• : Fremantle Chamber Orchestra & Kashtany Duo & Ukrainian Roztiazhka Cossack Dancers

    Government House Ballroom, 13 St George’s Tce, Perth Government House Ballroom, 13 St George’s Terrace, Perth, WA, Australia
    Locatelli’s Il pianto d’Arianna (the weeping of Ariadne) uses the fragment of a lost Monteverdi opera telling of Theseus’s abandonment of Ariadne. A solo violin sobs on Ariadne’s behalf. The final Largo, strewn with silences, eventually twists into the hopeful smile of a major key. Mozart and Beethoven contemporary Leopold…
  • 20th Anniversary Concert

    Fremantle Chamber Orchestra: 20th Anniversary Concert

    Government House Ballroom, 13 St George’s Tce, Perth Government House Ballroom, 13 St George’s Terrace, Perth, WA, Australia
    Mozart’s Great G minor symphony No 40, his most popular, opens the concert. This is a truly grand work, one of Mozart’s last and 1 of only 2 in a minor key. Charles Rosen called it “a work of passion, violence, and grief.” Arvo Pärt’s Da Pacem Domine (Give Peace,…
  • Perth Recital Series: Fanfares and Dances

    Government House Ballroom, 13 St George’s Tce, Perth Government House Ballroom, 13 St George’s Terrace, Perth, WA, Australia
    Perth Recital Series presents pianists Anna Sleptsova and Tommy Seah, along with composer Lachlan Skipworth in a gala concert at the Government House Ballroom. The concert will open with the world premiere of Skipworth’s Fanfara arranged for two pianos, which was originally composed for the Sydney Symphony Orchestra’s 50 Fanfares…