Kim + Levy + ANAM musicians: Mozart and Dvořák

Melbourne Recital Centre - Elisabeth Murdoch Hall Southbank Boulevard, Melbourne, Vic, Australia

MOSTLY MOZART: SERENADE Philadelphia Orchestra Concertmaster, David Kim, performs and directs ANAM musicians in a program of operatic Mozart and jubilant Dvořák. Mozart’s widely revered Magic Flute is a jovial opera which a masterful brass ensemble will shine a delicate new light on. Later, the Rondo from the Haffner serenade, a miniature violin concerto, will create abundant ... Read more

$42 – $49

Flinders Quartet + Sellars: Beach, Cawrse & Dvořák

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Flinders Quartet are joined by guest violinist Elizabeth Sellars. AMY BEACH String Quartet, Op. 89 ANNE CAWRSE “in spaces between” ANTONÍN DVOŘÁK String Quartet No. 13 in G major, Op.106 Filmed in Primrose Potter Salon. Free to watch once. Subscribe to FQ digital to watch on demand. Create an FQ Digital account to do either. ... Read more

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Trio Anima Mundi: Beethoven, Weber & Reissiger

Hanson Dyer Hall, Ian Potter Southbank Centre 43 Sturt Street, Southbank, Vic, Australia

International award-winning Melbourne ensemble Trio Anima Mundi (TAM) presents an alluring programme of German Romantic piano trios. The haunting 'ghost' Trio of Beethoven is coupled with the dramatic 'grand' Fourth trio of Carl Reissiger, part of TAM's world-first The Reissiger Project - presenting all 28 piano trios of Reissiger. A new arrangement of Invitation to ... Read more

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Flinders Quartet: Maconchy & Beethoven

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"The chance to play one of Beethoven’s incomparable Op. 59 Razumovsky quartets, named after their commissioner, Count Razumovsky, the Russian Ambassador in Vienna, is something akin to a religious experience for quartet players, such is the consummate artistry of Beethoven in his middle period. I’m excited to pair Maconchy’s Quartet No. 5 with Beethoven’s Opus 59. ... Read more

Australian Chamber Choir: Allegri, des Prez, de Victoria, di Lasso & Palestrina

Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Middle Park 210 Richardson St, Middle Park, Vic, Australia

SISTINE CHAPEL Allegri’s Miserere is perhaps the most famous piece of music written for the Sistine Chapel. This work is complemented by the music of Allegri’s predecessors. The Sistine Choir was a rich melting pot of Europe’s musical talent. Orlando Lassus from Belgium, Josquin des Prez from France and Tomás Luis de Victoria from Spain sang alongside ... Read more

$26.50 – $86.50

Ensemble Liaison + Campbell Diamond: Westlake, Debussy, Greenbaum, Paganini, de Falla & Piazzolla

Melbourne Recital Centre - Elisabeth Murdoch Hall Southbank Boulevard, Melbourne, Vic, Australia

Ensemble Liaison welcome internationally award-winning guitarist Campbell Diamond for a unique program of arrangements and original works for guitar and chamber ensemble. Originally from Canberra, Campbell has won prizes in over 30 international competitions and has performed across Asia, South America, Australia and Europe where he is Professor of Guitar at the Anton Bruckner University of ... Read more

$45 – $55

MCO Chamber musicians: von Bingen, Strozzi, Clearfield & Bottesini

The Edge, Fed Square Swanston St & Flinders St, Melbourne, Vic, Australia

ILLUMINATIONS This program showcases rarely performed works for string quintet. It features three brilliant female composers from three different musical eras – Hildegard of Bingen (Medieval), Barbara Strozzi (Baroque) and Andrea Clearfield (21st century). Clearfield’s quintet, “Women of Cyprus” was inspired by courage, beauty and strength of the thousands of Cypriot women who marched in ... Read more

$30 – $40

MCO + Jumppanen: Greenbaum, Rautavaara, Beethoven & Mozart

Melbourne Recital Centre - Elisabeth Murdoch Hall Southbank Boulevard, Melbourne, Vic, Australia

MOZART & BEETHOVEN CONCERTOS In 1787, a 17-year-old Beethoven made the journey from Bonn to Vienna—further than Melbourne to Sydney. Did he meet the 30-year-old Mozart, in the few weeks they were in the same city? Was there a metaphorical handing over of the baton of Classical music? Escape with us to this bright, elegant ... Read more

$30 – $140

Ensemble Liaison + Australian Wind Quintet: Ligeti, Paul Dean, Glinka, Poulenc & Françaix

Melbourne Recital Centre - Elisabeth Murdoch Hall Southbank Boulevard, Melbourne, Vic, Australia

For their final concert of the year, Ensemble Liaison is excited to collaborate with the newly formed Australian Wind Quintet. Combining some of Australia’s leading wind players, including Ensemble Liaison’s own David Griffiths, the AWQ made their debut at the 2022 Adelaide Festival receiving critical praise for their ‘precision, nuanced sensitive phrasing and captivating performance’. This program ... Read more

$45 – $55

Flinders Quartet: Shostakovich, Grenfell & Smetana

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MUSICAL PORTRAITS Shostakovich’s incredibly powerful String Quartet No.8 was officially dedicated ‘to the memory of the victims of fascism and war’ but there is much to suggest that Shostakovich meant it as a musical self-portrait. Smetana’s String Quartet No.1 ‘From My Life’ is a different type of musical portrait, taking us on a vivid, programmatic ... Read more

Australian Chamber Choir: Bach, Byrd, Palestrina, Schütz & more

Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Middle Park 210 Richardson St, Middle Park, Vic, Australia

BAROQUE CHRISTMAS In this fabulously entertaining hour of music for the Christmas season, the ACC8 treats you to a historical ‘pick of the pops’, from the late 1400s to the end of the Baroque period and beyond, including works from their Baroque Christmas CD. The possibilities are endless, so the program will be strikingly different from ... Read more

$26.50 – $86.50