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A rare occasion to hear live music Down Under: the ACO in Sydney

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“an intimate conversation, almost too tender for outside listeners to be part of”
Reviewed at City Recital Hall, Sydney on 14 November 2020
Schubert, String Quartet in C minor "Quartettsatz" D.703
Vaughan Williams, The Lark Ascending
Clyne, Stride (World premiere)
Beethoven, Cavatina & Grosse Fuge (arr. Tognetti)
Australian Chamber Orchestra
Richard Tognetti, Director
Australian Chamber Orchestra in Melbourne: Gershwin, Shostakovich
****1
Bach sheds light in an impressively dark outing from the ACO
****1
Mesmerising, but relentless Brahms and Beethoven from the ACO
****1
Why isn't the music enough? “Silence and Rapture” from the ACO
***11
Symphony or song cycle? Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde in Sydney
***11
A walk to Beethoven: Bezuidenhout and the Australian Chamber Orchestra
***11
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