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If you are having trouble viewing this newsletter, please try the online version at the ABC website 18 January Greetings from ABC Classic FM. Don't the miss the chance to hear our talented young musicians in action in our final live broadcast from the AYO National Music Camp tomorrow from 8pm. Many of our Summer features continue next week .... and Margaret Throsby returns to the Midday program from Monday. Enjoy. KEYS TO MUSIC CONCERT IN ADELAIDE 2013 marks the centenary of the birth of one of the 20th century's most important composers, Benjamin Britten. You're invited to join Graham Abbot and the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra for a special Keys To Music Concert looking at Britten's last orchestral work, his Suite on English Folk Tunes. Graham and the ASO will explore the music from the inside out and perform the complete work in this one-hour concert. There are two performances: 11am and 1pm on Wednesday 30 January in the Grainger Studio, Adelaide. Visit the ASO for details and bookings. >>more WIN TICKETS TO THE MET OPERA IN HD - VERDI'S AIDA Join Mairi Nicolson for The Opera Show 4pm Saturday to hear how you can be in the running for a double pass to a HD screening of Verdi's Aida on Saturday 26 January at a cinema near you. The Metropolitan Opera's award-winning series of operas in HD feature Met productions captured live in High Definition and screened in cinemas around Australia. >>more AYO NATIONAL MUSIC CAMP - LIVE Join us 8pm Saturday for our final live broadcast from the Australian Youth Orchestra's 2013 National Music Camp in Adelaide. Tonight's concert will include Bach's Orchestral Suite No 5 in G minor and Wassenaer's Concerto Armonico No 5 in B flat. You can listen to last week's concert here .  >>more 80 YEARS OF CLASSICAL MUSIC AND THE ABC - PART THREE: 1957-1973 Resurrection Symphonies: 80 Years of Classical Music and the ABC continues on Sunday at Midday . This third program, 1957-1973: The Generation Gap - ABC Music Meets Youth Culture examines the exciting period when John Hopkins steered ABC Music into a brave new world of youth culture. The final episode will be broadcast at the same time next week. >>more BEST OF SUNDAY LIVE Elena Kats-Chernin Celebration - Sunday 20 January, 3pm In the classical music world, Elena Kats-Chernin is one of Australia's most popular and prodigious composers as you'll hear today's recital from June 2012. We'll hear some new and familiar works in this selection chosen by one of Australia's leading piano soloists, Tamara Anna Cislowska. Also playing are the Australia Quartet, the UTS Piano Quartet in Residence: Veronique Serret, violin; James Wannan, viola; Thomas Rann, cello and Tamara Anna Cislowska, piano. >>more FEATURES AND CONCERT HIGHLIGHTS: 18 - 25 January Some listening highlights for the weekend and next week...enjoy.  Friday 18 January - 8pm Evening Concert - WASO with Cedric Tiberghien At the Perth Concert Hall, acclaimed French pianist Cedric Tiberghien joins the West Australian Symphony Orchestra in performing Elgar's Froissart Overture, Ravel's Piano Concerto in G, Liadov's The Enchanted Lake and Mendelssohn's Symphony No 4 in A, Op 90 (Italian). Saturday 19 January - 8pm Saturday Evening Concert - AYO National Music Camp - Live Don't miss our final live broadcast and enjoy the exhilarating sound of 200 young Australian musicians playing in three orchestras, presented by Simon Healy from the stage of Adelaide University's Elder Hall. Sunday 20 January - 1pm Sunday Afternoon Concert - Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra Conducted by Edward Gardner, the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra is joined by soprano Elin Rombo in performing Britten's Sinfonia da Requiem and Les Illuminations along with Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique. Monday 21 January - 8pm Evening Concert - Aleksandar Madzar and Anthony Marwood At the City Recital Hall, Angel Place, Sydney, Aleksandar Madzar (piano) and Anthony Marwood (violin) perform a selection including Gordon Kerry's Martian Snow Beethoven's Violin Sonata No 9 in A, Op 47 (Kreutzer), and Debussy's Sonata for violin and piano. Tuesday 22 January - 1pm Afternoon Concert - AYO National Music Camp 2013 From this year's AYO National Music Camp in Adelaide, we hear the Martin Chamber Orchestra, Alexander Orchestra, Bishop Orchestra performing a selection including Telemann's  Overture in D, TWV55:D14, Purcell's Chaconne in G minor and Elgar's Variations on an Original Theme (Enigma). Wednesday 23 January - 8pm Evening Concert - TSO ANAM Concerto Competition At the Federation Concert Hall, Hobart, the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, Aidan Boase (piano), Shane Chen (violin), Josh Rogan (trumpet) and Jack Schiller (bassoon) perform Mozart's Bassoon Concerto in B flat, Jolivet's Concertino for Trumpet, Piano and Strings, Liszt's Totentanz and Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto in D. Thursday 24 January -8pm Evening Concert - A Hot Night in Brazil The Sao Paulo Symphony Orchestra and violinist Hilary Hahn perform Barber's Adagio for Strings, Prokofiev's Violin Concerto No 1 in D, Bach's Violin Partita No 3 in E and Rachmaninov's Symphony No 2 in E minor in the Concert Hall, Sao Paulo. Friday 25 January - 1pm Afternoon Concert - German Symphony Orchestra Berlin Conducted by Francesco Angelico and featuring Daniela Koch (flute) and Emmanuel Ceysson (harp), we'll hear Ravel's Le Tombeau de Couperin, Ibert's Flute Concerto, Ginastera's Harp Concerto and Ravel's Mother Goose Suite. 'Like' us on facebook Follow us on Twitter NEW FROM ABC CLASSICS Music For The Mind This beautiful collection is called 'Music for the Mind' but really it's for the mind and heart. As acclaimed neuroscientist, Oliver Sacks, says in his book, Musicophilia, music calls to both parts of our nature, the intellectual and emotional. 'We may be moved to the depths,' he says 'even as we appreciate the formal structure of a composition.' LIMELIGHT MAGAZINE limelight - January 2013 The January issue of Limelight is one of the biggest ever: we choose the 100 Essential Classical Masterworks and their Finest Recordings. From Bach to Britten, Argerich to Abbado, it's an indispensable guide to the works and discs every music lover simply must own. In a fascinating interview, Chinese pianist Lang Lang talks about the composer closest to his heart, Frederic Chopin. You are subscribed to this ABC newsletter with the email address: "idouska1.scan@blogger.com" If you no longer wish to receive this newsletter, please unsubscribe here. If someone forwarded this newsletter to you, please feel free to subscribe here. Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 700 Harris Street, Ultimo NSW 2007 © 2011 ABC | Conditions of Use | Privacy Policy | Discover other ABC email newsletters