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Breadth and flowing lyricism immediately strike the attention in the memorable first subject. In fact, as with other memorable themes of his, it took Beethoven some effort to fashion its final form, which combines spontaneity and inevitability.

‘I was walking along one morning,’ Brahms said. ‘And as I came to this spot the sun shone out and with it this theme.’

“The debt to Beethoven is evident in the dramatic opening of the first movement, alongside a lightness of foot that is all Schubert.”

“Boulanger was making the most of student life when she wrote this piece…that exuberance infuses every note.”

Composed over just eight days in 1960, Malcolm Williamson described the piece as ‘an overtly Australian work aiming at spontaneity and vigour rather than profundity.’

Acclaimed Australian pianist Kristian Chong shares insights into his musical journey ahead of his return to the Llewellyn Hall mainstage.

Brahms was uncharacteristically pleased with the trio, writing to his publisher, “You have not yet had such a beautiful trio from me and very likely have not published its equal in the last ten years.”

Richard Meale’s Coruscations is ‘…dazzling and remarkably lyrical music.’

“Richard Meale’s ‘Coruscations’ is a cult favourite among Australian pianists. I’ve lost count of how many effusive conversations I’ve had with fellow Meale enthusiasts about this scintillating and elusive tour de force.”

“…Here we get the composer at his most light-hearted – you can almost hear in these dances a young Shostakovich playing the piano to accompany silent films,” writes Angus McPherson.