Davies, Ginastera and Mendelssohn
Auckland Chamber Orchestra Presents
| Price: | Free Admission - bookings essential |
| Dates: |
Sunday, 14 April 5pm |
Welcome to our second concert of 2019!
A concert of orchestral music spanning 3 centuries
The ACO performs three works: from the 19thC is Mendelssohn’s “Italian Symphony”, from the 20thC is Ginastera’s “Variaciones Concertantes” and from the 21stC is “Dune of Footprints” by Tansy Davies.
“Tansy Davies writes music that is sleek, hot, earthy, physical. Her instruments glint and sigh and thrust. Her textures are lean and gleaming. Her rhythms are all punch and sinew. As a composer she is immensely herself: a woman of fearsome drive and rigour and self-knowledge, a woman who connects with body, spirituality and political convictions – and who conveys all that without without filter or apology. That’s what makes her music so immediately and intoxicatingly her own. To hear it is beguiling, bracing, provocative, a rush of blood to the head, a soft breath to the skin, a reboot to the system.” Kate Molleson 2018
Beguiling and richly sonorous, “Dune of Footprints” is inspired by the ancient underground river beds that cave-dwellers used as pathways. The work unfolds meditatively with quivering tremolos and darkly lustrous harmonies.
Ginastera says of his work, “These variations have a subjective Argentine character. Instead of using folkloristic material, I try to achieve an Argentine atmosphere through the employment of my own thematic and rhythmic elements. The work begins with an original theme followed by eleven variations, each one reflecting the distinctive character of the instrument featured. All the instruments of the orchestra are treated soloistically. Some variations belong to the decorative, ornamental or elaborative type, others are written in the contemporary manner of metamorphosis, which consists of taking elements of the main theme and evolving from it new material.”
Mendelssohn composed five symphonies. He said of his 4th, known as “Italian”, “… it is becoming the merriest piece I have yet composed.”
Featuring the Auckland Chamber Orchestra conducted by Peter Scholes
SUNDAY April 14 @ 5pm
FREE ADMISSION! see below for instructions to reserve seats.
Raye Freedman Arts Centre
[corner of Gillies Ave and Silver Rd, Epsom, Auckland, NZ]
Easy and free parking! Great sight lines – intimate venue.
Peter Scholes conductor
Soloists – principal players of the ACO
- Tansy Davies Dune of Footprints
- Alberto Ginastera Variaciones Concertantes for Chamber Orchestra
- Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Symphony No. 4 (Italian), Op.90
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Schubert “Death and the Maiden”
Rautavaara “Divertimento”
Richard Strauss “Metamorphosen”
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