'Beethoven’s Spring' Prophets and Prophecies - 10 August
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New York pianist Lisa Moore and Melbourne violinist Peter Exton present a duo program ‘Beethoven’s Spring - Prophets and Prophecies’ at 2.00pm on Sunday August at Christ Church South Yarra. Anchored in Beethoven's beguiling ‘Spring Sonata’ and moving to the poignant, emotionally charged world of Janáček's ‘Sonata for Violin and Piano’, the performance is centred around two works on the same theme ‘Bird as Prophet’, by Robert Schumann and New York composer Martin Bresnick. Bresnick’s exquisite late 20th Century reflection on Schumann's haunting miniature will be enhanced Martin’s presence, who will speak on the origins of both works, looping together music across the centuries. And Béla Bártok's rustic ‘Romanian Folk Dances’ provides the grand finale.