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Handel Concertos

Woodend Winter Arts Festival: Handel Concertos

St Ambrose Catholic Church, Woodend 47 Urquhart St, Woodend, VIC, Australia
This program opens with the Arrival of the Queen of Sheba, in essence a one-movement concerto for two oboes, and includes a concerto for harp, another for organ, and two of the great Concerti Grossi, Opus 6. All of these works achieved immediate popularity in their time and have continued to hold their…

Woodend Winter Arts Festival: Vortex

Woodend Community Centre Corner of Forest and High Streets, Woodend, VIC, Australia
It is 1954, but not the same way the history books would have it. Events and characters swirl in a vortex of fragments and chance connections. Brisbane celebrates the young Queen Elizabeth II’s arrival on her first royal tour of the commonwealth. Meanwhile the future is being shaped behind closed…

Woodend Winter Arts Festival: Variations on a theme: works by Brahms, Mozart, Chopin & Scriabin

St Ambrose Church 16 Templeton St,, Woodend, VIC
A spectacular program of the finest works for solo piano by Mozart, Chopin, Scriabin, and Brahms. The moody chromaticism of Mozart’s A-minor Rondo provides a perfect segue into Chopin’s Ballade no. 4, “the most exalted, intense and sublimely powerful of all Chopin’s compositions” (John Ogden). Scriabin’s post-romantic Sonata no. 4…

Woodend Winter Arts Festival: A Garden and a Library: what more could you need?

Woodend Community Centre Corner of Forest and High Streets, Woodend, VIC, Australia
Cicero’s famous quote doesn’t mention the substantial overlap between these two ‘necessities’. TV host and garden writer Michael McCoy will look back over evocative references to gardens in fiction, the literary quality of early garden writing, and take a personal journey through the interplay of reading, writing and gardens, and…
Ode on St Cecilia’s Day

Ensemble Gombert: Ode on St Cecilia’s Day

St Ambrose Catholic Church, Woodend 47 Urquhart St, Woodend, VIC, Australia
In Purcell’s day, St Cecilia, patron saint of music, was celebrated in London with a new work commissioned annually. Perhaps the greatest of all these works is Purcell’s 1692 setting of poetry by Nicholas Brady commencing Hail! Bright Cecilia, and featuring the superb alto solo ’Tis Nature’s Voice, sung in the original performance…

Woodend Winter Arts Festival: Hot off the Press

Woodend Community Centre Corner of Forest and High Streets, Woodend, VIC, Australia
Margaret Simons will speak on issues in politics and journalism, with the precise topic to be decided closer to the day. She will be joined by Don Watson and Jim Middleton, well-known to Woodend audiences!

Woodend Winter Arts Festival: Cinderella

St Ambrose Church 16 Templeton St,, Woodend, VIC
Step into a magical realm where Prokofiev’s “Cinderella” dances with new life. Let Inventi Ensemble sweep you off your feet with their enchanting performance, weaving together the timeless tale with Sally Whitwell’s captivating composition. Like Cinderella’s transformation at the stroke of midnight, experience a symphonic metamorphosis that transports you through…
From Bach to Glass

Woodend Winter Arts Festival: From Bach to Glass

St Ambrose Church 16 Templeton St,, Woodend, VIC
Experience the mesmerising sound of eight cellos in perfect harmony at the Woodend Winter Arts Festival. The concert showcases the versatility of the cello ensemble, presenting music in sextet and octet formations. The program includes a diverse range of composers, from Baroque master J.S. Bach to contemporary minimalist Phillip Glass,…

Woodend Winter Arts Festival: The Genius of Nijinsky

Woodend Community Centre Corner of Forest and High Streets, Woodend, VIC, Australia
The story of Nijinsky, the Polish/Russian dancer is a tale of brilliance and despair, of innocence and stardom, celebrity, sensitivity and tragedy, and amongst the saddest historical cases of artistic success versus mental health — yet Jill Rivers is convinced that Nijinsky was way ahead of his times — at…
From Bach to Glass

Woodend Winter Arts Festival: From Bach to Glass

St Ambrose Church 16 Templeton St,, Woodend, VIC
Experience the mesmerising sound of eight cellos in perfect harmony at the Woodend Winter Arts Festival. The concert showcases the versatility of the cello ensemble, presenting music in sextet and octet formations. The program includes a diverse range of composers, from Baroque master J.S. Bach to contemporary minimalist Phillip Glass,…

Woodend Winter Arts Festival: Brahms, Sonatas for Piano & Violin

St Ambrose Church 16 Templeton St,, Woodend, VIC
Brahms’ three sonatas for piano and violin, all composed during his mature years, are among his greatest creations. The first, opus 78 in G major, is a three-movement work written in the summers of 1878 and 1879. The second, opus 100 in A major, was composed in Switzerland during the…

Woodend Winter Arts Festival: The Great White Whale

Woodend Anglican Parish 15 Buckland St, Woodend, VIC, Australia
Deep in the wild Southern Ocean, halfway between Australia and South Africa, a snowy volcano, almost three thousand meters high, rears up from the sea like a great white whale. Five times that great white whale of a mountain tried to kill the first team that tried to reach its…