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Event Series Ohlsson: Schubert, Liszt, Misson & Scriabin

Ohlsson: Schubert, Liszt, Misson & Scriabin

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

In 1970 Garrick Ohlsson won the Chopin Competition in Warsaw, the only American to have done so. In the subsequent 50 years Ohlsson has owned Chopin’s music like few others, playing it with authority, humility, a sense of discovery and deep commitment. Ohlsson has other heroes too. Scriabin is one such example, his powerful, impressionistic ... Read more

$58 – $158
Event Series Free Music at Primrose Potter Salon

Free Music at Primrose Potter Salon

Primrose Potter Salon Corner Southbank Boulevard and Sturt Street, Melbourne, Vic, Australia

Melbourne Recital Centre opens the doors of its intimate Primrose Potter Salon on one day each month from March to December for FREE open rehearsals featuring the very best of Melbourne’s chamber musicians. On each selected day the artists will use this opportunity to rehearse new works, new programs and try out new ideas for you, in ... Read more

Free

Divisi Chamber Singers: Gesualdo, Rowarth, Monteverdi, Bryars, Chance & Schütz

Primrose Potter Salon Corner Southbank Boulevard and Sturt Street, Melbourne, Vic, Australia

THE TURN Divisi’s debut in Melbourne Recital Centre’s Primrose Potter Salon explores the intrigue of madrigals, taking six narrators’ individual interpretations and coordinating them into a beautiful, cohesive story. Divisi Chamber Singers will take four hundred years of madrigal storytelling tradition and weave masterworks with contemporary comparisons. Ben Rowarth’s The Turn, an Australian premiere, gives ... Read more

$20 – $25
Event Series Ohlsson: Schubert, Liszt, Misson & Scriabin

Ohlsson: Debussy, Barber, Misson & Chopin

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

In 1970 Garrick Ohlsson won the Chopin Competition in Warsaw, the only American to have done so. In the subsequent 50 years Ohlsson has owned Chopin’s music like few others, playing it with authority, humility, a sense of discovery and deep commitment. Ohlsson has other heroes too. Scriabin is one such example, his powerful, impressionistic ... Read more

$58 – $158
Event Series MCO + Genevieve Lacey: Byrd, Purcell, Elgar, Walton & more

MCO + Genevieve Lacey: Byrd, Purcell, Elgar, Walton & more

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

THE BEGINNING OF THE WORLD The two great gardens of English music, separated by two centuries, are the theme of this concert experience co-curated by Sophie Rowell and the incomparable Genevieve Lacey. The beautiful, intricate music of Elizabethan & Stuart England is an escape to a world far from our own. In this first flowering ... Read more

$30 – $140
Event Series MCO + Genevieve Lacey: Byrd, Purcell, Elgar, Walton & more

MCO + Genevieve Lacey: Byrd, Purcell, Elgar, Walton & more

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

THE BEGINNING OF THE WORLD The two great gardens of English music, separated by two centuries, are the theme of this concert experience co-curated by Sophie Rowell and the incomparable Genevieve Lacey. The beautiful, intricate music of Elizabethan & Stuart England is an escape to a world far from our own. In this first flowering ... Read more

$30 – $140

Event Series Free Music at Primrose Potter Salon

Free Music at Primrose Potter Salon

Primrose Potter Salon Corner Southbank Boulevard and Sturt Street, Melbourne, Vic, Australia

Melbourne Recital Centre opens the doors of its intimate Primrose Potter Salon on one day each month from March to December for FREE open rehearsals featuring the very best of Melbourne’s chamber musicians. On each selected day the artists will use this opportunity to rehearse new works, new programs and try out new ideas for you, in ... Read more

Free

Omega Ensemble + Gould: Montgomery, Edwards & Glass

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

ECSTATIC DANCES When Ross Edwards composed his first Ecstatic Dance in 1978, he discovered an idiosyncratic and kinetic way of writing. It was a formative moment, from which emerged the composers’ iconic and infectiously jubilant style that defined a generation of Australian classical music. In his 80th birthday year, Omega Ensemble gives the world premiere ... Read more

$39 – $119

Quartz: Webern & Beethoven

Primrose Potter Salon Corner Southbank Boulevard and Sturt Street, Melbourne, Vic, Australia

LANGSAMER Quartz present emotional works for the string quartet by Webern and Beethoven. Anton Webern’s utterly ravishing Langsamer Satz (Slow Movement) for string quartet was written when he was madly in love. Inspired by a hiking trip in the Austrian mountains with his future wife, the influence of Brahms in both romanticism and tonality are evident ... Read more

$30 – $37
Event Series Selby & Friends: :Haydn, Schoenberg & Dvořák

Selby & Friends: :Haydn, Schoenberg & Dvořák

Primrose Potter Salon Corner Southbank Boulevard and Sturt Street, Melbourne, Vic, Australia

ICONIC 'FATHERS' Selby & Friends’ is delighted to welcome back Natalie Chee and Julian Smiles after a Covid- interrupted tour in 2022. In this special program, Kathy and her friends present three iconic trailblazing composers whose influence exploded previous conceptions to pave an entirely new path forward. Haydn was a prolific piano trio composer who ... Read more

$59 – $77
Event Series Selby & Friends: :Haydn, Schoenberg & Dvořák

Selby & Friends: :Haydn, Schoenberg & Dvořák

Primrose Potter Salon Corner Southbank Boulevard and Sturt Street, Melbourne, Vic, Australia

ICONIC 'FATHERS' Selby & Friends’ is delighted to welcome back Natalie Chee and Julian Smiles after a Covid- interrupted tour in 2022. In this special program, Kathy and her friends present three iconic trailblazing composers whose influence exploded previous conceptions to pave an entirely new path forward. Haydn was a prolific piano trio composer who ... Read more

$59 – $77

Songmakers Australia: Schubert

Primrose Potter Salon Corner Southbank Boulevard and Sturt Street, Melbourne, Vic, Australia

THE BEAUTIFUL MILLER'S DAUGHTER Songmakers Australia celebrate 200 years of Die schöne Müllerin (The Fair Maid of the Mill), a song cycle based on 20 poems written by Wilhem Müller. ‘I feel myself to be the most unhappy and wretched creature in the world. Imagine a man whose health will never be right again, and who ... Read more

$30 – $37

Sjaella: Purcell & Norwegian composers

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

NORDIC NIGHT Step into the atmospheric world of Nordic Night as internationally acclaimed a cappella ensemble Sjaella, takes listeners on a journey through the ethereal sounds of the night-time. Experience the luminous dance of the Northern Lights, as Norwegian composer Ola Gjeilo takes audiences to his homeland. Immerse yourself in Meredi’s poignant serenade, Crystallized. Be ... Read more

$50 – $60
Event Series Flinders Quartet: Maconchy & Beethoven

Flinders Quartet: Maconchy & Beethoven

Primrose Potter Salon Corner Southbank Boulevard and Sturt Street, Melbourne, Vic, Australia

"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

$30 – $40
Event Series Flinders Quartet: Maconchy & Beethoven

Flinders Quartet: Maconchy & Beethoven

Primrose Potter Salon Corner Southbank Boulevard and Sturt Street, Melbourne, Vic, Australia

"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

$30 – $40

Affinity Quartet: Haydn, Misson & Beethoven

Primrose Potter Salon Corner Southbank Boulevard and Sturt Street, Melbourne, Vic, Australia

Affinity Quartet return to the Primrose Potter Salon for a program featuring two seminal string quartets. Opening with Haydn’s String Quartet Op.50, No.5 ‘Dream’, this work beautifully showcases the dance between violin, viola and cello. Beethoven’s String Quartet No.11 however, was considered an experiment on compositional techniques of the time with the composer himself rumoured ... Read more

$30 – $37

Musicians of the Gewandhaus Orchestra: Schubert

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

The Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig is the world’s oldest orchestra, and this performance is the ultimate opportunity to witness some of Germany’s most in-demand musicians presenting an intimate performance of Schubert’s Octet in F, and of Danish composer Hans Abrahamsen’s arrangement of Schubert’s Six Moments Musicaux – originally written for solo piano, but in an arrangement ... Read more

$59 – $79
Event Series Free Music at Primrose Potter Salon

Free Music at Primrose Potter Salon

Primrose Potter Salon Corner Southbank Boulevard and Sturt Street, Melbourne, Vic, Australia

Melbourne Recital Centre opens the doors of its intimate Primrose Potter Salon on one day each month from March to December for FREE open rehearsals featuring the very best of Melbourne’s chamber musicians. On each selected day the artists will use this opportunity to rehearse new works, new programs and try out new ideas for you, in ... Read more

Free

Bowman: JS Bach

Primrose Potter Salon Corner Southbank Boulevard and Sturt Street, Melbourne, Vic, Australia

A CONTRAPUNTAL CORNUCOPIA: WELL-TEMPERED KLAVIER, BOOK 1 Revered by the greatest musicians of every age since their composition, the two books of Bach’s Das wohltemperierte Klavier are considered contrapuntal masterworks. A series of forty-eight preludes and fugues in all major and minor keys, both books are celebrated and beloved by keyboardists and audiences alike. While regarded ... Read more

$30 – $37
Event Series MCO: Stamitz, Britten, Duarte, Martin & Haydn

MCO: Stamitz, Britten, Duarte, Martin & Haydn

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

THE ART OF THE SYMPHONY From the ancient Greek for ‘sounded harmoniously’, the words ‘sinfonia’ and ‘symphony’ have been used for centuries. Leonora Duarte, a Flemish composer who died before Bach was born, used it to describe her haunting works for viol ensemble. Johann Stamitz was a visionary, writing some of the first works that ... Read more

$30 – $140
Event Series Selby & Friends: Boulanger, Brahms & Rachmaninov

Selby & Friends: Boulanger, Brahms & Rachmaninov

Primrose Potter Salon Corner Southbank Boulevard and Sturt Street, Melbourne, Vic, Australia

THREE STAGES OF MAN Selby & Friends’ fourth program of the year celebrates the three stages of man – to begin, the very youthful Lilly Boulanger, sister of the famous Nadia, whose untimely death in her twenties brought an end to a spectacularly gifted artist whose talents are easily displayed in this powerful set. We ... Read more

$59 – $77
Event Series Selby & Friends: Boulanger, Brahms & Rachmaninov

Selby & Friends: Boulanger, Brahms & Rachmaninov

Primrose Potter Salon Corner Southbank Boulevard and Sturt Street, Melbourne, Vic, Australia

THREE STAGES OF MAN Selby & Friends’ fourth program of the year celebrates the three stages of man – to begin, the very youthful Lilly Boulanger, sister of the famous Nadia, whose untimely death in her twenties brought an end to a spectacularly gifted artist whose talents are easily displayed in this powerful set. We ... Read more

$59 – $77
Event Series MCO: Stamitz, Britten, Duarte, Martin & Haydn

MCO: Stamitz, Britten, Duarte, Martin & Haydn

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

THE ART OF THE SYMPHONY From the ancient Greek for ‘sounded harmoniously’, the words ‘sinfonia’ and ‘symphony’ have been used for centuries. Leonora Duarte, a Flemish composer who died before Bach was born, used it to describe her haunting works for viol ensemble. Johann Stamitz was a visionary, writing some of the first works that ... Read more

$30 – $140

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

Ensemble Gombert: Byrd & Weelkes

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

COMMEMORATING BYRD & WEELKES William Byrd and Thomas Weelkes died 400 years ago in 1623 – Byrd in his 80s and Weelkes at age 47. To commemorate these two stalwarts of the repertoire, Ensemble Gombert have curated a program that celebrates a variety of their choral works. The two centrepieces of the program are Byrd’s ... Read more

$45 – $55

La Compañia: Renaissance Rhythms

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

Come join the dance! …from a spicy tarantella to stately pavane, a vivacious galliard or a joyous chacona. La Compania glides pass Mediterranean shores to visit aristocratic parlours, boisterous taverns, town plazas and royal courts discovering the highly fashionable dances that transfixed society. So rich in variety these alluring tunes along with poetic soulful songs ... Read more

$45 – $55

Event Series Free Music at Primrose Potter Salon

Free Music at Primrose Potter Salon

Primrose Potter Salon Corner Southbank Boulevard and Sturt Street, Melbourne, Vic, Australia

Melbourne Recital Centre opens the doors of its intimate Primrose Potter Salon on one day each month from March to December for FREE open rehearsals featuring the very best of Melbourne’s chamber musicians. On each selected day the artists will use this opportunity to rehearse new works, new programs and try out new ideas for you, in ... Read more

Free
Event Series Omega Ensemble: Mazzoli, Cerrone, Corigliano, Dessner & Prokofiev

Omega Ensemble: Mazzoli, Cerrone, Corigliano, Dessner & Prokofiev

Primrose Potter Salon Corner Southbank Boulevard and Sturt Street, Melbourne, Vic, Australia

BLOOD LORE Dark myths and disturbing forces are often the source of great music. Strange, peculiar and at times cataclysmic, this music transports you beyond our physical world and forces you to question the things you know to be true. Featuring that goes against the grain, this powerful program includes works by the worlds leading ... Read more

$59 – $69

Academy of St Martin in the Fields: Mozart & Beethoven

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

The Academy of St Martin in the Fields (ASMF) is one of the world’s finest chamber orchestras, renowned for fresh, brilliant interpretations of the world’s greatest orchestral music. Today the orchestra is led by Music Director and virtuoso violinist Joshua Bell, under whose direction ASMF continues to push the boundaries of player-directed performance to new ... Read more

$89 – $199

Academy of St Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble: Mozart

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

The Academy of St Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble was created in 1967 to perform the larger chamber works with players who customarily worked together, instead of the usual string quartet with additional guests. At this concert they present Mozart's Clarinet Quintet: ‘Consistently voted one of the world’s favourite classical works – and a ... Read more

$55 – $65
Event Series Omega Ensemble: Mazzoli, Cerrone, Corigliano, Dessner & Prokofiev

Omega Ensemble: Mazzoli, Cerrone, Corigliano, Dessner & Prokofiev

Primrose Potter Salon Corner Southbank Boulevard and Sturt Street, Melbourne, Vic, Australia

BLOOD LORE Dark myths and disturbing forces are often the source of great music. Strange, peculiar and at times cataclysmic, this music transports you beyond our physical world and forces you to question the things you know to be true. Featuring that goes against the grain, this powerful program includes works by the worlds leading ... Read more

$59 – $69
Event Series Omega Ensemble: Mazzoli, Cerrone, Corigliano, Dessner & Prokofiev

Omega Ensemble: Mazzoli, Cerrone, Corigliano, Dessner & Prokofiev

Primrose Potter Salon Corner Southbank Boulevard and Sturt Street, Melbourne, Vic, Australia

BLOOD LORE Dark myths and disturbing forces are often the source of great music. Strange, peculiar and at times cataclysmic, this music transports you beyond our physical world and forces you to question the things you know to be true. Featuring that goes against the grain, this powerful program includes works by the worlds leading ... Read more

$59 – $69

Academy of St Martin in the Fields: Prokofiev & Mendelssohn

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

The Academy of St Martin in the Fields (ASMF) is one of the world’s finest chamber orchestras, renowned for fresh, brilliant interpretations of the world’s greatest orchestral music. Today the orchestra is led by Music Director and virtuoso violinist Joshua Bell, under whose direction ASMF continues to push the boundaries of player-directed performance to new ... Read more

$89 – $199
Event Series MCO + Jumppanen: Greenbaum, Rautavaara, Beethoven & Mozart

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

Bowman: JS Bach

Primrose Potter Salon Corner Southbank Boulevard and Sturt Street, Melbourne, Vic, Australia

A CONTRAPUNTAL CORNUCOPIA: WELL-TEMPERED KLAVIER, BOOK 2 Revered by the greatest musicians of every age since their composition, the two books of Bach’s Das wohltemperierte Klavier are considered contrapuntal masterworks. A series of forty-eight preludes and fugues in all major and minor keys, both books are celebrated and beloved by keyboardists and audiences alike. While regarded ... Read more

$30 – $37
Event Series MCO + Jumppanen: Greenbaum, Rautavaara, Beethoven & Mozart

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
Event Series Flinders Quartet: Shostakovich, Grenfell & Smetana

Flinders Quartet: Shostakovich, Grenfell & Smetana

Primrose Potter Salon Corner Southbank Boulevard and Sturt Street, Melbourne, Vic, Australia

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

$30 – $40
Event Series Flinders Quartet: Shostakovich, Grenfell & Smetana

Flinders Quartet: Shostakovich, Grenfell & Smetana

Primrose Potter Salon Corner Southbank Boulevard and Sturt Street, Melbourne, Vic, Australia

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

$30 – $40

Australian String Quartet: Williams, Haydn, Purcell & Dvořák

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

FLORESCENCE A dramatic proclamation sets the scene as Australian composer Justin Williams’ Movement for String Quartet begins this concert with an exploration of distinct and juxtaposing musical material. From twenty-first century Australia we travel to eighteenth century Austria, where Joseph Haydn’s String Quartet No.1 in B minor thrills with an impulsiveness that makes for a virtuosic and ... Read more

$33 – $78

Duo Eclettico: Hofmeyr, Edwards/Neville & Martin

Primrose Potter Salon Corner Southbank Boulevard and Sturt Street, Melbourne, Vic, Australia

MAGIC Duo Eclettico celebrate the magical, the ethereal, the demonic, and the ‘other’, with works from South Africa and Australia. Hendrik Hofmeyr, arguably South Africa’s most celebrated living composer, is represented with Necromancer, a virtuosic yet beautifully colourful work evoking the magic of a necromancer, in Hofmeyr’s writing a symbol for LGBTIQ+ sexuality and attempted repression of ... Read more

$40 – $50