Yet another classical music event

Only  short while ago, I acknowledgef some wonderful musical events here in Armidale. Well, just two days ago I attended yet another brilliant orchestral event. This time, it was out local symphony orchestra delivering a wonderful experience, albeit with the aid of two young extra-regional guests. One was Robert van Gend who conducted the event and the other was his brother Johnny who was the marvellous violin soloist,

The program was itself very interesting. First on the list was was Mozart's Overture from La clemenza di Tito dated 1791. Secondly, there was Henryk Wieniawshi's brilliant Violin Concerto #2 in D minor dated 1862. And thirdly we were entertained by Ralph Vaughan Williams Serenade for Small Orchestra in A Minor dated 1898.

Not only were these works great choices, but they came across beuatifully aided by a wonderful conductor and an excellent local orchestra - with participants from many different countries.

I took a couple of pictures of this lovely event on my phone and here they are:

The second picture here shows the standing violinist standing close to his relative conductor

Endless Classical Music events

I haven't made many posts to my Blog recently, but that in part reflects a very busy lifestyle. However, I'd like to report on the amazing number of classical music events delivered here in Armidale. This is what is happening in August alone.

On Thursday 3 August, I attended one of the most impressive piano recitals I've ever heard at Armidale's Conservatorium of Music. How many towns across the world with a population of only 25,000 have such a facility?

A young Australian bloke, Konstantin Shamray, performed 5 separate works as follows:

Bach's Italian Concerto in F Major

Liszt's Sonetti del Petrarca

Liszt's Paraphrase de concert sur Verdi's Rigaletto

Ravel's La Valse and

Prokofiev's Piano Sonata #8 in B-flat major.

His performance was brilliant and we discovered that, although he's based in Adelaide, he's performed with major orchestras across Europe. 

Then, last Saturday, I went to another amazing musical event delivered to a rapturous audience. There were only two brilliant musicians standing on the stage! One - Robert Jackson - was a Cellist and the other - Keith Power - a Pianist, this time both local! Once again, their performance was perfect adn rapturously recevied. The 3 works performed were:

Menedlssohn's Sonata for Cello # 1 in B Flat (1838)

Gyorgy Ligeti's Sonata for solo Cello (1948) and 

Sergei Rachmaninoff's Sonata for Cello in G Major (1901)

And this coming weekend, the Armidale Symphony Orchestra is perfoming at our University of New England's Lazenby Hall. The works wil be Mozart's La Clemenza di Tito Overture, the stunning Wieniawski Violin Concerto no. 2 in D minor and the enchanting Vaughan Williams Serenade for Orchestra in A minor. 

That's 3 major concerts in 17 days!!

Sorry, I have no pictures of the performances! Taking them is dificult seated in the front row!

AS