Sydneysiders missed out on the triumphant Westlake/Sibelius/Janáček concerts presented by the Australian World Orchestra in Melbourne and Canberra this year, under the baton of the band’s Chief Alexander Briger. But they weren’t to be entirely deprived of the fruits of Australia’s orchestral diaspora, with a chamber offering – not unlike 2017’s Chamber 8 – coming to City Recital Hall under the banner of the AWO Six.

Natalie Chee, Daniel Dodds, David Berlin, Tahlia Petrosian and Andra Darzins. Photo supplied

The AWO’s army-of-generals approach – the ensemble is chock-full of Australian concertmasters and principals from orchestras around the world – was reproduced in miniature here, with a crack squad consisting of violinists Natalie Chee (First Concertmaster of the Radio Symphony Orchestra in Stuttgart) and Daniel Dodds (Artistic Director and Leader of the Festival Strings Lucerne), violists Andra Darzins (Professor of Viola at the University of Music, Stuttgart, and Guest Principal for a swathe of German orchestras) and Tahlia Petrosian (violist with the Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig) as  well as two cellists who live and work in Australia: Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Principal David Berlin and Australian...