Best Jazz Concerts Adelaide Near Me

4worldlovers: JS Bach Andante from BWV 1033 in C major for recorder solo

JS Bach Trio BWV 1014 in C major for violin, oboe & harpsichord

JS Bach Ciaccona from Partita II in D minor BWV 1004 for solo violin

JS Bach Gigue from Partita III BWV 1006 in F major for recorder

JS Bach Trio BWV 1040 in F major for violin, oboe & harpsichord

Bach’s monumental Ciaccona for solo violin forms the central panel of Austral Harmony’s Bach Triptych. Flanking this are two seldom-heard and remarkable Fantasias displaying exceptional keyboard writing by composers from Bach’s circle. Small-scale Solos and Trios flank the centrepiece, consummating a symmetrical musical triptych.

Perhaps the most emotional quartet composed prior to Beethoven, Mozart’s K. 421 was written whilst his wife Constanze was in labour with their first child. Constanze claimed that Mozart included her cries of pain in the music! Westlake’s Sacred Sky was composed in memory of his artist sister, who died prematurely, and is based on four of her seascapes, depicting both her spirit and the composer’s grief.

An ailing Debussy insisted this 1916 work was inspired purely by the sonorities of the piano, but few now believe the horrors of WWI didn’t play a part in it. Six years later, sixteen-year-old Shostakovich completed his first full length work in response to death of his father, hinting at the expressive style he was to return to in the 1930s and 40s.

Songs include On the Sunny Side of the Street, Don't Blame Me, A Fine Romance, Pick Yourself Up, & The Way You Look Tonight.

Dorothy Fields was one of the most prolific songwriters of the Great American Songbook, with a career that spanned more than 50 years from the 1920s to the 1970s.

Kristian Winther leads some of Australia’s finest young string players in Webern’s Bagatelles which displays the composer’s extreme aphoristic style, whilst a micropolyphonic technique and texture unite Ligety’s five movement work. Haydn’s late Opus 76 was described by a contemporary as “full of invention, fire, good taste and special effects.”

For a man sometimes accused of “composing the same thing over 600 times”, Vivaldi’s Concerto alla rustica is a remarkably forward-looking work. “What a loss to the musical world” wrote Mozart about the death of Johann Christian Bach, whilst including a theme of his mentor’s in this concerto. Dag Wirén's Serenade for Strings is a neo-classical composition characterized by its graceful and lively melodies, intricate counterpoint, and dynamic contrasts.

A chance to hear Holst’s folk-influenced Second Suite, Hovhaness’s symphony inspired by Dante and astronomy, some deliberately inaccurate musical quotes/jokes from Ives, and an appearance from Elder Hall’s most frequently programmed composer of 2023, Anne Cawrse.

Chorale continues its journey through the ever-expanding choral world with music by some of our favourite composers from Australia and the US – and with new choral music from Iceland, Estonia and South Africa.

Spoiler alert: the program may include music by Paul Grabowsky, Thorkell Sigbjörnsson, Veljo Tormis and Eric Whitacre.

When a Russian princess fell for her Paris Conservatoire professor, the fortuitous result was the Boulanger sisters. Child-prodigy Lily tragically died at 24 and was already seriously ill when she composed “On a Spring Morning”, which is highly impressionist in character. Mendelssohn’s blazing emblem of Romantic virtuosity, bursting with joie de vivre, is a huge audience favourite and guaranteed to thrill.

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