Part One – Young Explorers We begin in Vienna, an epicentre of Western Art Music. Two works, youthful compositions of Korngold and Mahler, open the festival, and also open the global story of how music and musicians travel. ~ Interval ~ Part Two – An Abridged History Now heading to…

Part One – Towards America After lunch we will travel to America, first obliquely with Dvořák and then explicitly with the wonderful Copland settings of Emily Dickinson’s wonderful poetry. ~ Interval ~ Part Two – Roots In the last program of the day we explore one of the fundamental expressions…

The day will be bookended by septets – Richard Strauss’ monumental Metamorphosen in a septet realisation by Rudolph Leopold, and closing with John Adam’s Shaker Loops. In between we world premiere a new composition by Belinda Gehlert, Stellar, and a Festival premiere by Anne Cawrse, as well as celebrate Giacomo Puccini’s anniversary year with…