Southern Cross Soloists presents Bangalow Music Festival

CONCERT 5
EVENING WITH THE ORAVAS

The Bangalow Music Festival’s Quartet in Residence, the Orava Quartet returns to the A&I Hall stage with an intriguing program of energetic and stunningly beautiful music. Traditional folk music from Scandinavia opens the program, with a set of exquisite pieces from Wood Works, arranged by the Danish String Quartet. Nordic folk music reimagined, these beautiful classical/folk hybrid works express an effortless joie de vivre through their stunning interpretations of folk melodies handed down through the generations. Artistic Director and oboist, Tania Frazer joins the quartet for the World Premiere of a new work by acclaimed Australian composer, Sean O’Boyle AM.

Bursting with energy, Pavel Fisher’s Mad Piper String Quartet closes the first half of the concert, with its joyous vitality, spirited rhythmic drive and Eastern European folk music influence. Australian piano sensation, Maxwell Foster joins the Orava Quartet after interval to perform Brahms’ torridly emotional Piano Quintet in F minor. Evolving out of a string quintet and piano duo, Brahms’ celebrated Quintet is recognized as a supreme masterpiece and one of the best-loved works in the entire chamber music canon.

TRADITIONAL Nordic Folk Music arr. Danish String Quartet (from Wood Works)

· Ye Honest Bridal Couple (Faroe Islands)

· Sønderho Bridal Trilogy – Part I (Fanø, Denmark)

· Ack Värmeland, du Sköna (Värmland, Sweden)

O’BOYLE New work for Oboe and string quartet World Premiere

FISCHER String Quartet No.3, Mad Piper

-INTERVAL-

BRAHMS Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 34*

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Orava Quartet

Tania Frazer Oboe

Maxwell Foster Piano*

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Duration: 120 minutes, with a 20 minute interval

Brisbane Symphony Orchestra presents

OUR WORLD

Conductor: Peter Luff

Choir: Voices of Birralee

In a concert which celebrates our connections to the environment, the orchestra will explore music which champions aspects of the world around us. During this stunning soundscape, we invite you to close your eyes and envisage yourself immersed in nature.

On the program is Resphigi’s stunning tone poem, “The Pines of Rome” and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony no.1, entitled “Winter”. We will also be joined by the fabulous Voices of Birralee to perform a special work about nature by celebrated Australian composer, Elena Kats-Chernin AO.

Cinque Artist Management presents

Andrea Lam plays Matthew Hindson – Sad Piano Music

Classical music has many masterpieces that are almost heart-breakingly sad, and beautiful, from works by Beethoven and Chopin to Puccini and John Williams. During the long lockdowns of 2021, one of Australia’s most acclaimed composers, Prof. Matthew Hindson, began writing solo piano pieces that seemed to fall under the increasingly popular streaming search term of ‘sad piano music’: music that seemed sad or melancholy in mood, which yet had the paradoxical effect of making the listener feel comforted, supported, and even uplifted. Performing solo in the first time in Geelong, extraordinary Australian pianist Andrea Lam brings Hindson’s Sad Piano music to life, with introductions by the composer – along with a couple of the ‘OG’ sad piano pieces, including a Chopin nocturne and Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata.