CONCERT PROGRAM PRESENTED BY 1 – 12 aPRIL 2014 | MELBOURNe rECITAl cENTRE MSO PARTNERS PRINCIPAL PARTNER GOVERNMENT partners MAESTRO PARTNER ASSOCIATE PARTNERS SUPPORTING PARTNERS 2 CONTENTS CONCERT GUIDES PROGRAM Joanna MacGregor - Musical Toys (1 April) 5 INFORMATION Plexus - Pantheon (2 April) 12 Forest Collective - The Garden of Ice (4 April) 13 MSO Programs can be read online or downloaded up to a Six Degrees Ensemble - Garden of Earthly Desire (5 April) 14 week before each concert, from mso.com.au Stefan Cassomenos and Judith Dodsworth - Sappho's Butterflies (9 April) 15 If you do not need this printed program after the concert, (5 April) 16 The MSO and Olli Mustonen - Tapiola we encourage you to return it to The MSO and Olli Mustonen - Frescoes of Dionysius (9 April) 28 a member of staff. Please share one program between two people ( ) Syzygy - Logic 10 April 33 where possible. The MSO and Olli Mustonen - Concert Champêtre (12 April) 34 This program has been printed Aura Go - Dichotomie (12 April) 39 on FSC accredited paper. For news and updates on the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra MSO Partners 2 (MSO) follow us on Facebook MSO Supporters 25 or Twitter. Commissioning the Future 27 Sign up for MSO's monthly e-news, at mso.com.au, to receive Meet Your Musician 40 special offers from the MSO and partner organisations. The Orchestra 41 Sign up for Melbourne Recital Melbourne Recital Centre Supporters 42 Centre's eNews for special offers, priority booking and giveaways at melbournerecital.com.au COVER image: Soundscape: Sibelius Tapiola Find your work-life groove From laid back to more upbeat, you’ll find a range of inspirations in our Business Class. Get in tune with the business of living. Principal Partner of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. 3 EMI0258_Musician_176x121_V3.indd 1 1/13/14 5:30 PM The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and Melbourne Recital Centre recapture a time when the world was full of mystery, and the ancients ruled the land. This is music as a force of nature. The mysteries and majesty of the cosmos and its creation have captivated many composers, especially the great Finnish composer Jean Sibelius, whose Tapiola is a meditation on the ancient, mysterious Northern forests and a work that’s had a profound influence on many of the composers and artists featured in this year’s Festival. Composer, pianist and conductor, Olli Mustonen is one of the most stimulating and thought-provoking musicians of our time. The Finnish master returns to Melbourne to lead Australia’s most important festival of contemporary music. Olli Mustonen leads three orchestral programs and guest pianist Joanna MacGregor (UK) gives a scintillating recital. Australia’s best contemporary musicians present an eclectic selection of performances grounded in nature and mystery. Dig deeper into the beginnings of our world and explore the stories and music we have weaved since the start of time. 4 JOANNA JOANNA MACGREGOR as Charles Ives in Salzburg’s Dialog piano Festival. MACGREGOR Joanna MacGregor made her Joanna MacGregor is one of the conducting debut in 2002 and has MusIcaL TOYS world’s most innovative musicians, solo-directed concerts with the Royal Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre appearing as a concert pianist, curator Philharmonic Orchestra, Liverpool and collaborator. Currently Head of Philharmonic, Manchester Camerata Piano at the Royal Academy of Music, and the Hallé, and has enjoyed a TUESDAY 1 APRIl AT 7.30PM Joanna MacGregor was Artistic close artistic partnership with Britten ELISABETh MURDOCH Director of the Bath International Sinfonia for more than fifteen years. Music Festival 2006-2012, and curated Amongst the many and varied artists HALL, MELBOURNE RECITAL the multi-arts Deloitte Ignite Festival CENTRE with whom she has collaborated are at the Royal Opera House in 2010, jazz artist Moses Molelekwa, pop artist as well as Aventures, an orchestral and tabla player Talvin Singh, Brian JOHANn SEBastIAn BacH series for Luxembourg Philharmonie, Eno, folk artist Kathryn Tickell, jazz The Well-Tempered Keyboard Book I – 2012-13. As a solo artist Joanna has saxophonist Andy Sheppard and Arabic Selections performed in over seventy countries singer and oud virtuoso Dhafer Youssef. and appeared with many of the DMItri SHostaKOVICH world’s leading orchestras, with such Multimedia is of great interest to 24 Preludes & Fugues, Op.87 – Selections eminent conductors as Pierre Boulez, Joanna MacGregor, and in 2003 she Sir Colin Davis, Valery Gergiev, Sir toured China with Crossborder; created SOFIA GUBAIDULINA with Jin Xing’s Contemporary Dance Musical Toys Simon Rattle and Michael Tilson Thomas, and has premiered many Theatre of Shanghai, it combined Also featuring works by RAVEL, landmark compositions ranging Chinese traditional music with DAQUIN, COUPERIN, MESSIAEN, from Sir Harrison Birtwistle and computer technology and film. For Bath International Music Festival 2007 BIRTWISTLE and PIAZZOLLA. Django Bates to John Adams and James MacMillan. She made three she curated the installation On The appearances at the 2012 BBC Proms, Edge of Life, a multimedia collaboration Joanna MacGregor piano two of them televised (including Hugh between paediatricians, artists and Wood’s Piano Concerto and Messiaen’s musicians, examining premature birth. This concert has a duration of approximately Turangalîla), and made her debut at This became an annual event, and in two hours and 10 minutes including one the Mostly Mozart Festival in Lincoln 2008 the series examined the impact of interval of 20 minutes. Center, New York in August 2012. homelessness and in 2009 child human rights through the prism of fairytales Please turn off your mobile phone and Known for her interpretations of with cultural historian Marina Warner. all other electronic devices before the Bach, in April 2013 she was invited De loitte Ignite 2010 at the Royal performance commences. by Sir John Eliot Gardner to perform Opera House included many new art the Goldberg Variations at the Royal Pre-concert talk by Leigh Harrold from commissions, including a year-long Albert Hall, broadcast live. She made 6.45pm-7.15pm in the Salon, Melbourne installation by the remarkable artist her debut at Leipzig Gewandhaus Alice Anderson. Recital Centre. in June, and returns this December As a recording artist Joanna This concert is being broadcast by ABC to perform Britten’s Piano Concerto MacGregor is a veteran of over 30 Classic FM. for his centenary celebrations, as well solo recordings, ranging from Bach, 5 JOANNA MACGREGOR ABOUTABOUT THETHE MUSICMUSIC MOZART’SMUSICAL TOYS REQUIEM Scarlatti, Ravel and Debussy, to jazz Joanna MacGregor is Professor of Empire (OBE) in the Queen’s Jubilee and John Cage. Her own record Performance at Liverpool Hope Honours 2012 and in 2013 became a label SoundCircus was founded in University; she has received Honorary Professor of the University of London. 1998 and has released many highly Fellowships from the Royal Academy This is Joanna MacGregor's Melbourne successful recordings, including the of Music, Trinity College of Music and Recital Centre debut. Mercury Prize-nominated Play and Murray Edwards College, Cambridge, Neural Circuits, with Nitin Sawhney. as well as Honorary Doctorates from Other releases include Sidewalk Bath University, Bath Spa University Dances – music by the New York street and the Open University. From 1997- musician Moondog – and Deep River, 2000 she was Professor of Music at music inspired by the Deep South, Gresham College, London where she with saxophonist Andy Sheppard. gave a series of public lectures. She was Live in Buenos Aires, Bach’s Goldberg the subject of a South Bank show in Variations (recorded at the Mozarteum 2002; and her ongoing series of music in Salzburg) and a four-CD Messiaen books, PianoWorld has been hailed as ‘a set were released in 2010 by Warner new series for the Millenium’. Classical and Jazz, now in partnership Joanna MacGregor was made an with SoundCircus label. Seven further 6 Officer of the Order of the British double CDs were released in June 2011. ABOUT THE MUSIC MUSICAL TOYS Johann Sebastian Bach Shostakovich Sofia Gubaidulina (1685 - 1750) Prelude and Fugue No.8 in F (born 1931) sharp minor The Well-Tempered Keyboard Musical Toys Book 1 - Selections J.S.Bach Mechanical Accordion Prelude and Fugue No.24 in B Dmitri Shostakovich Magic Roundabout minor BWV 869 (1906 - 1975) Trumpet in the Forest 24 Preludes and Fugues, INTERVAL Magic Smith Op.87 – Selections April Day Maurice Ravel Song of the Fisherman J.S.Bach (1875 - 1937) Prelude and Fugue No.1 in C Little Tit BWV 846 Oiseaux tristes from Miroirs A Bear playing the Double Bass and the Black Woman Dmitri Shostakovich Louis-Claude Daquin Prelude and Fugue in C (1694 - 1772) Woodpecker Elk Clearing J.S.Bach Le coucou from Premier livre de Prelude and Fugue No.2 in C pièces de clavecin Sleigh with Little Bells Echo minor BWV 847 Olivier Messiaen Drummer Shostakovich (1908 - 1992) Forest Musicians Prelude and Fugue in E flat Le rouge gorge from Petits J.S.Bach esquisses d’oiseaux Astor Piazzolla (1921 - 1992) Prelude and Fugue No.8 in E flat François Couperin minor BWV 853 (1668 - 1733) Four Tangos, arr. Joanna MacGregor Shostakovich Le rossignol en amour from Prelude and Fugue No.15 in D flat Troisième livre de pièces de Tanguedia J.S.Bach clavecin, 14eme Ordre Buenos Aires Hora Cero Prelude and Fugue No.15 in G Harrison Birtwistle Milonga del Angel BWV 860 (born 1934) Libertango Shostakovich Oockooing Bird Prelude and Fugue No.5 in D Tonight’s program presents an array tuned to accommodate tonalities using of styles and periods, illustrating few sharps and flats, the unfortunate how music simultaneously can be an result being that more complex keys intellectual pursuit, a representation were painfully out of tune. By the of pictorial scenes, and a force of such beginning of the eighteenth century, power that it underpins our impulse an improved system of ‘well’ tempered to dance.