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Brahms Violin Concerto MASTER 4 Brahms Violin Concerto MASTER 4 Friday Saturday 3 May 7.30pm 4 May 7.30pm Federation Concert Hall Burnie Hobart Town Hall Andrew Gourlay conductor Allegro – Stefan Jackiw violin Poco meno mosso – Allegro vivace – Andante maestoso – ˇ Allegro molto vivace DVORÁK Duration 15 mins Serenade for Winds Moderato quasi marcia INTERVAL Menuetto (Tempo di minuetto – Presto) Andante con moto Duration 20 mins Finale (Allegro molto) BRAHMS Duration 24 mins Violin Concerto KODÁLY Allegro non troppo Dances of Galánta Adagio Lento – Andante maestoso – Allegro giocoso, ma non troppo vivace Allegretto moderato – Andante Duration 38 mins maestoso – Allegro con moto, grazioso – Andante This concert will end at approximately maestoso – 9.30pm. Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra concerts are broadcast and streamed throughout Australia and around the world by ABC Classic. We would appreciate your cooperation in keeping coughing to a minimum. Please ensure that your mobile phone is switched off. 41 Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904) Serenade in D minor, B 77 (Op 44) Figaro-like comings and goings of Moderato quasi marcia The Cunning Peasant and his adoption Menuetto (Tempo di minuetto – of ostensibly Mozartian form for the new Presto) Wind Serenade in D minor, that sustained Andante con moto Dvorˇák through difficult times. While his Finale (Allegro molto) serenade does not precisely emulate any Andrew Gourlay’s contract as Music Director Born in 1985 to physicist parents of Korean of Mozart’s in using ten wind instruments January 1878 was more than the of the Orquesta Sinfónica de Castilla y León and German descent, Stefan Jackiw began plus cello and double bass, nor was it beginning of a new year for Antonín intended for al fresco performance in (OSCyL) has recently been extended until playing the violin at the age of four. Dvorˇák: it was the beginning, in effect, of the manner of 18th-century serenades, His teachers have included Zinaida Gilels, a new life. Now 36, he was a composer summer 2020. He became Music Director nevertheless this is a traditional bottle who had still not fully ‘arrived’; and while in January 2016, having been the OSCyL’s Michèle Auclair and Donald Weilerstein. filled with young, new wine – and hearty his family now got by on an Austrian Bohemian wine at that. Principal Guest Conductor since the 2014- He holds a Bachelor of Arts from Harvard State Grant (for ‘young, poor and 15 season. Other features of the 2019 University as well as an Artist Diploma from talented artists’), that world had recently The rustic-sounding first movement collapsed through the deaths within evokes the march with which serenaders season include his Finnish debut with the the New England Conservatory, and is the weeks of each other of his 11-month- typically announced their arrival (and Tampere Philharmonic last month and his recipient of an Avery Fisher Career Grant. old daughter Ru° žena and first-born son which returns at the end of the finale for Romanian debut with the Britten Sinfonia Stefan Jackiw made his European debut Otakar. He and his stalwart wife Anna had their self-important exit). The so-called at age 14, playing the Mendelssohn Violin now lost all three of their children in a Menuetto is actually a Czech sousedská in September. There are return visits to the space of two years. or neighbours’ dance, with a furiant Concerto with the Philharmonia Orchestra. London Philharmonic, BBC Philharmonic, (presto) as the central trio section. The In January 1878, thanks to Anna’s He has appeared with orchestras such as nocturnal slow movement grows out Bremen Philharmonic, City of Birmingham steadfast support, Dvorˇák was able to of a tender, drawn-out melody shared the Boston Symphony, Russian National press on with his professional life. He Symphony Orchestra (CBSO) and London by oboe and clarinet and, like a lover, Orchestra, Chicago Symphony, and New completed a set of choral songs and delays the moment of parting as long as Sinfonietta. The year also sees publication by then, within a fortnight, composed York and Seoul Philharmonics. Stefan possible. There are hints of the polka in Schott of his Parsifal Suite. In opera Andrew the entire D minor Serenade. Dvorˇák the high-spirited Finale until, with great Jackiw is also a keen recitalist and chamber also made time to visit Vienna to Gourlay has conducted the UK première of hilarity, the return of the opening march musician, having appeared in recital at meet Johannes Brahms, one of the Francesoni’s Quartett for the Royal Opera sends everyone packing. Carnegie Hall and the 92nd Street Y and adjudicators of the Austrian State Grant, House, Covent Garden, and La Tragédie de who had just recommended him warmly Dvorˇák conducted the first performance with chamber music partners such as of the serenade to open a concert of Carmen and Dvorˇák’s Rusalka for English to his own publisher in Berlin (which Steven Isserlis, Yo-Yo Ma and Jeremy Denk. proved a passport to international his own compositions on 17 November Touring Opera. In 2016 he conducted a 2018 saw appearances at the Eastman recognition). Though Dvorˇák missed 1878. It was his fifth wedding anniversary. new production of Tippett’s The Ice Break Brahms, who was giving concerts in Can the serenade, with its beguiling Music Festival playing the Brahms concerto, Andante, then have seemed anything for Birmingham Opera Company and the Germany, he left manuscripts for the as well as performances with the National latter’s perusal and had a cordial meeting other (like Wagner’s Siegfried Idyll) than CBSO. Recordings include Wieniawski and Symphony Orchestra Washington DC, with the powerful and much feared music an affirmation of the composer’s love critic Eduard Hanslick. for his Anna, who, but a few months Bruch violin concertos with Charlie Siem Residency Orchestra of The Hague and previously, had borne him the daughter, Back in Prague, Dvorˇák new opera, The and the London Symphony. The music of Helsinki Philharmonic. Possessing a broad Otilka, who would be the beginning of Cunning Peasant, was deep in rehearsal. Edmund Finnis has recently been recorded. their new, and happier, family? repertoire, in March 2014 Stefan Jackiw After previous operatic failures, this Of Russian ancestry, Andrew Gourlay was gave the world première of David Fulmer’s was to give Dvorˇák his first unequivocal Anthony Cane © 2003 born in Jamaica and grew up in the Bahamas, Violin Concerto No 2, Jubilant Arcs, with theatrical success – and, subsequently, his first opera performances abroad. The Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra first Philippines, Japan and England. He was a the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie under performed this work with conductor Verdon Mozart (Dvorˇák would later drum into Williams in June 1969 and, most recently, with professional trombonist until his mid-20s. Matthias Pintscher. Recordings include the his students at the Prague Conservatory) Marko Letonja in Cygnet, Latrobe and George In 2010 he won First Prize in the Cadaques complete Brahms violin sonatas with pianist, was sunshine. Perhaps it was a little Town in March 2012. International Conducting Competition. Max Levinson. reflected Mozartian sunshine, in the 42 43 Zoltán Kodály (1882-1967) Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) Dances of Galanta (Galántai táncok) A solo flute and piccolo in dotted Violin Concerto in D, Op 77 the four-movement form of the Second Lento – Andante maestoso rhythm accompanied by pizzicato strings Allegro non troppo Piano Concerto, demonstrate. Allegretto moderato – Andante introduce the second dance (Allegretto Adagio Yet for all his artistic maturity, Brahms maestoso moderato). There is a decidedly Eastern Allegro giocoso, ma non troppo vivace remained a bit of a masochist when it Allegro con moto, grazioso – Andante flavour to this section. As with several of his greatest works, came to his most recent compositions, maestoso An oboe introduces the third dance Brahms composed the bulk of the Violin usually ridiculing them to his friends and Allegro (Allegro con moto, grazioso). This melody Concerto in the village of Pörtschach hoping that they would do the same in Poco meno mosso is so simple and insubstantial that it on the Wörthersee in Austria. It was a return. As a result he was disappointed Allegro vivace – Andante maestoso seems to need reinforcement from the place, he said, where ‘so many melodies when his colleague, the legendary Allegro molto vivace other woodwinds, brass and strings. It is fly about that one must take care not to violinist Joseph Joachim, examined the eventually overwhelmed by the return of tread on them.’ He’d proved that point solo part of the new Violin Concerto in the melancholic first theme, which in turn 1878 and announced that, while it was Along with his close contemporary the previous year when he completed the is interrupted just as suddenly by a fierce sometimes difficult to tell how a concerto and friend Béla Bartók, Zoltán Kodály Second Symphony in Pörtschach. Now, in syncopated dance (Allegro) with the would work from the violin part alone, collected over 3,500 folk tunes from the summer of 1878, he returned to the whole orchestra in full cry. it appeared at first glance to be a very throughout Hungary, Romania and same place (and the same key signature pleasing and successful work. ‘I wish I Slovakia. These songs influenced both Two dances quickly follow, with melodies of D) to create the work which many could go through it with a violinist less composers’ subsequent works. Kodály reminiscent of Háry János. There are would regard as the finest violin concerto good than you,’ the frustrated Brahms said of this collaboration: ‘The vision of grace-noted bassoons, horns swinging in the repertoire. wrote back to Joachim, ‘for I am afraid an educated Hungary, reborn from the across the bar line and a dotted rhythm It was a time of some professional you are not sufficiently blunt and severe.’ people, rose before us.
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