CSO Down South: Water and Wild

The CSO Down South concert series returns to Tuggeranong Arts Centre in April with a program inspired by water, breath, spirit and song.

Enjoy free-flowing music for flute, piano and cello, by Debussy, Australian composer Amy Beach and German Romantic composer Carl Maria von Weber.

The one-hour concert featuring Canberra Symphony Orchestra members Kiri Sollis (Flute), Samuel Payne (Cello) and Edward Neeman (Piano) opens with Debussy’s Syrinx. Taking its name from ancient Greek lore, pursued by Pan – God of the wild, the nymph Syrinx is transformed into river reeds – from which we fashion ‘pan’ pipes.

Water mythology also permeates Amy Beach’s ‘Water-Sprites’ Pastorale, which ripples with opalescent textures.

Pan was associated with shepherds, lonely figures in the wilds of nature. A Classical work with a Romantic streak, the ‘Shepherd’s Lament’ in Carl Maria von Weber’s piano trio in g minor calls to us as from the hills, full of yearning and virtuosic flourishes.

Repertoire:
Debussy – Syrinx, L. 129
Amy Beach – Water-Sprites, Op. 90, no. 1 & 2
Carl Maria von Weber – Shepherd’s Lament, Trio in G minor, Op. 63

About the Artists:
Kiri Sollis – Flute
Samuel Payne – Cello
Edward Neeman – Piano