Ingrid Filter performs Chopin. Sydney Symphony Orchestra. Concert Hall, Sydney Opera House. October 30 – November 2, 2024
Image (above): Ingrid Filter. Photographer: Gary Houlder
They’re dubbed the Romantic Generation of composers. All were born around 1810 and all died early, Robert Schumann, hallucinatory, suicidal and in mental anguish; Frederic Chopin from tuberculous, and Felix Mendelssohn at 38, melancholic and after a series of strokes.