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The White Hat Guide to the Piano
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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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Sidney Myer Free Concerts: No.3 - Rising Star
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Hat always looks forward to the Sidney Myer Free Concerts as one of the
highlights of the summer in Melbourne. They are made available free to the
people of Melbourne (and visitors) through the philanthropy of the late
Sidney Myer and performed in the
wonderful outdoor Music Bowl which he also contributed to the city.
The remarkable music scheme that started in Venezuela in 1975 known as
Venezuelan Sistema has given the world some wonderful and inspiring
classical music performances and musicians. Diego Matheuz is one of the the
latest musicians to emerge from this powerhouse, and at just 26, is bringing his
combination of Latin flair and technical mastery to the world’s leading
orchestras. This concert is your chance to experience one of today’s rising
musical personalities in a program of sumptuous, powerful classics. He is joined
in this concert by Australian pianist Ian Munro.
Performed by The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra with Diego Matheuz (conductor)
and Ian Munro (piano)
This is a free concert and details of conditions of entry and what you are
able to bring with you is available
here.
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Melbourne Town Hall Proms - Beethoven and Dvorák
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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.
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Melbourne Town Hall
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7.30pm, Friday 18th May 2012 |
Bookings through Ticketmaster: 1300 72 30 38 |
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Russian Visions
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 The
Australian Chamber Orchestra with Richard Tognetti (Artistic Director and Lead Violin),
Steven Osborne
(piano) and David
Elton (trumpet).
Tchaikovsky’s Souvenir is one of his sunniest and most exuberant works and
Shostakovich's first piano concerto is full of pyrotechnics for the pianist and
accompanying trumpet. What is sometimes less recognised is that this work calls
for first rate string playing from the orchestra. For that reason, White Hat
suggests you take the opportunity to get along and hear it with one of the best
string ensembles in Australia - or any other country for that matter.
8pm,
Saturday 10th November 2012,
Llewellyn Hall, ANU, Canberra
2,30pm 11th Nov; 8pm 12th Nov 2012.
The Arts Centre, Hamer Hall,
Melbourne
7.30pm, Wednesday 14th November 2012,
Perth Concert Hall, Perth
7pm 17 Nov; 8pm 20 Nov; 7pm 21 Nov 2012,
City Recital Hall Angel Place, Sydney
8pm, Monday 19th
November 2012, QPAC Concert Hall, Brisbane
7.30pm, Thursday 22nd November 2012,
Newcastle City Hall, Newcastle
2pm, Sunday
25th November 2012, Sydney Opera House, Sydney
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Gershwin/Grainger Gershwin An American in Paris
(original 2 piano version)
Grainger Fantasy on Gershwin's 'Porgy and Bess'
performed by Katia and Mariel Labčque - pianos
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