4 1/2 stars
Presently the Australian Chamber Orchestra are running a short and precious tour of their 2017 movie with live music “Mountain” written, directed and produced by Jennifer Peedom. It was a full house right …
3 ½ stars
The City Recital Hall was crammed to the rafters last night. The crowd were keen to see the much anticipated opening to the tour “Cocteau’s Circle” with the Australian Chamber Orchestra. Based around the …
ANAM Sketches 2025 presented by the Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM) in partnership with Australian Chamber Orchestra (ACO) from 3pm Sunday 7th September 2025 at The Neilson, ACO On The Pier
THE REPERTOIRE –
(a) Erkki VELTHEIM (b. 1976)…
Each year the Melbourne-based, Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM) brings together 70 of Australia’s finest graduate-level musicians for an intense program comprising lessons, classes, coaching, seminars, rehearsals and over 200 public concerts.
The training program includes industry partnerships with …
A stunning performance by the ACO led by Richard Tognetti, with fiery, blistering, tempestuous playing of the richly layered music.Directed by Matisse Ruby and dramatically shot (photography by Drew English) this is a powerhouse performance of what is arguably Beethoven’s …
Led by Richard Tognetti, this was a magnificent concert by the Australian Chamber Orchestra filmed at City Recital Hall, the first of their online Studiocasts.
The concert opened frenetically with explosively emphatic strings in Schubert ‘s ( arr.Tognetti ) ‘Quartettsatz …
The wonderful concert that brought the ACO’s 2019 season to a close was entitled BRAHMS/DVORAK with the ACO in glorious rich and finely nuanced form under the leadership of Tognetti whose conducting was precise , vigorous and yet extremely expressive …
ACO INTIMATE BACH
CITY RECITAL HALL
OCTOBER 2019
A magnificent , many layered concert that had this reviewer in raptures at times .It was also full of contrasting but associated sounds .At times aspiring to be futuristic it is also …
A glorious concert with magnificent performance by the ACO , led by Richard Tognetti and Croatian -born soloist Dejan Lazic on piano , focusing on music mostly by Mozart and showcasing the ACO’s great strengths as well as exploring the …
The individual elements in this landmark production are tremendous but I found the performance dark , somewhat disturbing and perhaps a bit fragmented and disjointed ( which , I understand , is at least partly what the ACO intended ).…