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Bach's St Matthew Passion WASO & ST GEORGE’S CATHEDRAL PRESENT Bach’s St Matthew Passion Tuesday 16 April 2019, 7.30pm Perth Concert Hall West Australian Symphony Orchestra and Wesfarmers Arts, creating the spark that sets off a lifelong love of music. Julia Brooke – WASO Horn Welcome Dear Patrons, I am thrilled to welcome you to Perth Concert Hall tonight for this West Australian performance of Bach’s monumental masterpiece, St Matthew Passion. Symphony Orchestra It has been 33 years since WASO performed Bach’s St Matthew Passion. and Wesfarmers Arts, That I have been afforded the opportunity to direct and collaborate with so many creating the spark fine West Australian musicians tonight is a that sets off a lifelong great honour. On behalf of WASO and St George’s Cathedral I would like to thank love of music. Mr. and Mrs. Julian and Alexandra Burt whose generous support has made this performance possible. edition from a performance I conducted at St George’s Cathedral during the 2014 The St Matthew Passion was first Concert Series. I originally reviewed performed in 1729 at Bach’s church of St Mendelssohn’s version for our 2014 Thomas, Leipzig, astonishingly receiving performance, but found it too fragmented. muted reactions from the congregants. To my mind it is essential that the Many of Bach’s contemporaries who mainframe of the story remains intact and analysed the score after the performance that the key relationships are seamless. deemed the work unmanageable and too large in scale to perform; as a Some audience members may be consequence, it was largely overlooked surprised to hear the chorales being sung until championed by a young Mendelssohn a cappella tonight. Of course, these were a hundred years later in 1829. sung, devotionally, by the congregation accompanied by the orchestra as part of Mendelssohn was barely 20 years of age the Good Friday service. However, as this when he led a very abridged version of the is a concert performance, I prefer to give St Matthew Passion in Berlin, and from that you, the listener, an opportunity to hear moment, Bach was reborn in Europe. how beautifully Bach marries the texts As you might imagine, WASO’s rehearsal with his peerless talent for harmony. schedule is not limitless, so this evening Dr Joseph Nolan you will be hearing my own abridged Julia Brooke – WASO Horn 3 The West Australian Symphony Orchestra respectfully acknowledges the Traditional Owners, Custodians and Elders of the Indigenous Nations across Western Australia and on whose Lands we work. SPECIAL EVENT West Australian Symphony Orchestra and St George’s Cathedral Present Bach’s St Matthew Passion BACH J.S. St Matthew Passion First Half (60 mins) Interval (20 mins) Second Half (57 mins) Joseph Nolan conductor Paul McMahon tenor (Evangelist) Andrew Foote baritone (Jesus) James Clayton bass-baritone (Pilate) Sara Macliver soprano Fiona Campbell mezzo soprano Richard Butler tenor St George’s Cathedral Consort Brianna Louwen Ancilla 1 Katie How Ancilla 2 Thomas Friberg Pontifex 1 Jonty Coy Pontifex 2 Wesfarmers Arts Pre-concert Talks Find out more about the music in tonight’s concert with this week’s speaker, Prue Ashurst (see page 9 for her biography). The Pre-concert Talk will take place at 6.45pm in the Terrace Level Foyer. Listen to WASO This performance is being broadcast live on ABC Classic and repeated as a delayed broadcast at 12pm AWST (or 10am online), Sunday 5 May 2019. For further details visit abc.net.au/classic 4 About The Artists Joseph Nolan Conductor British-Australian organist and choral conductor Dr. Joseph Nolan has been hailed by ABC Classic as ‘an extraordinary musician’, by BBC Radio 3 Record Review as ‘Magnificent’, byLimelight Magazine as ‘a Colossus’ and by Gramophone as ‘Perceptive and intensely musical’ Twice nominated for Artist of the Year in 2016 and 2018 by Limelight Magazine, Joseph Nolan’s disks for Signum Records UK have won Recordings of A scholarship organ student at the Royal the Year, Recordings of the Month, College of Music, London and of Marie Editor’s Choices and innumerable five Claire Alain and Dame Gillian Weir in star reviews in Gramophone, BBC Music Paris, Joseph was appointed to Her Magazine, Limelight and MusicWeb Majesty’s Chapels Royal, St James’s International. Palace in 2004. Joseph then accepted the Joseph has also performed as a position of Master of Music at St George’s concerto soloist with orchestras Cathedral, Perth in 2008 at the invitation such as the Malaysian Philharmonic of the Dean Emeritus, Dr John Shepherd. at Petronas Concert Hall, the West Joseph Nolan was made a Chevalier Australian Symphony Orchestra at Perth des Arts et des Lettres by the French Concert Hall. This coming July will see government for services to French music Joseph make his debut as soloist with in 2015 and became an Honorary Fellow the Sydney Symphony Orchestra at of the University of Western Australia in Sydney Opera House under their chief 2013. The University awarded Joseph its conductor, David Robertson. prestigious higher doctorate, the Doctor of Letters, in 2018. 5 About The Artists Paul McMahon Andrew Foote Evangelist Jesus Performing regularly as a soloist with Helpmann Award-winner Andrew Foote symphony orchestras, chamber music is one of the most experienced singers groups and choirs throughout Australia, and teachers of voice in Australia. For New Zealand and Asia, tenor Paul more than 30 years he has been a regular McMahon is one of Australia’s finest guest artist for Western Australian arts exponents of baroque and classical companies, a national broadcast artist repertoire, particularly the Evangelist role for ABC Classic FM, a freelance opera in the Passions of J. S. Bach. principal artist performing throughout Australia with Opera Australia, OzOpera Career highlights include Bach’s St John and West Australian Opera, a regular Passion with the Australian Chamber recitalist and oratorio soloist, and Orchestra under Richard Tognetti; Bach’s more recently as an opera director and St Matthew Passion under Roy Goodman; choral conductor. In his professional Haydn’s Die Schöpfung under the late concert and operatic career, Andrew has Richard Hickox, Mozart’s Mass in C Minor performed more than 40 operatic roles under Masaaki Suzuki and Mozart’s for professional companies throughout Requiem with the Hong Kong Philharmonic Australia - including his acclaimed Ned Orchestra under Manfred Honeck. Keene in Peter Grimes for which he Paul’s discography includes the solo received a 2010 Helpmann Award. His album of English, French and Italian lute soloist and concert repertoire, including songs entitled A Painted Tale; a CD and recordings for ABC Classic FM, have DVD recording of Handel’s Messiah; consistently drawn superb accolades. Handel’s Semele; Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo; In 2014 he was appointed Chair of Vocal Purcell’s The Fairy Queen; Mozart’s Studies at the University of Western Requiem and Idomeneo, Carl Orff’s Australia (UWA) Conservatorium of Music Carmina Burana and Fauré’s La naissance and Vocal Coach to the WASO Chorus. de Venus. © Patrick Togher Artists’ Management 2019 6 Photo: Rhydian Lewis Rhydian Photo: James Clayton Sara Macliver Pilate Soprano In 2018, James Clayton sang Marcello (La Sara Macliver is one of Australia’s most bohème), Escamillo (Carmen), Leporello popular and versatile artists, and is (Don Giovanni) and The Forrester (The regarded as one of the leading exponents Cunning Little Vixen) for West Australian of Baroque repertoire. Opera; he appeared in concert with Sara is a regular performer with all the the Tasmanian and West Australian Australian symphony orchestras as well Symphony Orchestras and Orchestra as the Perth, Melbourne and Sydney Wellington. In 2019, he sings Germont (La Festivals, Pinchgut Opera, the Australian traviata), Judge Turpin (Sweeney Todd) Chamber Orchestra and Australian and the title role in Macbeth in Perth, The Brandenburg Orchestra, Musica Viva, and Forrester in Adelaide and Peter (Hansel a number of international companies. and Gretel) in Melbourne. Recently Sara has sung for the Sydney, James made his Opera Australia debut as Melbourne and Tasmanian Symphony Baron Douphol in La traviata (in Handa Orchestras, West Australian Opera, the Opera on Sydney Harbour) and his Australian String Quartet, Auckland Japanese debut as Don Alfonso in Cosi Philharmonic, Australia Ensemble, fan tutte for Biwako Hall. Melbourne Chamber Orchestra, 2016/2017 appearances included Tonio Australian Haydn Ensemble, St George’s (Pagliacci) for Victorian Opera, Scully Cathedral, Sydney Philharmonia Choirs, (The Riders) for West Australian Opera, Southern Cross soloists and with the The Speaker (The Magic Flute), Escamillo Bangalow Festival. Sara has recently and the title role in The Mikado for New released a CD of Calvin Bowman songs. Zealand Opera. Sara has been awarded an honorary © Patrick Togher Artists’ Management 2019 doctorate from the University of Western Australia and records for ABC Classics with more than 35 CDs and many awards to her credit. 7 About The Artists Photo: Steven Godbee Photography Steven Photo: Fiona Campbell Richard Butler Mezzo Soprano Tenor Fiona Campbell is one of Australia’s most Richard Butler made his WASO debut in versatile and beloved classical singers 2014 singing Handel’s Messiah in a joint - a producer and guest ABC presenter, concert series with Melbourne and Adelaide accomplished international performer, Symphony Orchestras. He returned recently recitalist and recording artist. Fiona was to sing Bach’s St John Passion and has been a the winner of the national Limelight Award soloist for various projects for Joseph Nolan for Best Solo Performance 2011 and vocal at St George’s Cathedral in Monteverdi’s winner of the ABC Young Performer of the Vespers, St Matthew Passion and Judas Year Award and the ASC Opera Awards. Maccabaeus. Also in Perth, Richard sang Britten’s War Requiem at the University of Fiona sings regularly as a principal Western Australia.
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