Name: Australian Chamber Orchestra – The Ottoman Four Seasons
Start: 2024-12-08
End: 2024-12-08
Location: Prison Yard, Tai Kwun

1500+ are interested

Dec. 5, 2024(Thu.),Dec. 8, 2024(Sun.)

Location:Prison Yard, Tai Kwun

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10 Hollywood Road, Central, Hong Kong

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Australian Chamber Orchestra – The Ottoman Four Seasons | Concert Introduction

Australian Chamber Orchestra – The Ottoman Four Seasons

As the centrepiece in their Tai Kwun residency, the Australian Chamber Orchestra (ACO) - a visionary gathering of local and international string virtuosos -offers a glimpse of the famed Venetian Republic plainly fashioned in their own image. Set at the crossroads of Western Europe and the Ottoman Empire, their Venice is an unrivalled financial hub and international marketplace limited only by access to the sea, a thrilling cultural centre where goods and ideas from Asia, the Middle East and North Africa freely intermingle with the best that Europe had to offer.

Interspersed with Vivaldi’s evocative The Four Seasons, a timeless memorial of the era, is the music of the Egyptian-born, Sydney-based oud virtuoso and composer Joseph Tawadros, arranged for strings by the ACO’s Artistic Director Richard Tognetti. Echoes of melodies and harmonies, along with similar rhythms and playing techniques, between the Arabic tradition and the Italian Baroque reveal once again that the further back you look in history, the more our cultures have in common.