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DATES Paul Dyer AO Conductor, harpsichord, chamber organ Online Digital Première Australian Brandenburg Orchestra Sunday 19 December 5:00PM Brandenburg Choir
Concert duration approximately 70 minutes, with no interval. PROGRAM Corradini Gaudete, angeli Mendelssohn Hark! The Herald Angels Sing Anonymous Sonata à 9 Palestrina ‘Kyrie’ from Missa Gabriel Archangelus
Frescobaldi Toccata Terza Arbeau (arr. Palmer) Ding Dong! Merrily on High
Head The Little Road to Bethlehem Charpentier Nuit Traditional Une jeune fillette (arr. Dyer/Ronzani) Cazzati Ciaccona
Rusby (arr. Clements) Underneath the Stars Traditional (arr. Palmer) O Little Town of Bethlehem Traditional (arr. Palmer) God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen
Hopkins (arr. Ronzani) Three Kings of Orient Buxtehude Herr, wenn ich nur Dich hab, BuxWV 38 Adam (arr. Palmer) O Holy Night^ Gruber Stille Nacht Anonymous O Come, All Ye Faithful
^ Audio of O Holy Night courtesy of ABC Classic
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Handel’s Rome Higher Angels
All roads lead to Rome Hold on to your heart
PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS Handel Dixit Dominus for Choir & Orchestra Arias and duets by Bach, Handel, Monteverdi, Corelli Concerto grosso in D major, Op. 6/4 Porpora and Vivaldi. Brescianello Violin Concerto in C major, Bre3
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Italian Baroque Noël! Noël! WITH CIRCA Sexy, delicious and An organ breaks and a passionately Baroque tradition begins
PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS A pasticcio featuring Brescianello, Corelli, Filled with timeless carols including Vivaldi and others. O Come All Ye Faithful, Stille Nacht and many musical surprises. FROM THE CO-FOUNDER & ARTISTIC DIRECTOR FROM THE CO-FOUNDER & ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Paul Dyer Paul Dyer
To celebrate the 20th successive year I’d like to finish by thanking all my of Noël! Noël!, I’ve created a program Brandenburg artists. For many, the of favourites to inspire the feeling of year has been without regular income joy. You will hear Baroque canticles, and has been extremely challenging. Renaissance chanson, ancient The generosity we have received from carols, and a few new arrangements our gracious supporters throughout by talented young Australians. The the year has been truly inspiring and choir size this year is exactly what it has buoyed us all. was 20 years ago - due to COVID-19 Happy Noël! Noël! 20th Anniversary restrictions, we are only permitted Concert!!!! one third of the Brandenburg choir onstage. Joining the line-up is my dear friend Melissa Farrow on Renaissance flute – so happy to have Melissa with us onstage.
But my very special gift this year is to Paul Dyer AO bring you the most breathtaking work Co-founder and Artistic Director of one of Australia’s finest designers – Australian Brandenburg Orchestra Michael Scott-Mitchell. He and I worked One of my fondest memories Christmas cake which the orchestra and together on an artistic pathway that is fresh and modern, whilst respecting the of the Christmas period as a child choir traditionally eat backstage with traditions of Christmas. The beautiful was helping my family prepare me in between the last two Noël! Noël! shows. The recipe comes down the Irish digital images projected on the massive the special flavours that we would side of my family (we think great-great- LED screen transcend race, religion enjoy together on Christmas Day. grandmother’s originally). It’s packed and nationality. In this strange year we with fruit and nuts, spices and perfumes have all experienced worldwide, our There was always an exciting build up that make it a traditional/modern offering of visual beauty combined with to the 25th of December! Christmas cake. I prepare around 18 the magnificent sounds of the choir These days, roast turkey and glazed cakes to gift to close friends and even and orchestra are all about arousing ham is often replaced by fresh bake a gluten-free cake for one couple! memories, enjoying rituals of the seafood, delicious prawns, steamed or I love reviving this feeling each year and season and most of all, the perfumes barbecued fish all served with beautiful look forward to the scents and tastes of of peace. Asian-inspired salads, mangoes, mum’s fabulous cake. This year, instead Alongside the beauty and fun of the peaches and other gorgeous Australian of the old English Brandy custard, I have stage are the gorgeous fashion designs stone fruit. Like the music we perform, decided to go green and accompany of my dear friend Carla Zampatti. She I like to prepare my ancient recipes it with a vibrant green Thai Pandan inspires us all with her exquisite work. and add modern flavours and textures. Coconut Custard - สังขยาใบเตย – yum! One of these recipes is my mother’s
6 AUSTRALIAN BRANDENBURG ORCHESTRA NOËL! NOËL! 7 FROM OUR PRESENTING PARTNER: MACQUARIE GROUP Reflect, Inspire & Connect
On behalf of Macquarie Group, Congratulations to Paul Dyer, Bruce it is my great pleasure to Applebaum, the Orchestra and Choir; welcome you to the Australian we are proud to be supporting the highest calibre of musicians in reaching Brandenburg Orchestra’s final audiences across the country. concert series of 2020 – We wish you a safe and happy festive Noël! Noël! season, and we hope you enjoy Noël! Noël! As a traditional fixture on the annual Brandenburg concert calendar, Artistic Director Paul Dyer presents an energetic and vibrant repertoire of festive classics in Noël! Noël!
2020 has been a year like no other and Shemara Wikramanayake this wonderful concert series presents Managing Director and CEO an uplifting way to close out what has Macquarie Group been a challenging twelve months. This is Macquarie’s thirteenth year as a proud partner of the orchestra and we have been inspired by the Brandenburg’s unique ability to energise audiences through its outstanding performances.
MONIQUE O’DEA, BAROQUE VIOLA 8 AUSTRALIAN BRANDENBURG ORCHESTRA PHOTO BY KEITH SAUNDERS BIOGRAPHY BIOGRAPHY Paul Dyer Oliver Miller
including the 1998, 2001, 2005, 2009 Electric: The Experiment that is and 2010 ARIA Awards for Best currently in submission to festivals. Classical Album. Over 2019 and 2020, Oliver has worked Paul has performed with many extensively directing and creating international soloists including Andreas filmed performances of music and Scholl, Cyndia Sieden, Marc Destrubé, dance including work with Synergy, Christoph Prégardien, Hidemi Suzuki, Taikoz, The Australian String Quartet, Manfredo Kraemer, Andrew Manze, Pinchgut Opera, Bandaluzia and The Yvonne Kenny, Emma Kirkby, Philippe Australian Brandenburg Orchestra. Jaroussky and many others. In 1998 Oliver has been commissioned by a he made his debut in Tokyo with number of Australian contemporary Paul Dyer is one of Australia’s countertenor Derek Lee Ragin, leading Oliver Miller has had an eclectic music and arts organisations to leading specialists in period an ensemble of Brandenburg soloists, career as a filmmaker, cellist, create experimental films including performance. and in August 2001 Paul toured the pianist, composer, arranger, Read/Write Error (2018) for Ensemble orchestra to Europe with guest soloist sound engineer, music Offspring and Video Tunnels (2019) for Andreas Scholl. In 2015, he was featured Paul co-founded the Brandenburg in producer, antique restorer, Backstage music. 1989 after completing postgraduate on the soundtrack of the James Bond In addition to composing music for his studies at the Royal Conservatorium 007 movie, Spectre. and photographer, and is a own ensembles, Oliver also composes in The Hague, and has been Artistic co-founder of the improvising A passionate cook, entertainer, foodie, music for film, and has recently Director and conductor since that time. ensembles The NOISE string teacher, swimmer and traveller, he is composed scores for the successful He is a performing artist comfortable quartet, Amphibious and friends with people and artists from short films Friends of Mine (2020) and in his unique music arena – whether Istanbul to India and Japan to Italy, and Bungarribee. What Do You See? (2018). working in ancient music, contemporary creates a unique platform for overseas music, opera, with artists such as circus performing artists to work with him and Over the last ten years, Oliver has Oliver has performed extensively as performers, contemporary dance, or the Brandenburg in Australia. worked closely with composer Georges a cello player in Australia, including visual art. His busy performing schedule Lentz and architect Glenn Murcutt performing with the Australian Among his list of achievements, in Europe, Asia, the USA and Canada developing the Cobar Sound Chapel, Brandenburg Orchestra and Sydney Paul was awarded the Officer of the over the years has synchronised a permanent sound installation currently Philharmonia. In late 2020, Oliver will Order of Australia (AO) in 2013 for his perfectly alongside his bold stage feature on a newly released album for ‘distinguished service to the performing under construction in the Australian work in Australia. the Cutlan String Project, titled Living. arts in Australia’. Paul is Patron of St outback. Paul is an inspiring teacher and Gabriel’s School for Hearing Impaired Early 2019 saw the completion In 2018, Oliver completed a Master has been a staff member at various Children. In 2003 Paul was awarded of Electric, a twenty-three-minute of Arts Screen at the Australian Film conservatories throughout the the Australian Centenary Medal for short film focused on the world’s first Television and Radio School with world. In 1995 he received a Churchill his services to Australian society and experiments with shock therapy in Italy research focused on the convergence Fellowship and he has won numerous the advancement of music, and in 2010 in 1938. It screened in London as well of multi-mediality within film. He international and national awards for Paul was awarded the Sydney University as in Italy and Australia. During 2020, also completed a Bachelor of Music his CD recordings with the Australian Alumni Medal for Professional Oliver has also created an Electric in cello performance at the Sydney Brandenburg Orchestra and Choir, Achievement. six-minute film off-shoot titled Conservatorium of Music.
10 AUSTRALIAN BRANDENBURG ORCHESTRA NOËL! NOËL! 11 BIOGRAPHY | VISUAL DESIGNER MUSICIANS & CREATIVES Michael Scott-Mitchell Australian Brandenburg Orchestra
Company (STC) Artistic Director, Richard Paul Dyer AO Artistic Director, Conductor Wherrett to design for the STC, designing 35 productions for the company to date. ORCHESTRA
Arguably the most wide-reaching BAROQUE VIOLIN SACKBUTT production Michael has been involved in Matthew Greco (Sydney) Roslyn Jorgensen (Sydney) was the 2000 Olympic Games Opening Rafael Font (Sydney) Nigel Crocker (Sydney) Brett Page (Sydney) and Closing Ceremonies, which were BAROQUE VIOLA 1 televised worldwide to billions of viewers. Monique O’Dea (Sydney) TIMPANI & PERCUSSION Brian Nixon (Sydney) With long-term collaborators director BAROQUE CELLO Anton Baba (Sydney) BAROQUE HARP Elke Neidhardt and lighting designer Hannah Lane (Melbourne) Nick Schlieper, Michael undertook the BAROQUE BASS Michael has established himself Robert Nairn*2 (Adelaide) THEORBO & BAROQUE GUITAR set design for the long-awaited and first Tommie Andersson*! (Sydney) as a formidable force within all-Australian production of Wagner’s BAROQUE FLUTE Melissa Farrow*^ (Sydney) CHAMBER ORGAN the arts in Australia as well as Ring Cycle, mounted by State Opera of Heidi Jones3 (Sydney) internationally. South Australia in 2004, which received BAROQUE TRUMPET Leanne Sullivan (Sydney) CONDUCTOR, HARPSICHORD & worldwide acclaim. Alexandra Bieri (Sydney) CHAMBER ORGAN He has designed a raft of highly Michael continues to contribute to Paul Dyer AO#* (Sydney) acclaimed productions and events landmark international productions CHOIR across a broad spectrum of theatrical and has received a great number of and architectural genres: drama, awards and nominations recognising SOPRANO ALTO TENOR BASS opera, musicals, dance, Olympic and his contribution to the performing arts. Chloe Lankshear Timothy Chung4 Jonathan Borg Hayden Barrington National Ceremonies, restaurants, Josie Ryan Mark Nowicki Spencer Darby Andrew O’Connor hotels, exhibitions, film and television. For many years Michael was an integral Anna Sandström Paul Tenorio Richard Sanchez Sébastien Maury He is also a highly regarded educator, part of NIDA, Australia’s leading holding significant teaching and national institute for training students CREATIVES academic positions. in the dramatic arts, holding extremely highly regarded positions that utilised VIDEO DIRECTOR VISUAL DESIGN VIDEO & Art and education were the mainstays of Oliver Miller Michael Scott-Mitchell SOUND EDITOR his strategic vision and well-honed Oliver Miller Michael’s upbringing and his career has management skills. SOUND ENGINEER LIGHTING DESIGN been based upon the synergy between Richard Hundy Sophie Pekbilimli artistic pursuit as a practitioner and a In August 2017 Michael stepped down from his various NIDA roles to pursue # Artistic Director supported by Mick and Lyndall McCormack passion for passing on the knowledge ! Principal Theorbo & Baroque Guitar Chair supported by the Alexandra and gained through his practice. a number of international and national Lloyd Martin Family Foundation and friends in memory of Lloyd Martin AM projects and to undertake research in ^ Principal Baroque Flute & Recorder Chair supported by Robyn Martin-Weber and Victoria Taylor * Denotes core Brandenburg musician After studying architecture at Sydney digital Theatre Design with UNSW. In University, Michael received a Bachelor 1 Monique O’Dea appears courtesy of Presbyterian Ladies’ College, Sydney (staff) recognition of his invaluable contribution 2 Robert Nairn appears courtesy of The Conservatorium of Adelaide (staff) of Dramatic Art – Design from NIDA. to education, Michael became the first 3 Heidi Jones appears courtesy of SCEGGS, Sydney (staff) 4 Timothy Chung appears courtesy of Santa Sabina College, Sydney (staff) Shortly after graduating he was invited Professor of Practice-Art and Design at by the inaugural Sydney Theatre All members of the Brandenburg Choir performing in Noël! Noël! reside in Sydney UNSW in 2018. Harpsichord and Chamber Organ Preparation by Joanna Butler
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The Brandenburg has collaborated their vibrant concerts and recordings with such acclaimed and dynamic combine historical integrity with virtuosi as Avi Avital, Dmitry Sinkovsky, electrifying virtuosity and a passion Riccardo Minasi, Shunske Sato, Stefano for beauty”. Montanari, Xavier de Maistre, Andreas The Australian proclaimed that Scholl, Philippe Jaroussky, Kristian “a concert with the Australian Bezuidenhout, and more. Brandenburg Orchestra is like Through its annual subscription stepping back in time, as the sounds series in Sydney and Melbourne, the of period instruments resurrect Australian Brandenburg Orchestra Baroque and Classical works with performs before a live audience reverence and authority”. in excess of 58,000 people, and The Brandenburg’s 20 recordings with hundreds of thousands more through ABC Classics include five ARIA Award national broadcasts on ABC Classic. winners for Best Classical Album (1998, The Orchestra also has a regular 2001, 2005, 2009 and 2010). In 2015 commitment to performing in regional the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra Australia. Since 2003, the Australian was the recipient of the Sidney Myer Brandenburg Orchestra has been a Performing Arts Group Award and in member of the Major Performing Arts The Australian Brandenburg Comprising leading specialists in 2016 the Helpmann Award for Best historically informed performance Group, which comprises 28 flagship Chamber Concert. Orchestra, led by charismatic practice from all over Australia, national arts organisations supported Discover more at brandenburg.com.au Artistic Director Paul Dyer, the Brandenburg performs using by the Australia Council for the Arts. celebrates the music of the editions based on original sources and The Orchestra began regular touring sixteenth, seventeenth and instruments of the period, breathing to Queensland in 2015. eighteenth centuries with fresh life and vitality into Baroque and Since its beginning, the Brandenburg ...what stands out at concert excellence, flair and joy. Classical masterpieces – as though has been popular with both audiences after concert is the impression the music has just sprung from the and critics. In 1998 The Age proclaimed that this bunch of musicians is composer’s pen. The Orchestra’s the Brandenburg “had reached the having a really good time. They name pays tribute to the Brandenburg ranks of the world’s best period look at each other and smile and Concertos of JS Bach, whose musical instrument orchestras”. laugh... there’s a warmth and genius was central to the Baroque era. In 2010 the UK’s Gramophone Magazine sense of fun not often associated declared “the Australian Brandenburg with classical performance. Orchestra is Australia’s finest period- instrument ensemble. Under their SYDNEY MORNING HERALD inspiring musical director Paul Dyer,
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PAUL DYER MATTHEW GRECO RAFAEL FONT MONIQUE O’DEA Conductor, Harpsichord Baroque Violin Baroque Violin Baroque Viola & Chamber Organ
ANTON BABA ROBERT NAIRN MELISSA FARROW LEANNE SULLIVAN Baroque Cello Baroque Bass Baroque Flute Baroque Trumpet
ALEXANDRA BIERI ROSLYN JORGENSEN NIGEL CROCKER BRETT PAGE Baroque Trumpet Sackbutt Sackbutt Sackbutt
BRIAN NIXON HANNAH LANE TOMMIE ANDERSSON HEIDI JONES Timpani & Baroque Harp Theorbo & Chamber Organ Percussion Baroque Guitar JOSIE RYAN, SOPRANO 16 AUSTRALIAN BRANDENBURG ORCHESTRA PHOTO BY KEITH SAUNDERS BIOGRAPHY MUSICIANS Brandenburg Choir Brandenburg Choir
The Brandenburg Choir is renowned Paddington, Sydney. These beautiful for its astonishing vocal blend and collections of festive music are available technical virtuosity. to listen to on Apple Music, iTunes Established by Artistic Director Paul and Spotify. Dyer in 1999 to perform in the first- In addition to the annual Noël! Noël! ever Brandenburg Christmas concert, concerts, the Choir now regularly the Choir has become a regular part performs as part of the Brandenburg’s CHLOE LANKSHEAR JOSIE RYAN ANNA SANDSTRÖM TIMOTHY CHUNG of the Brandenburg year. The first annual subscription season. Bach Soprano Soprano Soprano Alto concert combined medieval chant and Cantatas, Handel’s Coronation polyphony as well as carols from around Anthems, and Mozart’s great Requiem the world in their original settings and and Coronation Mass are among the languages. best loved performances of the Choir. “There is a deep tradition of period Their performance of Handel’s Ode music for voice that I have always been for St Cecilia’s Day received critical fascinated by, much of which had never acclaim, with The Sydney Morning been heard by Australian audiences. Herald declaring: “[The Brandenburg Choir is] one of the finest choruses I wanted to put a group of excellent MARK NOWICKI PAUL TENORIO JONATHAN BORG SPENCER DARBY singers together and dive into this one could put together in this town”. Alto Alto Tenor Tenor repertoire, a rich complement to The current members of the our Baroque and period instruments. Brandenburg Choir are all professional Our Choir is a ravishing blend of radiant singers, many of whom also hold music Sydney singers”, says Paul Dyer. degrees, but they do not all sing full Originally 13 voices, the Choir joined time. From music teachers to lawyers, our Orchestra and wowed audiences business managers to medical doctors with truly beautiful renditions of both and nurses, each member looks forward familiar Christmas favourites and to the opportunity to perform with the Brandenburg throughout the year. RICHARD SANCHEZ HAYDEN BARRINGTON ANDREW O’CONNOR SÉBASTIEN MAURY rarely-heard sacred works, performing Tenor Bass Bass Bass music from the eleventh century to the Baroque. It was an instant success, combining musical, literary and There was vigour and passion scholarly performances that thrilled in this performance just as there audiences and critics alike. was great subtlety and finely Noël! Noël! has proven to be so popular, shaded nuances of feeling and the Brandenburg has already released colour. four live recordings of their Noël! Noël! SYDNEY MORNING HERALD concerts, the last of which was recorded in 2016 at St Francis of Assisi Church,
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PHOTO BY KEITH SAUNDERS
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01. Nicolò Corradini (1585? – 1646) 02. Felix Mendelssohn (1809 – 1847) GAUDETE, ANGELI HARK! THE HERALD ANGELS SING Solo Soprano: Anna Sandström Originally written as a Hymn for Christmas-Day in 1739, this well-known Among the many important Italian centres of culture and music, Cremona is not adaptation of Charles Wesley’s famous hymn combines the modern Oxford usually the first city that springs to mind. By the sixteenth century Cremona was University Press text with a tune by Felix Mendelssohn that has also been quickly becoming famous for both its music and instrument building (think of adapted from an earlier source. ‘Vaterland, in deinen Gauen’ from Mendelssohn’s Amati, Rugeri, Guarneri and Stradivari violins). During Bishop Nicolò Sfondrato’s Festgesang was composed for male chorus and brass orchestra (including tenure (later named Pope Gregory XIV), two influential composers, Marc’Antonio an ophicleide) in 1840 as part of a commission for the 400th anniversary of Ingegneri and Omobono Morsolino, cultivated several young musical talents Johannes Gutenberg’s invention of the printing press. whose names you may recognise: Claudio Monteverdi, Tarquinio Merlua and Nicolò Corradini. Hark! the herald angels sing Hail the heaven-born Prince of Peace! Like his teacher Morsolino before him, Corradini would serve as organist at the Glory to the newborn King; Hail the Sun of Righteousness! Cremona Cathedral for much of his career. A piece like this is used to complement Peace on earth and mercy mild, Light and life to all he brings, the liturgical pieces at Mass or Vespers, or in a devotional (or ‘paraliturgical’) God and sinners reconciled: Risen with healing in his wings; service in honour of a Confessor Saint. Joyful all ye nations rise, Mild, he lays his glory by, Join the triumph of the skies, Born that man no more may die, With the angelic host proclaim, Born to raise the sons of earth, Gaudete, angeli, Rejoice, O Angels, Christ is born in Bethlehem: Born to give them second birth: et exultate, montes, and leap for mirth, O mountains, Hark! the herald angels sing Hark! the herald angels sing jubilate colles. shout with glee, O hills: Glory to the newborn King. Glory to the newborn King. Alleluia. Alleluia! Christ, by highest heaven adored, Gaudeat coelum et universa terra, Let heaven and the whole earth rejoice, Christ, the everlasting Lord, omniumque coelestium virtutum and the host of all the heavenly Powers, Late in time behold him come, occurrat Offspring of a virgin’s womb! psallentium exsercitus singing to the harp, go out in greeting, Veiled in flesh the Godhead see, in honorem sanctissimi confessoris et in honour of the most holy Confessor Hail the incarnate Deity! patris nostri N., and our father N., Pleased as man with men to dwell, qui hodie migravit a saeculo who today departed from the world Jesus, our Emmanuel: et vivit in Christo gemma sacerdotum. and lives in Christ, the jewel of Priests: Hark! the herald angels sing Alleluia. Alleluia! Glory to the newborn King.
Translation: Fr Dominic Popplewell
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03. Anonymous 05. Girolamo Frecobaldi (1583 – 1643) SONATA À 9 TOCCATA TERZA Although uncredited, this work was first performed by the Brandenburg in 2016 Solo Baroque harp: Hannah Lane and comes to us from the rich tradition of ensemble music in Central Europe, One of the most important late Renaissance/early Baroque composers linked to a vast collection created by the prince-bishop Carl von Liechtenstein- of keyboard music, Girolamo Frescobaldi was renowned for both his Kastelkorn in Moravian Kromeriz. Liechtenstein employed many excellent playing and compositional skills and was organist at St Peter’s Basilica musicians in his court, including Heinrich Biber between 1668-70. in Rome at the time this great church was expanded to its current capacity. In this sonata, there are nine distinct parts written for a combination of trumpets, Indeed, sources from the period indicate that some thirty thousand trombones, violins, timpani and basso continuo. However, per the convention listeners attended his Rome debut, much to the astonishment and of the period, no part was composed for the timpani. Drummers were expected envy of other organists. to improvise their parts instead, plying a trade learnt by ‘apprenticeship’ from Although Frescobaldi does not enjoy the same fame today, his music did a master, from whom certain patterns would be copied to suit different types have a lasting impact, serving as a model of strict counterpoint as late as of music. the nineteenth century. During the Baroque period, it was commonplace for keyboard music like Frescobaldi’s to be appropriated by harpists for their instruments. In fact, the way music for harp is written looks strikingly (c.1525 – 1594) 04. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina similar, if not identical, to music written for keyboard. The Brandenburg’s ‘KYRIE’ FROM MISSA GABRIEL ARCHANGELUS Hannah Lane is an expert in this field, and this Toccata Terza comes from Kyrie eleison, a prayer which translates as “Lord, have mercy”, is both a prayer Frescobaldi’s first book of Toccatas and Partitas published in 1615. sung to ask for mercy from God and the traditional opening movement of a choral mass setting. Palestrina composed at least one hundred choral settings for various masses and this one is named after the Archangel Gabriel who announced Mary’s pregnancy to her. The publication of this work dates to 1554 as part of Palestrina’s first book of masses, the first-ever by an Italian composer. A wonderful example of Renaissance polyphony, all four voices (soprano, alto, tenor and bass) have roughly equal prominence in the music, although the ear may be drawn to a certain voice at particular times; balancing these moments is one of Palestrina’s greatest skills.
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06. Thoinot Arbeau (1520 – 1595) ARR. ALEX PALMER 07. Michael Head (1900 – 1976) DING DONG! MERRILY ON HIGH THE LITTLE ROAD TO BETHLEHEM This popular carol was first published with its now well-known text by Anglican Solo Soprano: Chloe Lankshear priest George Ratcliffe Woodward in 1924, but the melody dates back to the While his name may be largely forgotten today, Michael Head’s music is Renaissance. The Branle de l’Official was first published in 1589 by French cleric an integral part of the rich tradition of early twentieth-century English song. Jehan Tabourot, who used the anagrammatic pen name Thoinot Arbeau and A gifted singer himself, this work is the most famous and enduring of his was most famous for his Orchésographie, a study of late sixteenth-century output, deftly setting Margaret Rose’s beautiful recount of the Nativity French social dance. A video of a recreation of the dance can also be found in a deeply touching and masterly combination of text and music. on YouTube.
As I walked down the road at set of sun, Ding dong! Merrily on high, The lambs were coming homewards one by one. In heav’n the bells are ringing: I heard a sheep bell softly calling them, Ding dong! Verily the sky Along the little road to Bethlehem. Is riv’n with angel singing Gloria Hosanna in excelsis! Beside an open door, as I drew nigh, I heard sweet Mary sing a lullaby. E’en so here below, below, She sang about the lambs at close of day, Let steeple bells be swungen, And rocked her tiny King among the hay. And “Io, io, io!” By priest and people sungen Across the air the silver sheepbell rang. Gloria Hosanna in excelsis! “The lambs are coming home,” sweet Mary sang. “Your Star of gold, is shining in the sky, Pray you, dutifully prime So sleep, my little King, go lullaby.” Your matin chime, ye ringers, May you beautifully rhyme As I walked down the road at set of sun, Your eve’time song, ye singers The lambs were coming homewards one by one. Gloria Hosanna in excelsis! I heard a sheepbell softly calling them, Along the little road to Bethlehem.
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08. Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643 – 1704) Un soir après complie One evening after compline Seulette était, She was alone NUIT FROM THE CANTICLE IN NATIVITATEM DOMINI CANTICUM, H.416 En grand melencolie And very sad; Charpentier probably composed his ‘canticle’ or short oratorio In nativitatem Se tourmentait, In her distress Domini canticum for Christmas 1690 at the Jesuit church in the Rue Saint-Antoine Disant ainsi, douce vierge Marie She said: ‘O sweet Virgin Mary, in Paris, where he was director of music. It is the most substantial of at least five Abregez moy la vie, Let me die now, different settings by the composer of the familiar story from Luke’s gospel in which Puis que mourir je doy. Since die I must’. the choir of angels appears to announce Jesus’ birth. This exquisite instrumental interlude, perhaps the composer’s most beautiful piece of Nuit (‘night’) music, Mon pauvre cœur souspire My poor heart sighs depicts the calm of Christmas night as the shepherds serenely sleep before the Incessament Unceasingly, arrival of the angels. Aussi ma mort desire And every day Journellement. I wish to die. Qu’à mes parens ne puis m’aider I cannot ask my parents for help, 09. Traditional ARR. PAUL DYER & HUGH RONZANI n’escrire nor write to them. Ma beauté fort empire My beauty is fading, UNE JEUNE FILLETTE Je viz en grand tourment. I live in great sorrow. Soprano Trio Que ne m’a ton donnee That only I had been given This traditional French setting of a well-known Renaissance tune, known A mon loyal amy, To my faithful lover, elsewhere as ‘La Monica’, has come down to us from a collection of popular Qui m’a tant desiree Who desired me so, chansons published by Jehan Chardavoine in 1576. To this day, Chardavoine’s Aussi l’ay-je moy luy, As I did him. collection remains one of the most valuable sources relating to the sixteenth Toute la nuit, m’y tiendrait All night long he would hold me in his century French oral tradition and was one of the first volumes of its kind. embrassee embrace, Une jeune fillette recounts a tale of a young girl forced to become a nun, Me disant sa pensee Telling me his thoughts, a recurring theme in French, Italian and German folk literature that became Et moy la mienne à luy. And I telling him mine. even more prevalent due to doubt cast on religious institutions by the A Dieu vous dy mon pere, I bid you farewell my father, Reformation. Separated from her sweetheart, her family, and the life she Ma mere et mes parens, My mother and my family, knew before, the use of an unaltered seventh degree in the penultimate Qui m’avez voulu feire Who wished me to be note of the melody reflects the utter isolation of her existence. Nonnette en ce couvent. A nun in this convent, Ou il n’y a poins de resjouissance, Where there is no joy. Une jeune fillette A young maid Je vis en desplaisance I live in unhappiness, De noble coeur, Of noble heart Je n’attens que la mort. Longing only to die. Plaisante et joliette Amiable, pretty, A Dieu vous dy les filles I bid you farewell, maids De grand valeur, And of great merit, De mon pays, From back home, Outre son gre on l’a réduit nonnette Was made a nun against her will. Puis qu’en cet Abbaye Since in this abbey Cela point ne luy haicte, And as it pleased her not, Me faut mourir, I must die. Dont vit en grand douleur. She lived in great sorrow. En attendant de mon Dieu la sentence Whilst awaiting God’s judgement, Je vi en esperance I live in hope, D’en avoir reconfort. Of obtaining consolation.
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10. Maurizio Cazzati (1616 – 1678) 11. Kate Rusby (1973 – ) ARR. JIM CLEMENTS CIACCONA UNDERNEATH THE STARS Maurizio Cazzati was an Italian composer and organist who worked at the Solo Soprano: Chloe Lankshear most important musical centres in northern Italy - Mantua, Ferrara, Bergamo The title track from Kate Rusby’s critically acclaimed fourth studio album and Bologna. At Bologna, he was music director at the church of San Petronio, (released in 2003), this stunning choral arrangement by Jim Clements takes renowned for its high musical standards (Mozart studied there a century later), the essence of Rusby’s beautiful and melancholic pop tune and distills it yet and Cazzati contributed to its reputation by the developments he instituted in further. Much like the text, this music is serene in its simplicity, with subtle instrumental music. He left there in 1671 after bitter arguments when he was dissonances building then resolving in sublime waves. accused by another composer of musical errors in his compositions. Using his own printing press for his compositions, very much a novelty in the seventeenth century, Cazzati published five volumes of dance movements Underneath the stars I’ll meet you in his lifetime. Like the well-known passacaglia, the ciaccona was a popular Underneath the stars I’ll greet you Spanish dance and its typical bass patterns and harmonies have often been There beneath the stars I’ll leave you used as the basis for sets of variations by composers. Before you go of your own free will Go gently Underneath the stars you met me Underneath the stars you left me I wonder if the stars regret me At least you’ll go of your own free will Go gently Here beneath the stars I’m landing And here beneath the stars not ending Why on earth am I pretending? I’m here again, the stars befriending They come and go of their own free will Go gently Go gently Underneath the stars you met me And Underneath the stars you left me I wonder if the stars regret me I’m sure they’d like me if they only met me They come and go of their own free will Go gently Go gently Go gently.
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12. Traditional ARR. ALEX PALMER 15. Buxtehude (1803–1856) O LITTLE TOWN OF BETHLEHEM HERR, WENN ICH NUR DICH HAB, BUXWV 38 American priest Phillips Brooks wrote the text for this beloved carol, inspired Solo Soprano: Josie Ryan after visiting the town of Bethlehem in 1865. In the Commonwealth it is usually Dieterich Buxtehude was one of the most important composers in northern sung to the older tune known as Forest Green, collected in 1903 by the English Germany in the late seventeenth century, strongly influencing many composers composer Ralph Vaughan Williams from a Mr Garman, resident in the town of including Johann Sebastian Bach. He composed across all genres except opera, Forest Green, Surrey. Vaughan Williams harmonised and published the tune in and his fame as an organist was so great that in 1703 the eighteen-year-old Bach 1906, which is the best-known version in Australia today. This rendition is an walked some 450 kilometres to Lübeck (a journey of ten days) to hear his music. arrangement of the tune for three sackbutts and Baroque trumpet. Sackbutts are forerunners to the modern trombone which prevailed during the Renaissance Now best known for his organ compositions, Buxtehude also wrote a large number and Baroque eras. of sacred vocal works. This is a short cantata for solo soprano, two violins and continuo with text taken from Psalm 73. Listen for the rising and falling melodic lines on the words ‘Himmel’ (heaven) and ‘Erde’ (earth), a musical technique 13. Traditional ARR. ALEX PALMER known as word painting. GOD REST YE MERRY, GENTLEMEN Groups of wassailers, going from door to door singing in return for something Herr, wenn ich nur Dich hab, Lord, if I have only you, to drink to the good health of those they visited, have long regaled in this so frag ich nichts nach Himmel und then I would ask nothing more from secular English carol dated to the sixteenth century (or earlier). Clearly they Erden, heaven or earth, were not always well-received, as noted by Charles Dickens in his 1843 work, wenn mir gleich Leib und Seele even though my body and soul fail me. A Christmas Carol: “…at the first sound of ‘God bless you, merry gentlemen! verschmacht. May nothing you dismay!’ Scrooge seized the ruler with such energy of action that the singer fled in terror, leaving the keyhole to the fog and even more So bist Du doch Gott allezeit You are God forever, congenial frost.” meines Herzens Trost und mein Heil. the comfort of my heart and my salvation. Alleluja Alleluia. 14. John Henry Hopkins Jr (1803–1856) ARR. HUGH RONZANI THREE KINGS OF ORIENT Nowadays better known as We Three Kings of Orient Are, this popular Christmas carol was written by the American composer John Henry Hopkins Jr and first published in 1863. The eldest son of pioneer parents, Hopkins was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and wrote the music as part of a Christmas pageant for his young nieces and nephews not long before becoming a bishop. Here, Hugh Ronzani has reframed Three Kings of Orient in an arrangement within an arrangement. Hopkins’ original setting, intended for male singers representing the three kings bearing gifts for baby Jesus (Gaspard, Melchior and Balthazar), has been adapted for Baroque stringed instruments and continuo through the lens of one of the most famous ‘Folia’ settings of all – that of Antonio Vivaldi.
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16. Adolphe Adam (1803 – 1856) ARR. ALEX PALMER 17. Franz Xaver Gruber (1787 – 1863) O HOLY NIGHT STILLE NACHT (SILENT NIGHT) Soprano Solo: Morgan Balfour Soprano Solo: Morgan Balfour Adolphe Adam is best known for his ballet Giselle (1841) and composed this carol A true Christmas favourite, this carol was first performed on Christmas Eve in in 1847. The original French text was penned by wine merchant and poet Placide 1818. At the time of its composition, Franz Xaver Gruber was the organist and Cappeau (1808 – 1877), an abolitionist who likened the redemption of Jesus to choirmaster at St Nicholas Church in Oberndorf, Austria, where he had met local freedom from slavery. Due to Cappeau’s socialist beliefs, the church leadership priest Father Joseph Mohr and become his good friend. Mohr, having written the banned the carol, but its great popularity ensured continued performances words to Stille Nacht sometime earlier in 1816, needed a carol for his midnight throughout France. mass and Gruber spent just a few hours composing the melody. As they say, After hearing the carol in 1855, the American abolitionist John Sullivan Dwight was “the rest is history”. inspired to write the English version of the text that you will hear. This carol is also Upon hearing it 1834, it was an immediate favourite of King Frederick William IV believed to be the second song ever broadcast on radio, when Canadian inventor of Prussia and by 1939 it had been performed as far as New York City. The current Reginald Fassenden played the piece in an experimental AM radio program on English version dates to 1859 and the church where it was first performed is now Christmas Eve, 1906. known as the Stille-Nacht-Kapelle (Silent Night Chapel).
O holy night! The stars are brightly shining, Stille Nacht! Heilige Nacht! Silent night! Holy night! It is the night of our dear Saviour’s birth. Alles schläft; einsam wacht Everything sleeps, only awake is Long lay the world in sin and error pining, Nur das traute hoch heilige Paar. The holy betrothed couple. Till He appear’d and the soul felt its worth. Holder Knabe im lockigen Haar, Lovely boy with curly hair, A thrill of hope, the weary world rejoices, Schlafe in himmlischer Ruh! Sleep in heavenly peace! For yonder breaks a new and glorious morn. Douce nuit! Sainte nuit! Silent night! Holy night! Fall on your knees! O hear the angel voices! Dans les cieux, l’astre luit. In the heavens, the star shines. O night divine, O night when Christ was born; Le mystère annoncé s’accomplit. The foretold mystery is coming to pass. O night divine, O night, O night Divine. Cet enfant sur la paille endormi, This child asleep on the straw, C’est l’amour infini! Is infinite love! Silent night! Holy night! Son of God, love’s pure light. Radiant beams from Thy holy face, With the dawn of redeeming grace. Jesus, Lord at Thy birth!
Audio courtesy of ABC Classic, recorded live on 14 December 2019 at City Recital Hall. Audio courtesy of ABC Classic, recorded live on 14 December 2019 at City Recital Hall.
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18. Traditional O COME, ALL YE FAITHFUL Since its first performance in the original Latin as Adeste Fideles in 1999, O Come, All Ye Faithful has been a regular part of the Brandenburg festive tradition. The hymn has been attributed to various composers, and while the earliest surviving manuscript of the work bears the name of King John IV of Portugal (1604 – 1656), it is likely the tune is even older. The text has been translated countless times, the version you will hear is the most famous English translation by the English priest Frederick Oakeley in 1852.
O come, all ye faithful, joyful and triumphant, O come ye, o come ye to Bethlehem! Come and behold him, born the King of Angels! O come, let us adore him, Christ the Lord! God of God, Light of Light, Lo! He abhors not the Virgin’s womb: very God, begotten, not created. O come, let us adore him, Christ the Lord! Sing, choirs of angels! Sing in exultation! Sing, all ye citizens of heaven above: “Glory to God in the highest.” O come, let us adore him, Christ the Lord!
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John Cavanagh Warwick Duesbury Stephanie Hardy Kathryn Jowitt Tom Mangan Mr Peter Noar and Stephanie Charlesworth Robert and Pamela Duffin Roger Hargraves Jolyn Karaolis Helen Manley Mrs Carolyn Noar Frances Christie Gillian Dunkerley Louise Harkness Helen Keir Sarah Mares Robyn Noel Christine Clancy Dennis Dwarte Rosalie Harpham John Kelman Roslyn Markham Elizabeth Nolan Noreen Clark Dinah Eadie John Harrison Geoff Kerins Carina Martin Margaret Norington Elizabeth Clarke Margaret Easton Karl & Elisabetta Hartleb Mrs Eileen Kerkhof Patricia Martin Georgene O’Brien Annabelle Clarkin Dr Roland Ebringer Jeff Hawke Catherine Kershaw Shirley Martin Jennifer O’Brien Christine Clough Andrew Edgar Janice Haworth John and Joan Killick John Mason Fred Oertli Siew Clough The Rev Donald Edgell Nicholas J. Hayes FCA Meansy Kim Janet Mathieson Neville Olliffe Peter Clyne Chris Egan Susan Hayes Alasdair King Barbara Mayes Helen O’Moore Jean Cockayne Coralie Egan R and Y Hazell Julia King David McCarthy and Lisa Corbyn Lee Fehlberg and Alison Orr Mary Cohen Richard and Marita Elstone Pam and William Hazelton Daniel Kirkham Lois McCutchan Loris Orthwein Susan Coleman and Geoff Bryan Dr Thomas Exner Norman Heckenberg Janet Kneeshaw Janet McDonald AO and Barbara Osbourne Warren and Margaret Collins Wendy Fairbairn Dr Stéphane Hemmerter Elizabeth Knights Donald McDonald AC Carolyn Rose Owen Christine and Demetrius Condos Richard Farago in memory of Robin Knowles Ms Judith McDonald Anne Owens Lee Ann Connor Caroline Feetham Gérard Hemmerter Dr Jerry Koliha and Rosemary McDonald Dwain Owensby Graham Cook Kate Finsterer Frank Hemmings Ms Marlene Krelle Heather McFarlane Ann Packman Megan Coombs Bev Firth Stephen Hider Henri and Sandra Korn Shirley McKenzie Johann Palfy Cooper Family Vivienne Fishburn Lesley Higgins Stephen Kovacs Terri McKenzie Anne Palme Elaine Cornell Sheila Fitzpatrick Susan Hill Margaret Kropman Glenys McLaine Patricia Pamphlett Phillip Cornwell and Cecilia Rice Gail Fitzsimons Janet and Peter Hook Katherine Kulakowski Dr Allan and Mrs Patricia McLay Roger Pamphlett Holly Cotterell Therese Fletcher In Loving Memory of Nicole Lacy Terese McManus Jane Parkes and Christian Hart Richard Cottrell Vivienne Fletcher Dean Huddlestone Jane Lake Kent McPhee Sharyn Parkins Julie Cottrell-Dormer Marguerite Foxon* Ruth Hulbert Anne Lampe Tony Meiusi William Paterson John Cowie Andrew Foy and Jenny Walker Elizabeth Hunt Lynne Laurie Graeme Mendelsohn Craig and Jill Pearce David Cox Mary Therese Freeman Gary and Carolyn Hutchens Cecily and Bernard Lavery Danuta Mendelson Margot Pearson Patricia Cozens Lynden Gallagher Moira and Frank Hutchinson Sandy and Richard Lawson Hall Metcalf John Peisley and Ros Royal Margaret J Craig George and Jan Garnsey Florence Hydon Greg Lee Jenny Margaret Miles The Pellow Family Leonie Critchley David Garrioch Francesca Hynes Karen Lee Sue Millar Carolyn and John Penn Dr Lindy Crocker Dr Mark Garwood and Dr Vojislav Ilic and Rosi Lembke Margaret Mills Anne Pickles Rosalind Croucher Mrs Elizabeth Garwood Mrs Helen Yuen Ilic R and N Lenffer Stephen Mills Christopher and Kira Pointer Jacqueline Cupitt Duncan and Katie Gay Leo and Mary Ingham Anthony Lenten Dorothy Mitchell Annete Polman Mr Charles Curran AC Wendy Gelhard Patricia Inglis Christine Leslie Ruth Mitchell Ian and Michele Pont Katrin Cutbush-Sabine Elizabeth Gherardin Susan Ingram Howard Leslie Anna Mitchelmore Felicity Pontoni Bruce Cutler Dr Janet Gibson Malcolm Irving Megan Light Pierrette Mizzi Jane Potter Frances Dalziel Brian Gilchrist Geoff and Josephine Isaacs Kevin Lindgren Stewart and Helen Hodgson Bronwyn Powell Elizabeth Darton Isabel Glasson Peter and Delia Ivanoff Wendy Lindgren Lynette Moncrieff-Hall Ian Powell Tricia Darton Prof Malcolm Good Jacqueline Jago Vera Lloyd Anne Moon Mr Paul Pryor Michael Davies and Trish Goodman Stuart Jennings Peter Loughlin Elaine Moore Art and Cynthia Raiche Jo-Anne Pallister Ken Gordon Ruth Jeremy Minna Lucas Susan and Frank Morgan Ian and Glad Rannard Carolyn and Philip Davis Richard and Heather Gorrell Anina Johnson Mrs Iris Luke in Memory of Anne Moseley Harriet Rasmussen Isobel Daison Debra Green David Johnson Dr Clifton Luke William Mountford Annette E Rea Nicholas Day-Lewis Diana Grellman Margot Johnson Mary and Robert Lusby June Mumford Stuart Read Susanne de Ferranti Pauline Griffin AM Robyn Johnston Catherine J Lyons Anna Murdoch Anglea Ree Richard Lautour John Grigg Robert Johnstone Bridget Mabbutt Carolyn Martagh Anne Rees Cynthia Dearin Dr Jan Grose OAM Ainsley Jolley David Mackaway Sanjiv J Mattukumaru Sandra Regan Richard Dickinson Linden and Helen Gulson Barry Jones AO Ann Mackenzie Collin Myers AM and Marilyn Myers Viktoria Rendes Bruce Dockrill Leonie and Graham Gunn Barry Jones Denise Mackenzie Janice Nash Fiona Reynolds Catherine and William Dollman Janine Haddow Elizabeth Jones Rae Macpherson Jennifer Neary AM Margaret Rich Elizabeth Douglas John Haigh Fiona C Joneshart Linda Madgwick John and Joanne Negrine David and Robyn Riches Graeme Downey Dianne Hallett Chris Joscelyne Mary Maher Susan Neill and Leon Dewbery Brian Williams Ricketts Irene Drizulis David Hamilton Eszter Josza Iain Maitland Kristine Newtown Fiona Rimes
50 AUSTRALIAN BRANDENBURG ORCHESTRA NOËL! NOËL! 51 WITH THANKS WITH THANKS Our Donors Our Donors
Helen Robertson Michael Soon Helen Waddington ORCHESTRAL CHAIRS CHAIRMAN’S 11 BRANDENBURG Toni Robertson Judith Southam Maxine Wain Artistic Director supported by Dedicated to the memory of FOUNDATION DONORS Maggie Mary Rodely Brian Sowerby Colin Waldron Mick and Lyndall McCormack James Strong AO. STRADIVARI Jane Rodgers Robert Springall Michael Wall and Susan Lake Concertmaster Chair supported by Chairman’s 11 supports the $100,000 – $249,999 John and Joan Rodgers David Stanton and Rufina Ismail John Walsh Jacqui and John Mullen Brandenburg’s international and Cary and Rob Gillespie Anthony Rogers and John Ulrick Dr Robyn Stephenson Donna Ward local guest artists. Anonymous Janice Rogers Grant Steven Hannah Wargon Principal Baroque Cello Chair GUARNERI $50,000 – $99,999 Julie Romaniuk Jan Stevens Julie Watt supported by Mrs W. G. Keighley Mrs Roxane Clayton Chris and Kathy Harrop Dennis Ronzani Susan Stevens Dr Sandra Webb Principal Theorbo / Baroque Richard and Diana Fisher Macquarie Group Foundation Peter J Rose Jane Stevenson John Webber Guitar Chair supported by The Mrs W G Keighley The Martin Family in memory of Lyn Rosen Judith Stewart Antony Weiss Alexandra and Lloyd Martin Family Mrs Susan Maple-Brown AM Lloyd Martin AM Raymond Rosen Robert Stewart Kerry Wells Foundation and friends, in memory Mrs Alison Park Christine Yip and Paul Brady David and Hazel Rosenfeld The Stirling Family^ Margaret West of Lloyd Martin AM in loving memory of Richard Park Anonymous Macek Rubetzki Rod Stockell and Julia Kelly Dr J and A Whaite Principal Baroque Flute / Recorder Skipp Williamson and MAESTRI $25,000 – $49,999 Annette Rubenstein Natalie & Tanya Stoianoff Mark Whitwell Chair supported by Carol Haynes John and Robyn Armstrong Margaret Rush Louise Stuckey Alfred Wener Widmer Sr Robyn Martin-Weber and Anonymous Greg Hutchinson AM and Monica and Marta Ruzicka Lindsay Swan Amalie Wilke Victoria Taylor Margaret Ryan Tony Sweetnam and Christopher and Lynda Hutchinson BRANDENBURG OPERA CIRCLE Christopher Ryan Phyllis Noemi Butow Elizabeth Wilkinson PLANNED GIVING Nick and Caroline Minogue The following donors have Rowan Ross AM and Annie Ross Lois Saleeba Margaret Swinbourne Clive Williams BEQUEST supported the establishment of David and Rachel Zehner Diane and Edward Sandrejko Anthony Tarleton Valerie Wilson The Australian Brandenburg the Brandenburg Opera Circle, Nicolas Saunders Sally Tayler Terence and Liz Wolfe Orchestra warmly acknowledges ARCANGELI $15,000 – $24,999 enabling the Orchestra to expand Helen Scanlon Diane Taylor Annie Wong the bequest it has received from Mr David Baffsky AO and its repertoire into the world Anna Schaafsma Meg Thearle Danielle Wood the Estate of Valda Astrida Siksna. Mrs Helen Baffsky Margaret Schoonbeek Mrs Anne E Thomas Geoffrey Wood of Baroque opera, as well as Melinda Conrad and David Jones PLAY ON: A LASTING LEGACY Dr Anne Mary Scott Austin and Robin Thompson Marsha Woods nurturing young opera singers and Glenn Moss and the late We are hugely appreciative to all Jacqueline Segal Elizabeth Tiffin Ron Wright creative teams. Dr Ken Moss AM those who have pledged a bequest Reeva Segal Greg Tillotson Evelyn and Anthony Wyatt Toula and Nicholas Cowell to the Brandenburg. CAMERATA $10,000 – $14,999 Rajah Selvarajah Alenka Tindale Nancy Wyles Wendy and Ron Feiner Graham Bradley AM and R. Cook Chris Shearer M Titterton Kerry Yates Deborah Fox and Harald Jahrling Charlene Bradley Professor Geoffrey N Cooper Miss Sharon Sherry Sharon Tivey Wesley Young Justin and Anne Gardener The Clayton Family Janet Doust Patricia Sigreaves David Tomlin Manuela Zappacosta Irene and John Garran Norman Gillespie The Faithfull Family Dianne Simpson Julian Trebeck Boris Zolotarev Ken Groves and Yun-sik Jang Mick and Lyndall McCormack Brian and Leonie Fisher Prof Judy Simpson N. Trebic Anonymous x 195 Mary Holt and the late Dr John Holt Rohan Mead David and Lorelle Skewes Steven Turner and R J Irwin A le Marchant David and Sigrid Smee Amanda Trenaman Lilly K Peter McGrath CORPORATE DONORS Peter McGrath Adele Smith Vivien Twyford Dr Agnes Sinclair APA Group Penelope Oerlemans Helen Smith John Van Blommestein Victoria Taylor Bain & Company Joan and Lloyd Poulton Sally Smith Steven Vanags Greg Ward Centre for Corporate Public Affairs Art and Cynthia Raiche Sheila Smith Charles Verge Ray Wilson OAM in memory of Elwyn Consulting Anonymous x 15 Sue Snepp Crina Virgona James Agapitos OAM Gilbert + Tobin Judy Snowdon Margaret Vooght Christine Yip and Paul Brady Link Group Anonymous x 2 Macquarie Group Pacific Equity Partners The Lancemore Group Toll Group If the Brandenburg has enriched your life or if you would like to deepen your involvement * Donors to the Brandenburg International Baroque Study Program with us, we would be thrilled to welcome you into our valued family of supporters. # Donors to the Brandenburg Instrument Fund + Donors to the 30th Anniversary Book To find out more, or to make a donation, please get in touch with our Philanthropy Team. ^ Donors to the New Works Circle Phone 02 9096 4232 | Email [email protected] This donor list is current for a 12-month period to 23 November 2020. 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ADMINISTRATION Since 1989 the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra 02 9231 9000 has been bringing the finest Baroque and early BOX OFFICE 02 8256 2222 music to audiences across the country.
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