TRANSCENDENCE
Location
The Edge, Federation Square
About
This will be the first concert performance of the Yarra Philharmonic Orchestra since 2019. It will feature two major works of the symphonic canon - Beethoven's Symphony No. 7, and Vaughan Williams' Symphony No. 5. Although written more than a century apart, connections between these works were immediately drawn upon the premiere of Vaughan Williams' symphony in 1943. A reviewer in The Times (UK) wrote that the Vaughan Williams symphony "belongs to that small body of music that, outside of late Beethoven, can properly be described as transcendental … music not only of contemplation but of benediction".