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NORTHERN MIDLANDS 26—28 OCTOBER 2018 About the Festival A message from the Welcome to the second Tasmanian Premier of Tasmania Chamber Music Festival. Welcome to the 2018 Tasmanian My dream is that you will discover Chamber Music Festival. the glorious Tasmanian countryside, the wonderful heritage “gems” in After a sensational debut northern Tasmania. That you will performance last year the experience the most exquisite music Festival returns with the delightful in these special intimate venues. And combination of fine food, historic I want you to meet people, discuss homes and gardens, and some of the music and enjoy the food and our finest chamber musicians. wine for which Tasmania is famous. Evandale and the World Heritage The continued financial support of listed Woolmers and Brickendon Philip Bacon AM, Kay Bryan, Julia Estates are amongst the exquisite Farrell, Pauline Menz, Ros O’Connor backdrops for this year’s and the Graeme Wood Foundation performances, and there is so is fantastic and I am thrilled to add much more to explore in Tasmania’s Tricia and Rob Greenwell to this list. thriving arts and cultural scene. My thanks go to the Tasmanian The Tasmanian Government is a government through Events strong supporter of the cultural and Tasmania for agreeing to support creative industries, and we’re proud this event for the next three years. to once again support the Tasmanian Chamber Music Festival. To our musicians, the Tinalley String Quartet, Slava and Leonard Enjoy! Grigoryian, Umberto Clerici, Andrew Will Hodgman Seymour, Erin Helyard, Jacqueline Premier of Tasmania Porter and Emma McGrath, a huge thank you. Allanah Dopson Director 2 Tasmanian Chamber Music Festival The Festival Program A weekend of superb Chamber music Friday Evening Saturday Sunday 26th October 27th October 28th October Tinalley String Quartet Slava & Leonard Grigoryan Bach in the Barns Debussy String Quartet Playing works by Handel, Three beautiful historic in G minor, Op10 Bach, Tchaikovsky, De Falla barns coupled with three and much more outstanding musicians Schubert Quintet in 11am at St Andrew’s and the ravishing music of C major, D 956 with Uniting Church, Evandale J.S. Bach on a Sunday. Umberto Clerici (cello) 8pm at Falls Pavilion Tinalley String Quartet Erin Helyard Ravel String Quartet in Toccata in E minor, F major BWV 914 Mozart Quintet in A major Prelude, Fugue and for Clarinet and Strings, Allegro, BWV 998 K.581 with Andrew Toccata in D major, Seymour (clarinet) BWV 912 2:30pm at Woolmers at Brickendon Barn Followed by afternoon tea Umberto Clerici and enjoy the famous rose garden Suite no 2 in D minor, BWV 1008 Il Caro Sassone: at Clarendon Barn The Glory of Handel Erin Helyard & Jacqueline Emma McGrath Porter with guest violinist, Violin Partita in E major, Emma McGrath BWV 1006 8pm at Christ Church, at Haggerston Barn Longford Performances at 10am, 11:15am & 12:30pm Northern Midlands 2018 3 IMAGE | MEL DE RUYTER Evandale Evandale sits perfectly above the launching the Australian landscape fertile South Esk River, 19km south tradition. Beginning with John east of Launceston. Named Collins Glover in 1831, of nearby Patterdale, Hill by Governor Macquarie in thence Robert Dowling, W.C. Piguenit 1811 and surveyed by G.W. Evans and Tom Roberts of the Heidelberg as a military station, it is one of School. The area became in the Tasmania’s finest Colonial landscape words of Roberts, ‘Glover Country’. ensembles. The great Cox Farm, Evandale is now home to Australia’s Clarendon, is nearby at Nile. The richest landscape prize: The Glover entry to the town sports a ‘Roman’ Prize. Each year Australian artists water tower, Blenheim Inn and send works responding to the portico (1832), and paired Grecian Tasmanian landscape, then hung and Gothic churches. At Solomon in the airy Evandale Falls Pavilion, House (1836), left into Russell St, judged against their subject. painted by Colonial artists John The inspiration continues. Richardson Glover, and convict Dr Costantini. Evandale sits at the Warwick Oakman centre of the Colonial landscape, 4 Tasmanian Chamber Music Festival Why I enjoy spring in Tasmania Spring in a cool climate is an exciting spring by other blossom trees such time, especially for gardeners. Not as apple, cherry, crabapple and only does the landscape spring pear. back into life from the grey depths By the time bluebells, tulips, iris, of winter, but days get longer and clematis, wisteria, lilacs and sunnier, and temperatures get rhododendrons add more colour, warmer. Insects and birds reappear gardens appear to have reached a as flowers bloom adding their spring crescendo but there’s more sounds to the scented spring air. to come. Roses begin to flower too As mild days continue, spring in – first the climbers then the shrub northern Tasmania just gets better roses – along with spring annuals as more flowers join those already and perennials. in full bloom. In warm climates, In the vegetable garden, brown spring can be transitory as sudden earth gives way to green leaves as hot spells or drying winds blow the early plantings start to grow and petals away but under Tasmania’s flourish. Asparagus spears appear benign temperatures, spring builds and rhubarb leaves unfurl as peas, up in layers. broad beans and delicately flavoured The show begins slowly in late winter English spinach and peppery radish with early bulbs including jonquils, are ready to pick. New spring leaves narcissus, daffodils and snowflakes on trees and shrubs add depth and showing gold and white against the volume to the colourful floral mix stark silver and grey of deciduous while lawns grow lush and green all plants. Magnolias and the pink and combining to erase the last of the white flowers of ornamental plums winter grey. chime in to be followed in early Jennifer Stackhouse Northern Midlands 2018 IMAGE | JENNIFER STACKHOUSE 5 Concert 1 Tinalley String Quartet with Umberto Clerici Friday 26 October, 8.00pm | Falls Pavilion, Evandale Performers Program Adam Chalabi – violin Debussy String Quartet Lerida Delbridge – violin in G minor, Op10 Justin Williams – viola Schubert Quintet in C major, D 956 with Umberto Clerici (cello) Patrick Murphy – cello 6 Tasmanian Chamber Music Festival FALLS PAVILION IMAGE | MEL DE RUYTER Falls Pavilion Evandale Within hawthorn hedges, the Falls Pavilion, built by the Evandale Agricultural Society from 1868 to 1999, for competitive poultry, pumpkins, cats, orchids, showgirls – everything occupying the energy of rural Evandale. One prize of the Show Society – “2nd prize - a cottage garden not worked on a Sunday”, gives some idea of the moral goodness. The Falls Pavilion is vernacular, timber, T shaped plan, with fine windows, shutters and exposed trusses. It is one of the largest timber buildings in Tasmania, built voluntarily by Mr A. H. Boyd, for £250. Operating weekly since time immemorial, the Sunday Evandale Market, run by Mr Peter Woof is considered the best rural market in Tasmania. The Falls Pavilion annually displays the Glover Prize, the richest prize for landscape, proudly sponsored by The Federal Group. The retaining fund created by the event, ensures a sustainable future, a collection of art 100 years hence. The elegant spaces, with views over the surrounding farmland, make this perfect for bucolic music. Warwick Oakman Northern Midlands 2018 7 Program notes Claude Debussy String Quartet in G minor, Op10 Claude Debussy’s startlingly original Written in four movements, the and evocative compositions are often quartet’s complex opening theme labeled as both impressionistic and is repeated in varying altered form symbolist. The colours and freedom throughout the entire cyclic work, of form are thought to represent both with one of its strongest identifying the musical equivalent of Monet’s features being the rapid three note dreamlike landscapes of the late 19th ornament found in the first phrase. century, whilst also containing the The quartet stresses sonority, fantasy and imagination of symbolist timbre, rubato and driving rhythms poetry and art at the time. throughout, with a colour palette ranging from sparkling pizzicato to Yet regardless of stylistic labels, the muted tones of the third movement Debussy’s ground-breaking Andantino. String Quartet in g minor, Op.11 is representative of his own unique The quartet was premiered in style – a mélange of the melodic Paris on December 29, 1893 by the practices of Russian composers such Ysaÿe Quartet, and although it was as Borodin and Mussourgsky, and the received with vastly mixed feelings, introduction of sounds, textures and it has since become one of the most exotic scales of eastern music, whilst beloved masterpieces of the quartet retaining an undoubtedly Romantic repertoire. flavour. Lerida Delbridge 2018 Schubert Cello Quintet in C major, Op163, D.956 i. Allegro ma non troppo ii. Adagio iii. Scherzo: Presto-Trio: Andante sostenuto iv. Allegretto Schubert would complete his quintet performed for the first time in for the slightly unusual combination November, 1850 at the Musikverein, of string quartet plus cello (the Vienna. It is extraordinary that now, convention at that time was for string Schubert is famed for his works for quartet augmented with a second ensembles, and in particularly his viola) in 1828, two months before his string quartets and this quintet, which untimely death at the tender age of 31. is regarded one of the genre’s greatest. Regarded at that time as a composer Schubert famously wrote of whose strength lay in compositions himself ‘I feel myself to be the most for piano and voice, the work was unfortunate, the most miserable essentially disregarded by his being in the world. Think of a man publisher. It would not be published whose splendid hopes have come to for another twenty-five years and naught, to whom the happiness of 8 Tasmanian Chamber Music Festival love and friendship offers nothing but descending motifs.

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