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The White Hat Guide to Classical Music in Sydney & NSW
Below is a listing of classical music concerts and performances in Sydney & NSW. | You may also choose to list concerts featuring particular composers or instruments by using the drop-down menus below. | | | |
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Australian piano virtuoso Simon Tedeschi’s first City Recital Hall solo concert
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- Bach Chromatic
Fantasia and Fugue BWV 903
- Beethoven
Sonata op. 10 No.1 in C minor
- K. Hunt Natural Sequence
- Brahms 3
Intermezzi op. 117
- F. Gulda Variations on Light my Fire by Jim Morrison
- Gershwin
Rhapsody in Blue
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La Bohčme
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Opera Australia presents
Puccini's opera
La Bohčme. In this
production, created by director Simon Phillips, Opera Australia is proud
to present a Bohčme for now – just as romantic, just as true, but
with the immediacy and edge of a contemporary setting, and some of Opera
Australia's finest young artists. Relive the romance as Rodolfo sings
Che gelida manina, revel in Musetta's showstopping waltz and let
Puccini's unerring instinct for melody win your heart. The irresistible
Hye Seoung Kwon opens in the role of Mimě and exciting young tenor Aldo
Di Toro is her Rodolfo. Antoinette Halloran and Warren Mok take their
places later in the season. The band of bohemians includes José Carbó,
Warwick Fyfe and Jud Arthur. Amelia Farrugia and Taryn Fiebig share the
show-stopping role of Musetta and Maestro Giovanni Reggioli conducts.
Sung in Italian with English surtitles.
1pm on 23 February & 5 March 2008
7.30pm on 23, 25 & 30 January; 4, 6, 9, 14, 16 & 21 February; 5, 14 & 20
March 2008
1pm on 18 October 2008
7.30pm on 14, 20, 22, 25, 27 & 29 October 2008
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Sydney Opera House
Dinner and opera package for La bohčme. Be warned - These
packages usually book out weeks in advance. |
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The Pearlfishers
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Opera Australia presents
Bizet's opera
The Pearlfishers
including one of the famous duet, In the depths of the temple,
performed by Michael Lewis as Zurga with Henry Choo making his role
debut as Nadir. This intricate and visually captivating production,
created by Ann-Margret Pettersson, casts a knowing light on the
nineteenth-century imaginings of ancient Ceylon. As for Bizet's music,
it overflows with dramatic energy and lyricism. After her success as
Lakmé, Leanne Kenneally gives voice to the impossibly beautiful Léďla,
while once again conductor Emmanuel Joel-Hornak brings Bizet's rich and
subtle score to life. Sung in French with English surtitles.
1pm, 27 September 2008 and 7.30pm 4, 6, 9, 13, 17, 20,
23 & 25 September 2008 and 3, 9 & 11 October 2008
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Sydney Opera House
Dinner and opera package for Pearlfishers. Be warned - These
packages usually book out weeks in advance. |
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Billy Budd
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Opera Australia present's
Britten's opera
Billy Budd. Benjamin
Britten's adaptation of Herman Melville's novella portrays the nuances
and brutal realities of Captain Vere's moral maze with piercing clarity.
Using a huge orchestral palette and an all-male cast, he creates a score
which is so simple, so evocative and yet, when the time comes, so
overwhelming. Neil Armfield's acclaimed production returns under the
expert baton of Richard Hickox and with a dream cast. Teddy Tahu Rhodes
takes the title role for the first time, with John Wegner as
black-hearted Claggart and after his unforgettable performances in
Death in Venice we are thrilled to welcome back that outstanding
interpreter of Britten's music, Philip Langridge as Captain Vere.
Performed in English with surtitles. A co-production with Welsh National
Opera.
7.30pm on 24, 27 & 30 September 2008; 4, 8, 13 & 16
October 2008
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Sydney Opera House
Dinner and opera package for Billy Budd. Be warned - These
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Eggner Trio
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Musica Viva presents the Eggner Trio performing:
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8pm Saturday 27 September 2008 |
City Recital Hall, Angel
Place Sydney
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Bookings: 1800 688 482 |
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The Makropulous Secret
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Opera Australia present
Janácek's opera
The Makropulous Secret
(often translated as The Makropulous Case or The Makropulous
Affair).
She is tired. She is world-weary. And she is utterly, eternally
beautiful. The beguiling heroine of Janácek's penultimate opera is a
vivid portrait of Kamila Stösslova, the woman he was obsessed with for
ten long years. Clever, manipulative, coquettish and, ultimately,
tragic, this mysterious woman has drifted through so many people's
lives, leaving a trail of broken hearts and unanswered questions.
Meanwhile, her quest for a three-hundred-year-old prize grows ever more
urgent. Who is she, and what is her secret? Cheryl Barker was
devastating in Neil Armfield's production of
Jenůfa in 2006. She now
returns to make her Australian role debut as the chilling, thrilling
Elina Makropulos. Joining her as Albert Gregor comes Peter Wedd, who
made such an impressive debut as Laca in Jenůfa, Catherine Carby
as Kristina, Andrew Goodwin as Janek and the redoubtable John Pringle in
the role of Jaroslav Prus. Completing the award winning team is Opera
Australia's Music Director Richard Hickox, who will conduct Janácek's
elusive, lyrical score. Performed in English with surtitles.
1pm on 11 October 2008
7.30pm on 7, 15, 18, 21 & 24 October 2008
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Sydney Opera House
Dinner and opera package for The Makropulos Secret. Be warned - These
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Musica Viva Festival - Premier Concert 3
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Angela Hewitt (piano) performs:
- Bach The
Well-tempered Clavier, Book 1, BWV846-869
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7.30 to 9.30pm, Thursday 9 October |
City Recital Hall, Angel
Place, Sydney
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A Res. Full $85/Con $74; B Res. Full $66/Con $57 |
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Musica Viva Festival - Premier Concert 4
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Julliard String Quartet perform:
Eggner Trio & Sally Boud perform:
Ian Munro & Bernadette Balkus perform:
Jerusalem Quartet perform:
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7.30 to 9.30pm, Friday 10 October 2008 |
City Recital Hall, Angel
Place, Sydney
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A Res. Full $85/Con $74; B Res. Full $66/Con $57 |
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Musica Viva Festival - Premier Concert 5
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Angela Hewitt (piano) performs:
- Bach The
Well-tempered Clavier, Book II, BWV870-893
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1.30 to 4.30pm, Saturday 11 October 2008 |
City Recital Hall, Angel
Place, Sydney
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A Res. Full $85/Con $74; B Res. Full $66/Con $57 |
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Jerusalem Quartet
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Musica Viva presents the Jerusalem Quartet performing:
- Ravel String
Quartet in F major, op 34
- Richard Mills String Quartet no 3 (2008)
- Smetana String
Quartet no 1 in E minor, From My Life
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8pm Saturday 11 Oct and 7pm Monday 20 Oct 2008 |
City Recital Hall, Angel
Place Sydney
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Bookings: 1800 688 482 |
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Musica Viva Festival - Premier Concert 6
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Jerusalem Quartet (Musica Viva Quartet in Residence 2006-09) perform:
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8pm to 10pm, Saturday 11 October 2008 |
City Recital Hall, Angel
Place, Sydney
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A Res. Full $77/Con $67; B Res. Full $60/Con $52 |
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Musica Viva Festival - Premier Concert 7
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Sally-Anne Russell & Australian String Quartet perform:
- Graeme Koehne Three poems of Byron (1991)
Eggner Trio, Dimity Hall & Yvette Goodchild perform:
The Song Company perform:
- ‘Spring’ featuring madrigals by Schütz,
Schein and Weelkes
Juilliard String Quartet & Australian String Quartet perform:
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5pm, Sunday 12 October 2008 |
City Recital Hall, Angel
Place, Sydney
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A Res. Full $85/Con $74; B Res. Full $66/Con $57 |
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Kirill Gerstein In Recital
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Kirill Gerstein (piano) performs works by
Bach,
Beethoven,
Liszt and Busoni. |
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Jerusalem Quartet
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Musica Viva presents the Jerusalem Quartet performing:
- Ravel String
Quartet in F major, op 34
- Richard Mills String Quartet no 3 (2008)
- Smetana String
Quartet no 1 in E minor, From My Life
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A Tribute to Duke Ellington
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Australia’s leading jazzmen James Morrison and Joe Chindamo join the Sydney
Symphony in a celebration of the music of the one and only Duke Ellington, with
new arrangements of evergreen favourites and a selection of Ellington’s
orchestral music. The James Morrison Quartet: James Morrison (trumpet), Joe
Chindamo (piano), Phil Stack (bass) and John Morrison drums. |
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The Boys
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The Sydney Symphony with Dene Olding (violin/director) and Matthew Wilkie
(bassoon) perform:
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Discover Elgar's Enigma
A Musical Lecture
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Elgar loved puzzles, puns and wordplay and peppered his letters to friends
and his music with them. His Variations on an Original Theme is dedicated ‘to my
friends pictured within’. It takes little detective work to discover which
friends he’s depicting – his wife, and, most famously, his publisher Jaeger
(Nimrod) are there, among others. The ‘larger’ theme remains a mystery, but if
anyone can reveal Elgar’s Enigma, it’s the erudite and entertaining Richard
Gill. You can hear the complete Enigma Variations in The Elgar Festival. Richard
Gill (conductor) with the Sydney Sinfonia perform:
- Elgar Enigma
Variations: excerpts
- Vines Scenes from Suburbia: Part III (World premiere)
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The Ancient Art of Gesture - Rare Scarlatti Works in Performance
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 Two
serenatas by Alessandro
Scarlatti (1660-1725)
- Fede, Idolatria e Furore (Faith, Idolatry and Fury)
- Il ratto di Proserpina (The abduction of Persephone)
editions newly published by Australian scholar Dr Marie-Louise Catsalis.
Music Direction & Production Coordination - Dr Alan Maddox; Baroque Gesture and
Staging - Helga Hill; Early Music Orchestra - prepared by Nicole Forsyth
Performances will be given in period style with baroque gesture accompanied by
period orchestra.
These performances come out of a ground-breaking research project at the
Sydney Conservatorium of Music designed to understand exactly how an
historically informed fusion of music and movement works in practice, and what
it can tell us about both the way 17th and 18th-century singers acted, and the
way baroque acting made them sing. Six Conservatorium voice students have been
trained in historical gesture by leading international expert Helga Hill, and in
baroque singing by the Conservatorium’s Dr Alan Maddox, based on his doctoral
research on vocal delivery in Italian baroque opera. Presented with assistance
from the Early Arts Guild of Victoria and the Dene Barnett Foundation. |
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7pm, Thursday 30 October 2008 |
Verbrugghen Hall, Sydney Conservatorium
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TICKETS: $15 full/$10 conc, SCM staff & stud. Free |
Enquiries: (02) 9351 1289 |
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One & Only
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TRIOZ perform:
- Fauré Piano Trio
in D minor, Op.120
- Rebecca Clarke Piano Trio (1921)
- Tchaikovsky
Piano Trio in A minor, Op.50
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7pm, Thursday 30 October 2008 |
City Recital Hall, Angel
Place, Sydney
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Enquiries: (02) 8256 2222 |
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Mozart’s Soprano
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The Australian Brandenburg Orchestra playing on period instruments with guest
soloist, soprano Susanne Rydén performing:
- Haydn Overture
to the opera La fedeltŕ premiata, Sinfonia Hob 1a:11 in D major
- Mozart Aria
Exultate, jubilate, K165
- JC Bach Symphony in E flat minor, Op 18 No 1
- Mozart Aria
Ruhe sanft, mein holdes Leben from the opera Zaide, K344
- Mozart Aria
Ch’io mi scordi di te?, K 505
- Mozart
Divertimento for strings, K136
- Mozart Aria Al
destin che la minaccia from the opera Mitridate, re di Ponto, K87
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7pm, 31 Oct; 1, 5, 7 & 8 Nov 2008 |
City Recital Hall, Angel
Place, Sydney
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Enquiries & bookings: (02) 9328 7581 |
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Elgar Festival - Elgar's Cello Concerto
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The Sydney Symphony with Vladimir Ashkenazy (conductor) and Jian Wang (cello)
perform:
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Grainger Quartet - Night at the Opera
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In the third concert of their 2008 series, the Grainger Quartet perform:
- Berg String
Quartet op 3
- Mozart String
Quartet in E flat major, KV 428
- Puccini
Crisantemi
- Verdi String
Quartet in E minor
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7pm, Tuesday 4 November 2008 |
City Recital Hall,
Angel Place, Sydney
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Bookings: 1300 365 266 |
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Australian Chamber Orchestra - Euphoric
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The Australian Chamber Orchestra with Richard Tognetti (Artistic Director and
Lead Violin) and Timo-Veikko Valve (Cello) perform:
- Prokofiev
Classical Symphony, Op.25 (Symphony No.1)
- Brahms Concerto
for Violin and Cello, Op.102, in A minor
- Beethoven
Symphony No.8, Op.93 in F major
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7.30pm, Wednesday 5 November |
Anita's Theatre, Wollongong
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Bookings: 1800 444 444 |
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David Helfgott in Recital
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Australia’s most famous pianist David Helfgott (whose story is depicted in
the film Shine)
continues his remarkable solo recital performance in Sydney. The stunning
program of romantic compositions from
Rachmaninov,
Chopin and
Liszt, promises to showcase
Helfgott’s mesmerising brilliance for classical enthusiasts and music fans
alike. |
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7.30pm, Thursday 6th November 2008 |
City Recital Hall, Angel
Place, Sydney
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$65 - $69 |
Enquiries: (02) 8256 2222 |
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Australian Chamber Orchestra - Euphoric
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The Australian Chamber Orchestra with Richard Tognetti (Artistic Director and
Lead Violin) and Timo-Veikko Valve (Cello) perform:
- Prokofiev
Classical Symphony, Op.25 (Symphony No.1)
- Brahms Concerto
for Violin and Cello, Op.102, in A minor
- Beethoven
Symphony No.8, Op.93 in F major
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The Elgar Festival - The Spirit of Delight: Elgar 2
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The Sydney Symphony with Vladimir Ashkenazy (conductor) and Lilli Paasikivi
(mezzo-soprano) perform:
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Australian Chamber Orchestra - Euphoric
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The Australian Chamber Orchestra with Richard Tognetti (Artistic Director and
Lead Violin) and Timo-Veikko Valve (Cello) perform:
- Prokofiev
Classical Symphony, Op.25 (Symphony No.1)
- Brahms Concerto
for Violin and Cello, Op.102, in A minor
- Beethoven
Symphony No.8, Op.93 in F major
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8pm, Saturday 8 November, 2008 |
Llewellyn Hall, Canberra
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Bookings: 1800 444 444 |
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The Elgar Festival - Elgar's Enigmas
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The Sydney Symphony with Vladimir Ashkenazy (conductor) and James Ehnes
(violin) perform:
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Australian Chamber Orchestra - Euphoric
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The Australian Chamber Orchestra with Richard Tognetti (Artistic Director and
Lead Violin) and Timo-Veikko Valve (Cello) perform:
- Prokofiev
Classical Symphony, Op.25 (Symphony No.1)
- Brahms Concerto
for Violin and Cello, Op.102, in A minor
- Beethoven
Symphony No.8, Op.93 in F major
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8pm Sat 15 Nov & Tue 18 Nov; 7pm Wed 19 Nov 2008 |
City Recital Hall Angel Place, Sydney
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Bookings: 1800 444 444 |
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Hesperion XXI
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Musica Viva presents Hesperion XXI performing works by Tobias Hume,
Marin Marais, Tarquinio Merula and Diego Ortiz, traditional
and ancient melodies and dances from the Orient and Occident and new songs and
improvisations created by Arianna and Ferran Savall. |
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7pm, Saturday 15 November 2008 |
Llewellyn Hall, ANU School of Music, Canberra
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Bookings: 1800 688 482 |
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Australian Chamber Orchestra - Euphoric
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The Australian Chamber Orchestra with Richard Tognetti (Artistic Director and
Lead Violin) and Timo-Veikko Valve (Cello) perform:
- Prokofiev
Classical Symphony, Op.25 (Symphony No.1)
- Brahms Concerto
for Violin and Cello, Op.102, in A minor
- Beethoven
Symphony No.8, Op.93 in F major
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Pavel Haas Quartet
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Musica Viva presents the Pavel Haas Quartet performing:
- Janáček
String Quartet no 1, after Tolstoy’s The Kreutzer Sonata (1923)
- Pavel Haas String Quartet no 3, op 15
- Beethoven
String Quartet in C major, op 59 no 3, ‘Razumovsky’
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Hesperion XXI
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Musica Viva presents Hesperion XXI performing works by Tobias Hume,
Marin Marais, Tarquinio Merula and Diego Ortiz, traditional
and ancient melodies and dances from the Orient and Occident and new songs and
improvisations created by Arianna and Ferran Savall. |
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7pm Thursday 20 Nov and 8pm Saturday 22 Nov 2008 |
City Recital Hall, Angel
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Bookings: 1800 688 482 |
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The Elgar Festival - The Dream of Gerontius
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The Sydney Symphony with Vladimir Ashkenazy (conductor), Mark Tucker (tenor -
Gerontius), Lilli Paasikivi (mezzo-soprano - Angel), David Wilson-Johnson
(bass-baritone - Priest/Angel of the Agony) and Sydney Philharmonia Choirs
perform:
- Elgar The Dream
of Gerontius
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Australian String Quartet - Cantilena
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The Australian String Quartet perform:
- Richard Meale Cantilena Pacifica from String Quartet no 2
(1987)
- Schubert
String Quartet in A minor D804 "Rosamunde"
- Tchaikovsky
String Quartet no 1 in D major op 11
The prices below are for single concerts and
may involve additional booking service fees. For most Australian String Quartet
performances, single ticket sales are available from 4 February 2008 but in many
cases savings may be made by purchasing a season ticket |
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7pm, Friday 21 November 2008 |
City Recital Hall Angel
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$61 / $47 concession / $20 student |
Bookings (02) 8256 2222 |
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Viennese Classics - Beethoven, Mozart & Schubert
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The Sydney Symphony with Lothar Zagrosek (conductor) and Diana Doherty (oboe)
perform a program of music from composers sometimes referred to as belonging to
the 'First Viennese
School':
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