may, 2023
05may7:30 pmSally WalkerCanberra International Music Festival
Event Details
Canberra International Music Festival presents C15 Magic Eight Schubert’s monumental Octet from 1824, sumptuously laid out over six movements, combines five string players with
Event Details
Canberra International Music Festival presents
C15 Magic Eight
Schubert’s monumental Octet from 1824, sumptuously laid out over six movements, combines five string players with three winds. This is chamber music on a big scale, bringing together the Quatuor Van Kuijk with four prominent Australians.
Igor Stravinsky’s classic Octet for wind instruments (including two bassoons), came to the composer in a dream. As we celebrate its 100th birthday in 2023, the octet is anything but dreamy: it prattles and prances with the best of them.
Between these two classic pillars, a modern masterpiece by Danish composer Per Nørgård is sung by the eight voices of Luminescence Chamber Singers. Wie ein Kind (Like a Child), conveys innocence and sophistication in settings of poetry by Adolf Wölfli and Rainer Maria Rilke.
Program
Igor Stravinsky, Octet (1923)
Per Nörgard, Wie ein Kind (Like a Child) (1980)
-interval-
Franz Schubert, Octet (1824)
Artists
Luminescence Chamber Singers
Quatuor Van Kuijk
Sally Walker, flute
Oliver Shermacher, clarinet
Ben Hoadley and Zoey Pepper, bassoon
with members of Golden Gate Brass and Paolo Franks, trombone
more
Time
(Friday) 7:30 pm
Location
Fitters' Workshop, Canberra
11 Wentworth Avenue Kingston, ACT Australia