TALES FROM VIENNA - The Streeton Trio
Event Date: 20/05/2017, 03:00 pm
The Streeton Trio, one Australia’s finest classical music ensembles.
The internationally acclaimed trio featuring Emma Jardine (violin), Benjamin Kopp (piano) & Meta Weiss (cello) presents masterworks by Europe’s leading composers around the time of the 1814 Vienna Congress: Schubert, Rossini and Beethoven.
The concert will be introduced by special guest, Hon Dr Barry Jones AC - writer, broadcaster, popular former government minister – and music lover!
Named after the Australian Impressionist painter, Sir Arthur Streeton and described by Musica Viva as
“Australia’s most internationally successful piano trio”, the Streeton Trio was formed in 2008, in Geneva, Switzerland, by three young Australian musicians.
Since they, they have performed throughout the world, garnered many awards and won countless accolades.
They also have an impressive recording history and feature regularly on classical music radio.
This concert’s program explores the complex musical situation in Vienna, the capital of European music at the beginning of the 1800s. These two decades of great cultural ferment saw the Vienna Congress (1814/1815) as the turning point between the ideals of the Enlightenment and those of the Restoration. There was a radical change in the social role of music, which was no longer used as an instrument of awareness and knowledge, but instead became a narcotic, useful to disguise the harsh reality of post-Napoleonic and post-Enlightenment society. These historical circumstances deeply characterized the work of the most important composers of the time: Beethoven, Schubert and Rossini all of whom gravitated around Vienna influencing one another.
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The Independent Theatre 269 Miller St,
North Sydney New South Wales,2060
The Independent Theatre 269 Miller St,
North Sydney New South Wales,2060