Selby & Friends – Swedish Delight

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Swedish cello legend Torleif Thedéen will headline chamber music group Selby and Friends’ next Australian tour this September in a programme which includes Beethoven’s Sonata in G minor for cello and piano, opus 5 no 2.

Thedéen is a prolific performer in the concert halls, festivals and chamber salons of the world and on disc for the major labels. He has worked with the best – the Royal Philharmonic, City of Birmingham SO, BBC Philharmonic, the Hallé Orchestra and Dresden Staatskapelle, with conductors like Esa‐Pekka Salonen, Neeme Järvi and Franz Welser‐Möst,  in venues which include the Concertgebouw, Carnegie Hall and Wigmore Hall. He has recorded for DG, BIS, EMI and Decca.

The program’s centrepiece is the world premiere of a new work by Paul Dean, especially commissioned by Selby and Friends’ audience.

The programme: 

Claude Debussy Cello Sonata in D minor, L.135
Ludwig van Beethoven Sonata for Cello and Piano in G minor, Op.5 No.2
Paul Dean New work – S&F Audience Commission —World Première
Edvard Grieg Cello Sonata in A minor, Op.36

Tickets: Adult: $69/Senior: $64/Student/Pensioner: $45/Under 30: $37

Free tickets are available to Children 14 and under when accompanied by an adult. The offer is available only over the phone or at the counter.
Please call the Box Office on 02 8256 2222 or 1300 797 118.

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