Ruth Leon recommends…Classical Vienna – Melbourne Chamber Orchestra

Classical Vienna – Melbourne Chamber Orchestra

​Click here for tickets : Digital Ticket: $20 AUD (direct to artist) plus $4 charge   March 5 at 2.30pm 

 This sounds like it’s going to be a terrific concert, all the way from Melbourne, Australia, although we’re intended to magic ourselves to Vienna, the European capital of music making for hundreds of years. The Melbourne Chamber Orchestra is playing music by four composers who lived and worked in Vienna at the same time, and even played in a quartet together in the 1780s.

The two expert tour guides for our musical travels through space and time are pianist Stefan Cassomenos who will take us to visit exquisite, rarely-heard concertos by Mozart & Haydn; and Zoe Black, one of Australia’s leading violinists and directors, will guest-direct the Australian premieres of dramatic symphonies by Vanhal & Dittersdorf.

This is really imaginative music-making, worth doing the sums to work out what time 2.30pm in Melbourne is wherever you are (it’s 3.30am GMT). However, if you’re not a night owl, all digital tickets come with 72-hour viewing starting from the morning after the concert. Simply log in  and go to your My Tickets folder in the top menu to watch the recording.

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