Enjoy this short excerpt of Brahms’s Academic Festival Overture, conducted by Alexander Briger from our inaugural concert in 2011. In less than 2 weeks, Alexander Briger will join us again in to conduct the orchestra in what will be a phenomenal, emotional performance of Mahler’s 9th Symphony. 22 Nov - Melbourne 24 Nov - Sydney https://www.australianworldorchestra.com.au/whats-on/2023-2/ | The Australian World Orchestra

The Tragic Overture, Op. 81, by Johannes Brahms premiered under Hans Richter, on December 26, 1880 in Vienna. We share with you this video of Leonard Bernstein conducting the Vienna Philharmonic / Wiener Philharmoniker in an excerpt of Brahms's Tragic Overture, recorded at the Musikvereinssaal in 1981. | Leonard Bernstein