Name: Tognetti. Mendelssohn. Bach.
Start: 2024-09-16T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2024-09-16T00:00:00.000Z
Location: QPAC

Organization

Admin

Queensland Performing Arts Centre

Conductor

Richard Tognetti

Orchestra

Australian Chamber Orchestra

Instrumentalist

Violin

VIolin I

Tognetti. Mendelssohn. Bach.

Brisbane

Australia

QPAC

Concert Hall

Tognetti. Mendelssohn. Bach.: Illumine Thorvaldsdottir (+2 More)

Public

Illumine

Violinkonzert a-Moll BWV 1041

String Octet, Op.20

Sushant Karmakar

Approved

Mendelssohn’s music is pure pleasure. One of the great prodigies, he wrote his sunny Octet at just 16 years of age.

It’s one of the most loved pieces of chamber music ever written and a favourite of the Australian Chamber Orchestra (ACO). In their hands, its youthful exuberance just about leaps off the stage.

Moving from one young genius to another: the ACO presents a new commission from trailblazing young composer Jakub Jankowski in his first work for string orchestra. Hailing from Adelaide, he’s a fresh voice in classical music. Opening the program, Anna Thorvaldsdottir’s pulsating octet Illumine makes a striking contrast with the Mendelssohn.

If Mendelssohn is pleasure, then Bach is worship.

Bach sought God in his music and became like a god for musicians, a touchstone to which all other music is compared. His music is filled with drama, joy and remarkable discipline. Hearing it, playing it, is an act of worship.

That is an altar to which Richard Tognetti will return to again and again. His recordings of Bach’s violin music won three successive ARIA Awards. Live, his interpretation of the great Violin Concerto in A minor is a powerful experience: intimate and electrifying.

Like all the best performances, this concert will remind you of why you love music.

English

Tognetti. Mendelssohn. Bach. by Thorvaldsdottir, Bach, J. S., Mendelssohn, From (2024/2024), Conductor Richard Tognetti, QPAC, Brisbane, Australia

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