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THE SPIRIT OF SERENITY For Whom The Bell Tolls 28 Mar 2020 Victoria Concert Hall Singapore Symphony Orchestra Darrell Ang conductor BRITTEN
Simple Symphony, Op. 4
PÄRT
Cantus in memory of Benjamin Britten
TCHAIKOVSKY
Serenade for Strings in C major, Op. 48
Concert duration: 1 hr
17 mins 6 mins 28 mins
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Orchestral playing at the peak of refinement and beauty Fanfare in London received critical acclaim in the major UK newspapers The Guardian and The Telegraph. The SSO has also performed in China on multiple occasions. In July 2019, the SSO named Austrian conductor Hans Graf as its Chief Conductor designate, beginning in the 2020/21 concert season. Notable SSO releases under BIS include a Rachmaninoff series, a “Seascapes” album, three Debussy discs “La Mer”, “Jeux” and “Nocturnes”, and the first-ever cycle of Tcherepnin’s piano concertos and symphonies. The SSO has also collaborated with such great artists as Lorin Maazel, Charles Dutoit, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Neeme Järvi, Gustavo Dudamel, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Diana Damrau, Martha Argerich, Lang Lang, Yo-Yo Ma, Janine Jansen, Leonidas Kavakos and Gil Shaham. The SSO is part of the Singapore Symphony Group, which also manages the Singapore Symphony Choruses, and the Singapore National Youth Orchestra. The mission of the Group is to create memorable shared experiences with music. Through the SSO and its affiliate performing groups, we spread the love for music, nurture talent and enrich Singapore’s diverse communities.
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Orchestra, China National Symphony Orchestra and the Prague Chamber Orchestra. One of Asia’s most sought-after conductors, Ang’s growing operatic profile includes performances of Don Giovanni and Rigoletto at the Mariinsky Theatre, Carmen at Estonian National Opera, Mozart operas in Bordeaux and Toulon, and Wagner in Singapore.
DARRELL ANG conductor
Born in Singapore, Ang studied composition with Leong Yoon Pin before studying in St. Petersburg with Leonid Korchmar, and Yale with Shinik Hahm. He became the Young Associate Conductor of the Singapore Symphony Orchestra (2008–2013) under the guidance of Music Director Lan Shui and also served as Music Director of the Singapore National Youth Orchestra. He took all three top awards at the 50th Besançon International Young Conductors’ Competition in 2007, leading to the Music Directorship of the Orchestre Symphonique de Bretagne (2012–2015). With support from the Allianz Cultural Foundation, he took on residencies with the London Philharmonic and Philharmonia Orchestra, under the tutelage of Lorin Maazel and Esa-Pekka Salonen.
Artistic Director and Chief Conductor of The Sichuan Orchestra of China (Sichuan Symphony), Grammy-nominated Darrell Ang last year opened the London Philharmonic’s season at Eastbourne, conducted Paris’s Orchestre de Lamoureux at the Théâtre du Champs-Elysées and made his debut with the Japan Philharmonic. In addition, he conducted Beijing’s National Centre for the Performing Arts Orchestra and released several recordings on the Naxos label to rave reviews. Recent appearances include with The Haydn Orchestra of Bolzano and Trento, Moscow State Symphony Orchestra, Mariinsky Orchestra, NHK Symphony 5
SECOND VIOLIN Michael Loh Associate Principal Hai-Won Kwok Fixed Chair Nikolai Koval* Chikako Sasaki* Margit Saur Shao Tao Tao Wu Man Yun* Xu Jue Yi* Yeo Teow Meng Yin Shu Zhan* Zhao Tian*
The Orchestra JOSHUA TAN Associate Conductor ANDREW LITTON Principal Guest Conductor
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FIRST VIOLIN Kong Zhao Hui# Associate Concertmaster Chan Yoong-Han 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*
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*With deep appreciation to the Rin Collection for their generous loan of string instruments. 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. ^Musician on temporary contract. Musicians listed alphabetically by family name rotate their seats on a per programme basis.
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BENJAMIN BRITTEN (1913–1976) Simple Symphony, Op. 4 (1933–1934)
ARVO PÄRT (b. 1935) Cantus in memory of Benjamin Britten (1977)
Britten wrote his Simple Symphony for string ensemble when he was all of 20 years old. There are four movements, each quoting two themes from his own earlier works. And by “earlier”, we mean when he was between the ages of 9 and 12. The four movements with their playful titles and their source material are:
Estonian composer Arvo Pärt is known best for his distinct style, evocative of freezing glaciers and northern winds, partly inspired by chant. His Cantus in memory of Benjamin Britten, for string orchestra and bell, was written in 1977 as an elegy for the 1976 death of Benjamin Britten. Pärt greatly admired Britten and felt he was a kindred spirit, and had looked forward to meeting him someday.
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Boisterous Bourrée – Second movement (Bourrée) from Suite No. 1 in E for piano – A Country Dance (“Now the King is home again”)
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Playful Pizzicato – Scherzo and Trio from Sonata for Piano in B-flat major, Op. 5 – The Road Song of the Bandar-Log
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Sentimental Sarabande – Prelude from Suite No. 3 in F-sharp minor for piano, Op. 25 – Waltz in B major for piano
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Frolicsome Finale – Finale from Piano Sonata No. 9, in C-sharp minor, Op. 38 – Song (1925)
The strings each play only notes from the A minor scale, with patterns repeated at various speeds, octaves, and intervals, giving a swirling effect of increasing tension. The resolution, as it were, happens when all the parts settle on an A minor chord, but as they die away, the bell strikes a single A – but with the natural overtones of a major third, giving the subtle effect of a note of hope and redemption, like a shaft of coloured light from a stained-glass window piercing the gloomy semi-darkness of a cathedral. Programme notes by Edward C. Yong
Instrumentation strings
Instrumentation bell, strings
World Premiere 1934, Norwich (Benjamin Britten, conductor)
World Premiere 7 Apr 1977, Tallinn First performed by SSO 14 May 1993
First performed by SSO 11 Mar 2007 16
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PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY (1840–1893) Serenade for Strings in C major, Op. 48 (1880) Pezzo in forma di sonatina Valse Elégie Finale
In the autumn of 1880 Tchaikovsky was given an assignment about which he was less than enthusiastic: he was commissioned to write a piece for the opening of an Arts and Industry Exhibition in Moscow. He complained to his patron and friend Nadezhda von Meck: “What can you write on the occasion of the opening of an exhibition except banalities and generally noisy passages?” (The piece was the 1812 Overture and incidentally it’s gone on to become one of Tchaikovsky’s best-loved works.) Faced with a task he’d rather avoid, Tchaikovsky did what any of us would – he procrastinated. Instead of working on his commission he decided to sketch out some ideas for a completely different piece, as he told his patron: “I began to feel somewhat restless… Today I could not bear it, and endure it no longer, and I busied myself a little with designs for a future symphony – perhaps? I immediately began to feel cheerful… Now here I am already with designs for a symphony or string quartet; I do not yet know which.”
Above: Lithography of an All-Russia Exhibition 1882 in Moscow.
The piece he would end up with, of course, was neither a symphony nor a string quartet but this Serenade for Strings. The work is in four movements and, as the name suggests, is written for string orchestra (violins, violas, cellos, double basses). 17
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It opens with a Pezzo in forma di sonatina, a movement which the composer himself said was intended to sound Mozartian – Tchaikovsky had recently rediscovered Mozart’s opera The Magic Flute – although the lush string textures are unlike anything found in Mozart’s work. The second movement, Valse, is the most famous section of the work, it’s appeared in films, adverts and even video games. It’s been a favourite with audiences since the beginning: at the premiere of the work this movement had to be immediately repeated. There follows a beautiful Elégie, whose melody grows out of the valse, before the Finale, which is built around two Russian folk tunes – “on the Green Meadow” and “Under the Green Apple Tree” – both of which Tchaikovsky had previously arranged in his collection of piano duets, Fifty Russian Folksongs. When Tchaikovsky had finished the piece he wrote to his patron again, saying “It is a heartfelt piece and so, I dare to think, is not lacking in real qualities.” As ever, the great composer was too modest. Programme note by Elizabeth Davis
Instrumentation strings World Premiere 30 Oct 1881, St. Petersburg First performed by SSO 15 Mar 2009 18
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