Peninsula Summer Music Festival 2025: Love & Life – Jacqueline Porter & ARCO

Flinders Civic Hall

$75

Wine available for purchase, doors and bar open from 6pm

A 1 hour 40 minute performance including interval.

Lose yourself in the Romantic emotion of three beloved European composers with soprano Jacqueline Porter and Principal Musicians of the Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra. Dramatic Grieg and Schubert string quartets led by Rachael Beesley frame Schumann’s song cycle ‘Frauenlieben und Leben’, exploring a woman’s love and life from first passion to last breath, ending with Schubert’s longing ‘Shepherd on the Rock’ featuring soprano Jacqueline Porter and clarinettist Nicole van Bruggen.

A wonderful opportunity to spend a day on the Peninsula, bring some friends to hear music performed at its best, taste some world class wine and explore the beautiful beaches on the Peninsula before relishing this exquisite concert.

PROGRAM:

EDVARD GRIEG (1843-1907) – String Quartet No.2 in F Major, EG 117

ROBERT SCHUMANN (1810–1856) – Frauenliebe und Leben, Op.42 (arr. S. Beesley)

FRANZ SCHUBERT (1797–1828) – String Quartet No.7 in D major, D.94

FRANZ SCHUBERT – Der Hirt auf dem Felsen (Shepherd on the Rock), D.965 (arr. S. Beesley)

MUSICIANS

Soprano: Jacqueline Porter

Principal Musicians of the Australian

Romantic & Classical Orchestra:

Historical Clarinet: Nicole van Bruggen

Violin: Rachael Beesley

Violin: Alison Rayner

Viola: Stephen King

Cello: Rosanne Hunt

Double Bass: Stuart Riley