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Tchaikovsky Serenade

Tchaikovsky’s Serenade

Tchaikovsky’s Serenade
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Music from the heart by Ravel, Crawford Seeger and Walker.

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

Tchaikovsky's Serenade will premiere at 8pm AEST, Wednesday 7th July, 2021, and will be available for subscribers to watch on demand until 11:59pm AEDT Friday 31st December, 2021.

Majestic and nation-defying music is no small feat for a composer, driven by mind and spirit, and compelled by forces as demanding as nationalism and honour. Creating one of the great modernist works of the 20th century, as Crawford Seeger did with her Andante for Strings is equally demanding.

But the heartfelt, the music coming from the core of woman or man, can ask something special too. Maybe at times even ask more, in the way George Walker’s Lyric for Strings blends lamentation and lushness direct from the Pulitzer Prize-winning composer’s emotional core.

It was a question of emotional core which played on the mind of Tchaikovsky when he wrote his Serenade for Strings, composed while he was writing the 1812 Overture. As significant as the 1812 was, for him and for Russia, Tchaikovsky acknowledged that for all its virtues, warmth was not so obvious.

The Serenade however, one of the most loved pieces for string orchestra, came from “inner conviction”. We hear Tchaikovsky reaching into his innermost feelings, his nostalgic adoration for Mozart, and the energy and influence of Russian folk music. Tchaikovsky’s former teacher, Anton Rubinstein, was not the only one to say that the Serenade was the best thing he had yet written. When composers ask something special of themselves and write from the heart, they in turn give something truly special back to the world.

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program details

TCHAIKOVSKY – Serenade for Strings, Op.48
28:00
CRAWFORD SEEGER – Andante for Strings
4:00
RAVEL – (arr. Tognetti) Deux Mélodies Hébraïques
7:00
TCHAIKOVSKY – (arr. Tognetti) String Quartet No.1 in D major, Op.11: II. Andante Cantabile
7:00
WALKER – Lyric for Strings
7:00
CONCERT duration
55 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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Tipi

Timo-Veikko Valve

Principal Cello

Timo-Veikko ‘Tipi’ Valve was appointed Principal Cello of the ACO in 2006. He is regarded as one of the most versatile musicians of his generation performing as a soloist, chamber musician and orchestral leader on both modern and period instruments, and regularly performs as a soloist with the ACO.
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.

Drew_English_Cinematographer

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.

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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.

COMPOSERS

Ruth_Crawford_Seeger

Ruth Crawford Seeger

Crawford Seeger was a pioneering American composer and folk music specialist. She had two important careers in a relatively short lifetime: as a composer, she was an outstanding figure among early American modernists in the 1920s and early 1930s; as a specialist in American traditional music, she transcribed, edited and arranged important anthologies in the 1940s and early 1950s.
George Walker

George Walker

George Theophilus Walker was an American composer, pianist, and organist, who was the first African American to have won the Pulitzer Prize for Music. He received the Pulitzer for his work Lilacs in 1996.
Composer Tchaikovsky

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was a Russian composer whose works are amongst the most enduringly popular in the classical repertoire. A uniquely gifted melodist, his ballets Swan Lake and The Nutcracker are the most performed in the world, while his orchestral works and concertos are mainstays of concert halls worldwide.
Ravel

Maurice Ravel

Maurice Ravel was a French composer of Swiss-Basque descent, noted for his musical craftsmanship and perfection of form and style in such works as Boléro (1928), Pavane pour une infante défunte (1899; Pavane for a Dead Princess), Rapsodie espagnole (1907), the ballet Daphnis et Chloé (first performed 1912), and the opera L’Enfant et les sortilèges (1925; The Child and the Enchantments).

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