recital series

“When we are young, we jump headfirst into stories, into magic and fantasy and make-believe. We spend hours occupied with the tales we have invented ourselves, play-acting them and recruiting others to take part. I’ve been thinking about this recently: my seemingly lost ability to leave the reality of bills and deadlines for the creations of my imagination.” – Megan Stellar

“The weaving, soaring violin melody that opens Australian composer Arthur Benjamin’s Sonatina for Violin and Piano immediately beguiles the listener and attests to Hubert Howells’ description of Benjamin as ‘an unashamed Romantic,’ writes Angus McPherson.

Bartók incorporates “elements of Hungarian peasant songs into his own, complex harmonic language,” writes Angus McPherson.

“The guitar makes the dreams weep,” Poulenc inscribed above the central movement of his Violin Sonata, completed under Nazi occupation.

LLEWELLYN ONE THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS Wednesday 31 March / Thursday 1 April 2021, 7.30pm, Llewellyn…

LLEWELLYN THREE TRANSFORMATIONS Wednesday 3 / Thursday 4 November 2021, 7.30pm, Llewellyn Hall, ANU Simon…

The German word sehnsucht describes an intense, often bittersweet longing. This aching delusion, somewhere between tragedy and promise, has inspired countless poets, artists and musicians, among them Goethe, Schubert, Wagner and Strauss.

LLEWELLYN THREE CELESTIAL VISIONS Wednesday 15 / Thursday 16 September, 7.30pm, Llewellyn Hall, ANU Jessica…