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WHAT THE CRITICS SAY ABOUT HÉLÈNE Me l b a ’s world premiere recording of the Hélène, written by Saint-Saëns for , has One of its kind…top of its class. Music and Vision received outstanding reviews internationally for the (UK) fine performances of , sopranos Rosamund Illing and Leanne Kenneally, Steve This is a gorgeous set that does justice to Saint-Saëns’ Davislim, alto Zan McKendree-Wright and the Belle beguiling creations and is highly recommended. Epoque Chorus conducted by Guillaume Tourniaire. SACD-Net (UK) Hélène was coupled with another world premiere recording of the luscious music of Saint-Saëns — his Tourniaire gives us a little miracle of a record- Nuit Persane, (Persian Night) a song cycle for tenor, ing, a crowning achievement – championed with alto, chorus and orchestra. brio and passion by these inspired interpreters. This Melba recording led to the revival of these OpusHD(France) — Opus d’Or Award two works in Europe, at the Czech Republic’s Prague State Opera, in three critically acclaimed concert th All credit to the highly enterprising Australian label performances in celebration of the 120 anniver- Melba for following up their excellent SACD Ring with sary of its home, the New German Theatre. such a rarity. No expense is spared, either, with super- ior presentation, excellent notes, and a first rate cast. INSIDE BBC Music Magazine (UK) Hélène launches: London, , New York Raheen gala dinner New and future releases Reviews

Melba is supported by the Australian Government, through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body. HÉLÈNE IN LONDON IN NEW YORK WITH MR MURDOCH WITH MR HUMPHRIES & FRIENDS Hélène was launched in London at Stoke Lodge, the residence of the Acting High On 7th October, Commissioner, Her Excellency Frances The Australian Adamson on 8th July. Performing Ambassador to the were tenor and pianist United Nations, Tony Gray. Distinguished pianist and Robert Hill and the Melba Foundation Ambassador Leslie Australian Consul- Howard performed Liszt and Steve General in New York, Davislim sang Strauss and Britten. [Barry John Olsen, hosted a Humphries’ speech is available at www. reception in honour of melbarecordings.com.au/content/ the Melba Foundation view/518 and scroll down.] at which the Guest of Honour was Rupert Murdoch. Rupert Murdoch said of Maria Vandamme: “I admire her so much. She’s so determined, so strong and she’s really put something together here which I think is a great contribution to Australia.”

Barry Humphries , Michael Lynch [Chief Executive of the South Providing the musical entertainment was Ray Chen whose Paganini-styled Bank Centre, London] with Chrissy Sharp [General Manager, Variations on Waltzing Matilda brought the house down. Nineteen-year-old Ray Sadler ’s Wells] at the London launch Chen comes from Brisbane. He is currently studying in Philadelphia with Aaron Rosand at The Curtis Institute of Music. In 2009, he will make his debut recording IN MELBOURNE WITH with Melba. MAESTRO TOURNIAIRE

Two months later, while Maestro Tourniaire was visiting Australia to conduct another world premiere recording with Melba, Hélène was launched in Melbourne.

Rosamund Illing [Hélène], Steve Davislim [Paris], Maria Vandamme, CEO, Melba Recordings and Doug Mitchell, Chairman, Melba Foundation

Bill Hennessey, Artistic Director of the Melbourne Chamber Orchestra and Brian Benjamin, Chair of the Melbourne Chamber Orchestra 1 Robert Hill, John Olsen and Rupert Murdoch 2 Ray Chen 2 3 Jill Banks, Frances Cassidy [President American Australian Association] and Francesca Beale MELBA AT RAHEEN WITH LISA GASTEEN

In July, Melba celebrated in style at Raheen, Jeanne reviews: “Brisbane-born Lisa Gasteen reaffirms her status and Richard Pratt’s residence in Kew. The Pratts generously as one of the day’s premier Brünnhildes.“ (Bob Crimeen, hosted an evening of fine music-making and stimulating Sunday Herald Sun) conversation, with Terry Lane interviewing our Guest of The Raheen Gala Dinner was also an opportunity for Honour, Lisa Gasteen. Melba supporters to hear young Reviewers of the Melba Ring artist coloratura soprano Suzanne have waxed lyrical about Gasteen, Shakespeare, accompanied by acclaimed as one of the great pianist Dean Sky-Lucas, perform Brünnhilde’s of our time. “Majestic”, in an intimate setting. “magnificent”, “superb”, ”ravishing”, As Melba Managing Director, “radiant”, “glorious”, “commanding”, Maria Vandamme said in her “thrilling” and “god-like” are only a few introduction: “Our namesake of the superlatives. Göran Forsling, Nellie Melba was passionate [New Classics, UK] said: “The crown about supporting young singers, of the whole performance is Lisa gave very generously of her Gasteen’s Brünnhilde ... as the drama time, and was always on the look unfolds she impresses more and more out for someone who would be Lady Potter AC, Tony Preston (background) through her insight and her intensity. her successor. One of the most She tops everything else with one exciting developments of the past of the most glorious readings of the year has been a robust model for Immolation scene. Anne Evans on the promoting young artists—the Barenboim set is superb but falls short Melba Emerging Artists Program. of the seemingly unlimited power of This has been aided by The Ian Lisa Gasteen. Birgit Nilsson, for both Potter Foundation, for which Solti and Böhm, is superhumanly special thanks go to Lady Potter, strong and brilliant but lacks the Melba Foundation Patron and warmth.” And among the local Suzanne Shakespeare, Jeanne Pratt, Maria inaugural Chair.” Vandamme and Lisa Gasteen

DAME ELISABETH MURDOCH—MELBA’S FOUNDING BENEFACTOR

Dame Elisabeth has The Melba Foundation is honoured to have Dame devoted her life to the Elisabeth as its Founding Benefactor. Without her deep well being of others. personal interest in our endeavours and generous support She has a keen interest we would not have achieved such international acclaim in in the arts, education, our five short years. the environment, the welfare of children, our heritage and medical On 8th February 2009 research. The University ...Melba releases Sublime Mozart (MR301122) of Melbourne awarded a CD produced especially for Australia’s most her an honorary generous and admired philanthropist on the Doctorate of Laws in occasion of her 100th Birthday. Sublime Mozart 1968 in acknowledgement of her extraordinary commitment will include two of the most loved works in the to research, the arts and philanthropy. repertoire for clarinet by Mozart — his Clarinet Dame Elisabeth has pioneered many areas of philanthropy. Concerto, with clarinettist Paul Dean and The She was the first woman on the council of trustees of the Queensland Orchestra conducted by Guillaume National Gallery of Victoria, a founding member of the Tourniaire, and, Mozart’s Clarinet Quintet Victorian Tapestry Workshop and a founding member of the performed by Paul Dean with the Grainger Deafness Foundation of Victoria. She was also recognised by Quartet. the French Government for funding an exhibition of works by This CD is a joy for all lovers of Mozart! Mozart the French sculptor Auguste Rodin in Melbourne in 2002. is Dame Elisabeth’s favourite composer and the Currently a Trustee of the McClelland Regional Art Gallery, clarinet her favourite instrument. See Melba’s interview with Dame Elisabeth Dame Elisabeth is also a Patron of the Murdoch Children’s on the Melba website homepage at Research Institute and a Patron of the RSPCA. www.melbarecordings.com.au 3 NEW & FUTURE RELEASES

MORE FROM DAVISLIM & TOURNIAIRE

Lovers of French Romantic music are in for a treat as Melba continues the French theme, this time with conductor Guillaume Tourniaire and tenor Steve Davislim. They were busy with The Queensland Orchestra in October recording Tempestuous Heart, a CD of rapturous music by Ernest Chausson—his Poéme de l’Amour et de la Mer. The Chausson is a much loved work, which receives its world premiere recording in the form in which it was written—for tenor and orchestra. Also recorded was music by Louis Vierne—Ballade du désespéré, Psyché, Eros and Les Djinns. All the Vierne works are fi rst recordings. The CD will be released in 2009. DAMASE RHAPSODIE

Melba has another world premiere recording, this time by French composer Jean-Michel Damase, which was commissioned by . The work is the Rhapsodie for Horn and Orchestra and appears on the Rhapsodie: Fantasie: Poème CD to be released in February 2009. Performing are Orchestra Victoria, conductor and horn soloist Ben Jacks. The fi rst performance of Rhapsodie for Horn and Orchestra was given by Barry Tuckwell at London’s Royal Festival Hall on 16 April 1986 with the London Symphony Orchestra under Michel Plasson. Damase notes that Barry Humphries had asked for a work “inspired by the ocean and the atmosphere of the coast” and said that it should be written for performance by his friend Barry Tuckwell. The result is a piece in a free form which depicts Maria Vandamme, Steve Davislim, Phil Rowlands [Sound Engineer], the “passing of a day: peaceful for dawn and dusk, with a more and Guillaume Tourniaire take a break during recording sessions animated central section” and whose taxing solo part exploits Tuckwell’s virtuosity, making the most of the instrument’s “heroic STEVE DAVISLIM’S PERFORMANCE IN HÉLÈNE HAS RECEIVED character” as well as its contrast “from long melodic lines to RAVE REVIEWS: passages of the greatest rapidity”. Other works on Rhapsodie: Fantasie: Poème are the Damase “As Paris, Steve Davislim uses his fi ne lyric tenor to produce singing Concerto, written eight years after Rhapsodie, and The Phantasy that is, by turns, thrillingly passionate and caressingly sweet. His for Horn and Orchestra by George William Lewis Marshall-Hall, is an altogether fi rst-rate performance.” **** Graham Williams, the London-born composer who in 1891 was appointed the SACD.NET (UK), 25 August 2008 fi rst Ormond Professor in Music at the . “The star performance comes from tenor Steve Davislim, There he founded in quick succession a conservatorium, and exploiting his wonderfully truee an orchestra, gaining a fi rst-rate reputation as a conductor. Also and well focused voice over on the recording are Poème Op.70b for horn and orchestra by , Paul Dukas’ popular Villanelle, and Camille a wide tonal range.” Edward Saint-Saëns’ Morceau de Concert written in 1887. The Saint-Saëns, Greenfield, Gramophone, Dukas and Koechlin pieces, as well as the Damase Concerto, are Awards Issue, 2008 performed with The Queensland Orchestra [TQO]. Admirers of Steve Davislim will be delighted with his recordingg of Winterreise with pianist Barry Tuckwell Anthony Romaniuk, to be and Ben Jacks released in March 2009.

WiWintnterreisee will be fofollol wed by a recorrecordding with Simone YYoungoung of ’sBritte Folksong ArrArraangemenan ts, out in AApril 2009. 4 PHOENIX STORY recorded. Some of the composers, such as by the Australian String Quartet, Daryl MR301113 Arne, Cimarosa and J.C. Bach are seldom Poulsen horn player, Paul Wright violin, performed; others, like Storace, Zingarelli and and pianist composer Roger Smalley. Pei-Jee & Pei-Sian Ng [cello] Crescentini are virtually forgotten. Yet, when David Tong [piano] “This is subtle, complex music, beautifully hearing such delightful songs and arias as Chopin, Rachmaninov, Elena Kats- played. Richly rewarding at fi rst hearing “The Nightingale” and the title track “Cherry Chernin: Phoenix Story for two cellos and on many hearings thereafter.” Peter Ripe”, it is hard to fathom the neglect of such [2007] world premiere recording McCallum, Morning Herald music. Melba’s new recording artists, the With an outstanding contribution from Adelaide-born Ng brothers — Pei- Arcadia Lane Orchestra, this fascinating TZIGANE Jee and Pei-Sian — completed their journey into the musical byways is MR301115 fi rst Australian tour in 2007 to great persuasively presented. This is another Kristian Winther [violin] acclaim. Performing with Melba artist, release in The Edition and a Anthony Romaniuk [piano] pianist David Tong, the twin cellists companion to Bonynge and Riedel’s Power of Michelle Wood [cello] featured the world premiere of a new Love, an exploration of British operatic arias. work by Australian composer Elena Kats- Violin Sonata No.2 in G major Chernin alongside music by Chopin and Pièce en forme de Habañera Rachmaninov. ENCORE MY GOOD SIR Deux mélodies hébraïques MR301116 Sonata for Violin and Cello Phoenix Story reviews Lin Jiang [horn] The formidable demands of Maurice “A feast for all the senses! These artists Benjamin Martin [piano] Ravel’s chamber music provide the are at a level few achieve... they commit , Peter Maxwell Davies, perfect showcase for the stunning to their cellos in an almost ecstatic state, , Esa-Pekka Salonen, Francis violinist, Kristian Winther. His debut eyes closed, expressing everything Poulenc, Marin Marais, Paul Hindemith, J.S. recording is in the company of two of through their instruments.” Penelope Bach, Otto Ketting, Thaddeus Huang: Encore, Australia’s fi nest chamber musicians, Debelle, The Age My Good Sir [world premiere recording] pianist Anthony Romaniuk and cellist “Elena Kats-Chernin provides an Lin Jiang, one of Australia’s most sought Michelle Wood playing the Ravel pieces intriguing counter balance to two super- after horn soloists, has performed regularly Deux mélodies hébraïques, Pièce en Romantic pieces with her Phoenix with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, forme de Habañera, Sonata for violin Story, the title piece of this disc... Tong the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, the and piano No. 2, Sonata for violin and accompanies and shares the structural Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra and cello, and the title work, Tzigane. weighting in equal measure with the Orchestra Victoria. Using the latest direct stream digital soloists... The three artists are still in their Melba Recordings is pleased to present technology, these performances are mid-20s yet play with virtuosic insights”. Encore My Good Sir, the recording debut presented in the fi nest SACD sound **** [4 stars] Noel Mengel, Courier of Lin Jiang, in association with pianist and reproduction. This recording was Mail composer, Benjamin Martin. supported by the Ian Potter Foundation. The disc’s title work, Encore My Good 5 Stars for Tzigane Sir, was specially composed for Lin Jiang by CHERRY RIPE “This fi ne eff ort from Down Under sports MR301118 Thaddeus Huang. Encore My Good Sir was supported by the Ian Potter Foundation. fi ery interpretations of great skill from The Richard Bonynge Edition its three young performers, state-of-the­ Vocal treasures from the 18th and art hi-res surround sonics, and beautiful 19th centuries THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY packaging which includes a bound-in [soprano] MR301112 34-page illustrated booklet of notes. ”Both the gypsy-fl avored Tzigane Richard Bonynge [conductor] Australian String Quartet and the variations on Hebrew Arcadia Lane Orchestra Roger Smalley [piano] melodies illustrate Ravel’s openness Darryl Poulsen [horn] Richard Bonynge has spent a lifetime to extra-musical infl uences. Winther Paul Wright [violin] unearthing vocal treasures the world really tears into the gypsy rhapsody Piano Quintet had lost or thought it had outgrown. … Throughout all the works the Trio for Horn Violin and Piano In his latest venture, Cherry Ripe, he preciseness and perfection of Ravel’s String Quartet No.2 has gathered enchanting pieces from composing technique shines forth, even the 18th and 19th centuries that will during the most vehement and The recording of chamber music by Perth captivate us all. Featuring Australian emotional passages. John Sunier, composer Roger Smalley is out now to soprano Deborah Riedel, the program Audiophile Audition [USA] includes many pieces never before enthusiastic reviews. It features performances 5 LOVINGLY ACCOMPLISHED...

Within the last few years Australia’s and musicians of Australia’s most Melba Recordings has set unparalleled, urbanized state have brought it to our ground-breaking standards in the attention in a performance of avowed production, presentation, packaging commitment. and design of SACD recordings. Saint-Saëns, a noted Grecophile, And, as if that were not enough, wrote his own libretto on the Southern the land of dingos, didjeridus and Peloponese island of Kranai ... The uranium deposits achieves performance score was written in Aix-les-Bains in the standards every bit the equal of their French Rhône-Alpes region. Northern Hemisphere counterparts. Within the fi rst fi fty seconds of Saint- Now they turn their attention Saëns’ rousing orchestral introduction, to important, though recently we hear fleeting suggestions of rediscovered works by the exceptionally Mendelssohn and Berlioz. prolific, universally erudite French Then the music fl ows, without composer, pianist, organist, man of break, into the equally brief fi rst letters and organizer, Camille Saint- “Rosamund Illing, manages the prodigious scene featuring Paris and a chorus of dramatic compass with stirring Saëns. Works under discussion are “Spartiates” (an elite warrior class of the magisterial power” Hélène, a dramatic/lyrical opera in one rigidly hierarchical Spartan society in act for soloists, choir and orchestra, and There are photos and biographies of Hellenic times). the soloists, conductor and Dame Nellie. Nuit Persane, Op 26b (song cycle); text From Hélène’s eleven minute by Armand Renaud (1836–1895) for Other photos are from Terry Lane and soliloquy (second scene), one becomes (historic) images courtesy of Editions mezzo-soprano, tenor, speaker, choir acutely aware of the work’s exacting and orchestra. Durand-Salabert-Eschig of Paris. vocal demands and Saint-Saëns’ Nuit Persane, Op 26b (“Persian Maria Vandamme, executive director exquisite orchestral scene painting; of Melbourne’s Melba Foundation, Night” — all 31’40” of it) occupies CD perhaps most notably by the Oz winds. 2 and is divided into four parts — The disinterred the score of Saint-Saëns’ Title role soprano, Rosamund Illing, Hélène in the archives of the Monte Lonely Woman, The Valley of Union, manages the prodigious dramatic Flower of Blood and An Opium Dream. Carlo Opera, while searching for compass with stirring magisterial documentary material on Dame Nellie Each of these is prefaced by a prelude power, offset by melting sotto voce titled The Voice of the Dream. Melba. beauty; a breathtaking re-acquaintance More than a century earlier Hélène Armand Renaud’s text is somewhat with this fi ne poème lyrique. (played by Melba) enjoyed a successful overripe, quasi-Persian poetry The third scene involves Hélène, premiere (1904) at Théâtre de Monte reminiscent of a latter-day Omar Venus (lyric soprano — Leanne Carlo Opera; then it was staged at Khayyám ... a world of pale white horses Kenneally) and nymphs (chorus), Covent Garden, the Opéra Comique with flowing manes and tails, Zabulistan and Kenneally copes superbly with (Paris) and fi nally Teatro alla Scala, beauties, soft red lips, the fl ame of the fearsome demands, revealing Milan. Subsequently, for all practical divine sensual love, whirling dervishes, undiminished evenness in the highest purposes, it vanished. gaoler’s scimitars, a lake of love et al… Why it was so fated remains a register. (Note that Venus, a Roman there’s no denying Melba Records’ team; mystery for Hélène is a memorable goddess, and Aphrodite, a Greek narrator Amanda Mouellic, tenor Steve work combining declamatory qualities goddess, are exact counterparts.) Davislim and alto Zan McKendree- of fi ne opera with the intense glow of In the sixth scene, listen for a pastel Wright acquit themselves persuasively ruminative 19th century Romantic- violin solo usher in the daybreak in throughout the cycle. lyrical song. … which Hélène soliloquizes over all Orchestra Victoria’s brief provides for Nuit Persane started out as the that Paris is putting behind him. Equal , , series of Mélodies Persanes, Op 26 craftsmanship is evident as Saint-Saëns Victorian Opera, The Production (1870–71). Its exotic melodies were suggests a suspenseful lull prior to Company, Melbourne — a stage warmly received and in 1891 the the Trojan confl ict (fi fth scene — until musical organisation — plus free composer rescored the work (as above). 4’35”). Community Program concerts and Simultaneously he rearranged the Melba’s booklet-case is one of a kind; education workshops throughout original order of the songs, added some deluxe in appearance, exhaustive in the state. It has ongoing experience new ones and renamed the cycle Nuit its informed content; top of its class. across the spectrum delivering around Persane. Look forward to following the Hélène two hundred performances to almost Hélène is a lyrical work of notable libretto and Nuit Persane song texts. 250,000 people throughout Melbourne substance and dramatic clout; it’s The opera is documented under the and regional Victoria each year. lengthy disappearance-neglect title The Eternal Allure and the song Orchestra Victoria is one of Australia’s apparently a needless oversight cycle, The Lure of the East. Dr Thérèse busiest, versatile orchestras. by musicians far and wide. Now, Radic provides a note on Dame Nellie Howard Smith finally, we have reason to be Melba, and Guillaume Tourniaire adds a Music and Vision (UK), August 08 6 thankful that Melba Recordings conductor’s perspective of Saint-Saëns. www.mvdaily.com WAGNER: DAS RHEINGOLD MR301089-90 [2 CD set] [All discs are SACD Hybrid] Asher Fisch [Conductor] The State Opera of South Australia Adelaide Symphony Orchestra WAGNER: DIE WALKÜRE MR301091-94 [4 CD set] WAGNER: SIEGFRIED MASSENET - AMOUREUSE: MR301095-98 [4 CD set] Sacred and Profane Arias* WAGNER: GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG MR301106 [SACD Hybrid] MR301099-102 [4 CD set] Rosamund Illing [soprano] Richard Bonynge [conductor] The Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra

THE POWER OF LOVE: Arias LA SOMNAMBULE* from British * MR301087 [SACD Hybrid] MR301107 [SACD hybrid] Ferdinand Hérold Deborah Riedel [soprano] Richard Bonynge [conductor] Richard Bonynge [conductor] Orchestra Victoria The Australian Opera and Ballet DAVID TONG BACH: ORGAN WORKS -The Orchestra THE FLORAL DANCE and other MR301086 Leipzig Chorales Peter Dawson Favourites Music of Chopin, MR301084-2 [2 CD Set] MR301109 Rakhmaninov and Liszt John O’Donnell [Organ] Gregory Yurisich [bass baritone] David Tong [piano] David Lloyd-Jones [conductor] Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra

SHOSTAKOVICH: SYMPHONY NO. 10 MR301105 [SACD Hybrid] BELIEVE IN LOVE: Rare French Australian Youth Orchestra and Italian Opera Arias* Alexander Anissimov MR301104 [SACD Hybrid] Elizabeth Whitehouse [soprano] GRAND Richard Bonynge [conductor] PUCCINI=PASSION* MR301088 Orchestra Victoria MR301085 Dance by … PHOENIX STORY [soprano] with piano in mind MR301113 Richard Bonynge [conductor] Cello music by Rachmaninov, Scott Davie [piano] Chopin & Kats-Chernin State Orchestra Victoria Pei-Jee Ng [cello] Pei-Sian Ng [cello] David Tong [piano] GOTHIC TOCCATA: The Melbourne Town Hall organ PD70001 Calvin Bowman CHERRY RIPE: Vocal treasures of the 18th & 19th centuries* THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY: MR301118 SAINT-SAËNS: ROGER SMALLEY CHAMBER Deborah Riedel [soprano] HÉLÈNE | NUIT PERSANE MUSIC Richard Bonynge [conductor] MR301114-2 [2CD, SACD Hybrid] MR301112 Arcadia Lane Orchestra Rosamund Illing [soprano] Australian String Quartet RAVEL: TZIGANE Steve Davislim [tenor] Darryl Poulsen [horn] MR301115 [SACD Hybrid] Leanne Keneally [soprano] Paul Wright [violin] Music for violin, cello & piano Roger Smalley [piano] SEDUCTION: Zan McKendree-Wright [contralto] Kristian Winther [violin] songs Guillaume Tourniaire [conductor] Anthony Romaniuk [piano] MR301108 Belle Époque Chorus Steve Davislim [tenor] Michelle Wood [cello] Orchestra Victoria [conductor] Orchestra Victoria COMING IN MAY & JUNE 2009 ENCORE MY GOOD SIR: music BELOVED OF THE GODS bassoon and continuo in F minor, Sonata for bassoon and for horn & piano Mozart & Mendelssohn MR301121 continuo in E minor, Sonata for bassoon and continuo in MR301116 Tin Alley String Quartet play the Mendelssohn D A minor as well as Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach’s Sonata for Lian Jiang [horn] minor Quartet [“Ist es Wahr?”]. On the same recording solo bassoon in D minor. Benjamin Martin [piano] the Dean Emmerson Dean Trio play works by Mozart TEMPESTUOUS HEART MR301123 – the Kegelstaat Trio and Stephen Emmerson’s arrange- [See article on page 4] ment of music from Die Zauberflöte by Mozart. All the reviews of Melba Chausson and Vierne GALLANT BASSOON MR301124 Steve Davislim tenor recordings—we are proud of Matthew Wilkie on bassoon with Neal Peres da Guillaume Tourniaire conductor them—can be read online at BACK FROM OBLIVION Costa, harpsichord and Kees Boersma double bass The Queensland Orchestra www.melbarecordings.com. Ophicleide Recital play Johann Sebastian Bach’s Sonata for bassoon and au/content/view/91/78/ MR301111 continuo in A minor, Sonata for bassoon and continuo Nick Byrne [ophicleide] in E minor; Georg Philipp Telemann’s, Sonata for * The Richard Bonynge Edition David Miller [piano] 7 MELBA FOUNDATION BOARD OF DIRECTORS, PATRONS & AMBASSADORS

FOUNDING BENEFACTOR AMBASSADORS PRINCIPAL BENEFACTORS BENEFACTOR PATRONS Dame Elisabeth Murdoch AC DBE Sir Zelman Cowen AK GCMG GCVO Dr Douglas G Mitchell Robert O Albert AO FOUNDING HONORARY PATRONS Laurence G Cox AO Dame Elisabeth Murdoch AC DBE The Hon Richard Alston Richard Bonynge AO CBE Dr Terry Cutler Allan Myers AO QC Betty Amsden OAM Commandeur de L’Ordre National OAM The Ian Potter Foundation The Besen Family Foundation des Arts et des Lettres Peter Griffin Jeanne Pratt AC Nola & Ernest Dawes OBE Lady Potter AC Rodney Hall AM Robert Salzer Foundation James O Fairfax AO Dame OM AC DBE Lord Harewood KBE DIAMOND BENEFACTOR Peter J Griffin Dr Leslie Howard AM Barbara McNulty OBE DIRECTORS Andrew Sisson Dr Alastair Jackson Barry Novy Chair: Dr Douglas G Mitchell GOLD BENEFACTORS The Hon Dr Barry Jones AO OAK Foundation The Hon Richard Alston Lady Fairfax AC OBE Malcolm Long Pierce Armstrong Foundation Bill Gillies Helen Macpherson Smith Trust Baz Luhrmann Lady Potter AC Terry Lane The Victor Smorgon Charitable Fund Donald McDonald AC Ms Robin Potter Dr Christine Rothauser Chevalier de Sir Gustav Nossal AC CBE ARTISTIC BENEFACTORS The Pratt Foundation l’ordre National du Mérite Marilyn Richardson Rick Amor Kenneth R Reed Prof Barry Tuckwell AC OBE Dr Jeffrey Smart AO Chris Deutscher Michael Scott-Mitchell Maria Vandamme [CEO] Barry Tuckwell AC OBE Barry Humphries AO Ambassador & Mrs Mel Sembler Nathan Waks Tom Lowenstein Spotlight Charitable Foundation The Hon E G Whitlam AC QC Rod Menzies The Tallis Foundation James Wolfensohn KBE AO Margaret Olley AC Peter Weiss AM John Olsen AO OBE The Hon E G Whitlam AC QC Garry Shead Anonymous [1] CORPORATE & PHILANTHROPIC Tim Storrier AM SUPPORTERS PATRONS Ann Blainey Diana Burleigh Christine & Terry Campbell Richard & Isabella Green Dr Leigh Hammond Peter Hordern Dr Alastair Jackson Jenny Lemmoné-Hill Dr Bryan Mendelson Dr Paul Nisselle AM Dr Timothy Pascoe AM & Eva Pascoe Prof David Penington AC Conrad Plange PhillipPhillip & Sue Schudmak LadyLady SoutSoutheyhey ACAC DrDr MiklosMiklos & Mrs ElenaElena TothToth LadyLady VesteVesteyy AnonymousAnonymous [4]

MELBA ARTISTS 1 Pei-Jee and Pei-Sian Ng, David Tong 2 Lin Jiang 3 Wilkie Trio 8 4 Paul Dean