Australian String Quartet
The Australian String Quartet (Sophie Rowell, Anne Horton – violin, Sally Boud – viola, Rachel Johnston – cello) performs throughout Australia and around the world and holds the distinction of having won more international chamber music competitions than any other ensemble in Australian history.
Sunset
WEDNESDAY 21 SEPTEMBER, 7PM
With Sara Macliver – Soprano
This concert opens with the bright daylight of Haydn’s first op.76 quartet, in the sunny key of G Major. Well-loved Australian soprano Sara Macliver joins the ASQ for Respighi’s dramatic and declamatory setting of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s poem Il tramonto (The Sunset). We then travel to a night world of hushed urgency and fragile ecstasy in two songs by Argentinean composer Golijov, Lua Descolorida (Colourless Moon) and How Slow the Wind. Ravel’s only quartet has long been a favourite piece of the ASQ’s and the irridescent dragonfly colours of this work, by turns darting and dreamlike, bring the concert to a virtuosic end.
| Haydn | String Quartet op.76 no.1 |
| Respighi | Il tramonto (The Sunset) for Quartet and Voice |
| Golijov | Two Songs for Quartet and Voice |
| Ravel | String Quartet in F Major |
Adelaide Town Hall, 128 King William Street, Adelaide
TICKETS Adult $57 / Concession $43 / Student $22 (service fees apply)
BASS 131 246 www.bass.net.au
Australian String Quartet 1800 040 444
