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Performance details

Wednesday 8 October 2025 at 7:30pm
Riverlinks Eastbank, Shepparton

Thursday 9 October 2025 at 7:30pm
Wangaratta Performing Arts & Convention Centre

Program

Glinka Overture to Ruslan and Ludmilla
Saint-Saëns Violin Concerto No.3
Brahms Symphony No.1

About this performance

Join the MSO 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.

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’.

Featuring

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
Leonard Weiss conductor
Tair Khisambeev violin

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These performances are supported by AWM Electrical, Estate Late Blanch Brooke Hutchings, Freemasons Foundation Victoria, Perpetual Foundation – Alan (AGL) Shaw Endowment, and the Robert Salzer Foundation.

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MSO’s Wangaratta performance is supported by the Rural City of Wangaratta.

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