Chamber Music in Adelaide

Coriole Music Festival

The Coriole Music Festival comprises 3 chamber concerts held over one weekend in the Barrel Shed at Coriole Vineyards – an informal and delightful setting with a wonderful acoustic for chamber and vocal music.

The 2011 festival will focus on music by Russian composers, from early folk and religious origins to the 19th century nationalist and romantic composers and music of the Soviet era. We will also explore the sweeping influence of Chopin in several rarely performed major piano works by later composers.

Performers include the Australian String Quartet, London-based tenor Andrew Goodwin, pianists Albert Tiu and Daniel de Borah, and cellist Janis Laurs. After each concert, musicians and audience have the opportunity to get to know each other whilst enjoying wonderful Coriole wines and a delicious meal from Tina Llewellyn of the “Rolling Pin&rdquo.

SATURDAY 14 MAY, 5PM

(coffee and preconcert talk 4.15 pm)

Includes Dvorak’s Cypresses and Quartet no 12, the Songs and Dances of Death by Mussorgsky, and Rachmaninov’s Variations on a Theme of Chopin for piano.

SUNDAY 15 MAY, 11AM

(coffee and preconcert talk 10.15 am)

Includes Songs by Glinka, Tchaikovsky and Prokofiev, piano works of Scriabin inspired by the influence of Chopin, and Rachmaninov’s Sonata for Cello and Piano.

SUNDAY 15 MAY, 4.30PM

(coffee and preconcert talk 3.45 pm)

Includes Russian folksongs and Soviet wartime songs, a number of the legendary Studies on Chopin’s Etudes (1893–1914) for piano by Leopold Godowsky, the String Quartet No 7 by Shostakovich, and the String Quintet Op 39 by Glazunov.