Sydney guitar and accordion duo Blue and Sentimental join chamber-folk super group The String Contingent in “From Here or Somewhere Else” – an exotic double bill of ‘chamber-folk, gypsy, tango and classical fusion’. Part of the popular Prelude in Tea series of concerts, the concert will also include the theatre’s legendary afternoon tea with a selection of delectable cakes and…
Nova Scotia collides with Terra Australis when Canada’s Chris Norman and David Greenberg team up with Australia’s only dedicated Scottish baroque band, Evergreen Ensemble, for a high-energy program of music from 18th-century Caledonia – a time and place when soulful airs and merry jigs were heard alongside the latest compositions by Correlli and Vivaldi. This concert…
The Australian String Quartet (ASQ) presents a program they have called Debussy, centred around Debussy’s String Quartet in G minor and featuring as well, the music of Mendelssohn, Andrew Ford and Arvo Pärt. Mendelssohn’s String Quartet Op.44 No.2, a work of dazzling string writing completed on the composer’s honeymoon, negotiates the fine line between the elegiac and…