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Rapture Revolution

Rapture & Revolution

Rapture & Revolution
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Beauty and emotional transcendence with Beethoven and Vaughan Williams.

This program is part of the ACO's inaugural 2021 digital season, ACO StudioCasts.

Rapture & Revolution is available to view now on demand.

Beauty can be revolutionary too, as this debut release in our inaugural season of concert films, ACO StudioCasts, will prove.

Filmed in the grand and expansive Centennial Hall at Sydney Town Hall, the film opens with Schubert's Quatettsatz, followed by Vaughan Williams’s The Lark Ascending. Universally loved, it has long been a calling card for Richard Tognetti and a place for rapture in a pure sense.

There is a similar emotional impact in Beethoven’s Cavatina, which may be one of the most moving pieces ever written. Indeed, so moved was Beethoven that it’s said he finished it with tears falling onto his manuscript.

Emotions transcend time and so does Beethoven’s Grosse Fuge which was perhaps too revolutionary for an early-19th-century audience. Now though, inspired by the intellectual drive within it, we celebrate the Grosse Fuge as another moment of beauty and rapture.  

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program details

SCHUBERT – (arr. Tognetti) Quartettsatz in C minor, D.703
9:00
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS – (arr. Johnson) The Lark Ascending
15:00
BEETHOVEN – (arr. Tognetti) String Quartet in B-flat major, Op.130: V. Cavatina
8:00
BEETHOVEN – (arr. Tognetti) Grosse Fuge, Op.133
16:00
CONCERT duration
50 minutes.
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ARTISTS

ACO Artistic Director Richard Tognetti

Richard Tognetti AO

Director & Violin

Richard Tognetti is Artistic Director and Lead Violin of the ACO. He has established an international reputation for his compelling performances and artistic individualism.

Richard has appeared as director or soloist with many of the world’s leading orchestras. He was Artistic Director of Slovenia’s Festival Maribor from 2008 to 2015 and the first Artist-in-Residence at the Barbican Centre’s Milton Court in 2016. In addition, he has curated and co-composed film scores including the ACO’s Mountain.

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The Australian Chamber Orchestra on stage

Australian Chamber Orchestra

The Australian Chamber Orchestra travels a remarkable road. Making waves across Australia and around the world for their explosive performances and brave interpretations, the ACO embrace celebrated classics alongside new commissions, and adventurous cross-artform collaborations.
Matisse

Matisse Ruby

Director

Matisse Ruby is a Chilean/Australian writer and director from Sydney Australia. She began her career working along side some of Australia’s brightest talents such as Warwick Thornton and assisting on Del Kathryn Barton’s first short animation “Oscar Wilde’s the Nighingale and the Rose” then Associate producing ABC documentaries for Sarah Blasko and Hannah Gadsby.

Matisse’s background spent enveloped in the arts carries through into her own directing work, creating bold and yet intimate visual stories for clients such as the Australian Chamber Orchestra, Wunder Workshop, Gumtree and in 2018 a new philanthropy campaign for the Sydney Film Festival.

Tyson

Tyson Perkins

Director of Photography

Based in Sydney, Australia, Tyson Perkins is an award-winning Aboriginal cinematographer and camera operator. Over the course of more than a decade, Tyson has garnered a wealth of experience on a diverse range of projects and has become known for his particular style, visual flair, work ethic and creativity.
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Drew English

Director of Photography

Drew English is an award winning Cinematographer. Acknowledged for his works by the ACS winning a Gold tripod in 2017 for his first ever entry “Holt”. He received a Gold ACS award the year before for the same entry. Drew was also awarded the Annual cinematographer scholarship in 2016 by the ACS which saw him travel to Poland and conversed with some of the top cinematographers.

COMPOSERS

Composer Ralph Vaughan Williams

Ralph Vaughan Williams

Ralph Vaughan Williams was an English composer who was strongly influenced by Tudor music and English folk-song. He served in the First World War, and resisted the modernist tendencies of mainland Europe, forging an evocative, pastoral “British” style that is epitomised in such works as 'Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis' and 'The Lark Ascending'.
Composer Schubert

Franz Schubert

Franz Schubert was an Austrian composer who died tragically young at the age of 31, but left behind a vast and enduringly popular body of music. He is especially famous for his Lieder (songs), his ‘Unfinished’ Symphony, chamber works and piano works, and is regarded as one of the greatest 19th-century composers.
Composer Ludwig van Beethoven

Ludwig van Beethoven

Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist whose music bridged the Classical and Romantic eras. From the age of 28 his hearing declined until he was completely deaf. Despite this, he composed symphonies, concertos, sonatas and quartets to monumental acclaim. Today, Beethoven is considered one of the greatest and most influential composers of all time.

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