Event
Plexus: Phantasms
- Date: Monday, 29 May 2017, 6pm
- Venue: Melbourne Recital Centre, Primrose Potter Salon — Cnr Southbank Blvd & Sturt St, Southbank, VIC
- Tickets: Standard: $39 | Concession: $29 (booking fees apply) — Tickets can be purchased online or by phone on (03) 9699 3333
Event Details
PLEXUS plunges into a world of phantoms and phantasy, dreams and dramas.
Guest artist and acclaimed Victorian contralto Liane Keegan sings Gustav Mahler’s epic song cycle Kindertotenlieder, after Friedrich Rückert’s poems of inconsolable grief yet ultimately transcendent resignation after the death of two of the poet’s children. Gernot Wolfgang’s_ Reflections_, commissioned by the Verdehr Trio, ponders what it is to be human and how significant events and the realisations that follow them affect and inform our lives as individuals, and as an evolving species. PLEXUS also presents three world premieres – Andrew Ford’s Never is a taste of his Peter Pan opera to come in 2018; Andrián Pertout invites us on his Voyage à la terre de l’enchantement; and Brigid Burke uses her cinematic landscape of coastal Victoria as a backdrop to her fantastical soundscape in A Voice is Life.
Program
BRIGID BURKE
A Voice is Life (world premiere)
ANDREW FORD
Never (world premiere)
GUSTAV MAHLER
Kindertotenlieder (1901-04, arr. Cassomenos)
ANDRIAN PERTOUT
Voyage à la terre de l’enchantement (world premiere)
GERNOT WOLFGANG
Reflections (1999)
Featured non-Australian music: Mahler, Gernot Wolfgang
Further information for this event is available online at the event's website or by phone on (03) 9699 3333
Featured Australian Works
A Voice is LIfe by Brigid Burke — World premiere — performed by Plexus Ensemble | |
Never : trio (2016) by Andrew Ford — World premiere — performed by Plexus Ensemble | |
Voyage à la terre de l’enchantement : for violin, clarinet and pianoforte (2016) by Andrián Pertout — World premiere — performed by Plexus Ensemble |
Featured artists
- Performer Plexus Ensemble
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