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
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