CONCERTS

Ensemble Liaison

8 August

Ensemble Liaison and Friends

Hanson Dyer Hall, Ian Potter Southbank Centre

8 August, 7pm

43 Sturt St Southbank

Frédéric Chopin
Sonata No.2 Op.35

Franz Schubert
Octet in F, D.803

Ensemble Liaison expands its forces to perform Schubert’s monumental Octet in F Major. In this second concert of 2024, they will be joined by special guests Dale Barltrop, Carla Blackwood, Jill Griffiths, Lyndon Watts, and talented students from the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music. Inspired by Beethoven’s immensely popular Septet, experience Schubert’s transcendent melodies, heard across the colourful array of string and wind instruments in an exciting large-scale chamber music form.

Opening the concert, Ensemble Liaison’s own, Timothy Young will feature in Chopin’s iconic and enigmatic Piano Sonata No.2. Considered one of the great masterworks of the Romantic period, the third movement is the world’s most famous funeral march, a work still used widely today in celebration of life passed.

Australian Haydn Ensemble

21-29 September

Australian Haydn Ensemble: Mozart’s Horn

performed on historical instruments

21 September, 7pm: Orange Civic Theatre

24 September, 7pm: Sydney Opera House, Utzon Room

26 September, 7pm: Wesley Music Centre, Forrest, Canberra

27 September, 7pm: Berry Uniting Church Hall, Berry

28 September, 3pm: Robertson School of Arts, Southern Highlands

29 September, 2pm: Rathmines Theatre, Lake Macquarie

Programme

HAUFF
Horn Quintet in E flat major

MOZART
Allegro from String Quintet in G minor K. 516

MOZART
Horn Quintet in E flat major K. 407

Interval

MICHAEL HAYDN
Romance in A flat major for Horn and String Quartet MH806 (arr. from Mozart’s Horn Concerto)

MOZART
Symphony No. 41 K. 551 'Jupiter' arr. Peter Lichtenthal

Mozart loved the horn, and the finest player of the day, Joseph Leutgeb, was an old friend of the family. Mozart wrote what would become one of the most enduringly popular horn concertos of all time for his friend. Characterised as a “little love duet” between horn and violin, this work is a joyous expression of their friendship.

The program contains an even more virtuosic Quintet by Mozart’s Dutch contemporary Wilhelm Hauff, and includes the Romance in A major, an arrangement of one of Mozart’s Concerto movements, most likely by his dear and often penniless friend Michael Haydn.

AHE balances this bright period instrument cornucopia with perhaps the most emotionally troubled work that Mozart ever wrote: the magnificent String Quintet in G minor, a rare dark utterance from a steadfastly undepressed artist. 

Port Fairy Spring Music Festival

11-13 October

2024 Spring Music Festival “Cosmos”

Featured Artist in various concerts

Port Fairy, Victoria

11 October, 8pm: A Musical Meteor Shower

Luke Styles A Shot at the Stars for Solo Horn

11 October, 10am: Interstellaire

Olivier Messiaen Appel Interstellaire

12 October, 11.30am: Shards of Light

Quercus Trio perform the world premiere of Melody Eotvos Shivelight

12 October, 8pm: Beyond the Sunset

Mozart Horn Quintet K. 407

13 October, 3.30pm: Closing Gala: The Planets

Andrew Ford, A Martian Sends a Postcard Home

Gustav Holst, The Planets Op 32, arr. Cassomenos

Australia Ensemble

19 October, 7.30pm

Australian Bandenburg Orchestra

24 October - 2 November