PLAYS MAHLER 7 9 11 MARCH 2017 CONCERT PROGRAM
WELCOME ABOUT THE MSO Welcome to the first concert in our Masters Series for 2017. The Masters Series brings together some of the finest conductors and soloists from around the world and tonight is no exception with our Chief Conductor, Sir Andrew Davis, at the helm as he conducts Mahler s brilliant Symphony No.7. I am delighted to welcome Sir Andrew Davis back to Melbourne and the MSO for his fifth season. Sir Andrew joins the MSO in the Master Series in 2017 presenting a selection of outstanding concerts featuring symphonic masterpieces from magnificent composers including Haydn, Schubert, Shostakovich, Bruckner, and Mahler once again in June (Das Lied von der Erde). Musicians all over the world mark Mahler s ten symphonies as must play works, and tonight s performance continues the MSO s Mahler Cycle, which is now in its fourth year. I would like to extend a warm welcome to members of the MSO s Mahler Syndicate who have supported the cycle from the very beginning. Thank you to all of our subscribers who ensure each year the Orchestra can deliver the best in classical music on our city s stages. Of course, if tonight is your first taste of our Masters Series, I encourage you to consider a Series subscription. I look forward to experiencing the Masters Series with you. Established in 1906, the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra (MSO) is an arts leader and Australia s oldest professional orchestra. Chief Conductor Sir Andrew Davis has been at the helm of MSO since 2013. Engaging more than 2.5 million people each year, the MSO reaches a variety of audiences through live performances, recordings, TV and radio broadcasts and live streaming. As a truly global orchestra, the MSO collaborates with guest artists and arts organisations from across the world. Its international audiences include China, where the MSO performed in 2016 and Europe where the MSO toured in 2014. The MSO performs a variety of concerts ranging from core classical performances at its home, Hamer Hall at Arts Centre Melbourne, to its annual free concerts at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl. The MSO also delivers innovative and engaging programs to audiences of all ages through its Education and Outreach initiatives. The MSO also works with Associate Conductor, Benjamin Northey, and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Chorus, as well as with such eminent recent guest conductors as John Adams, Tan Dun, Charles Dutoit, Jakub Hrůša, Mark Wigglesworth, Markus Stenz and Simone Young. It has also collaborated with nonclassical musicians including Nick Cave, Sting, Tim Minchin, Ben Folds, DJ Jeff Mills and Flight Facilities. Sophie Galaise Managing Director Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
ARTISTS Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Conductor Sir Andrew Davis Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Chorus* Guest Chorus Master Warren Trevelyan-Jones* REPERTOIRE Stanhope The Heavens Declare* INTERVAL Mahler Symphony No.7 Running time 1 hour and 55 minutes (Hamer Hall) 1 hour and 20 minutes (Costa Hall) *The Heavens Declare will be performed in Hamer Hall only. 3
SIR ANDREW DAVIS CONDUCTOR Sir Andrew Davis has served as Music Director and Conductor of Lyric Opera of Chicago since 2000. He began his tenure as Chief Conductor of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra in January 2013. Engagements this season include the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, and the Bergen and Royal Liverpool Philharmonics, as well as the Edinburgh International Festival. Recently, at Lyric Opera the English conductor led Massenet s Don Quichotte and Berlioz s epic Les Troyens. Sir Andrew joined the Toronto Symphony Orchestra in performances of his own reorchestration of Handel s Messiah, which has just been released on Chandos Records. Following the end of the Lyric season, Sir Andrew made return appearances with the orchestras of Bergen, Liverpool, Melbourne (including the MSO s tour to China), Detroit, and Frankfurt, along with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and summer in addition to several recording sessions for Chandos. Conductor laureate of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra (he was previously that ensemble's Conductor), Sir Andrew is also Conductor Laureate of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Conductor Emeritus of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and former Music Director of the Glyndebourne Festival Opera. He has led performances at many of the world's most important opera houses, among them the Metropolitan Opera, La Scala, Covent Garden, the Bayreuth Festival, and the major companies of Munich, Paris, San Francisco, and Santa Fe. In addition to those ensembles previously mentioned, he has appeared with virtually every other internationally prominent orchestra, including the Berlin Philharmonic, the Royal Concertgebouw, the Rotterdam Philharmonic, and all the major British orchestras. A vast discography documents Sir Andrew's artistry, with recent CDs including works of Berlioz, Elgar, Grainger, Delius, Ives, Holst (nominated for a Grammy in 2015 for Best Choral Performance), and York Bowen (nominated for a Grammy in 2012 for Best Orchestral Performance). In 1992 Maestro Davis was created a Commander of the British Empire, and in 1999 he was made a Knight Bachelor in the New Year Honours List. He has been awarded an honorary doctorate by Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois. Image courtesy Dario Acosta Photography. 4
MSO CHORUS For more than 50 years the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Chorus has been the unstinting voice of the Orchestra s choral repertoire. In 2017 the Chorus joins forces with the Orchestra on more than 20 different occasions to perform some of the most moving and inspiring repertoire from the canon, as well as once again presenting its own a cappella performances. The MSO Chorus sings with the finest conductors including Sir Andrew Davis, Edward Gardner, Mark Wigglesworth, Bernard Labadie, Vladimir Ashkenazy and Manfred Honeck, and is committed to developing and performing new Australian and international choral repertoire. Commissions include Brett Dean s Katz und Spatz, Ross Edwards Mountain Chant, and Paul Stanhope s Exile Lamentations. Recordings by the MSO Chorus have received critical acclaim. It has performed across Brazil and at the Cultura Inglese Festival in Sao Paolo, in Kuala Lumpur with the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra, with The Australian Ballet, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, at the AFL Grand Final and at Anzac Day commemorative ceremonies. WARREN TREVELYAN-JONES Warren Trevelyan-Jones was born in the United Kingdom, and began his singing career as a Choral Scholar and Lay Clerk in Exeter Cathedral Choir, graduating in music at the University in 1988. Warren is a regular member of many of the leading early music ensembles both in Britain and abroad. These include Vocalconsort Berlin, the Gabrieli Consort, Taverner Consort, Orchestra of the Renaissance, The Kings Consort, Dunedin Consort and La Chapelle Royale of Paris. He has also performed with The Sixteen and the Tallis Scholars. PAUL STANHOPE (born 1969) The Heavens Declare A Choral Symphony for large chorus and orchestra Inspired by a camping trip on a remote part of Fraser Island, The Heavens Declare is Australian composer Paul Stanhope s response to the spectacular and moving sight of the night-time sky and blanket of stars. In Stanhope s own words, 'the work is a setting of four Old Testament texts in their Latin translations: a section from the creation story in Genesis (which I imagined as a dreamtime story), two joyful Psalm excerpts, and a more angstridden passage from the Book of Job. 'The two Psalm settings are joyful, rhythmic choral dances, while the central setting of the Job text agonises over the insignificance of humankind in relation to the vastness of the universe.' The Heavens Declare was commissioned in 1999 by Sydney Philharmonia Choirs. The 2016 revision performed this evening was commissioned by Juliet Tootel for the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. Adapted from a note by Paul Stanhope 2016 *The MSO and the MSO Chorus will perform The Heavens Declare in Hamer Hall only 5
PROGRAM NOTES GUSTAV MAHLER (1860 1911) Symphony No.7 in E minor Langsam Allegro risoluto, ma non troppo Nachtmusik: Allegro moderato Scherzo: Schattenhaft Nachtmusik: Andante amoroso Rondo-finale In 1904, within weeks of completing the Sixth Symphony, Mahler was busily sketching his next symphony, and had soon made architectural drawings of the two Nachtmusik (night music) movements. Given his heavy conducting schedule in Vienna, Mahler had to wait until the following summer s vacation before he could return to serious composition. He then experienced a composer s block that he tried, as ever, to exorcise through vigorous physical activity such as hiking in the Dolomite mountains. This had no effect, so Mahler gave it up, and returned home. However he found that once he ceased concentrating on the work, the ideas started to flow: he got into a boat on the lake at Maiernigg to return to his holiday retreat and, as he wrote to his wife, Alma: At the first stroke of the oars, the theme of the introduction to the first movement came into my head and in four weeks the first, third and fifth movements were written. Mahler then turned to orchestrating his longest and most detailed score. The instrumentation requires an expansion of the conventional orchestra, particularly the wind and percussion and two very unusual instrumental visitors. Some critics have treated the work with suspicion. After the existential bleakness of the Sixth, the Seventh seems to retreat into a more conventional optimism and, in doing so, resorts to 'gimmickry' such as the inclusion of guitar and mandolin in the orchestra. But it could equally be seen as representing the transition from the despair of the Sixth to the joyful paean to divine creativity in the Eighth. The work s trajectory passes through various nocturnal worlds but finally reaches a world of light. And it is significant that Mahler s description of that opening theme was Here Nature roars! Gordon Kerry 2010 Sir Charles Mackerras conducted the first performance of Mahler s Symphony No.7 by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, on 4 May 1963. The Orchestra most recently performed it on 24-26 March 2011 under the direction of Mark Wigglesworth. 6
PROGRAM NOTES SIR ANDREW DAVIS ON MAHLER 7 Mahler's Seventh Symphony was long regarded as the most puzzling of all his works. While the three middle movements have always been favourably received, the first movement and the Finale were but little understood. Some of the objections to the former have included the fact that the theme of the introduction remains as the first idea of the Allegro what's wrong with that?! and the moments of time standing still in the central section (the march theme slowed almost to a stop) were seen as impeding the music's momentum - again this is something that Mahler had been doing for as long as he'd been writing symphonies! Nevertheless the shape of the movement is complicated and the mood veers between introspection and manic energy in a way that challenges interpreters. I hold to the view that in this movement, which is the one that gave the composer the most trouble, he is struggling to emerge from the bleak world of the Sixth Symphony with its dreadful hammer blows of fate, and that the real sense of triumph of the almost schizophrenic relish of the finale s mastery has only been won by passing through the strenuous effort of the first movement and the twilight world of the middle three. Mahler conducted a performance of the symphony in Amsterdam, preceding it with three works by Wagner the Faust Overture, Siegfried Idyll (his love song to his wife) and the Prelude to Die Meistersinger (whose shadow in the symphony's finale is hard to miss). I must confess to being attracted to the theory put forward by Niall O'Loughlin that this is a Faust symphony, in which the first movement portrays the tensions between Faust (main theme), Mephistopheles (march) and Gretchen (lyrical second subject). The second is Faust wandering in the countryside at night, the scherzo the nocturnal meeting between Faust and Mephistopheles in Goethe's Walpurgisnacht, the fourth Mahler's own love song, and the Finale the triumph of love over the devil in this context the unexpected brass chord in the penultimate bar would, I suppose, be Mephistopheles displaying his horns one last time before being obliterated by C major! Fanciful but intriguing! However, whatever extra-musical notions may be inspired by this work, for me at least it is one of Mahler's most extraordinary creations. And I am most eager, as we continue our remarkable symphonic journey, to convince you too! Sir Andrew Davis Chief Conductor Melbourne Symphony Orchestra 7
MELBOURNE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA FIRST VIOLINS Dale Barltrop Concertmaster Eoin Andersen Concertmaster Sophie Rowell Associate Concertmaster The Ullmer Family # Peter Edwards Assistant Kirsty Bremner Sarah Curro Michael Aquilina # Peter Fellin Deborah Goodall Lorraine Hook Kirstin Kenny Ji Won Kim Eleanor Mancini David and Helen Moses # Mark Mogilevski Michelle Ruffolo Kathryn Taylor Michael Aquilina # Jacqueline Edwards* Oksana Thompson* SECOND VIOLINS Matthew Tomkins The Gross # Robert Macindoe Associate Monica Curro Assistant Danny Gorog and Lindy Susskind # Mary Allison Isin Cakmakcioglu Freya Franzen Anonymous # Cong Gu Andrew Hall Andrew and Judy Rogers # Francesca Hiew Tam Vu, Peter and Lyndsey Hawkins # Rachel Homburg Isy Wasserman Philippa West Patrick Wong Roger Young Amy Brookman* Madeleine Jevons* VIOLAS Christopher Moore Di Jameson # Fiona Sargeant Associate Lauren Brigden Katharine Brockman Anthony Chataway Gabrielle Halloran Trevor Jones Cindy Watkin Elizabeth Woolnough Caleb Wright Gaëlle Bayet Isabel Morse* Katie Yap* CELLOS David Berlin MS Newman Family # Rachael Tobin Associate Nicholas Bochner Assistant Miranda Brockman Geelong Friends of the MSO # Rohan de Korte Keith Johnson Sarah Morse Angela Sargeant Michelle Wood Andrew and Theresa Dyer # Kalina Krusteva-Theaker* DOUBLE BASSES Steve Reeves Andrew Moon Associate Sylvia Hosking Assistant Damien Eckersley Benjamin Hanlon Suzanne Lee Stephen Newton Sophie Galaise and Clarence Frase # Emma Sullivan* Esther Toh* FLUTES Prudence Davis Anonymous # Wendy Clarke Associate Sarah Beggs Helen Hardy* PICCOLO Andrew Macleod OBOES Jeffrey Crellin Thomas Hutchinson Associate Ann Blackburn Michael Pisani 8
CLARINETS David Thomas Philip Arkinstall Associate Craig Hill Robin Henry* BASS CLARINET Jon Craven BASSOONS Jack Schiller Elise Millman Associate Natasha Thomas Lyndon Watts* CONTRABASSOON Brock Imison HORNS Andrew Bain* Guest Grzegorz Curyla* Guest Saul Lewis Third Jenna Breen Abbey Edlin Nereda Hanlon and Michael Hanlon AM # Trinette McClimont Robert Shirley* TRUMPETS Geoffrey Payne Shane Hooton Associate William Evans Rosie Turner* TROMBONES Brett Kelly Ben Lovell-Greene BASS TROMBONE Mike Szabo TUBA Timothy Buzbee EUPHONIUM Matthew Van Emmerik* TIMPANI Christopher Lane* PERCUSSION Robert Clarke John Arcaro Robert Cossom Timothy Hook* Brent Miller* HARP Yinuo Mu Delyth Stafford* PIANO/CELESTE Louisa Breen* GUITAR Ken Murray* MANDOLIN Doug de Vries* MSO BOARD Chairman Michael Ullmer Board Members Andrew Dyer Danny Gorog Brett Kelly David Krasnostein David Li Helen Silver AO Margaret Jackson AC Sophie Galaise Company Secretary Oliver Carton # Position supported by * Guest Musician On exchange from West German Radio Symphony Courtesy of Los Angeles Philharmonic Courtesy of Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra 9
MELBOURNE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA CHORUS GUEST CHORUS MASTER Warren Trevelyan-Jones REPETITEUR Tom Griffiths Phillipa Safey CHORUS COORDINATOR Lucien Fischer SOPRANO Philippa Allen Philippa Allen Julie Arblaster Carolyn Archibald Aviva Barazani Ellen Brown Eva Butcher Jessica Chan Stephanie Collins Veryan Croggon Esther Crowley Samantha Davies Emma Di Maggio Cornelia Elmelid Catherine Folley Susan Fone Rashika Gomez Camilla Gorman Juliana Hassett Penny Huggett Jasmine Hulme Naomi Hyndman Gwen Kennelly Karin Otto Susannah Polya Elizabeth Potter Isobel Pyrke Natalie Reid Jo Robin Elizabeth Rusli Natalia Salazar Jemima Sim Shu Xian Lynda Smerdon Freja Soininen Elizabeth Tindall Eloise Verbeek Beth Ylvisaker Tara Zamin ALTO Satu Aho Ruth Anderson Catherine Bickell Cecilia Björkegren Kate Bramley Jane Brodie Alexandra Cameron Serena Carmel Alexandra Chubaty Andrea Clifford Katharine Daley Jill Giese Debbie Griffiths Ros Harbison Sue Hawley Jennifer Henry Kristine Hensel Jade Leigh Helen MacLean Christina McCowan Rosemary McKelvie Kellie Mentlikowski Helen Nikolas Siobhan Ormandy Sharmila Periakarpan Alison Ralph Mair Roberts Helen Rommelaar Kerry Roulston Katherine Samarzia Lisa Savige Wilma Smith Libby Timcke Jenny Vallins Emma Warburton 10
TENOR James Allen Tony Barnett Steve Burnett Peter Campbell Denny Chandra Peter Clay John Cleghorn Alexander Davie James Dipnall Marcel Favilla Simon Goldman Lyndon Horsburgh Dominic McKenna Simon Milton Michael Mobach Peter Duy-Lam Nguyen- Hoang Ben Owen Daniel Riley BASS Maurice Amor Richard Bolitho David Brown Paul Alexander Chantler Barry Clarke Roger Dargaville Phil Elphinstone Joshua Erdelyi-Gotz Lucien Fischer Matan Franco Andrew Ham Jemly Kalangie Benjamin Leske Gary Levy Andreas Loewe Vern O'Hara Edward Ounapuu Stephen Pyk Liam Straughan Matthew Toulmin Maurice Wan Foon Wong Maciek Zielinski 11
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