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Post-Concert Intimacy A luxury lounge bar of unfathomable curiosities, where more than 400 of the world’s finest spirits are surrounded by a breathtaking collection of rare fossils dating back 550 million years. An intimate encounter of Tasmanian hospitality on Hobart’s waterfront and a celebration of human discovery and distillation. Nordic Spirit MASTER 8 Friday 9 August 7.30pm Federation Concert Hall Hobart Eivind Aadland conductor INTERVAL Javier Perianes piano Duration 20 mins SIBELIUS GRENFELL Symphony No 5 Flinders and Trim* Tempo molto moderato Duration 15 mins Andante mosso, quasi allegretto BEETHOVEN Allegro molto Piano Concerto No 3 Duration 30 mins Allegro con brio * World première. Commissioned by the Tasmanian Largo Symphony Orchestra through the philanthropic Rondo: Allegro support of the TSO Commissioning Circle. Duration 34 mins This concert will end at approximately 9.30pm. Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra concerts are broadcast and streamed throughout Australia MACq 01 Hotel, 18 Hunter St, Hobart 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. evolvespiritsbar.com.au 21 Maria Grenfell (b.1969) Flinders and Trim* in the period of Flinders’ greatest Maria Grenfell is Head of the achievements.’ Conservatorium of Music at the University Flinders and Trim is not a narrative of Tasmania. She holds a Doctor of musical composition. It does not tell Musical Arts from the University of a story, but it attempts to capture Eivind Aadland is Chief Conductor Javier Perianes has appeared in some of Southern California, an MA from the the essence of the ocean, friendship, and Artistic Director Designate of the the world’s most prestigious concert halls, Eastman School of Music and an MMus companionship, humour, love and Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra. He was collaborating with conductors such as Daniel from the University of Canterbury, in loss. The orchestral palette is used in New Zealand. She joined the staff of a picturesque way in large sweeping Chief Conductor and Artistic Leader of the Barenboim, Charles Dutoit, Lorin Maazel, the UTAS Conservatorium in 1998. A gestures that contrast with intricate Trondheim Symphony Orchestra (2004-2010), Zubin Mehta and Gustavo Dudamel, among represented composer at the Australian passages, a recurring ‘cat motif’, inspired during which time he conducted complete others. He has appeared with orchestras Music Centre and SouNZ Centre for by sailing ships and surreptitiously cycles of the Beethoven and Mahler such as the Vienna Philharmonic, Royal New Zealand Music, her music has been including a reharmonisation of the hymn commissioned, performed and recorded Eternal Father: symphonies and has been Principal Guest Concertgebouw Orchestra, Chicago, Boston by symphony orchestras and chamber Eternal Father, strong to save, whose Conductor of the Queensland Symphony and San Francisco Symphony orchestras, groups in Australia, New Zealand and the arm has bound the restless wave, Orchestra. Eivind Aadland has conducted the Oslo, London, and New York Philharmonics, USA. Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra who told the mighty ocean deep its major Scandinavian orchestras as well as Den Orchestre de Paris, and the Philharmonia, commissions include Tarraleah (2014) and own appointed bounds to keep: Spirals (2017). Norske Opera, Oslo. In 2010 he toured China and appeared at festivals such as the O hear us when we cry to thee for with the Trondheim orchestra and made his The composer writes: those in peril on the sea. BBC Proms, La Roque d’Anthéron and debut with the KBS Symphony in Korea. He During the composition of this piece, Ravinia. Javier Perianes’ recent schedule Captain Matthew Flinders (1774-1814) is a frequent visitor to the Oslo Philharmonic was one of the greatest explorers of we heard the shocking news of the has included a European recital tour which Christchurch massacre. ‘Now is the and West German Radio Symphony his era, the first to circumnavigate the concluded at London’s Queen Elizabeth continent and to suggest ‘Australia’ as its hour’ felt like a meagre response to Orchestra, Cologne. He has recorded with Hall, performances of Falla’s Nights in the name. He established that Tasmania was this tragedy, which is repeated far too the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, and in fact an island, and mapped much of often on distant shores, seemingly from Gardens of Spain with the BBC Scottish worked with orchestras such as the Orchestre Australia’s unknown coastline. However, another world, but becoming all too real Symphony Orchestra and Thomas Dausgaard national du Capitole de Toulouse, Royal one of the most engaging facts about when these shocking events happen in Glasgow and Aberdeen, and Ravel’s Matthew Flinders was his affection for closer to home. Christchurch was my Flemish Philharmonic, Scottish Chamber G-Major Concerto with François-Xavier Roth his cat, Trim. This fabulous feline was home town, and I grieved for it and for Orchestra, Rotterdam Philharmonic, Seoul named after the butler in Laurence those who have lost loved ones. When and the Cleveland Orchestra. Javier Perianes’ Philhamonic and Tokyo Metropolitan Sterne’s novel Tristram Shandy. Trim the Matthew Flinders lost Trim, he wrote: discography ranges from Beethoven and the Symphony Orchestra. Recent appearances cat was the subject of an adoring essay ‘Thus perished my faithful intelligent Romantics to Ravel and Bartók and Blasco written by Flinders in the 18th-century Trim! The sporting, affectionate and have included concerts with the Orchestra useful companion of my voyages during de Nebra, Mompou, Falla, Granados and English tradition. The essay describes Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, Norwegian Flinders’ acquisition of this ‘super-cat’; his four years. Never, my Trim, “to take thee Radio Orchestra, BBC Philharmonic and Turina. Debussy: the Late Works in which he characteristics, nature, and many virtues. all in all, shall I see thy like again”.’ Staatskapelle Weimar. Eivind Aadland’s appears with Jean-Guihen Queyras playing Trim spent most of his life on ships, climbing ropes, swimming in the sea, * World première. Commissioned by the Tasmanian recordings include a 2017 release of Eyvind the 1915 cello sonata, has recently won the Symphony Orchestra through the philanthropic BBC Music Magazine Chamber Award for catching mice, batting an unsuspecting support of the TSO Commissioning Circle. Alnaes’s Symphony and Piano Concerto with dog on the nose, eating food from the Håvard Gimse and the Oslo Philharmonic. 2019. Other award-winning CDs include officers’ forks (even, on occasion, out of November 2015 saw the final instalment in Grieg’s Piano Concerto and a selection of the their mouths) and conspiring with another a five-CD set of Grieg’s complete orchestral Lyric Pieces which was awarded a ‘Choc’ by cat to steal a cold leg of mutton from the pantry, for which both were punished. works, recorded with the Cologne orchestra. Classica magazine and also Editor’s Choice He spent some time in England but He is a devoted collector of, and authority in Gramophone and Maestro in Pianiste his temperament did not suit dry land. on, contemporary art. magazine. Trim was ‘Flinders’ constant companion 22 23 Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) Jean Sibelius (1865-1957) Piano Concerto No 3 in C minor, Op 37 cadenza, written out by Beethoven Symphony No 5 in E flat, Op 82 and the company; he says little, and Allegro con brio in 1809. Tempo molto moderato sometimes by his taciturnity alone he Largo As soloist at the 1803 première, Andante mosso, quasi allegretto makes an impression of deep thinking.’ Rondo: Allegro Beethoven would have improvised the Allegro molto He wrote the Fifth, one of the most cadenza. According to the page turner popular of all his works, at a time of Beethoven worked on the Piano on that occasion, Beethoven largely The pitiless despair of Sibelius’ Fourth great personal difficulty. The Great War Concerto No 3 in the early years of performed the slow movement, Largo, Symphony (1911) puzzled many of its first had broken out and, as a result, Sibelius the new century. By the time it was from notes he had in his head but had listeners. The work seemed an unlikely had lost access to the revenue from premièred – in Vienna in 1803 at a not fully committed to paper (bear sequel to the gentle radiance of the Third his German publishers, Breitkopf and concert which included his First and in mind he had two symphonies and (1907), yet its gaze into the abyss gave Härtel. To earn some regular income he Second symphonies (the latter a an oratorio to prepare for the same way, in the Fifth, to one of Sibelius’ most wrote a great number of salon pieces première) together with the oratorio concert!). The terrified page turner stared shining, life-affirming creations. for domestic performance, and had Christus am Ölberge (also a première) at page after page of barely notated dots Early in 1914 he heard Schoenberg’s little time for other composing; the Fifth – Beethoven had been living in the and dashes. In the rather surprising key Chamber Symphony for the first time. Symphony is his only major work of the Austrian capital for more than a decade. of E major, the gentle middle movement ‘This is a legitimate and valid way of war years. He arrived in Vienna from the small embraces a range of piano textures, from looking at things, I suppose,’ he wrote Rhineland city of Bonn as a pianist of Sibelius himself conducted the chords in the chorale style to filigree in his diary. ‘But it is certainly painful to repute and a composer of promise. Ten symphony’s first performance, at a passages in double thirds to arpeggios listen to.’ Yet we know that Schoenberg’s years on, his skills at the piano remained concert given on 8 December 1915 to that swirl up through the registers.