Champagne Package
Purchase a seat in the first two rows and be given the rare opportunity to be immersed in The Dinner Party. You will be invited to join Ensemble Q on stage during the interval of the performance with a glass of champagne.
Concert Hall, QPAC
8 Oct 2023
$75 - $90
A transaction fee of $7.20 applies.
2 hours
(including interval, subject to change without notice)
At the opening night of Richard Strauss’ Salome at the Stadtheatre in Graz in 1906, an extraordinary dinner party took place. The world and its music was changing, and the participants of the dinner party – Puccini, Schoenberg, Zemlinsky, Berg, Mahler, Webern, and Strauss – were at the forefront of music at this volatile time.
In this brilliant performance Ensemble Q re-creates that dinner party and highlights the sometimes astonishing disparity of works written around that time. It was the meeting between deep romanticism and atonality, between deep set tradition and breaking of boundaries to allow freedom of artistic expression.
The program features the stark beauty of solo and duo works by Anton Webern, Alban Berg and Arnold Schoenberg alongside the rich romanticism of Richard Strauss’ fertile and pictorially imaginative Piano Quartet, Giacomo Puccini’s exquisite string quartet Crisantemi and Gustav Mahler’s Song of the Wayfarer, arranged for chamber ensemble by his dinner party comrade Arnold Schoenberg and performed at The Dinner Party by guest artist, Opera Queensland baritone Shaun Brown.
The delectable desserts feature Alexander von Zemlinsky’s Humoreske for wind quintet, and Till Eulenspiegel Einmal Anders! by Strauss/Hasenöhrl.
Program
Arnold Schoenberg
Six Little Piano Pieces Op 19
Giacomo Puccini
Crisantemi
Anton Webern
Three Little Pieces for Cello and Piano, Op 11
Alexander von Zemlinsky
Humoreske (Rondo) for wind quintet
Alban Berg
Four Pieces for Clarinet and Piano Op 5
Gustav Mahler
Song of the Wayfarer, arr Schoenberg
Interval
Richard Strauss
Piano Quartet in C minor Op 13
Richard Strauss
Till Eulenspiegel Einmal Anders!
We should be both delighted and proud that Brisbane has musicians of this calibre.
- Weekend Notes / 4MBS
Full of colour and vivacity…
- Limelight
Important Information
Accessibility at QPAC
For wheelchair users, Companion Card holders or those requiring assistance, dedicated seating options are available, and bookings can be made through our Call Centre by calling 136 246. You can also find information on access and accessibility .
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