Australian Chamber Orchestra - Romantic Symphony Tickets

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An expanded Australian Chamber Orchestra performs two of the most popular Romantic symphonies, Brahms 1st and Schubert’s Unfinished, plus an Australian premiere by Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood.

The ACO plays two of the great Romantic symphonies! That doesn't happen every day. In fact, the ACO has never played a Brahms symphony till now. We do, however, play a Beethoven symphony most years and Brahms’ first symphony is nicknamed Beethoven’s 10th. Poor Brahms, he took decades to finish it, such was the pressure to produce a symphony on a par with Beethoven’s. Most people think he did. Certainly he created a bold, sweeping symphony, perfect for the massed sound of ACO and ACO2 combined.

The ‘Unfinished’ may be Schubert’s most popular work, two movements of tension and turmoil, serenity and lyricism: the Romantic era well and truly underway.

Something else that doesn't happen every day is a pop star writing great orchestral music, but Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood is the real deal. Popcorn Superhet Receiver, heard in the film There Will Be Blood, won the Listeners’ Award at the BBC British Composer Awards. Here’s what the New York Times has to say: “viscerally exciting and intellectually engaging…imagine the scherzo of Tchaikovsky’s Fourth Symphony on steroids.

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