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Brahms's Double Concerto BRAHMS’S DOUBLE CONCERTO ACO HomeCasts | 7 May 2020 HOMECASTS: ACO IN CONCERT 2 Inside you’ll find features and interviews that shine a spotlight on our players and the music you are about to hear. Enjoy the read. INSIDE: Welcome Wesfarmers Arts The Double Concerto From the ACO’s Managing A message from our Your five-minute read Director Richard Evans ACO HomeCasts Partner on the music p.3 p.5 p.8 Musical Accents ACO HomeCasts Acknowledgments Andrew Ford on What’s coming up in The ACO thanks our nationalism in music our digital season generous supporters p.13 p.30 p.33 AUSTRALIAN CHAMBER ORCHESTRA 3 MANAGING DIRECTOR WELCOME Thank you for joining us for our ACO In Concert stream of Brahms’s Double Concerto, which was filmed live at our ‘Brahms & Dvorˇák’ concert at the Sydney Opera House in 2019. Whilst we are unable to join you in the concert hall as we usually would, we are committed to providing you with innovative and inspirational music experiences through our digital season, ACO HomeCasts. This concert is one of many that we will be bringing to you over the coming months, along with our Home to Home videos (direct from the homes of our musicians), our education videos and podcasts, musician-curated Spotify playlists, and so much more. If you haven’t yet had the chance to explore ACO HomeCasts, I encourage you to visit our website to delve into some of our most recent releases and to discover what’s coming up. The COVID-19 crisis is devastating the economic and performance fabric of our national arts sector. We, like many others, find ourselves in a situation where our very existence is threatened while a timeframe for a return to the stage remains uncertain. To ensure our survival through these unprecedented challenges, if you are in a position to do so, please consider making a tax- deductible donation to the ACO and our digital season. We are extremely grateful to you all for the steadfast support we have received, particularly those who have so generously donated back the value of your tickets to cancelled performances or who have already made financial donations to the Orchestra. This support is critical to our future and it is your direct messages of love and appreciation that are keeping our spirits high in these uncertain times. On behalf of Richard Tognetti, myself, and all at the ACO, we thank our partner Wesfarmers Arts for their longstanding support of the ACO, which they have extended to our HomeCasts season and our In Concert series. We are indebted to Wesfarmers Arts for their ongoing financial and organisational support which is proving to be a cornerstone of our existence through this extremely challenging period. I hope that you enjoy this performance; we are counting the days until we can join you all in the concert hall once again. Richard Evans Managing Director Join the conversation #ACOHomeCasts aco.com.au/acohomecasts AUSTRALIAN CHAMBER ORCHESTRA 1341 F WES M O C . S OGER R N Y W ON R B : N G DESI N O T G HIN T R O W N I ITL A C : O T O PH K YU A H A Y A M : L A R MU 1341_WESF - Arts Sponsorship Campaign 2014 - ACO_Program Ad_150x240mm_V2.indd 1 5/02/2015 10:36:03 AM 5 PARTNER WELCOME Welcome to this inspirational series, ACO in Concert, which forms part of HomeCasts, proudly presented by Wesfarmers Arts. Perhaps now more than ever, as we live and work in the isolation of our homes, we all need the opportunity to take moments out of our day to come together and reflect on what unites and inspires us as individuals and as communities. And what better way to do this than to listen to the beauty that only an orchestra can create. Our wonderful, long-standing arts partner, the Australian Chamber Orchestra, lives and breathes the world of music and – undaunted by this unfamiliar era of social distancing - they’re at the forefront of Australian art and culture, working alongside digital artists and filmmakers in increasingly innovative ways, to take their exceptional performances to the world through digital streaming. After more than two decades of collaboration with the ACO, we’re delighted to continue to support the superb musicians of this world-acclaimed orchestra as they keep their music alive during these unchartered social and economic times. We hope you enjoy this HomeCast series in the comfort of your home, and until we can all join the musicians in the concert hall again, stay safe everyone. HomeCasts: ACO in Concert Rob Scott Managing Director Wesfarmers AUSTRALIAN CHAMBER ORCHESTRA SUPPORT US Please consider supporting the ACO and our free digital season with a tax-deductible donation. We hope you enjoy ACO HomeCasts until it is safe for us to join you in a concert hall. For more information please call Katie Henebery (02) 8274 3803 or visit aco.com.au/donate 7 PROGRAM Richard Tognetti Director and Violin Timo-Veikko Valve Cello Australian Chamber Orchestra mins BRAHMS Concerto for Violin and Cello in A minor, Op.102 “Double Concerto” 34 I. Allegro II. Andante III. Vivace non troppo This performance was filmed live at the Sydney Opera House on Sunday 17 November 2019. AUSTRALIAN CHAMBER ORCHESTRA 8 PROGRAM IN SHORT Johannes Brahms (1833–1897) Concerto for Violin and Cello in A minor, Op.102 “Double Concerto” The Double Concerto in A minor is Brahms’s final concerto and the last of his major orchestral works, which included four symphonies, two concertos for solo piano, and a concerto for solo violin. Brahms’s violin works are closely connected to his relationship with the great violinist Joseph Joachim, the leading virtuoso of the day. Just as Brahms ran his piano works past Clara Schumann for her criticism and advice, so too did he seek the advice of Joachim, to whom he dedicated his violin concerto of 1878. This concerto for violin and cello of 1887 is even more closely connected to Joachim than the violin concerto. The two men had fallen out several years earlier: Joachim had come to believe that his wife, Amalie, was cheating on him with Brahms’s publisher, Fritz Simrock. During an ugly divorce proceeding, Brahms publicly defended Amalie’s innocence, and the two men, once warm friends, did not speak for several years. AUSTRALIAN CHAMBER ORCHESTRA 9 Joachim, not one to eschew good music, continued to play Brahms’s compositions through these years of estrangement. On receiving the Double Concerto, commissioned by the cellist Robert Hausmann, Joachim relented, and decided to meet Brahms once again. Clara Schumann recognised the peace offering immediately: “It is a thoroughly original work. This concerto is, in a sense, a gesture of reconciliation – Joachim and Brahms have spoken to each other again for the first time in years.” The concerto received its premiere in Cologne on 18 October 1887 with Joachim and Hausmann as soloists, and Brahms himself conducting. The idea of friendship is clear in the concerto’s many extended duet passages and cadenzas. Brahms even alludes to his friend thematically: F-A-E, based on Joachim’s life motto “Frei, aber einsam” (free but lonely), a sentiment the two friends shared. In the Gypsy/Hungarian finale, the two friends yield only 60 of the 340 bars of music to the orchestra. Despite Brahms’s good intentions, friends and critics (including Clara Schumann) maintained reservations about the concerto. Fortunately, history has proven them wrong, and the work remains a beloved showpiece for its two brilliant soloists. AUSTRALIAN CHAMBER ORCHESTRA 10 MUSICIANS The musicians on stage for this performance. Ilya Isakovich Violin Helena Rathbone Principal Violin Ilya plays his own 1600 Marcin Groblicz violin Helena plays a 1759 made in Poland. His Giovanni Battista Aiko Goto Chair is sponsored Guadagnini violin Violin by Meg Meldrum. kindly on loan from Aiko plays her own French the Commonwealth violin by Jean-Baptiste Bank Group. Her Vuillaume. Her Chair is Chair is sponsored by sponsored by Anthony & Kate & Daryl Dixon. Sharon Lee Foundation. Richard Tognetti Director and Violin Richard plays the 1743 ‘Carrodus’ Giuseppe Liisa Pallandi Guarneri del Gesù violin Violin kindly on loan from an anonymous Australian Satu Vänskä Principal Violin Liisa currently plays private benefactor. His Helena Rathbone’s Chair is sponsored by Satu plays the 1726 violin which is a c.1760 Wendy Edwards, Peter ‘Belgiorno’ Stradivarius Mark Ingwersen Giovanni Battista Gabrielli. & Ruth McMullin, Louise violin kindly on loan Violin Her Chair is sponsored Myer & Martyn Myer ao, from Guido Belgiorno- by The Melbourne Andrew & Andrea Roberts. Mark plays a Nettis AM & Michelle Medical Syndicate. Richard is dressed by contemporary violin made Belgiorno-Nettis. Her Ermenegildo Zegna. by the American violin Chair is sponsored by maker David Gusset David Thomas am. in 1989. His Chair is sponsored by Prof Judyth Sachs & Julie Steiner. Please note that the instrument and Chair listings are as at May 2020. AUSTRALIAN CHAMBER ORCHESTRA 11 MUSICIANS Elizabeth Woolnough Maja Savnik Viola Violin Elizabeth plays her own 1968 Parisian viola by Maja plays the 1714 ‘ex- Pierre M. Audinot. Her Isolde Menges’ Giuseppe Thibaud Pavlovic- Chair is sponsored Guarneri filius Andreæ Hobba by Philip Bacon AM. violin kindly on loan from Violin the ACO Instrument Fund. Her Chair is sponsored Thibaud currently Julian Thompson by Alenka Tindale. plays Liisa Pallandi’s Cello violin which is a 1946 Charles Clarke. Julian plays a 1729 Giuseppe Guarneri filius Andreæ cello with elements of the instrument crafted by his Timo-Veikko son, Giuseppe Guarneri Valve del Gesù, kindly donated to the ACO by Peter Principal Cello Ike See Weiss aO.
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