Towards Light
Australian String Quartet with Daniel de Borah (Piano)
Australia
The Australian String Quartet opens its program with a work by the doyen of Australian composers, Peter Sculthorpe, inspired by the starkly beautiful landscape of Kakadu and its inhabitants.
From Australia’s unique interior to the sunlit uplands of old Bohemia: few composers wrote music in all genres which radiated such spontaneous warmth and charm as Antonin Dvořák. Even by his exalted standards, the Op 51 String Quartet is full of gorgeous melodies where exuberance is masterfully fused with poignant tenderness.
The program culminates with one of Dmitri Shostakovich’s towering chamber masterpieces: the Piano Quintet, Op 57, composed during the fateful year 1940 and described as “a last ray of hope” for Russia. It is a work of grand symphonic proportions combining the composer’s hallmark skittish humour and austere dignity with an underlying tension.
PROGRAM
Sculthorpe: String Quartet No 11
Dvořák: String Quartet No 10 in E Flat Major, Op 51
Shostakovich: Piano Quintet: Op 57
PAUL GRABOWSKY INTRODUCES TOWARDS LIGHT
WHERE
Adelaide Town Hall
WHEN
Pre-concert talk
Wed 7 Mar 6.10pm
Concert
Wed 7 Mar 7pm
DURATION
110 minutes (including interval)
TICKETS
Adult $59, Friends $52
Concession $45, Student $22
PLANNER
Wheelchair access
Assistive listening systems
MAP
Adelaide Town Hall
credits
Violins: Kristian Winther — Anne Horton
Viola: Stephen King
Cello: Rachel Johnston
Piano: Daniel de Borah (guest artist)
Presented in association with Adelaide Festival
IMAGE CREDITS
Photo: Jacqui Way
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