Discover one of Australia’s leading composers through the lens of European tradition.
Brett Dean’s opera Bliss was premiered to great acclaim in 2010, and in 2009 he won the world’s most prestigious and valuable composition prize, the Grawemeyer Award, for his violin concerto The Lost Art of Letter Writing, joining some of the most illustrious names in music.
Discover this leading Australian composer through his Etüdenfest, an Olympian celebration of all the virtuoso possibilities available to an orchestra of strings.
Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos are landmarks of orchestral writing, and No.3, also for strings, reveals the vital European tradition that underpins Dean’s distinctive style.
DEAN Etüdenfest
BACH Brandenburg Concerto No.3: 1st movement
Richard Gill conductor
Discover Brett Dean, then join us for the Sydney premiere of his violin concerto, The Lost Art of Letter Writing (1, 2, 3 December).
AUDIO PLAYER LISTING
Tracks 1 to 4 – BRETT DEAN Etudenfest: excerpts
Caroline Almonte (piano) with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sebastian Lang-Lessing
ABC CLASSICS 476 3219
Audio kindly supplied by Universal Music.