Sun, 08 May
|Fitters' Workshop
The Last Mile
This event is part of the Canberra International Music Festival, in association with the Australian National University School of Music. Programme: Ludwig van Beethoven, Witold Lutoslawski, and Camille Saint-Saëns.
Time & Location
08 May 2022, 7:30 pm AEST
Fitters' Workshop, Printers Way, Kingston ACT 2604, Australia
About the event
Always ready to lend a hand, Beethoven’s friends sought to bring him new audiences by transcribing his pieces. In Hummel’s case, he should not have bothered. But the result became a delightfully frolicking ride into the Austrian fields led by Skye McIntosh’s happy band of the Australian Haydn Ensemble. A final Polish salute precedes the frivolity of Saint-Saëns’ ever-popular animal fantasy, when a parade of Festival artists join Jonathan Biggins for a zany finish.
Programme
Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony no. 6, Pastoral, arr. Hummel
–Interval–
Witold Lutoslawski: Paganini Variations
Camille Saint-Saëns: Carnival of the Animals
Artists
Australian Haydn Ensemble
Sally Walker, flute
Naoto Segawa, percussion
Ben Ward, double bass
New Zealand String Quartet
Edward and Stephanie Neeman, piano
With Jonathan Biggins, actor