The subjects may be grim but music lovers are in for a treat when one of the country’s leading touring string orchestras comes to Ballarat.
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ACO Collective, as part of its 10th anniversary touring celebration, will perform Schubert’s Death and the Maiden along with other lachrymose works at the Art Gallery of Ballarat on Thursday 15 June, 7.30pm as part of the Gallery’s 2017 Music Series.
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra concertmaster Malin Broman will be the guest director for the Collectives’ Death and the Maiden regional tour.
Broman will return to Australia 17 years after winning the Melbourne International Chamber Music competition in 2000, as part of the Kungsbacka Piano Trio.
“We will play especially for those who have never heard this piece. From the first note one is captured,” Broman says.
“Schubert, the master of melodies, is obsessed by death in this quartet.
“Nevertheless, he achieves to communicate how beautiful the world is despite his anguish.
“This concert certainly is a journey and we look forward to sharing it with the audience.”
Along with Schubert’s masterpiece, the Collective will perform the work of English composers John Dowland and Benjamin Britten.
“I like the idea of composers inspiring each other, in the way that Dowland inspired Britten’s Lachrimæ, and that Schubert’s Quartet is built on a song that he wrote some years earlier,” Broman says.
Australian Chamber Orchestra’s Collective is an acclaimed seventeen-piece string ensemble bringing together musicians of the ACO with Australia’s most talented young professional musicians at the outset of their careers, creating an orchestra with a fresh, energetic performance style.
The Schubert quartet will be complemented by works from John Dowland and Benjamin Britten.
