22/09/2024
Friends of Music at Resurrection are delighted to announce that the next concert at the Church of the Resurrection, Macedon on Sunday, 20 October @ 3pm will be performed by the Castlemaine Chamber Players.
Formed in 2014, the group (Sasha Bronshtein and Heather Cummins, violin, Frances Gall, viola and Elisabeth Anderson, cello) performs a wide range of string quartet music, featuring iconic composers such as Mozart, Beethoven, and Shostakovich. Their programmes also frequently feature works by female composers and contemporary Australian compositions.
Entitled Heaven and Earth 3, this programme commences with the 1st & 2nd movements of the much-loved String quartet in C (Dissonance), KV 465 by Mozart, so named on account of the short dissonant introduction. The major work is the monumental String quartet in C, Opus 59, No.3 by Beethoven, one of 3 quartets dedicated to Count Rasumovsky, the Russian Ambassador in Vienna in the early 19th century. Of particular interest will be the 1st movement of String quartet in G (1929) by Florence Price, the first female African-American composer to have works performed by a major American symphony orchestra; the Chicago Symphony. Many of her compositions, such as this string quartet, were lost until 2009, when they were found in her abandoned summer house and subsequently published. Castlemaine Chamber Players also loves to play Brazilian music, and this program includes Carinhoso, arranged here especially for the group by well-known Castlemaine composer and arranger, Wendy Rowlands.
Don’t miss this very special concert.
Bookings: Trybooking.com (Enter Castlemaine Chamber Players in the “event box”).
The concert will be performed at the Church of the Resurrection, Cnr. Honour Avenue and Mt. Macedon Road, Macedon. Followed by refreshments.
