Olari Elts, Conductor Gautier Capuçon, Cello
Brahms: Variations on a Theme of Hadyn Haydn: Cello Concerto in C major Brahms: Symphony No 1
Adelaide Town Hall Friday 9 October, 8.00 pm Saturday 10 October, 6.30 pm
Brahms was enamoured of the infectious charm of Josef Haydn’s music and his Variations (also known as the St Anthony Variations) are his homage to the older master. The Rococo felicities of Haydn’s C major Cello Concerto are dispatched with gallic élan by dashing young cellist Gautier Capuçon. Brahms agonised for years before finally producing his First Symphony but when this monumental masterpiece finally appeared, no one was in any doubt that Brahms was the inheritor of Beethoven’s mighty symphonic mantle.
James Judd, Conductor Seung-Eun Lee, Oboe
Sculthorpe: Earth Cry Mahler: Blumine R Strauss: Oboe Concerto Walton: Symphony No 1
Adelaide Town Hall Friday 16 October, 8.00 pm Saturday 17 October, 6.30 pm
Inheriting the mantle from Elgar, William Walton created some of the most inspiring expressions of the English spirit in music. The shining majesty of Walton’s Crown Imperial and Spitfire Prelude and Fugue imbues his Symphony No 1 married with the vigour of 1930s modernity. Richard Strauss, at the end of his long creative life, produced warm, radiant and witty masterpieces such as the Oboe Concerto. ASO Principal Oboe, Seung-Eun Lee takes centre stage in this perennially charming work.
ABC Symphony Australia Young Performers Awards Grand Final
Festival Theatre Thursday 22 October, 7pm
Free tickets available for collection during office hours at the ASO Box Office, 91 Hindley Street, Adelaide from October 1.
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