Mozart Clarinet Quintet, Schubert & Hummel

VIENNESE VOGUE

Mozart’s sparkling, beloved Clarinet Quintet remains one of his most celebrated works. In 1808 it inspired his former student and protégé Johann Nepomuk Hummel, whose Clarinet Quartet is a beautiful chamber music work. We also hear Schubert’s unfinished String Trio D.471, a lyrical gem.

Tuesday 14 March | 6.30pm
R J Phipps Performing Arts Centre
The Hills Grammar School
43 Kenthurst Road, Kenthurst

Thursday 16 March | 7.00pm
The Neilson, ACO Pier 2/3
Hickson Road, Dawes Point

Beethoven Septet & Louise Farrenc Nonet

NEW PERSPECTIVES

Large-scale chamber music at its finest! Beethoven’s Septet set an extremely high bar for composers combining strings and winds, a work whose ease and charm disguise its complexity. Fifty years after Beethoven, acclaimed French pianist and composer Louise Farrenc’s Nonet is a brilliant gem that demonstrates her undoubted talent.

Wednesday 31 May | 6.30pm
R J Phipps Performing Arts Centre
The Hills Grammar School
43 Kenthurst Rd, Kenthurst

Friday 2 June | 7.00pm
The Neilson, ACO Pier 2/3
Hickson Rd, Dawes Point

Mendelssohn Scottish & Beethoven Eight

MIDSUMMER DREAMS
Rachael Beesley | Conductor

Mendelssohn was greatly inspired by a visit to Scotland when he was 20, his ‘Scottish’ Symphony recalling the dramatic landscapes of that northern land. Beethoven’s Eighth Symphony is harder to pinpoint, a fascinating work that leaps from loud to soft without warning, and at every turn surprises and confounds expectations.

Sunday 6 August | 3.00pm
Richard Bonynge Concert Hall
Joan Sutherland Performing Arts Centre, Penrith

Tuesday 8 August | 7.00pm
The Concourse
409 Victoria Ave, Chatswood

VOYAGE OF MUSICAL DISCOVERY

The Voyage of Musical Discovery music education series was established and designed by the Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra and its founding artistic director and world-renowned educator, the late Richard Gill. Each of the three programs is designed for intergenerational audiences. Both school groups and the general public are warmly invited to discover this unique way to explore music from the past and present in a new light.