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Event Series ABO + de Swarte:

ABO + de Swarte: 17th century music

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

THE LOVER Théotime Langlois de Swarte, a rising star and an intrepid Baroque violinist mentored by William Christie Les Arts Florissants, makes his Australian debut in a sensual, beautiful and ultimately explosive pasticcio curated by Théotime and Paul Dyer. Baroque harps, violins, lutes and theorbos take a starring role in the haunting first act. The second ... Read more

$40 – $185

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
Event Series ABO + de Swarte:

ABO + de Swarte: 17th century music

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

THE LOVER Théotime Langlois de Swarte, a rising star and an intrepid Baroque violinist mentored by William Christie Les Arts Florissants, makes his Australian debut in a sensual, beautiful and ultimately explosive pasticcio curated by Théotime and Paul Dyer. Baroque harps, violins, lutes and theorbos take a starring role in the haunting first act. The second ... Read more

$40 – $185
Event Series ABO + de Swarte:

ABO + de Swarte: 17th century music

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

THE LOVER Théotime Langlois de Swarte, a rising star and an intrepid Baroque violinist mentored by William Christie Les Arts Florissants, makes his Australian debut in a sensual, beautiful and ultimately explosive pasticcio curated by Théotime and Paul Dyer. Baroque harps, violins, lutes and theorbos take a starring role in the haunting first act. The second ... Read more

$40 – $185
Event Series ACO: Adés, Bach, Sollima, Boccherini & Tchaikovsky

ACO: Adés, Bach, Sollima, Boccherini & Tchaikovsky

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

POSTCARDS FROM ITALY Join ACO as they travel to Italy, a destination rich with art, music and life that has cultivated and inspired generations of composers and musicians. Bach’s popular Italian Concerto reveals his lasting fascination with the country’s musical innovations, while the great Tuscan cello virtuoso and composer Luigi Boccherini embodies its elegance and grace. Tchaikovsky ... Read more

$25 – $124
Event Series ACO: Adés, Bach, Sollima, Boccherini & Tchaikovsky

ACO: Adés, Bach, Sollima, Boccherini & Tchaikovsky

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

POSTCARDS FROM ITALY Join ACO as they travel to Italy, a destination rich with art, music and life that has cultivated and inspired generations of composers and musicians. Bach’s popular Italian Concerto reveals his lasting fascination with the country’s musical innovations, while the great Tuscan cello virtuoso and composer Luigi Boccherini embodies its elegance and grace. Tchaikovsky ... Read more

$25 – $124

Gringolts + Go: Mozart, Rihm & Schumann

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

Pianist Aura Go joins Ilya Gringolts for the first time since collaborating at the 2016 Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival in Finland. Their shared passion for contemporary music unites them here in the Australian premiere of modern master Wolfgang Rihm’s Phantom und Eskapade, dedicated to Anne-Sophie Mutter. Rihm’s invocation of the fantastical alludes to the Schumann ... Read more

$49 – $115

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

Jumppanen + ANAM musicians: Dean, Martinů & Mozart

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

MOSTLY MOZART - DRAMA OF THE WINDS Paavali Jumppanen performs with and directs musicians from the Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM) in a program exuding vivid orchestral colours from Brett Dean, Martinů and Mozart. Beginning with Brett Dean’s thrilling Polysomnography, a work which takes the particular and abstracts it, taking inspiration, in this instance, ... Read more

$42 – $49
Event Series Vision String Quartet: Bloch, Bartók & Dvořák

Vision String Quartet: Bloch, Bartók & Dvořák

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

The conductor Jeffrey Tate once described the string quartet as ‘the most perfect expression of human behaviour’. Composers from Haydn to Adès have revelled in this most intimate and virtuosic of musical forms, awed by the sight of four musicians moving across a tightrope at speed. The four young musicians that make up the Vision ... Read more

$40 – $158

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

Hulcup + Sargeant + Chong: Schubert, Wolf, Brahms, Poulenc, Bridge & more

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

One of Australia’s great vocalists, Caitlin Hulcup is renowned for her captivating stage presence, luminous voice and expressive power. Experience the evocative storytelling and emotional depth of Schubert’s ‘Ganymed, D.544’ and ‘Gretchen am Spinnrade, D.118’. These masterpieces eloquently express themes of longing and desire through soaring vocal lines, sweeping melodies, and lush harmonies. Poulenc’s ‘Métamorphoses’ ... Read more

$59 – $79

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

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
Event Series Vision String Quartet: Bloch, Bartók & Dvořák

Vision String Quartet: Bloch, Bartók & Dvořák

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

The conductor Jeffrey Tate once described the string quartet as ‘the most perfect expression of human behaviour’. Composers from Haydn to Adès have revelled in this most intimate and virtuosic of musical forms, awed by the sight of four musicians moving across a tightrope at speed. The four young musicians that make up the Vision ... Read more

$40 – $158
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

Wilkie + ANAM musicians: Rossini, Mendelssohn & Mozart

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

MOSTLY MOZART - THE PLAYHOUSE Matthew Wilkie performs with and directs musicians from the Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM) in a program of works originally written for theatre from Mozart, Rossini and Mendelssohn as part of our Mostly Mozart series. Beginning with Rossini’s The Barber of Seville overture, a work full of vitality, humour ... Read more

$42 – $49

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

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
Event Series ABO + Schayegh: Zelenka, Leclair & Bach

ABO + Schayegh: Zelenka, Leclair & Bach

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

POET OF THE VIOLIN Vivacious. Fierce. Expressive. These are just some of the words used to describe Leila Schayegh, one of the world’s most acclaimed Baroque violinists. Making her long-awaited Australian debut, the Swiss-Iranian musician takes to the stage as Guest Director to lead the Brandenburg through a brightly textured program of Baroque masterworks from ... Read more

$40 – $185
Event Series ABO + Schayegh: Zelenka, Leclair & Bach

ABO + Schayegh: Zelenka, Leclair & Bach

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

POET OF THE VIOLIN Vivacious. Fierce. Expressive. These are just some of the words used to describe Leila Schayegh, one of the world’s most acclaimed Baroque violinists. Making her long-awaited Australian debut, the Swiss-Iranian musician takes to the stage as Guest Director to lead the Brandenburg through a brightly textured program of Baroque masterworks from ... Read more

$40 – $185
Event Series ABO + Schayegh: Zelenka, Leclair & Bach

ABO + Schayegh: Zelenka, Leclair & Bach

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

POET OF THE VIOLIN Vivacious. Fierce. Expressive. These are just some of the words used to describe Leila Schayegh, one of the world’s most acclaimed Baroque violinists. Making her long-awaited Australian debut, the Swiss-Iranian musician takes to the stage as Guest Director to lead the Brandenburg through a brightly textured program of Baroque masterworks from ... Read more

$40 – $185

Marwood + ANAM Musicians: Schumann & Mozart

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

MOSTLY MOZART: LEGACY Legendary violinist, Anthony Marwood performs/directs ANAM musicians in a hypnotic program of Mozart and Schumann, continuing his longstanding relationship with ANAM. As one of his most revered works, Mozart’s ‘Jupiter’ symphony is known to represent the peak of his compositional brilliance. The final movement’s theme embodies the unique elements of spiritual divinity ... Read more

$42 – $49
Event Series MCO + Bramble + Lior: Grieg, Clarke, da Falla & Vincent

MCO + Bramble + Lior: Grieg, Clarke, de Falla & Vincent

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

OF PEOPLE & SONG For as long as there have been people, there has been song. Song is at the heart of rich musical traditions that bind people together, and attest to the spirit of time and place. Eliding ideas of East and West, high and low, past and present, the music of renowned singer-songwriter ... Read more

$30 – $140
Event Series Wildschut & Brauss: Schumann, Debussy, Lyon & Enescu

Wildschut & Brauss: Schumann, Debussy, Lyon & Enescu

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

Not one new discovery, but two! Hiding in plain sight in the great halls of Europe, violinist Noa Wildschut and pianist Elisabeth Brauss make one of the most exciting musical partnerships heard in years, and Musica Viva Australia is thrilled to present their first Australian concerts. Violin and piano is a classic combination, capable of ... Read more

$40 – $158
Event Series MCO + Bramble + Lior: Grieg, Clarke, da Falla & Vincent

MCO + Bramble + Lior: Grieg, Clarke, de Falla & Vincent

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

OF PEOPLE & SONG For as long as there have been people, there has been song. Song is at the heart of rich musical traditions that bind people together, and attest to the spirit of time and place. Eliding ideas of East and West, high and low, past and present, the music of renowned singer-songwriter ... Read more

$30 – $140
Event Series Wildschut & Brauss: Schumann, Debussy, Lyon & Enescu

Wildschut & Brauss: Schumann, Debussy, Lyon & Franck

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

Not one new discovery, but two! Hiding in plain sight in the great halls of Europe, violinist Noa Wildschut and pianist Elisabeth Brauss make one of the most exciting musical partnerships heard in years, and Musica Viva Australia is thrilled to present their first Australian concerts. Violin and piano is a classic combination, capable of ... Read more

$40 – $158

Melbourne Baroque Orchestra + Australian Boys Choir: Bach

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

MISSA BREVIS Nicholas Dinopoulos leads nearly 200 singers of the Australian Boys Choral Institute and The Vocal Consort in this unmissable traditional festive gala event. Featuring the Melbourne Baroque Orchestra on period instruments, as well as Fiore Chamber Ensemble: Monika Harris, Alexander Ritter, Anish Nair, and Lachlan McDonald in J.S. Bach’s joyous Missa Brevis in ... Read more

$34 – $60
Event Series ABO + Brandenburg Choir: Christmas carols and more

ABO + Brandenburg Choir: Christmas carols and more

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

NOËL! NOËL! The popular concert series touches on the religious but is firmly grounded in the spiritual in an uplifting program of familiar fare, including O Come All Ye Faithful and Stille Nacht, as well as surprising musical riches for the festive season. Inclusiveness and connection are at the heart of this concert series, with ... Read more

$40 – $185
Event Series ABO + Brandenburg Choir: Christmas carols and more

ABO + Brandenburg Choir: Christmas carols and more

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

NOËL! NOËL! The popular concert series touches on the religious but is firmly grounded in the spiritual in an uplifting program of familiar fare, including O Come All Ye Faithful and Stille Nacht, as well as surprising musical riches for the festive season. Inclusiveness and connection are at the heart of this concert series, with ... Read more

$40 – $185