Event
Brisbane Philharmonic Orchestra: Sounds of Nature
- Date: Sunday, 25 April 2021, 3pm
- Venue: Valmai Pigeon Performing Arts Centre (VPAC), Somerville House — 17 Graham Street, South Brisbane, QLD
- Tickets: Adult: $33 | Concession: $23 | Child (under 12): $11.50 — Tickets can be purchased online
Event Details
We open our 2021 concert series by welcoming back conductor Nathan Aspinall after his string of recent successes in the USA. The centrepiece of our first program is Mahler’s Symphony No.1 – a journey of heart and purity by the master composer. Sounds of nature and birdsong open the symphony echoing over the gentle hum of the universe before the work unfolds featuring lively scherzos, a sombre yet parodic funeral march, and concluding with its victorious finale.
We are also joined by sensational local guitar talent, Jeremy Stafford, performing Australian composer Nigel Westlake’s brilliant ‘Antarctica’ for guitar and orchestra. The work vividly depicts both the haunting desolation of the icy tundra, but also its fluid and playful underwater life in the famous movement ‘Penguin Ballet’.
Conductor: Nathan Aspinall
Soloist: Jeremy Stafford (guitar)
PROGRAM
Gustav Mahler | Blumine (original second movement of Symphony No.1)
Nigel Westlake | Antarctica: Suite for Guitar and Orchestra
Gustav Mahler | Symphony No.1 in D major
Featured non-Australian music: Mahler
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Featured Australian Works
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| Antarctica : suite for guitar & orchestra (1992) by Nigel Westlake — performed by Nathan Aspinall, Brisbane Philharmonic Orchestra and Jeremy Stafford |
Featured artists
- Performer Jeremy Stafford
- Performer Brisbane Philharmonic Orchestra
- Conductor Nathan Aspinall
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