Brahms German Requiem
- Lothar Zagrosek, conductor
- Anton Scharinger, Baritone
- Jutta Böhnert, Soprano
- WASO Chorus
MOZART Symphony No. 38 Prague and BRAHMS Ein deutsches Requiem (A German Requiem)
Like the drawing back of a great curtain, the opening of Brahms’ German Requiem reveals a place of spiritual solace. Containing some of the most glorious music in the choral repertoire, the work juxtaposes moments of apocalyptic terror with music of deep assurance. This is not music of mourning, but rather an intensely lyrical poem of spiritual renewal offering a place for reflection and contemplation.
8pm, Friday 16 & Saturday 17 November
Plan B Wealth Management Great Classics – Dance!
- Paul Daniel, conductor
- Diana Doherty, oboe
RAVEL Valses nobles et sentimentales; EDWARDS Oboe Concerto Bird Spirit Dreaming; DEBUSSY Jeux; MOZART Symphony No.41 Jupiter
Australian oboe virtuoso Diana Doherty has played – and danced! – the magical music which Ross Edwards’ wrote specially for her in Europe, Australia and America (with the New York Philharmonic and Lorin Maazel). Swirling around this enchanting concerto is a colourful selection of music that moves with a graceful lilt and a skip, created for dancers and for dancing.
Tickets from $20.00 – $71.00. Bookings through WASO on 9326 0000 or www.waso.com.au
8pm, Friday 5 & Saturday 6 October at Perth Concert Hall
Wesfarmers Arts Masters – Oleg Caetani Conducts Mahler 3
- Oleg Caetani, conductor
- Nancy Maultsby, mezzo soprano
- Ladies of the WASO Chorus
- Choirs from Penrhos College, Christchurch Grammar & Hale School
MAHLER Symphony No.3
Mahler’s third symphony is a glorious hymn to nature and to love, a great canvas in which in the composer’s words, “the whole of nature finds a voiceâ€Â. At the work’s heart the mezzo soprano soloist intones “I have wakened from a deep dream: the world is deep†in music so wondrous, so intensely beautiful, that it is as if it has drifted in from another place.
8pm, Friday 12 & Saturday 13 October at Perth Concert Hall
Tickets from $44.00 – $71.00. Bookings through WASO on 9326 0000 or www.waso.com.au
Plan B Wealth Management Great Classics | GALA – Bach, Beethoven & Strauss
- David Atherton, conductor
- Sally-Anne Russell, mezzo soprano
BACH Cantata No.82 Ich habe genug; R STRAUSS Metamorphosen; BEETHOVEN Symphony No.3 Eroica
Great music from the heart of three centuries of German culture: Bach, Beethoven and Strauss. Including Bach’s Ich habe genug one of the most exquisite of that composer’s 215 cantatas, the program opens with Strauss’ luminous meditation for 23 solo strings: the radiant, incandescent music of an old man looking back over a long life.
8pm, Friday 7 & Saturday 8 September at the Perth Concert Hall.
Tickets from $60.00 – $85.00. Bookings through WASO on 9326 0000 or www.waso.com.au
Wesfarmers Arts Masters – Brahms & Mahler
- Lothar Zagrosek, conductor
- Brett Dean, viola
BRAHMS Symphony No.3;DEAN Viola Concerto; MAHLER Symphony No.10: Adagio
Mahler completed only one movement of his tenth symphony, an expansive and overwhelming adagio, a great passionate cry from the heart. Moving inexorably towards its shattering climax, it is music that – if one ventures too close – is likely to sear the soul. Brahms’ third symphony is one of the most beloved of all symphonies; from its tempestuous first movement to the elegiac third it traverses a powerful landscape.
8pm, Friday 23 & Saturday 24 November at the Perth Concert Hall
Tickets from $44.00 – $71.00. Bookings through WASO on 9326 0000 or www.waso.com.au.
