A Baroque Day in spring

PROM Recitals brings a Baroque Day in Spring to Meeniyan on September 4, to celebrate the coming of a new season. 

Musicians from the Melbourne Baroque Orchestra will take you on a journey through some of the very best Baroque string music from France, Italy, Scotland and Germany, playing works by Rebel, Boccherini, McGibbon, Muffat and others. 

Two violins, a viola, two violincelli and a theorbo playing together in Meeniyan Town Hall. 

Could there be a better way to spend a Sunday afternoon in spring? 

Rosanne Hunt, lead cellist and founder of Melbourne Baroque Orchestra remembers being a teenager in 1978 when “with a bang, baroque cello entered my life”. 

Dutch baroque cello pioneer Anner Bylsma, whom Hunt describes as “a musician of incomparable depth, originality and wit, master of sound and gesture”, came to Melbourne and she was hooked.

Rosanne Hunt ended up studying cello with Bylsma in The Hague and on returning to Melbourne was invited to play baroque cello in the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra. 

Rosanne Hunt will be joined by Natalia Harvey and Cameron Jamieson on violins, Jennifer Kirsner on viola, Josephine Vains on violoncelli, and Nicholas Pollock on the remarkable theorbo (baroque lute). To book: https://www.trybooking.com/CBISQ 

And if you fancy an immersion in baroque fine art to accompany your day in Meeniyan, Prom Recitals has partnered with the Australian Decorative and Fine Arts Society Yarra to present an illustrated lecture at 11:00 am by Assoc. Professor Christopher Marshall, on the “Incredible Wonders - Caravaggio, Bernini and the Baroque Illusionistic Frame.”