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Beethoven, Mozart & Copland Beethoven, Mozart & Copland Melbourne Town Hall Series Friday 31 July at 7.30pm Melbourne Town Hall PRINCIPAL PARTNER What’s On August — September TCHAIKOVSKY’S RACHMANINOV’S THIRD MOZART’S PIANO CONCERTO No.1 Thursday 20 August PIANO CONCERTO No.17 Friday 7 August Friday 21 August Friday 28 August Saturday 8 August Saturday 22 August Saturday 29 August Monday 10 August Russian-American pianist Monday 31 August The very epitome of Romantic Kirill Gerstein displays his mastery The irrepressible overture to music, Tchaikovsky’s Piano of the formidable ‘Rach 3’, Rossini’s La gazza ladra is set Concerto No.1 is performed conducted by Sir Andrew Davis, alongside works by Mozart and by Simon Trpčeski, appearing alongside Rimsky-Korsakov’s Messiaen, and the lush melodies alongside Rimsky-Korsakov’s Dubinushka and Strauss’ of Brahms’ Symphony No.3. Capriccio espagnol and autobiographical tone poem, Featuring the French pianist Scriabin’s Third Symphony. Ein Heldenleben. Jean-Efflam Bavouzet. AN EVENING WITH MUSSORGSKY & LISZT MOZART’S SYMPHONY No.40 RENÉE FLEMING Friday 11 September Thursday 17 September Thursday 3 September Featuring works inspired by art: Friday 18 September Saturday 5 September Reger’s Four Tone Poems after Saturday 19 September Famed for her magnetic Arnold Böcklin and Mussorgsky’s Monday 21 September performances and sheer beauty of Pictures at an Exhibition. Liszt’s Mozart’s compact concerto in D tone, celebrated American soprano Piano Concerto No.1 makes for a – led by MSO Concertmaster Renée Fleming joins the MSO and breathtaking interlude. Eoin Andersen – is balanced by Sir Andrew Davis for two Melbourne- Mozart’s Violin Concerto, a youthful exclusive orchestral concerts. work of matchless elegance. Presented by MSO and Arts Centre Melbourne 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. Welcome to Beethoven, Mozart & Copland MELBOURNE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Welcome to this concert in the With a reputation for excellence, Mark Wigglesworth, Markus Stenz mellow historic grandeur of the versatility and innovation, the and Simone Young. The Orchestra Melbourne Town Hall. The MSO Melbourne Symphony Orchestra has also collaborated with non- has performed many times in is Australia’s oldest orchestra, classical musicians including Burt this gracious venue, and the hall established in 1906. The Orchestra Bacharach, Ben Folds, Nick Cave, continues to resound vibrantly in currently performs live to more Sting and Tim Minchin. the orchestra’s heritage. than 200,000 people annually, in The MSO reaches an even larger Tonight’s program, conducted concerts ranging from subscription audience through its regular concert by Matthew Coorey, features performances at its home, Hamer broadcasts on ABC Classic FM, landmark works by three Hall at Arts Centre Melbourne, to its also streamed online, and through composers: the suite from annual free concerts at Melbourne’s recordings on Chandos and ABC Aaron Copland’s evergreen largest outdoor venue, the Sidney Classics. The MSO’s Education Appalachian Spring, written in Myer Music Bowl. and Community Engagement 1942 for choreographer and Sir Andrew Davis gave his inaugural initiatives deliver innovative and dancer Martha Graham (it was concerts as Chief Conductor of the engaging programs to audiences nearly titled Ballet for Martha); MSO in April 2013, having made his of all ages, including MSO Learn, an Mozart’s darkly romantic Piano debut with the Orchestra in 2009. educational iPhone and iPad app Concerto No.20 in D minor, Highlights of his tenure have included designed to teach children about with soloist Ian Munro; and collaborations with artists including the inner workings of an orchestra. Beethoven’s majestic Symphony Bryn Terfel, Emanuel Ax and Truls The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra No.7, or ’the apotheosis of the Mørk, the release of recordings is funded principally by the Australian dance’, as it is sometimes known. of music by Percy Grainger and Government through the Australia If one thing binds tonight’s Eugene Goossens, a 2014 European Council, its arts funding and program, it is popularity and Festivals tour, and a multi-year cycle advisory body, and is generously durability; all of these works have of Mahler’s Symphonies. supported by the Victorian never been out of the repertoire. The MSO also works each season Government through Creative But it is heartening to think that with Principal Guest Conductor Victoria, Department of Economic somewhere, every time they are Diego Matheuz, Associate Development, Jobs, Transport and played, someone is hearing the Conductor Benjamin Northey and Resources. The MSO is also funded music for the first time. I hope you the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra by the City of Melbourne, its Principal enjoy tonight’s concert. 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. Charles Dutoit, Jakub Hrůša, André Gremillet Managing Director BEETHOVEN, MOZART & COPLAND 3 ABOUT THE ARTISTS Melbourne Symphony Matthew Coorey Ian Munro Orchestra conductor piano Matthew Coorey Matthew Coorey began his career Ian Munro is one of Australia’s conductor as the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic most distinguished and awarded Ian Munro Orchestra’s Conductor in Residence. musicians, with a career that has piano Important early debuts with the taken him to thirty countries in Europe, Asia, North America and — London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, the Australasia. As a composer, Ian is COPLAND the only Australian to have been Appalachian Spring: Suite Philharmonia, the Hallé and the London Mozart Players all resulted awarded the Premier Grand Prix at MOZART in re-invitations. Recent highlights the Queen Elisabeth Competition for Piano Concerto No.20 include concerts with the BBC Composers in 2003, and in 2011 he — Orchestras, the Bournemouth, was Featured Composer for Musica Viva Australia. Interval 20 minutes Melbourne and London Symphony — Orchestras and at the BBC Proms, After completing his early training BEETHOVEN as well as return engagements with in Melbourne with Roy Shepherd, Symphony No.7 the City of Birmingham Symphony Ian furthered his studies in Vienna, Orchestra, the Stuttgart Radio London and Italy with Noretta — Orchestra, New Zealand Symphony Conci, Guido Agosti and Michele This concert runs for a duration of Orchestra, the National Youth Campanella, launching his approximately two hours including Orchestra of Great Britain, Palestine international career in the UK. He has an interval of 20 minutes. National Orchestra, the Philharmonia performed with leading orchestras and the RLPO. throughout the UK, Poland, Italy, Matthew was invited to the Portugal, Russia, USA, China, New Tanglewood Music Festival by Seiji Zealand, Belgium, Switzerland and Ozawa where also he worked with Uzbekistan, and with all the state orchestras in Australia in over sixty Pre-Concert Recital Jorma Panula who became his principal teacher. For two years, piano concerti. 6.30pm Friday 31 July Matthew studied under Sir Mark Elder Ian has recorded for ABC Classics, Melbourne Town Hall at the Royal Northern College of Hyperion, Cala, Naxos, Marco Ticket-holders are invited to Music. He was a finalist in the Maazel Polo, Tall Poppies and the UK label attend a free pre-concert recital Competition, a fellow of the Allianz Warehouse as both soloist and by Dr Calvin Bowman, on the International Academy and a prize- chamber musician. Recent discs Melbourne Town Hall grand organ. winner at the Solti Competition. He include the collected music by has collaborated with artists such as Tasmanian composer Katherine Sarah Chang, Freddy Kempff, Steven Parker, and Elena Kats-Chernin’s Osborne, Yevgeny Sudbin and Pieter Piano Concerto commissioned Wispelwey, and has recorded for for Ian Munro by the Sydney Classic FM and Naxos Records. Symphony Orchestra. A widely Matthew began his musical career experienced chamber musician, as a horn-player and after studying Ian joined the acclaimed Australia at the Sydney Conservatorium he Ensemble in Sydney in 2000, for performed regularly with many which he has also composed Australian orchestras. and arranged several works. Matthew recently conducted a concert commemorating 100 years since the Gallipoli Campaign in Istanbul. 4 MELBOURNE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA IN CONCERT ABOUT THE MUSIC Aaron Copland (1900 –1990) Appalachian Spring: a great deal to do with bringing 6. Very slow (as at first). Transition Suite for orchestra my name before a larger public,’ scenes reminiscent of the — recalled Copland in later years, introduction. Aaron Copland’s Appalachian and his orchestration of the Shaker 7. Calm and flowing. Scenes of Spring suite originated in a ballet hymn ‘Simple Gifts’, heard towards daily activity for the Bride and he wrote for the choreographer the end of the suite, has become a her Farmer-husband. There Martha Graham. Graham had secondary American anthem. are five variations on a Shaker already choreographed Copland’s In 1944, Copland extracted a theme. The theme, sung by a Piano Variations (Dithyramb, 1931) concert suite from the ballet, which solo clarinet, was taken from a when, in 1942, arts patron Elizabeth he orchestrated the following collection of Shaker melodies Sprague Coolidge commissioned her year. He trimmed 15 minutes
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