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An audience firm favourite…
The ORAVA QUARTET return this year as our Quartet in Residence. They will delight you with the vigour and subtle passion of their playing, in a program woven through with folk music from around the world—from Denmark and Sweden to the Czech Republic and Greece.
Schulhoff's Five Pieces (featured on the new Orava Deutsche Grammophon album) are a neoclassical glance to the past, spiked with irony, rhythmic drive, and a sense of parody… whilst Elena Kats-Chernin's For Theodora—a ‘first’ by the Quartet in NSW and the Mountains—lovingly evokes the threads of a family's Greek heritage through four generations of women. Not to be missed.
PROGRAM
Nordic Folk Music arr. Danish String Quartet (selections from Wood Works)
i. Ye Honest Bridal Couple (Faroe Islands)/ Sønderho Bridal Trilogy, Part I (Fanø, Denmark)
vi. Ack Värmeland, du Sköna (Värmland, Sweden)
Elena KATS-CHERNIN | For Theodora (2022) [a ‘first’ in NSW and the Blue Mountains]
Erwin SCHULHOFF | Five Pieces for String Quartet (1923)
i. Valse Viennese-Allegro
ii. Serenata-Allegretto con moto
iii. Czeca-Molto Allegro
iv. Tango- Andante
v. Tarantella-Prestissimo con fuoco
ARTISTS
Daniel Kowalik | violin
David Dalseno | violin
Thomas Chawner | viola
Karol Kowalik | cello