Mozart Clarinet Concerto MASTER 7 • LAUNCESTON 4 Friday Saturday 2 August 7.30pm 3 August 7.30pm Federation Concert Hall Hobart Albert Hall Launceston There is an art to selling fine homes Tung-Chieh Chuang conductor INTERVAL Andrew Seymour clarinet Duration 20 mins Just as an artist plays the perfect note, we position your property in the finest light to showcase its true value. DEBUSSY arr BÜSSER HONEGGER Petite suite Pastorale d’été To those who value the unique, Sotheby’s International Realty is the local real estate agency that offers unrivalled Duration 7 mins access to qualified buyers and distinctive properties around Tasmania & the world. En bateau Cortège BIZET For a complimentary appraisal or any information regarding the Sotheby’s Realty difference on showcasing your Menuet Symphony in C property to the world, contact our Hobart office on: 6234 2400 or sothebysrealtytasmania.com Ballet Allegro vivo Duration 14 mins Adagio MOZART Allegro GLOBAL REACH. LOCAL EXPERTISE. Clarinet Concerto Vivace Allegro Duration 30 mins Adagio This concert will end at approximately Rondo (Allegro) 9.30pm. Duration 30 mins Tasmania 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. Sotheby’s International Realty and the Sotheby’s International Realty logo are registered (or unregistered) service marks used with permission. Each office is independently owned and operated. 15 Hunter Street, Hobart. 13 Claude Debussy (1862-1918), orchestrated by Henri Büsser (1872-1973) Petite suite Pelléas et Mélisande in 1902, and was En bateau entrusted with the orchestrations of ‘La Cortège soirée dans Grenade’, ‘La Puerta del Vino’ and ‘La cathédrale engloutie’ in Winner of the 2015 Nicolai Malko Principal Clarinet with the Tasmanian Menuet 1917. Competition in Copenhagen, Tung-Chieh Ballet Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Seymour The first piece, En bateau, is a barcarolle Chuang subsequently received invitations completed a Bachelor of Music Performance Debussy wrote the Petite suite in 1889 in 6/8, an early example of the from orchestras such as the Munich at the Victorian College of the Arts. Freelance as a work for piano four hands. The Prix fascination with water Debussy shared de Rome winner had returned from two Philharmonic, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, engagements in Melbourne included with the Impressionist painters. It is a Oslo Philharmonic, Helsinki Philharmonic and years’ residence in Rome in February wistful, tender piece in simple ternary performing with the Royal Melbourne Vienna Philharmonic. Other awards include 1887, and visited the Wagner centre form in which the main theme returns Philharmonic Orchestra, Australian Classical of Bayreuth in mid-1888, where he had in decorated form after a more forcible Second Prize (no first prize was given) as Players and Lyric Opera of Melbourne, as heard The Mastersingers of Nuremberg middle section. Features of the budding well as Audience Award in the International and Parsifal. Wagner, he later decided, Debussy style are the arabesques in well as The Phantom of the Opera and Dr Solti Competition, and prize-winner in the had not written the ‘music of the future’ the accompaniment (harp), the short Gustav Mahler Competition (Bamberg) and Zhivago. Between 2009 and 2011 he toured (which was Wagner’s claim); this was whole-tone melody towards the end of Jeunesse Musicales, Bucharest. Recent nationally as a member of the orchestra a sunset mistaking itself for a sunrise. the middle section, and the absence of appearances have included the Shanghai for OzOpera, Opera Australia’s travelling Certainly, a work like the Petite suite up-beat rhythms. seems to affirm the values of the French Symphony Orchestra, Taiwan Philharmonic, company. He was singled out by The West The influence of Delibes, traced in musical tradition. Though its gentle Debussy’s earlier Deux arabesques, may Taipei Symphony Orchestra, Lapland Australian review of OzOpera’s production of charm and harmonic restraint mark it Chamber Orchestra, Gothenburg Symphony, be less prominent in the Petite suite than La traviata: ‘his every note was meaningful’. off from Debussy’s much later great the influence of other French composers. Odense Symphony, National Youth In 2014 he was featured in recital on ABC piano music, the suite possesses an easy Cortège (Procession), for example, Orchestra of Ireland, and his debut with the disposition and much colour realised Classic FM’s Sunday Live program, his reflects the influence of the Bizet of Jeux Dresden Philharmonic. Other orchestras in pianistic terms. More importantly, d'enfants. There is a deft piquancy to the performance praised by Limelight magazine the fingerprints of the future harmonic with which he has appeared include the procession, rather than pomp. as ‘soaring and colourful’ and the Hobart and melodic innovator are already in Bamberg Symphony, Middle-Germany Radio evidence. This work was first performed Geoffrey Crankshaw describes the Mercury as ‘an astonishing display of Symphony Orchestra Leipzig and Deutsche by Debussy and Jacques Durand on 1 Menuet as having ‘a period fragrance’. Kammerphilharmonie Bremen. In 2012, he instrumental virtuosity’. He has performed March 1889. Later that summer in Paris, The flavour is perhaps of the ‘ancient’ organised the first-ever orchestral flashmob as guest principal clarinet with the Australian Debussy heard a Javanese gamelan at music of the rococo. It is delicate music, poised and touched with the wistfulness performance in Taiwan, leading the National Chamber Orchestra, Auckland Philharmonia the World Exposition and one could say the future direction of his music was of En bateau. Taiwan University Symphony Orchestra. Orchestra, West Australian and Canberra firmly set. Finally, Ballet invokes the spirit of dance, Tung-Chieh Chuang was born into a family symphony orchestras. In 2016 he made and the influence of Chabrier. of musicians. He learnt piano and horn and About Debussy’s own pianism there are his solo debut with the TSO performing varied opinions but there is agreement had his first concerto appearance at the age © Symphony Australia Copland’s Clarinet Concerto under the on two points: that it was like nobody of 11. He studied at Philadelphia’s Curtis baton of Chief Conductor Marko Letonja. His else’s, and that it had a certain orchestral The Tasmanian Symphony first performed this Institute and at the Musikhochschule Weimar. work with conductor Charles Groves on 5 August performance was described by the Mercury quality. The treatment of the Petite His mentors include Mark Gibson, Gustav suite in orchestral form could be said, 1950 and, most recently, with Howard Shelley on 9 as ‘sensitive and beautifully shaded’ and September 2000. Meier, Otto-Werner Mueller and Nicolás therefore, to be simply a matter of Pasquet. Before 2007, when he changed ‘gloriously vibrant’. Other solo appearances bringing out the colour implicit in the original. Henri Büsser, who orchestrated course to pursue a musical career, he Chuang with the TSO have included Richard Strauss’ the work in 1907, was a trusted colleague Duet-Concertino and Maria Grenfell’s received a bachelor degree in applied of Debussy. He took over the conducting statistics from Purdue University (USA). Concerto for Clarinet and Bassoon, the latter from André Messager for the fourth and Currently he resides in Berlin. being a world première. subsequent performances of the opera 14 15 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) Arthur Honegger (1892-1955) Clarinet Concerto in A, K622 sounds. And the smooth carriage from Pastorale d’été inspiration came from outside music, Allegro one sound to another – as smooth as a It hardly comes as a surprise that from Arthur Rimbaud’s poem ‘Aube’ Adagio singer gliding from one note to the next the Swiss-French composer Arthur (Dawn). Honegger inscribed the first line – is one of the instrument’s specialties. of the poem on the score: ‘J’ai embrassé Rondo (Allegro) Honegger, composer of works such as ‘Never should I have thought that a Pacific 231 (named after a train) and l’aube d’été’ (I have kissed the summer The clarinet was an exotic instrument clarinet could be capable of imitating Rugby (his favourite sport), should have dawn). The poem continues: in Mozart’s day. Writing to his father a human voice so deceptively as it was been a member of Les Six. This group Nothing was moving yet...the camps from the German city of Mannheim, imitated by you,’ wrote a critic of Anton of musical enfants terribles (the others of shadows had not left the woodland 22-year-old Mozart exclaimed: ‘If only Stadler’s playing. were Francis Poulenc, Darius Milhaud, road. I walked, awakening warm, living we had clarinets! You cannot imagine Judging from the opening movement of Georges Auric, Germaine Tailleferre and breath, and the precious stones looked the glorious effect of a symphony with the Clarinet Concerto, Allegro, Mozart Louis Durey), inspired by the eccentric on, and wings were lifted soundlessly. flutes, oboes and clarinets.’ The famed relished putting Stadler through his and iconoclastic composer Erik Satie The first undertaking was, in the path Mannheim orchestra had no less than paces, while simultaneously exhibiting and radical film-maker and designer two clarinets; the Salzburg orchestra – in already filled with pale, fresh flashes, a the instrument’s kaleidoscopic range. Jean Cocteau, were fired with rebellion flower which told me its name. which Mozart father and son played – Of particular note is Mozart’s tendency against the old musical guard, and had none. Years later, when Mozart was to commence a phrase in one register enthusiastic in embracing everyday life I laughed at the blonde waterfall making a career for himself in Vienna, (either high or low) and abruptly jump as the stimulus for their art. New music, tousled among the fir trees..