YCAT x ANAM Chamber Symphonies

Where Shakespeare’s court meets a composer’s last words.

Alumni of London’s Young Classical Artists Trust join current musicians from the Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM) for three works from three very different worlds: early twentieth-century Vienna, Shakespeare’s court of Naples and the last years of a composer’s life.

Arnold Schoenberg’s first Chamber Symphony was a turning point in music: a single, compact movement originally written for fifteen instruments, here in a version for just five, arranged by his student Anton Webern. Thomas Adès’s Court Studies distils six solo numbers from his opera The Tempest into a set of musical portraits of Shakespeare’s shipwrecked courtiers, from scheming Antonio to the grieving King of Naples.

Mieczysław Weinberg’s Chamber Symphony No.4 was the last piece he ever completed, written in 1992 when illness had left him housebound. A Polish-born refugee and friend of Shostakovich, Weinberg gives the clarinet a lamenting voice, before the finale turns to a folk melody and klezmer-inspired dance from his Jewish heritage. It is part dance, part lament, and a moving farewell.

Tickets

Standard $65 ($55 Concession)

Please note, seating in the Primrose Potter Salon is General Admission.

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Artists

Young Classical Artists Trust alumni
Sini Simonen violin
James Morley cello
Joseph Havlat piano
Jonathan Leibovitz clarinet
Emily Beynon flute

Musicians from the Australian National Academy of Music

Program

Arnold Schoenberg (arr. Webern)
Chamber Symphony No.1 Op.9 (arr. Quintet) 

Jakub Jankowski
New Work (BPA/UKARIA Commission)

Thomas Adès
Court Studies

Mieczysław Weinberg
Chamber Symphony No. 4