Review: Tempestuous Skies (Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra)
This Mozart showcase with Neal Peres Da Costa and members of the Young Mannheim Symphonists was a masterful and exuberant snapshot of the composer's oeuvre.
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This Mozart showcase with Neal Peres Da Costa and members of the Young Mannheim Symphonists was a masterful and exuberant snapshot of the composer's oeuvre.
Simone Young leads the SSO and three-time Grammy Award-winning violinist Hilary Hahn in a triumphant program of Prokofiev, Tchaikovsky and a world premiere by Cathy Milliken.
Alexandre Kantorow proves irresistible in scintillating Saint-Saëns.
Jurowski's valedictory Stravinsky tribute showcases an LPO in fine fettle.
SSO begins its 90th birthday celebrations with Mahler's Resurrection Symphony and a new commission by William Barton, as it reopens the SOH Concert Hall.
Stephen Hough takes Schuberts ‘heavenly lengths’ to greater heights.
Aristocratic by birth, noble by nature and cruelly cut off in her prime.
Marvellous performances as part of a curious concept.
Antonini & Co combine contemporary precision with old-fashioned charm.
Andsnes and Co. reap a bumper crop from a Mozart annus mirabilis.
Nelsons and Gewandthaus enter Bruckner Pantheon with culmination of cycle.
New conductor takes his place in the Pantheon of Sibelius interpreters.
The SSO's return to the concert stage after nine months was a marvellous occasion musically, though suffused with sadness.