Australian Music Centre | Breaking sound barriers

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Joaquín TURINA (1882-1949): Circulo Op.91 (1942)

Don BANKS (1923-1980): Prologue, Night Piece and Blues for Two (1968)

Luigi DALLAPICCOLA (1904-1975): Piccola musica notturna (1954)

Ravi SHANKAR (1920-2012): L'Aube Enchantée (The Enchanted Dawn) (1976)

Franz SCHUBERT (1797-1828): Notturno D897 in E flat Op.148 (c.1827)

Arnold SCHOENBERG (1874-1951): Verklärte Nacht Op.4 (Transfigured Night) (1899)

 Guest artists: Alice Giles, harp

Arnold Schoenberg’s masterful string sextet Verkärte Nacht (Transfigured Night) is an early work reflecting this composer’s interest and mastery of late Romantic musical idioms. Inspired by a poem of the expressionist poet, Richard Dehmel, it is notable for its restless expression of highly emotional states in a musical language that would soon make way for a radical departure in style. It is a sumptuous work in a program devoted to illustrations of contrasts between day and night, beginning with Joaquín Turina’s Circulo suggesting the cyclical aspects of a day passing into night. We move from Australian composer Don Banks’ quirky jazz-inflected modernism through to the masterful Indian sitar player and composer, Ravi Shankar’s L’Aube Enchantée (The Enchanted Dawn), via the atmospheric impressions of night by Dallapiccola and Schubert.

Further information for this event is available online at the event's website or by phone on (02) 9385 4874 or by email to australia.ensemble@unsw.edu.au

Featured Australian Works

Featured artists

• Performer Australia Ensemble

Featured non-Australian music

Turina, Dallapiccola, Shankar, Schubert, Schoenberg