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Twelve concerts displaying the power and passion of classical and comtemporary music
Conductor Giordano Bellincampi
Violin Anthony Marwood
Wagner Die Meistersinger: Overture
Thomas Adès Violin Concerto ‘Concentric Paths’
Berlioz Symphonie fantastique
Wagner kicks off the season with the grand yet warm overture to his only comedy.
Violin Tianwa Yang
Piano Nicholas Rimmer Cello Gabriel Schwabe Beethoven Triple Concerto Bruckner Symphony No.7 A rare performance of Beethoven’s lightest, most charming concerto.
Cello Gabriel Schwabe
Beethoven Triple Concerto
Bruckner Symphony No.7
A rare performance of Beethoven’s lightest, most charming concerto.
Conductor Tadaaki Otaka
Piano Alessio Bax
[John] Ritchie Suite No.1 for Strings
Grieg Piano Concerto
Sibelius Symphony No.5
One delightful tune after another!
Conductor Ludovic Morlot
Cello Umberto Clerici
Lili Boulanger D’un matin de printemps
Elgar Cello Concerto
Stravinsky Petruska
Sydney Symphony Orchestra principal cellist Umberto Clerici joins the APO to play Elgar’s elegiac concerto.
Violin James Ehnes
Strauss Metamorphosen
Bruch Violin Concerto No.1
Schumann Symphony No.3 'Rhenish'
The superstar violinist James Ehnes is absolutely not to be missed.
Conductor Mikhail Tatarnikov
Violin Andrew Beer
Khachachurian Gayane Suites (excerpts)
Ligeti Violin Concerto
Tchaikovsky Symphony No.6 Pathétique
Andrew Beer! Our marvellous concertmaster plays Ligeti’s brilliant (and fiendishly difficult) concerto.
Conductor Tung Chieh Chuang
Pipa Wu Man
Harrison Pipa Concerto
Shostakovich Symphony No.1
To hear an unfamiliar instrument is a revelation, but doubly so when its unsuspected depths are revealed by a virtuoso.
Conductor Bertrand de Billy
Organ Benjamin Sheen
Debussy Prélude à L’Apres-midi d’une faune
Poulenc Organ Concerto
Franck Symphony in D minor
Hear the mighty Auckland Town Hall organ let rip, as the British organist Benjamin Sheen plays Poulenc’s darkly Gothic (but very French) concerto.
Conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy
Violin Viktoria Mullova
Tchaikovsky Romeo and Juliet Fantasy: Overture
Sibelius Violin Concerto
Dvorák Symphony No.7
Vladimir Ashkenazy is, quite simply, one of the greatest musicians alive.
Conductor Kazuki Yamada
Piano Louis Schwizgebel
Arvo Pärt Fratres
Bartok Music for Strings, Percussion and Celeste
Ravel Piano Concerto
Ravel Bolero
The most hypnotic piece in the business and always exhilarating.
Cello Harriet Krijgh
Mozart Symphony No.29
Haydn Cello Concerto No.1
Strauss Also sprach Zarathustra
Best known for that music in 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Violin Ning Feng
Salina Fisher New work
Beethoven Violin Concerto
Neilsen Symphony No.5
APO favourite Ning Feng returns with Beethoven’s titanic concerto.
