Event
Melbourne Chamber Orchestra: Songs of the Night
- Date: Saturday, 24 June 2017, 7:30pm
- Venue: Peninsula Community Theatre — 91 Wilsons Road, Mornington, VIC
- Tickets: Adults: $50 | Concession: $45 — Tickets can be purchased online or by phone on (03) 9789 8392
Event Details
The night is full of light—the twinkle of a carpet of stars, shards of moonlight piercing the forest canopy, romance kindled by the embers of a fire—but outshining them all, a song from the heart. Following on from her acclaimed MCO directing début in 2015 with The Gypsy Palace, Rebecca Chan returns with a sonorous and lush nocturnal vision, including Wagner’s passionate Prelude from Tristan und Isolde and Schoenberg’s twilit confession for strings, Verklärte Nacht.
Tenor Andrew Goodwin has been singing major roles at opera houses across Europe to enormous acclaim. He sings haunting night-themed lieder reimagined in sumptuous new string orchestra arrangements, including Schoenberg’s Waldesnacht and Schubert’s Der Erlkönig.
WAGNER arr GÜRTLER Prelude from Tristan und Isolde (arr string orchestra)
STRAUSS Die Nacht*
SCHOENBERG Waldesnacht*
Verklärte Nacht
BARTOK String Quartet No 4: IV Allegretto pizzicato
MENDELSSOHN A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Scherzo*
SKIPWORTH The Expanse†
SCHUBERT Nacht und Träume D827*
Winterreise D911: Gute Nacht*
Nachtstück D672*
SCHUBERT arr HUBER
Der Erlkönig D328
†World première season.
Commission Supported by the Robert Salzer Foundation.
Concert Duration: around 2 hours including one interval of 20 minutes.
Performers: Andrew Goodwin TENOR; Rebecca Chan DIRECTOR
Featured non-Australian music: Wagner, Schoenberg, Strauss, Bartok, Mendelssohn, Schubert
Further information for this event is available online at the event's website or by phone on (03) 9789 8392 or by email to info@mco.org.au
Featured Australian Works
The Expanse : chamber orchestra by Lachlan Skipworth — performed by Rebecca Chan and Melbourne Chamber Orchestra |
Featured artists
- Performer Melbourne Chamber Orchestra
- Conductor Rebecca Chan
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