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
Backstreet Salon
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.
May
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.
August
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
October
Biber - The Rosary Sonatas
Sunday 10 October @ 2.00pm 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.
November
Pantomime
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
