From out of the Fire and Into Romanticism

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From out of the fire and into romanticism

we need to forget. Nonetheless, MUSIC Tognetti drained what he could Australian Chamber from its froth and bubble, indulg- Orchestra. Richard ing himself in sheer delight. Tognetti, director and A pity that joy did not always solo violin. spread down the ranks, where ANU Llewellyn Hall, there were some dubious inton- Canberra, November 5. ation moments, perhaps due to the ACO attuning itself to 19th- century pitch (down to A-430) and the deployment of pairs of AT face value, the ACO's last period winds and brass. touring program for this year Over the years, Tognetti has looks like an odd grab-bag of fired up ACO audiences with his goodies. In performance it reveals ruminations on Beethoven. Some Richard Tognetti's nearly unerr- people are adoring adherents, ing ability to draw together others harbour doubts. Tognetti's strandsthatconnectand version of the Pastoral symphony enlighten each other. highlighted every element of its Through Barbara Blackman, inherent pictorialism. Variations that patron saint of new music JAMES CROUCHER in tempi and dynamics suggested (Tognetti's description), the ACO Artistic director Richard Tognetti rehearses with the ACO a colourised version of a black- has commissioned a second new and-white movie, offering more work from the Estonian compo- Tuur paints a terrifying picture of a force that than a dash of Disney. ser, Erkki-Sven Tuur. vivid picture of a can purify and destroy. Of all Beethoven's sympho- F7amma is a 17-minute series of Quite accidentally, he has nies, the Pastoral is able to with- pictorial evocations of the role of force that can managed to do what few Austra- stand even the most wayward of fire in our environment and purify and destroy lian composers have done: tapped curatorial restorations. Next year psyche. Like some of our leading into the psyche of those of us who the ACO offer us the choral painters, Tuur's exhilarating mu- cesses. Tuur ignites ideas that face a long, hot summer. Ninth. Is there a boxed set in the sic expands and contracts, settles roar into ferocious intensity, fuel- At the other end of the wings? and flares up again. He also refers led by driving rhythms and stab- emotional spectrum, the ACO VINCENT PLUSH obliquely to indigenous culture, bing chords, yielding desolate drew its audience back into the particularly its chants, which horizons of harmonics. safe haven of 19th-century ro- Also Melbourne Town Hall tumble down an octave and re- A Baltic composer can barely manticism. Henryk Wieniawski's tonight; Perth Concert Hall new themselves. imagine the alarm of the citizens Violin Concerto No2 is one of its Wednesday; Sydney Opera House Yet for all its pictorial conno- of Australia's towns and citiesconfections, heard one moment, November 13; Sydney City Recital tations, Mamma is a series of con- when fire sweeps down on them. forgotten the next. At times it is Hall November 15, 16 and 19 and joined ideas about musical pro- Turn' paints a vivid, at times good to be reminded about what QPAC Brisbane November 18.