Across Time and Tradition: Music for Clarinet, Bassoon and Piano

Team of Pianists presents C & C Rigg Bequest Classic Music 2026 - in Special and Sacred Spaces at St John's Anglican Church, 552 Burke Road, Camberwell, VIC, 3124. 

Join clarinettist Robert Schubert, bassoonist Matthew Angus, and pianist Robert Chamberlain for a musical journey that spans centuries, styles and cultures, uniting Classical clarity, Romantic lyricism and contemporary re‑imagining. At the heart of the program is the idea of music as song without words: from the intimate poetry of Schumann’s Abegg Variations and Glinka’s enthralling Trio Pathétique, to the elegant conversational forms of Lefèvre and Kreutzer, where clarinet and bassoon speak with wit, balance and grace. These European traditions are refracted through the voice of Australian‑Chinese composer Julian Yu (b. 1957), whose reworking of Glinka’s Romance and vivid Uygur Dance bring folk melody and cross‑cultural perspective into the present.

Performed in the resonant acoustic of St John’s Anglican Church, this program celebrates the enduring power of wind instruments to sing, converse and dance across time, tradition and place.

Thursday May 21, 2026 at 7.00pm

Programme
Robert Schubert - clarinet, Matthew Angus - cello, Robert Chamberlain - piano

Julian Yu - Uygur Dance for bassoon and piano (1976)
Jean‑Xavier Lefèvre - Sonata in B‑flat major, Op. 12 No. 3 for clarinet and bassoon
Conrad Kreutzer - Trio in E flat Op 43 KWV 5150 for clarinet, bassoon and piano
INTERVAL
M. Glinka arr. by Julian Yu - The Nightingale, Variations by Glinka on a Romance by Alabieff for clarinet and piano (Var 4 by Julian Yu)
Robert Schumann - Abegg Variations Op. 1 for piano solo
M. Glinka - Trio Pathétique for clarinet, bassoon and piano

Post-concert Refreshments

Join other audience members and the artists for post-concert refreshments in the Rutherford Room, hosted by the Friends of the Team of Pianists. This takes place directly after the recital, from approximately 8.45pm to 9.30pm.

Do join us for this musical journey in a sacred space!

Venue

St John's Anglican Church,
552 Burke Road, 
Camberwell, VIC, 3124

Contact

Email: info@teamofpianists.com.au
Tel: 0433 851 540

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Discover other Team of Pianists' Rigg Bequest 2026 events

• Sunday May 3, 2026, 6.30pm: Through Forest and Flame: Lieder and Love at the German Lutheran Church, East Melbourne
• Thursday June 25, 2026, 7.00pm: Title and link at St John's Anglican Church, Camberwell
• Sunday August 9, 2026, 6.30pm: Orix Duo: Beethoven for Piano and Cello, Part 1 at the German Lutheran Church, East Melbourne
• Sunday September 13, 2026, 6.30pm: Orix Duo: Beethoven for Piano and Cello, Part 2 at the German Lutheran Church, East Melbourne
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