Cal Performances | Orchestra | Australian Chamber Orchestra, Richard Tognetti, artistic director & leader, with Andreas Scholl, countertenor

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Australian Chamber Orchestra
Richard Tognetti, artistic director & leader
with Andreas Scholl, countertenor

The Australian Chamber Orchestra was founded in 1975 and boldly represents that country's vibrant, adventurous, and inquiring spirit. Virtually unmatched in its provocative expansion of the chamber orchestra repertoire, the group commands a stylistic versatility that allows it to perform on modern or period instruments and as a chamber group, small orchestra, or electro-acoustic collective. The ensemble appears in Berkeley with gifted countertenor Andreas Scholl, whose cultured voice has commanded attention and praise in the world's great concert halls. "Astonishingly warm, fullbodied, and tightly focused...you'd have to scour the universe hard to find another band like the ACO" (The Times, London).

Program: Haydn/Symphony No. 44 in E Minor, (Trauer); Handel/selected arias; Smalley/Footwork (U.S. Premiere performances); Haas (arr. Tognetti)/From the Monkey Mountains Suite

Program Notes
Program notes are available online. [PDF]

Press
Read the preview and watch a few videos of both the Australian Chamber Orchestra and Andreas Scholl on the Examiner.com site

Audio Clips
( Windows Media Player)

Handel/Aure, Deh, Per Pieta from Giulio Cesare *, **

* Clips listed here are representative of the artist, but may be different than what are being played as part of the Cal Performances program

** Andreas Scholl performing with Accademia Bizantina