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

3MBS is a fine music community radio station in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Founded in 1975, 3MBS was the first FM station in Victoria and led the way for the introduction of community radio in Australia. 3MBS passionately supports fine music, especially Melbourne musicians and composers, and is the only locally-based classical music radio station in Victoria.
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