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Schubert Symphony No.8 Unfinished

INTERVAL Das Lied von der Erde

Running time: 2 hours, including 20-minute interval

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3 MELBOURNE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Established in 1906, the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra (MSO) is 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 SIR ANDREW DAVIS live performances, recordings, TV and CONDUCTOR radio broadcasts and live streaming. Sir Andrew Davis is Music Director As a truly global orchestra, the MSO and Principal Conductor of the collaborates with guest artists and arts Lyric Opera of Chicago and Chief organisations from across the world. Its Conductor of the Melbourne Symphony international audiences include China, Orchestra. In a career spanning over where the MSO performed in 2016 and 40 years, he has been the musical Europe where the MSO toured in 2014. and artistic leader at several of the The MSO performs a variety of world's most distinguished opera concerts ranging from core classical and symphonic institutions, including performances at its home, Hamer Hall the BBC Symphony Orchestra at Arts Centre Melbourne, to its annual (1991-2004), Glyndebourne Festival free concerts at Melbourne’s largest Opera (1988-2000), and the Toronto outdoor venue, the Sidney Myer Music Symphony Orchestra (1975-1988). He Bowl. The MSO also delivers innovative recently received the honorary title of and engaging programs to audiences Conductor Emeritus from the Royal of all ages through its Education and Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Outreach initiatives. One of today's most recognised and The MSO also works with Associate acclaimed conductors, Sir Andrew Conductor, Benjamin Northey, and has conducted virtually all the world's the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra major orchestras, opera companies, and Chorus, as well as with such eminent festivals. Born in 1944 in Hertfordshire, recent guest conductors as Thomas England, Sir Andrew studied at Ades, John Adams, , Charles King’s College, Cambridge, where he Dutoit, Jakub Hrůša, Markus Stenz and was an organ scholar before taking Simone Young. It has also collaborated up . His wide-ranging with non-classical musicians including repertoire encompasses the Baroque to Nick Cave, Sting, Tim Minchin, contemporary, and his vast conducting Ben Folds, DJ Jeff Mills and Flight credits span the symphonic, operatic Facilities. and choral worlds. In 1992 Maestro Davis was made a Commander of the British Empire, and in 1999 he was made a Knight Bachelor in the New Year Honours List. 4 Image courtesy Dario Acosta Photography CATHERINE WYN-ROGERS STUART SKELTON MEZZO-SOPRANO TENOR Catherine Wyn-Rogers has performed Winner of the 2014 International Opera in concert with conductors such Awards for Best Male Singer and 2 as , Gennady Helpmann Awards, Stuart Skelton’s Rozhdestvensky, Sir Charles repertoire encompasses roles from Mackerras, Zubin Mehta, Sir Roger Wagner's Lohengrin, Parsifal, Rienzi, Norrington and Sir Andrew Davis, Siegmund and Erik to Strauss’s and appeared at festivals such as Kaiser and Bacchus, Janacek’s Laca, the BBC Proms, Aldeburgh, and the Saint-Saens’ , Beethoven's Three Choirs. Recordings include Florestan and Britten’s Peter Grimes. The Dream of Gerontius with Vernon He appears regularly on the leading Handley, Mozart’s Vespers with Trevor concert and operatic stages of the world, Pinnock, Peter Grimes with the London including Berlin, London, Los Angeles, Symphony and Sir , and Munich, Paris, Tokyo and Vienna Graham Johnson’s Complete Schubert with orchestras including the Berlin Edition for Hyperion. Philharmonic, Boston Symphony, L.A She began an ongoing relationship Philharmonic, London Symphony, Vienna with House, Covent Philharmonic and at the BBC Proms. Garden in 1989 as Schwertleite in Die He has sung with such acclaimed Walküre. Catherine Wyn-Rogers has conductors as Vladimir Ashkenazy, also been a regular guest at Bavarian , Jiři Bèlohlavek, State Opera and worked at Scottish , Sir Andrew Davis, Opera, La Scala, the Semper Opera Christoph von Dohnanyi, Mariss Jansons, Dresden and Houston Grand Opera, Philippe Jordan, , Lorin among others. Recent highlights have Maazel, Sir , Sir included a new production of Frank and Simone Young. Martin’s Le vin herbé with Welsh National Opera, Barber’s Vanessa with Recent performances have included the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester, Tristan (Tristan und Isolde) for the and Schoenberg’s Moses und Aron in Metropolitan Opera, English National Madrid. Future performances include Opera, and at the Baden-Baden Festival Messiah with the London Handel with the , Lohengrin Festival Orchestra and Peter Grimes at for Opéra National de Paris, Laca the Edinburgh Festival. (Jenůfa) for the .

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FRANZ SCHUBERT have encouraged him to concentrate (1797–1828) on songs. It is possible, though we can’t know, that he had begun to suffer Symphony No.8 in B minor, from the disease that would kill him. D759 Unfinished Allegro moderato While there have been attempts to complete the and then Andante con moto tack on a bit of the incidental music Schubert made something of a habit of to Rosamunde by way of finale, the not finishing ; the B minor piece arguably works best as a two- work is one of four of which sections movement ‘torso’. In many respects or whole movements were begun it is unusual for its time. B minor, for and then abandoned at various times, instance, was not a common key for beginning in 1811, over Schubert's life. orchestral music (certain keys suiting In the case of the B minor Symphony certain instruments, especially brass, though, the two movements we better than others) and an opening have were completed in full, and movement in 3/4 was relatively there exists a 20-bar sketch for the unusual (Beethoven’s Third and Eighth scherzo. These were composed in Symphonies are exceptions). Then October 1822, at a time when the there is the mood created by deft, and 25-year-old Schubert was enjoying ‘unclassical’, touches of orchestration: the first intimations of success. His the brooding bass-register melody at vocal works – solo and part-songs – the start, answered by the shimmer were enjoying public performances, of higher strings; the risky (then as and he was actually earning decent now) doubling of and to fees from the publication of various create the distinctive timbre of the first songs beginning with Erlkönig and theme; and the sudden retraction of Gretchen am Spinnrade. Other lavish to simple textures – a single note large-scale works from this time or throbbing syncopation, as in the include the opera Alfonso und transition to the ’s second theme. Estrella and the Mass in A flat. Schubert is quite capable of the sort of contrapuntal elaboration that we might There are several possible explanations find in a work of Mozart, Haydn or his for Schubert leaving the work aside. teacher Salieri, but in his often terse He may have seen little opportunity and highly gestural rhetoric we can for performance of symphonic music, hear his assimilation of the lessons of though he did go on to complete the Beethoven. ‘Great’ Symphony. He wanted to pursue opera composition, though Marked Andante con moto, the second such dreams would go unfulfilled. The movement is hardly slow, and in its aesthetic and social milieu of poets and range from weightless lyricism to the singers in which Schubert mixed may hammering of short motifs, from lucid

6 textures to passages of intricate counterpoint, it provides a kind of (1860–1911) mirror to the opening movement. Das Lied von der Erde Its final achievement of peace in (The Song of the Earth) a quietly glowing texture seems a Symphony for (or ), hard act to follow, even if Schubert tenor and orchestra after Hans did start on a scherzo. Perhaps, as Bethge’s Die Chinesische Flöte conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt (The Chinese Flute) is convinced, the piece remained unfinished because ‘the form is Das Trinklied vom Jammer der Erde perfect; there is nothing more to say’. (The Drinking Song of the Earth’s Sorrow)

© Gordon Kerry 2016 Der Einsame im Herbst (The Lonely Man in Autumn) The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra first performed this symphony on 15 April 1939 under conductor Bernard Von der Jugend (Of Youth) Heinze, and most recently on 22 April 2016 with Von der Schönheit (Of Beauty) Benjamin Northey. Der Trunkene im Frühling (The Drunken Man in Spring) Der Abschie (The Farewell)

Catherine Wyn-Rogers mezzo-soprano Stuart Skelton tenor

Bruno Walter, who had conducted the world premiere of Das Lied von der Erde after the ’s death in 1911, gave what was by all accounts a great performance of it at the 1947 Edinburgh Festival. The work ends with one of the great cathartic moments in music: the quiet repetition of the word ‘ewig’ (for ever) as the music passes into silence in a haze of bells and plucked sounds. The contralto soloist on that occasion, the incomparable , was so overcome by emotion that she was unable to sing the final words without weeping. In response to Ferrier’s apologies for her ‘unprofessional’ behaviour, Walter is supposed to have said, ‘My dear Miss Ferrier, if we were all as professional as you we would all be in tears.’ This

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was not mere gallantry: Walter knew an intense love of the physical world the power of this music. A respected through images of wine, love, the colleague of Mahler’s, it was he that moon and everyday life, and an acute the composer had asked of the work, sense of our limited time in that world. ‘Is it at all bearable? Will it drive people Scholar Michael Kennedy calls it to do away with themselves?’ Mahler’s ‘supreme masterpiece…filled with indefinable sadness and longing This, in turn, was not mere Romantic yet ultimately it is not depressing’. hyperbole. At the beginning of 1907 Mahler had been diagnosed with a The Song of the Earth was originally heart condition which had worsened conceived as a but as significantly over the intervening Adorno has said, ‘symphonic expansion months. In addition to this, and the bursts the limits of the song’, hence its stress of the machinations which final designation as a symphony. Alma caused him to resign as Director of Mahler wrote in her often unreliable the Vienna Opera, his four-year-old memoirs that ‘at first [Mahler] wrote daughter died of scarlet fever and The Song of the Earth as the ninth, diphtheria; as the coffin was being but crossed the number out’, and, lifted into the cortege ’s thinking of Beethoven and Bruckner mother suffered a heart attack, and in particular, ‘it was a superstition Alma herself soon suffered emotional of Mahler’s that no great writer of prostration under the strain. Mahler symphonies got beyond his ninth.’ continued to work and to plan for the Michael Kennedy accepts this theory future, but it is hard to imagine that ‘with some reluctance and scepticism the experiences didn’t concentrate his because Mahler…is likely to have mind somewhat. realised that although The Song of the Earth is symphonic, it stands apart In 1907, Mahler received a copy of from the rest of the series’. Formally, Die Chinesische Flöte (The Chinese though, the work recalls Mahler’s Third Flute) by Hans Bethge (1876-1946). Symphony in its use of six movements Bethge’s renditions of 83 Chinese of which the last is a long Adagio poems were somewhat removed from preceded by shorter intermezzos. their source, being German versions of French translations. Furthermore, The first song, The Drinking Song of Mahler made significant alterations the Earth’s Sorrow, wastes no time and interpolations of his own to in signalling the power and subtlety the seven poems he chose to set. of Mahler’s art. Within the first few Neither poetry nor music claims to be bars we hear distinctive touches in authentically Chinese; philosopher the scoring – a muscular fanfare from Theodor Adorno argued that the work the horns, flutter-tonguing in the ‘does not take itself literally but grows flutes, and the audacious use of the eloquent through inauthenticity’. tenor’s high register at full volume. Broadly speaking, the piece expresses The text, based on a poem by the

8 8th-century Li-Tai-Po, laments that in sky-lake’. A second section reduces the face of the eternity of the earth the orchestral sound to almost nothing and sky we have less than a hundred as night falls and the poet waits for years each to enjoy it, so should do his friend to whom he must bid a last so with wine and music; impending farewell. To represent the poet’s ‘lute’ death is unforgettably represented Mahler introduces a rare visitor to the by the image of an ape howling in a orchestra, the , used in a way graveyard. which manages to be self-consciously exotic without being kitsch. This leads The Lonely Man in Autumn, after a to an ecstatic section as the poet poem by Chang-Tsi, a contemporary anticipates his friend’s arrival. The of Li-Tai-Po, begins with a three-note orchestra then plays a long passage motif from the oboe which pervades without the singer, which is solemn the whole work. The loneliness of the and funereal – perhaps depicting the poet, and his yearning for spring or friend’s imminent and final journey. death, is memorably reflected in the music which, as Adorno puts it, has the The text of the final section is after a colour of ‘old gold’. poem by . The friend arrives and takes a ritual farewell drink. He Of Youth is the first of the three explains that fortune has not been short intermezzos which bridge the kind, and that he must ride in search extended slow movements. With its of his homeland. A whole-tone chord, imagery of mirror images, Adorno reminiscent of Debussy, seems to described it as a song ‘which ends like dissolve in the air, introducing the a transparent mirage’. overwhelming beauty of the work’s Of Beauty presents a tableau of young final moments, where ‘the dear earth women picking flowers and young men everywhere blooms in spring’ with riding horses. the promise of blue skies. These elements, such a insult to the mortality The ‘drunken man’ of the fifth song is of the poet in the first song, take on perhaps the same one that Li-Tai-Po a comforting and redemptive quality. introduced in the first, though having Adorno said that the music ‘weeps decided that life is but a dream, he without reason like one overcome by is now a happier drunk. In a central remembrance; no weeping had more episode he hears a bird singing reason’. No wonder Kathleen Ferrier (represented by solo and piccolo) wept too. that spring has come in the night, but no matter: he’ll just drink some more Abridged from a note by Gordon Kerry © 2002 and then sleep. The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra first performed Das Lied von der Erde on 26 November 1960 with The Farewell sets two poems. Mong- conductor Henry Krips and soloists Lauris Elms and Ken Neate. The Orchestra most recently Kao-Yen’s describes the beauties of performed it in April 1990 under Jorge Mester, with evening, the moon ‘floating on the blue Elizabeth Campbell and Thomas Edmonds.

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