• Melbourne Symphony Orchestra: Old Ideas, New Stories (Relaxed Performance)

    Primrose Potter Salon 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    In our current culture, artistic lines between different voices are increasingly blurred. We draw inspiration from one another across nations and time, but this may be a double-edged sword. New stories are difficult to tell when like begets like. Composers today walk a fine line between old and new ideas.…

    Australian Haydn Ensemble: Divine Bohemain – Haydn, Richter, Mysliveček & Beethoven

    Primrose Potter Salon 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    Composers hailing from the now proud Czech Republic were surprisingly numerous in the 18th century and, while far from household names today, had a significant impact on some that are. These Bohemians were neither the free’n’easy chums who kissed tiny frozen hands in garrets nor the future pictorial romantics devoted…
  • Australian Haydn Ensemble: Haydn’s London Symphonies: Part 1

    Primrose Potter Salon 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    Part 1! How enticing. If a CD revival eventually eclipses the current vinyl vogue, can we look forward to a 300th birthday /Brisbane Olympics “boxed set” of all 12 by 2032? Violinist and impresario Peter Salomon was the guardian angel (slash shrewd businessman) who put Haydn on a boat to…
  • Genesis Baroque: Cantatas for Christmas

    Primrose Potter Salon 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    Internationally renowned French soprano Myriam Arbouz, one of the most distinguished 17th and 18th century vocal specialists of her generation, joins Genesis Baroque for a festive baroque feast. The program celebrates the Christmas season with Graupner’s astonishingly beautiful cantata Angst und Jammer; a poignant depiction of healing from deep suffering through…