Paul Terracini | conductor
Clemens Leske | piano
(Repeat performance at Camden Civic Centre on Sunday 6 November at 4.00pm)
TCHAIKOVSKY Romeo and Juliet: Overture
MOZART Piano Concerto No 23 in A major
KOEHNE Divertissement: trois pièces bourgeoises
WAGNER Prelude to Tristan and Isolde
RESPIGHI Le Fontane di RomaMythical accounts of tragic love have fuelled the human imagination since time immemorial. Both Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet Overture and Wagner’s Prelude to Tristan and Isolde explore the depths of human experience at levels rarely equalled. No less steeped in legend is Le Fontane di Roma, in which Respighi seems to animate majestically the city’s great historical and legendary personages and the buildings and roads they inhabited. Mozart’s characteristically elegant and transparent Piano Concerto No 23 will provide a striking contrast to such emotional intensity, while this program provides the second opportunity this season to sample music by Graeme Koehne, one of Australia’s leading post-modernist composers.