah has entranced audiences with its emotional depth and variety since its first performances in Dublin in 1742. Creating moments…
Event Series Musica Alchemica

Musica Viva Australia: Musica Alchemica

Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
Introducing Lina Tur Bonet, a fearless musical imaginista, and her crack team of period-instrument professionals. Regarded as one of the most exciting violinists of her generation, Tur Bonet has delighted and fascinated fans across Europe with her performances of repertoire ranging from Bach to Messiaen. Now she makes her Australian…
Event Series Handel’s Messiah

Melbourne Recital Centre: Handel’s Messiah

Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
Hallelujah! Experience the transcendence of Handel’s Messiah in a fresh light, as Melbourne Chamber Orchestra, Polyphonic Voices, and brilliant vocal soloists combine to present this enduring wonder of the Baroque. Messiah has entranced audiences with its emotional depth and variety since its first performances in Dublin in 1742. Creating moments…