In a packed year, there are old works, new works and collaborations aplenty – in fact, just about everything but the kitchen sink (and maybe even that too if you keep an eye out). Here are some of the chamber music highlights to look out for.
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The Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra begins the year at the Peninsula Summer Music Festival in early January playing quartets from Grieg and Schubert alongside Robert Schumann’s Frauenliebe und Leben, as well as music by Mozart, Beethoven and Haydn. In April, it presents Mendelssohn’s revival of Bach’s St Matthew Passion with Penelope Mills, Emily Edmonds, Andrew Goodwin, Teddy Tahu Rhodes and Andrew O’Connor as soloists. Its Young Mannheim Symphonists program – Australia’s only national youth orchestra for historical performance – also performs in Brisbane, Sydney and Adelaide with a set of symphonies, including Mendelssohn’s Scottish Symphony.
Paul Ballam-Cross, Limelight
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