2017 TICKETS ON SALE MON 28 NOV
PIANO CLASSICS
SOMETHING DIFFERENT 11 Feb
MARTHA ARGERICH PLAYS BEETHOVEN
MUSIC UNDER THE MOON
Join us for the special event of the year... the decade... when legendary pianist Martha Argerich makes her long-awaited Australian debut performing Beethoven’s spirited Piano Concerto No.1.
Tan Dun is at the helm for a night of spectacular and colourful music held on the final night of the Chinese New Year.
19 –20 May
HÉLÈNE GRIMAUD PLAYS BRAHMS French pianist Hélène Grimaud is renowned for her independent spirit and bold interpretations. She joins the SSO for Brahms’s monumental D minor piano concerto,
“Hélène Grimaud is ‘a reinventor of phrasings, a taker of chances’”
Illustration: Gabby Malpas
29 June–1 July
VIOLIN CLASSICS
ON SALE 28 NOV, DON’T MISS OUT!
25–30 October
JANINE JANSEN RETURNS Sibelius & Mahler Dutch violinist Janine Jansen returns to Sydney to play Sibelius’s great Violin Concerto in a program with Mahler’s sublime First Symphony.
The New Yorker
RUSSIAN HIGHLIGHTS 17–18 February
Ashkenazy’s Shostakovich Tribute
MAXIM VENGEROV PLAYS BRAHMS
10 –13 November
DRAMATIC SHOSTAKOVICH Shostakovich’s bravely epic Fifth Symphony – tagged ‘A Soviet Artist’s Reply to Just Criticism’ – restored him to (precarious) favour. Ray Chen performs the First Violin Concerto, full of nocturnal musings and stirring virtuosity.
15–18 November
GRIPPING SHOSTAKOVICH
Robertson conducts Tchaikovsky 5 Brahms’s Violin Concerto is an undisputed masterpiece and the perfect vehicle for Maxim Vengerov’s long-awaited return to the SSO. Then, Chief Conductor David Robertson conducts Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No.5.
One of Shostakovich’s greatest creations, his Cello Concerto No.1, and the powerful Eighth Symphony show how great artistry emerges from tragic experience.
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