Carl Vine’s XX (2009) was commissioned by the Australian Chamber Orchestra to honour the twenty years that Richard Tognetti had been its Director. A playful 4-minute exploration of the relationship between a chamber orchestra and its leader this delightful work for solo violin and string orchestra makes the perfect concert opener.

Lyrical direct and exhibiting a masterful understanding of vocal writing Carl Vine’s secular cantata for soprano and strings The Tree of Man is a gift to audience and musicians alike. The 11-minute work written in 2012 for the Australian Chamber Orchestra and soprano Daniele de Niese is based on a passage from a novel of the same name by the Nobel Prize-winning author Patrick White. Vine k…