Ensemble Q

The Dinner Party

Concert Hall, QPAC


8 Oct 2023
$75 - $90

A transaction fee of $7.20 applies.

Discounts Available

Concession

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2 hours

(including interval, subject to change without notice)

At the opening night of Richard StraussSalome 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 WebernAlban Berg and Arnold Schoenberg alongside the rich romanticism of Richard Strauss’ fertile and pictorially imaginative Piano QuartetGiacomo 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

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.

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 at QPAC here .

Presented by Ensemble Q and QPAC

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