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Classic Drive with Julia Lester
Weekdays at 5 pm
Slava and Leonard Gregoryan, the Romeros Guitar Quartet and James and Joseph Tawadros (pictured) - musicians appearing at the Adelaide Guitar Festival in the spotlight. This week on the verandah - Katie Noonan's new album of music by Lennon and McCartney. » more

Keys to Music goes beneath the surface of Swan Lake
Saturday 22 November at 9.05am
Graham Abbott looks at the story behind the story of Tchaikovsky's first ballet » more

The Dream of Gerontius live
Thursday 20 November at 8pm
The final broadcast from the Sydney Symphony's Elgar Festival features this visionary oratorio with the Sydney Philharmonia Choirs and soloists Lilli Paasikivi (pictured), Mark Tucker and David Wilson-Johnson » more

Coming up on ABC Classic FM

Tuesday 18 November

• IN PERFORMANCE: Live Broadcast Australian String Quartet – 7.30pm
  In a live broadcast from Adelaide Town Hall, the Australian String Quartet opens tonight's concert with Richard Meale’s serene String Quartet No 2 'Cantilena Pacifica'.
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Wednesday 19 November

• IN PERFORMANCE: Bergen International Festival – 8.00pm
  This concert from the land of the midnight sun brings together a quartet of sterling string players including Janine Jansen (violin) and Julian Rachlin (violin and viola), to perform Shostakovich’s String Quartet No 7.
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Thursday 20 November

• IN PERFORMANCE: Live Broadcast Sydney Symphony Orchestra – 8.00pm
  ‘This is the best of me; for the rest, I ate, and drank, and slept, loved and hated, like another: my life was as the vapour and is not; but this I saw and knew; this, if anything of mine, is worth your memory.’ – Edward Elgar, written in the score of Dream of Gerontius.
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