Australian Music Centre | Breaking sound barriers

Event Details

Melbourne audiences will celebrate the ACO’s 2016 season finale with two Baroque greats and a distinctive Australian composer, in one of the finest acoustic spaces in the southern hemisphere: Melbourne Recital Centre

Directed by Richard Tognetti, this enchanting program includes two ever-popular and immediately appealing works by Bach, while two concertos from Vivaldi will invite the ACO’s violins and cello to take energetic flight.

Beckoning us to the present, Elena Kats-Chernin’s Miniatures for Strings embrace a host of influences, each with its own infectious personality and compelling story, and all composed especially for the great musicians and string instruments of the ACO: Richard Tognetti’s 1743 Guarneri del Gesù violin; Satu Vänskä’s 1728/1729 Stradivarius; the 1610 Giovanni Paolo Maggini viola; and Maxime Bibeau’s c.1590 Gasparo da Salò double bass.

Presented by Australian Chamber Orchestra

Program

Johann Sebastian Bach
Violin Concerto in A minor

Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto for two violins and cello in D minor, RV565

Elena Kats-Chernin
Miniatures for Strings

Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto for four violins and cello in D, RV549

Johann Sebastian Bach
Orchestral Suite No.2 in B minor

Featured non-Australian music: Vivaldi, Bach

Further information for this event is available online at the event's website or by phone on (03) 9699 3333

Featured artists

• Music of Elena Kats-Chernin
• Performer Richard Tognetti
• Performer Australian Chamber Orchestra