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Legs On The Wall
A frozen world floats high over Sydney Harbour. But for how long?

Co-presented by Sydney Opera House and Sydney Festival
Originally broadcast 15 January 2022

Hanging in the balance
A colossal block of ice suspended above Sydney Harbour. On it, a woman alone. Isolated on th...

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Liminal is a bold contemporary music film series featuring eight Australian artists as they create unique live performances for the screen.

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Liminal is a bold contemporary music film series featuring eight Australian artists as they create unique live performances for the screen.

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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are warned that the following content may contain images and voices of deceased persons.

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Join Sydney Symphony for Guillame Paque’s Souvenir de Curis, performed in memory of Peter Weiss AO, lifetime friend and beloved benefactor of the Orchestra.

Programmed by Principal Cello Umberto Clerici, Paque’s cello quartet is melancholic and elegant, sad yet playful.

“Peter wanted everyone t...

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Written by Justin Williams

In just a single movement, composer Justin Williams captures the full expressive range of the string quartet, with wild and dramatic playing battling against mo...

Composed by Sydney Symphony Percussion Timothy Constable in 2009, Last Waltz has the groove of a Viennese Waltz, but in this case it’s “syncopated and twisted…and kind of loud.”

Program
Timothy Constable Last Waltz

Artists
Timothy Constable Composer and Percussion
Rebecca Lagos Percussion
Mark ...

"A miniature Italian opera, with two faintly unlikely impersonators of the soprano and tenor – a pair of double basses."

‘How he bewildered us’, wrote a listener. Giovanni Bottesini played ‘as though he had a hundred nightingales caged in his double-bass!’

Double bass soloists were rare then as...

Watch Ben Folds and musicians from the Sydney Symphony in this inspiring and spontaneous collaboration.

Using lyrics submitted by poetry competition winner Matthew Galer as their inspiration, Ben Folds and the musicians worked together for 25 minutes to create and perform the final result.

As ...

Considered one of the pieces that brought Brahms back out of retirement, the Clarinet Quintet is a lush masterpiece filled with colour.

In 1891, while attending a festival in the small town of Meiningen, Brahms heard the Principal Clarinettist of the local orchestra performing and was so awestru...

Dvořák’s passion for folk music can be traced back to its popularity in his childhood. Fragments of folk music can be heard in most of his pieces, especially Terzetto in C.

Dvořák would have been delighted to see Sophie Cole, Georges Lentz, and Sandro Costantino getting together back in June 202...

Impassioned and soulful. Led by our Concertmaster Andrew Haveron and featuring Sydney Symphony’s former Principal Harp Louise Johnson, this performance includes gorgeous music by Elgar, Debussy and Tchaikovsky.

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Uplifting and jubilant. These masterpieces of German Baroque music explore the popular stylised dances of the era, brimming with energy and character.

J.S. Bach was a master of musical invention, and in his First Orchestral Suite his creativity is on full display. Each movement invokes the chara...

Colourful and surprising. This music by Dvořák and Bartók showcases the immense diversity of sound and expression that the instruments of the Orchestra have to offer.

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Lively and energetic. Uplifting music by Mozart and Beethoven.

Graceful, vivacious, energetic.

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