3 Performance Package for Australian Chamber Orchestra
Australian Chamber Orchestra- Add 3 Performance Package for Australian Chamber Orchestra: Saturday 9 June 2012, 7:00pm to your calendar Saturday 9 June 2012, 7:00pm
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Three performance packages for the Australian Chamber Orchestra are now available!
Danielle De Niese
Saturday 9 June, 7:00pm
Tuesday 12 June, 8:00pm
Wednesday 13 June, 7:00pm
Danielle de Niese was born in Melbourne and won Young Talent Time aged nine, then moved to Los Angeles, won an Emmy and made her debut with the LA Opera aged 15. She has blossomed into one of the hottest properties in opera, enrapturing
audiences in roles like Cleopatra, Euridice and Susanna at Glyndebourne, the Metropolitan Opera and on screen.
To celebrate her professional debut in her home country, De Niese sings a specially commissioned Australian work, which also marks the centenary of Australia's Nobel laureate Patrick White. She also shines in Mozart's joyous Exsultate jubilate, matched with a flourish by a symphony from one of Mozart's early operas.
Schubert's haunting song, "Death and the Maiden", is at the heart of Schubert's famous and dramatic quartet.
"De Niese has a voice made for Mozart: bright, beautiful, agile and creamy." National Public Radio
Richard Tognetti – Artistic Director & Lead Violin
Danielle de Niese – Soprano
Program
MOZART Symphony K196/121, ("La finta giardiniera")
VINE New work (text by Patrick White)
MEALE Cantilena Pacifica
MOZART Exsultate jubilate
SCHUBERT (arr. Tognetti) Death and the Maiden
SCHUBERT (arr. Tognetti) String Quartet No.14, ("Death and the Maiden")
Trout Quintet & Quartet for the End of Time
Saturday 14 July, 7:00pm
Tuesday 17 July, 8:00pm
Wednesday 18 July, 7:00pm
This concert pairs two great works inspired by very different experiences away from home, both written for the musicians available and, as a result, for unusual combinations of instruments.
Aged 22, Schubert had his first holiday in the country. In the "Trout", he captures the mood of those carefree summer days and his ecstatic delight in the countryside, in warm, beguiling melodies and harmonies.
A prisoner of war, Messiaen wrote the Quartet for the End of Time for the musicians he found in the camp, premiering it to an audience of inmates and guards. "Never" he said, "was I listened to with such rapt attention and
comprehension." Critic Alex Ross calls it "the most ethereally beautiful music of the 20th century...as overpowering now as it was on that frigid night in 1941."
Australian Chamber Orchestra Principals are joined by clarinettist Paul Dean and dynamic young pianist Saleem Abboud Ashkar, making his Australian debut.
Helena Rathbone – Violin
Christopher Moore – Viola
Timo-Veikko Valve – Cello
Maxime Bibeau – Double Bass
Paul Dean – Clarinet
Saleem Abboud Ashkar – Piano
Program
SCHUBERT Piano Quintet, ("Trout")
MESSIAEN Quartet for the End of Time
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Beethoven 9, Ode to Joy
Tuesday 7 August, 8:00pm
Wednesday 8 August, 7:00pm
Saturday 11 August, 7:00pm
The Australian Chamber Orchestra's internationally-acclaimed Beethoven symphony series reaches its climax with Symphony No.9, "Ode to Joy", featuring one of the finest British choirs and an exceptional line-up of soloists.
Critics called the Australian Chamber Orchestra's recent Beethoven concert in London "the finest concert of the summer" and spoke of "thrilling playing", "vibrant drive" and "total involvement", concluding,
"this compact chamber orchestra matches anything Europe can offer in energy, precision and interpretative rigour."
Building to the symphony, a trio of serene yet intense works, swelling to Beethoven's depiction of a sea voyage.
"Tognetti has given us Beethoven that is alive and hot, fresh and memorable." The Australian
Richard Tognetti – Artistic Director & Lead Violin
Choir of Clare College, Cambridge (Graham Ross Director)
Lucy Crowe – Soprano
Fiona Campbell – Mezzo Soprano
Allan Clayton – Tenor
Matthew Brook – Bass
Program
MESSIAEN Prayer of Christ ascending towards his Father, from L'Ascension
BRAHMS Geistliches Lied
BEETHOVEN Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage
BEETHOVEN Symphony No.9
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Mozart, Handel & Vivaldi Concertos
Saturday 13 October, 7:00pm
Tuesday 16 October, 8:00pm
Wednesday 17 October, 7:00pm
One of the world's finest keyboard players, respected conductor and historian, and director of the Academy of Ancient Music, musical firebrand Richard Egarr directs this concert of rousing Baroque music from the harpsichord and performs Mozart's
delightful Piano Concerto No.12 on the fortepiano.
Egarr's program displays all the invention and innovation that abounded through the 17th and 18th Centuries, calling on virtuosic techniques that still excite the ear. Egarr introduces the music in talks one hour before each concert.
Satu Vänskä is soloist in a dashing Vivaldi concerto on the Australian Chamber Orchestra's Stradivarius violin.
"The Bernstein of Early Music....He's one of the most exciting and delightful musicians of our time." National Public Radio
Richard Egarr – Guest Director, Harpsichord, Fortepiano
Satu Vänskä – Lead Violin
Program
CORELLI Concerto Grosso, Op.6 No.1
CASTELLO Two Sonatas, ("per stromenti d'arco")
BIBER Battalia
VIVALDI Violin Concerto, RV190
MOZART Piano Concerto No.12
HANDEL Concerto Grosso, Op.6 No.1
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Russian Visions
Saturday 17 November, 7:00pm
Tuesday 20 November, 8:00pm
Wednesday 21 November, 7:00pm
As soon as he played with the Austrailan Chamber Orchestra, Steven Osborne wanted to return with Shostakovich's Piano Concerto No.1, for it requires an immensely virtuosic string orchestra, flexibility and humour veering on craziness. The time has
now come with this all-Russian concert.
Brimming with carefree energy, Tchaikovsky's Souvenir is an exuberant postcard from an Italian summer holiday. "The ACO...set the audience in a spin with its heady version of Tchaikovsky's Souvenir de Florence. Richard Tognetti was intent on
making the most of the Russian nostalgia, romancing his violins, sending the audience into a clapping frenzy." Herald Sun
Richard Tognetti – Artistic Director & Lead Violin
Steven Osborne – Piano
David Elton – Trumpet
Program
PROKOFIEV (arr. Barshai/Tognetti) Visions fugitives
SHOSTAKOVICH Piano Concerto No.1
SHOSTAKOVICH Octet
TCHAIKOVSKY Souvenir de Florence
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Photo credit: Paul Henderson
3 Performance Package
Prices: $153 - $279
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