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Australia Ensemble: Storm and Tempest

Event

Australia Ensemble: Storm and Tempest

  • Date: Saturday, 14 March 2020, 8pm
  • Venue: Sir John Clancy Auditorium — University of New South Wales, Gate 9, High Street, Kensington, NSW
  • Series: This event is part of the Australia Ensemble@UNSW 2020 Subscription Concert series
  • Tickets: Adults: $56 | Concession: $34 (Single tickets available for sale February 1, 2020) — Tickets can be purchased online

Event Details

Elena KATS-CHERNIN | Velvet Revolution (1999)
Ludwig van BEETHOVEN | String Quintet Op.29 ‘Storm’ (1801)
Franz SCHREKER | Der Wind (1909)
Franz BERWALD | Grand Septet in B flat (1828)

“They sicken of the calm who know the storm” (Dorothy Parker). This program explores the tumult of stormy weather, tempestuous emotion, and the promise of new things rising from the ruins of the old. Elena Kats-Chernin channels a revolutionary spirit and the anarchy of shifts of power in Eastern Europe following the fall of the Berlin wall. Franz Schreker’s ‘The Wind’ originally included dancers to enhance the aural depiction of this wild and varied force of nature. Ludwig van Beethoven’s string quintet op.29, nicknamed ‘Storm’, was written as he became aware of his deafness – a curse which caused immense emotional distress and also contributed to some of the greatest music the world has ever seen. Franz Berwald’s Grand Septet in B flat appears friendly, but harmonic twists suggest restrained, unresolved tension.

Featured non-Australian music: Beethoven, Schrecker, Berwald

Further information for this event is available online at the event's website or by phone on (02) 9385 4874 or by email to cmc@unsw.edu.au

Featured Australian Works

Velvet revolution : for violin, French horn, and piano (1999) by Elena Kats-Chernin
— performed by Australia Ensemble

Featured artists

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