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The Australian Chamber Orchestra premiered its ground-breaking performance of Vivaldi’s 'The Four Seasons' over 10 years ago across two sell-out national tours.

Beauty can be revolutionary too. Filmed in the grand and expansive Centennial Hall at Sydney Town Hall, the film opens with Schubert's 'Quartettsatz', followed by Vaughan Williams’ ‘The Lark Ascending’. Universally loved, it has long been a calling card for Richard Tognetti and a place for rapture in a pure sense.

This evocative and impassioned concert film pitches Bach’s timeless search for redemption alongside compositions by Richard Tognetti, elevated by the mesmerising vocals of Satu Vänskä.

Directed by Matisse Ruby and filmed at Sydney’s Hordern Pavilion, this spectacular concert film features Artistic Director Richard Tognetti leading the ACO through performances of Arvo Pärt's Tabula Rasa and Shostakovich's Chamber Symphony, integrated with imagery and video projections by renowned cinematographer Jon Frank and Beizj Studio.

How do light and joy come from what feels like our darkest moments? Maybe it is that love can transform, as this concert film does, from sombre hues and shadows to the warmth and radiance of new light and new day.