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Grammy Award-winner Dawn Upshaw joins the Australian Chamber Orchestra and a US jazz trio for the Australian premiere of Winter Morning Walks and ACO principal violinist Helena Rathbone leads Grieg's Holberg Suite and more.
JOHN ADAMS Selections from John's Book of Alleged Dances
GREIG Holberg Suite
GRIEG Solveig's Song
EINOJUHANI RAUTAVAARA Die Liebenden: Liebes Lied
MARIA SCHNEIDER Winter Morning Walks [AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE]
ELGAR Introduction and Allegro
Helena Rathbone Lead Violin
Dawn Upshaw Soprano
Scott Robinson Alto & Bass Clarinet
Jay Anderson Double Bass
Frank Kimbrough Piano
Australian Chamber Orchestra
Following a hugely successful US tour and a critically acclaimed recording, the Australian Chamber Orchestra bring you the Australian premiere of Winter Morning Walks, featuring four-time Grammy Award-winner Dawn Upshaw.
Commissioned specially for the ACO and Dawn Upshaw and featuring a trio of brilliantly versatile US jazz musicians, this touching new piece by fellow Grammy Award-winner Maria Schneider has been called “music to fall in love with the first time – then immediately want to hear again.” (NPR)
We match this Australian first with a flourish of Romantic string orchestra works – Elgar’s exhilarating Introduction and Allegro and Grieg’s enduringly popular Holberg Suite, which we intersperse with songs by Grieg and Rautavaara.
http://www.aco.com.au/whats_on/event_detail/Upshaw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=MIMPC8Mc4Fc
Reviews
Los Angeles Times: "One of the most consequential performers of our time."
NPR: "[Winter Morning Walks] is lyrical, flowing, intimately expressive, with all the elements of words, music, voice and instruments in a seamless blend, this is music to fall in love with the first time – then immediately want to hear again.”
Limelight Magazine: "[In Schneider's Winter Morning Walks], Upshaw's silver voice and clear diction are as crisp and precise as the sunlit frosty days she describes."
Los Angeles Times: "The exquisite purity of [Dawn Upshaw's] voice cries out for heavenly song."
News Local: "The Holberg is part of the ACO’s standard repertoire and they have recorded it before. But this is a refreshing revisiting of a well-loved favourite which was inspired partly by Baroque dances and partly by Norwegian folk traditions."
Sydney Morning Herald: "(Greig's Holberg Suite) gets a full, lush, romantic rendering in this attractive version by the Australian Chamber Orchestra, at once passionate yet delicate, committed yet sensitive."
The Washington Times: "[Maria Schneider’s Winter Morning Walks] is poignant, touching, sometimes humorous.”
location: Hamer Hall
Sunday 23 February, 2:30pm
Monday 24 February, 8pm
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