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Available as part of the Geelong and Saturday Matinee Series.
Individual tickets available from 14 October 2026 at 10am
Dates
Friday 10 September 2027
7:30pm at Costa Hall, Geelong
Saturday 11 September 2027
2:00pm at Hamer Hall
Duration
Approx. 2 hours and 5 minutes including a 20-minute interval
Accessibility
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Wheelchair, walker and scooter accessible
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Assistive listening devices available
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Service animals allowed
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Companion Card accepted
About this performance
Program
Hensel (Fa. Mendelssohn) Overture in C
Mozart Violin Concerto No.5
J.S. Bach Orchestral Suite No.4
Fe. Mendelssohn Symphony No.5 Reformation
About this performance
With elegance, flair, ceremonial splendour and exhilarating triumph, this music is an ongoing dialogue between past and present.
Felix Mendelssohn composed his Reformation Symphony as a way to honour the 300 years since the reformation from Catholicism to Protestantism, and the cultural and spiritual heritage of Lutheran Germany. It evokes an air of nobility, and an atmosphere of affirmation and hope. Two years later, Felix’s sister Fanny would write her vibrant and highly-coloured Overture in C, her only orchestral work without voices.
Longtime MSO collaborator Christian Li joins for Mozart’s Violin Concerto No.5. A work requiring spontaneity and flexibility, the composer’s usual grace is interrupted by an unruly middle episode, written “Turkish” in style, as was fashionable at the time.
As it so often does, everything comes back to Bach. He stands quietly behind every work on this program: as a model for Mozart, as inspiration for Fanny Mendelssohn, and a guiding artistic presence for Felix Mendelssohn. Bach’s Fourth Orchestral Suite radiates festivity, with brilliant trumpets and timpani, uniting refinement with enthusiasm.
But the magic is, whether you know the history or not, where these works are concerned the feeling is the same. Musical ignorance can too be bliss!
Featuring
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
Jaime Martín conductor
Christian Li violin
Enhance your experience
Want to learn more about the music being performed? Arrive early for an informative and entertaining pre-concert talk.
10 September at 6:45pm
Costa Hall, Geelong
11 September at 1:15pm
Hamer Hall Stalls Foyer
