Concert 1 - The Way Home
Saturday 20 May 2023 at 11am
The first concert in this year’s festival begins with restless, searching music of the Australian landscape, Peter Sculthorpe’s Djilile and Night Pieces, contrasted with the pastoral, old world beauty of Ralph Vaughan-Williams’ Six Studies in English Folk Song, and Songs of Travel. The concert concludes with two giants of Czech nationalism: Josef Suk and Bedrich Smetana, the former in his poignant Elegy, and the latter in his achingly romantic piano trio.
PETER SCULTHORPE
Djilile (1986)
Anna Goldsworthy (piano)
RALPH VAUGHAN-WILLIAMS
Six Studies in English Folk Songs (1926)
Simon Cobcroft (cello), Anna Goldsworthy (piano)
PETER SCULTHORPE
Night Pieces (1971)
Anna Goldsworthy (piano)
RALPH VAUGHAN-WILLIAMS
Songs of Travel (1904)
Samuel Dundas (baritone), Anna Goldsworthy (piano)
~ Interval ~
JOSEF SUK
Elegy (1902)
Lyrebird Trio (Angela Turner, Glenn Christensen and Simon Cobcroft)
BEDŘICH SMETANA
Piano Trio in G Minor (1855)
Lyrebird Trio (Angela Turner, Glenn Christensen and Simon Cobcroft)
Note that final program and artists are subject to change, given the human nature of this endeavour.
