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Event Series Esmé Quartet

Musica Viva Australia: Esmé Quartet

Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
Eloquent. Spellbinding. Monumental. Exquisite. How else can we describe the Esmé Quartet? Based in Germany, this ensemble launched its international career by winning first prize at the 2018 International String Quartet Competition at London’s Wigmore Hall. The ensemble then embarked on a whirlwind year of concerts in North America, Hong…
Editor's Choice Event Series Mahler’s Song of the Earth

Australian Chamber Orchestra: Mahler’s Song of the Earth

Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
“I have got to accept the horrors of loneliness,” Mahler wrote to Bruno Walter before working on Das Lied von der Erde. He had just lost his daughter Maria to scarlet fever and been diagnosed with an incurable heart condition, yet he still wrote what musicologist Deryck Cook described as…

Quartz Music: Patrick Savage – Unveiled: Icons of Cinema

Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
Immerse yourself in rare premieres and cinematic wonders. You are invited to experience the world premieres of rarely-heard classical masterpieces by iconic Golden Age Hollywood composers. Following this, delight in musical gems from film scores by Saint-Saëns, Copland, Shostakovich, Schnittke and John Williams. Don’t miss your opportunity to immerse yourself…
Event Series Blazing Trails

Melbourne Chamber Orchestra: Blazing Trails

Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
Join us as we celebrate composers who made the world better through music and amplified overlooked voices — whether it was Vivaldi’s work in music education, Mahler’s reappraisal of the work of Beethoven, or Florence Price’s tireless advocacy for women of colour. Claire Edwardes is Australia’s most recognisable percussionist, a…

Event Series Blazing Trails

Melbourne Chamber Orchestra: Blazing Trails

Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
Join us as we celebrate composers who made the world better through music and amplified overlooked voices — whether it was Vivaldi’s work in music education, Mahler’s reappraisal of the work of Beethoven, or Florence Price’s tireless advocacy for women of colour. Claire Edwardes is Australia’s most recognisable percussionist, a…

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra: Dvořák’s Eighth Symphony

Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
Dvorak’s Eighth Symphony is, simply, a joy. The music has a natural, unforced quality that belies its complexity, and layers of truly original textures and ear-worm-worthy melodies shine with sparkling clarity. Learn more about this marvellous work, with presenter Nicholas Bochner giving context and meaning to the music, as the…
Event Series Kirill Gerstein

Musica Viva Australia: Kirill Gerstein

Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
Kirill Gerstein is a showman, a philosopher, and a poet of the piano. He grew up playing jazz, switched to classical and won the Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition at just 22. Since then, he has carved out a formidable reputation as a fearless artist who makes the impossible…

Event Series Vanguard

Australian String Quartet: Vanguard

Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
When premiered in 1825, Beethoven’s Op.127 quartet stunned listeners with its innovation of expression and form. This work heralded a dramatic shift in Beethoven’s trajectory, having already taken the string quartet to unprecedented heights. The first of his late quartets, here we glimpse a far more personal, philosophical, and inward-looking…

Andrew Kay and Associates: David Helfgott – Farewell Tour

Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
Acclaimed pianist David Helfgott returns to bid a fond farewell to his long-performing career which has been closely associated with Melbourne Recital Centre. Playing some of his favourite solo piano works of Chopin and Liszt and performing Rachmanioff’s third piano concerto in its version for two pianos with British pianist,…
Event Series Jewels in the Crown

Selby & Friends: Jewels in the Crown

Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
A S&F favourite, violinist Natalie Chee returns in 2024 for a brilliant and unusual program featuring Beethoven’s mighty ‘Kreutzer’ Sonata with Kathryn Selby. Accomplished performer and mentor Lloyd Van’t Hoff opens the program with what is considered the greatest work composed for clarinet and piano with Brahms’ second sonata followed…
Event Series Jewels in the Crown

Selby & Friends: Jewels in the Crown

Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
A S&F favourite, violinist Natalie Chee returns in 2024 for a brilliant and unusual program featuring Beethoven’s mighty ‘Kreutzer’ Sonata with Kathryn Selby. Accomplished performer and mentor Lloyd Van’t Hoff opens the program with what is considered the greatest work composed for clarinet and piano with Brahms’ second sonata followed…