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Mendelssohn - the White Hat guide
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Chopin & Mendelssohn's Octet
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The Australian Chamber Orchestra with Richard Tognetti (Artistic Director and Lead Violin)
and Polina Leschenko (piano). The orchestras three wonderful
heritage violins – a Stradivari, a Guarneri and a Guadagnini - will display
their wares in the Paganini caprices. Chopin's
first piano concerto is a much
loved work full of romantic lyricism and although Górecki is best known for his haunting and heartfelt Symphony of
Sorrowful Songs, his Piano Concerto bristles with driving rhythms and energy.
The concert ends with one of the glories of chamber music - Mendelssohn's
Octet. In White
Hat's experience ACO's performance of this work is the equal of any performance
you are likely to hear anywhere else in the world.
7pm Sat 11th Feb; 8pm Tue 14th Feb; 7pm Wed 15th Feb 2012,
City Recital Hall Angel Place, Sydney
2pm,
Sunday 12th February 2012,
Sydney Opera House, Sydney
8pm, Monday 13th February 2012, QPAC Concert Hall, Brisbane
7.30pm, Thursday 16th February 2012,
Newcastle City Hall, Newcastle
8pm, Saturday 18th February 2012,
Llewellyn Hall, ANU, Canberra
2.30pm, Sun 19th Feb; 8pm, Mon 20th Feb 2012,
Melbourne Town Hall, Melbourne
8pm, Tuesday 21st February 2012,
Adelaide Town Hall, Adelaide
7.30pm, Wednesday 22nnd February 2012,
Perth Concert Hall, Perth
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Melbourne Town Hall Proms - Tognetti Plays Mendelssohn
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The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra with Nigel Westlake (conductor), MSO Chorus,
Richard Tognetti (violin) and Simon Casey (treble).
Although Mendelssohn wrote more than one violin concerto, the Violin
Concerto in E minor is universally referred to as the Mendelssohn
Violin Concerto. It deserves its position as one of the most popular, most
tuneful and beautifully crafted concertos in the repertoire. Australian composer
Nigel Westlake, possibly best known as a composer of film music (including
award-winning scores for Babe, Miss Potter, Antarctica and
Solarmax) introduces his newest and powerful work born out of profound
tragedy
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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
around the world.
7.30pm, Saturday 28th July 2012,
Harold Lobb Concert Hall,
Newcastle Conservatorium of Music, Newcastle
7pm, Monday 30th July 2012,
City Recital Hall, Angel
Place, Sydney
7pm, Tuesday 31st July 2012, Elisabeth Murdoch Hall, Melbourne Recital Centre,
Melbourne
7pm, Wednesday 1st August,
Conservatorium Theatre, Brisbane |
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Australian Brandenburg Orchestra - Beautiful Minds
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 In
an age when "awesome" has come to mean fleetingly interesting rather than
inspiring awe, you could be forgiven for ignoring the publicist's attachment of
the word "beautiful minds" to this concert. However in this case White Hat
believes the hype is well founded. To have written magical works by your mid
teens and by your death in your mid thirties to have left the world with some of
its most glorious music does require a beautiful mind and both Mozart and
Mendelssohn possessed one.
Mozart's clarinet concerto was written for the basset clarinet of the period
but is most often heard today on the modern orchestral clarinet involving the
minor rewriting of some of the passages featuring the lower notes. Only a few
notes you may say, but with Mozart every note is important. Here is a rare
opportunity to hear Mozart's clarinet concerto featuring the instruments for
which he wrote it.Craig Hill (bassett clarinet) and Madeleine Easton (period
violin) perform with the
Australian
Brandenburg Orchestra (Artistic Director Paul Dyer)
7pm, Wed 24th, Fri 26th, Wed 31st Oct, Fri 2nd & Sat 3rd Nov
2012; 2pm Sat 3rd Nov, City Recital
Hall, Angel Place, Sydney
7pm, Sat 27th Oct & 5pm Sun 28th Oct 2012, Melbourne Recital Centre |
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