BENJAMIN NORTHEY CONDUCTS ENIGMA

BENJAMIN NORTHEY CONDUCTS ENIGMA 27 28 JULY 2017 CONCERT PROGRAM

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Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Benjamin Northey conductor Kristian Chong piano Bizet Carmen: Suite No.1 Saint-Saëns Piano Concerto No.2 INTERVAL Elgar Sospiri Elgar Variations on an Original Theme Enigma Running time: 2 hours, including 20-minute interval PRE-CONCERT ORGAN REICTAL As with all of the MSO s Melbourne Town Hall Series, renowned composer and organist Calvin Bowman will perform a pre-concert organ recital in the historic setting of the Melbourne Town Hall. This free performance will begin at 6.30pm. In consideration of your fellow patrons, the MSO thanks you for dimming the lighting on your mobile phone. The MSO acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the land on which we are performing. We pay our respects to their Elders, past and present, and the Elders from other communities who may be in attendance. mso.com.au (03) 9929 9600 3

MELBOURNE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 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, and as a truly global orchestra, the MSO collaborates with guest artists and arts organisations from across the world. BENJAMIN NORTHEY CONDUCTOR Australian conductor Benjamin Northey is the Chief Conductor of the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra and the Associate Conductor of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. Northey also appears regularly as a guest conductor with all major Australian symphony orchestras, Opera Australia (Turandot, L elisir d amore, Don Giovanni, Così fan tutte, Carmen), New Zealand Opera (Sweeney Todd) and State Opera South Australia (La sonnambula, L elisir d amore, Les contes d Hoffmann). His international appearances include concerts with the London Philharmonic, Tokyo Philharmonic and Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestras and the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg. 4 KRISTIAN CHONG PIANO Leading Australian pianist Kristian Chong has performed throughout Australia, China and the UK, and in France, New Zealand, Singapore, USA, and Zimbabwe. As soloist he has appeared with the Adelaide, Melbourne, Queensland, Sydney and Tasmanian Symphony Orchestras, and orchestras in the UK, New Zealand and China. Highlights include Rachmaninoff s Third Piano Concerto (Sydney Symphony) and Paganini Rhapsody (Beijing and Canberra) and Ravel's Left-Hand Concerto (Dunedin Symphony). A highly sought-after chamber musician, Kristian s collaborations include the Tinalley and Australian String Quartets, violinists Sophie Rowell and Dale Barltrop, cellist Li-Wei Qin and baritone Teddy Tahu Rhodes. Festival appearances include the Australian Festival of Chamber Music, Adelaide, Huntington Estate, Mimir and Bangalow Festivals with other highlights including the Xing Hai Festival (Guangzhou) and Australian Music Week on Gulangyu Island (Xiamen). Kristian studied at the Royal Academy of Music with Piers Lane and Christopher Elton, and with Stephen McIntyre at the University of Melbourne where Kristian teaches piano and chamber music.

PROGRAM NOTES GEORGES BIZET (1838 1875) Carmen: Suite No.1 Prélude Aragonaise Intermezzo Séguedille Les Dragons d Alcala Les Toréadors When Carmen was first produced in Paris in 1875, three months before Bizet s death at the age of 36, audiences were shocked by the unashamed realism of the story: Carmen s blatant sexuality scandalised many, as did the rowdy women s chorus (Carmen s coworkers in the cigarette factory) who both fight and smoke on stage. And Carmen s murder by the spurned Don José, in full view of the audience, was too strong for many tastes. The show did run for 48 performances, though, largely on the strength of its shock value, and although the Parisian opera companies were too timid to program it again until 1883 (when it met with enthusiastic acclaim), by that time it had enjoyed success around the the world, mostly in a revised version by Bizet s friend Ernest Guiraud. Guiraud set the original spoken dialogue to recitative. After the death of the composer Guiraud compiled two suites from the music of Carmen. The first suite comprises of the instrumental entre acte from the opera, ending with the famous Overture. The only vocal excerpt in this suite is the Séguedille, which appears in an orchestral arrangement. Symphony Australia The MSO first performed music from Carmen on 17 July 1943 under conductor Bernard Heinze, and most recently performed Suite No.1 on 5 February 2013 with Benjamin Northey. CAMILLE SAINT-SAËNS (1835 1921) Piano Concerto No.2 in G minor, Op.22 Andante sostenuto Allegro scherzando Presto Kristian Chong piano Camille Saint-Saëns contribution to French music over an exceptionally long life was a helpful and versatile one. A child prodigy who, making his debut as a ten-year-old with Mozart and Beethoven piano concertos, offered his delighted audience any one of the 32 Beethoven piano sonatas as an encore. He lived to a somewhat embittered old age, and walked out of the 1913 premiere of Stravinsky s Rite of Spring muttering that it wasn t music. Saint-Saëns for most of his life had been receptive to the new, and tried to steer French music away from its fixation on opera into channels where it could benefit from the example of the best of German instrumental music. He was a friend of Liszt, and his Third Symphony, with organ, is in many ways a tribute to that composer. (It has made a comeback in the age of hi-fi and of talking pigs Australian composer Nigel Westlake borrowed from it in his soundtrack music for Babe.) Ironically, a piece which he dashed off in 17 days in 1868 has proved one of his most durably popular: his Second Piano Concerto. The haste was due to the concert hall becoming available at short notice for a concert conducted 5

PROGRAM NOTES by the Russian Anton Rubinstein, in which Saint-Saëns was to play a concerto. The music shows little sign of hasty workmanship. Saint-Saëns was the classicist among the French Romantics, and his sure grasp of form sometimes makes up for ideas which seem too easily acquired. Liszt described this piano concerto fairly when he said that Saint-Saëns takes into account the effects of the pianist without sacrificing anything of the ideas of the composer. Nevertheless, this concerto has been indelibly marked by the witty observation of the Polish pianist Sigismond Stojowski, in that it begins with Bach and ends with Offenbach. It is true that the pianist s unaccompanied introduction is an obvious tribute-by-imitation to Bach, especially the Bach of the Chromatic Fantasia and other toccatas for organ or harpsichord. Saint-Saëns conceives this imitation in a Romantic sense: it is a declamation rather than a meditation, and projected, by the sustaining pedal on the steel-framed pianoforte, to the back row of the concert hall. The themes of the first movement, prefaced by this introduction, are expressive and lyrical: the main melody was borrowed (with permission) from Saint-Saëns younger friend and former pupil Gabriel Fauré (who had used it for a Tantum ergo with choir and organ). The level of activity soon rises, and dramatic exchanges between the soloist and the orchestra climax in a full-throated return of the main theme. There is a cadenza returning to the fantasia style of the introduction, and the movement ends, as it were, by swallowing its own tail. The puckish scherzo is the only movement that was a success at the under-rehearsed first performance. It has a catchy refrain, and is laid out for the instruments with masterly delicacy. The last movement is a tarantella (in popular imagination, the dance of the victim of spider bite), and this brings a strong whiff of the music of Offenbach (he of the can-can). Are the high spirits of comic operetta out of place in the finale of a concerto? Mozart didn t think so; nor did Saint-Saëns. David Garrett The MSO first performed this concerto on 17 October 1940 with conductor Georg Schnéevoigt and soloist Sigrid Sundgren, and most recently performed it in July 2008 with Thomas Dausgaard and Simon Trpčeski. 6

EDWARD ELGAR (1857 1934) Sospiri, Op.70 Elgar is wearing his heart on his sleeve in Sospiri, composed in 1914 and dedicated to his close friend and musical associate W.H. Billy Reed. Reed, on whose technical expertise Elgar had drawn whilst composing his Violin Concerto, was at that time the leader of the London Symphony Orchestra, which helps explain the choice of the medium, string orchestra, in this case with harp and organ. Here performance by single strings is unimaginable. The sighs of the Italian title seem to point to a private sadness which in Elgar is never far away. Elgar completed Sospiri in February 1914, only months before the outbreak of the First World War, news of which reached the Elgars during an idyllic summer holiday in Scotland. Sir Henry Wood conducted the premiere at that year s first Promenade concert, on 15 August 1914, the work s sense of melancholy and regret no doubt a poignant lull in the evening s highly charged wartime mood. Symphony Australia 2004 This is the MSO's first performance of Sospiri. EDWARD ELGAR (1857 1934) Variations on an Original Theme, Op.36 Enigma I (C.A.E.) Caroline Alice Elgar, the composer s wife II (H.D.S.-P) Hew David Steuart-Powell, pianist in Elgar s trio III (R.B.T.) Richard Baxter Townshend, author IV (W.M.B.) William Meath Baker, nicknamed the Squire V (R.P.A.) Richard Penrose Arnold, son of Matthew Arnold VI (Ysobel) Isabel Fitton, viola player VII (Troyte) Arthur Troyte Griffith, architect VIII (W.N.) Winifred Norbury IX (Nimrod) August Johannes Jaeger, reader for the publisher Novello & Co X (Dorabella) Intermezzo Dora Penny, later Mrs Richard Powell XI (G.R.S.) Dr G.R. Sinclair, organist of Hereford Cathedral XII (B.G.N.) Basil G. Nevinson, cellist in Elgar s trio XIII (***) Romanza Lady Mary Lygon, later Trefusis XIV (E.D.U.) Finale Elgar himself ( Edu being his nickname) In middle age, Elgar loathed having to earn the bulk of his income as a humble rural music teacher. Nevertheless, in spite of his obvious talent as a composer, his career during his 20s and 30s had been a series of disappointments. He had gravitated toward London, but Elgar and the big city never got on. And so, at a time when Schoenberg was emerging in Austria and Debussy was writing his Nocturnes in France, poor Elgar found himself back in his native Malvern region, eking out a living as best he 7

PROGRAM NOTES could. He took in students, made instrumental arrangements, played in an occasional performance and continually threatened to give away music altogether. But one evening in October 1898, Elgar began to doodle at the piano. Chancing upon a brief theme that pleased him, he started imagining his friends confronting the same melody, or he would try to catch another s character in a variation. This harmless bit of fun, initiated accidentally, would single-handedly turn around the composer s career and by February 1899 the work had grown into what would become one of England s greatest orchestral masterpieces, Elgar s Variations on an Original Theme, Op.36. Where the word Theme should have appeared in the score, however, Elgar wrote Enigma. He stated that the theme itself was a variation on a well-known tune which he refused to identify. It s a conundrum which has occupied concertgoers and scholars alike ever since. Over the years there have been many attempts to identify the mystery theme which, according to Elgar, goes in counterpoint with the one we actually hear. Elgar himself rejected suggestions of God Save the King and Auld Lang Syne. Other suggestions have included Rule, Britannia!, various nursery rhymes, a theme from Beethoven s late quartets, an extract from Wagner s Parsifal, and even Ta-ra-ra-boom-de-ay. Elgar biographer Michael Kennedy has proposed that it could be Elgar himself, with the famous motif on which the entire work is based capturing the natural speech rhythm of the name Edward Elgar. But, mischief-maker that he was, Elgar went to his grave without revealing the truth and no one since has come up with the definitive answer. The second enigma was the identity of the characters depicted within each variation, who were represented at first only by their initials in the score. Fortunately this enigma has proved much easier to solve. The main theme is given to the violins, who state it immediately. Variation 1 depicts Elgar s wife, Caroline Alice ( Carice ). The second variation brings the first hint of actual imitation. Pianist H.D. Steuart-Powell was one of Elgar s chamber music collaborators, who characteristically played a diatonic run over the keyboard as a warm-up. Variation 3 depicts the ham actor R.B. Townshend whose drastic variation in vocal pitch is mocked here. The Cotswold squire W. Meath Baker is the subject of Variation 4, while the mixture of seriousness and wit displayed by the great poet Matthew Arnold s son Richard is captured in the fifth variation. The next two variations parody the technical inadequacies of Elgar s chamber music acquaintances. Violist Isabel Fitton (Variation 6) had trouble performing music where the strings had to be crossed, while Arthur Troyte Griffith (Variation 7) was a pianist whose vigorous style sounded 8

more like drumming! Winifred Norbury is represented in Variation 8 by a musical depiction of her 18th-century country house, Sherridge. The most famous variation, of course, is Nimrod (No.9). Nimrod (the mighty hunter before the Lord of Genesis chapter 10) was Elgar s publisher, A.J. Jaeger (German for hunter ). Apparently the idea for this particular variation came when Elgar was going through one of his regular slumps. Jaeger took Elgar on a long walk during which he said that whenever Beethoven was troubled by the turbulent life of a creative artist, he simply poured his frustrations into still more beautiful compositions. In memory of that conversation, Elgar made those opening bars of Nimrod quote the slow movement from Beethoven s Pathétique Sonata. Variation 10 depicts a young woman called Dora Penny, whose soubriquet Dorabella comes from Mozart s Così fan tutte. And then Variation 11 goes beyond the human species, depicting the organist G.R. Sinclair s bulldog Dan, falling down the steep bank of the river Wye, paddling upstream, coming to land and then barking. The cello features prominently in Variation 12 a tribute to the cellist Basil Nevinson who later served as the inspiration for Elgar s Cello Concerto. Mendelssohn s Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage is quoted in Variation 13, thought to allude to Lady Mary Lygon s departure by ship to Australia. And then finally we hear E.D.U. where the composer depicts himself (his wife s nickname for him was Edoo) cocking a snook at all those who said he d never make it as a composer. The Enigma Variations, premiered in London on 19 June 1899 under Hans Richter, were the conclusive evidence that he had. Abridged from a note Martin Buzacott The MSO first performed Elgar s Enigma Variations on 29 September 1938 with Sir Malcolm Sargent, and most recently on 13-14 September 2013 under Sir Andrew Davis. 9

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