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Stuart Hancock is an award-winning British composer of music for film, TV, theatre and the concert hall.   The two works by Stuart on the programme include his Variations on a Heroic Theme and the concert premiere of his orchestral suite, Raptures.  The concert also includes Ottorino Respighi’s charming set of miniatures, Gli Uccelli (The Bords).

Maurice Ravel’s beloved orchestral, in a new arrangement for chamber orchestra by Iain Farrington, work based on Charles Perrault’s 1697 Contes de ma Mère L’oye (Tales of Mother Goose) is paired with Ottorino Respighi’s sublime masterpiece for chamber orchestra, Trittico Botticelliano (Three Botticelli Pictures).

Symphonie fantastique: Épisode de la vie d’un artiste … en cinq parties, Op. 14
(Fantastical Symphony: Episode in the Life of an Artist… in Five Sections)

Symphonie fantastique is an epic for a huge orchestra. Through its movements,
it tells the story of an artist’s self-destructive passion for a beautiful woman.
The symphony describes his obsession and dreams, tantrums and moments of tenderness,
and visions of suicide and murder, ecstasy and despair.

The Italian Giovanni Rota Rinaldi (1911 – 1979) is probably best known (although probably not by name) for his numerous film scores.
Equally Rota is almost unknown among concert-going audiences for his symphonic compositions.

This performance by the ADO is the Australian premiere of Rota’s charming and evocative
Symphony No. 2 in F Major – “La Tarantina – Anni di Pellegrinaggio” (Year of Pilgrimage).

Programme:

Dmitri Shostakovich Symphony No. 9

Ben Bates Symphony No. 1 (Australian work)

In 2022 specific seating and venue restrictions may apply as determined by up-to-date health and safety guidelines issued by the Victorian Department of Health and Human Services.

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