【Prison Yard Festival】Australian Chamber Orchestra - Tchaikovsky's Serenade Australian Chamber Orchestra - Tchaikovsky's Serenade

Description

On their way to Tchaikovsky’s popular Serenade for Strings, the Australian Chamber Orchestra (ACO) literally takes the high road, opening with Wojciech Kilar’s Orawa, inspired by the music of Poland’s mountainous Podhale region, before scaling Pavel Haas’s String Quartet No.2 [arranged for string orchestra], “From the Monkey Mountains”, its subtitle referring to a popular tourist destination in the Moravian highlands.

From Kilar’s minimalist tone poem evoking a frenzy of folk fiddling to Haas’s mid-century spiking of melancholic Moravian melodies with a strong dose of jazz, the ACO finally arrives at Tchaikovsky’s Serenade, a brilliant mesh of tuneful melody and waltzing rhythms that remains remarkably memorable even by the Russian master’s lyrical standards.

Director & Violin: Richard Tognetti

Principal Violin: Satu Vänskä

Violin: Anna da Silva Chen, Ilya Isakovich, Liisa Pallandi, Thibaud Pavlovic-Hobba, Ike See, Tim Yu

Principal Viola: Stefanie Farrands

Viola: Elizabeth Woolnough

Principal Cello: Timo-Veikko Valve

Cello: Julian Thompson

Principal Bass: Maxime Bibeau

Programme

Kilar│Orawa

Haas (arr. Tognetti) │String Quartet No.2, From the Monkey Mountains

-interval- (20’)

Tchaikovsky│Serenade for Strings

Duration: Approximately 1 hour 30 minutes including a 20-minute interval