Mozart Clarinet Quintet, Schubert & Hummel

VIENNESE VOGUE

Tuesday 7 March | 7.00pm
David Li Sound Gallery, The Ian Potter Centre for Performing Arts
48 Exhibition Walk, Monash University, Clayton

Mozart’s sparkling, beloved Clarinet Quintet remains one of his most celebrated works. In 1808 it inspired his former student and protégé Johann Nepomuk Hummel, whose Clarinet Quartet is a beautiful chamber music work. We also hear Schubert’s unfinished String Trio D.471, a lyrical gem.

Beethoven Septet & Louise Farrenc Nonet

NEW PERSPECTIVES

Saturday 10 June | 7.00pm
David Li Sound Gallery, The Ian Potter Centre for Performing Arts
48 Exhibition Walk, Monash University, Clayton

Large-scale chamber music at its finest! Beethoven’s Septet set an extremely high bar for composers combining strings and winds, a work whose ease and charm disguise its complexity. Fifty years after Beethoven, acclaimed French pianist and composer Louise Farrenc’s Nonet is a brilliant work that demonstrates her undoubted talent.

Mendelssohn Scottish & Beethoven Eight

MIDSUMMER DREAMS
Rachael Beesley | Conductor

Friday 4 August | 7.00pm
Robert Blackwood Hall, Monash University Campus
49 Scenic Boulevard, Clayton

Mendelssohn was greatly inspired by a visit to Scotland when he was 20, his ‘Scottish’ Symphony recalling the dramatic landscapes of that northern land. Beethoven’s Eighth Symphony is harder to pinpoint, a fascinating work that leaps from loud to soft without warning, and at every turn surprises and confounds expectations.

Voyage of Musical Discovery

The Voyage of Musical Discovery music education series was established and designed by the Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra and its founding artistic director and world-renowned educator, the late Richard Gill. Each of the three programs is designed for intergenerational audiences. Both school groups and the general public are warmly invited to discover this unique way to explore music from the past and present in a new light.