Listen to the Land

Sainsbury, Leov, Mendelssohn and Beethoven - music that listens to the land.

This program takes its name from FQ's long-term commissioning project with First Peoples composers, and it earns the title. At its centre, this performance is the world premiere of a new work by Chris Sainsbury. Dharug composer, academic and founder of the Ngarra-Burria First Peoples Composers Initiative, Chris drew on his doctoral research into how music can reconstitute the imagery of a place and deepen our connection to it. Jessie Leov's outside in, written for hospital patients missing the natural world, explores place with the same impetus in more intimate form.

Beethoven and Mendelssohn felt it too: Beethoven was famously happier among trees than people, and Mendelssohn sketched the rugged landscapes he travelled through. Their quartets aren't literal depictions of nature, but they carry the same charge, the same pull toward somewhere else. Mendelssohn's Op.12 brings youthful, breathtaking imagination; Beethoven's "Razumovsky" No.3 moves through intimacy, humour and sheer exuberance. These four composers are united by their impulse to listen to a place and let it become music.

Tickets

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Artists

Elizabeth Sellars violin
Wilma Smith violin
Helen Ireland viola
Zoe Knighton cello

Program

Chris Sainsbury
New Work*

Jessie Leov 
outside in 

Felix Mendelssohn 
String Quartet No.1 in E-flat, Op.12

Ludwig Van Beethoven 
String Quartet No.9 in C, Op.59 No.3 'Razumovsky'

*World premiere, commissioned by Flinders Quartet as part of Listen to the Land