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Johannes Brahms - the White Hat guide

 

 

Some forthcoming Australian concerts and performances featuring the music of Brahms:

Melbourne Town Hall Proms - Beethoven and Dvorák

The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra with Andrew Grams (conductor) and Andreas Haefliger (piano).

The inspiration of the folk music and culture of his native Bohemia invests Dvorák’s music with enormous energy and spirit, and his Seventh Symphony explodes with all the passion and vigour of this inspiration. Paired with works by two German masters who inspired him, this concert of great classics is pure delight.

Dvorák took the Germane tradition of music developed by Beethoven and Brahms and combined it with inspiration drawn from the folk music and culture of his native Bohemia to create the wonderful Symphony No.7. It is both tuneful and exuberant and well suited to a prom concert.

Melbourne Town Hall -

7.30pm, Friday 18th May 2012 Bookings through Ticketmaster: 1300 72 30 38

Australian String Quartet - Legacy

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.

  • Beethoven String Quartet in D, Op 18 No 3

  • Brett Dean Epitaphs for Viola and String Quartet

  • Brahms String Quintet in G, Op 111 (with Brett Dean, viola)

7pm, Tuesday 5th June 2012, Adelaide Town Hall
7pm, Thursday 7th June 2012, Conservatorium Theatre, South Bank, Brisbane
7pm, Monday 11th June 2012, Perth Concert Hall
7pm, Thursday 14th June 2012, Melbourne Recital Centre
7pm, Friday 8th June 2012, City Recital Hall, Angel Place, Sydney

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Tickets available from Australian String Quartet

Melbourne Town Hall Proms - Organ Classics at Town Hall

The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra with Andrew Davis (conductor) and Cameron Carpenter (organ)

The concert opens in Sir Andrew Davis’ own transcription of Bach’s Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor, for orchestra. This is followed by Poulenc's organ concerto - a work well suited to show off the mighty Town Hall Organ - before finishing with Brahms second symphony.

Melbourne Town Hall -

7.30pm, Friday 22nd June 2012 Bookings through Ticketmaster: 1300 72 30 38

Beethoven 9 - Ode to Joy

Clare College Choir

The Australian Chamber Orchestra with Richard Tognetti (Artistic Director and Lead Violin), Choir of Clare College, Cambridge (Graham Ross Director), Lucy Crowe (soprano), Fiona Campbell (mezzo soprano), Allan Clayton (tenor) Matthew Brook (bass)

White Hat has long believed that many modern performance of Beethoven symphonies by large symphony orchestras lack the vitality and drive of a performance by a first rate chamber orchestra - supplemented where necessary - of the proportions that Beethoven was writing for For those who share this view we suggest you look no further. Critics called the ACO'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.”

Joined by one of the finest British choirs this concert promises to be something special where every note Beethoven wrote can be heard rather than lost in a sea of overblown orchestral 'atmosphere'.

8pm, Saturday 4th August 2012, Llewellyn Hall, ANU, Canberra
2pm, 5th Aug; 8pm, 9th Aug 2012, Sydney Opera House, Sydney
8pm, Monday 6th August 2012, QPAC Concert Hall, Brisbane
8pm, 7 Aug; 7pm, 8 Aug; 7pm 11 Aug 2012, City Recital Hall Angel Place, Sydney
2.30pm 12 Aug; 8pm, 13 Aug 2012, The Arts Centre, Hamer Hall, Melbourne
8pm, Tuesday 14th August 2012, Adelaide Town Hall, Adelaide
7.30pm, Wednesday 15th August 2012, Perth Concert Hall, Perth

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Buy tickets direct from ACO here

Kuss Quartet & Naoko Smizu

Kuss Quartet  

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

7pm, Thursday 20th September 2012, Llewellyn Hall, ANU School of Music, Canberra
7.30pm, Friday 21st September 2012, Adelaide Town Hall, Adelaide
8pm, Saturday 22nd September 2012, Elisabeth Murdoch Hall, Melbourne Recital Centre, Melbourne
7pm, Wednesday 26th September, Conservatorium Theatre, Brisbane
2pm, Saturday 29th September 2012, City Recital Hall, Angel Place, Sydney

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