
3MBS Fine Music Melbourne proudly presents MUSIC, SHE WROTE following a sold-out inaugural festival in 2021. The festival moves from the suburbs to the city, held over three nights from April 6-8 at the stunning Chapter House on Flinders Lane, with a whole new line-up of Melbourne’s most celebrated, imaginative, and engaging classical, baroque and folk musicians.
In accordance with government regulations, proof of full COVID-19 vaccination or valid medical exemption
will be required for anyone attending Music, She Wrote
Concert 1: RESTORE
Wednesday 6 April, 8pm: Eliza Shephard, The Consort of Melbourne
Sally Whitwell/Hildegard von Bingen - O wisdom
Raffaela Aleotti - Vidi speciosam (I saw the fair one)
Vittoria Aleotti - O dolce eterno Amore (O sweet eternal love) & Io, dal sofferto fuoco (I, scorched by the fire)
Maddalena Casulana - Io di odorate fronde (I, from the scented fronds) & O notte, o cielo, o mare (Oh night, oh sky, oh sea)
Cecilia McDowall - Alma redemptoris mater (Loving Mother of the Redeemer)
Clara Schumann - Abendfeier in Venedig (Evening celebration in Venice)
Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel - Schöne Fremde (A beautiful foreign land) & Schilflied (Reed song)
Alice Chance - Shadow
Concert 2: RENEW
Thursday 7 April, 8pm: Hannah Lane and Chloe Lankshear, Big Fiddle Little Fiddle
Anonymous - Ave Maris stella per le feste della Madonna, Codex Chigi
Anonymous - Toccata, Codex Chigi
Barbara Strozzi - Che si può fare, Arie Op.8
Anonymous - Toccata, Codex Chigi
Francesca Campana - Semplicetto augellin, Arie a una, due e tre voci
Anonymous - Partite sopra Ciaccona, Codex Chigi
Barbara Strozzi - L’amante segreto, Ariette a Voce Sola Op.6
Anonymous - Toccata, MS Doria Pamphilj
Lucretia Orsina Vizana - O Magnum Misterium, Componimenti Musicali de Motteti a una e più voci
Jessica Foot - The Not So Short One Comes to Plow St
Nancy Kerr/Claie Patti - Something for Liam/Daisy's Sunrise
Josefina Paulson - Louise
Louise Godwin - Not a Hambo/Something in 7/8
Jessica Foot - A Cake in the Post
Louisa Wise - Witches Reel
Concert 3: REBEL
Friday 8 April, 8pm: Music, She Wrote String Quartet
Kyla Matsuura-Miller and Emma Hunt (violins), Katie Yap (viola), and Elina Faskhi (cello)
Florence Price arr. Elaine Fine - Thumbnail Sketches of a day in the life of a washerwoman
Hilary Kleinig - Cockatoos
Emily Sheppard - Aftermath
Missy Mazzoli - Lies You Can Believe In
Elena Kats-Chernin - Blue Silence
Grazyna Bacewicz - String Quartet no. 4
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