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Beethoven WITH RACT FAMILY ROADSIDE & When you take out RACT Roadside for your family, Mozart we’ll be watching over them – which means you can rest easy, knowing we’ll be ready to swoop in and help when they need us most. MASTER 1 • LAUNCESTON 1 Friday Saturday 1 March 7.30pm 2 March 7.30pm Federation Concert Hall Albert Hall Hobart Launceston Richard Tognetti conductor and violin INTERVAL - 20 mins To mark the opening of the 2019 concert BEETHOVEN season, complimentary sparkling wine will be Coriolan, Overture served in the foyer. Duration 8 mins MEALE Cantilena Pacifica MOZART Violin Concerto No 5, Turkish Duration 8 mins Allegro aperto – Adagio – Allegro aperto BEETHOVEN Adagio Symphony No 1 Rondeau. Tempo di Menuetto – Allegro Adagio molto – Allegro con brio – Tempo di Menuetto Andante cantabile con moto Duration 31 mins Menuetto (Allegro molto e vivace) Adagio – Allegro molto e vivace Duration 26 mins RACT3889 • BC This concert will end at approximately 9.30pm. Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra concerts are broadcast and streamed throughout Australia and around the world by ABC Classic. We would appreciate your cooperation in keeping In branch | ract.com.au | 13 27 22 | ROADSIDE by coughing to a minimum. Please ensure that your mobile phone is switched off. 3 Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) Coriolan, Overture, Op 62 immediately dissolve into a nervous Heinrich von Collin (1771-1811), a civil violin theme that manically yo-yos servant, minor playwright and friend of between loud and soft. A sighing motive Beethoven, had something of a hit with heard in the woodwinds is the basis for his tragic play, Coriolan (a free gloss the second theme, Volumnia’s plaint, gaining urgency as it rises tone by tone. Richard Tognetti is Artistic Director of the Richard was the co-composer of the score on Shakespeare’s Coriolanus) which The abridged sonata form Beethoven Australian Chamber Orchestra. He has for Peter Weir’s Master and Commander: premièred in 1802. The play was popular uses neatly puts these two themes into established an international reputation for The Far Side of the World, starring Russell in Vienna for a few years, but then opposition. Coriolanus’ music becomes his compelling performances and artistic Crowe; he co-composed the soundtrack to dropped into (reportedly well-deserved) more furious, falling into a ‘Scotch snap’ individualism. Tom Carroll’s surf film Storm Surfers; and obscurity. However, the tragedy of a (short-long) rhythm that seems to trip created The Red Tree, inspired by Shaun powerful general destroyed by his own Richard began his studies in his home town over its own feet. Beethoven used the Tan’s book. He also created the documentary weakness – rage – piqued Beethoven’s of Wollongong in New South Wales with Coriolan Overture to experiment with filmMusica Surfica, as well as The Glide, The William Primrose, then with Alice Waten interest, and early in 1807 he composed harmony: there is a moment where a Reef, and The Crowd. Most recently, Richard at the Sydney Conservatorium, and Igor an overture for a private performance of sustained C pedal in the woodwinds is collaborated with director Jennifer Peedom Ozim at the Bern Conservatory, where he the play at the house of ‘Prince L’ (either strikingly at odds with the harmony of and Stranger Than Fiction Films to create the was awarded the Tschumi Prize as the top Lobkowitz or Lichnowsky). the melody, a sonority he used again filmMountain for the Australian Chamber graduate soloist in 1989. Later that year he in the second movement of the Fifth Orchestra. In the manner of overtures of the period, led several performances of the Australian Beethoven’s Coriolan attempts to set the Symphony. Volumnia pleads with her son Chamber Orchestra, and that November was Richard was appointed an Officer of the mood of the play by evoking the main a third time, even more passionately and appointed as the orchestra’s lead violin and, Order of Australia in 2010. He holds honorary conflict of the plot. ETA Hoffmann, a in the minor mode. She has convinced subsequently, Artistic Director. doctorates from three Australian universities writer, composer, critic and conductor, her son, whose bravado evaporates – the and was made a National Living Treasure in scurrying quaver theme slows and loses Richard performs on period, modern and thought highly of this practice and 1999. He performs on a 1743 Guarneri del momentum – as he realises that his mercy electric instruments, and his numerous actually wrote in a review of Coriolan: Gesù violin, lent to him by an anonymous comes at the cost of his life. He must arrangements, compositions and Australian private benefactor. Since it is now a custom, which is kill himself to preserve the honour of his transcriptions have expanded the chamber certainly not to be rejected, that family. orchestra repertoire and been performed each theatrical performance opens throughout the world. As director or soloist, with music, each really significant The critic Johann Reichardt suggested Richard Tognetti has appeared with the play should have an overture which that this vivid picture of anger and Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, attunes the mind to the character of despair was in fact Beethoven’s self- the Academy of Ancient Music, Slovene the piece. portrait. Certainly Beethoven’s life had Philharmonic Orchestra, Handel & Haydn been touched by rage and sorrow and The piece is characterised by the conflict Society (Boston), Hong Kong Philharmonic, his work increasingly became a testament between Roman general Coriolanus, Camerata Salzburg, Tapiola Sinfonietta, to his strife. vengefully intent upon destroying the city Irish Chamber Orchestra, Orchestre of his birth, and his mother, Volumnia, R Wesley Murray, Symphony Australia Philharmonique du Luxembourg, Nordic © 2004 Chamber Orchestra and all the major who begs for her son’s mercy. The piece is set in C minor, the same key Australian symphony orchestras, most The Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra first recently as soloist and director with the as Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony (which performed this work with conductor Kenneth Melbourne and Tasmanian Symphony Hoffmann also famously reviewed) Murison Bourn in Hobart on 22 April 1954 and, composed later that year, and a key most recently, with Nicholas McGegan in Hobart Orchestras. Richard also performed the and Launceston on 26 and 27 September 2014. Australian premières of Ligeti’s Violin which Beethoven seems to have Concerto and Lutoslawski’s Partita. In associated with rebellion and passion. It November 2016, he became the Barbican is an almost anti-heroic key (indeed, ‘anti- Centre’s first Artist-in-Residence at Milton Eroica’: the Third Symphony is in E-flat Court Concert Hall in London. Richard major, and C minor is its relative minor). created the Huntington Festival in Mudgee, The overture is a musical distillation of New South Wales, and was Artistic Director the drama enacted on stage: Coriolanus of the Festival Maribor in Slovenia from 2008 strides on to brutal chordal blows which to 2015. 4 5 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) Richard Meale (1932-2009) Violin Concerto No 5 in A, K219, Cantilena Pacifica Turkish The Violin Concerto No 5 is perhaps the Richard Meale, together with his The composer writes: Allegro aperto – Adagio – Allegro most substantial of the group and is one slightly older contemporary Peter Although I had been an ardent aperto of the high points of the composer’s early Sculthorpe, was at the forefront of new supporter and promoter of new music Adagio maturity. The opening movement is marked music in Australia in the second half of in the 60s and 70s – the style of with the unusual tempo indication Allegro Rondeau. Tempo di Menuetto – Allegro the 20th century. Largely self-taught music that became known as ‘avant- aperto: to be played in a lively and open – Tempo di Menuetto as a composer, Sydney-born Meale garde’ – I began to experience some manner. After the customary orchestral embraced modernist trends in his earliest misgivings about it in the second During the mid-1770s Mozart composed a exposition, the violinist enters unexpectedly compositions, making a name for himself half of the 70s. First of all, I was number of works in quick succession that with a short and introspective Adagio. Upon with orchestral works such as Homage to developing certain doubts about the prominently feature the solo violin. Apart resumption of the quicker tempo, a striking García Lorca (1964) and Very High Kings rationality of its central theoretical from the five violin concertos, most of new theme is boldly launched by the soloist (1968). Other significant compositions basis, particularly in the concepts the serenades and ensemble divertimenti that traverses a wide register above the from this period include the glittering that lay behind serial music. Most he wrote at this time contain movements orchestra’s initial material. Formal surprises piano work Coruscations and the of all, however, I felt at loggerheads where the concertmaster assumes a such as these, as well as the exploration of chamber piece Incredible Floridas (both leading concertante role. These works were with its limited expressive powers. the dramatic interplay between soloist and 1971). Like Sculthorpe, Meale sometimes composed during Mozart’s employment at I found myself unable to express orchestra, would become salient features of drew inspiration from various non- the Salzburg court where one of his chief certain sentiments in that highly Mozart’s piano concertos. Western musical traditions, the music of duties was to lead the court orchestra from chromatic and rhythmically complex Japan above all. the violin. Although it is highly probable that The second-movement Adagio, although style. Feelings of the most simple, yet he performed the solo part himself in many cast in the bright key of E major, possesses a Working professionally as a programmer fundamental aspects of human nature of these works, there are reports (through the dark emotional undercurrent that surfaces in at the ABC in the 1960s, Meale – feelings of affection, of love and letters of Mozart’s father Leopold) of other the movement’s development section.