Relativity – Presented by ASQ

Fanny Mendelssohn String Quartet E-flat major
Brett Dean And Once I Played Ophelia* (Australian premiere)
Peter Sculthorpe String Quartet no 13 Island Dreaming
Felix Mendelssohn String Quartet in A minor op 13
With guest artist Greta Bradman, soprano
*New co-commission by the Australian String Quartet, Britten Sinfonia and the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival

The Mendelssohn family were pioneers in the presentation, preservation and creation of music. The most modern works imaginable and the most newly revived older works were performed side by side in their house concerts in the early 19th century. Not only were Felix and Fanny’s extraordinary gifts as performers, composers and programmers discovered and developed in these performances, but the revival of the then-forgotten JS Bach began there too.

It is in their spirit of adventure and preservation that we bring you works by the Mendelssohn family. These sandwich two compositions for string quartet and soprano from our own time and place, with guest Greta Bradman — a new co-commission from Brett Dean, and Peter Sculthorpe’s 13th Quartet, Island Dreaming. Like the Mendelssohns, both composers have helped shape the cultural identity of a nation and of countless individual artists.

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