In this special concert recording, The Cat Empire join forces with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra in an electrifying collaboration. Together, they perform exciting new material as well as The Cat Empire classics re-invented for the orchestral world, drawing on the vibrant worlds of Afro-Cuban, Sey...

English subtitles available via Closed Captions.

In March 2024, Arnold Schoenberg's Gurrelieder was transformed into a musical tapestry of monumental scale, featuring an orchestra of 140 musicians and a chorus of 285. This unmissable experience was captured beautifully in Sydney to celebrate Sch...

Presented by the Sydney Symphony and Ray Chen, Play with Ray will make dreams a reality for three emerging violinists. Together, they’ll perform Bach’s extraordinary and dramatic Concerto for Two Violins, with each violinist featuring in one movement alongside Ray Chen. Bach’s beautiful interweav...

To celebrate the reopening of the Concert Hall, and a season of new beginnings, the Sydney Symphony Orchestra turn to Mahler’s mighty Second Symphony with new Chief Conductor, Simone Young. Mahler worked on this symphony in Hamburg as musical director for the Hamburg State Opera – the same compan...

Presented in association with Sydney Symphony Orchestra

In Brahms’ First String Sextet his best qualities shine through – gorgeous melodies and a rich romantic sound. The sextet adds an extra viola and cello to the conventional string quartet, and Brahms makes full use of the additional lower vo...

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.

In Elgar’s Introduction and Allegro a string quartet of soloists are supported by a s...

Lively and energetic. Uplifting music by Mozart and Beethoven.

Graceful, vivacious, energetic.

Mozart’s Piano Concerto No.19 combines all the qualities that makes his music such a joy to listen to, and our soloist Simon Tedeschi brings a delicate touch and crystal clarity to this performance. B...

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.

Dvořák’s Serenade for Winds creates a rich and full sound with only a small ensemble of musicians. This loving tribute to the Cze...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

"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 the world premiere of Movement for String Quartet, composed by Sydney Symphony Viola Justin Williams.

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 ...