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Australia Ensemble UNSW | Concert 1

UNSW: Sir John Clancy Auditorium, Kensington High St & Wansey Rd, Kensington, NSW, Australia

In two short decades, three very different French composers produced three very different masterpieces. Messiaen’s dramatic yet ultimately comforting vision of the end of time; Fauré’s late Trio, powerful in its lyricism and formal beauty, and Ravel’s tensile, balletic sonata. FAURE Piano Trio Op.120 in D minor (1922-23) RAVEL Sonata for violin & cello (1920-22) MESSIAEN Quartet for […]

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Australia Ensemble UNSW | Concert 2

UNSW: Sir John Clancy Auditorium, Kensington High St & Wansey Rd, Kensington, NSW, Australia

Fairy tales and hopeless love, folksongs and subversive jazz each spurred these four composers. Schumann and Brahms give us classical works with enigmatic sources, Kapustin and Vaughan Williams transmute popular music into high art. SCHUMANN Märchenerzählungen (Fairy Tales) Op. 132 (1853) KAPUSTIN Sonata no. 2 (1989) VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Six Studies in English Folksong (1926) BRAHMS Piano Quartet in C […]

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Australia Ensemble UNSW | Concert 3

UNSW: Sir John Clancy Auditorium, Kensington High St & Wansey Rd, Kensington, NSW, Australia

In music from Russia, the US, Britain and here, composers reflect on the majesty and beauty of the natural world, while considering the joy and sadness of human experience. GRENFELL Poems of a Bright Moon (2000) FINZI Five Bagatelles (1942) CRUMB Vox Balaenae (1971) ARENSKY Piano Trio no. 1 Op. 32 (1894) David Griffiths, clarinet; Dimity Hall, violin; Julian Smiles, cello; […]

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Australia Ensemble UNSW | Concert 4

UNSW: Sir John Clancy Auditorium, Kensington High St & Wansey Rd, Kensington, NSW, Australia

In his great Serenade Dvořák captures something of the radiant good-humour of Mozart, while Beethoven shows his own witty side. Clara Schumann’s delicate Romances showcase a young star violinist, while Lachlan Skipworth crafts a new work for mixed quartet. BEETHOVEN Clarinet Trio Op. 11 (1797-98) SKIPWORTH New work – premiere performance (2025) SCHUMANN Three Romances Op. 22 (1853) […]