Elder After Hours - A Birthday Celebration: Charles Bodman Rae

Konstantin Shamray  piano
Elizabeth Layton  violin
Mark Gaydon  bassoon
Joe Chindamo OAM  piano
Madeline Melrose  violin
Katherine Moorhead  flute
Charles Bodman Rae  piano

Bodman Rae
Golden Ring for Solo Piano
Fulgura Frango for Two Pianos
Toccata Agogica for Solo Flute
Partita Elegiaca for Solo Violin
Ceol Mor I for Violin, Clarinet, and Piano
Ceol Mor II for Solo Bassoon
Messiaen  Movements VI, VII, and VIII from the Quartet for the End of Time
Paganini  Caprices (selection)
Lutosławski  Paganini Variations
Rachmaninov  The Tears and Easter from Suite No. 1 in G minor, Op. 5

This concert marks the 70th birthday of our seventh Sir Thomas Elder Professor of Music, Charles Bodman Rae. The program features several of his own works alongside pieces by two significant composers with whom he had close personal associations, Olivier Messiaen and Witold Lutosławski. The performers – alongside the composer himself, as pianist – include several distinguished Australian musicians who have been his PhD students: the pianist Konstantin Shamray; the violinist Elizabeth Layton, the flautist Kathryn Moorhead; the violinist Madeline Melrose; the bassoonist Mark Gaydon (ASO); and the composer-pianist Joe Chindamo OAM. Three of the pieces incorporate Scottish themes, acknowledging his paternal highland heritage, and two of the pieces are inspired by the sounds of European bells.