The last of four recitals at the Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM) as part of the 2016 fellowship program.
Commencing with the ever-popular Piano Quintet in Eb by Robert Schumann the program then travels forward in time to Germany on the verge of WWI. The second half of this performance features one of the masterpieces of musical modernism, Arnold Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire (1912). Based on the poems of Albert Giraud, this work explores the bewitched world of the clown Pierrot as he ruminates on desire, decadence, and death. Part melodrama, part cabaret, part song-cycle, Pierrot Lunaire is one of the major staples of the 20th century chamber repertoire.
PROGRAM
Robert Schumann // Piano Quintet in Eb major, Op. 44
Interval
Arnold Schoenberg // Pierrot Lunaire
Artists: Alex Raineri (piano), Tabatha McFadyen (soprano), Kim Falconer (flute), Ashley Smith (clarinet), Elizabeth Welsh (violin), Daniel Smith (cello), Zoe Friesberg (violin), Kyla Matsuura-Miller (violin), Katie Yap (viola) and Sam Payne (cello)