Concert Hall (Sundays 8 – 10 pm, now repeated Wednesdays 1.30-3.30 pm)
This is your opportunity to catch the best of Canberra’s live classical music performances by local and international artists. Every year Art Sound volunteers record around 50 such concerts. You can hear many of them on Concert Hall and also keep in touch with musical events coming up around town.
Concert Hall sources its live concerts from such venues as the ANU School of Music, the Wesley Music Centre, the National Gallery, the National Library, University House and local churches. We cover all genres and forms of classical music performed by solo instruments and voices, ensembles, orchestras and choirs.
Coming up on Concert Hall:
Don't miss our recordings from this year's wonderful Canberra International Music Festival. The first one, the opening gala concert, is on Sunday 8th and repeated on Wednesday 11th August.
25th July – Flight
The Australian String Quartet plays works by Haydn, Paul Stanhope and Brahms. Recorded for the Australian Fine Music Network at the Melbourne Recital Centre.
1st August – Sonatas and Dances from Eastern Europe
A farewell to the fine young clarinettist Eloise Fisher who begins her studies at the Juilliard School in New York in September. She is joined by pianist Anthony Smith and violinist Barbara Gilby in a recital of music of Brahms, Bartok and others and also gives us a taste of klezmer. From the Wesley Music Centre.
8th August – Opening Gala Gold
The spectacular opening concert from this year's Canberra International Music Festival in St Christopher's Cathedral, Manuka with a cast of thousands - Roland Peelman and the Song Company, Andrew Lawrence King and his Harp Consort, the Canberra Camerata and the Combined Festival Chorus. They perform music of Turlough O'Carolan, Kats-Chernin, Handel and Bach.
15th August – The Sun King
Salut! Baroque presents music from the time of Louis XIV (1638-1715) - works by Marais, Couperin, Hotteterre and Charpentier.
22nd August – Memories of Germany
Coloratura soprano Rachael Duncan and accompanist Alan Hicks perform songs of Mozart, Schubert, Joseph Marx, Kurt Weil and Richard Strauss. An Art Song Canberra concert from Wesley Music Centre.
29th August – Chopin Recital
The acclaimed Polish pianist Raphael Alexandre Lustchevsky celebrates the 200th anniversary of Chopin's birth at the Embassy of the Republic of Poland.
5th September – Songs are Sung
The poignant and lyrical music of Henryk Gorecki. This version for string orchestra was created specially for the 2010 Canberra International Music Festival. The performance in the National Museum of Australia was dedicated to the memory of the President of the Republic of Poland, Lech Kaczynski and all those killed in the tragic plane crash in April 2010.
Related Links:
Australian String Quartet - http://www.asq.com.au/
Canberra International Music Festival - http://www.cicmf.org/default.asp?id=154
Salut! Baroque - http://www.baroque.com.au/
Raphael Alexandre Lustchevsky - http://www.dmmusic.org/May18.html
