Australian Brandenburg Orchestra Amore Italiano PAUL DYER artistic director and harpsichord A concert by the AUSTRALIAN BRANDENBURG ORCHESTRA with ACCORDONE (Italy) GUIDO MORINI guest director and harpsichord MARCO BEASLEY tenor P R O GRA M Mesmerising love songs from renaissance and baroque Italy. For the full program please refer to page 4. SY D NEY City Recital Hall Angel Place Friday 25, Saturday 26 February Wednesday 2, Friday 4, Saturday 5 March all at 7pm Saturday 5 March at 2pm M EL BO URNE Melbourne Recital Centre Sunday 27 February at 5pm, Monday 28 February at 7pm This concert will last approximately 2 hours including interval. This concert will be recorded for live broadcast on ABC Classic FM on Monday 28th February at 7pm at the Melbourne Recital Centre. Cameras, tape recorders, pagers, video recorders and mobile phones must not be operated during the performance. The Australian Brandenburg Orchestra is assisted The Australian Brandenburg by the Australian Government through the Australia Orchestra is assisted by the NSW Council, its arts funding and advisory body. Government through Arts NSW. PRINCIPAL PARTNER AMORE ITALIANO Program_5.indd 1 22/02/11 10:31 AM Program Amore Italiano A CC O R do NE Guido Morini guest director and harpsichord Marco Beasley tenor A U S T R A L I A N BRAN D EN B URG ORCHESTRA The musicians on period instruments Guido Morini Sinfonia da Una Odissea V io L I N 1 THE O R bo /GU ita R Giovanni Felice Sances Usurpator tiranno Brendan Joyce*+ Tommie Andersson*+ Claudio Monteverdi Sì dolce è 'I tormento Guest Concertmaster Simon Martyn-Ellis Giovanni Stefani Amante felice Matt Bruce+ 1 Pietro Marchitelli Sonata II a tre violini e continuo Bianca Porcheddu Li R O NE Guido Morini & Marco Beasley Arfeo 'nnammurato Julia Fredersdorff Laura Vaughan* Guido Morini & Marco Beasley Compianto del Cristo morto V io L I N 2 PER C USS io N Ben Dollman*+ Jess Ciampa* Aaron Brown I N T ER VA L Cath Shugg Ha R P S ic H O R D 2 / O R ga N Paul Dyer V io L A Guido Morini & Marco Beasley Luna Monique O’Dea* 2 Guido Morini & Marco Beasley Mi s'è adirato lo mare marino Marianne Yeomans Bartolomeo Tromboncino Su, su leva alza le ciglia * Denotes section leader + Denotes Brandenburg core musician Jacopo Fogliano L’amor, donna, ch’io te porto CELL O 1 Bianca Porcheddu appears courtesy Marco Beasley Tu dormi Jamie Hey*+ of St. Francis Xavier College, Florey A.C.T. (staff) Guido Morini Passacaglia Anthea Cottee 2 Monique O’Dea appears courtesy of Presbyterian Ladies’ College, Sydney (staff) Anonimo Tarantella di Ischitella Harpsichord preparation by Geoffrey Pollard. Anonimo La bella noeva D O U B L E B A SS Chamber Organ preparation by Peter Jewkes. + Additional harpsichord courtesy of St Jude’s 4 Anonimo Lo Guarracino Kirsty McCahon* Music Association, Bowral. 5 P A U L D Y E R A CC O R do NE artistic director Paul Dyer is one of Australia’s leading specialists in period once considered enjoyable only for specialists and performance styles. A charismatic leader, he founded the musicologists to large audiences. Particular attention Australian Brandenburg Orchestra in 1990 as a natural outcome is given to theatrical performance, their music always of his experience as a performer and teacher of baroque enhancing the drama of a theme or story. The duo unites and classical music, and he has been the Orchestra’s Artistic the cultural legacy of the renaissance and baroque with Director since that time. Paul has devoted his performing life the present day, giving rise to a new repertoire created for to the harpsichord, fortepiano and chamber organ as well as their own concerts. conducting the Brandenburg Orchestra and Choir. In 1998, thanks to the interest of the Austrian Radio Having completed postgraduate studies in solo performance (ORF), Accordone began a series of strictly live with Bob van Asperen at the Royal Conservatorium in The recordings. In 2001 they received their first commission Hague, Paul performed with many major European orchestras by the Nederlands Blazers Ensemble: Una Odissea was and undertook ensemble direction and orchestral studies with the fruit of this collaboration, an opera entirely conceived Sigiswald Kuijken and Frans Brüggen. by Guido Morini (music) and Marco Beasley (libretto). In 2003, La Bella Noeva was issued by the French label As well as directing the Brandenburg, Paul has a busy schedule Alpha. This recording was followed by Frottole, Recitar appearing as a soloist, continuo player and conductor with cantando and Settecento napoletano, all three issued by many major ensembles, including the Sydney Symphony Cypres and dedicated to the repertoires of the sixteenth, Orchestra, Queensland Orchestra, Australia Ensemble, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, respectively. These Australian Chamber Orchestra, Opera Australia, Australian recordings were joined by Vivifice Spiritus Vitae Vis, the Youth Orchestra, Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra, the Pacific Baroque Orchestra, Vancouver, and the Orchestra of the Age of first chapter in a project of sacred music based on Latin Enlightenment, London. texts dedicated to the Trinity, composed by Guido Morini. G UI do MARC O Paul has performed with many prominent international soloists From 2007 to 2009, Accordone was a regular guest including Andreas Scholl, Cyndia Sieden, Elizabeth Wallfisch, at the Festival of Pentecost in Salzburg, with three Andreas Staier, Marc Destrubé, Christoph Prégardien, Hidemi M O RINI BEASLEY programs dedicated to Naples. These included (in Suzuki, Manfredo Kraemer, Andrew Manze, Yvonne Kenny, 2009), the new opera by Guido Morini on a libretto by Emma Kirkby, Philippe Jaroussky and many others. In 1998 he guest director tenor Marco Beasley: Solve et Coagula, dedicated to the made his debut in Tokyo with countertenor Derek Lee Ragin, and harpsichord figure of Raimondo di Sangro, prince of Sansevero. In leading an ensemble of Brandenburg Orchestra soloists, and in that same year, Accordone received a new commission: August 2001 Paul toured the Orchestra to Europe with guest Una Iliade, which was widely toured in Holland. In June soloist Andreas Scholl, appearing in Vienna, France, Germany Guido Morini and Marco Beasley founded Accordone 2010, a new version of Una Odissea was presented at and London (at the Proms). As a recitalist, he has toured in 1984, motivated by a great passion for the music the Schwetzingen Festspiele. At the end of the year, the Germany, France, Belgium, the Netherlands and the United before Bach, for original instruments and for a new recording label Arcana released the new CD, Frà Diavolo, States, playing in Carnegie Hall in New York. musicological approach to problems of interpretation. dedicated to folk music in Southern Italy – a testimony to At the heart of their work is Italian music for voice and the eclecticism and enthusiasm which shows no sign of Paul is an inspiring teacher and has been a staff member basso continuo from the 16th and 17th centuries. Marco diminishing with the passing years. at various Conservatories throughout the world. In 1995 he Beasley’s voice, recognisable for its beautiful timbre, is received a Churchill Fellowship and he has won numerous in perfect stylistic balance with the instruments which Accordone regularly appears in concert at international and national awards for his CD recordings with accompany him, and together with Guido Morini's the most prestigious musical concert venues: the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra and Choir, including profound knowledge of music improvisation and the Concertgebouw and Muziekgebouw (Amsterdam); the 1998, 2001, 2005, 2009 and 2010 ARIA Awards for Best composition makes Accordone a unique ensemble on Wiener Konzerthaus, Auditorio Nacional (Madrid); Classical Recording. Paul is Patron of St Gabriel’s School the European scene. Accademia di S.Cecilia (Rome); Mozarteum (Salzburg); for Hearing Impaired Children. In 2003 Paul was awarded Bozar (Brussels); Tokyo Summer Festival; Israel Festival; the Australian Centenary Medal for his services to Australian Inspired by the early musicians, Accordone Festival van Vlaanderen; Utrecht Oude Muziek, Bruges; society and the advancement of music and in 2010 the Sydney paves a new path in musical interpretation. Innsbruck, de Bijloke (Gand), deSingel and Amuz 6 University Alumni Medal for Professional Achievement. With enthusiasm and vigour, they present pieces (Antwerpen). 7 Amore Italiano Like builders who erect modern houses using recycled materials and traditional skills, Accordone takes Usurpator tiranno The usurper, tyrant musical forms, rhythms and harmonies from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and erects new della tua libertà of your freedom sia, Lilla, altrui, is another man, Lilla, musical structures. Early music is performed alongside contemporary works, written in a modern context che dagli imperi sui yet from his dominion but using techniques directly derived from great masters like Monteverdi. non riceve il mio amor perdita o danno. my love does not receive loss or hurt. Accordone follows contemporary practice in applying their own interpretation to the performance of Faccia il geloso amante Your jealous lover says sixteenth and seventeenth century compositions. It was a time of great experimentation and innovation, che non t'oda, ben mio, that I cannot hear you, my beloved, che non ti miri: that I cannot see you: with the genesis of opera and the belief that music should express human emotions. Long before recording saranno i miei sospiri but my sighs will be those and copyright laws, music was borrowed, circulated, and re-interpreted. The notated music was only a a suo dispetto d'amator costante. of a constant lover, despite him. guide to performance. Procuri pur ch'io sia Though he may cause me Esule dal tuo affetto to be exiled from your affection Art music based on traditional or folk songs and dances formed much of the repertory of Baroque e dal tuo core and from your heart, composers.