“When two great artists collaborate, you expect a magnificent result. What you don’t expect, what you can’t even imagine, is the transcendent experience that awaits you when under the spell of Zoe Black and Joe Chindamo.”
James Morrison trumpeter and Director of Queensland Festival.
Sample Programmes from recent concerts.
Twilight Mood
A collection of enchanting salon pieces designed to evoke the tranquil balmy hours of a setting sun in a hazy sky, the listlessness of the day evaporating into reflection & contemplation through the means of music.
Featured in this concert is the rarely heard suite, Much ado about nothing by legendary composer Erich Korngold, known for his iconoclastic film scores from Hollywood’s golden age…..also featured are the delightful
4 short pieces by Frank Bridge and Ludovico Einaudi’s Sarabande for violin & piano, both meditative & healing.
Completing the programme is an assortment of other works including a selection from Joe Chindamo.
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Salut D’Amour
Edward Elgar composed his beautiful musical ‘love letter’ Salut D’Amour in 1888 as an engagement present for author Caroline Alice, who had recently presented him with her poem The Wind at Dawn.
Setting the scene for the concert, Zoe Black and Joe Chindamo capture the old world charm and romance encapsulated by the iconic English Composer through two of his most famous works, along with a set of pieces by his contemporary Frank Bridge (who famously taught Benjamin Britten.
Extending the theme across the ocean to America, we shall hear a work based on Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing of the same name – a sweepingly romantic suite by the legendary Erich Korngold, perhaps best known for his grand scores for Hollywood’s Golden Age, such as the original Robin Hood (starring Errol Flynn).
Included in this concert are other delights, such a reimagining of the slow movement of Haydn’s Emperor String quartet, John Williams’ touching theme from Schindler’s List and Astor Piazzolla’s hauntingly beautiful Oblivion.
Rounding the programme is Joe Chindamo’s spectacular Spiegelhaus – a piece featured on the duo’s ARIA nominated CD Dido’s Lament – which evokes the Fellini – esque world of 1950’s Rome.
Four Pieces -Frank Bridge
Sospiri Edward Elgar
Salut D’amour Elgar
Much Ado About Nothing Erich Korngold (3 movement Suite)
Variation on a Theme by Haydn Josef Haydn (adapted by Joe Chindamo)
Oblivion Astor Piazzolla
Spiegelhaus Joe Chindamo
Schindler’s List John Williams
Songs My Mother Taught Me
Nocturne & Cortège Lili BOULANGER
Spanish Dance / Andaluza Enrique GRANADOS
Mercy Max RICHTER
Into the Light Joe CHINDAMO
The Peacocks Jimmy ROWLES
Songs my mother taught me Antonín DVOŘÁK (arr. Kreisler)
Meditation Jules MASSENET
Nessun’ Dorma Giacomo PUCCINI (arr. Chindamo)
La muerte did Angel Astor PIAZZOLLA
Scene in the garden Erich KORNGOLD
-Nine lives of La Folia (Suite) Joe CHINDAMO
The Goldberg Inventions
A new counterpart to JS Bach’s original Goldberg Variations composed by Joe Chindamo
Aria
30 Variations
Closing Aria
Approx Duration 1 hour 10 minutes.
Sans Boundaries
Three Spaces *
Nine Lives of La Folia *
Lascia Ch’io Pianga (Chindamo after Handel)
American Spirit *
Dido’s Lament (Chindamo after Purcell)
Reverie *