Music for Healing

Due to continued uncertainty posed by COVID-19 restrictions in New South Wales, the Australian Chamber Orchestra's performances of Music of Healing from Saturday 28 August to Wednesday 1 September have been cancelled. 

The meditative nature of music helps us repair and renew by heightening our awareness, invigorating our senses and revealing the truth of our feelings. That is at the heart of Pēteris Vasks’ Vox amoris which is a journey through love and the full range of human expression.

Just as Vox amoris explores the depth of human experience, this concert examines our emotions and the fragility of mental health. Drawing from the experience of two friends dealing with difficult personal periods, Iain Grandage’s Black Dogs confronts uncertainty and darkness, before building into an almost funk-like affirmation of survival. Black Dogs features guitarist Slava Grigoryan who will also perform Albéniz’s famous Asturias in a special arrangement for guitar and string orchestra, before Pink Floyd’s Shine On You Crazy Diamond returns us to the delicate balance between inner and outer health, and the trust in light emerging from darkness.

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Details correct at the time of publication.

• Program

  Haas

  String Quartet No.2, Op.7 “From the Monkey Mountains”: IV. A Wild Night (arr. Tognetti)

  Feldman

  Rothko Chapel: 5th Movement

  Pink Floyd

   Shine On You Crazy Diamond (arr. Tognetti)

  Albéniz

  Asturias (Leyenda) (arr. guitar & strings)

  Haas

  String Quartet No.2, Op.7 “From the Monkey Mountains”: III. The Moon and I (arr. Tognetti) 

  Anna Thorvaldsdottir

  Illumine

  Iain Grandage

  Black Dogs

  Pēteris Vasks

  Vox amoris

• Artists

  Richard Tognetti

  Director

  Slava Grigoryan

  Guitar

  Australian Chamber Orchestra