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Richard Tognetti directs the Australian Chamber Orchestra in an explosive performance of Beethoven's electrifying Violin Concerto, paired with the monumental Fifth Symphony. This performance was filmed live at Sydney Opera House in 2018.

★★★★★ “The expanded ACO achieved revealing clarity that gl...

Richard Tognetti and the Australian Chamber Orchestra perform Bach's beloved Goldberg Variations, arranged for strings.

PROGRAM
BACH (arr. Bernard Labadie) - Goldberg Variations
Australian Chamber Orchestra

ARTISTS
Richard Tognetti - Director & Violin
Erin Helyard - Keyboards

In 2019, Artistic Director Richard Tognetti and ACO Principal Cello Timo-Veikko Valve took centre stage in Brahms’s vast and brilliant Double Concerto. Tognetti then lead the Orchestra through one of the most glorious symphonies of the 19th Century, Dvořák’s Symphony No.8.

Opening the concert is...

Pietro Locatelli's Violin Concert in D major, dubbed 'The Harmonic Labyrinth, is one of the most fiendishly difficult pieces of music ever written for the violin.

The original manuscript for the concerto is was inscribed with'Facilis aditus, difficilis exitus', which means 'easy to enter, diffi...

It’s a passionate and sweepingly epic work, but there’s also drama off stage in what is arguably Beethoven’s most loved and performed violin sonata.

Known as The Kreutzer for its dedication to the violinist Rudolphe Kreutzer, lost in history is its original dedication to George Bridgetower, a f...

Schubert’s career was marked by admiration for Beethoven and his desire to match the heights achieved by his hero. In his “perfect” Quintet, possibly the best longform piece of chamber music ever written, he achieved that goal.

Composed in the final weeks of his life, the writing is symphonic, a...

Directed by Matisse Ruby and filmed at Sydney’s Hordern Pavilion, this spectacular concert film features Artistic Director Richard Tognetti leading the ACO through performances of Arvo Pärt's Tabula Rasa and Shostakovich's Chamber Symphony, integrated with imagery and video projections by renowne...

How do light and joy come from what feels like our darkest moments? Maybe it is that love can transform, as this concert film does, from sombre hues and shadows to the warmth and radiance of new light and new day.

‘Vox amoris’, written for Richard Tognetti in 2009, is an exquisitely beautiful an...

At a time when we are all grappling with finding trust in this new world and hope for the future, it is astonishing how relevant Bach remains. This evocative and impassioned concert film pitches Bach’s timeless search for redemption alongside compositions by Richard Tognetti, elevated by the mesm...

Beauty can be revolutionary too, as this debut release in our inaugural season of concert films, ACO StudioCasts, will prove.

Filmed in the grand and expansive Centennial Hall at Sydney Town Hall, the film opens with Schubert's Quartettsatz, followed by Vaughan Williams’s ‘The Lark Ascending’. ...