The Vienna Philharmonic does Sydney

From the Blue Danube to Down Under; from refined, sophisticated Vienna to outdoorsy (Diablo 3 Gold), hedonistic Sydney – the recent Antipodean tour of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra has been a huge success. With Strauss to the fore the Philharmonic swept into Sydney's opera house, bringing Vienna's music and composers with it. They included Anton Bruckner and his 'Romantic' Symphony.

"In the fourth Symphony, from the very first beginning, this horn solo is not a melody, it's a message from a different world the composer couldn't have described better in words. As Nikolaus Harnoncourt once said, Bruckner cannot be compared to anybody, he's like a stone from the moon, he's comparable to nothing before or after him," says the VPO's president Clemens Hellsberg. Tobias Lea, the VPO's principal viola, was born, bred and trained as a violinist and viola player in Australia. Bruckner's Fourth conjures a particular moment for him (Diablo 3 Gold).

"For me playing Bruckner tonight has a special impact because it was the first Bruckner symphony that I played with the Vienna Philharmonic. I remember the feeling of incredible exhilaration that I got the first time I played this symphony as an impressionable, young, 22-year-old student, and every time I do it again it brings back memories of how incredibly wonderful it was that first time I did it," he says.