CONCERTS
Quercus Trio
28th October
Boroondara Arts
28th October, 8pm
188 High Street Kew
Quercus Trio take the listeners on a walk through romantic and contemporary music for horn, violin and piano. Starting with a jazz imbued trio by Don Banks, through to the romanticism of Johannes Brahms, evocative lyricism of Charles Koechlin, and finally the rich palette of colours and emotions of Roger Smalley, Quercus Trio draw threads of connection with their audiences and between these treasures of the horn trio literature.
Australian Wind Quintet and Ensemble Liaison
2 November
Melbourne Recital Centre
2 November, 8pm
Melbourne Recital Centre
Ensemble Liaison is internationally acclaimed for its spell-binding performances, innovative programs and brilliant collaborations with leading artists. Ensemble Liaison & Friends is a unique concert series renowned for imaginative and innovative programming, setting the trend for brilliant collaborations with leading artists.
Combining some of Australia’s leading wind players, the Australian Wind Quintet made their debut at the 2022 Adelaide Festival receiving critical praise for their precision, nuanced sensitive phrasing and captivating performance.
Their performance in Elisabeth Murdoch Hall features Ligeti’s fabulously inventive Bagatelles, extracted from his Musica Ricercata, alongside some of the most well-known music written for wind and piano including Poulenc’s exuberant Piano Sextet and Francaix’s witty, L’Heure Du Berger, a tour de force of frivolous perfection! Svetlana Bogosavljevic will feature in the Concerto for Cello and Winds by Australian clarinetist and composer Paul Dean.
Genesis Baroque Chamber Series : Mozart Horn Quintet and Beethoven Septet on period instruments
19 November, 2.30pm. Wesley of Warragul
21 November, 7pm. Noisy Ritual Urban Winery
26 November, 2pm. St John’s Anglican Church, King St, Flinders
Genesis Baroque are Melbourne/Naarm’s renowned period instrument chamber orchestra. The Genisis Chamber Series presents programs throughout Victoria featuring some of Melbourne’s finest historically-informed musicians in chamber works from the Baroque through to the early 20th Century performed on period instruments. This concert features two pinnacles of the Classical chamber music canon for wind and strings: Mozart’s Quintet for Horn and Strings K.407 and Beethoven’s Septet opus 20.