Event details
Internationally award-winning pianist Coady Green places 2 epic works in dialogue across centuries, cultures, and worlds.
Liszt’s Sonata in B minor stands as one of the great monuments of the piano repertoire - a single, unstoppable musical journey of volcanic power and transcendent beauty, where pathos and virtuosity are united in one sweeping form.
In striking contrast, Linda Kouvaras’s Herring Island Piano Sonata expands the idea of the sonata beyond sound alone. Interweaving piano, recorded soundscape, and narration by Tiriki Onus, the work gives voice to Indigenous histories of place, tracing stories of water, land, and survival from St Kilda to Herring Island.
Together, these 2 works ask us to listen to the piano as both myth-maker and witness, as both Romantic dream and living archive.
Program
Franz Liszt: Sonata in B minor S. 178
Interval
Linda Kouvaras: Herring Island Piano Sonata for piano, recorded sound and narrator.
Special guests
Tiriki Onus: Narrator
Roger Alsop: Sound
Text by N'arweet Carolyn Briggs AM.