Love & Transfiguration – Presented by ACO

This program is part of the ACO’s inaugural 2021 digital season, ACO StudioCasts.

Love & Transfiguration will premiere at 8pm AEST, Wednesday 19th May, 2021, and will be available for subscribers to watch on demand until 11:59pm AEDT Friday 31st December, 2021.

How do light and joy come from what feels like our darkest moments? Maybe it is that love can transform, as this concert film does, from sombre hues and shadows to the warmth and radiance of new light and new day.

Vox amoris, written for Richard Tognetti in 2009, is an exquisitely beautiful and moving cinematic journey. Each time the force of feeling sweeps low, the violin’s song to the glory of love emerges from the gentle murmur of the strings.

Such balancing of melancholy and light underpins the moral complexity in Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht, but the resolution finds love as a redeemer. Even Bach’s “Ich ruf zu dir”, performed by Richard Tognetti and ACO Principals Stefanie Farrands, Timo-Veikko Valve and Maxime Bibeau, is a cry of yearning to be freed from earthly suffering that takes on a joyous aspect.

This is a film that will lift you out of daily life and into the light.

Love & Transfiguration is available to view as part of a full 2021 ACO StudioCasts subscription, giving you access to all ACO StudioCasts films as they premiere and then on-demand until 31 December 2021. It can also be purchased as a standalone film to view for 7-days.

Full season subscriptions are $229, or $149 when added as part of an ACO live season subscription. 7-day access to single StudioCast films are available for $35 per film.