Event
Schubert, Liszt & Ledger: Simone Young's Visions of Vienna
- Date: Wednesday, 21 August 2019, 6:30pm
- Venue: Sydney Opera House, Concert Hall — Bennelong Point, Sydney, NSW
- Tickets: Adult: $39 - $135 | Concession: $39 - $105 | Student: $49 — Tickets can be purchased online or by phone on (02) 9250 7777
Event Details
In his Two Memorials Australian composer James Ledger remembers the ‘difficult’ Viennese composer Anton Webern and icon John Lennon. It’s a surprising musical juxtaposition as 60s pop psychedelia meets serialism, but there is a fateful connection between the two composers.
Liszt wraps orchestral finery around one of Schubert’s great solo piano masterpieces, the Wanderer Fantasy, to create a kind of concerto. It’s a poetic vehicle for Louis Lortie’s dazzling insightful and pianism, conducted by Simone Young in a program that showcases her affinity for richly expressive music.
Liszt was inspired by Dante’s Divine Comedy, writing vividly infernal, voluptuous and heavenly music to take us through Hell and Purgatory and on to a celestial song of faith. Liszt was an ambitious and innovative musician, creating a radically new sound for the piano and ‘inventing’ the symphonic poem – using the orchestra to brilliantly evoke mood, colour, people and places.
PROGRAM
Ledger Two Memorials (for Anton Webern and John Lennon)
Schubert arr. Liszt Wanderer Fantasy
Liszt Dante Symphony
Featured non-Australian music: Schubert, Liszt
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Featured Australian Works
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| Two memorials (for Anton Webern and John Lennon) : full orchestra (2011) by James Ledger — performed by Simone Young and Sydney Symphony Orchestra |
Featured artists
- Performer Sydney Symphony Orchestra
- Conductor Simone Young
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