Melbourne - 25 & 27 October
Tickets available through ticketmaster.com.au
RICHARD TOGNETTI
Artistic Director and Lead Violin
SHARON BEZALY
Flute
Download the program PDF
Change of program: Serebrier and Vine will be performed in all concerts. The Izarra will not be performed but will be recorded for BIS.
HANDEL
Concerto Grosso, Op.6 No.7
VASKS
Vox amoris: Fantasy for Violin and Orchestra [world premiere, 2009 Barbara Blackman commission]
SEREBRIER
Flute Concerto with Tango [world premiere]
VINE
Pipe Dreams
TCHAIKOVSKY
Serenade for strings
Sharon Bezaly has been called “God’s gift to the flute” – hyperbole justified by her phenomenal technique, spectrum of colours and quicksilver intelligence. She leaves her audiences breathless with her apparently limitless ability.
The flute came into its own in the 20th century, with composers responding to its multitude of characters: lyrical and brilliant, and as given to melancholy as airy happiness. Bezaly has selected new flute concertos guaranteed to dazzle. From Argentina, José Serebrier creates musical images combining the colours of his native land with a sophisticated musical language.
Carl Vine’s Flute Concerto, Pipe Dreams, imagines what a flute would dream “in a universe where everything is possible”. The result: a rhapsodic showcase for Sharon Bezaly’s golden flute and the ACO.
To celebrate the 20th anniversary of Richard Tognetti’s leadership, the ACO is proud to present the world premiere of a new work for violin and strings by Peteris Vasks, a proponent, with Pärt and Gorecki, of the Baltic holy minimalist style.
Tchaikovsky’s Serenade was one of the composer’s favourite works, a heartfelt homage to his beloved Mozart “in imitation of his style”. Actually, the Serenade is pure Tchaikovsky: as tuneful, elegant and passionate as any of his ballets.