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NELSON FREIRE MONDAY 26 FEBRUARY 2018

GREAT PERFORMERS CONCERT SERIES 2018 ‘Few pianists alive convey the sheer joy and exhilaration of being masters of their craft more vividly and uncomplicatedly than Nelson Freire.’

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NELSON FREIRE

MONDAY 26 FEBRUARY 2018, 7.30PM Elisabeth Murdoch Hall

6.45PM Free pre-concert talk with Kristian Chong

DURATION One hour & 50-minutes including a 20-minute interval

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WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART (b. 1756, Salzburg, Austria – d. 1791, , Austria) Piano Sonata No.11 in A, K.331, ‘Alla Turca’ Andante grazioso Menuetto – Trio Alla Turca. Allegretto (Rondo)

ROBERT SCHUMANN 4 (b. 1810, Zwickau, Germany – d. 1856, Bonn, Germany) Fantasie in C, Op.17 Durchaus fantastisch und leidenschaftlich vorzutragen; Im Legenden-Ton [Utterly fantastically and passionately played; In the tone of a legend] Mäßig. Durchaus energisch [Moderately. Very energetic] Langsam getragen. Durchweg leise zu halten. [Slowly. Always quiet.]

INTERVAL 20-minutes

FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN (b. 1810, Żelazowa Wola, Poland – d. 1849, Paris, France) Impromptu No.2 in F-sharp, Op.36 Ballade No.3 in A-flat, Op.47

CLAUDE DEBUSSY (b. 1862, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France – d. 1918, Paris, France) La plus que lente Children’s Corner: Golliwogg’s Cakewalk

ISAAC ALBÉNIZ (b. 1860, Camprodon, Spain – d. 1909, Cambo-les-Bains, France) Iberia Book 1: Evocación Navarra GREAT PERFORMERS 2018 5 is regarded is regarded Fantasie as one of his finest works. It was conceived as conceived works. It was as one of his finest of a monument the creation to a contribution original movement titles and its Beethoven, to as intended – were Palms – Ruins, Trophies, from quotation along with a references, direct The first movement is unique among Mozart’s movement is unique among Mozart’s The first in the typical as it is not sonatas, keyboard it is a Theme with layout; rather, ‘sonata-form’ sustains A lilting 6/8 time signature Variations. progressively which are the opening variations, tonic to the the music shifts before ornamented, includes cross- A subsequent variation minor. us of the composer’s reminding hand passages, A highly embellished Adagio legendary virtuosity. in the resumes the pace episode ensues, before is, Trio and The Minuet and coda. final variation closer yet a model of restraint, on the surface, of bars, unusual groupings analysis reveals at attempts make which could phrases creating for it is the final movement Yet dancing difficult. Rondo the ubiquitous is famed: which this sonata a cultural was the time, Turkey At ’. Turca ‘Alla touches oriental its Europe, across fascination and strident evident in unusual melodic steps While much of the movement effects. percussive sense of its adding to is in the minor tonality, that A major sections it is the thrashing ‘drive’, jubilant close. its to the sonata propel C-major great Schumann’s ABOUT THE MUSIC THE ABOUT For most listeners, the discernible differences will differences the discernible listeners, most For be minor: movement in the first small changes runs, an altered the rhythm of two decorative to of the Minuet, in the theme and the reversion note of a subsequent passage the major tonality to to the minor. had shifted which previous editors much for While we now have an authentic source remains still composition of of the work, date its in Vienna, by Artaria publication, Its uncertain. it was many years in 1784, and for occurred as 1778. as early have been written thought to however, scholars now, of leading The consensus some point in 1783. at creation its places It is typically assumed that ‘history’ is a settled ‘history’ settled is a assumed that It is typically the pantheon to relating issues that matter; all are example, for composers, of great as recently Yet in the past. permanently engraved amendment after as 2014, history required famous most of one of Mozart’s pages manuscript were have been lost, to presumed sonatas, Library Széchényi in the National in discovered of section a four-page was Hungary. Uncovered K.331, incorporating in A major, Sonata Mozart’s movement, the second much of the first bars and the opening Minuet entire movement’s The discovery section. made Trio central of its the world and led publishers around headlines had been that many of the tiny errors rectify to editions earliest the sonata’s since propagated 6 NELSON FREIRE the challenges ofthefinalpage are rarely heard oftechnicalmythical level difficultyissuchthat movement isanexultant march, andits almost transformed that itappears new. Thesecond theme from theexposition,butissomanifestly tone’,‘In legendary infact redeploys asubsidiary the central section, whichismarked development adhering to thetraditional ‘sonata-form’ pattern, of themost intense thingsIhavewritten’. While Schumann later stated that heconsidered it‘one The first that movement begins withsuchfervour further reference to Clara isestablished. Geliebte: meaning ‘to thedistant beloved’, a phrase from Beethoven’s Andieferne songcycle, of thefirst movementcan beidentifiedwitha music, andapassage from theclosingpage proliferation ofhiddenciphersinSchumann’s the insistence ofherfather. Indeed,manyfinda had beenforced to renounce hislovefor heron 1836, at thetimeofcomposition, Schumann made more poignantbytherealisation that in ‘long-drawn note’ was infact areference to her, Letters to Clara, hisfuture wife, reveal that the long-drawnone soft, note for thesecret listener’. in Earth’s many-coloured dream, there sounds Friedrichpoet, Schlegel: ‘Through allthetones was instead headed bylinesfrom theGerman published versionincludednoneofthese,and Beethoven’s Symphony. Seventh Ultimately, the passage oftentative, seeminglyinconclusive a gentle left-hand ostinato, whichleads to a with modifications. Thethemeis stated over the form ofatripartite ‘ABA’ structure, albeit Impromptu, publishedposthumously) ittakes works inthegenre (andtheearlier Fantaisie- from that first summer, and,like hisother two Chopin’s Impromptu inF-sharpmajordates the composer’s mature workswere composed. rural French estate where at manyof Nohant, following summer, relocated they to Sand’s Sand, ontheislandofMallorca in1838.For the disastrous holidaywiththeauthoress, George significant changes occurring after hisnear- after his early brilliant-style works, themost a composer, substantially Chopindeveloped review, ‘Gentlemenhats off, a genius’. Yet as budding career, famously stating inan1831 Schumann was influentialinpromoting Chopin’s theeditor ofahighlypopularjournal, As profound. performances, theeffect can bemesmericand absence oftextural change Ingreat throughout. mystery, aneffect heightened bythenear- phrase, engender asenseoftranscendent shifts ofharmony,evident as early asthesecond movement Its concludes unexpected thework. the typical progression ofmovements, theslow unblemished inliveperformance. Breaking from GREAT PERFORMERS 2018 7 . La plus que lente While famously preferred the power preferred Liszt famously While Franz Chopin in Paris, by Érard of pianos manufactured velvety and refined the disposed toward was their for of those made by Pleyel.tones Noted Pleyels and light touch, directly timbre delicate and, in composers many French influenced , who also favoured particular, piano-roll While the numerous the instruments. seem can made by the composer recordings being replayed disappointing (perhaps due to the quintessential on modern instruments), his playing is reflected to of tone importance Long, Marguerite of the pianist, in comments his one forget ‘How could who reminisced: The of his touch?’ suppleness, the caress a small to seems especially pertinent comment in 1910, valse composed Literally translated as ‘more than slow’, the title than slow’, as ‘more translated Literally play excessively to an instruction fact in is not at-times Debussy’s compare example, (For slowly. it is 1913.) Rather, from roll brisk Welte-Mignon the popular salon slow waltz’ ‘out to an attempt and Erik in which Jules Massenet a genre waltz, the principal Here, success. great had found Satie its syncopations, by gentle theme is marked amplified by an instruction lilting tranquillity further melodies are Two rubato. play with to uniformity textural although overall interpolated, evoking an instead any sense of contrast, negates of languid timelessness. impression Chopin’s Ballade in A-flat Ballade in A-flat 1841, Chopin’s from Dating of a summer a creation similarly major was Nohant.spent at the title perhaps suggests While the literary counterpart, of its narrative the free ‘sonata-form’ on the traditional work is based theme The opening, self-enclosed structure. a sign of the counterpoint, detailed features of his in this aspect interest growing composer’s falling-octave music. The subsequent two-note and leads linking device is an important pattern of the in the key subject second a dance-like to marks the beginning A brisk waltz minor. relative of the development which, as with his section, builds with a sense of power and Ballades, other of the opening a return to leading inevitably, now reversed. themes, but with their order chords. Unlike the melodious central sections of sections the melodious central Unlike chords. in march a vigorous here impromptus, his earlier length, the At occurs. opera of French the style in the unexpected yet opening melody returns, shifting – some would say before key of F major, where the home key, to – back uncomfortably with demisemiquavers. A it is embroidered the subsequent that indicates sketch manuscript was chords of tentative the passage to return also yet from, an afterthought, diverging further structure. arch-like enriching, the basic 8 NELSON FREIRE sunset mistaken for adawn’.) Debussy famously wrote ‘a ofWagner: beautiful ‘with great emotion’. (After an initial fascination, which issarcastically inscribedadirection to play of Richard Wagner’s Tristan andIsolde,above quotation inthecentral section ofthefirst notes humour alsohasanadulttwist, withDebussy’s for oneofChouchou’s favourite toys. Yet the piece shouldsimplyconjure alittle jazzdance and frizzyhair. Inamodernlinguistic setting, this recognisable through its blackface, red trousers, for herpopularchildren’s books,ajollydoll Florence Upton, created the‘golliwogg’ character featuring indancehall TheEnglishauthor, revues. made its way to Paris intheearly 20thcentury, anticipating both ragtime andjazz –eventually from the1870s.Thesyncopated 2/4dance – dance-tradition ofthesouthernstates, dating the word, the‘cakewalk’ was anAfrican American racist. Despite various claimsabouttheoriginof while useoftheterm ‘golliwogg’ as isnowviewed of the‘cakewalk’ isobscure andcontentious, can beproblematic theetymology ontwolevels: Golliwogg’sThe titleofthefinalwork, Cakewalk , Debussy’s famous Children’s Cornersuite (1908). the sameyear, andlater was thededicatee of (nicknamedChouchou),wasClaude-Emma born singer, EmmaBardac, inLondon. Theirchild, abandoned hiswife to livewiththemarried A scandal erupted in1905whenDebussy piano, to composition, creating hisopusmagnumfor returned to Spain to devote hisremaining years After adiagnosisofBright’s Disease in1900,he who performed throughout Europe inhisyouth. oldest ofthethree, aprecociously gifted pianist musicologist, Felip Pedrell. IsaacAlbénizwas the all students oftheinfluentialcomposer and compositions byAlbéniz,Granados andFalla, slowly, emerging in intheearly 20thcentury truly authenticSpanish style only developed such asGlinka, Rimsky-Korsakov andBizet. A was writtenof the19thcentury byforeigners It isoften remarked that thebest Spanish music program, Spain inhismusic,aswith thefinalpiece onthe Albéniz frequently referenced theregions of music intimacy. markings (reaching assoft‘ppppp’)lendingthe improvisation, thepauses andextreme dynamic expansively. Thefinalbars givethesenseof triplet figures, whilealater themedevelops through its gentle inflections andornamental of A-flat minor, theopeningmelodyevokesSpain contemplation. Written intheseldom-usedkey first piece, progressively publishedinfour volumes,andthe complex composition, its 12‘impressions’ were of thenorth,work was leftincomplete at Iberia Navarra Evocación , between 1905and1908.Avast and . Celebrating thelandscape , commences inamoodof GREAT PERFORMERS 2018 9 CLAUDE DEBUSSY ROBERT SCHUMANN Scott Davie is an Australian concert pianist based in Sydney pianist based in Sydney concert Davie is an Australian Scott of Sydney. of Piano at The University a Lecturer currently © Scott Davie 2018 © Scott the composer’s death in 1909. A pianistic tour tour in 1909. A pianistic death the composer’s and Long, Marguerite to it is dedicated de force, with an ending been performed has traditionally de Séverac. pupil, Déodat Albéniz’s by composed melodies soaring archetypal The composer’s are octaves) played in right-hand (typically over a highly complex abundant and emblazoned as with Yet, accompaniment. and ornamented which opened the program, by Mozart the sonata be a fluid thing: the Canadian pianist, ‘history’ can a new and crafted Hamelin, recently Marc-André doubling the work’s almost powerful completion, in dilemmas of Of course, length in the process. although many the performer, it is up to choice which bars, concluding Séverac’s for will settle and inner peace. serenity offer 10 NELSON FREIRE ABOUT THEARTIST toured most ofSouthAmerica andSpain. agency Conciertos Daniel in Madrid.Hethen Lisbon, whichearned him acontract withthe International Viannada Motta Competition in Medal inLondon andlater won1st Prize at the At age 19,Freire was awarded theDinuLipatti Bruno Seidlhofer, teacher ofFriedrich Gulda. Kubitschek andwentto study inViennaunder a grant from Brazilian president Juscelino Piano Competition ofRiodeJaneiro, hereceived At theage of12,asfinalist at thefirst International already beconsidered agreat master ofthepiano. Branco, theyoungNelson,aged only14,could outstanding teachers, NiseObinoandLucia to great fruition.Undertheguidance oftwo city insearch ofbetter musicteaching conditions talent oftheirson,movedthewholefamily to the when hisparents, impressed bytheprecocious Freire movedat theage offiveto Rio deJaneiro insight anduniquecreative power. have ledhimto explore theworkswithadeeper contract withDECCA andhisregular recordings halls worldwide.Hehassignedanexclusive with top classorchestras, conductors andrecital in numerous countries, andregularly collaborates artist. Hehasreceived honoursanddecorations Nelson Freire isnowauniversallyacclaimed interior ofthestate ofMinasGerais (Brazil), Born inBoa Esperança, asmalltown inthe GREAT PERFORMERS 2018 11 Rafael Kubelik, David Zinman, Kurt Masur and Sir Kubelik, David Zinman, Kurt Rafael with the greatest . He has appeared , the Philharmonics of Berlin, orchestras: well with the Amsterdam as and Israel, New York Gewandhaus and the Leipzig Concertgebouw, and St. Tokyo of Munich, Paris, the orchestras including the Mariinsky - Vienna, Petersburg Philadelphia, Cleveland, Angeles, Los Boston, and Montreal. Chicago be seen in can his concerts from extracts Several documentary Nelson Freire: the 2003 acclaimed Moreira by João a Man and his Music, directed include: Chopin Piano releases Salles. Recent Polonaise Berceuse & Balade No.4, No.2 Concerto Works (2014); (2015); Rachmaninoff The Complete & Piano Sonata No.5 Concerto Piano Beethoven Broadcasts Radio Days: Concerto (2014); Op.111 (2012). 1968-79 (2014); Brasileiro be a member of the jury to invited He is regularly such piano competitions prominent the most for Cliburn. and Van as the Chopin, Tchaikovsky Nelson Freire languages, Fluent in several his city has made his home in Rio de Janeiro, regularly he returns where of predilection, tours. between Nelson Freire has performed with many of the has performed Nelson Freire such as Valery Gergiev, major conductors, world’s Boulez, Pierre Seiji Ozawa, Temirkanov, Yuri Jochum, , Eugen Chailly, Riccardo Rudolf Kempe, Maazel, Previn, Lorin André He has been the recipient of the most prestigious prestigious of the most He has been the recipient Knight of the Order of Rio, Citizen decorations: d’Honneur, de la Légion Chevalier of Rio Branco, Pedro Medal des Lettres, et Commandeur des Arts Medal of the Medal of the City of Paris, Ernesto, honoris causa and doctor City of Buenos Aires University of School of the Federal the Music from Rio de Janeiro. From then on and for five decades, Nelson five decades, then on and for From and in over 70 countries has performed Freire music world. in the international a star become with the have been rewarded His recordings Disque, Victoire Prix du Grand d’Or, Diapason Award Gramophone Award, Edison d’Honneur, the album Nelson Freire for Grammy and a Latin in 2013. Brasileiro At the age of 23 for his London début, his London he made a of 23 for the age At him ‘The young when The Times called sensation his after year, The following lion of the keyboard’. with the New York debut performance New York Philharmonic, Time Magazine hailed him as ‘One of this or any age’. pianists exciting of the most INSPIRED GIVING

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