The Metropolitan Orchestra (TMO) conducted by Sarah-Grace Williams finishes its 2012 season with its largest orchestra for the year, presenting music that it new to its repertoire. It will be the first time TMO has performed a Brahms symphony, when they perform his Symphony No 1 in C minor opus 68, alongside Schubert’s Symphony Number 8 in B minor ‘Unfinished’ , D…
It’s a treat for lovers of wind music when the principal wind musicians of The Metropolitan Orchestra gather to present the orchestra’s final “Indy Series” chamber music concert for 2012, featuring the music of D’Indy, Beethoven and Mozart. D’Indy’s (1851 – 1931) Chansons et danses, op 50 is a turn of the century Wagner inspired septet for the…
Cellist Patrick Murphy Cellist Patrick Murphy joins the Metropolitan Orchestra (TMO), conducted by Sarah-Grace Williams, for its September MET series concerts in North Sydney and Balmain, performing Camille Saint-Saëns’ much loved Cello Concerto No 1 in A minor, opus 33. Although his first concerto for cello, Saint-Saëns was already an experienced composer of the larger orchestral form, having already written four…