Songs Without Words – Melody, Melody, Melody!
“There seems to be no limit to Kathryn Selby’s capacity to program and deliver captivating performances” – Limelight, April 2025
Virtuoso SSO Associate Concertmaster Alexandra Osborne and renowned SSO Principal Cellist Catherine Hewgill join pianist Kathryn Selby in this September concert tour of remarkable superabundance of song and melody.
“Unapologetically melodic and lyrical” is how Australian composer Anne Cawrse has described her piano trio Songs Without Words which opens our concert. Commissioned by the ABC in 2020, this is a beautiful tribute to the eponymous songs by Felix and Fanny Mendelssohn which reflects on the special relationship between the Mendelssohn siblings.
Featured in the program is the only piano trio composed by a teenaged Chopin, and the concert ends with Schubert’s monumental final piano trio composed in the year of his early death.
Kathryn Selby introduces the program Anne Cawrse speaks about her Trio
Concert program:
Anne Cawrse: Songs Without Words (2020)
Frédéric Chopin: Piano Trio in G minor, Op. 8 (1828-9)
Franz Schubert: Piano Trio No. 2 in E-flat major, Op. 100 D. 929 (1827)
Tickets start at $60 | www.selbyandfriends.com.au OR at the door
TOUR DATES and direct links below:
Friday, 12 Sept.: Canberra @ 7:00pm – The Chapel, Charles Sturt University
Saturday, 13 Sept.: Bowral, NSW Southern Highlands @ 4:00pm – Bowral Memorial Hall
Sunday, 14 Sept.: Turramurra @ 2:15pm – Turramurra Uniting Church
Monday, 15 Sept.: Melbourne @ 2:00pm and 7:00pm – Primrose Potter Salon, Melbourne Recital Centre
Thursday, 18 Sept.: Sydney @ 7:00pm – City Recital Hall
Sunday, 21 Sept.: Adelaide @ 2:15pm – Elder Hall, University of Adelaide
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