AUSTRALIAN CHAMBER ORCHESTRA 2010.

TOGNETTI'S MOZART

Australia's greatest violinist, Richard Tognetti, guardian of the priceless Guarneri 'ex Carrodus' violin, performs Mozart's Violin Concerto No.4, and leads the Australian Chamber Orchestra in dramatic music from the 18th and 19th centuries.

Hear why the Australian Chamber Orchestra is known as an orchestra of soloists as the Principals introduce you to a few of their favourite pieces, including a reprisal of their ARIA Award-winning performance of the Bach Violin and Oboe Concerto.

Richard Tognetti and the Australian Chamber Orchestra won three consecutive ARIA Awards for their recordings of Bach. They join leading singers from Australia and the UK to perform Bach choral music for Easter, interwoven with 20th century music inspired by Bach.

Free-spirited, shoeless violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja performs three violin concertos with the Australian Chamber Orchestra.

The Australian Chamber Orchestra performs masterpieces by the three greatest composers of 19th century Vienna: Beethoven, Brahms and Schubert.

Theatre and music combine in an ingenious new staging of the Kreutzer Sonatas.

BEETHOVEN (arr. Tognetti) Violin Sonata in A, Kreutzer
JANÁČEK (arr. Tognetti) String Quartet No.1, The Kreutzer Sonata
LAURA WADE Kreutzer vs. Kreutzer (original script inspired by Tolstoy)

Australian Chamber Orchestra
Richard Tognetti Artistic Director and Lead Violin
Samuel West Actor
Robin McLeavy Actor
Sarah Giles Director

There are three great works of art called 'Kreutzer Sonata': the original, Beethoven's sonata; Tolstoy's psychological drama, in which the Beethoven is a driving force; and Janáček's quartet, a violent reaction against Tolstoy?s tale.

Since its first performance, the Kreutzer Sonata has indicated passion, intrigue, and sexual jealousy. Beethoven came to blows with the first violinist to perform it over a mutual love interest. Janáček wrote under the influence of an ambiguous extra-marital relationship. Tolstoy's characters are driven to adultery and murder by Beethoven's passionate music.

In a world premiere performance, 100 years after Tolstoy's death, all three works are presented in an ingenious production combining theatre and music by British playwright Laura Wade and Richard Tognetti.

Starring Samuel West (Enron, Persuasion, Notting Hill) and Robin McLeavy (STC's A Streetcar Named Desire, The Loved Ones), with full performances of the Beethoven and Janáček by Richard Tognetti and the Australian Chamber Orchestra, Kreutzer vs. Kreutzer is a musical and theatrical event not to be missed.