Events in September 2011

Sunset

Haydn
String Quartet op.76 no.1
Respighi
Il tramonto (The Sunset) for Quartet and Voice
Golijov
Two Songs for Quartet and Voice
Ravel
String Quartet in F Major
with Sara Macliver - Soprano

This concert opens with the bright daylight of Haydn’s first op.76 quartet, in the sunny key of G Major.

Well-loved Australian soprano Sara Macliver joins the ASQ for Respighi’s dramatic and declamatory setting of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s poem Il tramonto (The Sunset). We then travel to a night world of hushed urgency and fragile ecstasy in two songs by Argentinean composer Golijov, Lua Descolorida (Colourless Moon) and How Slow the Wind.

Ravel’s only quartet has long been a favourite piece of the ASQ’s and the irridescent dragonfly colours of this work, by turns darting and dreamlike, bring the concert to a virtuosic end.


Monday 19, 7pm, Perth Concert Hall
Wednesday 21, 7pm, Adelaide Town Hall
Monday 26, Elisabeth Murdoch Hall, Melbourne Recital Centre
Tuesday 27, 7pm, Conservatorium Theatre, South Bank, Brisbane
Wednesday 28, City Recital Hall Angel Place, Sydney

For more information go to www.asq.com.au