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 …
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 …
From the opening notes we dive straight in to this performance by the ACO and are treated to a superb concert full of magnificent playing that is highly accomplished, unobtrusively flamboyant and totally captivating.
The quintet is divided into four …
This was a very striking and unusual concert for the wonderful Australian Chamber Orchestra led by the brilliant Richard Tognetti.
This is the latest in the marvellous series of studiocasts with photography by director Matisse Ruby and her team …
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 Australian Chamber Orchestra (ACO) will return to City Recital Hall and Wollongong Town Hall next month to present Beethoven 250, paying tribute to the most influential composer to have ever lived, Ludwig van Beethoven. The socially distanced concerts …
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 …