Australian Haydn Ensemble 2016

AHE AUSTRALIAN HAYDN ENSEMBLE

2016

CONCERT SEASON

‘In 2015 we performed Beethoven’s 3rd Piano concerto with Neal Peres Da Costa.

During one of the concerts, I experienced a moment of breathtaking surprise.

Neal drew out of the fortepiano an amazing colour I had never heard before.

I was astonished by this special, etherial sound, which resulted when Neal meticulously followed Beethoven’s damper pedalling marks on the Viennese-style fortepiano after Conrad Graf (c. 1820) - the type of instrument Beethoven had in mind for this concerto. An audience member commented to me after the performance saying: ” I had a sensation that Beethoven was in the room with us.”

It is these small moments of musical bliss that inspire us, make us go on, uplifting us with the discovery of some new contour or dimension in the music we love.’

AHE BOARD Artistic Director & Violin Skye McIntosh

Dr Timothy Pascoe AM Skye McIntosh - Artistic Director Marco Belgiorno - Zegna AM Tom Gregory

2016

AUSTRALIAN HAYDN ENSEMBLE

“I know well that music is made to speak to the heart of man, and this is what I try to do if I can; music without feelings and passions is meaningless.” Luigi Boccherini, 1799.

AHE begins 2016 aiming straight for the heart with Boccherini’s exquisite Stabat Mater.

Special Guest Sara Macliver will make this performance unforgettable. We will also perform with her some of Mozart’s most loved soprano arias.

Our second program features chamber music for flute and strings performed in music salons of Vienna in the late 18th century. Vienna, the centre of classical music at the time, nurtured many great composers, including Mozart. His great quartet, ‘The Hoffmeister’, is a giant amongst classic chamber music works. Hoffmeister, Mozart‘s friend was himself a composer. We feature his lush C minor flute quartet as well as works by Albrechtsberger (Beethoven’s teacher) and Vanhal.

Mid year we have our most exciting project to date. A full orchestral program of Mozart and Haydn with cellist, Daniel Yeadon, performing Haydn’s C major cello concerto.

This concert will mark our first performance at City Recital Hall, Angel Place and also the launch of our debut ABC Classics recording.

Featuring twice in the role of Musical Director as well as keyboard soloist, our wonderful colleague and conductor, Dr Erin Helyard, will perform Mozart’s keyboard concerto no 14 in E flat major, returning in December to perform CPE Bach’s G minor keyboard concerto.

Our Beethoven concerto project will continue with historical expert, Dr Neal Peres Da Costa, playing the 4th piano concerto. Beethoven himself made sketches for a chamber version of this piece. We will present a reworking of that version. We will also perform a chamber version of Beethoven’s second symphony arranged in 1805.

The highlight of the year for me, and I hope you will love it, is our finale in December: ‘Haydn’s Passion’. The program is inspired by the Sturm and Drang (Storm & Stress) movement and features both CPE Bach and Haydn. This music is designed to shock, and is usually in a minor key. Australian historical flautist, Melissa Farrow, will feature in one of CPE’s greatest works, the D minor flute concerto. Haydn’s symphony ‘La Passione’, his only orchestral work in the key of F minor, closes out the year in dramatic fashion.

We cannot wait to present these programs to you and we hope to see you at the concerts!

2016

OVERVIEW PROGRAM 1 - March 10th - 14th

BEAUTIFUL BOCCHERINI PROGRAM 2 - MAY 26th - 31st

VIENNA SALON PROGRAM 3 - JULY 14th - 16th

MOZART & HAYDN PROGRAM 4 - OCTOBER 13th - 17th

BEETHOVEN PIANO CONCERTO 4 PROGRAM 5 - DECEMBER 15th - 19th

HAYDN’S PASSION

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“Careful attention to blending the sounds of the instruments resulted in a well coordinated performance that echoed the details of their masterful techniques in playing and listening.”

CULTURE CONCEPT CIRCLE, 2015 Double Bass - Jacqueline Dossor

Our ENSEMBLE “A concert experience with the Australian Haydn Ensemble is one where the carefully and creatively structured programme both delights and educates.�

SYDNEY ARTS GUIDE 2014 The Australian Haydn Ensemble offers an intimate concert experience where audiences engage with the musicians and the music, enjoying the nuance of period instruments from a close perspective.

Under the artistic direction of principal violinist, Skye McIntosh, the AHE has developed its own flourishing series at the Sydney Opera House Utzon Room with virtually all concerts sold out over the past 2 years.

Performing on classical period instruments, the group has quickly built a reputation for interesting and unusual programming. Its rapid success has established it as a key organisation in the Australian musical community.

The Ensemble is versatile and performs in a number of guises from quartet up to full-sized chamber orchestra. Players enjoy presenting programs that bring to life elements of historical performance that are seldom explored to their full extent, performing works of composers both loved and lesser known.

Left to right: Jacqueline Dossor - Double Bass Matthew Greco- Violin James Eccles - Viola Skye McIntosh - Violin & Artistic Director Anton Baba - Cello Melissa Farrow -Flute

"Sara Macliver sang ... with fluid purity of line, creating a golden aurora around the sound at key notes to telling expressive effect."

SYDNEY MORNING HERALD, 2012

Beautiful

BOCCHERINI

SPECIAL GUEST SARA MACLIVER SHINES IN MOZART ARIAS AND BOCCHERINI’S STABAT MATER ARTISTS SARA MACLIVER Soprano soloist THE AUSTRALIAN HAYDN ENSEMBLE AHE launches 2016 with a Boccherini and Mozart program built around Boccherini’s exquisite Stabat Mater featuring our special guest soprano, Sara Macliver.

Aria award-winning Sara Macliver is one of Australia’s favourite and acclaimed sopranos. She is a leading expert in baroque performance and her pure and elegant style will entrance you in these wonderful works of Mozart & Boccherini.

Enchanted by the Gredos Mountains of Spain, far from the traditional musical centres of Europe, Bocherinni’s music is characterised by astounding optimism, colour and warmth flavoured with Spanish folk music.

Mozart’s operas are amongst his most loved works. Sara will sing selections from The Magic Flute and Don Giovanni accompanied by a chamber ensemble of flute and strings. A wonderful treat to start the year!

PROGRAM

MOZART The Magic Flute - Overture (chamber arr.)

MOZART Ach ich fuhl’s from The Magic Flute MOZART Batti batti & Vedrai carino from Don Giovanni (chamber arr.)

BOCCHERINI Quintet in g minor op 19 BOCCHERINI Stabat Mater G 532 for soprano and string quintet

CANBERRA The Hall - University House, ANU Thurs March 10th, 7pm BERRY Berry Uniting Church Hall Fri March 11th, 7pm SYDNEY The Cell Block Theatre Sun March 13th, 2.30pm Mon March 14th, 7pm

Vienna SALON CHAMBER MUSIC FROM CLASSICAL VIENNA FOR FLUTE & STRINGS

Vienna’s cultural magnetism was unrivalled in the late 18th century. This program explores works presented in the finest Viennese salons, such as that belonging to the famous patron of Beethoven, Gottfried van Swieten.

Mozart’s friend, Hoffmeister, became one of Vienna’s most popular and enterprising musicians. Interestingly, as one of the most influential music publishers of the time, he printed works by all of our featured composers. His flute quartet in C minor will make for a stormy start to the evening.

Mozart’s quartet K449, dedicated to Hoffmeister, earned Mozart praise at the time for its ‘fire of the imagination’, and is still considered to be one of his finest.

Albrechtsberger, a teacher of Beethoven, was influential in Vienna. This underrated composer’s string quartet is an overlooked gem, with a fugue rivalling even those of Haydn’s Op. 20 quartets.

Arguably one of the most extraordinary Viennese soirées ever, it included Haydn, Mozart, von Dittersdorf and our last featured composer, Vanhal, a prolific Bohemian composer. We end this program with his resplendent flute quintet in B flat major.

PROGRAM

HOFFMEISTER Flute quartet in C minor ALBRECHTSBERGER String quartet in D minor op 16 no 2 MOZART String quartet in D K499 ‘Hoffmeister’ VANHAL Flute quintet in B flat major

ARTISTS THE AUSTRALIAN HAYDN ENSEMBLE CANBERRA The Hall - University House, ANU Thurs May 26th, 7pm BERRY Berry Uniting Church Hall Fri May 27th, 7pm SOUTHERN HIGHLANDS Buradoo - The Rose Room Sat May 28th, 3pm SYDNEY Sydney Opera House - Utzon Room Tue 31st May, 7pm

“As the crowd gathered beneath the illuminated concrete ribs of the Utzon Room...The tactility and intimacy of the chamber setting offers a unique shared experience between musician and audience, and the Australian Haydn Ensemble’s second performance of the year was testament to this.”

LIMELIGHT 2014

Melissa Farrow - Flute

Cello - Daniel Yeadon

HAYDN &

Mozart

DIRECTED BY DR ERIN HELYARD FROM THE KEYBOARD DANIEL YEADON PERFORMS HAYDN’S WONDERFUL C MAJOR CELLO CONCERTO One of Australia’s finest keyboard players, historical expert, respected musical director and co-director of Pinchgut Opera, Dr Erin Helyard, leads this jubilant concert of classical masterworks and is soloist in Mozart’s piano concerto no.14.

Historical expert and cellist, Daniel Yeadon, joins AHE again as soloist following his brilliant performance of CPE Bach’s A minor concerto last year. Haydn’s cello concerto in C Major, despite being one of his most performed works for the cello, is rarely heard on period instruments. This will be a treat for audiences to hear this beloved work as originally played.

Helyard’s “energetic and inspiring leadership” combined with the “precise and elegant playing” of the AHE in two early Haydn symphonies should make for exciting listening.

This concert also marks two wonderful milestones for us: our first City Recital Hall performance; and the launch of our debut ABC Classics recording.

PROGRAM

HAYDN Symphony no. 30 “Alleluia’ HAYDN Cello concerto in C major MOZART Piano concerto no. 14 K449 HAYDN Symphony no. 24

ARTISTS DR ERIN HELYARD Director & fortepiano soloist DANIEL YEADON Cello soloist THE AUSTRALIAN HAYDN ENSEMBLE

CANBERRA The Hall - University House, ANU Thurs July 14th, 7pm SYDNEY City Recital Hall Angel Place Sat July 16th, 7pm

Beethoven4th

PIANO CONCERTO DR NEAL PERES DA COSTA PERFORMS A CHAMBER VERSION OF THE 4TH PIANO CONCERTO

Beethoven’s fourth piano concerto, full of beauty and majesty, is the perfect way to experience the sensitive and historically informed keyboard playing of Dr Neal Peres Da Costa, whose monograph, Off the Record: Performing Practices in Romantic Piano Playing (Oxford University Press, New York: 2012) has been hailed as “engaging and thought provoking” …and “a book that no serious pianist should be without.”

(Limelight Magazine) It was also honoured

by Alex Ross (music critic of The New Yorker and author of The Rest is Noise) as a notable book on his 2012 Apex List.

We present Beethoven’s 4th piano concerto as part of an ongoing AHE cycle exploring Beethoven’s piano concertos in chamber format, a well-loved practice in the Classical and early Romantic periods. This year we are using Beethoven’s own sketches as the basis for a new chamber version of the work.

Neal Peres Da Costa will perform on a fortepiano after Conrad Graf (c.1820), generously made available by the Sydney Conservatorium of Music.

We also present an Australian premiere of an 18th century chamber version of Beethoven’s second Symphony, recently discovered in the British Library.

PROGRAM

BEETHOVEN Piano concerto no. 4 chamber arr. by Lim (2016) BEETHOVEN Symphony no. 2 chamber arr.

by Masi (1800)

ARTISTS DR NEAL PERES DA COSTA Fortepiano soloist THE AUSTRALIAN HAYDN ENSEMBLE

CANBERRA The Hall - University House, ANU Thurs Oct 13th, 7pm SYDNEY Sydney Opera House - Utzon Room Sat Oct 15th, 2.30pm Mon Oct 17th, 7pm

“Performing from a Bärenreiter urtext, Peres Da Costa and the ensemble delivered an extremely elegant and stimulating performance of this virtuosic piece…The AHE performs with integrity and elegance.

Their delivery is straightforward and sincere, devoid of artifice. They presented an evening of delightful and excellent entertainment.”

SOUNDS LIKE SYDNEY 2014

Fortepiano Dr Neal Peres Da Costa

“Melissa Farrow..clarity and shapely phrasing while a succession of sustained top-register notes displayed her excellent breath control” THE AUSTRALIAN

Dr Erin Helyard - Keyboard & Director Melissa Farrow - Flute Soloist

HAYDN’s

Passion

A STRIKING PROGRAM INSPIRED BY THE ‘STORM & STRESS’ MOVEMENT OF THE 18th CENTURY Directed by Dr Erin Helyard from the keyboard to finish the year, we go over to the dramatic side of CPE Bach and Haydn.

The program contains four works reflecting the 18th century ‘storm and stress’ movement. Often discussed in the context of literature, such musical works are often in minor keys and exhibit dramatic characteristics.

CPE’s D minor flute concerto, one of his most virtuosic and colourful, will showcase the exquisite and pure sounds of Australia’s leading period instrument flautist, Melissa Farrow.

The G minor harpsichord concerto will be performed by our esteemed colleague, Dr Erin Helyard, preceeded by a stormy E minor symphony for strings and winds.

As the finale of our 2016 season we present Haydn’s La Passione symphony.

His only orchestral work in the key of F minor, this work illuminates the darker side of this otherwise sunny composer.

PROGRAM

CPE BACH Sinfonia wq 178 in E minor CPE BACH Flute concerto in D minor wq 22 CPE BACH Harpsichord concerto in G minor wq 6 HAYDN Symphony no. 49 ‘The Passion’ in F minor ARTISTS DR ERIN HELYARD Director & harpsichord soloist MELISSA FARROW Flute soloist THE AUSTRALIAN HAYDN ENSEMBLE CANBERRA The Hall - University House, ANU Thurs Dec 15th, 7pm SYDNEY Sydney Opera House - Utzon Room Sun Dec 18th, 2.30pm Mon Dec 19th, 7pm

Viola James Eccles Viola - James Eccles

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