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Featuring
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
Nodoka Okisawa conductor
Yinuo Mu harp
Sopranos and altos of the MSO Chorus
Warren Trevelyan-Jones chorus director
Program
Ravel Valses nobles et sentimentales
Melody Eötvös Sonarmilo Concertante for Harp and Orchestra (World premiere of an MSO commission)
Debussy Nocturnes
About this performance
Celebrated Japanese conductor Nodoka Okisawa joins the MSO to conduct a program exploring the exquisite light and shade of impressionism, dreams, and the other-worldly.
- Inspired by the glittering ballrooms of high-society Vienna, Ravel’s impressionist take on Austrian Waltzes was originally composed as a work for solo piano. A master orchestrator, Ravel re-arranged this for the full light and shade of the orchestral palette in 1912 – the lively flirtations, gentle breezes and steamy encounters of unchaperoned Viennese nightlife come to life out of Ravel’s musical canvas.
- Join internationally-acclaimed Yinuo Mu, principal harpist of the MSO, for this world premiere of Australian composer Melody Eötvös’s Harp Concertante – a love-letter to this versatile and beautiful stringed instrument, celebrated from ancient Greece to the modern concert hall.
- A favourite of French impressionist repertoire, Debussy’s ethereal Nocturnes take us through musical representations of wafting clouds, lively parties, and the mystery of the sirens’ songs inspired by the paintings of American artist James McNeill Whistler.
Duration: approx: 65 minutes, no interval
Enhance your experience
Want to learn more about the music being performed? Arrive early for an informative and entertaining pre-concert talk with ABC Classic presenter Stéphanie Kabanyana-Kanyandekwe and composer Melody Eötvös.
Friday 14 October at 10.15am
Hamer Hall Stalls Foyer
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