Artistic Director - William Hennessy
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Your chance to experience superb Australian talent performing great music, of our time and from all time, and displaying the glorious acoustic qualities of Elisabeth Murdoch Hall in Melbourne Recital Centre.
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 | | | | | Thursday 17 March 7.30 pm
| Sunday 20 March 2.30 pm
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| | Mozart – the man with the Midas touch. No matter what he turned his hand to, Mozart was able to get to the heart of music and move the hearts of his listeners. His immortal Clarinet Concerto is a love letter to his favourite woodwind instrument and his Symphony in G Minor is a sublime drama of passion, fire and pathos. Hear these and other renowned works and be astounded by the art of Mozart.
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| | | Thursday 5 May 7.30 pm
| Sunday 8 May 2.30 pm
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| Beloved by Baroque composers, the oboe d’amore is the loveliest of instruments, particularly in the hands of consummate artists Diana Doherty and Jeffrey Crellin. Take pleasure in gorgeous oboe and oboe d’amore concertos by Bach and Vivaldi, enjoy Ravel’s miraculous meditation on tales from Mother Goose and be moved by Le tombeau de Couperin, an affectionate tribute to both the French Baroque and loved ones cut down in the Great War.
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| | | Sunday 26 June 2.30 pm
| Tuesday 28 June 7.30 pm
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| Bach’s ravishing Air from the Orchestral Suite No 3, Mozart’s graceful Violin Concerto No 5 and Ravel’s utterly refined Introduction and Allegro are musical gems of different glint and hue. Hear them alongside the brilliant Brandenburg Concerto No 5 – one of the boldest and most exhilarating of all Baroque concertos – and Shostakovich's striking Prelude and Scherzo, Op.11.
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| | | Sunday 28 August 2.30 pm
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| Enjoy a grand tour of a musical kind with Mozart’s much admired Flute and Harp Concerto, written during the composer’s sojourn in Paris, and Mendelssohn’s gripping Piano Concerto No 1, written in the wake of his grand tour of England and Scotland. Beethoven’s overture to Egmont dramatises the inner journey of Goethe’s great hero while Brett Dean’s enthralling Siduri Dances takes its inspiration from the ancient Mesopotamian sage of travellers. Bon voyage!
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| | | Thursday 27 October 7.30 pm
| Sunday 30 October 2.30 pm
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| | | Ancient Airs and Dances - suite no 3
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| The vitality of spring, lazy heat of summer, wistfulness of autumn and chill of winter are brilliantly evoked by Vivaldi in The Four Seasons, a timeless classic which itself celebrates the passage of time and the cycle of life. Music from still further back in Italy’s golden past is lovingly reworked by Respighi in his exquisite Ancient Airs and Dances while Graeme Koehne shakes things up with his lively Shaker Dances.
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| | | Sunday 20 November 2.30 pm
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| | | Concerto grosso op 6/8 (Christmas concerto)
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| | | Piano concerto no 9 in E flat, K 271
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| | | Intimate Voices op 56 (arr Bowman)
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| Mozart created something extraordinary with his dazzling Piano Concerto No 9, Jeunehomme, a work which arrived like a bolt out of the blue and changed the piano concerto forever. Corelli’s Christmas Concerto – with its meltingly beautiful slow movement – offers a serene counterpoint while Sibelius’s powerful and profound String Quartet, Voces intimae, is both intimate and symphonic, especially in this striking new arrangement for chamber orchestra.
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