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MOZART Divertimento in F, K.138
SMETANA String Quartet No.1 “From My Life” (arr. for string orchestra)
JANÁČEK String Quartet No.2 “Intimate Letters” (arr. for string orchestra)
Gordan Nikolic Guest Director & Violin
Peter Evans Co-Artistic Director, Bell Shakespeare
Bell Shakespeare Actors to be announced
Australian Chamber Orchestra
Concept by Timo-Veikko Valve
In a dramatic collaboration with Bell Shakespeare, the Australian Chamber Orchestra performs Janáček’s Intimate Letters and Smetana’s From My Life, sharing the stage with esteemed actors who give life to the stories which inspired the music.
The ACO’s theatrical staging of Janáček’s first quartet, the Kreutzer Sonata, received glowing reviews and it is exciting to give his second quartet Intimate Letters the same treatment, performing an arrangement for string orchestra under the direction of London Symphony Orchestra concertmaster Gordan Nikolic.
Inspired by more than 700 passionate letters written between Janáček and his much younger, married muse, Intimate Letters explores their overwhelming and obsessive love. Smetana’s autobiographical From My Life soars with the joy and hope of childhood which gradually derails and ultimately descends into despair, as the composer faces the inescapable fate of impending deafness.
http://www.aco.com.au/whats_on/event_detail/intimate-letters
Reviews
The Australian
“The actors explore the wordless intimacies of music...the audience are voyeurs, eavesdropping on the private...a stunning coup de théâtre...”
"Have we ever heard Janáček so raw and driven? Here were the best, playing at their very best."
The Sunday Times, UK
"...conducting, playing and dancing around the podium [Gordan Nikolic is] delightful to watch as well as listen to."
A collaboration between the Australian Chamber Orchestra and Bell Shakespeare, led by London Symphony Orchestra concertmaster Gordan Nikolic.
Hamer Hall
Sunday 31 August, 2014, 2:30pm
Monday 1 September, 2014, 8pm
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