Tickets
Standard
$57-$105
Concession
$52-$100
Child (under 18 years)
$20
$7 transaction fee / order
Dates
Thursday 07 November 2024
7:30pm at Melbourne Recital Centre Rescheduled from 1 August 2024
Performance rescheduled
Please note: this performance will now take place on Thursday 7 November 2024 at 7.30pm.
Featuring
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
Christopher Moore director / viola
Program
R. Strauss Metamorphosen
Schoenberg Transfigured Night
About this performance
A lush work by a young Schoenberg and an elegy by Richard Strauss written in his later years are featured in this program for string orchestra led by Principal Viola Chris Moore.
- Influenced by Goethe's poetry, Strauss composed Metamorphosen for 23 solo strings, with each playing an independent part in a masterful display of counterpoint.
- Schoenberg also drew on poetry for his early work Transfigured Night. Based on the poem by Richard Dehmel, Schoenberg's symphonic realisation for string orchestra tells a story of conflict transfigured into unity.
Duration: approx. 1 hour and 30 minutes including interval
