NORWEGIAN MOODS more than just ne printers. Your Friday 22 September 2.30pm Federation Concert Hall Hobart Partner 3 MATINEE Henning Kraggerud director & violin INTERVAL Sue-Ellen Paulsen cello Duration 20 mins in Print. GRIEG KRAGGERUD From Holberg’s Time Suite from Equinox Praeludium Postlude No 2 in D minor Sarabande Postlude No 18 in F-sharp minor Gavotte Postlude No 19 in A Air Duration 10 mins Rigaudon Duration 21 mins MASSENET “Meditation” from Thaïs SAINT-SAËNS Duration 5 mins La muse et le poète Duration 16 mins GRIEG (arr LUND & KRAGGERUD) Violin Concerto in G (arrangement of KRAGGERUD Violin Sonata No 2) Variation Suite for Violin and Cello Lento doloroso – Poco allegro – Allegro Tema vivace Scherzo Allegretto tranquillo Waltz Allegro animato Jig Duration 22 mins Stick Dance This concert will end at approximately Duration 4 mins 4.30pm. Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra concerts are broadcast and streamed throughout Australia and around the world by ABC Classic FM. We would appreciate your cooperation www.footandplaysted.com.au in keeping coughing to a minimum. Please ensure that your mobile phone is switched off. 14 15 p. 03 6332 1400 99-109 charles street launceston tasmania 7250 Edvard Grieg (1843-1907) From Holberg’s Time – Suite, Op 40 The Praeludium contrasts a lively galloping Praeludium rhythm with a simple melody of sighing motif Sarabande from the violins. The minor-key Sarabande conforms to the Baroque model of a stately Gavotte triple-time dance, though the passionately Air nostalgic harmonies, and warmly divided Henning Kraggerud Sue-Ellen Paulsen Rigaudon lower strings, might remind us of other works of Grieg. The elegant duple-time Gavotte In 2003 the University of Bergen in Norway is perhaps closer to the “source” with its Violinist and violist, Henning Kraggerud instituted a prize to commemorate one of Sue-Ellen Paulsen studied at the clear bass line and ornamental flourishes, the city’s most famous sons, Ludvig Holberg has played with many of the world’s finest Queensland Conservatorium of Music where and features lovely brief solos from the lower (1684-1754). The Holberg Prize honours orchestras. Recent performances include voices in the central section. The Air – the she had lessons with Richard Dedecius. As achievements in humanities, science, appearances with the Tonkünstler-Orchester most substantial of the five movements – is an undergraduate she appeared as soloist theology and law – all areas in which this of Lower Austria, the Danish National perhaps Grieg’s answer to the work known with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra, extraordinary polymath excelled. Norway Symphony Orchestra, the Orquestra popularly as Bach’s “Air on a G string”; its Queensland Conservatorium Orchestra was, at the time of his birth, still a part of the opening melody is constructed out of long Sinfónica Portuguesa (São Carlos), the Danish kingdom, and Holberg unsurprisingly and Queensland Youth Orchestra. In 1980 notes that often finish with an ornamental Toronto and Vancouver Symphony spent much of his adult life in the capital, figure while the orchestra provides a gently she won the ABC Concerto Competition Orchestras and the Oslo and Bergen where he held the Chairs of Metaphysics pulsating accompaniment, occasionally Philharmonics. Henning Kraggerud is also a (later the Young Performers Award) and and Logic, Latin Rhetoric and History at the building to an impassioned climax. A central composer. Works have been commissioned was awarded a scholarship enabling her University of Copenhagen. There he wrote section of fragments passed from one voice scholarly works that remained in use for a by the Brodsky Quartet and Finland’s to pursue postgraduate study in Vienna to another is punctuated by passages of century or more, and a number of successful ecstatic unison, before the opening melody Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra. Recent with André Navarra. Her professional plays. He also spent considerable periods is stated in the cellos and finally by the full recordings include his performance with the career began in Armidale with the New abroad, notably in Rome and Oxford, and band. Malmö Symphony of the Violin Concerto of is credited as bringing the ideas of the England String Quartet. She assumed The finale, as in any Baroque suite, is a Carl Nielsen and that of Johan Halvorsen Enlightenment back to Scandinavia. Holberg her current position with the Tasmanian charming, lightweight fast dance, often a never married, but out of the considerable (lost since its Netherlands première in gigue. Grieg offers a Rigaudon, whose outer Symphony Orchestra in 1986. Since then fortune he amassed he helped to transform 1909 but revived by Henning Kraggerud in sections offer a kind of cross between a she has been guest principal with the the Sorø Academy from an aristocratic riding 2016). His recording of Mozart’s concertos hornpipe and Norwegian Hardanger fiddle school into a new university. nos 3,4 and 5 includes his own cadenzas. Sydney Symphony, Adelaide Symphony music; characteristically, there is a soulful, Currently International Chair of Violin at the and Australian Chamber Orchestra. An For the bicentenary of Holberg’s birth, Grieg melodic central section. Royal Northern College of Music, Henning experienced soloist, she has performed was commissioned to compose a cantata © Gordon Kerry 2015 to be sung at the unveiling of a monument Kraggerud is also Artistic Director of the concertos by Shostakovich, Walton, Mills to the great man in Bergen. The resulting The Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra first Arctic Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra. and Ligeti among many others and is Holberg Cantata for baritone and male performed this work with conductor Kenneth Born in Oslo in 1973, Henning Kraggerud featured as soloist on several of the TSO’s chorus, setting a text by Nordahl Rolfsen, was Murison Bourn on 24 November 1948 and, most recently, with Richard Gill in Latrobe, Stanley and is a recipient of Norway’s Grieg Prize and Australian Composer Series CDs. A strong an onerous duty for Grieg who claimed to Burnie on 13, 14 and 15 March 2015. in 2007 was awarded the Sibelius Prize advocate for contemporary music, she has be writing “poor music” but at least having for his interpretations and recording of some success fishing. But in a sudden jeu commissioned and premièred many new Sibelius’ music around the world. He is d’esprit, he composed a suite for piano Australian works including one written a professor at Oslo’s Barratt Due music of dances of the kind that Holberg might especially for her by Andrew Ford. She has have known, though they are far from neo- conservatoire, where he play/directs the recently recorded the Schumann piano Baroque pastiche. These were performed Oslo Camerata. Henning Kraggerud plays a at the time of the Holberg festivities in trios with the Kingfisher Trio (ABC Classics). 1744 Guarneri del Gesù, provided by Dextra Bergen, and shortly thereafter Grieg made Musica AS. This company is founded by She is Lecturer in Cello at the Tasmanian this version for string orchestra, which was Sparebankstiftelsen DNB. Conservatorium of Music. published in Leipzig the following year. 16 17 Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921) Henning Kraggerud (born 1973) La muse et le poète, Op 132, for Violin, and cello, and the attraction of a soloist Variation Suite for Violin and Cello lyrical theme in A minor, whose key, melodic Cello and Orchestra joining an orchestral colleague in an Tema shape and harmonic movement underpin the additional concerto-like work. subsequent variations. There is at first a lively The title of this piece reminds literate French Scherzo Scherzo, a slightly melancholy Waltz, a Jig speakers of a famous poem by Alfred de In Saint-Saëns’ case, the stimulus for his last Waltz Musset, La Nuit d’octobre, expressing the work featuring the cello as soloist seems to that recalls the “Playful Pizzicato” of Britten’s poet’s recovery from the heartache of his have come from his collaboration with the Jig Simple Symphony and, finally, an energetic relationship with George Sand (later to be cellist Hollmann, who trained in Brussels Stick Dance Stick Dance. the lover of Chopin). The poem is couched as under Servais, and who played the premières © Gordon Kerry 2017 One of Kraggerud’s most popular works a dialogue between the poet and his muse, of Saint-Saëns’ Cello Concerto No 2 in 1903, in which she helps him to re-live and come to and of his second Cello Sonata in 1905. The is his Variation Suite for violin and cello, This is the first performance of this work by the terms with his emotional distress. complexities of Hollmann’s own cello music composed in 1994. It consists of a simple Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra. show that he was a virtuoso, and there is Don’t, however, expect Saint-Saëns’ music virtuosity for the soloists in La muse et le to convey these highly Romantic feelings. poète, yet it remains a dialogue of the two The title was added after the music was instruments rather than a contest, and the composed, at the request of the publisher, vocal character of some of the writing justifies Durand, who thought it would make the the title, with a bardic harp heralding the music more saleable. Durand thought he soloists’ first entry. could find in the music, as many writers have, that “the violin, as Muse, offers soothing The treatment of the material – short melodic answers to the complaints, sometimes ideas in a variety of moods – is rhapsodic melancholy, sometimes agitated, of the cello within a broadly lyrical context, harking back as poet.” to Romanticism’s invention of the free-form symphonic poem, which Saint-Saëns learnt The prosaic truth seems to be that Saint- from Liszt. Solo and orchestra are closely Saëns set out to write a concertante piece interwoven, and restatements of thematic with violin and cello as soloists.