Time Past / Time Present
Tickets for Time Past / Time Present in Sydney
🎫 Standart Admission for 1 person
🎫 Concession Admission for 1 person
🎫 Student Admission for 1 person
General Info
📅 Date: 19/08/2023
🕒 Time: 18:30
📍 Location: 597 High Street, Penrith, NSW, Australia
Description
Robert Schumann never wrote anything better than his Piano Quintet, one of the best creations in Western music. In fact, he virtually invented the form as we know it: Boccherini's quintets were arrangements and those by Hummel and Schubert incorporated a double bass. Schumann successfully combined a piano and a string quartet that many other composers followed suit, among them Brahms, Elgar, and Shostakovich, to name a few. The quintet was the prize production of Schumann’s ‘chamber music year’, 1842, in which, after an intensive study of classical works, he also wrote three string quartets, a piano quartet and some pieces for piano trio. The quintet, intended for his wife Clara and dedicated to her, was finished in October and incorporated musical signatures with profound significance for the Schumanns. Additionally, you will experience contemporary music by Australian composers, Graeme Koehne and Brenda Gifford, and a world premiere by Penrith-based emerging composer Timothy Ford. Timothy was selected for the inaugural Penrith Conservatorium of Music - Young Composers program.