MSO concert streams

Enjoy our online concerts.

Previously recorded performances and live concert streams broadcast via our YouTube channel are listed below.

Join us on the MSO YouTube channel to experience the magic of music, from the comfort of your own home.

Stay tuned for MSO.LIVE, a new online concert platform launching in November 2020!

With a downturn in ticket revenue, your support in exchange for these concert streams is most welcome.

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Best of MSO Live Online Vol. 2

The second instalment of Best of MSO Live Online features works by Elgar and Boccherini, Winter from Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, plus Vaughan Williams’ The Lark Ascending featuring concertmaster Dale Barltrop.
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Best of MSO Live Online Vol. 1

Join us for some of the best performances selected from our 2020 livestreams! Featuring stunning Australian works plus Copland’s Appalachian Spring.
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Verdi, Wagner and Vine

Conducted by Sir Andrew Davis, you’ll be treated to highlights from Wagner’s Die Walkure, Verdi’s Otello, and Carl Vine’s dramatic Microsymphony.
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Last Leaf

Danish String Quartet’s Last Leaf, arranged for MSO Quintet by Michelle Wood, is the second album by the Nordic ensemble.
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Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring

Classical music changed forever on May 29, 1913, when The Rite of Spring premiered at the Champs-Elysées theatre in Paris.

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Eumeralla, a war requiem for peace

Written and composed by the acclaimed Deborah Cheetham AO, and sung entirely in the ancient dialects of the Gunditjmara people.

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Beethoven Symphony No. 7

Never before had rhythm been given such a fundamental role in Beethoven’s music – it generates the symphony’s structure, melodic and harmonic gestures and its powerful rhetoric.

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Tognetti and The Lark Ascending

Tognetti and The Lark Ascending

Featuring Richard Tognetti on violiln performing one of Vaughan Williams’ most-loved masterpieces, The Lark Ascending.

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Beethoven Septet

Having broken new ground, Beethoven was able to capture the essence of a full orchestra but on a smaller scale with this piece for a single clarinet, horn and bassoon, violin, viola, cello and double bass.

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Mendelssohn's Octet

Composed when he was just 16 years old, Mendelssohn’s Octet was one of his favourite compositions. He has been quoted as saying “I had a most wonderful time in the writing of it!”
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