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The Lark Ascending

Australian Chamber Orchestra

,Milton Court Concert Hall
Richard Tognetti and the ACO portrait

Richard Tognetti sweeps the Australian Chamber Orchestra from inter-war England to the dark heart of the Viennese psyche.

On paper, it’s a mouthwatering programme – contrasting masterpieces by Vaughan Williams and Britten, framed by a string arrangement of Vasks's infinite Viatore and the tormented passion of Schoenberg’s luscious Verklärte Nacht. But as The Times put it in 2018, ‘Nothing about this orchestra is ever routine’.

‘And Richard Tognetti, leading from the front in every sense, embodies everything that makes his band special’, that same critic continued. If anything, that’s an understatement. So expect the unexpected from Vaughan Williams’s famous Lark, and experience the raw energy that the ACO’s superb musicians draw from this collaboration with musicians from Guildhall School of Music & Drama.

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The concert will finish at approximately 9.10pm and will include a twenty-minute interval.

Programme

Pēteris Vasks Viatore for 11 solo strings
Britten Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge
Vaughan Williams The Lark Ascending
Schoenberg Verklärte Nacht

Performers

Australian Chamber Orchestra
Richard Tognetti director & violin
Guildhall Chamber Orchestra
‘The Australian Chamber Orchestra has always brought a blast of fresh air whenever it breezes into London’s concert halls‘
The Guardian, 27 October 2018

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