HAYDN’S CREATION

15–17 JUNE 2017

CONCERT PROGRAM ARTISTS Symphony Orchestra Sir Andrew Davis conductor Siobhan Stagg soprano (Gabriel, Eva) Shakira Tsindos mezzo soprano Andrew Staples tenor (Uriel) Neal Davies bass (Raphael, Adam) Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Chorus Warren Trevelyan-Jones guest chorus master

REPERTOIRE Haydn

Running time: 2 hours including 20-minute interval after Part II

In consideration of your fellow patrons, the MSO thanks you for dimming the mso.com.au lighting on your mobile phone. (03) 9929 9600 MELBOURNE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Established in 1906, the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra (MSO) is ’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 and As a truly global orchestra, the MSO Principal Conductor of the Lyric Opera collaborates with guest artists and arts of Chicago and Chief Conductor of organisations from across the world. Its the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. international audiences include China, In a career spanning over 40 years, where the MSO performed in 2016 and he has been the musical and artistic Europe where the MSO toured in 2014. leader at several of the world's most The MSO performs a variety of distinguished opera and symphonic concerts ranging from core classical institutions, including the BBC performances at its home, Hamer Hall Symphony Orchestra (1991-2004), at Arts Centre Melbourne, to its annual Glyndebourne Festival Opera (1988- free concerts at Melbourne’s largest 2000), and the Toronto Symphony outdoor venue, the Sidney Myer Music Orchestra (1975-1988). Bowl. The MSO also delivers innovative One of today's most recognised and and engaging programs to audiences acclaimed conductors, Sir Andrew has of all ages through its Education and conducted virtually all the world's Outreach initiatives. major orchestras, opera companies, The MSO also works with Associate and festivals. Born in 1944 in Conductor, Benjamin Northey, and Hertfordshire, England, Sir Andrew the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra studied at King’s College, Cambridge, Chorus, as well as with such eminent where he was an organ scholar before recent guest conductors as Thomas taking up conducting. His wide-ranging Ades, John Adams, Tan Dun, repertoire encompasses the Baroque to Charles Dutoit, Jakub Hrůša, Mark contemporary, and his vast conducting Wigglesworth, Markus Stenz and credits span the symphonic, operatic Simone Young. It has also collaborated and choral worlds. with non-classical musicians including In 1992 Maestro Davis was made a Burt Bacharach, Nick Cave, Sting, Tim Commander of the British Empire, and Minchin, Ben Folds, DJ Jeff Mills and in 1999 he was made a Knight Bachelor Flight Facilities. in the New Year Honours List. He has been awarded an honorary doctorate by Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois. Image courtesy Dario Acosta Photography 3 SIOBHAN STAGG ANDREW STAPLES SOPRANO TENOR With a voice of ‘ravishing tone’ and Andrew Staples sang as a chorister ‘radiant’ presence (), Siobhan in St Paul’s Cathedral before Stagg is establishing a reputation in winning a Choral Scholarship to Europe and Australia as a young singer King’s College Cambridge, where of enormous potential. he gained a degree in Music. Siobhan joined the Deutsche Oper His engagements include concerts with Berlin as young artist in 2013/14, the Berlin and Vienna Philharmonic debuting as Woglinde in Wagner’s Ring Orchestras, the Akademisten Berlin, with Sir . Shortly after, the Bavarian Radio Symphony, and the Siobhan played Cordelia (Reimann’s Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment Lear) with Simone Young at the with Sir Simon Rattle; and the Hamburg State Opera, and sang Dede Swedish Radio and London Symphony (Bernstein’s Quiet Place) with Kent Orchestra with Daniel Harding. Nagano and Sophie (Werther) with He made his Royal Opera House Donald Runnicles. In 2015 Siobhan debut as Jacquino (Fidelio), returning sang Brahms’ with the for Flamand (Capriccio), Tamino Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and (Die Zauberflöte), Artabenes (Arne’s Christian Thielemann, and stepped Artaxerxes) and Narraboth (Salome), into the title role of Orpheus for and sang Belfiore (La Finta Giardiniera) the Royal Opera House. Highlights for the National Theatre, Prague of 2016 included the BBC Proms and Don Ottavio (Don Giovanni) (Royal Albert Hall), Roberto Alagna’s for the Salzburger Festspiele. Australian tour, Morgana (Alcina) in Geneva, Sophie (Rosenkavalier) In concert he appears with the and Gilda (Rigoletto) in Berlin. Swedish Radio Orchestra, the Bavarian Radio Symphony and the Berlin In 2017 Siobhan sings Marguerite Philharmonic Orchestra with Daniel (Les Huguenots) in Berlin, Mozart’s Harding, the BBC Symphony Orchestra Mass in C Minor with Queensland and Semyon Bychkov, the London Symphony, Handel’s Ode to St Symphony Orchestra and Simon Cecilia’s Day with Auckland Rattle, and returns to the Philadelphia Philharmonia and The Creation at Orchestra with Yannick Nézet-Séguin. the Haydn Festival in Vienna.

4 MELBOURNE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 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 NEAL DAVIES inspiring repertoire from the canon, BASS as well as once again presenting its Winner of the Lieder Prize at the own a cappella performances. 1991 Cardiff Singer of the World, The MSO Chorus sings with the Neal Davies has since appeared with finest conductors, including Sir the Royal Opera, Covent Garden, Andrew Davis, Edward Gardner, Mark English National Opera, Scottish Wigglesworth, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Opera and Welsh National Opera. He Masaaki Suzuki and Manfred Honeck, is a regular guest at the Edinburgh and is committed to developing Festival and the BBC Proms, and and performing new Australian has taken part in notable recordings and international choral repertoire. of Handel's , Saul and Commissions include Brett Dean’s Katz for DG Archiv with Paul und Spatz, Ross Edwards’ Mountain McCreesh and the Gabrieli Consort. Chant, and Paul Stanhope’s Exile Recent engagements include Handel’s Lamentations, and the Chorus has also Belshazzar under René Jacobs, premiered works by such composers Agrippina for the Deutsche Staatsoper, as James MacMillan, Arvo Pärt, Hans Berlin, Ko-Ko (The Mikado) for the Werner Henze, and Pēteris Vasks. Lyric Opera of Chicago, Handel’s Recordings by the MSO Chorus with Concerto Köln and have received critical acclaim. It Bottom (A Midsummer Night’s Dream) has performed across Brazil, in for Garsington Opera. With William Kuala Lumpur with the Malaysian Christie and Les Arts Florissants, Philharmonic Orchestra, with The Neal has sung in Theodora (Paris and Australian Ballet, Symphony Salzburg) and in the Aix-en-Provence Orchestra, at the AFL Grand Final Festival production of Charpentier’s and at Anzac Day commemorative David et Jonathas (Aix, Edinburgh ceremonies. and New York), and he sang Valens in a tour of Theodora with The For these performances of The English Concert and Harry Bicket. Creation, the MSO Chorus is led by Warren Trevelyan-Jones, Neal recently sang the Traveller in Head of Music at St James’, King the Barbican Centre production Street in Sydney and one of the of Curlew River at St Giles, leading choral conductors and Cripplegate, which will tour to New choir trainers in Australia. York and California this season. 5 PROGRAM NOTES

JOSEPH HAYDN of connoisseurs, but reaching a vast (1732–1809) crowd of ordinary music lovers.

The Creation, Hob. XXI: 2 Haydn’s tour manager, Johann Text by Gottfried van Swieten, Salomon, must have seen how English text revised by Paul McCreesh impressed the composer was by his Handel experience: just as Haydn was Haydn’s The Creation is a masterpiece leaving London for the second time, and a miracle. Salomon handed him a libretto that had originally been written for Handel As a masterwork, few would dispute himself. Nobody could remember who its qualifications: exquisitely beautiful had written it, but certainly Handel had arias, brilliant use of orchestral colours, never composed any music for it. The and choruses bursting with delight, subject was the creation of the world. all on a scale both epic and intimate. Would Haydn be interested in using it What makes it miraculous is that it was for an oratorio of his own? created, like the world it describes, from nothing. Haydn most definitely was. But his English wasn’t great, so he turned to Haydn in 1797 was an international his friend Baron Gottfried van Swieten, musical superstar. The composer who created a German version based who for more than a decade had very closely on the original English been thrilling Europe with his (which in turn drew very heavily on ground-breaking symphonies and the Biblical books of Genesis and the string quartets while confined to his Psalms, and on Milton’s poem Paradise employers’ palace at Eszterháza, in Lost). After Haydn had written the the backwoods of Hungary, had at music, van Swieten then translated last appeared in the flesh, with two the text back into English in a version immensely successful trips to London. that would fit the same rhythms as the Haydn returned from his London German – making it the first large- seasons a wealthy man. But money scale work in music history to be was not all he had acquired: he published with a bilingual text. had experienced for the first time Making ‘singable’ translations is always the oratorios of Handel – not just a difficult task, and van Swieten’s the music, but the overwhelming English, though much better than emotional effect of Messiah and Haydn’s, was by no means perfect, Israel in Egypt, performed in resulting in some very strange turns of Westminster Abbey by more than 1000 phrase (‘ye finny tribes’, for fish, and musicians, and not for a small circle Adam’s forehead described as ‘the

6 large and arched front sublime’) and the end of the 18th century had made some German word order that doesn’t them much more reliable members work in English.* of the orchestra, and so on the Sixth Day, flute and bassoon together evoke The real challenge of setting the text to a tranquil scene of cattle grazing music, though, was the subject matter on the meadows; trombone and itself – there is basically no story, in contrabassoon add their earth-shaking any kind of dramatic sense. Perhaps resonances to the roar of the ‘tawny this is why Handel had let this libretto lion’; and there is a special magic in lie: it’s all good news. Three angels, Haydn’s use of the low strings to take Raphael, Gabriel and Uriel, tell how us down into the ‘watery deep’ on the over the course of six days God creates Fifth Day. heaven and earth and all living things – but stopping before Adam and Eve The one place in the story where get expelled from Paradise. Nothing something decisive does happen is goes wrong here, and nobody gets right at the beginning, and here Haydn hurt. And this is where Haydn works gives us a coup de théâtre which his miracle: out of a story with no real amazed and delighted his audiences drama in it, which does nothing but get to the point where the music couldn’t happier and happier, Haydn creates continue for the thunderous applause. music that has direction and shape. He begins with an extended musical reflection of the chaos before the There is, of course, plenty of scope Creation: harmonies that don’t resolve for musical word painting, and as we expect, unexpected surges Haydn takes full advantage of every of sound, individual instruments opportunity. We hear the surging of attempting fragments of melodies. And the sea in Raphael’s aria ‘Rolling in then, when God achieves his first act foaming billows’ on the Third Day; of creation by calling Light into being, the powerful strokes of the eagle’s Haydn dazzles our ears with a glorious wings and trilling of the nightingale in explosion of sound which is in fact the Gabriel’s aria ‘On mighty pens’ on the simplest of musical resources: a simple Fifth Day; and the ‘sudden leaps’ of the (though very large) C major chord. ‘flexible tiger’ in Raphael’s recitative ‘Straight opening her fertile womb’ on The Creation was first performed the Sixth Day. in April 1798 in Vienna, in a private performance for Haydn’s patron One of the tools that Haydn (more so Prince Joseph von Schwarzenberg than Handel) was able to use was the and his guests; thirty police officers orchestra itself. Developments in the had to be called to hold back the construction of wind instruments at

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crowds trying to get in. At the first public performance, in March 1799, the theatre was completely full three hours before the start of the concert. In London the following year, poor Salomon missed out on giving the English premiere performance when a rival impresario managed to get hold of a copy of the score and arrange for copies to be made of parts for 120 performers, all in less than one week – this in the days before photocopiers!

In 1802, amidst all this acclaim, Haydn recalled his experience of writing The Creation: ‘Often, when I was struggling with all kinds of obstacles … a secret voice whispered to me: “There are so few happy and contented people in this world; sorrow and grief follow them everywhere; perhaps your labour will become a source from which the careworn … will for a while derive peace and refreshment.”’ May it be so here, and always.

Natalie Shea © 2016

The first Melbourne performance of Haydn’s The Creation took place in St Paul’s Cathedral on 1 July 1941 under the direction of Dr A.E. Floyd; the soloists were Thea Philips, William Herbert and Albert Loveless. The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra last performed the work in June 2011 with conductor Bernard Labadie and Lydia Teuscher, Dimity Shepard, Tilman Lichdi, Tim Mirfin and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Chorus.

* Tonight’s performance features Baron Gottfried van Swieten’s translation, revised by Paul McCreesh in 2009 (so don’t expect to hear any ‘large and arched front sublimes'). This edition is used with kind permission of the Gabrieli Consort and Players.

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