Cellist Nicolas Altstaedt guest-directs and performs with the Australian Chamber Orchestra in a programme spanning the Baroque to the present. At its centre is C. P. E. Bach’s virtuosic Cello Concerto in A major, Wq. 172. The concert also includes Mendelssohn’s String Symphony No. 4, Scelsi’s Chukrum: I, Mozart’s Adagio and Fugue in C minor, and Kurtág’s Ligatura – Message to Frances-Marie in an arrangement for strings. It culminates in a string-orchestra arrangement of Beethoven’s String Quartet in F major, Op. 13.