Any avid video gamers in your household? Gran Turismo was inspired by the popular racing game – so you can expect to hear each violin zooming past the next, distance between them measured by rapid changes in volume. They might hit a red light, but a moment later these players…

When premiered in 1825, Beethoven’s Op.127 quartet stunned listeners with its innovation of expression and form. This work heralded a dramatic shift in Beethoven’s trajectory, having already taken the string quartet to unprecedented heights. The first of his late quartets, here we glimpse a far more personal, philosophical, and inward-looking…

Spring is always in bloom when it comes to Mozart, and four of our top musicians are looking forward to sharing the season’s spirit with you. Pretty and delicate, Mozart’s Spring quartet seems to capture the optimism of a new flower blooming under a cloudless sky. Our fantastic flautist will…

Expansive and hollow tones evoke a rural horizon in Miklós Rózsa’s transportive Sonata for 2 violins. Perhaps you’ll gaze over the folk regions of the composer’s native Hungary, or the endless deserts of America where he lived and wrote Hollywood scores as big as Ben-Hur. Brahms’ String Sextet No.1 introduces…

Did you know the cello is Australia’s all-time favourite instrument (as voted in ABC Classic’s Top 100)? Not only are we shining our spotlight on this beloved instrument – we’re swivelling that spotlight around to cast it over eight of them! Our Orchestra is home to true masters of the…