ACO 2013 Melbourne Season Brochure

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2013 MELBOURNE SEASON

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A us t ral i an CH A M B E R O R CH E S T R A RICHARD TOGNETTI / ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

Internationally renowned for inspired programming and the rapturous response of audiences and critics, the Australian Chamber Orchestra is a product of our country’s vibrant, adventurous and enquiring spirit. In performances across Australia, around the world and on many recordings, the ACO moves hearts and stimulates minds with repertoire spanning six centuries and a vitality and virtuosity unmatched by other ensembles.

Richard Tognetti has been Artistic Director and Lead Violin since 1989. Under his inspiring leadership, the ACO performs as a flexible and versatile “ensemble of soloists”, on modern and period instruments, as a chamber group, symphony orchestra and electro-acoustic collective. The ACO’s unique artistic style encompasses masterworks of the classical repertoire, innovative cross-artform projects and a vigorous commissioning program.

Several of the musicians perform with spectacularly fine instruments by history’s finest makers, including Stradivarius, Guarneri del Gesù, Guadagnini and A.E. Smith.

Fifty-three international tours across Asia, Europe and the USA have drawn outstanding reviews for the ACO’s performances at the world’s most prestigious concert halls, including Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, London’s Wigmore Hall, New York’s Carnegie Hall and Vienna’s Musikverein.

The ACO has 40 CDs and DVDs for sale at aco.com.au/shop, including the three-time ARIA Award-winning Bach CDs and the internationally acclaimed Mozart Violin Concertos and Grieg recordings.

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“The finest string ensemble on the planet.”

The Telegraph (UK)

T O G N E TTI ’ S MOZART Presented by Virgin Australia

“Tognetti and his fellow musicians bring this music to life in ways I hadn’t previously imagined.”

MusicWeb International Richard Tognetti

HAYDN Symphony No.49, “La passione” DEAN Electric Preludes* (Australian Premiere) MOZART Violin Concerto No.3 MOZART Symphony No.25 Richard Tognetti Director & Violin Sun 3 Feb 2.30pm, Mon 4 Feb 8pm Arts Centre Melbourne * Brett Dean’s Electric Preludes has been commissioned for Richard Tognetti, the ACO and Festival Maribor by Jan Minchin.

The opportunity to hear Richard Tognetti perform one of Mozart’s enchanting, theatrical violin concertos is not to be missed. Tognetti’s Mozart recordings have been singled out by critics internationally as arguably the best on offer.

Mozart’s Symphony No.25 is the dramatic opening music in the film Amadeus and was inspired by Haydn’s thrilling Sturm und Drang symphonies, such as No.49.

Australian composer Brett Dean received one of the world’s most prestigious composition prizes, the Grawemeyer Award, for his violin concerto, so we await his electric violin concerto for Richard Tognetti with much anticipation.

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TH E R E E F Presented by IBM

“It’s a virtuosic display...Technique, fearlessness, grace: the analogy between surfers and musicians needs little elaboration.”

The Australian

ALICE IN CHAINS Them Bones BACH Sonata No.1, BWV1001: Fugue BEETHOVEN String Quartet, Op.130: Cavatina CRUMB Black Angels (excerpts) DEAN Electric Preludes: Peripeteia GRANDAGE/ATKINS Immutable KILAR Orawa LIGETI Ramifications PIGRAM Raindancing, Mimi RACHMANINOV Vocalise RAMEAU Les Boréades: Les Vents SEEGER Where Have All the Flowers Gone SHOSTAKOVICH Chamber Symphony, Op.110a: Allegro Molto TOGNETTI/GRANDAGE Beyond TOGNETTI Heart of The Black Beast, Bathymetry Arrangements by Tognetti and Grandage

In May, Richard Tognetti took a crew of surfers, musicians and film makers to Ningaloo Reef, where the desert meets the sea. They spent two unforgettable weeks surfing, making music and filming and the result is The Reef.

Footage by Mick Sowry and Jon Frank projected onto a screen on stage.

Concept by Richard Tognetti.

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Richard Tognetti Director & Violin Mick Sowry Director & Producer Jon Frank Director of Photography Derek Hynd Director of Surfing Mark Atkins Didgeridoo Stephen Pigram Voice & Guitar Satu Vänskä Violin & Voice Julian Thompson Cello 2

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Immerse yourself in Jon Frank’s images of the ocean, the world’s best fin-free surfers, the arid desert landscape and the starry sky, as an incredible array of music swirls around you. It will alter your perception of a classical music concert through the prism of a transcendental surf film. You’ll never forget it.

Sun 24 Feb 2.30pm Mon 25 Feb 8pm Arts Centre Melbourne

BARRY HUMPHRIES & meo w meo w Presented by BNP Paribas

MEOW MEOW

Barry Humphries

“The greatest performer in Australian history.”

“Cabaret diva of the highest order.”

The Spectator Australia

New York Post

WEILL Surabaya Johnny; Benares Song HOLLÄNDER Falling in Love Again (Can’t Help It) And music by EISLER, KRENEK, BRANDT, GROSZ, TOCH, SCHULHOFF, SEIBER and SPOLIANSKY Richard Tognetti Director & Violin Barry Humphries Conférencier Meow Meow Cabaret artist Satu Vänskä Violin & Voice Sun 5 May 2.30pm Mon 6 May 8pm Arts Centre Melbourne

Barry Humphries selects, presents and performs music from the Weimar Republic, a time between the World Wars where German art and music leaked into the basements of an increasingly loose Berlin society. Transgressive cabaret sensation Meow Meow joins us for the racier numbers, including a duet with Humphries.

An aficionado of the art and music of this turbulent era, Barry Humphries has curated a concert that rediscovers the lost music of Krenek, Schulhoff, Toch, Brandt and Grosz, alongside familiar songs from The Threepenny Opera and Marlene Dietrich’s 1930 cult film The Blue Angel.

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R ICH A R D T O G N E TTI P R E S E N T S AC O 2 “fearless player” New York Times

Daniel Müller-Schott

VIVALDI Concerto for two cellos, RV531 RAUTAVAARA The Fiddlers STRAVINSKY Concerto in D VIVALDI C ello Concerto RV413 in G HANDEL Concerto Grosso No.11 in A BLOCH From Jewish Life BARTÓK Divertimento AC O2 Richard Tognetti Director & Violin Daniel Müller-Schott Cello Timo-Veikko Valve Cello Sun 23 Jun 2.30pm Mon 24 Jun 8pm Arts Centre Melbourne

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AC O2 embarks on its first national tour, led by Richard Tognetti and our principal musicians and starring some of Australia’s finest emerging string players.

Featuring several of the greatest works for string orchestra, this program showcases AC O2’s virtuosity and vivacity, in high-octane Baroque and neoclassical music.

We also celebrate the Australian return of “magnetic young German cellist Daniel MüllerSchott,” (New York Times) performing two Vivaldi Cello Concertos and Bloch’s intensely melancholic From Jewish Life. He will spar with our own principal cellist Timo-Veikko Valve in Vivaldi’s Concerto for two cellos.

B arefoo t f i d d le R BACH Concerto for three violins, BWV1064 MOZART Adagio and Fugue GINASTERA Concerto for strings MENDELSSOHN Violin Concerto in D minor Patricia Kopatchinskaja Guest Director & Violin A free spirit who approaches music with an unquenchable sense of fun and discovery, Patricia Kopatchinskaja is a joy to play with and watch.

“sheer fun of music making” Limelight

Patricia performs Bach and Mendelssohn violin concertos and a haunting work by Argentinian composer Ginastera, featuring solos for five principal musicians.

Trust this enchanting violinist with your ears and she’ll lead you a merry dance, bare feet and all.

Sun 21 Jul 2.30pm Mon 22 Jul 8pm Arts Centre Melbourne

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bra h ms p i ano quintet “born story-teller” Concertonet

Jeremy Denk

BACH Canons on a Goldberg Ground, BWV1087 NANCARROW Two Canons for Ursula IVES Concord Sonata (excerpts) BRAHMS Piano Quintet Richard Tognetti Director & Violin Satu Vänskä Violin Christopher Moore Viola Timo-Veikko Valve Cello Jeremy Denk Piano Mon 26 Aug 8pm Melbourne Recital Centre

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Brahms’ Piano Quintet, both powerful and tender, is one of the masterworks of 19th-century chamber music, almost symphonic in its breadth and depth.

Known for sharp, vibrant performances of programs that are anything but conventional, Jeremy Denk is America’s most communicative pianist, as a writer, programmer and, most importantly, performer. He is able to take some of the most complex music written and make it sing. Together we will explore Bach and Nancarrow canons.

Denk describes Ives’ Concord Sonata as “one of the most profoundly nostalgic and tender projects in all of music.” It is this American pianist’s calling card, vividly portraying the idealism, strength, hope, and fierce individuality inherent in the American ethos.

A n d reas s c h oll s i ngs v i v al d i Presented by Transfield

VIVALDI Concerto Grosso, RV117 SCHNITTKE String Quartet No.3 PÄRT Es sang von langen Jahren GLASS String Quartet No.5, Mvt.5 PÄRT Da Pacem Domine VIVALDI Stabat Mater Andreas Scholl Counter Tenor Helena Rathbone Violin Rebecca Chan Violin Christopher Moore Viola Timo-Veikko Valve Cello Maxime Bibeau Double Bass

Andreas Scholl is famous worldwide for his stylish performances of Baroque music and it is uplifting to perform Vivaldi’s Stabat Mater with him, as it is to begin the concert with Vivaldi’s sprightly Concerto Grosso RV117.

Excitingly, in this concert, Scholl fulfils a longheld desire to match contemporary music with the Baroque. Arvo Pärt’s vocal lines are as consoling and ideal for the intense beauty of Scholl’s voice as Vivaldi’s. Alongside these moments of reflection, full-throttle quartets by Schnittke and Glass.

Mon 7 Oct 8pm Melbourne Recital Centre

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CHOPIN Nocturne No.7 CRUMB Black Angels: Bones and Flutes DEAN Dispersal DEBUSSY Syrinx FELDMAN Three Voices: Slow Waltz LEIFS Quartetto III, “El Greco”: Mvt.4 SCHUBERT Symphony No.8, “Unfinished”: Mvt.1 SHOSTAKOVICH The Age of Gold: Polka SIBELIUS Kuolema: Scenes with Cranes, Scene VI TOGNETTI Battle for the Crowd, Mosh Maggot, Chorale, Rain, Ecstasis, Bells, Train TRAD. ICELANDIC (arr. Stearne) Fagurt er í Fjörðum

Richard Tognetti writes: “What is it we feel when part of a crowd? Is it fear or empowerment? Do we lose ourselves, or find our real selves? Is a crowd a mob, an ignorant mass of unthinking beings? Or is it an intelligent body, capable of thought processes and invention of which individuals alone would not be capable?

We spend much of our life in crowds: when we go to the football or attend a concert, when we cross the street at peak hour, when we worship, mourn, protest or feast, we often do so as part of a crowd.

The Crowd examines the nature of the crowd, in its many manifestations, both human and in the natural world.”

Footage by Jon Frank projected onto a screen on stage.

Concept by Richard Tognetti and Jon Frank.

With more than a hundred people on stage, two thousand in the audience and countless thousands from all walks of life projected onto the big screen, it’s time for you to join the crowd.

Richard Tognetti Director & Violin Jon Frank Film Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM) Orchestra, with the ACO

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Fri 11 Oct 8pm Palais Theatre Melbourne (Presented with ANAM & Melbourne Festival)

B ra h ms 4 & STEVEN ISSERLIS DVOŘÁK Cello Concerto BRAHMS Symphony No.4 Richard Tognetti Director & Violin Steven Isserlis Cello Sun 20 Oct 2.30pm Mon 21 Oct 8pm Arts Centre Melbourne

The Fourth is Brahms’ final powerful symphonic statement. Here, Brahms takes flight, as he melds the soaring sounds of Romanticism to classical structure in a constantly evolving drama.

Brahms premiered the symphony with a small orchestra of forty-eight musicians, which he declined to augment. We follow his lead and perform with wind instruments from Brahms’ time.

Steven Isserlis is one of our favourite collaborators – the epitome of the intelligent and passionate cellist. There could be no better soloist for Dvořák’s ardent and much-loved concerto. Isserlis first played it as a child. “I used to think it was so joyous,” he says. “As I’ve got older, the more tragic it seems.”

“Unrivalled intensity” The Guardian

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MOZART CLARINET CONCERTO RAUTAVAARA A Finnish Myth DENISOV Selections from Paganini Caprices G FRÖST New Work (Australian Premiere) Broadstock Never Truly Lost* (World Premiere) MOZART Symphony No.21 MOZART Clarinet Concerto Satu Vänskä Lead Violin Martin Fröst Clarinet Sun 17 Nov 2.30pm Mon 18 Nov 8pm Arts Centre Melbourne

Martin Fröst’s recent concerts with us were a sensation. He is probably the greatest clarinettist in the world, but more than that, he’s a marvellous communicator and fantastic to watch.

Astonishingly, he can dance while he plays, and his brother’s new work has him performing as a marionette!

Martin Fröst’s recording of Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto was named the best in the world by Classica-Répertoire magazine and his performance has been watched more than half a million times on YouTube – testament to the popularity of both musician and work.

“Until you’ve heard Martin Fröst, you really haven’t heard the clarinet.”

The Times

Satu Vänskä leads music from her homeland Finland and plays Paganini-inspired music on the ACO’s Stradivarius violin. * Commissioned by Rob and Nancy Pallin for Rob’s 70th birthday, in memory of Rob’s father, Paddy Pallin.

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BRANDENBURG CONCERTOS

Timo-Veikko Valve

BACH B randenburg Concertos Nos. 1, 2, 3 & 6 Richard Tognetti Director & Violin Begin the festive season with the most celebrated music of the Baroque, Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos.

To perform this extroverted, colourful music, we’re assembling a remarkable ensemble of Baroque specialists from around the world. Richard Tognetti, winner of three ARIA Awards for Bach recordings, directs.

“Not just one of the greatest composers who ever lived.

Absolutely the greatest. Any doubts about the status of Johann Sebastian Bach were banished by the ACO’s program.”

Adelaide Advertiser

Wed 4 Dec 8pm Melbourne Recital Centre

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CH R I S T M A S ORATORIO RICHARD TOGNETTI

Choir of London: “English choral singing at its very best.”

Edinburgh Guide

BACH Christmas Oratorio Richard Tognetti Director and Violin Choir of London This Christmas, hear Bach’s joyful telling of the Christmas story.

The Christmas Oratorio comprises six cantatas, each depicting a scene from Christ’s birth.

Richard Tognetti directs from the lead violin with his trademark infectious vigour. Those who attended our recent Beethoven 9 concerts will attest to Richard’s captivating ability to marshal orchestral and choral forces. A review in The Age read: “Tognetti’s direction energised all his artists to deliver a jubilant performance”.

We are joined by acclaimed singers from the Choir of London who are hand-picked from Britain’s leading choral baroque specialists, professional choirs and opera companies.

This performance of the Christmas Oratorio in the week before Christmas is an event not to be missed.

Thu 19 Dec 6.30pm Arts Centre Melbourne This performance is approximately 4 hours long, including interval

ST NICHOLAS CHURCH, LEIPZIG 12

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Three extraordinary events which combine different artforms and media, with a range of musical genres.

TH E R E E F 24 or 25 Feb

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BARRY hUMPHRIES & MEOW MEOW 5 or 6 May

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TH E C R O WD 11 Oct

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book i ng op t i ons SUBSCRIPTION PACKAGES Available now Subscribers save up to 25% and receive the best available seats. Subscription tickets exchanged through the ACO Box Office do not incur an exchange fee. Subscribers receive invitations to meet the musicians and special offers.

The Melbourne Recital Centre & Hamer Hall packages contain different programs so you may book for both.

Hamer Hall Subscription Seven concerts at Arts Centre Melbourne, Hamer Hall. Choose between the Sunday 2.30pm or Monday 8pm series.

Tognetti’s Mozart | The Reef | Barry Humphries | AcO2 | Barefoot Fiddler | Brahms 4 | Mozart Clarinet Melbourne Recital Centre Subscription Three chamber music concerts at 8pm at the Melbourne Recital Centre.

Brahms Quintet with Jeremy Denk | Andreas Scholl | Brandenburg Concertos ACO+ Package Available now Rhree cross-artform concerts, see page 13 for details.

The Reef | Barry Humphries | The Crowd CHOOSE 3 PACKAGES Available from December 5 Design your own mini-subscription package. Choose any 3 concerts from the 2013 season and save up to 23%.

SINGLE TICKETS Available from December 5 Early bird offer: Book tickets before 14 January 2013 and receive 5% off full price adult tickets.

Under 30’s: Under 30 year olds can buy the best available seats for $45.

Student Rush: Full time student card holders can buy $20 tickets from the venue on the day of the performance.

HOW TO BOOK Web: aco.com.au Phone: 1800 444 444 (Mon-Fri, 9am-5pm) Booking Form: mailed to PO Box R21, Royal Exchange NSW 1225 For terms and conditions of sale, see aco.com.au/terms-and-conditions. The ACO reserves the right to change programs, artists and venues without notice

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Arts Centre Melbourne - artscentremelbourne.com.au / 1300 182 183* Melbourne Recital Centre - melbournerecitalcentre.com.au / 9699 3333* Tickets to The Crowd are available through ticketmaster.com.au / 136 100* *Booking fees may apply.

PICTURE CREDITS: Outside and front inside covers, and page 11 Jamie Williams; Page 1 Helen White; Page 2, 8 and 12 Jon Frank; Page 3 Greg Gorman (Barry Humphries) and Harmony Nicholas (Meow Meow); Page 4 Christine Schneider; Page 5 Marco Borggreve; Page 6 Michael Wilson; Page 7 James McMillan/Decca; Page 9 Satoshi Aoyagi; Page 10 Mats Bäcker.

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The Reef

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2 0 1 3 N A TI O N A L CONCERT SEASON Our national tour dates for those who would like to see a performance in another city.

Barry Humphries & MEOW MEOW

RICHARD TOGNETTI’S MOZART

THE REEF

Presented by Virgin Australia

Brisbane, Canberra, Melbourne, Newcastle, Sydney & Wollongong

23 Apr – 8 May

Richard Tognetti presents AcO2

SYDNEY DANCE COMPANY

Barefoot Fiddler

13 – 26 Jun

11 – 13 Jul

Adelaide, Brisbane, Canberra, Melbourne, Perth, Sydney & Wollongong

2 – 16 Feb Adelaide, Canberra, Melbourne, Perth & Sydney

Adeliade, Brisbane, Canberra, Melbourne, Newcastle & Sydney

Presented by IBM

22 Feb – 4 Mar

Brisbane

12 – 14 Sep Canberra

Presented by BNP Paribas

Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth & Sydney

20 Jul – 3 Aug

Brahms Piano Quintet

Andreas Scholl Sings Vivaldi

THE CROWD

12 – 26 Aug

Presented by Transfield

Adelaide, Melbourne, Newcastle, Perth, Sydney & Wollongong

3 – 9 Oct

Melbourne & Sydney

Melbourne, Sydney, & Wollongong

Brahms 4 & Steven Isserlis

Mozart Clarinet Concerto

Brandenburg Concertos

19 – 29 Oct

14 – 24 Nov Canberra, Melbourne, Newcastle & Sydney

3 – 8 Dec

Adelaide, Brisbane, Canberra, Melbourne, Perth & Sydney

11 – 13 Oct

Brisbane, Melbourne & Sydney

SPECIAL CHRISTMAS EVENT CHRISTMAS ORATORIO 16 – 19 Dec Sydney & Melbourne

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