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The White Hat Guide to Classical Music in Perth & Western Australia

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Below is a listing of classical music concerts and performances in Perth & WA.

 

 

 

 

 

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Perth Moonlight Cinema - Don Giovanni /i>

Watch a movie in the night air in the outdoor setting of Synergy Parkland in Kings Park. Tickets from $18/$16/$14 plus booking fee. Full details and bookings at Moonlight Cinema. Enter from May Drive. Gates open at 6.30pm and screenings start at approximately 8pm. Moonlight Perth is a non-licensed venue. Alcohol is not available for purchase but you can BYO food and drink. There is a candy bar on site. Tonight's movie is Don Giovanni
Friday 10th February 2012

Kings Park -

Chopin & Mendelssohn's Octet

Polina Leschenko

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.

7.30pm, Wednesday 22nnd February 2012

Perth Concert Hall, Perth -

Buy tickets direct from ACO here

Tafelmusik - The Galileo Project Music of the Spheres

Tafelmusik

Canadian ensemble Tafelmusik will take you on an epic space odyssey, performing period music before stunning images from the Hubble deep space telescope. Combining music, photography and story-telling, The Galileo Project brings to life the brilliant minds of the early astronomers and the music that inspired them, as a large-scale, ever-changing backdrop of stars and planets unfolds.

The publicity states "Using the best of Bach, Handel, Monteverdi and Vivaldi, come and hear the tunes that were probably stuck in Galileo’s head when he discovered the moons of Jupiter." Now you are probably thinking, like White Hat how could tunes of composers who hadn't been born yet be stuck in his head. However we are sure that this program has been meticulously researched so all will be revealed. The program will also feature works by Lully, Purcell, Rameau, Telemann & Michelangelo Galilei brother of the astronomer). From the reputation of the group and the reviews of this concert, White Hat suggests you go out of your way to attend.

[For those wanting a little background to the history of the concept that over the centuries was known as The Music of the Spheres, White Hat suggests that you consult the program notes of Music of the Spheres - given by Ars Nova of Melbourne. This concert is unrelated to the one above but was also based on the relationship composers, mathematicians and scientists long saw between music, mathematics and the heavenly bodies.]

7.30pm, Thursday 1st March 2012

Perth Concert Hall, Perth -

Enquiries & bookings: 1800 688 482

Australian String Quartet - Towards Light

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.

Our rating:
Four Hats

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7pm, Monday 12th March 2012

Perth Concert Hall -

Tickets available from Australian String Quartet

Passion Concer

Pipe Organ Plus delivers exquisite classical music to audiences throughout 2012. Passion opens the year’s Concert Season with a strong link to the most important period of the religious calendar, Easter. Acclaimed organist, Dominic Perissinotto performs moving works from virtuosos including Guilmant, Liszt and Dupré traversing Christ’s journey through Lent to His subsequent glorious Resurrection.
2.30 tp 4.30pm, 18th March 2012

Basilica of St Patrick, 47 Adelaide St, Fremantle -

Standard - $35, Senior - $30, Student (U18) - $20

St Lawrence String Quartet and Diana Doherty

St Lawrence String QuartetWhite 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.

Diana Doherty

7.30pm, Thursday 26th April 2012

Perth Concert Hall, Perth -

Enquiries & bookings: 1800 688 482

Trio Dali

Trio Dali

The young and glamorous French trio are named after a Chinese marble, rather than the Spanish artist. With two of the great works from the piano trio repertoire, White Hat suspects this may turn out to be a memorable concert.

7.30pm Tuesday 29th May 2012

Perth Concert Hall, Perth -

Enquiries & bookings: 1800 688 482

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, Monday 11th June 2012

Perth Concert Hall -

Tickets available from Australian String Quartet

Takács Quartet

Takács Quartet

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.

7.30pm, Tuesday 19th June 2012

Perth Concert Hall, Perth -

Enquiries & bookings: 1800 688 482

Amarcord

Amarcord  

White Hat suggests that if you want to become a world class a capella ensemble, a good tsarting point is growing up singing Bach as boy sopranos in the Leipzig church where Bach himself presided. Since that time Amacord have gone on to be regarded as one of the finest male vocal ensembles in the world.

The Singing Club – Four Centuries of Song Renaissance madrigals, part-songs by Schubert, Schumann, Elgar, Dvorák, Grieg and others, alongside folk songs from around the world.

7.30pm, Tuesday 17th July 2012

Perth Concert Hall, Perth -

Enquiries & bookings: 1800 688 482

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'.

7.30pm, Wednesday 15th August 2012

Perth Concert Hall, Perth -

Buy tickets direct from ACO here

Kuss Quartet & Naoko Smizu

Kuss QuartetThe 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)
  • Bedrich Smetana String Quartet no 2 in D minor (c 1882-3)
  • György Kurtag Officium Breve in Memoriam Andreae Szervánszky, op 28
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart String Quintet no 3 in C major, K515
7.30pm, Monday 24th September 2012

Perth Concert Hall, Perth -

Enquiries & bookings: 1800 688 482

Mozart, Handel & Vivaldi Concertos

Richard Egarr

The Australian Chamber Orchestra with Richard Egarr (Guest Director, Harpsichord, Fortepiano) and Satu Vänskä (Lead Violin)

Keyboard players, conductor, historian, and director of the Academy of Ancient Music, Richard Egarr directs this concert from the harpsichord and performs Mozart's delightful Piano Concerto No.12 on the fortepiano. White Hat suggests you take the opportunity to hear the difference it make to have a Mozart concerto played on the fortepiano rather than an overblown concert grand. Satu Vänskä is soloist in a Vivaldi concerto on the ACO's Stradivarius violin.

  • Corelli Concerto Grosso, Op.6 No.1
  • Castello Two Sonatas, “per stromenti d’arco”
  • Biber Battalia
  • Vivaldi Violin Concerto, RV190
  • Mozart Piano Concerto No.12
  • Handel Concerto Grosso, Op.6 No.1
7.30pm, Wednesday 10th October 2012

Perth Concert Hall, Perth -

Buy tickets direct from ACO here

Russian Visions

Steven OsborneThe 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.

7.30pm, Wednesday 14th November 2012

Perth Concert Hall, Perth -

Buy tickets direct from ACO here

Anthony Marwood and Aleksandar Madžar

Anthony Marwood and Aleksandar Madžar

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.

7.30pm, Thursday 15th November

Perth Concert Hall, Perth -

Enquiries & bookings: 1800 688 482

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