Featuring the Brandenburg Choir Performing Zadok the Priest
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Featuring the Brandenburg Choir performing Zadok the Priest Paul Dyer AO Artistic Director, Conductor 2019 Australian Brandenburg Orchestra Brandenburg Choir SYDNEY Emma Black (Vienna) Baroque oboe City Recital Hall Wednesday 24 July 7pm PROGRAM Friday 26 July 7pm Handel Coronation Anthem No. 1 Zadok the Priest, HWV 258 Saturday 27 July 2pm (Matinee) Handel Coronation Anthem No. 4 My Heart is Inditing, HWV 261 Saturday 27 July 7pm Wednesday 31 July 7pm Handel Coronation Anthem No. 2 Let Thy Hand be Strengthened, Friday 2 August 7pm HWV 259 You’re connected, personally Handel Coronation Anthem No. 3 The King Shall Rejoice, HWV 260 BRISBANE QPAC Interval Tuesday 30 July 7:30pm Handel Concerto for Oboe No. 3 in G minor, HWV 287 At Macquarie Private Bank you have the power of being i Grave ii Allegro iii Largo iv Allegro MELBOURNE connected, personally. You control your financial future, Melbourne Recital Centre and we find your way there together. Handel Music for the Royal Fireworks, HWV 351 i Ouverture ii Bourée iii La Paix iv La Réjouissance v Menuet 1 & 2 Saturday 3 August 7pm Sunday 4 August 5pm Macquarie are proud to be a long-standing supporter CHAIRMAN’S 11 and Principal Partner of the Brandenburg since 2007. Proudly supporting our guest artists. Concert duration is approximately 110 minutes, including one interval. Please note concert duration is approximate only and is subject to change. We kindly request that you switch off all electronic devices prior to the performance. This concert will be broadcast on ABC Classic on 11 August at 12noon. QPAC performance is proudly supported by Brisbane Schools Choir. The Australian Brandenburg Orchestra would like to give special thanks to Brisbane Girls Grammar School, Brisbane Grammar School, Brisbane State High School, and John Paul College. macquarie.com/privatebank Macquarie Private Bank is a division of Macquarie Bank Limited AFSL and Australian Credit Licence 237502 (MBL). This information doesn’t take HANDEL'S ANTHEMS & FIREWORKS 1 into account your objectives, financial situation or needs – please consider whether it’s right for you. From our Principal Partner: Macquarie Group Biography Shared Vision Paul Dyer On behalf of Macquarie Group, it is my great pleasure to welcome Paul Dyer is one of Australia’s leading specialists you to the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra’s third concert series in period performance. of 2019 – the iconic Handel’s Anthems & Fireworks. At Macquarie we appreciate the powerful impact Australian Brandenburg Orchestra and Choir, music can have, which is why we are thrilled to including the 1998, 2001, 2005, 2009 and 2010 continue our longstanding partnership with the ARIA Awards for Best Classical Album. Australian Brandenburg Orchestra. This year is Paul has performed with many international Macquarie Group’s twelfth year as the Brandenburg’s soloists including Andreas Scholl, Cyndia Sieden, Principal Partner and what makes this relationship so Marc Destrubé, Christoph Prégardien, Hidemi rewarding is our shared vision of infinite possibilities Suzuki, Manfredo Kraemer, Andrew Manze, and commitment to the highest standards, Yvonne Kenny, Emma Kirkby, Philippe Jaroussky underpinned by specialist skills and experience. and many others. In 1998 he made his debut in This is the first time that the Brandenburg will Tokyo with countertenor Derek Lee Ragin, leading stage the complete set of Handel’s Coronation an ensemble of Brandenburg soloists, and in Anthems alongside his spectacular Music for August 2001 Paul toured the orchestra to Europe the Royal Fireworks. Artistic Director Paul Dyer with guest soloist Andreas Scholl, and in 2015 leads the brilliant musicians of the Orchestra and featured on the soundtrack of the James Bond Choir. In this performance, he will also be joined 007 movie, Spectre. on stage by internationally acclaimed Baroque He co-founded the Brandenburg in 1989 after A passionate cook, entertainer, foodie, teacher, oboist Emma Black, who has returned from Vienna completing postgraduate studies at the Royal swimmer, traveller, he is friends with people and for this performance as a soloist. This promises to Conservatorium in The Hague, and has been artists from Istanbul to India and Japan to Italy be a unique and uplifting production with a stellar Artistic Director and conductor since that time. creating a unique platform for overseas performing showcase of exceptionally talented artists from Paul is a performing artist comfortable in his artists to work with him and the Brandenburg both Australia and overseas. unique music arena – whether working in ancient in Australia. It is a privilege to be a part of the Australian music, contemporary music, opera, with artists Among his list of achievements, Paul was awarded Brandenburg Orchestra’s journey and we hope such as circus performers, contemporary dance, the Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) in 2013 you enjoy this concert. or visual art. His busy performing schedule in for his ‘distinguished service to the performing arts Europe, Asia, the USA and Canada over the years in Australia’. Paul is Patron of St Gabriel’s School has synchronised perfectly alongside his bold for Hearing Impaired Children. In 2003 Paul was stage work in Australia. awarded the Australian Centenary Medal for Paul is an inspiring teacher and has been a staff his services to Australian society and the member at various Conservatories throughout the advancement of music, and in 2010 Paul was world. In 1995 he received a Churchill Fellowship awarded the Sydney University Alumni Medal Sean West and he has won numerous international and for Professional Achievement. Head of Macquarie Wealth Management national awards for his CD recordings with the 2 AUSTRALIAN BRANDENBURG ORCHESTRA HANDEL'S ANTHEMS & FIREWORKS 3 From our 30th Anniversary Presenting Partner: APA From the Co-Founder & Artistic Director Connecting Australia to Baroque Music Let's celebrate with anthems & fireworks! APA Group is proud to support the Australian Brandenburg Handel moved into his London house at number Orchestra as Series Partner of Handel's Anthems & Fireworks. 25 Brook Street in stylish Mayfair in 1723 shortly We are delighted to welcome you to this performance. after his court appointment to the Chapel Royal. This year, APA celebrates the Brandenburg’s 30th The stampede caused a traffic jam that blocked Anniversary and our 18-year relationship as one of London Bridge for three hours, and the chaos the Orchestra’s longest corporate sponsors. continued with rain soaking both the waiting crowds and the fireworks – many crackers misfired Our partnership began in 2001, the year after we and fizzled! Despite all the rain, one functioning started as a business. Since then, both organisations firework strayed causing the stage to catch fire, have grown, through vision and commitment, burning the wooden pavilion to the ground. No from humble beginnings to national importance. contemporaneous account exists of what the crowd While we have worked tirelessly to connect thought of Handel’s music; however, although the energy sources across Australia, enabling regional fireworks display went completely pear-shaped, and national growth, season after season the Handel’s music is unquestionably glorious. Brandenburg breathes fresh life into music, infusing In sharp contrast to the rowdy public occasion of the it with history and heritage. THE HOUSES OF JIMI HENDRIX AND GEORGE FRIDERIC royal fireworks exhibition, the coronation ceremony APA Group is one of Australia’s leading energy HANDEL AT NUMBER 23 AND 25 (NOW THE HANDEL HOUSE MUSEUM) SHOWN BY THE BLUE PLAQUES. of a British monarch is a statement of structure, infrastructure businesses, and through sponsorship formality and order. Humans around the world and of the Orchestra, we value the opportunity to bring throughout history have developed rites and rituals Brook Street is in a well-to-do area of London, a Baroque music to audiences in the metropolitan that transport us momentarily from the routine of short stroll from the music and artistic communities and regional communities where we operate. daily life and catapult our imagination and spirit into of Soho and Covent Garden, but near to St. James’s another dimension. Handel’s Coronation Anthems It is a significant privilege to be part of the Australian Palace, where Handel performed his official duties, is the soundtrack for one of those moments and Brandenburg Orchestra’s journey. We wish you and the King’s Theatre in Haymarket, the focus reaches another plane entirely. Our concert tonight a joyful evening and hope you enjoy the concert. of his Italian opera career. Handel was a supreme is one of these important human rituals we share. dramatist and he must have been a man of enormous character. Let the Choir, the Orchestra, Emma Black and Handel catapult your imagination somewhere It was in Brook Street that Handel composed the beautiful! three pieces on tonight’s program. It’s a 14-minute walk from Handel’s house to Green Park and I always Rob Wheals chuckle as I imagine the mess that was stirred up at APA Group Managing Director and CEO the rehearsal and final production of the Music for the Royal Fireworks in April 1749. A massive Italian style wooden pavilion was constructed in Green Paul Dyer AO Park to house the fireworks display, and Londoners Co-Founder & Artistic Director rushed and crushed to get close to the action. Australian Brandenburg Orchestra 4 AUSTRALIAN BRANDENBURG ORCHESTRA HANDEL'S ANTHEMS & FIREWORKS 5 Musicians