An Evening with the MSO

Next date: Thursday, 09 October 2025 | 07:30 PM to 09:20 PM

Join the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and conductor Leonard Weiss for an unforgettable evening filled with timeless masterpieces from Glinka, Saint-Saëns and Brahms.

The Overture to Glinka's opera Ruslan and Lyudmila is the epitome of orchestral curtain-raisers, with a furiously fast and infectious opening and rollicking good fun throughout.

Assistant Concertmaster Tair Khisambeev will showcase the expressive virtuosity of Saint-Saëns' Violin Concerto No. 3, filled with soaring melodies and dazzling passages.

The opening of Brahms’ First Symphony is astonishing – it seems to have already been playing when we, the audience, intrude upon its crashing chords. This dramatic entrance sets the stage for a symphony filled with buttery lyricism and boisterous momentum, with its signature sound being thoroughly Brahms’.

Program
Glinka Ruslan and Ludmila: Overture
Saint-Saëns Violin Concerto No.3
Brahms Symphony No.1

Featuring
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
Leonard Weiss conductor
Tair Khisambeev violin

MSO’s Wangaratta performance is supported by AWM Electrical, Freemasons Foundation Victoria and the Robert Salzer Foundation.

       

 

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