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Astra Quarter-Hour Concerts - 2020-21

A series of short aural-video programs for online listening and viewing, assembled from the Astra Concerts archive from the 1950s to the present, and introducing new studio works from composers in the period of COVID-19.

Drawing on these past and current elements, mini-concerts are created that never took place as such, from items separated in time and place. New ways open up for Astra's characteristic program experiences, of encounters between different styles and eras in music, both choral and instrumental.

 

Concert #1 - The City

Robert Carl, Stefan Wolpe, Alma Mahler

Concert #2 - The Royal Park School

Martin Friedel & Allan Walker (2020), Keith Humble (1987)

Concert #3 - William Blake, Cradle & Grave

Dorian Le Gallienne, Bo Holten, Elisabeth Lutyens

Concert #4 - Procession and Footfalls

Robert Schumann, Elisabeth Lutyens

Concert #5 - Composer - Kaleidoscope

Short works by Helen Gifford

Concert #6 - Between War and Revolution

Arthur Lourié, Alexander Mosolov, Alexander Kastalsky

Concert #7 - Nativity

Thomas Tallis,  Heinrich Schütz, Livia Teodorescu-Ciocănea

Concert #8 - The Indian Ocean School

Simone de Haan & Graeme Leak

 

NB For best video quality, use the Settings "wheel" to choose HD (1080p).

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Quarter-Hour Concerts

Quarter-Hour Concerts

Short aural-video programs for online listening and viewing, assembled from the Astra Concerts archive from the 1950s to the present. Watch and listen on YouTube. NB Use the Settings "wheel" to choose HD (1080p).

2020 season program

2020 season program

Astra's concert activities are at present suspended.
We invite you to open the 2020 season program to see the design of the intended programs, which we hope to implement when our music-making is able to resume.