Twilight Chamber Music at Rippon Lea

Join us in 2020 for the 27th Season of Twilight Chamber Music at Rippon Lea (major sponsor the Colin & cicely Rigg Bequest administered by Equity Trustees), since 1994 one of Melbourne's longest running and most loved chamber music series. Six wonderful Sunday concerts in the glorious ballroom, from April to September, at 6.30pm.

"...chamber music as it was intended..."

2020 Program

192 HOTHAM STREET, ELSTERNWICK

Parking in the grounds (Melway 67 E2)
All concerts start at 6:30pm (no entry after 6:45pm).

Sunday April 19, 2020 at 6.30pm
Where The Wild Sings Are! - Songs of animals and beasts

ICON TRIO - Justine Anderson (soprano), Vivien Hamilton (mezzo-soprano), Jeannie Marsh (alto) - with Robert Chamberlain (piano)
Enjoy a vibrant ménagèrie of Australian rounds, unaccompanied madrigals (The Silver Swan & El Grillo), delightful songs by Poulenc, Chabrier, Barber, Stravinsky and others, medleys of popular songs, including comedic songs by Flanders and Swann (Mud, Mud, Glorious Mud with audience sing-along). Other composers featured are Richard Rodney Bennett, Tom Lehrer and plenty more! Plus piano works based on animal themes. This concert continues on from a very popular first presentation of this theme from Glenfern, October 2019!

Sunday May 17, 2020 at 6.30pm
Masterworks from Great Traditions

Kathryn Taylor (violin), Gabrielle Halloran (viola), Rohan de Korte (cello), Darryl Coote (piano)
Beethoven - Sonata in G minor for cello & piano, Op 5 No 2
Benjamin - Sonata for viola & piano
Mozart - Piano quartet in G minor, KV 478

Sunday June 21, 2020 at 6.30pm
From Bonn to Votkinsk

Melbourne Capella Chamber Choir, conducted by Nicholas Cowall, with Rohan Murray (piano)
Beethoven - Bundeslied (opus 122
Beethoven - Lieder
Tchaikovsky - Songs

Sunday July 19, 2020 at 6.30pm
Orix Duo

Kevin Suherman (piano), Ye Jin Choi (cello)
Beethoven/Liszt - Symphony No. 3 "Eroica" in E flat major, Op. 55 (Allegro con Brio)
Beethoven - Cello Sonata No. 3 in A major, Op. 69
Janacek - Pohadka (Fairy tale)
Rachmaninoff - Sonata for Cello and Piano in G minor, Op. 19

Sunday August 16, 2020 at 6.30pm
Pianomania! - A Team Showcase

Rohan Murray (piano), Darryl Coote (piano), Robert Chamberlain (piano)
Rachmaninoff - Fantasy Suite Op 5 for two pianos
Rachmaninoff - Suite No 2 Op 17 for two pianos
Bizet - Jeux d’Enfants for piano duet (selection)
Ravel - Ondine
Schumann, arr Liszt - Widmung
Keith Humble - Bagatelles

Sunday September 20, 2029 at 6.30pm
The Sorrows of Young Werther

Elizabeth Sellars (violin), Caroline Henbest (viola), Molly Kadarauch (cello), Rohan Murray (piano)
Mélanie Bonis - Piano Quartet Op 69 in B-flat major
Brahms – Piano Quintet Op 60 in C minor