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Membership The British Music Society of Victoria existing as ABN 94 676 630 858 & Inc. A0044099C Lyrebird Music Society Inc. Applications for membership are most welcome. Please ask for a brochure. Members Founded in 1921 by Mrs Louise Dyer – Marion Louise Poynter, Patron are entitled to free admission to our regular monthly concerts. Annual subscriptions are due (depending on joining date) in January or July and are currently $90 (Ordinary) - $70 (Concession) - $110 (Family) October Concert Casual concert admission: $25 (Standard) $15 (Concession) Secretary: Peter Anderson Phone: 0432 271 593 Post: c/o PO Box 7175, Brighton VIC 3186 Email: [email protected] Next Concert - Sunday 3 November, 2pm Book-ending Beethoven including Beethoven’s first and last string quartets Cameron Hill & Matthew Tomkins (violin) Leah Zweck (viola) Blair Harris (cello) Zenith For more information, see our website: Michael Lampard (baritone) - Rhodri Clarke (piano) www. LyrebirdMusicSociety .org.au Sunday 6 October 2013, 2pm ____________________________________________________________ Wyselaskie Auditorium Sponsors 29 College Crescent, Parkville for successful performances at the Lucerne International Festival, Musica Atlantico Meet the Artists Portugal, several recitals at the Berlin Philharmonie and a recital tour of Venezuela in 2010. Their repertoire consisted of new music written specially for the duo and Michael Lampard is emerging as one of Australia’s most exciting young operatic more tradition concerto and sonata solo repertoire. baritones. He has performed in opera, oratorio, recital and musical theatre in Australia, Europe, UK, USA and Asia. He has a Masters degree from UTas, an Since arriving in Melbourne last year, Rhodri has been in great demand as an A.T.C.L. from Trinity Guildhall in London and an LMus from the AMEB. Michael accompanist and repetiteur and has performed with Opera Studio Melbourne, the is also an experienced composer and conductor. His teachers have included Suzanne Australian Boys Choir, Exaudi Youth Choir and the Melbourne Welsh Male Choir as Ortuso and eminent British baritones Konrad Jarnot and Stephen Varcoe. guest accompanist. As an official accompanist he has been engaged by the Competition success includes twice being an award-winning finalist in the Australian Double Reed Convention, where he performed with the oboist Celia Australian Singing Competition, being a Quarter Finalist in Placido Domingo’s Craig and in July was the representative official accompanist for Victoria, WA and Operalia in Paris 2007, winning the DJ Motors Operatic Aria and reaching final ACT at the Australian Concerto and Vocal Competition in Queensland. Rhodri rounds in competitions such as the Herald Sun Aria, the German Australia Opera recently was a double prize winner at Victoria’s National Liederfest, at which he was Grant, and the Victorian National Liederfest. awarded both Best Accompanist and Best Collaboration with the soprano Ashlyn Tymms for their performances of Korngold, Strauss and Grieg. He has worked with many leading companies including the Sydney Symphony, Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, The Rome Opera Festival, Orchestre Pasdeloup, Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra, More Program Than Opera, Melbourne Opera, IHOS Opera and most of Tasmania’s orchestras, Gerald Finzi choirs and theatre companies. Of the almost 50 operas and oratorios in his repertoire, Earth and Air and Rain (Op. 15) (1901-1956) highlights include Mozart’s Cosi Fan Tutte and Die Zauberflöte, Purcell’s Dido and Summer schemes / When I set out for Lyonnesse / Aeneas, Bizet’s Carmen, Verdi’s La Traviata, Puccini’s La Boheme, Handel’s Waiting both / The phantom / Messiah, Bach’s St. Matthew Passion, Faure’s Requiem, and Mozart’s Requiem. So I have fared / Rollicum-Rorum / Michael has recently returned from the UK where he presented a recital at Gloucester cathedral for the Ivor Gurney Society. In August 2012, Michael and To Lizbie Browne / The clock of the years / Rhodri Clarke presented a performance of Schubert’s Winterreise for the Lieder In a churchyard / Proud songsters Society of Victoria. Michael has recorded a CD of the songs of Tasmanian composer INTERVAL Matthew Dewey and is scheduled to record and premiere a new song cycle by Douglas Knehans in Cincinnati, USA. Franz Schubert Impromptus D.899 (Op. 90) (1797-1828) The Welsh UK pianist Rhodri Clarke performs internationally as a vocal No. 2 in E-flat Major accompanist, instrumental accompanist and chamber musician. He is a graduate of No. 3 in G-flat Major the Royal College of Music London where he studied piano with Andrew Ball and piano accompaniment and chamber music with Nigel Clayton and Roger Vignoles. Franz Schubert Gesänge des Harfners D.478 (Op.12) Rhodri has performed extensively in Europe, USA, South America and Asia. He has (1797-1828) been fortunate to perform with artists of high international standing, including bass- Wer sich der Einsamkeit ergibt baritone Bryn Terfel at a massed choral concert at Carnegie Hall and tenor Rolando Wer nie sein Brot mit Tränen aß Villazon with whom he recently released the Deutsche Grammophon CD “Mexico”, An die Türen will ich schleichen focusing on new arrangements of Mexican folk songs. In December 2010 he toured Mexico and Europe as chamber musician and accompanist with Villazon and the Franz Schubert An die Entfernte Latin-American chamber ensemble Bolivar Soloists, including most notably a (1797-1828) Erlkönig performance at the Auditorio Nacional in Mexico City. He has performed in many of Heidenröslein the major European concert halls, including the Vienna Konzerthaus, Berlin Die Forelle Philharmonie, Paris Theatre des Champs-Elysees, London Royal Festival Hall. Rhodri has collaborated with Berlin Philharmonic double-bass player Edicson Ruiz **After the concert you are invited to meet the artists over light refreshments.** Program Notes Gerald Finzi - Earth and Air and Rain Gerald Finzi was born in 1901 in London and died in 1956. He is particularly regarded as a song composer, with a large output, including cycles on the poetry of Thomas Hardy with whom he had a particular affinity. Thomas Hardy’s Collected Poems would have been one of Gerald Finzi’s desert island choices. Not that he was ever himself marooned; but at the outbreak of the last war his friend the composer Robin Milford was isolated on Guernsey and, in discussing Hardy, Finzi wrote to him that ‘if I had to be cut off from everything that would be the one book I should choose’. Earth and Air and Rain, although published in 1936, was not performed until 1945. ‘Lyonnesse’ and ‘The Phantom’ both use a strong melody as a narrative device, but their form modified to reflect the changes in the mood. It is thought that both poems are about Hardy and his wife Emma: his first meeting with her, and then his sad return to his Lyonnesse after her death. ‘The Clock of the Years’, one of the most dramatic songs of the cycle, balances both of these songs with a dramatic narrative and recitative. The final song in the cycle brings acceptance of the ever-lasting cycle of the seasons. Franz Schubert Franz Schubert was born in 1797 and died in 1828. Schubert’s lieder are regarded as some of the pinnacles of the song repertoire. One of Schubert’s master-works is his song cycle Winterreise, completed in the last year of the composer’s life. However, the Gesänge des Harfners, composed in 1822 already show the dramatic colours Schubert would use in his later work. There are many similarities between the Harfenspieler and Winterreise, the strongest being the plodding apparent in the final song of the Harfenspieler and the first song, ‘Gute nacht’ from Winterreise both set in the same tempo. Of Schubert’s many lieder perhaps one holds a fascination with performers and audiences more than most, Erlkönig. The story of a sick child on horse-back with his father riding through the night, the child fearing the grasp of the seductive Erlkonig, the representation of death. Repeated triplets, representing the horse’s hooves, drive the demanding piano accompaniment. Another feature of Schubert’s output is his beautiful piano music. The Impromptus were composed in 1827. Features of the ‘Impromptu No.3 in G flat’ are its elegant lyricism and its long melodic line..