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DATES Sydney City Recital Hall Tuesday 27 October 7:00PM Wednesday 28 October 7:00PM Friday 30 October 7:00PM Saturday 31 October 2:00PM Saturday 31 October 7:00PM Online Digital Première Sunday 1 November 5:00PM

Concert duration approximately 60 minutes with no interval. Please note concert duration is approximate only and is subject to change. We kindly request that you switch off all electronic devices prior to the performance.

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ARTISTS PROGRAM Melissa Farrow* Baroque flute & recorder Jean-Baptiste Lully Prologue: Ouverture to Cadmus et Hermione, LWV 49 Mikaela Oberg Baroque flute & recorder Marin Marais Musettes 28 and 29 from Pièces de Viole, Livre IV, Suite No. 4 Rafael Font Baroque violin in A minor Marianne Yeomans Baroque viola Anton Baba Baroque cello & viola da gamba Tommie Andersson* Theorbo, Baroque guitar & archlute Jacques-Martin Pourquoy doux rossignols from Airs et Brunettes Paul Dyer AO Artistic Director Hotteterre Jean-Baptiste Lully La jeune Iris from Trios de la Chambre du Roi, LWV 35 DIGITAL PREMIÈRE CREATIVES Video Director Oliver Miller Sound Engineer Richard Hundy François Couperin Air de Baccantes from Huitième Concert dans le goût Théâtral, Imagery Design Silvana Azzi Heras & Paul Dyer Les goûts-réunis Video/Sound Editor Oliver Miller Jean-Baptiste Lully Sommeil and Entrée des Zephyrs from Atys, LWV 53 Lighting Design Sophie Pekbilimli Jean-Baptiste Lully Chaconne des Scaramouches, Trivelins et Arlequin from Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, LWV 43 Henry Purcell Curtain Tune on a Ground from Timon of Athens, Z 632 John Playford Strawberries and Cream from The English Dancing Master (1657) Richarde Sumarte Lachrymae from the Manchester Gamba Book

Medley of tunes from The Division Flute, The Division Violin, and The English Dancing Master (1657): John Walsh Paul’s Steeple Thomas Baltzar John come kiss me now John Playford An Italian Rant Francesco Auld Bob Morrice from A Treatise of Good Taste in the Art Geminiani of Musick

George Frideric Recorder Sonata in B-flat major, HWV 377 Handel Adagio and Allegro * Denotes Core Brandenburg Musician George Frideric Excerpts from Berenice, regina d’Egitto, HWV 38 Handel Andante, Larghetto, Gigue

4 AUSTRALIAN BRANDENBURG ORCHESTRA AYRES & GRACES 5 FROM THE CO-FOUNDER & ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Paul Dyer

Welcome back to live music! As the year edges towards Christmas, The electricity and buzz of I feel buoyed by the positive mood and a live performance are sense of momentum in the community. Our 20th successive season of Noël! absolutely irreplaceable. Noël! concerts are just around the corner and to celebrate I have invited Ayres & Graces is our first live concert one of Australia’s finest stage designers since March and the familiar surge and to add an extra flash of panache! The rush of energy from the Brandenburg sparkling 2021 subscription season will musicians - and from audiences - as we be launched on 10 November and you rehearse and prepare has been simply will receive detailed information in the amazing. Our passion to perform has coming weeks about all the beautiful never been greater! music that awaits. Throughout this bizarre year I have A very special thank you to Melissa explored creative new ways to deliver Farrow, Oliver Miller, Silvana Azzi Heras our performances. For tonight’s and the entire creative and production performance, I have designed a visual teams who worked tirelessly to make stage experience featuring fourteen these fabulous concerts a reality. breathtaking images which form the vibrant backdrop for musicians. The images are inspired by the flavours of France and England and will be displayed on an enormous stage-wide LED screen. The effect for audiences is a heightened visual experience Paul Dyer AO which complements the sound of our Co-founder and Artistic Director period instruments and, in this concert, Australian Brandenburg Orchestra Melissa Farrow’s beautiful spoken narrative. Melissa has done a truly outstanding job curating this gorgeous program.

6 AUSTRALIAN BRANDENBURG ORCHESTRA AYRES & GRACES 7 FROM THE CO-FOUNDER & MANAGING DIRECTOR Bruce Applebaum

We return to the concert hall I would like to thank City Recital Hall stage with a renewed sense of management and staff and the entire passion and purpose. Brandenburg team for the detail and care which they have prepared for these Throughout 2020, the Brandenburg concerts. The health and safety of our has connected with audiences through musicians and staff, our loyal audiences innovative new digital performances on and the broader arts community has Brandenburg One in the Bach Series been paramount in our planning. which has paved the way for Ayres Please enjoy Ayres & Graces and & Graces, a concert-length digital welcome back to the concert hall! production and five live concerts at City Recital Hall. Directed by Principal Baroque Flute and Recorder Melissa Farrow, Ayres & Graces celebrates what we love most: Bruce Applebaum the shared joy of experiencing Baroque Co-Founder and Managing Director music performed on period instruments Australian Brandenburg Orchestra by the world’s best musicians live in the concert hall.

8 AUSTRALIAN BRANDENBURG ORCHESTRA AYRES & GRACES 9 FROM OUR PRESENTING PARTNER: APA GROUP BIOGRAPHY Connection & Inspiration Paul Dyer

APA Group is pleased to support including the 1998, 2001, 2005, 2009 the Australian Brandenburg and 2010 ARIA Awards for Best Orchestra as Presenting Partner Classical Album. of Ayres & Graces Paul has performed with many international soloists including Andreas This year, APA celebrates our nineteen Scholl, Cyndia Sieden, Marc Destrubé, year relationship as one of the Christoph Prégardien, Hidemi Suzuki, orchestra’s longest corporate sponsors. Manfredo Kraemer, Andrew Manze, Yvonne Kenny, Emma Kirkby, Philippe Our partnership began in 2001, and Jaroussky and many others. In 1998 since then both organisations have he made his debut in Tokyo with grown through vision and commitment, Paul Dyer is one of Australia’s countertenor Derek Lee Ragin, leading from humble beginnings to national an ensemble of Brandenburg soloists, importance. At APA, we are enormously leading specialists in period and in August 2001 Paul toured the proud of the role we have played in the performance. orchestra to Europe with guest soloist Australian Brandenburg Orchestra’s Andreas Scholl. In 2015, he was featured journey. Paul co-founded the Brandenburg in 1989 after completing postgraduate on the soundtrack of the James Bond Season after season the Brandenburg studies at the Royal Conservatorium 007 movie, Spectre. breathes fresh life into music, infusing it in The Hague, and has been Artistic A passionate cook, entertainer, foodie, with dynamism and brilliance. Through Director and conductor since that time. teacher, swimmer and traveller, he is our sponsorship, APA Group values He is a performing artist comfortable friends with people and artists from the opportunity to bring this work to in his unique music arena – whether Istanbul to India and Japan to Italy, and audiences across metropolitan and working in ancient music, contemporary creates a unique platform for overseas regional Australia. music, opera, with artists such as circus performing artists to work with him and Thank you for joining us in celebrating performers, contemporary dance, or the Brandenburg in Australia. the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra’s visual art. His busy performing schedule Among his list of achievements, return to the main stage in Ayres & in Europe, Asia, the USA and Canada Paul was awarded the Officer of the Graces. We trust you enjoy this very over the years has synchronised Order of Australia (AO) in 2013 for his special performance. perfectly alongside his bold stage ‘distinguished service to the performing work in Australia. arts in Australia’. Paul is Patron of St Paul is an inspiring teacher and Gabriel’s School for Hearing Impaired has been a staff member at various Children. In 2003 Paul was awarded conservatories throughout the the Australian Centenary Medal for his

world. In 1995 he received a Churchill services to Australian society and the Rob Wheals Fellowship and he has won numerous advancement of music, and in 2010 APA Group Managing Director and CEO international and national awards for Paul was awarded the Sydney University his CD recordings with the Australian Alumni Medal for Professional Brandenburg Orchestra and Choir, Achievement.

10 AUSTRALIAN BRANDENBURG ORCHESTRA AYRES & GRACES 11 BIOGRAPHY BIOGRAPHY Melissa Farrow Mikaela Oberg

Haydn Ensemble and the Orchestra Mikaela returned to Australia in 2014 of the Antipodes. Melissa is regularly and has had the great pleasure of asked to play with other notable performing historically informed ensembles such as the Australian programs with a variety of local and Chamber Orchestra, Pinchgut Opera, the nationally based ensembles. She Australian Haydn Ensemble, Adelaide regularly appears with the Australian Baroque, New Zealand Barok, Ironwood, Brandenburg Orchestra, Pinchgut Latitude 37, Ludivico’s Band, The Marais Opera, the Muffat Collective, Bach Project, and for the Sydney and Brisbane Akademie Australia, Salut! Baroque and Festivals. the Australian Haydn Ensemble. As a Baroque flute and recorder soloist Melissa enjoys a fulfilling career with the Australian Brandenburg Born into a musical family as a period flautist, recorder Orchestra, Melissa has performed a in Sydney, Mikaela began her player, and teacher on the number of concertos including Vivaldi’s studies on the recorder and Australian early music scene. Concerto for Flute La Notte, RV 439, JS flute at an early age. Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos No. 5 She plays a variety of instruments, and No. 4, Telemann’s Concerto for Flute She completed a double degree in including various models of traverso and Violin and his Concerto for Recorder performance and music education at (side-blown flute) and recorder. and Flute, Mozart’s Andante in C major the Sydney Conservatorium of Music in and his Concerto for Flute and Harp. She 2007 where she also began her studies Growing up in Auckland, New Zealand, features on several of the Brandenburg’s Melissa came to Sydney in 1994 to on the Baroque flute with Melissa recordings including The Romantics Farrow. study Undergraduate flute and recorder and Brandenburg Celebrates playing at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. Telemann’s Concerto for Flute and In 2010, Mikaela left for postgraduate She then completed postgraduate Violin with Shaun Lee-Chen. studies at the Royal Conservatoire studies at the Conservatorium of of The Hague where she further Amsterdam in flute, recorder and Over the past ten years, Melissa has specialised in historical flutes with traverso. On her return to Australia, been given the fantastic opportunity Barthold Kuijken. During this time, Melissa chose to focus her attention of curating some of the Brandenburg’s she performed in The Netherlands on the area she loves most, early smaller chamber music performances and further abroad including with the music, collecting and playing historical for City of Sydney community centres, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment instruments from early French model Australian Unity communities, Art Gallery and the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Baroque flutes through to mid- of NSW, National Gallery of Australia, and Century under the leadership of Frans nineteenth century flutes. Regional Tours. Brüggen. Since 2003, Melissa has been Principal Melissa enjoys teaching recorder Baroque Flute and Recorder of the and Baroque style for both modern Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, and and Baroque flute and is a casual is a core member of the Australian lecturer in Baroque Flute at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music.

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the baton of artists such as Sir Colin Marianne spent several years in the Davis, Marin Alsop, William Christie and UK touring and playing with the Rivoli Richard Egarr. String Quartet as well as the BBC Rafael pursued postgraduate studies Philharmonic and the Royal Liverpool in Baroque and Classical violin at the Philharmonic Orchestras. The pull of Royal Conservatoire of The Hague the Australian outdoor lifestyle was with teachers Kati Debretzeni and eventually too strong to ignore and Walter Reiter, where his main topic of Marianne headed back to Australia research was the writing of cadenzas in 2008. Since returning to Australia, in Mozart’s violin concertos. A highly Marianne has enjoyed playing with versatile performer, Rafael has interests the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra Rafael started his violin ranging from seventeenth Monteverdi Marianne began learning the and is also a sought-after musician, enjoying a lively and varied career studies at the age of five in his to nineteenth Tchaikovsky in both violin violin at the age of 7 after finding and viola. performing with Australia’s leading hometown of Caracas, Venezuela. she was too small to play the ensembles and orchestras on both Since moving to Sydney, Rafael viola, which was her first choice. period and modern violas. After completing high school, Rafael performs regularly with Australia’s moved to London to attend the leading early music ensembles She started on the viola when she Guildhall School of Music and Drama, including the Australian Brandenburg was 14 and continued to study where he obtained a Bachelor of Orchestra, Pinchgut Opera, the both instruments at the Sydney Music on violin under the tutelage Australian Haydn Ensemble and Salut! Conservatorium of Music High School. of Jacqueline Ross, while also taking Baroque. Rafael is also a dedicated Marianne then went on to gain Baroque violin lessons with Pavlo music teacher, regularly tutoring violin her Bachelor of Music from the Beznosiuk. and viola and conducting ensembles Sydney Conservatorium and soon During his time in Europe, Rafael across several schools in Sydney. after headed to the UK, where she worked with many leading British early Rafael is a founding member of the continued postgraduate studies at the music groups including the Academy Muffat Collective, one of the most Royal Northern College of Music in of Ancient Music, La Nuova Musica, exciting new early music small Manchester. She studied both Modern La Serenisima, Poeticall Musicke and ensembles in Sydney. The Muffat and Baroque viola at the RNCM with Charivari Agreable. He was also a Collective was formed by four friends Pedrag Katanic and Annette Isserlis. participant in the Ann and Peter Law who met while studying in the Royal It was during her time in the UK that Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment Conservatoire of The Hague, bringing Marianne also found her love of Experience scheme. Rafael performed bravura and historical style to the trio chamber music and gained her Master in many of the most important music sonata repertoire of the seventeenth of Music in String Quartet Performance venues of the UK including the Royal and eighteenth centuries. with Distinction. Albert Hall, Royal Festival Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Barbican Hall, York Cathedral and St George’s Bristol under

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Aside from performing, Anton is a Tommie is a founding member and dedicated teacher and educator principal player of the Australian providing music lessons and ensemble Brandenburg Orchestra and co-directs coaching for students across Sydney. (with Marshall McGuire) the harp/ As a member of the Australian Chamber theorbo consort Ludovico’s Band. As Orchestra Foundations team, Anton a recitalist he has performed in all the has been giving free music lessons major Australian capital cities and at St Marys North Public School. This festivals and he gives regular concerts is an exciting program designed to and live broadcasts for the ABC. provide music lessons to students at a Tommie is highly sought after, both critical stage of their early development, as a soloist and as a continuo player, Anton is an Australian-born building lasting benefits across their Tommie, born in Bodafors, and performs regularly with the academic and creative skills. violoncellist specialising Sweden and based in Sydney Australian Chamber Orchestra, Opera in historically informed During COVID-19 restrictions, Anton since 1984, is regarded as Australia, Sydney Philharmonia, the performance practice. has learnt some new skills and now Australia’s leading specialist Sydney Symphony Orchestra, the regularly enjoys knitting and throwing a Song Company, Pinchgut Opera, the in lutes and early guitars. He obtained his Bachelor’s degree in frisbee in his local park. Orchestra of the Antipodes, Ensemble Battistin, Sydney Chamber Choir and Classical cello at the Eastman School He completed his studies at the The Marais Project amongst others. of Music in USA (2006) and Master’s State Conservatorium of Music Degree in Baroque cello at the Royal (Musikhögskolan) in Göteborg, Tommie appears on more than 50 Conservatoire of The Hague (2013), Sweden with a Master’s Degree albums including a solo CD of baroque where he simultaneously undertook in Performance (Soloist Diploma), lute and guitar music released on the studies in viola da gamba. He has studying under Josef Holecek. Tommie Swedish label Musica Rediviva. He performed regularly across Europe with was then awarded a Swiss Government lectures in Lute and Early Guitar at the leading period ensembles. Scholarship for further studies at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and is Since returning to Australia in 2018, Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, where his frequently approached by universities Anton has been a regular member of teachers included Eugen M. Dombois and conservatoriums around the the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, and Hopkinson Smith. country to teach and perform. Pinchgut Opera, Australian Haydn He has toured extensively in Sweden Ensemble, Australian Romantic and and has given performances and Classical Orchestra and is a core masterclasses in Scandinavia, Western member of the Muffat Collective. Europe, Malaysia, Singapore and Japan as well as tours of South America and Asia.

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The Brandenburg has collaborated The Australian proclaimed that with such acclaimed and dynamic “a concert with the Australian virtuosi as Andreas Scholl, Philippe Brandenburg Orchestra is like Jaroussky, Kristian Bezuidenhout, stepping back in time, as the sounds Emma Kirkby, Andreas Staier, of period instruments resurrect Elizabeth Wallfisch, Genevieve Lacey, Baroque and classical works with Andrew Manze and more. reverence and authority”. Through its annual subscription The Brandenburg’s 20 recordings with series in Sydney and Melbourne, ABC Classics include five ARIA Award the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra winners for Best Classical Album performs before a live audience (1998, 2001, 2005, 2009 and 2010). in excess of 58,000 people, and In 2015 the Australian Brandenburg hundreds of thousands more through Orchestra was the recipient of the national broadcasts on ABC Classic Sidney Myer Performing Arts Group FM. The Orchestra also has a regular Award and in 2016 the Helpmann commitment to performing in regional Award for Best Chamber Concert. Australia. Since 2003 the Australian Discover more at brandenburg.com.au Brandenburg Orchestra has been a member of the Major Performing Arts The Australian Brandenburg Comprising leading specialists in informed performance practice from Group, which comprises 28 flagship Orchestra, led by charismatic ...what stands out at concert all over Australia, the Brandenburg national arts organisations supported after concert is the impression Artistic Director Paul Dyer, performs using editions based on by the Australia Council for the Arts. celebrates the music of the original sources and instruments of The Orchestra began regular touring that this bunch of musicians is sixteenth, seventeenth and the period, breathing fresh life and to Queensland in 2015. having a really good time. They eighteenth centuries with vitality into Baroque and classical Since its beginning, the Brandenburg look at each other and smile and excellence, flair and joy. masterpieces – as though the music has has been popular with both audiences laugh... there’s a warmth and just sprung from the composer’s pen. and critics. In 1998 The Age proclaimed sense of fun not often associated the Brandenburg “had reached the The Orchestra’s name pays tribute to with classical performance. ranks of the world’s best period the Brandenburg Concertos of J.S. Bach, SYDNEY MORNING HERALD whose musical genius was central to the instrument orchestras”. In 2010 the Baroque area. Celebrating their 30th UK’s Gramophone Magazine declared Anniversary in 2019, the Brandenburg “the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra continues to deliver exhilarating is Australia’s finest period-instrument performances. ensemble. Under their inspiring musical director Paul Dyer, their vibrant concerts and recordings combine historical integrity with electrifying virtuosity and a passion for beauty”.

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and Gisele Bundchen and the 2014 Electric: The Experiment that is Academy Awards. currently in submission to festivals. Outside of the film and theatre world, Over 2019 and 2020, Oliver has worked Silvana was Head Designer at Catherine extensively directing and creating Martin homewares collaborating filmed performances of music and with Mokum Textiles, Designer Rugs, dance including work with Synergy, Anthropologie and Tiffany & Co to Taikoz, The Australian String Quartet, create memorable pieces featured Pinchgut Opera, Bandaluzia and The in homes and commercial properties Australian Brandenburg Orchestra. around the world. This includes the Oliver has been commissioned by a amazing new Faena hotel in Miami, number of Australian contemporary Silvana began her collaboration which was designed by the Bazmark Oliver Miller has had an eclectic music and arts organisations to with award-winning costume and Catherine Martin Homewares team. career as a filmmaker, cellist, create experimental films including and production designer Silvana has also been Guest Art Director pianist, composer, arranger, Read/Write Error (2018) for Ensemble Catherine Martin in 1997 after of the special Collectors Edition of sound engineer, music Offspring and Video Tunnels (2019) for completing a Bachelor of Design Vogue Living and was featured in producer, antique restorer, Backstage music. in Visual Communications Harper’s Bazaar as one of Australia’s and photographer, and is a In addition to composing music for his ‘new Influencers’ and named as one of own ensembles, Oliver also composes graduating with Honours. Australia’s top 100 Inspiring women by co-founder of the improvising ensembles The NOISE string music for film, and has recently Madison Magazine. composed scores for the successful In the twenty-three years since, Silvana quartet, Amphibious and has worked as Head Designer at She has also provided her design short films Friends of Mine (2020) and Bazmark Inq., working closely with talents to brands such as Prada, Bungarribee. What Do You See? (2018). Catherine and Baz Luhrmann to Chanel, Emirates, Vogue Living, Tiger Over the last ten years, Oliver has Oliver has performed extensively as create some of the most well-known Beer, Absolut Vodka, Semi Permanent, worked closely with composer Georges a cello player in Australia, including Australian films such as Moulin Rouge!, Facebook, General Pants, Eclipse, Lentz and architect Glenn Murcutt performing with the Australian Australia and most recently as Assistant McDonald’s, Squealing Pig Wines and developing the Cobar Sound Chapel, Brandenburg Orchestra and Sydney Costume Designer on The Great Gatsby Virgin Australia. a permanent sound installation currently Philharmonia. In late 2020, Oliver will where Silvana won her first APDG and Silvana was appointed as the Designer under construction in the Australian feature on a newly released album for AACTA award. The Great Gatsby also of the Emirates Marquee for the 2016 outback. the Cutlan String Project, titled Living. received an Academy Award and a Melbourne Cup and has most recently Early 2019 saw the completion In 2018, Oliver completed a Master BAFTA for Costume Design. created custom rug and textile designs of Electric, a twenty-three-minute of Arts Screen at the Australian Film In addition to her work on film, Silvana for the Sydney Children’s Hospital Gold short film focused on the world’s first Television and Radio School with also worked as Assistant Designer on Dinner. Her own homewares brand experiments with shock therapy in Italy research focused on the convergence award-winning theatre shows such as House of Heras specialises in wallpaper, in 1938. It screened in London as well of multi-mediality within film. He La Boheme on Broadway and Strictly linen and cushions as well as a rug as in Italy and Australia. During 2020, also completed a Bachelor of Music Ballroom the Musical as well as iconic range with Designer Rugs. Oliver has also created an Electric in cello performance at the Sydney ads for Chanel featuring Nicole Kidman www.houseofheras.com six-minute film off-shoot titled Conservatorium of Music.

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In today’s concert, Ayres & Graces, you will be hearing the Brandenburg Ensemble 3. Jacques-Martin Hotteterre (1674-1763) performing uplifting music from the English and French Baroque on our distinctive POURQUOY DOUX ROSSIGNOLS FROM AIRS ET BRUNETTES period instruments. Ayres & Graces is a journey through the diverse French and English musical (1632-1687) landscapes of the late seventeenth to early eighteenth centuries. The charm and 4. Jean-Baptiste Lully lyricism of folk music of the time is revealed, alongside the formality and grandeur LA JEUNE IRIS FROM TRIOS DE LA CHAMBRE DU ROI, LWV 35 of music written for theatres and lavish palaces in London, Paris and Versailles. Continuing with the pastoral theme are two airs from the sixteenth century, ‘Pourquoy doux Rossignols’ originally by Boesset and ‘La Jeune Iris’ by Lully. These particular airs et brunettes were so popular that over centuries many arrangements A glimpse into late seventeenth-century Paris. and variants of them were created. For this program, the Brandenburg Ensemble is performing an instrumental arrangement of ‘Pourquoy doux Rossignol’ by Jacques 1. Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632-1687) Hotteterre for solo flute and basso continuo, and Lully’s ‘La Jeune Iris’ with two PROLOGUE: OUVERTURE TO CADMUS ET HERMIONE, LWV 49 flutes and basso continuo, both made in imitation of the most beautiful instrument It is 1673 and along with the French nobility we have just witnessed the première of all – the human voice. of Jean-Baptiste Lully’s Cadmus et Hermione, the first ever tragédie en musique, a genre invented by the composer himself. 5. François Couperin (1668-1733) Our performance opens with a bold, majestic French ouverture, another musical form Lully pioneered in the 1650s made up of two parts – one slow in dotted AIR DE BACCANTES FROM HUITIÈME CONCERT DANS LE GOÛT THÉÂTRAL, LES GOÛTS-RÉUNIS rhythms, and one fast in fugal style. 6. Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632-1687) 2. Marin Marais (1656-1728) SOMMEIL AND ENTRÉE DES ZEPHYRS FROM ATYS, LWV 53 MUSETTES 28 AND 29 FROM PIÈCES DE VIOLE, LIVRE IV, SUITE NO. 4 IN A MINOR François Couperin’s ‘Air de Baccantes’ is a sprightly return to the music of the Now, from the court of Louis XIV we are travelling to the countryside where pastoral court, after which comes the lulling calming sleep of Lully’s ‘Sommeil’ only for us music – the more popular music of the people – can be heard. Marin Marais, a to be awoken by the rowdy ‘Entrée des Zéphyrs’ also from Atys. This work was student of Lully, was a master of the viol and wrote the two musettes performed in Lully’s masterpiece and was much beloved by King Louis XIV who would listen to it this program. A musette is in fact an instrument, a type of shepherd’s bagpipe. It endlessly. It became known as ‘the King’s opera’. represents the epitome of the desirable pastoral aesthetic.

7. Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632-1687) CHACONNE DES SCARAMOUCHES, TRIVELINS ET ARLEQUIN FROM LE BOURGEOIS GENTILHOMME, LWV 43 We complete our tour of French music of the period with the majestic chaconne from Lully’s comédie-ballet for the theatre, Le Bourgeous Gentilhomme. This musical form – combining theatre, comedy, incidental music and ballet – emerged through a collaboration with playwright Molière in 1670. Ironically, this large-scale work satirises the social climbing of the middle classes and the vanity of the aristocracy.

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A glimpse into London. 11. Medley of tunes from The Division Flute, The Division Violin, and The English Dancing Master (1657): Music flourished under the rule of the English King Charles II. Charles, known as the ‘Little Sun King’, was an absolute Francophile who wanted to bring everything that John Walsh (1665/6-1736) was in vogue in Paris and Versailles to England. Lully represented the pinnacle of ‘PAUL’S STEEPLE’ French music of the day and he was being emulated and copied in Charles’ court. Having seen Lully’s works in Paris, the English playwright Thomas Shadwell wanted (1630-1663) to recreate similar entertainment for the English public and enlisted the help of an Thomas Baltzar ‘JOHN COME KISS ME NOW’ eighteen-year-old rising star of the London stage, Henry Purcell.

John Playford (1623-1686/7) 8. Henry Purcell (1659-1695) ‘AN ITALIAN RANT’ CURTAIN TUNE ON A GROUND FROM TIMON OF ATHENS (1695), Z 632 The second half of our journey begins with a ‘Curtain Tune’ from the fourth act of After years of civil war and unrest, the weary English citizens needed a musical Shadwell’s semi-opera theatrical adaptation of Shakespeare’s Timon of Athens. diversion and Playford’s book became a bestseller, with eighteen editions The English semi-opera became a lavish form roughly equivalent to the French published by 1728. During this period many other musicians began compiling tradégie en musique or comédie-ballet, adapted to the taste of English audiences. and publishing similar collections, including John Walsh (The Division Flute) and Thomas Baltzar (The Division Violin). These three tunes, ‘Paul’s Steeple’, ‘John 9. John Playford (1623-1686/7) come kiss me now’ and ‘An Italian Rant’ are all variations over a ground. STRAWBERRIES AND CREAM FROM THE ENGLISH DANCING MASTER (1657) Eighteenth-century London was a very attractive and lucrative city for foreign We are swept from this scene into a gently lilting English Country Dance, with the musicians. Several Italian composers and virtuosi also emigrated to England, delightful name Strawberries and Cream. This was included in the very much- among them the masterful violinists Nicola Matteis and Francesco Geminiani. Both admired collection of popular tunes of the time, called The English Dancing Master. are credited with wowing the English public, eventually changing the English taste First published by John Playford in 1651, it consisted of 105 tunes and rules for how for violin playing away from the popular French style to a newer, more expressive to perform the country dances. Italian model.

10. Richarde Sumarte (15??-c.1630) 12. Francesco Geminiani (1687-1762) AULD BOB MORRICE FROM A TREATISE OF GOOD TASTE IN THE ART OF MUSICK LACHRYMAE FROM THE MANCHESTER GAMBA BOOK Our next stop features an old Scottish melody arranged by Geminiani, titled The evocative Lachrymae for solo viola da gamba comes from the Manchester ‘Auld Bob Morrice’. Infused with Italian-style variations, the music alternates Gamba Book, a remarkable seventeenth-century manuscript for a few reasons: between rustic lyricism and rapid runs and passagework. It supports Geminiani’s this document is the largest single source for solo viol music from the period, containing some 246 unique pieces in twenty-two different tunings; it also contains extraordinary reputation as a fiery virtuoso – his Italian pupils reportedly called him one of only two comprehensive lyra-viol ornament charts from the period. Very Il Furibondo (the Madman), because of his feverish rhythmic approach. little is known about its composer, Richarde Sumarte. His Lachrymae is emotionally charged displaying some rich harmony and dissonance. Written in three sections, it can be performed with or without a bow.

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13. George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) 14. George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) RECORDER SONATA IN B-FLAT MAJOR, HWV 377 EXCERPTS FROM BERENICE, REGINA D’EGITTO, HWV 38 Adagio Andante Allegro Larghetto The final two works in our journey are composed by Handel, the most well-known Gigue of foreign musicians to settle in London. Firstly, you will hear the Adagio and We complete our evening at the Covent Garden Theatre on 18 May 1737, where Allegro from Handel’s Recorder Sonata in B-flat major, probably written between amongst the mainly aristocratic public we are here to watch the première of 1724 and 1726, which comes to us from the Fitzwilliam Museum. The museum Berenice, regina d’Egitto, or Berenice, Queen of Egypt. There were only four acquired the manuscript among other works following the death of a certain John performances exacerbating the already disastrous financial plight of the Covent Christopher Smith (born Johann Christoph Schmidt). A little-known figure, Smith Garden Company. Berenice was a resounding failure as Handel’s London public was the son of Handel’s first copyist in London, known to the celebrated composer were already tiring of Italian opera by 1737. It was to be the last of Handel’s operas from Halle before he left Germany. to have its première at the Covent Garden Theatre. John Christopher Smith Sr brought his family to London around 1720 to continue It seems that Handel did not direct the orchestra as was intended, but rather his work with Handel. Eventually his son followed in his father’s footsteps and the duty was handed over to his assistant. Handel’s health had suffered its first would remain Handel’s secretary and amanuensis until Handel’s death. major setback during the spring of 1737. He had been overworking in his attempts to build an audience in the face of the challenge presented by the Opera of the Nobility – rivals resident at his old opera house, the King’s Theatre in Haymarket. Despite this initial failure, today audiences can share the “inexpressible delight” experienced by the Earl of Shaftesbury when he attended a rehearsal of Berenice. The Andante, Larghetto and Gigue are delightful orchestral movements taken from the overture, with which our journey ends.

Program notes © Melissa Farrow, Joanna Butler & Hugh Ronzani, 2020

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ADMINISTRATION Since 1989 the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra 02 9231 9000 has been bringing the finest Baroque and early BOX OFFICE 02 8256 2222 music to audiences across the country.

WEBSITE cityrecitalhall.com Together with our supporters, we are Our Philanthropy team warmly welcomes the committed to ensuring the Brandenburg opportunity to start a conversation about the and early music continue to flourish. role the orchestra has played in your life and the impact a gift or bequest to the Foundation Ayres & Graces is filmed with the support of our partners In 2006, the Brandenburg Foundation was can make on the future of the orchestra and at City Recital Hall and Technical Direction Company. formed with the aim of building important funds Baroque music. to shape and safeguard the future of Baroque music in Australia. FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT Andrew Brook Philanthropy Manager If the orchestra has enriched your life, you may Phone: 02 9328 7581 wish to acknowledge your part in our story by Email: [email protected] making a one-off donation or leaving a gift to the Foundation in your Will. In supporting the Foundation, you will be ensuring that future generations can experience a community enriched with the vibrancy of Baroque and early music.

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