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Reflected Light - Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Season 2023
Conductor Soloist Christopher Moore
Reflected Light - Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Season 2023
Join the MSO for this program of string-featured works connecting ancient and modern, led by violist and chamber music curator Christopher Moore.
- Written in Hollywood where Russian composer Stravinsky was being bombarded by new musical styles, Concerto in D features a dizzying array of special playing techniques in this neoclassical exploration of the possibilities of a string orchestra.
- MSO Composer in Residence Mary Finsterer’s Lumen is ethereal and magical: a fantastical and vivid representation of the light of the first dawn inspired by 11th century poetry.
- Bohemian composer Zelenka’s Sinfonia for 8 instruments shows off the emotional versatility of the baroque era, as jaunty dance rhythms are set alongside sighing violins to pull at the heartstrings.
- Routinely voted as one of the most beautiful pieces ever written, Vaughan Williams’s sublime, folk-inspired meditation on the music of Tudor composer Thomas Tallis is a lush and much-loved musical treat of sublime beauty.
Featuring
- Viola / Director Christopher Moore
Repertoire
- Stravinsky Concerto in D
- Mary Finsterer^ Lumen*
- Zelenka Sinfonia à 8 concertanti
- Vaughan Williams Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis
*World premiere of an MSO Commission
^MSO 2023 Composer in Residence
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