St Andrews Uniting Church, Bendigo — Organ console, St Andrew's Uniting Church

Bendigo’s Keys of Gold Classical Music Festival is so called as the festival not only features keyboard instruments at every concert, but also features the rich heritage of glorious buildings, grand public spaces and elegant streetscapes all made possible through the discovery of gold in 1851.

Inspired by the vision of the great Victorian architect William Vahland to make Bendigo the ‘Vienna of the South’, the festival will bring Bendigo and surrounds’ multi-million dollar unique heritage of spectacular pipe organs to life, together with the Steinway concert grand piano selected by Vladimir Ashkenazy himself for the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall and much more. There are 16 concerts across Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays in July 2025 - in 11 venues in Bendigo, Castlemaine, Inglewood and Maldon, with 27 instruments and 45 performers.

Thomas Heywood (organ)
Brass Quintet

PROGRAM

Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881)
Promenade and The Gnome from Pictures at an Exhibition, Brass Quintet

Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881), trans. Arthur Eaglefield Hull (1876-1928)
The Great Gate of Kiev from Pictures at an Exhibition, Organ solo

Erik Satie (1866-1925)
Gnossiennes, Brass Quintet

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Jesu, joy of man’s desiring from Cantata No. 147, BWV 147, Organ and Brass

Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847), trans. William Thomas Best (1826-1897)
War March of the Priests from the Incidental Music to Athalie, Op. 74, Organ solo

Paul Peuerl (c.1570-c.1625)
Canzona, Brass Quintet

Eugène Gigout (1844-1925)
Toccata [in B minor] from Dix Piéces (1892), Organ solo
Grand Choeur Dialogué, Organ and Brass

Sir Edward Elgar (1857-1934), trans. Sir George Martin (1844-1916)
Imperial March, Op. 32, Organ solo

Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921)
Maestoso from Symphony No. 3 in C minor – Organ Symphony, Op. 78, Organ and Brass

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ABOUT THE ARTISTS
THOMAS HEYWOOD
BRASS QUINTET

Keys of Gold is presented by Bendigo Fine Music. BFM is a registered charity led by a team of people living in and around this beautiful city, aspiring to enrich lives for the good of the wider community through world-class fine music experiences in Bendigo’s unique performance spaces, unparalleled in regional Australia.