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Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No.1 Monash Series Saturday Matinees Great Classics on Monday Friday 7 August at 8pm Saturday 8 August at 2pm Monday 10 August at 6.30pm Robert Blackwood Hall Arts Centre Melbourne Arts Centre Melbourne Monash University, Clayton Hamer Hall Hamer Hall PRINCIPAL PARTNER What’s On Welcome to August — October Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No.1 MELBOURNE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA It is with particular delight that I With a reputation for excellence, Mark Wigglesworth, Markus Stenz welcome back to the MSO Vasily versatility and innovation, the and Simone Young. The Orchestra Petrenko, Chief Conductor of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra has also collaborated with non- Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, who, is Australia’s oldest orchestra, classical musicians including Burt in nine years, has transformed that established in 1906. The Orchestra Bacharach, Ben Folds, Nick Cave, orchestra into one of the finest in currently performs live to more Sting and Tim Minchin. Europe, with a handsome roster than 200,000 people annually, in The MSO reaches an even larger of recordings to match. From concerts ranging from subscription audience through its regular concert September, the St. Petersburg- performances at its home, Hamer broadcasts on ABC Classic FM, MOZART’S PIANO AN EVENING WITH PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION born Petrenko takes up another Hall at Arts Centre Melbourne, to its CONCERTO No.17 RENÉE FLEMING also streamed online, and through MUSSORGSKY, LISZT, REGER important appointment, Chief annual free concerts at Melbourne’s recordings on Chandos and ABC Friday 28 August Thursday 3 September Friday 11 September Conductor of the European Union largest outdoor venue, the Sidney Classics. The MSO’s Education Saturday 29 August Saturday 5 September Youth Orchestra. Myer Music Bowl. Featuring works inspired by art: and Community Engagement Monday 31 August Famed for her magnetic Reger’s Four Tone Poems after In this program, Petrenko conducts Sir Andrew Davis gave his inaugural initiatives deliver innovative and The irrepressible overture to Rossini’s performances and sheer beauty of Arnold Böcklin and Mussorgsky’s three important Russian works. concerts as Chief Conductor of the engaging programs to audiences La gazza ladra is set alongside works tone, celebrated American soprano Pictures at an Exhibition. Liszt’s It begins with Rimsky-Korsakov’s MSO in April 2013, having made his of all ages, including MSO Learn, an by Mozart and Messiaen, and the Renée Fleming joins the MSO and Piano Concerto No.1 makes for a tribute to the Iberian peninsula, debut with the Orchestra in 2009. educational iPhone and iPad app lush melodies of Brahms’ Symphony Sir Andrew Davis for two Melbourne- breathtaking interlude. Capriccio espagnol, followed by Highlights of his tenure have included designed to teach children about No.3. Featuring the French pianist exclusive orchestral concerts. Tchaikovsky’s fiendishly difficult collaborations with artists including the inner workings of an orchestra. Jean-Efflam Bavouzet. Presented by MSO and Piano Concerto No.1. The soloist is Bryn Terfel, Emanuel Ax and Truls The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Arts Centre Melbourne Macedonian pianist Simon Trpčeski, Mørk, the release of recordings is funded principally by the Australian who records frequently with of music by Percy Grainger and Venue Partner Government through the Australia Petrenko. Then, to commemorate Eugene Goossens, a 2014 European Council, its arts funding and Alexander Scriabin’s centenary, his Festivals tour, and a multi-year cycle advisory body, and is generously mysteriously profound Symphony of Mahler’s Symphonies. supported by the Victorian No.3, The Divine Poem — a work The MSO also works each season Government through Creative which, as one commentator wrote, with Principal Guest Conductor Victoria, Department of Economic transformed Scriabin from a good Diego Matheuz, Associate Development, Jobs, Transport and composer into a great one. I hope Conductor Benjamin Northey and Resources. The MSO is also funded you enjoy this concert. the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra by the City of Melbourne, its Principal Chorus. Recent guest conductors Partner, Emirates, corporate sponsors to the MSO have included Thomas and individual donors, trusts and Adès, John Adams, Tan Dun, foundations. André Gremillet Charles Dutoit, Jakub Hrůša, Managing Director MOZART’S SYMPHONY No.40 SCHEHERAZADE AN AMERICAN IN PARIS Thursday 17 September Thursday 1 October Friday 30 October Friday 18 September Friday 2 October Gershwin’s An American in Paris Saturday 19 September Monday 5 October evokes a journey through the Monday 21 September Under the baton of Jakub Hrůša, bustling streets of the French capital, Featuring MSO Concertmaster the overture to Smetana’s comic punctuated by taxi horns and a Eoin Andersen, works by Stravinsky opera The Bartered Bride opens a bluesy trumpet solo. Also featured are balanced by Mozart’s final dazzling night of music. Dvořák’s in this program is Ravel’s Piano Violin Concerto and the Violin Concerto is followed by Concerto in G and Saint-Saëns unmistakeable melancholic Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade, Symphony No.3 Organ. strains of Symphony No.40. a vivid orchestral work inspired by the tales of the Arabian Nights. MelbourneSymphony @MelbourneSymphonyOrchestra Download our free app at mso.com.au/msolearn Sign up for our monthly e-news at @MelbSymphony TheMSOrchestra mso.com.au and receive special offers from the MSO and our partners. TCHAIKOVSKY’S PIANO CONCERTO No.1 3 ABOUT THE ARTISTS Melbourne Symphony Vasily Petrenko Simon Trpčeski Orchestra conductor piano Vasily Petrenko Vasily Petrenko started his music Simon Trpčeski is a frequent conductor education at the St. Petersburg soloist with the London Symphony Simon Trpčeski Capella Boys Music School, and Orchestra, City of Birmingham piano went on to study at the St. Petersburg Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia Conservatory. Following his success Orchestra, Hallé Orchestra, and — in a number of international the Royal Liverpool and London RIMSKY-KORSAKOV conducting competitions, he was Philharmonic Orchestras. In addition Capriccio espagnol appointed Chief Conductor of to extensive engagements in TCHAIKOVSKY the St. Petersburg State Academic Europe and North America, he has Piano Concerto No.1 Symphony Orchestra from 2004 performed with the Seoul and Hong — to 2007. He served as Principal Kong Philharmonic Orchestras, the Conductor of the National Youth Sydney and Melbourne Symphony Interval 20 minutes Orchestra of Great Britain from Orchestras and the New Zealand — 2009 to 2013. Symphony Orchestra. SCRIABIN ABOUT THE MUSIC Symphony No.3 The Divine Poem The 2013/14 season marked his This season sees him return to the Los first as Chief Conductor of the Oslo Angeles Philharmonic, Netherlands — Philharmonic Orchestra, alongside Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov This concert has a duration of which he maintains positions as Berlin and North German Radio (1844–1908) approximately 2 hours including one Chief Conductor of the Royal Symphony Orchestras, Russian 20 minute interval Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra National Orchestra, St. Petersburg Capriccio espagnol, Op.34 It is a curious feature of cultural he decided to emulate Glinka in Monday night’s performance will be and Principal Guest Conductor of Philharmonic Orchestra, Strasbourg history that Spain, which had a great making Spanish music the basis of Alborada recorded for delayed broadcast on the Mikhailovsky Theatre. Philharmonic Orchestra, Ulster musical heritage in the Renaissance, a composition of his own. It was to ABC Classic FM. Variations and folk music of striking vitality, be a study in virtuoso orchestration, Highlights of this season and beyond Orchestra, Orchestre de la Suisse Alborada virtually disappeared from the in which, the composer insisted, the include debut performances with Romande, and Iceland Symphony musical map for more than two instrumental colouring was ‘the very the Israel Philharmonic and Frankfurt Orchestra. This season he continues Scene and Gypsy Song centuries. It was left to ‘foreign’ essence of the composition, not its Radio Symphony Orchestras, and his partnership with cellist Daniel Fandango asturiano composers resident in Spain to mere dressing-up’. return visits to the Berlin Radio Müller-Schott in concerts at the provide the ‘Spanish’ music: the Symphony Orchestra, Netherlands Concertgebouw, Wigmore Hall and The Capriccio espagnol was one Italians Domenico Scarlatti and Luigi Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, in Bilbao, Spain. of Rimsky-Korsakov’s greatest Boccherini being the most famous London Philharmonic Orchestra, Simon Trpčeski was born in the successes. The rehearsals were among them. Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio Republic of Macedonia. His first interrupted many times by the France, Accademia Nazionale di recording – featuring works by In the 19th century, Romanticism applause of the musicians. In five Santa Cecilia, Chicago Symphony Tchaikovsky, Scriabin, Stravinsky and attracted to Spain the traveller in sections played without pause, it is Pre-Concert Talks Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic Prokofiev – received Gramophone search of the picturesque. Whether unified by the Alborada, or morning and San Francisco Symphony. awards for both Editor’s Choice and visiting Spain or merely travelling song, which is treated to five 7pm Friday 7 August Debut Album. in the mind, Romantic composers variations, followed by the theme Foyer, Robert Blackwood Hall