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Visionary music-making: The Australian Chamber Orchestra in The Reef

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Reviewed at QPAC: Concert Hall, Brisbane on 4 March 2013
Bach, Violin sonata no. 1 in G minor, BWV1001
Beethoven, String Quartet no. 13 in B flat major, Op.130: Cavatina
Crumb, Black Angels
Dean, Electric Preludes: Peripeteia
Works by Grandage
Kilar, Orawa
Ligeti, Ramifications, for strings
Rachmaninov, Vocalise, Op.34 no.14
Rameau, Les Boréades: Les vents
Seeger, Where have all the flowers gone?
Shostakovich, Chamber Symphony in C minor (arr. Rudolf Barshai), Op.110a
Tognetti, Heart of The Black Beast, Bathymetry
Works by Tognetti
Australian Chamber Orchestra
Richard Tognetti, Director
Mark Atkins, Didgeridoo
Stephen Pigram, Vocals
Satu Vänskä, Violin
Julian Thompson, Cello
Australian Chamber Orchestra in Melbourne: Gershwin, Shostakovich
****1
Bach sheds light in an impressively dark outing from the ACO
****1
Mesmerising, but relentless Brahms and Beethoven from the ACO
****1
Why isn't the music enough? “Silence and Rapture” from the ACO
***11
Symphony or song cycle? Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde in Sydney
***11
A walk to Beethoven: Bezuidenhout and the Australian Chamber Orchestra
***11
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