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When one sees the word “Erotica” in connection with classical music, one is usually safe in assuming that it’s a misprint in the title of Beethoven’s Third Symphony. And yet, at the Australian Chamber Orchestra’s concert on Saturday, it was no Freudian slip: Erwin Schulhoff’s Sonata Erotica, which the composer suggestively marked “nur für Herren” (for men only), was on the program.

Einen weiten Bogen spannten Amarcord Wien und Iris Vermillion bei der Styriarte; von Schönbergs Brettl-Liedern über Weills Opern bis hin zu Stolz‘schen Operettenmelodien.