2023 festival program
as at 2 May 2023
Concert 1
THE MUSIC OF ALMA MOODIE
Friday 21 July, 7.30 pm, Point Lookout Community Hall
DURATION: 2 hours (including interval)
Max Reger: Praeludium and Fugue in G minor, Opus 131a, No. 4 (1914)
Karol Szymanowski: Nocturne and Tarantella for violin and piano, Opus 28 (1915)
Ferruccio Busoni: Kultaselle: Ten Variations on a Finnish Folksong (1890)
Paul Hindemith: from Clarinet Quintet, Opus 30: IV. Arioso: Sehr ruhig, V. Sehr lebhaft (1923; rev. 1954)
Igor Stravinsky: Three Pieces for String Quartet (1914; rev. 1918)
Hans Pfitzner: from Sextet in G minor, Opus 55: I. Allegro con passione (1945)
Ernst Krenek: Trio Phantasie for Piano Trio, Opus 63 (1929)
Zoltán Kodály: Serenade for Two Violins and Viola, Opus 12 (1920)
(Sophie Rowell, Rachel Smith and Anne Horton, violins; Caroline Henbest and Liz Woolnough, violas; Stephen Emmerson and Alex Raineri, piano; Louise King and Eric de Wit, cellos; Rianne Wilschut, clarinet; Marian Heckenberg, double bass)
Concert 2
ZINGARESCA
Saturday 22 July, Point Lookout Community Hall
Come to the hall from 8 am to enjoy morning birdsong with Merlo coffee and muffins (included in the ticket price for this concert) from Michael Bulloch’s ‘Coffee in Cylinders’ team. Coffee service ends at 9.15 am sharp and then the music starts at 9.30 am in this intimate venue looking through tea-trees to the ‘whale tail’ sculpture and the sea.
CONCERT DURATION (from 9.30 am): 1 hr 10 min (no interval)
Joseph Haydn: Piano trio no. 39 in G major, ‘Gypsy Rondo’, Hob. XV:25 (1795)
Erwin Schulhoff: from Duo for violin and cello: II. ‘Zingaresca’ (1925)
Antonín Dvořák: Zigeunerlieder, Opus 55 (1880)
György Ligeti: Balada şi joc (‘Ballad and Dance’) for two violins (1950)
Joseph Haydn: String quartet in C major, Opus 54/2, Hob. III:57 (1788)
(Sara Macliver, voice; Sophie Rowell, Rachel Smith and Anne Horton, violins; Caroline Henbest, viola; Stephen Emmerson, piano; Louise King and Eric de Wit, cellos)
Concert 3
SAGA
Saturday 22 July, 1.30 pm, Point Lookout Community Hall
DURATION: 1 hr (no interval)
Edvard Grieg: Haugtussa, Opus 67 (1895)
Kaija Saariaho, Mirrors (1997)
Jean Sibelius: En Saga (‘A Saga’), Opus 9 (1891–92), arr. Gregory Barrett for septet
(Sara Macliver, voice; Sophie Rowell and Rachel Smith, violins; Liz Woolnough, viola; Stephen Emmerson, piano; Tim Munro, flute; Louise King, cello; Rianne Wilschut, clarinet; Marian Heckenberg, double bass)
Concert 4
KRISTIN BERARDI AND SAM ANNING
Saturday 22 July, 7.00 pm, Point Lookout Community Hall
DURATION: 1 hr (no interval)
Long-term collaborators Kristin Berardi and Sam Anning are both award-winning musicians in their own right, and their first album, Our Songs, Not Songs, was a recipient of the Australian Jazz Bell Award in 2021 for the best jazz vocal album. Come and hear why. Their music takes place in the space between jazz, folk, improvisation and singer-songwriter lands.
(Kristin Berardi, vocals; Sam Anning, double bass)
Concert 5
ELEMENTS
Sunday 23 July, 10 am, Point Lookout Community Hall
DURATION: 1 hr 10 min (no interval)
Paul Stanhope: Agnus Dei – After the Fire (2019)
Henry Purcell: Dido’s lament, from Dido and Aeneas (1683)
Joseph Haydn: ‘Earthquake’ from The Seven Last Words of Christ (1785–86)
Melody Eötvös: A string trio commissioned for this festival
Franz Schubert: Auf dem Wasser zu singen, D774 (1823)
Franz Schubert: Auf dem Strom, D943 (1828)
Franz Schubert: Abschied von den Erde, D829 (1826)
Tim Munro: Improvisations
Shulamit Ran: East Wind (1987)
Franz Schreker: Der Wind (1909)
(Sara Macliver, voice; Rachel Smith and Anne Horton, violins; Liz Woolnough, viola; Stephen Emmerson and Alex Raineri, piano; Tim Munro, flute; Louise King and Eric de Wit, cellos; Rianne Wilschut, clarinet; Nick Mooney, horn)
Concert 6
VOYAGES
Sunday 23 July, 2 pm, Point Lookout Community Hall
DURATION: 1 hr 10 min (no interval)
Guillaume Lekeu: Molto Adagio (1887)
Ernest Chausson: Chanson perpétuelle, Opus 37 (1899)
André Jolivet: Chant de Linos (1944)
Jean Cras: String trio (1926)
(Sara Macliver, voice; Sophie Rowell, Rachel Smith and Anne Horton, violins; Caroline Henbest and Liz Woolnough, violas; Alex Raineri, piano; Tim Munro, flute; Louise King and Eric de Wit, cellos)
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