2025 SERIES: HYPNOTIQUE

Hypnotique presents a diverse array of works that challenges expectations of traditional chamber music. A whirlwind of motion typifies NZ composer Lyell Cresswell’s virtuosic Moto Perpetuo, ahead of the percussive and electronic influences in Le Boeuf’s jazz-adjacent Obliquely Wrecked. Fauré’s Piano Trio in D minor exhibits lyrical elegance, with transportative, lush harmonic textures, and Australian composer Elena Kats-Chernin pays homage to Haydn, blending classical and contemporary styles in Calliope Dreaming. Then finally, the full Romantic immersion of Schönberg’s Verklärte Nacht is structured around the five stanzas of a poem; deeply transcendent and utterly beautiful.

The Programme

Lyell Cresswell (NZ) Moto perpetuo
Pascal Le Boeuf Obliquely Wrecked
Gabriel Fauré Piano Trio in D minor, Op. 120
Elena Kats-Chernin Calliope Dreaming
Arnold Schönberg Verklärte Nacht arr. for piano trio

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