Event
Omega Ensemble: Haydn, Mozart, Hoadley
- Date: Sunday, 19 February 2017, 2.30pm
- Venue: Sydney Opera House, Utzon Room — Bennelong Point, Sydney, NSW
- Tickets: Adults: $99 | Children: $29 | Concession: $69 — Tickets can be purchased online or by phone on (02) 9250 7777
Event Details
A double feast of quartets and quintets of grand masterpieces, watershed moments and world premieres. Of Haydn’s eighty-three string quartets The Lark is a perfect representative of the entire genre. Like the majority of string quartets throughout the history of the form, its four movements provide a superior entertainment in four acts, aptly described as ‘a story, a song, a dance and a party.’
When Debussy composed his String Quartet in G minor in 1893, it led the charge in freeing music from its classical boundaries and looked ahead to the future. Pierre Boulez said that Debussy freed chamber music from ‘rigid structure, frozen rhetoric and rigid aesthetics.’ Also featured in this concert is Mozart’s Clarinet Quintet in A major recorded on Omega’s debut ABC Classics CD.
In this concert, Omega will also give the premiere of Ben Hoadley’s new Clarinet Quintet.
Omega Ensemble, Artistic Director: David Rowde - with Natsuko Yoshimoto (violin), Ike See (violin), Neil Thompson (viola) and Paul Stender (cello).
Featured non-Australian music: Debussy String Quartet in G minor, Op. 10, Haydn String Quartet Op. 64, No. 5 ‘The Lark’, Mozart Clarinet Quintet in A major, K. 581
Further information for this event is available online at the event's website or by phone on (02) 9250 7777 or by email to boxoffice@sydneyoperahouse.com
Featured Australian Works
| Clarinet Quintet by Ben Hoadley — World premiere |
Featured artists
- New work by Ben Hoadley
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