Paul Daniel leads the grand opening of our 2010 season with three musical portraits of the sea: from Debussy’s evocative impressionist view to a new Australian song by Andrew Ford with words from Tim Winton’s novel
Breath.
Majestic. Heroic. Triumphant. The music of Beethoven continues to captivate and his
Emperor Concerto is the best-loved piano concerto of all time.
The ever changing emotions in Dvorák’s
Slavonic Dances offer the perfect opportunity for Vladimir Verbitsky to deliver his always passionate performances with his beloved WASO.
It’s said that Mahler’s symphonies are like life itself - a soaring description of joy, of nature, of happiness and of triumph over adversity.
Dennis Russell Davies, former music director of the City of Bonn - Beethoven’s birthplace - brings enormous authority to this work of the great Classical master. Philip Glass is one of the great composers of our time, equally at home in film music as in orchestral writing. His Symphony No.6 receives its Australian premiere.
Prokofiev tells the story of star-crossed lovers in music that stirs the passions.
The renowned Alexander Lazarev makes a welcome return to WASO, and phenomenal Chinese violinist Feng Ning reminds us why Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto is a favourite of audiences around the world.
Beethoven’s Symphony No.9 is one of the greatest symphonic works ever written. Concluding with the passionate
Ode to Joy, this work speaks its message of freedom and love across the ages.