Romantic Bruckner

Wagner only wrote one comedy, and if its grandeur makes it a very Wagnerian one, the opera’s magnanimity and humanity shine through in its overture.

Talented Australian pianist Andrea Lam is back for the city’s first performance of Strauss’ piano concerto, his witty Burleske, that opens with an attention-grabbing timpani solo.

No Bruckner symphony has a specific programme, but the Fourth is the only one to which he gave a title, and it’s a fitting one, too. This is music that evokes chivalrous deeds and grand heroism.