Rapture & Revolution: ACO StudioCasts
ACO StudioCasts Collection
•
51m
Beauty can be revolutionary too, as this debut release in the inaugural season of concert films, ACO StudioCasts, will prove.
Filmed in the grand and expansive Centennial Hall at Sydney Town Hall, the film opens with Schubert's Quartettsatz, followed by Vaughan Williams’s ‘The Lark Ascending’. Universally loved, it has long been a calling card for Richard Tognetti and a place for rapture in a pure sense.
There is a similar emotional impact in Beethoven’s ‘Cavatina’, which may be one of the most moving pieces ever written. Indeed, so moved was Beethoven that it’s said he finished it with tears falling onto his manuscript. Emotions transcend time and so does Beethoven’s ‘Grosse Fuge’ which was perhaps too revolutionary for an early-19th-century audience. Now though, inspired by the intellectual drive within it, we celebrate the ‘Grosse Fuge’ as another moment of beauty and rapture.
PROGRAM
SCHUBERT (arr. Tognetti) Quartettsatz in C minor, D.703
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS (arr. Johnson) The Lark Ascending
BEETHOVEN (arr. Tognetti) String Quartet in B-flat major, Op.130: V. Cavatina
BEETHOVEN (arr. Tognetti) Grosse Fuge, Op.133
ARTISTS
Richard Tognetti – Director & Violin
Australian Chamber Orchestra
Matisse Ruby – Director
Tyson Perkins & Drew English – Director of Photography
Duration: 50 minutes.
Rental period: 7 days
Available until: 31st December 2021
Up Next in ACO StudioCasts Collection
-
Bach and the Beyond: ACO StudioCasts
At a time when we are all grappling with finding trust in this new world and hope for the future, it is astonishing how relevant Bach remains. This evocative and impassioned concert film pitches Bach’s timeless search for redemption alongside compositions by Richard Tognetti, elevated by the mesm...
-
Love & Transfiguration: ACO StudioCasts
How do light and joy come from what feels like our darkest moments? Maybe it is that love can transform, as this concert film does, from sombre hues and shadows to the warmth and radiance of new light and new day.
‘Vox amoris’, written for Richard Tognetti in 2009, is an exquisitely beautiful a...
-
Tchaikovsky's Serenade: ACO StudioCasts
Majestic and nation-defying music is no small feat, demanding spirit, nationalism and honour. However, music coming from one’s core can ask something special too. Maybe at times even ask more, in the way George Walker’s ‘Lyric for Strings’ blends lamentation and lushness direct from the Pulitzer ...
