Concert 101 on the Run for 'Cherubini Requiem' 24 June 2023

Concert 101 debuted in 2020 as the preshow event for Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra's Friday Night Live Concert Series. In 2022, Concert 101 returns to give you all of the information about the pieces performed in the concert. Coordinated and presented by TSO Content Manager and Special Projects Curator, Robert Gibson.
Livestream: Saturday 24 June, 7.30pm
Video On Demand available Saturday 8 July until Monday 7 August
Concert 101 Preshow from 7.15pm~
Federation Concert Hall, nipaluna/Hobart
Elena Schwarz conductor
TSO Chorus
LEDGER Signal Lost*
BEETHOVEN Symphony No 4 in B-flat, Op 60
CHERUBINI Requiem in C minor
Cherubini’s Requiem in C minor is a large-scale choral work written in 1817 to commemorate the death of French monarch Louis XVI, who was executed during the Revolution. Cherubini was intimately acquainted with Mozart’s Requiem, having conducted the first-ever performance in Paris, and he brings to his own Requiem a power and solemnity familiar to us from Mozart’s.
Beethoven was Cherubini’s No 1 fan, so it is fitting that the two composers share the same program. Often overshadowed by the symphonies on either side of it, Beethoven’s Symphony No 4 is a treasure in its own right, packed with energy, beauty and good humour.
Elena Schwarz, conductor of this concert, has built up a strong rapport with the TSO over the years and, in addition to the works by Beethoven and Cherubini, brings her insights to Signal Lost by James Ledger.
*World première
*Audio examples are from a past performance by the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, kindly supplied by ABC Classic.