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SUMMARY:2026 Chamber Music Festival - Meta Cohen and Olivier Messiaen: Prophecy and Eternity
DESCRIPTION:A rare opportunity to encounter one of the twentieth century’s great visionary masterworks: Olivier Messiaen’s Visions de l’Amen\, performed by Coady Green and Marc Peloquin on two pianos. Composed during the Second World War\, this vast\, mystical meditation moves from creation and love to judgment and eternity\, revealing Messiaen as theologian\, mystic\, and ecstatic colourist. The program opens with Delphi Songs by Meta Cohen\, performed by Jessica Aszodi and Coady Green\, a haunting cycle inspired by prophecy and the final Oracle of Delphi\, whose voice foretold the end of her own sacred order. Also featured is Cohen’s brand new piano suite The Warning Never Heard\, based on the myth of Cassandra. Spanning millennia\, Cohen’s work contemplates revelation\, authority\, and the fading boundary between divine utterance and human mortality.
URL:https://classicmelbourne.com.au/event/2026-chamber-music-festival-meta-cohen-and-olivier-messiaen-prophecy-and-eternity/
LOCATION:fortyfivedownstairs\, 45 Flinders Lane\, Melbourne\, Victoria\, 3000\, Australia
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SUMMARY:2026 Chamber Music Festival - The Crossing Machine performs The Juliet Letters by Elvis Costello and The Brodsky Quartet
DESCRIPTION:Melbourne string quartet The Crossing Machine (violinists Marianne Rothschild and Matthew Rigby\, violist Margaret Butcher and cellist Charlotte Jacke) will be joined by vocalist Jordan Z to perform The Juliet Letters\, the genre-defying song cycle created by Elvis Costello in collaboration with The Brodsky Quartet. Originally released in 1993\, The Juliet Letters is a sequence of letters written to Shakespeare’s Juliet\, revealing a gallery of fractured lives\, longing\, regret\, and dark wit. Since beginning this project in 2018\, The Crossing Machine has been breathing new life into the work\, approaching it with deep respect for the score while bringing a distinctly contemporary energy and emotional clarity. The quartet is currently in the final stages of an exciting new CD release and this performance forms part of a small number of anticipated launch concerts planned for 2026.
URL:https://classicmelbourne.com.au/event/2026-chamber-music-festival-the-crossing-machine-performs-the-juliet-letters-by-elvis-costello-and-the-brodsky-quartet/
LOCATION:fortyfivedownstairs\, 45 Flinders Lane\, Melbourne\, Victoria\, 3000\, Australia
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SUMMARY:2026 Chamber Music Festival - Triptych of Shadows: Satie\, Ullmann\, Kouvaras
DESCRIPTION:Meditations on love\, death\, memory\, and what remains \nErik Satie’s luminous Socrate\, performed by soprano Lily Flynn and pianist Coady Green\, offers a serene\, translucent meditation on the philosopher’s final hours\, a work the composer called a “symphony in white.” Viktor Ullmann’s Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets Christoph Rilke\, with actor Paul English and Green\, transforms Rilke’s prose poem into a hallucinatory wartime monodrama composed in Theresienstadt before Ullmann’s death in Auschwitz. The program concludes with a world-premiere preview of Linda Kouvaras’s The Boarding House\, Carlton\, 1972: Those that Remain\, narrated by Tiriki Onus and featuring baritone Alex Owens\, with text by Richard Ward\, a searing reimagining of memory\, violence\, and 1970s Melbourne.
URL:https://classicmelbourne.com.au/event/2026-chamber-music-festival-triptych-of-shadows-satie-ullmann-kouvaras/
LOCATION:fortyfivedownstairs\, 45 Flinders Lane\, Melbourne\, Victoria\, 3000\, Australia
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