HAROLD GRETTON

Thursday 3 August: Ian Hanger Recital Hall

Multi award-winning classical guitarist Harold Gretton presents a program of works including highlights from his new album, In Flight. The charm of French Romanticism starts the concert, an invitation into the colourful sound world of the guitar, a sound world equally suited to the Baroque lutenist Sylvius Leopold Weiß’s intimate Passacaille, which follows. Next, bursts of colour are a feature of Australian composer Richard Charlton’s Cloudforms, evoking different cloud formations, before storytelling at its finest brings the first half of the concert to a spine-tingling close in Nikita Koshkin’s The Prince’s Toys.

After an interval, Gretton’s original Flock evokes three of Australia’s most characterful birds: the Currawong, Magpie and Rainbow Lorikeet, before audiences are treated to two Latin favourites by Augustin Barrios Mangoré. The great Spanish Romantic Francisco Tarrega’s Gran Jota brings the concert to a spectacular finish.

Passacaille Sylvius Leopold Weiß (1687-1750)

Cloudforms Richard Charlton (b. 1955) i. Cumulus Dance ii. Silver Stratus iii. Ring around the moon iv. Cloudburst

The Prince's Toys Nikita Koshkin (b. 1956) i. The mischievous prince ii. The mechanical monkey iii. The doll with the blinking eyes iv. Tin soldiers v. The prince's coach

Interval

Flock Harold Gretton (b. 1984) i. Currawong ii. Magpie iii. Rainbow Lorikeet

Two masterpieces i. Barcarolle ii. Waltz no.4

Gran Jota

Augustin Barrios Mangoré (1885-1944)

Francisco Tarrega (1852-1909)