TEAM OF PIANISTS

Russian Passion at Rippon Lea - Sunday April 15 at 6.30pm

Our first Rippon Lea concert for 2018 brings together Melbourne Capella Chamber Choir conducted by Nicholas Cowall, with Team of Pianists partner Rohan Murray at the piano. Explore the passionate depths of the mysterious Russian soul in this moving concert, sung by male voices and featuring 19th and early 20th century Romantic choral music, art song and operatic repertoire.

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Sergei Rachmaninov’s Six Choruses Op 15 will be performed for the first time in Australia, two Russian arias from Tchaikovsky's Eugine Onegin plus the art-songs Sunset and None but the Lonely Heart will move the audience, opera choruses by Arenksky, Rubenstein and Tchaikovsky will delight, while other evocative works by Napravnik, Tanyeev and Borodin will round out the program. “This is music that goes straight to the heart - we believe the audience will feel strongly the sincerity and emotion in every piece” says Cowall. “We aim to spotlight in musical terms the various chambers of the Russian soul.”

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Nicholas Cowall and Rohan Murray are passionate advocates for Russian music. Since they met at University over 25 years ago, they have enjoyed many collaborative musical projects, including the Australian premieres of Dimitri Shostakovich’s comic cantata Anti Formalist Rayok, Dimitri Bortnianky’s opera Alcide, and well as the world premiere of Andrew Ford’s Piae cantiones.

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Do join us to experience the music of Pre-Revolutionary Russia, performed in all its splendour by the male voices of Melbourne Capella Chamber Choir, in the intimate surrounds of the glorious Rippon Lea Ballroom.

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Sunday April 15, 6.30pm
Rippon Lea Ballroom,
192 Hotham Street, Elsternwick (Melway 67 E2)

May Concert Alert - Barwon Park & Rippon Lea!

We invite you to explore also our two May concerts: The Four Bs at Barwon Park on Sunday May 6 at 2.00pm, and A French Connection at Rippon Lea on Sunday May 20 at 6.30pm, these are the Team of Pianists' contribution to the National Trust's Heritage Festival 2018