Ears Wide Open: Beethoven's Fifth Symphony | Concert Program

Beethoven’s

Program

BEETHOVEN Excerpts from Symphony No.5

Duration: approximately 1 hour with no interval.

Conductor

CARLO ANTONIOLI

Carlo Antonioli currently serves as the Cybec Assistant Conductor Fellow to the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. Previously, Carlo served as the Assistant Conductor to the West Australian Symphony Orchestra working closely with Principal Conductor Asher Fisch and guest conductors including Ludovic Morlot, Karina Canellakis, Mark Wigglesworth and Fabien Gabel. During his time in Perth, Carlo also conducted WASO on their 2019 Regional Tour. For the Sydney Symphony Orchestra he has assisted Vladimir Ashkenazy and Simone Young.

2022 sees Carlo conduct the Canberra Symphony Orchestra and the Australian Contemporary Opera Company’s productions of Book of Longing (Philip Glass), The Loser (Lang) and To Hell and Back (Heggie). He has regularly worked with the Australian Youth Orchestra, and conducted Sydney Youth Orchestras, the Australian Doctors Orchestra, Kuringai Youth Orchestra, Eastern Sydney Chamber Orchestra and Orange Symphony Orchestra. Carlo is also a composer and a member of the Sydney-based Dreambox Collective. Carlo holds a Master of Music Studies (Conducting) from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and has participated in the Symphony Services International Conductor Development Program and the inaugural Australian Conducting Academy with the TSO.

Presenter

NICHOLAS BOCHNER

After training in Adelaide and London, Nicholas spent 3 years as Artist-in-Residence at the University of Queensland as part of the ensemble Perihelion, forging a strong reputation as an exponent of contemporary music. He joined the MSO as Assistant Principal Cello in 1998. Since then he has appeared as a soloist, chamber musician and recitalist. He has also taught cello and improvisation at the Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM). Nicholas has always had a strong commitment to music education and community engagement. In 2010 he was awarded the Dame Roma Mitchell Churchill Fellowship to study the LSO’s iconic Discovery program and the use of improvisation in training classical musicians at the Guildhall School of Music.

In 2016, Nicholas’ considerable experience as an orchestral musician and his passion for communication led him to undertake a fellowship at ANAM where he developed, conducted and presented educational concerts for primary school children. During the fellowship he was mentored by Paul Rissmann, Graham Abbott and the legendary Richard Gill AO. Since then he has presented educational concerts for children and adults for MSO, ANAM and the Melbourne Chamber Orchestra.

In 2020 he was named the MSO’s Cybec Assistant Conductor for Learning and Engagement. He is also the conductor of the Melbourne University Biomedical Students’ Orchestra. In support of his work as an education presenter, Nicholas has been studying conducting with Benjamin Northey and won a coveted place at the TSO’s 2019 Australian Conducting Academy.

Glossary Motif

A short musical phrase, musical fragment or succession of notes that has some special importance in or is characteristic of a composition.

Theme

A melody used in a composition; motifs can be derived from a theme

Development

The alteration of a motif or theme in a way that renders it different but still recognisable.

Symphony

Deriving from a Greek word meaning “agreement or concord of sound”, the term symphony was used from the 16th century to refer to a wide range of instrumental compositions. Haydn established the idea of a four-movement work intended for concert performance. At the beginning of the 19th century, Beethoven elevated the symphony from an everyday genre produced in large quantities to a supreme form in which composers strove to reach the highest potential of music in just a few works.

Quick Facts

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN (1770–1827)

Symphony No.5

• Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony was composed between 1804 and 1808 and premiered on 22 December 1808 in Vienna.

• Beethoven uses trombones, contrabassoon and piccolo in the last movement, enriching the sound and impact of the orchestra. It was the first time that these instruments had been used together in a symphonic work.

• A normal performance of the work lasts around 30 minutes making it one of the shorter symphonies.

• During World War II the symphony acquired the nickname the “Victory Symphony”. This was because the Roman numeral for 5 is a V and because the morse code for the letter V is the same pattern as the famous opening motif. The BBC would preface information broadcasts with the famous 4 notes.

• A recording of the first movement conducted by Otto Klemperer was included on the golden record sent into space with the Voyager spacecraft. The golden record was a a kind of time capsule, intended to communicate a story of our world to extra-terrestrials.

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