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The White Hat Guide to the Conservatorium Theatre
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Australian String Quartet - Towards Light
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The Australian String Quartet have new personnel for 2012 and White Hat feels
it is appropriate that for their first concert the new ensemble should emerge
out of the dreamtime with Peter Scunthorpe's Jabiru Dreaming (String Quartet
No.11). Dvořák as at his tuneful best in his String Quartet No.10 then
the concert finishes with one of the great 20th century chamber works -
Shostakovich's Piano Quintet. This work captures Shostakovich in one of his rare
moments of relaxation and seeming contentment. We have rated this concert at 4
hats on potential and, who knows, after this new ensemble has been heard for the
first time this may become 5 hats.
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St Lawrence String Quartet and Diana Doherty
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Hat suggests that lovers of the oboe should head out of their way for this
concert. Diana Doherty is an Australian oboist who has won international
acclaim. In this concert she joins with the fine St Lawrence String Quartet
to perform Mozart's F major oboe quartet which is tuneful and refined - you
would expect nothing less of Mozart and later performs Australian composer
Matthew Hindson's Rush with its driving rhythms borrowing strongly from
rock and pop music. Mozart's quartet is flanked by string quartets from fellow
Viennese, Haydn and Beethoven.
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7pm, Wednesday 18th April 2012 |
Conservatorium Theatre, Brisbane
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Enquiries & bookings: 1800 688 482 |
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Australian String Quartet - Legacy
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The Australian
String Quartet's second concert in their 2011 combines early Beethoven, late
Brahms and the Australian composer Brett Dean who will also be playing viola.
White Hat suggests that the richness of texture provided by the additional viola
should make this a particularly satisfying concert.
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Beethoven
String Quartet in D, Op 18 No 3
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Brett Dean Epitaphs for Viola and String Quartet
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Brahms
String Quintet in G, Op 111 (with Brett Dean, viola)
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Takács Quartet
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White Hat expects that this may well be on of the standout chamber music
concerts of the year in Australia. Debussy's delicate and atmospheric string
quartet together with Janáček's passionate first quartet both played by the
ensemble most acknowledge to be one of the finest string quartets in the world.
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7pm, Mon 25th June 2012 |
Conservatorium Theatre, Brisbane
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Enquiries & bookings: 1800 688 482 |
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Amarcord
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 White
Hat suggests that if you love unaccompanied singing you take several weeks off
work and visit "a cappella" - the annual international festival of
unaccompanied vocal music in Leipzig - where you will hear great a cappella
ensembles from around the world. If you don't have that time or cash to spare, a
much cheaper but highly satisfying option is to head along to this concert
performed by the ensemble who initiated the festival and who are recognised as
one of the finest male vocal ensembles in the world.
Tales of Love and Murder. Renaissance madrigals by Encina,
des Prez,
Lassus,
Gesualdo and others, and
part-songs by Saint-Saëns,
Schubert,
Mendelssohn,
Poulenc, and folk songs from
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7pm, Wednesday 1st August |
Conservatorium Theatre, Brisbane
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Enquiries & bookings: 1800 688 482 |
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Australian String Quartet - Sunrise
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When ABC listeners voted on their top 100 chamber works, Bartók's 3rd and 4th
string quartets didn't get a guernsey. However In White Hat's list of top 100
chamber works both came within the top 20. Why not go along to this concert by
the Australian
String Quartet with Paul Dean (clarinet) and judge whether you think the ABC
listeners are right or whether White Hat is right. Mores seriously, why not go
along and experience some seriously good music performed by some seriously good
performers.
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7pm, Monday 17th September 2012 |
Conservatorium Theatre, South Bank, Brisbane
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Tickets available from
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Kuss Quartet & Naoko Smizu
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The Kuss Quartet is a regular at Carnegie and Wigmore Halls and Shimizu was
the first female Principal Viola of the Berlin Philharmonic so this concert
promises to deliver string quintet playing of the highest level.
- Gordon Kerry String Quintet (2012)
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
String Quartet no 21 in D major, KV575
- György Kurtag Officium Breve in Memoriam Andreae Szervánszky,
op 28
- Johannes Brahms
String Quintet no 2 in G major, op 111
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7pm, Wednesday 26th September |
Conservatorium Theatre, Brisbane
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Enquiries & bookings: 1800 688 482 |
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Anthony Marwood and Aleksandar Madžar
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Beethoven's Kreutzer
Sonata is justifiably well-known and loved as one of the great works of
the violin sonata repertoire. However White Hat believes that
Debussy's Violin
Sonata, the last work he completed and the last that he performed in
public, is yet to be afforded the status it deserves by the public. This fine
pair of instrumentalists are sure to do them both justice.
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7pm, Wednesday 7th November 2012 |
Conservatorium Theatre, Brisbane
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Enquiries & bookings: 1800 688 482 |
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