Dates
Wednesday 08 October 2025
7:30pm at Riverlinks Eastbank, Shepparto Tickets available via Riverlinks Venues
Thursday 09 October 2025
7:30pm at Wangaratta Performing Arts Centre Tickets available via WPAC
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
Featured artists
MSO’s regional touring program is supported by Creative Victoria, AWM Electrical, Freemasons Foundation Victoria, and the Robert Salzer Foundation.
MSO’s Wangaratta performance is supported by the Rural City of Wangaratta.
