A SYMPHONY OF WINDS HUMMING TO MOZART 23 & 24 SEP 2021 VICTORIA CONCERT HALL
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23 & 24 Sep 2021 Victoria Concert Hall Wind Ensemble of the SSO
D O N IZ E T T I
Sinfonia for Winds in G minor SSO PREMIERE
G O UN O D
Petite symphonie
21 mins
H UM M E L
Octet-Partita in E-flat SSO PREMIERE
15 mins
MO ZART
Serenade for Winds in C minor, K.388
21 mins
5 mins
Concert Duration: 1 hr 20 mins (with no intermission)
COVER ART: NEPTUNE AND THE WINDS (1760S) BY GIOVANNI BATTISTA TIEPOLO
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FLUTE Jin Ta Principal Flute OBOE Rachel Walker Principal Oboe Pan Yun Associate Principal Oboe Carolyn Hollier Elaine Yeo Associate Principal Cor Anglais CLARINET Ma Yue Principal Clarinet Li Xin Associate Principal Clarinet Tang Xiao Ping Assistant Principal Bass Clarinet BASSOON Liu Chang Associate Principal Bassoon Christoph Wichert Zhao Ying Xue Assistant Principal Contrabassoon HORN Gao Jian Associate Principal Horn Jamie Hersch Associate Principal Horn Marc-Antoine Robillard Associate Principal Horn Hoang Van Hoc
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T HE ORC HE S T R A HANS GRAF Chief Conductor ANDREW LITTON Principal Guest Conductor CHOO HOEY Conductor Emeritus LAN SHUI Conductor Laureate EUDENICE PALARUAN Choral Director WONG LAI FOON Choirmaster
Michael Loh Associate Principal Nikolai Koval* Hai-Won Kwok Chikako Sasaki* Margit Saur Shao Tao Tao Wu Man Yun* Xu Jueyi* Yeo Teow Meng Yin Shu Zhan* Zhao Tian* VIO L A Manchin Zhang Principal Guan Qi Associate Principal Gu Bing Jie* Fixed Chair Marietta Ku Luo Biao Julia Park Shui Bing Janice Tsai Dandan Wang Yang Shi Li
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(Position vacant) Concertmaster, GK Goh Chair Kong Zhao Hui1 Associate Concertmaster Chan Yoong-Han2 Fixed Chair Cao Can* Chen Da Wei Duan Yu Ling Foo Say Ming Jin Li Kong Xianlong Cindy Lee Karen Tan William Tan Wei Zhe Ye Lin* Zhang Si Jing*
Ng Pei-Sian Principal, The HEAD Foundation Chair Yu Jing Associate Principal Guo Hao Fixed Chair Chan Wei Shing Jamshid Saydikarimov* Song Woon Teng Wang Yan Wu Dai Dai Zhao Yu Er D O U B LE BAS S Yang Zheng Yi Associate Principal Karen Yeo Fixed Chair Olga Alexandrova Jacek Mirucki Guennadi Mouzyka Wang Xu
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OBOE Rachel Walker Principal Pan Yun Associate Principal Carolyn Hollier Elaine Yeo COR ANGL AI S Elaine Yeo Associate Principal CLARINET Ma Yue Principal Li Xin Associate Principal Liu Yoko Tang Xiao Ping BAS S CL AR I NE T Tang Xiao Ping Assistant Principal BAS S OON
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* With deep appreciation to the Rin Collection for their generous loan of string instruments. 1 Kong Zhao Hui performs on a J.B. Guadagnini of Milan, c. 1750, donated by the National Arts Council, Singapore, with the support of Far East Organization and Lee Foundation. 2 Chan Yoong-Han performs on a David Tecchler, Fecit Roma An. D. 1700 donated by Mr Goh Yew Lin. Musicians listed alphabetically by family name rotate their seats on a per programme basis.
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GAETANO DONIZETTI (1797–1848) Sinfonia for Winds in G minor (1817) SSO PREMIERE Gaetano Donizetti is best known as a composer of over 70 operas, with the result that his other works have ended up unjustly neglected. The single-movement Sinfonia for Winds in G minor was written when Donizetti was about the age of 20, and a student at the Bologna Academy. Around this time, he wrote his first one-act opera, the comedy Il Pigmalione, and the good humour is also evident in the Sinfonia for Winds in G minor, which is full of drama, excitement and humour, as well as lyrical, singing phrases that, while clearly written by a mind thinking in terms of the human voice, work well on woodwind instruments.
Instrumentation flute, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 2 horns World Premiere Unknown
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I II III IV
Adagio et Allegretto Andante cantabile Scherzo. Allegro moderato Finale. Allegretto first movement. The slow movement, walking and songlike, recalls Mozart’s andantes, while the flute manages satisfying conversations with the other instruments between its wordless aria phrases.
Charles Gounod was another composer better known for operas, songs, and sacred music, but while he had written two orchestral symphonies, had largely turned away from instrumental music by the 1850s. Paris in the late 1800s was retrospectively called the belle époque (“the beautiful time”), and there was a renewed vigour and lightness in the French arts scene as the French cast off what they considered the heaviness of Wagner and Germanic influences. Gounod’s Paris, which gave the world the Art Nouveau, the Moulin Rouge, and the Eiffel Tower, was inhabited by such names as Toulouse-Lautrec, Rénoir, Satie, Saint-Saëns, Bizet, and Fauré.
The Scherzo brings to mind the hunting rondos of Mozart and Haydn, with its jolly rhythm and hunting-horn calls, while the Finale is reminiscent of the same composers in its use of dynamic contrasts and layered counterpoint.
A Parisian wind ensemble (Société de musique pour instruments à vent), led by Gounod’s friend, the flautist Paul Taffanel, used the newly-perfected Boehm-style woodwind instruments and commissioned new works from several belle époque. Gounod’s response was the Petite symphonie, which calls for the standard Mozart serenade forces of pairs of oboes, clarinets, bassoons, and horns, but with a single flute part for his friend Taffanel.
Instrumentation flute, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 2 horns
Exhibiting a Classical clarity of form and structure, Gounod paints it generously with Romantic harmony and expression, but always retaining a distinctly French crispness and lightness. A slow romantic introduction precedes the airy Allegretto
World Premiere 30 Apr 1885, Paris First performed by SSO 26 Aug 1988 17
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CHARLES GOUNOD (1818–1893) Petite symphonie (1885)
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JOHANN NEPOMUK HUMMEL (1778–1837) Octet-Partita in E-flat (1803) SSO PREMIERE I II III
Allegro con spirito Andante Vivace assai
The Austrian pianist and composer Hummel is one of those very good composers who had the misfortune of living among giants. A transitional figure between the Classical and Romantic periods, he was a pupil of Mozart, Salieri and Haydn, as well as a friend of Beethoven and Schubert. Hummel was Haydn’s successor as Konzertmeister (and later Kapellmeister) at the Esterházy court, and his music is marked by unassuming jollity and the Octet Partita in E-flat, which survives in a single score (dated 27 October 1803) in the British Library, is characteristically sunny. The work is scored for standard wind octet plus serpent (usually now substituted by contrabassoon). Unusually for a partita, it lacks a minuet and has thus only three movements. The first movement is in sonata form and begins with a boisterous fanfare, leading into a bouncy and addictive second theme. The second movement is a gentle and charming 6/8 Andante that languidly takes us around the shady trees of palatial gardens, before the work ends with a Vivace assai full of good humour, galloping horses and hunting horns.
Instrumentation 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 2 horns World Premiere Unknown 18
I II III IV
Allegro Andante Menuetto Allegro
“What on earth is Mozart doing?” – listeners at the first performance of Mozart’s Serenade for Winds in C minor may well have been thinking as they heard the work. Harmoniemusik, or wind music for outdoor evening entertainment, were meant to be harmless and pleasant things, an easylistening background for the more important activities of flirting, business discussions, and court intrigue.
uncharted territory, Mozart finishes the final variation in C major, as he returns listeners to familiar ground and answers the opening question with a cheeky wink. Programme notes by Edward C. Yong
Here Mozart has given us the musical equivalent of macarons filled with savoury, spicy chilli paste. His dramatic flair casts the work in C minor, the key of his Great Mass and Fifth Symphony, and here his passionate expressivity shines forth through the dark tonality, sombre unisons, and unexpected intervals. The first movement is emotive and tense, while keeping balanced. The Andante second movement provides a light respite in E-flat, reassuring us that this is still a serenade, of sorts. The Menuetto third movement takes us back to the dark genius of Mozart, giving us dissonance and a mirror canon that demand our attention. He denies us the traditional light and bubbly serenade ending by presenting a set of variations on a minorkey theme. Nervous moodiness suffuses the whole work, but the seriousness comes to the foreground in this last movement as the variations get increasingly dramatic and operatic. Having taken their ears through
Instrumentation 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 2 horns World Premiere Unknown First performed by SSO 25 May 1984 19
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WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART (1756–1791) Serenade for Winds in C minor, K.388 (1782)
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