| | Friday 1 January @ 6pm St Peter's Anglican Church Queen St, Mornington This
summer, the Peninsula Summer Music Festival transports the 17th Century
tradition of Abendmusik - evening music for the people - from Lübeck’s Marienkirche
to St Peter’s Mornington. Featuring
the leading exponents of this genre in Australasia, Latitude 37,
with guest artists baritone David Greco
(Australia/Holland), the ACO’s Alice Evans
(violin) and Nicole
Forsyth (viola).
The German
Baroque period was a fertile time of invention and discovery, with Lübeck being
a renowned centre for exciting new musical styles. It culminated with the music
of the great master, Johann Sebastian Bach. Abendmusik
features his predecessors and influencers, including JC Bach (his uncle),
Erlebach, Biber and Rosenmüller and Marienkirche organists, Tunder and
Buxtehude (whom the young JS Bach famously walked over 300kms to hear play). This will be the first time that St Peters Anglican Church, Mornington
has hosted a Peninsula Music Festival performance. Audiences will be able to
hear the church’s magnificent organ being used throughout the concert. The
third Peninsula Summer Music Festival will take place between December 30 2009
and January 5 2010. It offers audiences a diverse and entertaining
range of classical, jazz, contemporary, opera and period music performed in
wineries, churches and theatres from Mornington to Flinders, Shoreham to Sorrento and other unique
locations.
Tickets:
$46/$40 Bookings: Frankston Arts Centre Box Office 9784 1060 or online at www.peninsulafestival.com.au
Sunday 17 January @ 2.30pm
Level 1, 181 Smith St, Fitzroy
Chilled out French Baroque music in the bohemian heart of Fitzroy. A perfect way to spend a relaxing summer afternoon, lounging in our backstreet salon with a glass of bubbly listening to the gorgeous sounds of baroque Paris. With guest artists James Holland (theorbo) and Sophie Ardiet (traverso) enjoy a relaxed gathering with a programme including Couperin, Rameau and Forqueray.
Tickets $28 full / $20 conc. / $15 student
Phone 03 9819 6517 or email info@latitude37baroque.com for bookings. Seats limited.
French Baroque Music Workshop
April 25-27, 2010
Latitude 37 in
conjunction with the Early Music Studio, University of Melbourne, present a three day workshop focussing on some of the most sumptuous
repertoire of the baroque era. For three
days, we will immerse ourselves in the language of 17th and 18th Century
France, examining in detail the rules of dance, ornamentation and
instrumentation. This represents a rare opportunity to gain a concrete
grounding in these fundamental elements of French Style. Workshop times are between 10.00 and 18.00
each day and will incorporate a morning lecture, ornamentation classes,
masterclasses and chamber music tutoring, culminating in a final concert at the
EMS on the evening of Tuesday the 27th of April.
Monash University Lunchtime Concert Thursday 29 April @ 1.10pm
Monash University Clayton Campus, Music Auditorium (room 68)
A journey through Europe to experience gems of the Baroque as part of Monash University's lunchtime concert series. Hear the bells of Paris' St Genevieve in Marais' Sonnerie, sabour the elegance of Louis XIV's court of Versailles with Rameau's Pieces de clavecin en concert, revel in the profundity of Bach and hear Pachelbel's perennial favourite with new ears. Visit www.arts.monash.edu.au/music/events for more information.
ABC Sunday Live with guest artist Louisa Hunter Bradley (soprano) Sunday 23 May @ 3.00pm
Iwaki Auditorium
ABC Centre, Southbank Blvd, Southbank
Together with guest soprano Louisa Hunter Bradley, Latitude 37 will give a performance of stunning 17th century Italian songs and instrumental music, broadcast live on ABC Classic FM. Free admission. A Midwinter Feast at The Vines Friday 18 June @ 7pm and Saturday 19 June @ 7pm
The Vines of Red Hill winery
150 Red Hill Rd, Red Hill
Fire up your senses with a gastronomical and musical banquet to celebrate the winter solstice. A gourmet four-course meal by chef James Redfern and musical intermezzi including music by Vivaldi, Handel, Marais, Bach and Pachelbel played by Latitude 37 will keep the cold at bay during the longest of winter evenings.
Vines
of
Red Hill, situated amongst rolling hills on the Mornington Peninsula,
transforms
itself into an elegant and genial banquet hall for this midwinter feast
where
you can hang up your coats and warm yourself by the glow of a crackling
open
fire. Chef James Redfern’s firm and
passionate belief that regions need to promote and retain their unique
individuality is what drives his cuisine.
All of his ingredients are sourced or especially grown from the
growing
community of local artisan producers
Tickets $90 including meal and matching wine samples Bookings 03 5989 2977 or info@vinesofredhill.com.au Musica Viva Coffee Concert
Tuesday 24 August @ 10.00am
Elisabeth Murdoch Hall
Melbourne Recital Centre
Southbank Blvd, Southbank
Returning to their musical heartland, Latitude 37 brings its trademark expressions of vitality and
excitement to a program of German Baroque music including JS Bach’s
Sonata in E minor, BWV 528 and works by Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber, Johann Rosenmuller, Dietrich Buxtehude and Johann Heinrich von Schmelzer. Booking enquiries: www.musicaviva.com.au Melbourne Recital Centre, Ph. 03 9699 3333
Biber - The Rosary Sonatas Sunday 10 October @ 2.30pm
St Aloysius'
233 Balaclava Rd
Caulfied North
A rare opportunity to experience Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber's Rosary Sonatas in their original setting, with a decade of the rosary being said between sonata. The Rosary Sonatas endeavor to capture, in music, the experience of the
three great Mysteries of Christ: The Birth, the Crucifixion, and the
Resurrection, in three settings of five "Mystery Sonatas" each.
With a different scordatura tuning for each sonata, Biber created a lasting monument in this series of
fifteen sonatas depicting the story of Jesus in a series of evocations expressing the range of
emotional reactions to the sequence of events. A very special event. Monday 22 November @ 7.30pm
Drinks from 7.00pm
Forty Five Downstairs
45 Flinders Lane
Melbourne
Latitude 37 abandons the courts of
Versailles for a mischievous hair-raising run though the back streets of Paris.
Encounter drunken ragamuffins, cheeky monkeys, and rambunctious carnival
troupes, with the bells of Paris providing the scintillating backdrop to an
exciting fun-filled romp. You will be titillated, amused, and
possibly manhandled in this celebration of the start of the festive season.
Tickets $38 full/$25 conc./$15 student
bookings www.fortyfivedownstairs.com or call 03 9662 9966 |
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