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Australian National Academy of Music: Sonatas & Interludes
Abbotsford Convent 1 St Heliers St, Abbotsford, VIC, Australia
This concert celebrates a seminal work by one of the great radical voices in 20th century music, the composer who once said that his creative responsibility was ‘not the making of choices, but the asking of questions’.
Australian National Academy of Music: Arithmetic of Sound
Abbotsford Convent 1 St Heliers St, Abbotsford, VIC, Australia
This exquisitely curated program is like a conversation with modernism. What does ‘modern’ music sound like? What makes it sound ‘modern’? How widely did its influence reach across the planet? At the head of the table is Debussy, and 13 of his keyboard preludes. You can hear the world of…
Australian National Academy of Music: Warm Winds
Abbotsford Convent 1 St Heliers St, Abbotsford, VIC, Australia
‘Every instrument is like a person sleeping, whom I must wake to life,’ Nielsen once said, and there is something enchanted about the opening of his Wind Quintet, in which the bassoon seems to bring the other instruments joyfully to life. Nielsen’s radiant work is joined by another classic of…
Australian National Academy of Music: That Moment in Time
Abbotsford Convent 1 St Heliers St, Abbotsford, VIC, Australia
The past is present and the future foretold in these emblematic works of the 20th century.
Australian National Academy of Music: Sublime String Quartets
Abbotsford Convent 1 St Heliers St, Abbotsford, VIC, Australia
How to explain Schubert’s genius when his music reveals it so readily? His string quintet is an epic of the chamber music world – visionary, long-breathed, novelistic – yet it’s also often serenely songful. It may be built to a grand design, but it can also sound miraculously spontaneous. Schubert’s…
Australian National Academy of Music: Imaginary Ballet
Abbotsford Convent 1 St Heliers St, Abbotsford, VIC, Australia
Lauded composer, conductor, violist and former ANAM artistic director, Brett Dean returns to Melbourne for an intimate exploration of some of his most recent chamber works.
Australian National Academy of Music: The Black of the Star
Abbotsford Convent 1 St Heliers St, Abbotsford, VIC, Australia
Science, sound and art converge in Gerard Grisey’s epic percussion masterwork Le Noir de l’Étoile. Gerard Grisey has to be one of the most intriguing composers of the last century. With works that explore time, death and the transitory nature of art and sound, his music stands as some of…
Australian National Academy of Music: The Black of the Star
Abbotsford Convent 1 St Heliers St, Abbotsford, VIC, Australia
Science, sound and art converge in Gerard Grisey’s epic percussion masterwork Le Noir de l’Étoile. Gerard Grisey has to be one of the most intriguing composers of the last century. With works that explore time, death and the transitory nature of art and sound, his music stands as some of…
Australian National Academy of Music: Brahms the Progressive
Abbotsford Convent 1 St Heliers St, Abbotsford, VIC, Australia
Two composers who, in terms of pure sound, you might think belong on different aesthetic planes, yet who were both deeply pre-occupied by the musical tradition they inherited, and sought in their own way to absorb and renew it; this program brings them together in a fascinating evening of complementarity…
