After a season disupted by the virus in 2020, the Australian Chamber
Orchestra has crafted a program to open their 2021 season that
encourages both reflection on the past and looking to the future with joy
and creativity
“This tiny coronvirus has showed us in a painful way that humanity is a
single organism…No-one knows how we will come out of this but we all know
that nothing will remain the same.” - Arvo Pärt
Estonian Arvo Pärt is one of the most performed and influential living
composers. Written while Estonia was under Soviet-control, his Tabula Rasa -
Latin for a clean slate - seeks spirituality and independence.
As with Tabula Rasa, Wojciech Kilar’s Orawa, written during Poland’s long
confinement behind the Iron Curtain, expresses the beauty of freedom and the
natural world, while Shostakovich’s Chamber Symphony in C minor
is a lament
for victims of fascism and war, but also an act of self-reflection. Moving
through elegy and brutal force into acceptance and farewell, it reminds us
once more that creativity, art and music do prevail.
- Kilar Orawa
- Arvo Pärt
Tabula Rasa
- Prokofiev - Sonata for
Solo Violin in D major, Op.115
- Thomas Adés Shanty (World Premiere)
-
Shostakovich (arr.Barshai) - Chamber Symphony in C minor, Op.110a
Australian Chamber Orchestra with
Richard Tognetti AO (Director & violin)
and Satu Vänskä (Principal Violin).
Sydney -
City Recital Hall; 7pm 10th, 1.30pm 12th, 7pm 13th, 2pm 14th, 8pm 9th February 2021
Wollongong -
Wollongong Town Hall; 7.30pm 8th February 2021