The Sydney Morning Herald has selected our ILLUMINATE concert program as one of the best cultural events taking place over summer.
“After a year in the dark, Sydney's smaller, independent ensembles are also turning the lights back on. The Australian Romantic and Classical Orchestra – ARCO to its friends – had to cancel all of its 2020 concerts but in 2021 it is back with its unique brand of historically-informed music-making. Their first program veers heavily towards the romantic, featuring Tchaikovsky's melting Souvenir to Florence and Max Bruch's evocative Serenade to Strings after Swedish Folk Melodies, while soprano Jacqueline Porter is soloist in Illuminations, Benjamin Britten's radiant settings of French poet Arthur Rimbaud's words.”