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Bizet Carmen: Suite No.1 Saint-Saëns Piano Concerto No.2

INTERVAL Elgar Elgar Variations on an Original Theme Enigma

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3 MELBOURNE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Established in 1906, the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra (MSO) is an arts leader and Australia’s oldest professional orchestra. Chief Conductor Sir Andrew Davis has been at the helm of MSO since 2013. Engaging more than 2.5 million KRISTIAN CHONG people each year, and as a truly global PIANO orchestra, the MSO collaborates with guest artists and arts organisations Leading Australian pianist Kristian from across the world. Chong has performed throughout Australia, China and the UK, and in France, New Zealand, Singapore, USA, and Zimbabwe. As soloist he has appeared with the Adelaide, Melbourne, Queensland, Sydney and Tasmanian Symphony Orchestras, and orchestras in the UK, New Zealand and China. Highlights include Rachmaninoff’s Third Piano Concerto (Sydney Symphony) and Paganini Rhapsody (Beijing and Canberra) and Ravel's Left-Hand BENJAMIN NORTHEY Concerto (Dunedin Symphony). CONDUCTOR A highly sought- chamber Australian conductor Benjamin Northey is musician, Kristian’s collaborations the Chief Conductor of the Christchurch include the Tinalley and Australian Symphony Orchestra and the Associate String Quartets, violinists Sophie Rowell Conductor of the Melbourne Symphony and Dale Barltrop, cellist Li-Wei Qin and Orchestra. baritone Teddy Tahu Rhodes. Festival appearances include the Australian Northey also appears regularly as a Festival of Chamber Music, Adelaide, guest conductor with all major Australian Huntington Estate, Mimir and Bangalow symphony orchestras, Festivals with other highlights including (Turandot, L’elisir d’amore, , the Xing Hai Festival (Guangzhou) and Così fan tutte, Carmen), New Zealand Australian Music Week on Gulangyu Opera (Sweeney Todd) and State Opera Island (Xiamen). South Australia (La sonnambula, L’elisir d’amore, Les contes d’Hoffmann). His Kristian studied at the Royal Academy international appearances include of Music with and concerts with the London Philharmonic, Christopher Elton, and with Stephen Tokyo Philharmonic and Hong Kong McIntyre at the Philharmonic Orchestras and the where Kristian teaches piano and Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg. chamber music.

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GEORGES BIZET CAMILLE SAINT-SAËNS (1838–1875) (1835–1921) Carmen: Suite No.1 Piano Concerto No.2 in G minor, Op.22 Prélude – Aragonaise Andante sostenuto Intermezzo Allegro scherzando Séguedille Presto Les Dragons d’Alcala Les Toréadors Kristian Chong piano Camille Saint-Saëns’ contribution to When Carmen was first produced in French music over an exceptionally Paris in 1875, three months before long life was a helpful and versatile Bizet’s death at the age of 36, audiences one. A child prodigy who, making his were shocked by the unashamed debut as a ten-year-old with Mozart realism of the story: Carmen’s blatant and Beethoven piano concertos, sexuality scandalised many, as did the offered his delighted audience any rowdy women’s chorus (Carmen’s co- one of the 32 Beethoven piano sonatas workers in the cigarette factory) who as an encore. He lived to a somewhat both fight and smoke on stage. And embittered old age, and walked out Carmen’s murder by the spurned Don of the 1913 premiere of Stravinsky’s José, in full view of the audience, was Rite of Spring muttering that it wasn’t too strong for many tastes. The show music. Saint-Saëns for most of his did run for 48 performances, though, life had been receptive to the new, largely on the strength of its shock and tried to steer French music value, and although the Parisian opera away from its fixation on opera into companies were too timid to program channels where it could benefit from it again until 1883 (when it met with the example of the best of German enthusiastic acclaim), by that time it had instrumental music. He was a friend enjoyed success around the the world, of Liszt, and his Third Symphony, with mostly in a ‘revised’ version by Bizet’s organ, is in many ways a tribute to that friend Ernest Guiraud. Guiraud set the composer. (It has made a comeback original spoken dialogue to recitative. in the age of hi-fi and of talking pigs – After the death of the composer Guiraud Australian composer Nigel Westlake compiled two suites from the music borrowed from it in his soundtrack of Carmen. The first suite comprises music for Babe.) of the instrumental entre’acte from Ironically, a piece which he dashed off the opera, ending with the famous in 17 days in 1868 has proved one of Overture. The only vocal excerpt his most durably popular: his Second in this suite is the Séguedille, which Piano Concerto. The haste was due to appears in an orchestral arrangement. the concert hall becoming available at © Symphony Australia short notice for a concert conducted The MSO first performed music from Carmen on 17 July 1943 under conductor Bernard Heinze, and most recently performed 5 Suite No.1 on 5 February 2013 with Benjamin Northey. PROGRAM NOTES

by the Russian Anton Rubinstein, There is a cadenza returning to the in which Saint-Saëns was to play a fantasia style of the introduction, and concerto. The music shows little sign the movement ends, as it were, by of hasty workmanship. Saint-Saëns swallowing its own tail. was the classicist among the French The puckish scherzo is the only Romantics, and his sure grasp of movement that was a success at the form sometimes makes up for ideas under-rehearsed first performance. It which seem too easily acquired. Liszt has a catchy refrain, and is laid out for described this piano concerto fairly the instruments with masterly delicacy. when he said that Saint-Saëns ‘takes The last movement is a tarantella (in into account the effects of the pianist popular imagination, the dance of the without sacrificing anything of the victim of spider bite), and this brings a ideas of the composer’. strong whiff of the music of Offenbach Nevertheless, this concerto has (he of the can-can). Are the high spirits been indelibly marked by the witty of comic operetta out of place in the observation of the Polish pianist finale of a concerto? Mozart didn’t Sigismond Stojowski, in that it think so; nor did Saint-Saëns.

‘begins with Bach and ends with © David Garrett Offenbach’. It is true that the pianist’s The MSO first performed this concerto on 17 October unaccompanied introduction is an 1940 with conductor Georg Schnéevoigt and soloist obvious tribute-by-imitation to Bach, Sigrid Sundgren, and most recently performed it in July 2008 with Thomas Dausgaard and Simon Trpčeski. especially the Bach of the Chromatic Fantasia and other toccatas for organ or harpsichord. Saint-Saëns conceives this imitation in a Romantic sense: it is a declamation rather than a meditation, and projected, by the sustaining pedal on the steel-framed pianoforte, to the back row of the concert hall. The themes of the first movement, prefaced by this introduction, are expressive and lyrical: the main melody was borrowed (with permission) from Saint-Saëns’ younger friend and former pupil Gabriel Fauré (who had used it for a Tantum ergo with choir and organ). The level of activity soon rises, and dramatic exchanges between the soloist and the orchestra climax in a full-throated return of the main theme.

6 EDWARD ELGAR (1857–1934) (1857–1934) Sospiri, Op.70 Variations on an Original Theme, Op.36 Enigma Elgar is wearing his heart on his I (C.A.E.) – Caroline Alice Elgar, the sleeve in Sospiri, composed in 1914 composer’s wife and dedicated to his close friend and II (H.D.S.-P) – Hew David Steuart-Powell, musical associate W.H. ‘Billy’ Reed. pianist in Elgar’s trio Reed, on whose technical expertise III (R.B.T.) – Richard Baxter Townshend, author Elgar had drawn whilst composing IV (W.M.B.) – William Meath Baker, his , was at that time nicknamed ‘the Squire’ the leader of the London Symphony V (R.P.A.) – Richard Penrose Arnold, Orchestra, which helps explain the son of Matthew Arnold choice of the medium, string orchestra, VI (Ysobel) – Isabel Fitton, viola player in this case with harp and organ. VII (Troyte) – Arthur Troyte Griffith, architect Here performance by single strings is VIII (W.N.) – Winifred Norbury unimaginable. The ‘sighs’ of the Italian IX (Nimrod) – August Johannes Jaeger, title seem to point to a private sadness reader for the publisher Novello & Co which in Elgar is never far away. X (Dorabella) Intermezzo – Dora Penny, later Mrs Richard Powell Elgar completed Sospiri in February XI (G.R.S.) – Dr G.R. Sinclair, organist of 1914, only months before the outbreak Hereford Cathedral of the First World War, news of which XII (B.G.N.) – Basil G. Nevinson, cellist in Elgar’s trio reached the Elgars during an idyllic XIII (***) Romanza – Lady Mary Lygon, summer holiday in Scotland. Sir Henry later Trefusis Wood conducted the premiere at XIV (E.D.U.) Finale – Elgar himself that year’s first Promenade concert, (‘Edu’ being his nickname) on 15 August 1914, the work’s sense of melancholy and regret no doubt a In middle age, Elgar loathed having poignant lull in the evening’s highly to earn the bulk of his income charged wartime mood. as a humble rural music teacher. Nevertheless, in spite of his obvious Symphony Australia © 2004 talent as a composer, his career during This is the MSO's first performance of Sospiri. his 20s and 30s had been a series of disappointments. He had gravitated toward London, but Elgar and the big city never got on. And so, at a time when Schoenberg was emerging in Austria and Debussy was writing his Nocturnes in France, poor Elgar found himself back in his native Malvern region, eking out a living as best he

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could. He took in students, made proposed that it could be Elgar himself, instrumental arrangements, played with the famous motif on which the in an occasional performance and entire work is based capturing the continually threatened to give away natural speech rhythm of the name music altogether. ‘Edward Elgar’. But, mischief-maker that he was, Elgar went to his grave But one evening in October 1898, without revealing the truth and no one Elgar began to doodle at the piano. since has come up with the definitive Chancing upon a brief theme that answer. pleased him, he started imagining his friends confronting the same melody, The second enigma was the identity or he would try to catch another’s of the characters depicted within each character in a variation. This harmless variation, who were represented at bit of fun, initiated accidentally, would first only by their initials in the score. single-handedly turn around the Fortunately this enigma has proved composer’s career and by February much easier to solve. 1899 the work had grown into what The main theme is given to the violins, would become one of England’s who state it immediately. Variation 1 greatest orchestral masterpieces, depicts Elgar’s wife, Caroline Alice Elgar’s Variations on an Original (‘Carice’). The second variation brings Theme, Op.36. the first hint of actual imitation. Pianist Where the word ‘Theme’ should have H.D. Steuart-Powell was one of Elgar’s appeared in the score, however, chamber music collaborators, who Elgar wrote ‘Enigma’. He stated that characteristically played a diatonic the theme itself was a variation on a run over the keyboard as a warm-up. well-known tune which he refused to Variation 3 depicts the ham actor R.B. identify. It’s a conundrum which has Townshend whose drastic variation occupied concertgoers and scholars in vocal pitch is mocked here. The alike ever since. Over the years there Cotswold squire W. Meath Baker have been many attempts to identify is the subject of Variation 4, while the mystery theme which, according the mixture of seriousness and wit to Elgar, goes in counterpoint with the displayed by the great poet Matthew one we actually hear. Elgar himself Arnold’s son Richard is captured in the rejected suggestions of God Save fifth variation. The next two variations the King and Auld Lang Syne. Other parody the technical inadequacies of suggestions have included Rule, Elgar’s chamber music acquaintances. Britannia!, various nursery rhymes, a Violist Isabel Fitton (Variation 6) had theme from Beethoven’s late quartets, trouble performing music where the an extract from Wagner’s Parsifal, strings had to be crossed, while Arthur and even Ta-ra-ra-boom-de-ay. Elgar Troyte Griffith (Variation 7) was a biographer Michael Kennedy has pianist whose vigorous style sounded

8 more like drumming! Winifred Norbury Australia. And then finally we hear is represented in Variation 8 by a ‘E.D.U.’ where the composer depicts musical depiction of her 18th-century himself (his wife’s nickname for him country house, ‘Sherridge’. was Edoo) cocking a snook at all those who said he’d never make it as The most famous variation, of course, a composer. The , is Nimrod (No.9). Nimrod (the ‘mighty premiered in London on 19 June hunter before the Lord’ of Genesis 1899 under Hans Richter, were the chapter 10) was Elgar’s publisher, conclusive evidence that he had. A.J. Jaeger (German for ‘hunter’). Apparently the idea for this particular Abridged from a note © Martin Buzacott variation came when Elgar was going The MSO first performed Elgar’s Enigma Variations on 29 September 1938 with Sir Malcolm Sargent, and most through one of his regular slumps. recently on 13-14 September 2013 under Sir Andrew Davis. Jaeger took Elgar on a long walk during which he said that whenever Beethoven was troubled by the turbulent life of a creative artist, he simply poured his frustrations into still more beautiful compositions. In memory of that conversation, Elgar made those opening bars of Nimrod quote the slow movement from Beethoven’s Pathétique Sonata. Variation 10 depicts a young woman called Dora Penny, whose soubriquet ‘Dorabella’ comes from Mozart’s Così fan tutte. And then Variation 11 goes beyond the human species, depicting the organist G.R. Sinclair’s bulldog Dan, falling down the steep bank of the river Wye, paddling upstream, coming to land and then barking. The cello features prominently in Variation 12 – a tribute to the cellist Basil Nevinson who later served as the inspiration for Elgar’s . Mendelssohn’s Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage is quoted in Variation 13, thought to allude to Lady Mary Lygon’s departure by ship to

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Sir Andrew Davis SECOND VIOLINS CELLOS Chief Conductor Matthew Tomkins David Berlin Benjamin Northey Principal Principal Associate Conductor The Gross Foundation# MS Newman Family# Tianyi Lu Robert Macindoe Rachael Tobin Cybec Assistant Conductor Associate Principal Associate Principal Hiroyuki Iwaki Monica Curro Nicholas Bochner Conductor Laureate (1974-2006) Assistant Principal Assistant Principal Danny Gorog and Miranda Brockman # Lindy Susskind Geelong Friends FIRST VIOLINS Mary Allison of the MSO# Dale Barltrop Isin Cakmakcioglu Rohan de Korte Concertmaster # Freya Franzen Andrew Dudgeon Eoin Andersen Anonymous# Keith Johnson Concertmaster Cong Gu Sarah Morse Sophie Rowell Associate Concertmaster Andrew Hall Angela Sargeant # The Ullmer Family Foundation# Andrew and Judy Rogers Michelle Wood # John Marcus Rachel Homburg Andrew and Theresa Dyer Principal Isy Wasserman Molly Kadarauch* Peter Edwards Philippa West Assistant Principal Patrick Wong DOUBLE BASSES Kirsty Bremner Roger Young Steve Reeves Sarah Curro Jacqueline Edwards* Principal Michael Aquilina# Michael Loftus-Hills* Andrew Moon Peter Fellin Associate Principal Christine Wang* Deborah Goodall Sylvia Hosking Assistant Principal Lorraine Hook VIOLAS Damien Eckersley Kirstin Kenny Christopher Moore Ji Won Kim Principal Benjamin Hanlon # Eleanor Mancini Di Jameson Suzanne Lee David and Helen Moses# Fiona Sargeant Stephen Newton Mark Mogilevski Associate Principal Sophie Galaise and Clarence Fraser# Michelle Ruffolo Lauren Brigden Emma Sullivan* Kathryn Taylor Katharine Brockman Esther Toh* Michael Aquilina# Christopher Cartlidge # Harry Bennetts* Michael Aquilina Anthony Chataway FLUTES Amy Brookman* Gabrielle Halloran Prudence Davis Robert John* Trevor Jones Principal Oksana Thompson* Anonymous# Cindy Watkin Wendy Clarke Elizabeth Woolnough Associate Principal Caleb Wright Sarah Beggs Merewyn Bramble* William Clark* PICCOLO Ceridwen Davies* Andrew Macleod Principal 10 OBOES TRUMPETS MSO BOARD Jeffrey Crellin Geoffrey Payne Chairman Principal Principal Michael Ullmer Thomas Hutchinson Shane Hooton Associate Principal Associate Principal Managing Director Ann Blackburn William Evans Sophie Galaise The Rosemary Norman Daniel Henderson* Foundation# Board Members Andrew Dyer TROMBONES COR ANGLAIS Danny Gorog Brett Kelly Michael Pisani Principal Margaret Jackson AC Principal Richard Shirley Brett Kelly David Krasnostein CLARINETS BASS TROMBONE David Li David Thomas Mike Szabo Hyon-Ju Newman Principal Principal Helen Silver AO Philip Arkinstall Associate Principal TUBA Company Secretary Craig Hill Timothy Buzbee Oliver Carton Principal BASS CLARINET Jon Craven TIMPANI Principal Alex Timcke*^

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