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Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony Performed in Melbourne on Thursday, 19 March 2020 at Iwaki Auditorium, ABC Southbank Centre.
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Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Benjamin Northey conductor BEETHOVEN Symphony No.7
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A musical Acknowledgement of Country, Long Time Living Here by Deborah Cheetham AO, will be performed in Boonwurrung before this concert begins.
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Benjamin Northey conductor Benjamin Northey is Chief Conductor of the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra and Principal Conductor in Residence of the MSO. Winner of the 2019 Limelight Magazine Australian Artist of the Year award, Northey appears regularly as guest conductor with all major Australian and New Zealand symphony orchestras, Opera Australia, New Zealand Opera and State Opera South Australia. His international appearances include concerts with London Philharmonic and Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestras, the National Orchestra of Colombia and the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg. Northey is a strong advocate for music by Australian composers. He has a progressive and diverse approach to repertoire having collaborated with a broad range of artists including Pinchas Zukerman, Maxim Vengerov and Anne-Sofie von Otter, as well as KD Lang, Tim Minchin and James Morrison. His awards include the 2001 Symphony Australia Young Conductor of the Year, the prestigious 2010 Melbourne Prize Outstanding Musician’s Award and multiple awards for his many recordings with ABC Music. 2
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LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
(1770–1827)
Symphony No.7 in A, Op.92 Poco sostenuto – Vivace Allegretto Presto Allegro con brio Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony received its first performances in December 1813 in an atmosphere of triumph and euphoria: Napoleon’s imperial ambitions had been squashed; the composer was at the height of his popularity. The symphony had been completed in the summer of 1812, and its joyous spirit had nothing to do with liberation or military victory. But the audiences heard the music in the same enthusiastic mood in which they heard the ‘battle symphony’ that Beethoven had composed for the occasion. One critic went so far as to describe the symphony as a ‘companion piece’ to the overwhelmingly popular Wellington’s Victory.
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Despite the competition, the Seventh Symphony made a genuine impression of its own. Louis Spohr, assistant concertmaster for the premiere, noted that the symphony was exceptionally well received and that the ‘wonderful second movement had to be repeated’. It remains one of Beethoven’s more popular symphonies, and it is almost certainly the second movement that we would call for an immediate encore if such a practice had survived in our concert halls. The key to the symphony’s direct appeal – then and now – lies in a single musical element: rhythm. Never before had rhythm been given such a fundamental role in Beethoven’s music. It generates the symphony’s structure, its melodic and harmonic gestures, and ultimately its powerful rhetoric. But unlike the Fifth Symphony, where the opening rhythmic motif is developed, fragmented and expanded, the Seventh Symphony adopts a treatment of rhythm and pulse that emphasises obsessive repetition of distinctive patterns. The effect of this technique is compelling, even visceral. Read any text on Beethoven’s Seventh and there will be a reference to its ‘extraordinary rhythmic energy’ (Barry Cooper), the ‘relentless drive’ and ‘obsessional use of rhythm’ (Antony Hopkins). Rhythm and the gesture of the repeated note define the Seventh Symphony almost from the outset. After an imposing slow introduction, almost a movement in itself, Beethoven spins his first main theme from a skipping rhythm on a single note, at once relentless and static. At least, most listeners today are likely to hear it as a ‘skipping rhythm’ (imagine repeating the word ‘Amsterdam’ over and over), and so doing are complicit in Wagner’s designation of the symphony as the ‘apotheosis of the dance’. For us, as for Wagner, the experience of Beethoven’s Seventh is a kinetic one. But Beethoven’s listeners, Romantics all and therefore attuned to the niceties of classicism, would also have recognised the dactylic metre (long-short-short) of classical Greek poetry. Beethoven’s student Carl Czerny was among the first to detail the extensive use of poetic metres in the symphony. Czerny points out
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Other writers of Beethoven’s generation interpreted the conspicuous use of poetic metre as deliberate evocation of Greek music and poetry, and of the ancient world in general. Henri de Castil-Blaze, for example, heard in the much-loved Allegretto ‘an antique physiognomy’. A.B. Marx described the massive opening of the first movement as ‘the kind of invocation with which we are particularly familiar in epic poets’, and the finale as a ‘Bacchic ecstasy’ – this last interpretation given the seal of approval by Wagner, who also recognised an ‘orgiastic’ character in the music, and in the 20th century by Donald Tovey.
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the ‘weighty spondees’ (long-long) of the introduction, the dactylic figures in the first movement, the combination of these two patterns in the Allegretto, and other poetic foundations for the musical content, concluding: ‘It isn’t improbable that Beethoven…was thinking about the forms of heroic poetry and must have deliberately turned toward the same in his musical epic.’
Beethoven himself is silent on the Seventh Symphony: we cannot know whether he was trying to evoke the ancient world through the one device that would have been familiar to his listeners. But such an aim would have been in keeping with the spirit of Romanticism, which sought the fusion of the Modern and the Antique, the simultaneous stewardship and redefinition of classicism. Nowhere is this more strikingly conveyed than in the hypnotic second movement, ‘the menacing chorus of ancient tragedy’. Not a true slow movement but an Allegretto (at one point Beethoven had considered marking it Andante, a tempo more concerned with measuring than momentum), this movement first shows up in sketches from 1806, the first musical material conceived for the symphony. Its point of departure – and indeed its point of return – is uncertainty, with harmonically unstable chords that draw us forward from stasis to metamorphosis. The movement proper adopts the simplest of means: the throbbing tread of an austere ostinato and the piling on of instrumental weight and transforming woodwind colour for ever-increasing intensity. The dazzling scherzo shows Beethoven at play: setting his basic rhythms against each other, inverting and varying them, and cultivating ambiguity within a relentless pulse. The Presto’s vehemence comes from repeated notes that subdivide the melody into its most basic rhythmic unit; in the trio these repeated notes join to create a sustained figure, more expansive and lyrical but equally insistent. For his finale, Beethoven compresses the contrasts of the first movement into the opening bars: two explosive gestures unleash whirling figurations above unremitting syncopation in the bass. Once more he spins a web of interlocking rhythms, ensnaring us in what his contemporaries described as ‘absurd, untamed music’ and a ‘delirium’. As Beethoven himself claimed: ‘Music is the wine which inspires us to new acts of generation, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine to make mankind spiritually drunk.’ On its surface, this symphony conforms to Classical structure, but underneath the Apollonian equilibrium of a four-movement symphony Beethoven creates a feeling of spontaneity, motion and Dionysian vitality. The introspective moments of the introduction, the central part of the scherzo, and the second movement only highlight the irrepressible brilliance of the symphony overall. Whether we attribute its magic to Terpsichore, the muse of the dance, or to Clio, the muse of epic poetry, Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony is an inspired invention. Yvonne Frindle © 2004
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Principal Guest Conductor
Benjamin Northey Principal Conductor in Residence
Monica Curro
Assistant Principal Danny Gorog and Lindy Susskind#
Concertmaster
Mary Allison Isin Cakmakcioglu Tiffany Cheng Freya Franzen Cong Gu Andrew Hall Isy Wasserman Philippa West Patrick Wong Roger Young
Sophie Rowell
VIOLAS
Nicholas Bochner
Cybec Assistant Conductor
Sir Andrew Davis Conductor Laureate
Hiroyuki Iwaki
Conductor Laureate (1974–2006)
FIRST VIOLINS Dale Barltrop
Concertmaster The Ullmer Family Foundation#
Tair Khisambeev
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Peter Edwards
Assistant Principal
Kirsty Bremner Sarah Curro
Michael Aquilina#
Peter Fellin Deborah Goodall Lorraine Hook Anne-Marie Johnson Barbara Bell in memory of Elsa Bell#
Kirstin Kenny Eleanor Mancini Mark Mogilevski Michelle Ruffolo Kathryn Taylor
Christopher Moore Principal Di Jameson#
Rohan de Korte
Andrew Dudgeon#
Sarah Morse Maria Solà#
Angela Sargeant Maria Solà#
Michelle Wood
Michael Aquilina#
DOUBLE BASSES Damien Eckersley Benjamin Hanlon Frank Mercurio and Di Jameson#
Suzanne Lee Stephen Newton Sophie Galaise and Clarence Fraser#
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Christopher Cartlidge
Prudence Davis
Lauren Brigden Katharine Brockman Anthony Chataway
Wendy Clarke
Associate Principal Michael Aquilina#
Dr Elizabeth E Lewis AM#
Gabrielle Halloran Maria Solà#
Trevor Jones Anne Neil#
Fiona Sargeant Maria Solà#
Principal Anonymous#
Associate Principal
Sarah Beggs
Sophia Yong-Tang#
PICCOLO Andrew Macleod
Principal John McKay and Lois McKay#
OBOES
Cindy Watkin
Jeffrey Crellin
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Thomas Hutchinson
Principal
David Berlin
Associate Principal
Michael Aquilina#
Principal MS Newman Family#
SECOND VIOLINS
Rachael Tobin
The Rosemary Norman Foundation#
Matthew Tomkins
Principal The Gross Foundation#
Robert Macindoe Associate Principal
Associate Principal
Nicholas Bochner Assistant Principal Anonymous#
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Ann Blackburn
COR ANGLAIS Michael Pisani Principal
Miranda Brockman
Geelong Friends of the MSO#
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David Thomas
TROMBONES
GUEST MUSICIANS
Richard Shirley
First violins Madeleine Jevons Nicholas Waters
Principal
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TUBA
Associate Principal
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Principal
Elise Millman
Associate Principal
Natasha Thomas
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Principal
HORNS Nicolas Fleury
Principal
Saul Lewis
Principal Third The Hon Michael Watt QC and Cecilie Hall#
Principal Bass Trombone
Timothy Buzbee
Principal
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Tim and Lyn Edward#
Robert Cossom
Drs Rhyll Wade and Clem Gruen#
HARP Yinuo Mu
Principal
Second violins Michael Loftus-Hills Ioana Tache Violas Heidi von Bernewitz William Clark Ceridwen Davies Isabel Morse Cellos Elina Faskhitdinova Mee Na Lojewski Anna Porkorny Double basses Caitlin Bass Rohan Daskia Max McBride Oboes Rachael Bullen Emmanuel Cassimatis
Abbey Edlin
Clarinets Robin Henry
Trinette McClimont Rachel Shaw
Horns Ian Wildsmith*
TRUMPETS
Trombones Samuel Schlosser^
Nereda Hanlon and Michael Hanlon AM#
Owen Morris Principal
Shane Hooton
Associate Principal
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CLARINETS
Tuba Nelson Woods
William Evans Rosie Turner
John and Diana Frew# # Position supported by ** Timpani Chair position supported by Lady Potter AC CMRI
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