October is a delightful month on MSO.LIVE.
This October, the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra’s online streaming platform, MSO.LIVE, releases live recordings of classical highlights including Jaime Martínconducting the MSO, and Sir Simon Rattle conducting the London Symphony Orchestra (LSO).
A powerful and timely release of the 2019 performance of Eumeralla: a war requiem for peace draws focus on the landmark October 14 referendum. The month culminates in a livestream performance from Hamer Hall featuring French conductor Chloé van Soeterstède and the MSO on a musical pathway to love and resistance.
MSO.LIVE in October
- 5 October – Tchaikovsky’s Manfred Symphony: Jaime Martín and the MSO
- 12 October – Eumeralla, a war requiem for peace: Jaime Martín and the MSO
- 19 October – Rattle conducts Mahler and Tippett: Sir Simon Rattle and the London Symphony Orchestra
- Livestream | Friday 27 October – Sibelius and Prokofiev: Love and Resistance: Chloé van Soeterstède and the MSO
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Tchaikovsky’s Manfred Symphony
- Release date: Thursday 5 October
MSO.LIVE begins October with Tchaikovsky’s Manfred Symphony, a colourful setting of Byron’s gothic tale of a tortured hero. Tchaikovsky’s only programmatic work in more than one movement, Manfred highlights the composer’s gift for dramatic narrative. Jaime Martin and the MSO bring out the fire in this 2022 performance from Hamer Hall.
Eumeralla, a war requiem for peace
- Release date: Thursday 12 October
In the week of the landmark constitutional referendum to establish an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice to Parliament, and ahead of the in-person performance on 14 October at Hamer Hall, MSO.LIVE releases the powerful 2019 performance of Eumeralla, a war requiem for peace by acclaimed Yorta Yorta soprano and composer Deborah Cheetham Fraillon AO. Sung entirely in the ancient dialects of the Gunditjmara people, Eumeralla commemorates crimes committed against First Nations people during the Eumeralla Resistance War (1840 – 1863).
Rattle conducts Mahler and Tippett
- Release date: Thursday 19 October
The MSO’s ongoing partnership with the LSO bears fruit as we venture into London’s Barbican Centre, where the LSO performs Michael Tippett’s The Rose Lake, and Mahler’s heart-rending and unfinished Symphony No.10 under conducting legend Sir Simon Rattle.
Sibelius and Prokofiev: Love and Resistance
The month concludes with a spectacular livestream that explores music’s role in love and resistance. Illustrious French conductor Chloé van Soeterstède makes her MSO debut with Prokofiev’s playful and charming Classical Symphony. An exciting world premiere follows, with much-loved Australian composer Elena Kats-Chernin’s Sarenka Concerto for violin and cello before the concert closes with Finnish classic Sibelius’Symphony No.1.
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