Great Performers 2013

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WELCOME

IN 2013, THE GREAT PERFORMERS SERIES OFFERS NINE NIGHTS OF COLOUR, PASSION AND TRANSCENDENT SKILL. THIS IS THE MOST DIVERSE AND WIDE-RANGING SERIES YET: TAKING IN EVERYTHING FROM BAROQUE TO JAZZ, PERFORMED BY RISING STARS AND EMINENT MASTERS. Paul Lewis and Franz Schubert have become fixtures of the series, and we welcome them for the last concert in this cycle of late piano works.

Schubert’s three final sonatas are some of the most profound works of the Romantic imagination.

This will be a very special recital.

Jordi Savall and Andrew Lawrence-King are among the greatest early musicians of our time, responsible for numerous recordings and performances which give new life to nearly-forgotten masterpieces. We’re delighted to introduce the gorgeous voices of the viola da gamba and the Baroque harp to Great Performers.

Violinist Arabella Steinbacher has visited Australia several times, giving dazzling performances with our orchestras, but has yet to make her recital debut.

That will be remedied when she performs Brahms, Bach and Franck in 2013.

Soprano Susan Bullock gave the first vocal recital in Elisabeth Murdoch Hall in 2009.

We welcome her back, this time as a prelude to her appearance as Brünnhilde in the Melbourne Ring Cycle. Camilla Tilling, an angelically pure soprano, makes her Australian debut with the Schubert and Strauss songs that have won her rave reviews.

Some spectacular pianists make their Recital Centre debuts this season. Joyce Yang is a musician of immense sensitivity, passion and charm. Venezuelan virtuoso Sergio Tiempo is constantly surprising, volatile and simply one of the most exciting musicians around. The piano duo of Katia and Marielle Labèque barely need any introduction. Their engaging music-making is justly renowned, especially in pieces with a touch of jazz such as the wonderful West Side Story suite they’ll perform for you.

Finally, Murray Perahia, a great performer of the highest calibre, makes his Melbourne debut.

This is a concert that I know music-lovers will not want to miss. He is legendary for the depth of his interpretations and limpid beauty of his tone, which will be perfectly complemented by Australia’s most beautiful and intimate hall.

I look forward to welcoming you to nine inspiring performances at Melbourne’s home for music.

Mary Vallentine AO CEO, Melbourne Recital Centre

WELCOME

IN 2013, THE GREAT PERFORMERS SERIES OFFERS NINE NIGHTS OF COLOUR, PASSION AND TRANSCENDENT SKILL. THIS IS THE MOST DIVERSE AND WIDE-RANGING SERIES YET: TAKING IN EVERYTHING FROM BAROQUE TO JAZZ, PERFORMED BY RISING STARS AND EMINENT MASTERS. Paul Lewis and Franz Schubert have become fixtures of the series, and we welcome them for the last concert in this cycle of late piano works.

Schubert’s three final sonatas are some of the most profound works of the Romantic imagination.

This will be a very special recital.

Jordi Savall and Andrew Lawrence-King are among the greatest early musicians of our time, responsible for numerous recordings and performances which give new life to nearly-forgotten masterpieces. We’re delighted to introduce the gorgeous voices of the viola da gamba and the Baroque harp to Great Performers.

Violinist Arabella Steinbacher has visited Australia several times, giving dazzling performances with our orchestras, but has yet to make her recital debut.

That will be remedied when she performs Brahms, Bach and Franck in 2013.

Soprano Susan Bullock gave the first vocal recital in Elisabeth Murdoch Hall in 2009.

We welcome her back, this time as a prelude to her appearance as Brünnhilde in the Melbourne Ring Cycle. Camilla Tilling, an angelically pure soprano, makes her Australian debut with the Schubert and Strauss songs that have won her rave reviews.

Some spectacular pianists make their Recital Centre debuts this season. Joyce Yang is a musician of immense sensitivity, passion and charm. Venezuelan virtuoso Sergio Tiempo is constantly surprising, volatile and simply one of the most exciting musicians around. The piano duo of Katia and Marielle Labèque barely need any introduction. Their engaging music-making is justly renowned, especially in pieces with a touch of jazz such as the wonderful West Side Story suite they’ll perform for you.

Finally, Murray Perahia, a great performer of the highest calibre, makes his Melbourne debut.

This is a concert that I know music-lovers will not want to miss. He is legendary for the depth of his interpretations and limpid beauty of his tone, which will be perfectly complemented by Australia’s most beautiful and intimate hall.

I look forward to welcoming you to nine inspiring performances at Melbourne’s home for music.

Mary Vallentine AO CEO, Melbourne Recital Centre

“Paul Lewis’s exploration of Schubert’s late piano music and song cycles is one of the most compelling concert series of the moment.”

THE GUARDIAN, UK

PIANO

“Paul Lewis’s exploration of Schubert’s late piano music and song cycles is one of the most compelling concert series of the moment.”

THE GUARDIAN, UK

PIANO

CONCERT 1

Piano

PAUL LEWIS

PAUL LEWIS CONCLUDES HIS THREE-YEAR JOURNEY THROUGH THE LATE PIANO WORKS OF FRANZ SCHUBERT WITH THE FINAL TRIPTYCH OF SUBLIME PIANO SONATAS. Composed in the last spring, summer and autumn of the composer’s short life, the three masterpieces share a complex web of motifs and moods. Woven through the sonatas are hints and echoes of Schubert’s last songs, where youthful joy is clouded by loneliness and despair. In search of new ways to express the inexpressible and suddenly aware of his mortality, Schubert forged a powerful new voice, only to be silenced at his peak by his death at the age of 31.

WEDNESDAY 13 FEBRUARY 7:30PM The Schubert Cycle: Journey’s End SCHUBERT

~ Piano Sonata No.19 in C minor, D958 ~ Piano Sonata No.20 in A, D959 ~ Piano Sonata No.21 in B-flat, D960

Individual tickets available from Thursday 15 November 2012: $50 / $70 / $90 / $110*.

Purchase Season Tickets to save up to 30% on the regular price. *Transaction fees may apply.

Photo: © Josep Molina

These works call for a pianist of remarkable sensitivity and intelligence, one who eloquently allows Schubert’s music to tell its own story.

Paul Lewis is the ideal exponent of Schubert’s piano works, and via his mentor Alfred Brendel, heir to a great tradition of profound and lyrical playing. This is serious music performed by a serious musician, but it is also full of life and humour, and finally, peace. Lewis has the technique and the insight to communicate Schubert’s ambiguously gorgeous last will and testament. “When Schubert wants to tell you something important,” Lewis says, “he will usually lower his voice rather than raise it – he draws you into the message.”

CONCERT 1

Piano

PAUL LEWIS

PAUL LEWIS CONCLUDES HIS THREE-YEAR JOURNEY THROUGH THE LATE PIANO WORKS OF FRANZ SCHUBERT WITH THE FINAL TRIPTYCH OF SUBLIME PIANO SONATAS. Composed in the last spring, summer and autumn of the composer’s short life, the three masterpieces share a complex web of motifs and moods. Woven through the sonatas are hints and echoes of Schubert’s last songs, where youthful joy is clouded by loneliness and despair. In search of new ways to express the inexpressible and suddenly aware of his mortality, Schubert forged a powerful new voice, only to be silenced at his peak by his death at the age of 31.

WEDNESDAY 13 FEBRUARY 7:30PM The Schubert Cycle: Journey’s End SCHUBERT

~ Piano Sonata No.19 in C minor, D958 ~ Piano Sonata No.20 in A, D959 ~ Piano Sonata No.21 in B-flat, D960

Individual tickets available from Thursday 15 November 2012: $50 / $70 / $90 / $110*.

Purchase Season Tickets to save up to 30% on the regular price. *Transaction fees may apply.

Photo: © Josep Molina

These works call for a pianist of remarkable sensitivity and intelligence, one who eloquently allows Schubert’s music to tell its own story.

Paul Lewis is the ideal exponent of Schubert’s piano works, and via his mentor Alfred Brendel, heir to a great tradition of profound and lyrical playing. This is serious music performed by a serious musician, but it is also full of life and humour, and finally, peace. Lewis has the technique and the insight to communicate Schubert’s ambiguously gorgeous last will and testament. “When Schubert wants to tell you something important,” Lewis says, “he will usually lower his voice rather than raise it – he draws you into the message.”

JORDI

ANDREW

S AVA LL

L AWRENCE-KING

VIOLA DA GAMBA

HARP

“Early music has its purists and pedants, its scholars and heretics. Jordi Savall is one of its great souls.”

“A great virtuoso, musician and poet.”

THE BOSTON GLOBE, US

THE BOSTON GLOBE, US

JORDI

ANDREW

S AVA LL

L AWRENCE-KING

VIOLA DA GAMBA

HARP

“Early music has its purists and pedants, its scholars and heretics. Jordi Savall is one of its great souls.”

“A great virtuoso, musician and poet.”

THE BOSTON GLOBE, US

THE BOSTON GLOBE, US

CONCERT 2

Viola da Gamba (JS) and Harp (ALK)

JORDI SAVALL ANDREW LAWRENCE-KING

THURSDAY 14 MARCH 7:30PM With Frank McGuire, percussion.

LES GÔUTS RÉUNIS Pieces and improvisations from the golden age of the viola da gamba in Spain, France and England.

Individual tickets available from Thursday 15 November 2012: $50 / $70 / $90 / $110*.

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JORDI SAVALL IS AN ADVENTURER IN TIME AND SPACE. FOR MORE THAN THREE DECADES HE HAS DEVOTED HIMSELF TO RECREATING THE SOUND OF THE PAST, TAKING LISTENERS ON GRAND TOURS OF DISCOVERY INTO REMOTEST ANTIQUITY AND DISTANT LANDS. With his blend of scholarship, imagination and intuition, Savall has forged a legendary career as the world’s leading exponent of the exquisitely expressive viola da gamba and as leader of three acclaimed ensembles – they’re more like families, really – of virtuoso period musicians. As evinced by numerous recordings and in performances the world over, there is truly something miraculous in Savall’s playing: a sense that no matter how fragmentary or obscure its source, music simply, movingly blooms at his touch.

This “performer of genius” (The New Yorker) is joined by another: frequent concert partner, harpist Andrew Lawrence-King, in a journey across Europe, from Spain to England, from the Renaissance to the Baroque.

Photo: © David Ignaszewski

The viola da gamba was the poet-prince of a flourishing and polyglot artistic world, prized for its human-like voice and ability to convey a rainbow of moods, and as at home in the court of Versailles as on the streets of London. Savall and Lawrence-King survey the works from the height of the viol’s reign, by Diego Ortiz, JeanBaptiste Lully and especially Marin Marais, subject of the film Tous les matins du monde (for which Savall provided a soundtrack of both peerless beauty and historical accuracy). Jordi Savall and Andrew Lawrence-King’s art transcends the boundaries of genre and period. This is music for everyone and every era.

CONCERT 2

Viola da Gamba (JS) and Harp (ALK)

JORDI SAVALL ANDREW LAWRENCE-KING

THURSDAY 14 MARCH 7:30PM With Frank McGuire, percussion.

LES GÔUTS RÉUNIS Pieces and improvisations from the golden age of the viola da gamba in Spain, France and England.

Individual tickets available from Thursday 15 November 2012: $50 / $70 / $90 / $110*.

Purchase Season Tickets to save up to 30% on the regular price. *Transaction fees may apply.

JORDI SAVALL IS AN ADVENTURER IN TIME AND SPACE. FOR MORE THAN THREE DECADES HE HAS DEVOTED HIMSELF TO RECREATING THE SOUND OF THE PAST, TAKING LISTENERS ON GRAND TOURS OF DISCOVERY INTO REMOTEST ANTIQUITY AND DISTANT LANDS. With his blend of scholarship, imagination and intuition, Savall has forged a legendary career as the world’s leading exponent of the exquisitely expressive viola da gamba and as leader of three acclaimed ensembles – they’re more like families, really – of virtuoso period musicians. As evinced by numerous recordings and in performances the world over, there is truly something miraculous in Savall’s playing: a sense that no matter how fragmentary or obscure its source, music simply, movingly blooms at his touch.

This “performer of genius” (The New Yorker) is joined by another: frequent concert partner, harpist Andrew Lawrence-King, in a journey across Europe, from Spain to England, from the Renaissance to the Baroque.

Photo: © David Ignaszewski

The viola da gamba was the poet-prince of a flourishing and polyglot artistic world, prized for its human-like voice and ability to convey a rainbow of moods, and as at home in the court of Versailles as on the streets of London. Savall and Lawrence-King survey the works from the height of the viol’s reign, by Diego Ortiz, JeanBaptiste Lully and especially Marin Marais, subject of the film Tous les matins du monde (for which Savall provided a soundtrack of both peerless beauty and historical accuracy). Jordi Savall and Andrew Lawrence-King’s art transcends the boundaries of genre and period. This is music for everyone and every era.

JOYCE YA NG PIANO

“Unflinching technical command and panache.”

SYDNEY MORNING HERALD

Photo: © Oh Seuk Hoon

JOYCE YA NG PIANO

“Unflinching technical command and panache.”

SYDNEY MORNING HERALD

Photo: © Oh Seuk Hoon

CONCERT 3

Piano

FRIDAY 22 MARCH 7:30PM

JOYCE YANG

BEETHOVEN ~ Piano Sonata No.18 in E-flat, Op.31, No.3 CHOPIN ~ Nocturne No.4 in F major, Op.15, No.1

~ Nocturne No.15 in F minor, Op.55, No.1 BARTÓK ~ Szabadban (Out of Doors) RACHMANINOV arr. WILD

~ Dreams, Op.38 No.5

~ The Little Island, Op.14 No.2

~ Vocalise, Op.34 No.14 SCHUMANN ~ Fantasiestücke, Op. 12 Individual tickets available from Thursday 15 November 2012: $50 / $70 / $90 / $110*. Purchase Season Tickets to save up to 30% on the regular price. *Transaction fees may apply.

WHEN JOYCE YANG WON SILVER AT THE 12TH VAN CLIBURN INTERNATIONAL PIANO COMPETITION AT THE AGE OF 19, THE ARRIVAL OF A MAJOR NEW TALENT WAS ANNOUNCED TO THE WORLD. The South Korean pianist was the youngest entrant that year but dazzled the jurors with her maturity and her astonishing technical command.

Now, at 25, Yang has established a globe-trotting career as a concert artist, performing with the LA Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the Sydney Symphony, electrifying audiences with her “million-volt stage presence.”

While Yang has the fingers and nerves of steel to take on the most challenging repertoire, it’s her refined musical sensibility and free-wheeling imagination that set her apart from the many other young virtuosi on the circuit. Colour and emotion take precedence over mere display in renditions of familiar repertoire and intriguing rarities, polished, as always, to a scintillating gleam.

Fantasies, passions and dreams – the night’s music – are the theme of Yang’s recital. Chopin’s nocturnes are the perfect music for dreaming, naturally, but how does the tenderly humorous Beethoven sonata fit in? With the questioning shape of its opening – Liebst du mich? (Do you love me?), the melody says – its nostalgic minuet and joyously galloping finale, it seems to be a courtship (and elopement?) in miniature.

Night-time is made for romance. At the heart of Bela Bartók’s Out of Doors suite is an impression of a summer evening in the Hungarian countryside, alive with insects and frogs. Schumann was the archetypal Romantic figure, both dreamy and passionate, as depicted in his eight fantasy-pieces where the two sides of his personality – which he named Eusebius and Florestan – strut, sigh, banter and bicker.

Encoded within is a love letter from Robert to his future wife, Clara.

CONCERT 3

Piano

FRIDAY 22 MARCH 7:30PM

JOYCE YANG

BEETHOVEN ~ Piano Sonata No.18 in E-flat, Op.31, No.3 CHOPIN ~ Nocturne No.4 in F major, Op.15, No.1

~ Nocturne No.15 in F minor, Op.55, No.1 BARTÓK ~ Szabadban (Out of Doors) RACHMANINOV arr. WILD

~ Dreams, Op.38 No.5

~ The Little Island, Op.14 No.2

~ Vocalise, Op.34 No.14 SCHUMANN ~ Fantasiestücke, Op. 12 Individual tickets available from Thursday 15 November 2012: $50 / $70 / $90 / $110*. Purchase Season Tickets to save up to 30% on the regular price. *Transaction fees may apply.

WHEN JOYCE YANG WON SILVER AT THE 12TH VAN CLIBURN INTERNATIONAL PIANO COMPETITION AT THE AGE OF 19, THE ARRIVAL OF A MAJOR NEW TALENT WAS ANNOUNCED TO THE WORLD. The South Korean pianist was the youngest entrant that year but dazzled the jurors with her maturity and her astonishing technical command.

Now, at 25, Yang has established a globe-trotting career as a concert artist, performing with the LA Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the Sydney Symphony, electrifying audiences with her “million-volt stage presence.”

While Yang has the fingers and nerves of steel to take on the most challenging repertoire, it’s her refined musical sensibility and free-wheeling imagination that set her apart from the many other young virtuosi on the circuit. Colour and emotion take precedence over mere display in renditions of familiar repertoire and intriguing rarities, polished, as always, to a scintillating gleam.

Fantasies, passions and dreams – the night’s music – are the theme of Yang’s recital. Chopin’s nocturnes are the perfect music for dreaming, naturally, but how does the tenderly humorous Beethoven sonata fit in? With the questioning shape of its opening – Liebst du mich? (Do you love me?), the melody says – its nostalgic minuet and joyously galloping finale, it seems to be a courtship (and elopement?) in miniature.

Night-time is made for romance. At the heart of Bela Bartók’s Out of Doors suite is an impression of a summer evening in the Hungarian countryside, alive with insects and frogs. Schumann was the archetypal Romantic figure, both dreamy and passionate, as depicted in his eight fantasy-pieces where the two sides of his personality – which he named Eusebius and Florestan – strut, sigh, banter and bicker.

Encoded within is a love letter from Robert to his future wife, Clara.

SOPRANO

“The delightful Swedish soprano Camilla Tilling reveals herself as an outstanding interpreter of Strauss’s songs. Tilling takes her place among the leading Strauss sopranos of the day.”

T HE SU NDAY T IMES , U K

SOPRANO

“The delightful Swedish soprano Camilla Tilling reveals herself as an outstanding interpreter of Strauss’s songs. Tilling takes her place among the leading Strauss sopranos of the day.”

T HE SU NDAY T IMES , U K

CONCERT 4

Soprano

CAMILLA TILLING

CAMILLA TILLING’S VOICE AND STAGE PRESENCE HAVE CRITICS USING SUPERLATIVES LIKE ‘RADIANT’, ‘SPELLBINDING’ AND ‘FLAWLESS’.

IS IT ANY WONDER THEN THAT SHE’S OFTEN CALLED ON TO PLAY ANGELS AND PRINCESSES? Tilling is one of those sopranos who prioritise purity of sound and phrasing over sheer power, not that this has stopped her from treading the boards in the biggest and most prestigious opera houses – the Metropolitan, Covent Garden and Glyndebourne – in repertoire ranging from Figaro to Rosenkavalier and beyond. On record, she’s worked with early music specialists, and in recital she’s performed at Wigmore and Carnegie Hall among many others.

So add ‘versatile’ to that list.

Tilling has made a speciality of the lateRomanticism of Richard Strauss, bringing a disarming freshness and bloom to some of the most voluptuous lieder in the catalogue. These songs find Strauss in more reflective, serene and candid moods than his operas. Strauss writes rapturously for the female voice (he was married to a soprano),

setting a vocal line like a gem within the finelywrought accompaniment. Even more luscious are the Seven Early Songs of Alban Berg, where voice soars over a surreally beautiful harmonic landscape. Berg and Strauss’s underrated Viennese contemporary, Alexander von Zemlinsky, wrote a handful of Waltz-Songs, lilting showcases for a gorgeous voice. And no concert of German lieder is complete without the work of the master songwriter, Schubert – songs in which Tilling, spontaneous and smiling, is “a joy to the ear”.

THURSDAY 16 MAY 7:30PM Exclusive Australian Appearance. With Anthony Legge, piano.

Songs of SCHUBERT, R STRAUSS, ZEMLINSKY and BERG Individual tickets available from Thursday 15 November 2012: $50 / $70 / $90 / $110*.

Purchase Season Tickets to save up to 30% on the regular price. *Transaction fees may apply.

CONCERT 4

Soprano

CAMILLA TILLING

CAMILLA TILLING’S VOICE AND STAGE PRESENCE HAVE CRITICS USING SUPERLATIVES LIKE ‘RADIANT’, ‘SPELLBINDING’ AND ‘FLAWLESS’.

IS IT ANY WONDER THEN THAT SHE’S OFTEN CALLED ON TO PLAY ANGELS AND PRINCESSES? Tilling is one of those sopranos who prioritise purity of sound and phrasing over sheer power, not that this has stopped her from treading the boards in the biggest and most prestigious opera houses – the Metropolitan, Covent Garden and Glyndebourne – in repertoire ranging from Figaro to Rosenkavalier and beyond. On record, she’s worked with early music specialists, and in recital she’s performed at Wigmore and Carnegie Hall among many others.

So add ‘versatile’ to that list.

Tilling has made a speciality of the lateRomanticism of Richard Strauss, bringing a disarming freshness and bloom to some of the most voluptuous lieder in the catalogue. These songs find Strauss in more reflective, serene and candid moods than his operas. Strauss writes rapturously for the female voice (he was married to a soprano),

setting a vocal line like a gem within the finelywrought accompaniment. Even more luscious are the Seven Early Songs of Alban Berg, where voice soars over a surreally beautiful harmonic landscape. Berg and Strauss’s underrated Viennese contemporary, Alexander von Zemlinsky, wrote a handful of Waltz-Songs, lilting showcases for a gorgeous voice. And no concert of German lieder is complete without the work of the master songwriter, Schubert – songs in which Tilling, spontaneous and smiling, is “a joy to the ear”.

THURSDAY 16 MAY 7:30PM Exclusive Australian Appearance. With Anthony Legge, piano.

Songs of SCHUBERT, R STRAUSS, ZEMLINSKY and BERG Individual tickets available from Thursday 15 November 2012: $50 / $70 / $90 / $110*.

Purchase Season Tickets to save up to 30% on the regular price. *Transaction fees may apply.

ARABELL A STEINBACHER VIOLIN

“Precision, captivating intensity and tone of gloriously golden fire.”

SYDNEY MORNING HERALD

ARABELL A STEINBACHER VIOLIN

“Precision, captivating intensity and tone of gloriously golden fire.”

SYDNEY MORNING HERALD

CONCERT 5

Violin

ARABELLA STEINBACHER

ARABELLA STEINBACHER’S MUSICAL DEMEANOUR IS EQUAL PARTS SWEETNESS AND GRIT. STEINBACHER AND HER 1716 STRADIVARIUS HAVE A RANGE THAT TAKES IN “RAVISHINGLY PURE AND LOVELY” TO A “THRILLING TOUCH OF STEEL”.

Since making an unexpected debut in Paris aged 22 when she replaced an indisposed colleague, the young German-Japanese virtuoso has developed an international solo career, performing with prestigious orchestras and landing an exclusive recording contract.

Perhaps the key to Steinbacher’s expressivity is her upbringing: the daughter of a singer and a pianist for the Munich opera, she grew up surrounded by song. Steinbacher says, “When I perform, it is an opportunity for me to express what I feel most deeply through great music. It is my goal to do nothing superficially, but to share my authentic feelings directly with the audience.”

Steinbacher’s program provides moments of passion, suavity and reflection. Brahms’ second violin sonata is a radiantly lyrical masterpiece, nearly a self-portrait of the introverted and intense composer. Brahms wrote that his hero JS Bach’s Ciaccona contains “a whole world of the deepest thoughts and most powerful feelings” in its single line of music. It is a tour-de-force for solo violin, and one of the towering achievements of humanity.

From the same year – 1886 – as Brahms’ sonata, Franck’s is a creation of impeccable French elegance and sober grace. It’s a vintage Dior gown of a sonata – the perfect fit for Arabella Steinbacher.

TUESDAY 18 JUNE 7:30PM Exclusive Melbourne Debut Recital. Ms Steinbacher’s associate artist will be announced in early 2013.

BRAHMS ~ Sonata for Violin and Piano No.2 in A, Op.100 JS BACH ~ Partita for Solo Violin in D minor, BWV 1004: Ciaccona FRANCK ~ Sonata for Violin and Piano in A Individual tickets available from Thursday 15 November 2012: $50 / $70 / $90 / $110*.

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CONCERT 5

Violin

ARABELLA STEINBACHER

ARABELLA STEINBACHER’S MUSICAL DEMEANOUR IS EQUAL PARTS SWEETNESS AND GRIT. STEINBACHER AND HER 1716 STRADIVARIUS HAVE A RANGE THAT TAKES IN “RAVISHINGLY PURE AND LOVELY” TO A “THRILLING TOUCH OF STEEL”.

Since making an unexpected debut in Paris aged 22 when she replaced an indisposed colleague, the young German-Japanese virtuoso has developed an international solo career, performing with prestigious orchestras and landing an exclusive recording contract.

Perhaps the key to Steinbacher’s expressivity is her upbringing: the daughter of a singer and a pianist for the Munich opera, she grew up surrounded by song. Steinbacher says, “When I perform, it is an opportunity for me to express what I feel most deeply through great music. It is my goal to do nothing superficially, but to share my authentic feelings directly with the audience.”

Steinbacher’s program provides moments of passion, suavity and reflection. Brahms’ second violin sonata is a radiantly lyrical masterpiece, nearly a self-portrait of the introverted and intense composer. Brahms wrote that his hero JS Bach’s Ciaccona contains “a whole world of the deepest thoughts and most powerful feelings” in its single line of music. It is a tour-de-force for solo violin, and one of the towering achievements of humanity.

From the same year – 1886 – as Brahms’ sonata, Franck’s is a creation of impeccable French elegance and sober grace. It’s a vintage Dior gown of a sonata – the perfect fit for Arabella Steinbacher.

TUESDAY 18 JUNE 7:30PM Exclusive Melbourne Debut Recital. Ms Steinbacher’s associate artist will be announced in early 2013.

BRAHMS ~ Sonata for Violin and Piano No.2 in A, Op.100 JS BACH ~ Partita for Solo Violin in D minor, BWV 1004: Ciaccona FRANCK ~ Sonata for Violin and Piano in A Individual tickets available from Thursday 15 November 2012: $50 / $70 / $90 / $110*.

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S E R G I O T I E M PO PIANO

“May well be the most dazzling and spontaneous pianist of his generation.”

GR AMOPHONE MAGAZINE, UK

Photo: © Sussie Ahlburg

S E R G I O T I E M PO PIANO

“May well be the most dazzling and spontaneous pianist of his generation.”

GR AMOPHONE MAGAZINE, UK

Photo: © Sussie Ahlburg

CONCERT 6

Piano

SERGIO TIEMPO

TUESDAY 25 JUNE 7:30PM CHOPIN ~ selected Nocturnes

~ Piano Sonata No.3 in B minor, Op.58 RAVEL ~ Gaspard de la nuit LISZT ~ Consolation No.3 GINASTERA ~ Three Argentinean Dances, Op.2 Individual tickets available from Thursday 15 November 2012: $50 / $70 / $90 / $110*.

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FIREBRAND VIRTUOSO SERGIO TIEMPO’S PERFORMANCES MAY NOT BE TO YOUR TASTE. BUT IF YOU WANT TO YOUR PRECONCEPTIONS TO BE CHALLENGED, TO HEAR FAMILIAR MUSIC MADE NEW, THEN TIEMPO’S THE MUSICIAN FOR YOU. The fearless pianist isn’t afraid of playing fast and loose with venerable masterpieces, zapping them back into life with his electrifying energy. He has left audiences and orchestras around the world buzzing with excitement.

It’s probably no surprise that the Venezuelan-born Tiempo is the protégé of another iconoclastic musician, Martha Argerich. His Great Performers recital program is almost an homage to her red-hot interpretations of those stalwarts of the repertoire, Chopin, Ravel and Liszt. But here the comparisons end: Tiempo is an original and finds his own way though these masterpieces. Chopin’s B-minor Sonata is a paradox: turbulent and theatrical, yet intensely introverted. With its aria-like slow movement, it’s more grand opera than chamber music. The three pieces of Maurice Ravel’s

Gaspard de la nuit are studies in elegant devilry and fiendish technical difficulty, especially the last – Scarbo – where a goblin malevolently flits across the keyboard and into your nightmares.

Liszt’s prayer-like Consolation No.3 should soothe your nerves with one of the most ecstatically soaring melodies the composer ever penned, and a demonstration that Tiempo is capable of rapt delicacy as well as the Latin fire of Ginastera’s vivacious Argentinean Dances.

CONCERT 6

Piano

SERGIO TIEMPO

TUESDAY 25 JUNE 7:30PM CHOPIN ~ selected Nocturnes

~ Piano Sonata No.3 in B minor, Op.58 RAVEL ~ Gaspard de la nuit LISZT ~ Consolation No.3 GINASTERA ~ Three Argentinean Dances, Op.2 Individual tickets available from Thursday 15 November 2012: $50 / $70 / $90 / $110*.

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FIREBRAND VIRTUOSO SERGIO TIEMPO’S PERFORMANCES MAY NOT BE TO YOUR TASTE. BUT IF YOU WANT TO YOUR PRECONCEPTIONS TO BE CHALLENGED, TO HEAR FAMILIAR MUSIC MADE NEW, THEN TIEMPO’S THE MUSICIAN FOR YOU. The fearless pianist isn’t afraid of playing fast and loose with venerable masterpieces, zapping them back into life with his electrifying energy. He has left audiences and orchestras around the world buzzing with excitement.

It’s probably no surprise that the Venezuelan-born Tiempo is the protégé of another iconoclastic musician, Martha Argerich. His Great Performers recital program is almost an homage to her red-hot interpretations of those stalwarts of the repertoire, Chopin, Ravel and Liszt. But here the comparisons end: Tiempo is an original and finds his own way though these masterpieces. Chopin’s B-minor Sonata is a paradox: turbulent and theatrical, yet intensely introverted. With its aria-like slow movement, it’s more grand opera than chamber music. The three pieces of Maurice Ravel’s

Gaspard de la nuit are studies in elegant devilry and fiendish technical difficulty, especially the last – Scarbo – where a goblin malevolently flits across the keyboard and into your nightmares.

Liszt’s prayer-like Consolation No.3 should soothe your nerves with one of the most ecstatically soaring melodies the composer ever penned, and a demonstration that Tiempo is capable of rapt delicacy as well as the Latin fire of Ginastera’s vivacious Argentinean Dances.

SOPRANO

“Soaringly, movingly direct.”

THE GUARDIAN

SOPRANO

“Soaringly, movingly direct.”

THE GUARDIAN

CONCERT 7

Soprano

SUSAN BULLOCK

SUSAN BULLOCK IS ONE OF THE WORLD’S GREAT DRAMATIC SOPRANOS BUT SHE ALMOST PURSUED A CAREER AS A PIANIST. NEEDING A SECOND STUDY AT THE ROYAL NORTHERN COLLEGE OF MUSIC SHE CHOSE VOICE.

THURSDAY 29 AUGUST 7:30PM With Malcolm Martineau, Piano.

Songs of SCHUMANN, DEBUSSY, BRITTEN and others

A few decades and plenty of hard work later, the accidental opera star is in demand around the world (The Met, La Scala, Covent Garden) for the ultimate soprano roles: Elektra, Salome and Isolde. In late 2013, Susan Bullock performs the most challenging of all, the valkyrie Brünnhilde, in Wagner’s Ring Cycle in Melbourne. In any case, Bullock is no stranger to Australian stages: smouldering as the murderous Katerina in Shostokovich’s Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk for Opera Australia and giving the first vocal recital at Melbourne Recital Centre. Bullock’s “intelligence and musicianship” set her apart: “she colours words, she shapes phrases and never forgets the dramatic sense of what she is uttering”. (The Telegraph, UK).

Individual tickets available from Thursday 15 November 2012: $50 / $70 / $90 / $110*.

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Photo: © Anne-Marie Le Blé

Renowned as much for her absorption into her parts as for the turbo-charged power of her voice, Susan Bullock’s combination of dramatic instinct and vocal prowess make for gripping performances at the opera and in recital. For Bullock, the two art-forms overlap: “Each song is a mini-opera in itself. I relish the challenge of that.”

Susan Bullock is joined by associate artist Malcolm Martineau, a pianist whose dazzling skill and almost supernatural sensitivity have made him the partner of choice for A-list singers.

CONCERT 7

Soprano

SUSAN BULLOCK

SUSAN BULLOCK IS ONE OF THE WORLD’S GREAT DRAMATIC SOPRANOS BUT SHE ALMOST PURSUED A CAREER AS A PIANIST. NEEDING A SECOND STUDY AT THE ROYAL NORTHERN COLLEGE OF MUSIC SHE CHOSE VOICE.

THURSDAY 29 AUGUST 7:30PM With Malcolm Martineau, Piano.

Songs of SCHUMANN, DEBUSSY, BRITTEN and others

A few decades and plenty of hard work later, the accidental opera star is in demand around the world (The Met, La Scala, Covent Garden) for the ultimate soprano roles: Elektra, Salome and Isolde. In late 2013, Susan Bullock performs the most challenging of all, the valkyrie Brünnhilde, in Wagner’s Ring Cycle in Melbourne. In any case, Bullock is no stranger to Australian stages: smouldering as the murderous Katerina in Shostokovich’s Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk for Opera Australia and giving the first vocal recital at Melbourne Recital Centre. Bullock’s “intelligence and musicianship” set her apart: “she colours words, she shapes phrases and never forgets the dramatic sense of what she is uttering”. (The Telegraph, UK).

Individual tickets available from Thursday 15 November 2012: $50 / $70 / $90 / $110*.

Purchase Season Tickets to save up to 30% on the regular price. *Transaction fees may apply.

Photo: © Anne-Marie Le Blé

Renowned as much for her absorption into her parts as for the turbo-charged power of her voice, Susan Bullock’s combination of dramatic instinct and vocal prowess make for gripping performances at the opera and in recital. For Bullock, the two art-forms overlap: “Each song is a mini-opera in itself. I relish the challenge of that.”

Susan Bullock is joined by associate artist Malcolm Martineau, a pianist whose dazzling skill and almost supernatural sensitivity have made him the partner of choice for A-list singers.

K ATI A A ND M A RIELLE L ABÈQUE PIANO DUO

“Versatile, musically volatile.”

VA R I E T Y, U S

K ATI A A ND M A RIELLE L ABÈQUE PIANO DUO

“Versatile, musically volatile.”

VA R I E T Y, U S

CONCERT 8

Piano Duo

KATIA AND MARIELLE LABÈQUE

PIANO DUO MUSIC, WHETHER SPECTACULARLY GRAND OR SWEETLY DOMESTIC, ALWAYS HAS A UNIQUE ATMOSPHERE THAT COMES FROM THE CAMARADERIE OF THE TWO MUSICIANS. FOR THE SISTERS LABÈQUE, WHO HAVE BEEN PLAYING THIS WAY FOR MOST OF THEIR LIVES, THAT BOND IS ESPECIALLY POWERFUL. Katia and Marielle Labèque are two of the most charismatic, versatile and inquisitive musicians working today. In a string of hit recordings and international engagements, they’ve collaborated with a who’s-who of famous composers, conductors and orchestras playing music from the baroque to the 21st Century. Their performances are displays of perfect unity, of course, but the sisters have very different personalities: the more extroverted Katia often plays the showier treble part, while grounded Marielle offers vital support. It’s an ideal partnership.

The Labèques caught the music world’s attention with their recording of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, and it’s the jazz-inflected music of the next generation which forms the centrepiece of this recital. Leonard Bernstein’s unforgettable West Side Story gets the Labèque touch in an extended suite of dances and songs from the musical complete with Latin percussion. Bernstein’s soaring melodies and red-hot rhythms make West Side Story one of the

most beloved works of 20th Century theatre, now translated with the composer’s endorsement by Irwin Kostal, the musical’s original orchestrator, into dazzling virtuoso vehicle especially for the Labèques.

In the first half of the program, Claude Debussy’s haunting piano duo is music etched in black and white. Composed in the midst of the First World War, En blanc et noir is Debussy at his most abstract and incisive. There’s no impressionistic mist here. Instead, Debussy was inspired by the chiaroscuro of Goya and Velazquez, though relieved by bursts of tenderness and humour.

Debussy’s colleague Maurice Ravel paints a very different picture of Spain – sundrenched and sensuous – in his Rapsodie espagnole.

The piano duet version was a sketch along the way to the more familiar orchestral fantasy, but as you’ll hear, the Labèques easily match an orchestra for colour and brilliance.

SATURDAY 19 OCTOBER 7:30PM With Raphael Segunier and Gonzalo Grau, percussion.

DEBUSSY ~ En blanc et noir RAVEL ~ Rapsodie espagnole BERNSTEIN arr. KOSTAL ~ West Side Story Individual tickets available from Thursday 15 November 2012: $50 / $70 / $90 / $110*.

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CONCERT 8

Piano Duo

KATIA AND MARIELLE LABÈQUE

PIANO DUO MUSIC, WHETHER SPECTACULARLY GRAND OR SWEETLY DOMESTIC, ALWAYS HAS A UNIQUE ATMOSPHERE THAT COMES FROM THE CAMARADERIE OF THE TWO MUSICIANS. FOR THE SISTERS LABÈQUE, WHO HAVE BEEN PLAYING THIS WAY FOR MOST OF THEIR LIVES, THAT BOND IS ESPECIALLY POWERFUL. Katia and Marielle Labèque are two of the most charismatic, versatile and inquisitive musicians working today. In a string of hit recordings and international engagements, they’ve collaborated with a who’s-who of famous composers, conductors and orchestras playing music from the baroque to the 21st Century. Their performances are displays of perfect unity, of course, but the sisters have very different personalities: the more extroverted Katia often plays the showier treble part, while grounded Marielle offers vital support. It’s an ideal partnership.

The Labèques caught the music world’s attention with their recording of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, and it’s the jazz-inflected music of the next generation which forms the centrepiece of this recital. Leonard Bernstein’s unforgettable West Side Story gets the Labèque touch in an extended suite of dances and songs from the musical complete with Latin percussion. Bernstein’s soaring melodies and red-hot rhythms make West Side Story one of the

most beloved works of 20th Century theatre, now translated with the composer’s endorsement by Irwin Kostal, the musical’s original orchestrator, into dazzling virtuoso vehicle especially for the Labèques.

In the first half of the program, Claude Debussy’s haunting piano duo is music etched in black and white. Composed in the midst of the First World War, En blanc et noir is Debussy at his most abstract and incisive. There’s no impressionistic mist here. Instead, Debussy was inspired by the chiaroscuro of Goya and Velazquez, though relieved by bursts of tenderness and humour.

Debussy’s colleague Maurice Ravel paints a very different picture of Spain – sundrenched and sensuous – in his Rapsodie espagnole.

The piano duet version was a sketch along the way to the more familiar orchestral fantasy, but as you’ll hear, the Labèques easily match an orchestra for colour and brilliance.

SATURDAY 19 OCTOBER 7:30PM With Raphael Segunier and Gonzalo Grau, percussion.

DEBUSSY ~ En blanc et noir RAVEL ~ Rapsodie espagnole BERNSTEIN arr. KOSTAL ~ West Side Story Individual tickets available from Thursday 15 November 2012: $50 / $70 / $90 / $110*.

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“Elegance, fluency, modesty, clarity.”

T H E I N DE P E N DE N T, U K

PIANO

“Elegance, fluency, modesty, clarity.”

T H E I N DE P E N DE N T, U K

PIANO

CONCERT 9

Piano

MURRAY PERAHIA

MURRAY PERAHIA IS THE DEFINITIVE VIRTUOSO MUSICIAN. SINCE HIS DEBUT IN THE 1970s, PERAHIA HAS WON THE HEARTS AND MINDS OF AUDIENCES, CRITICS AND FELLOW MUSICIANS WITH THE COMBINATION OF INTELLIGENCE, POETRY AND PHENOMENAL TECHNIQUE HE PRESSES INTO THE SERVICE OF THE MUSIC. In a Great Performers series not short on stellar talent, Murray Perahia is perhaps the most august and experienced master, though he’s retained his boyish curiosity and passion. Never content to repeat himself or take interpretative shortcuts, Perahia leads revelatory journeys through core repertoire, discovering new things to say at every recital. First and foremost he’s a story-teller, wholly committed to finding and then dramatising the narratives embedded in the music. As one writer put it, Perahia “has always had an inclination towards translucency, for making himself the finest possible veil through which to show you the composers.” Fastidious preparation and analysis underlie all of his decisions, but the result on the concert stage is unstudied – a communion between you and the music.

Photo: © Felix Broede

MONDAY 4 NOVEMBER 7:30PM Melbourne Debut.

Mr Perahia will confirm his repertoire in early 2013.

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This transparency and discretion is the hallmark of his playing, making him one of the most sought-after artists of his generation and making his recordings of his beloved Bach, Beethoven, Schubert and Chopin definitive, award-winning documents of self-effacing genius.

Perahia has said, “Playing is more important than speaking to me.” To speak – or play – with such simplicity demands the most profound artistry.

CONCERT 9

Piano

MURRAY PERAHIA

MURRAY PERAHIA IS THE DEFINITIVE VIRTUOSO MUSICIAN. SINCE HIS DEBUT IN THE 1970s, PERAHIA HAS WON THE HEARTS AND MINDS OF AUDIENCES, CRITICS AND FELLOW MUSICIANS WITH THE COMBINATION OF INTELLIGENCE, POETRY AND PHENOMENAL TECHNIQUE HE PRESSES INTO THE SERVICE OF THE MUSIC. In a Great Performers series not short on stellar talent, Murray Perahia is perhaps the most august and experienced master, though he’s retained his boyish curiosity and passion. Never content to repeat himself or take interpretative shortcuts, Perahia leads revelatory journeys through core repertoire, discovering new things to say at every recital. First and foremost he’s a story-teller, wholly committed to finding and then dramatising the narratives embedded in the music. As one writer put it, Perahia “has always had an inclination towards translucency, for making himself the finest possible veil through which to show you the composers.” Fastidious preparation and analysis underlie all of his decisions, but the result on the concert stage is unstudied – a communion between you and the music.

Photo: © Felix Broede

MONDAY 4 NOVEMBER 7:30PM Melbourne Debut.

Mr Perahia will confirm his repertoire in early 2013.

Individual tickets available from Thursday 15 November 2012: $60 / $90 / $110 / $150*.

Purchase Season Tickets to save up to 30% on the regular price. *Transaction fees may apply.

This transparency and discretion is the hallmark of his playing, making him one of the most sought-after artists of his generation and making his recordings of his beloved Bach, Beethoven, Schubert and Chopin definitive, award-winning documents of self-effacing genius.

Perahia has said, “Playing is more important than speaking to me.” To speak – or play – with such simplicity demands the most profound artistry.

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MELBOURNE RECITAL CENTRE

OUR PARTNERS

WHAT MAKES THE CENTRE SPECIAL?

PRINCIPAL PARTNER

PRINCIPAL GOVERNMENT PARTNER

Musicians will tell you that performing in the spaces at Melbourne Recital Centre is an incredible experience and audiences will agree. Our two halls were designed to be the best place to hear music, providing a clarity and intimacy that you’ve never experienced before. We’ve been voted the best venue for chamber music in Australia, taking our place among the very finest in the world.

Melbourne Recital Centre Cnr Southbank Bvd & Sturt St Southbank Vic Australia

Telephone: 03 9699 3333 Box Office opening hours: Monday–Friday, 9am–5pm.

AIRLINE PARTNER

JOIN OUR OTHER GREAT PERFORMERS The Great Performers thrill us with their artistry and transcendent performances. Our donors ensure a lasting benefit. Their support directly impacts the range of artistic and education initiatives the Centre can undertake and the extent of our reach into the broader community. We invite you to consider making a gift to Melbourne Recital Centre so that we can offer profound and engaging experiences with great music to everyone.

SUPPORTING PARTNERS

P AT R O N

Dame Elisabeth Murdoch AC, DBE

BOARD OF DIRECTORS PROGRAM PARTNERS

For further information on Melbourne Recital Centre’s Business Partnership and Donor Programs, please contact Sandra Robertson, Director of Development, by phone: (03) 9207 2641 or by email: sandra.robertson@melbournerecital.com.au All information contained in this brochure is to the best of our knowledge and belief correct at the time of publication.

Photo: © John Gollings

Design by Monogram. Copy by Melbourne Recital Centre ©2012-2013

Kathryn Fagg, Chair Peter Bartlett Tommas Bonvino Stephen Carpenter Des Clark Joe Corponi Margaret Farren-Price John Higgs Julie Kantor

F O U N D I N G B E N E FA C T O R S

The Kantor Family The Calvert-Jones Family Lyn Williams AM Helen Macpherson Smith Trust Robert Salzer Foundation The Hugh Williamson Foundation

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ELISABETH MURDOCH HALL

IN 2013, YOU CAN SAVE ON TICKETS AND HAVE THE FLEXIBILITY OF A CHOOSE-YOUR-OWN SEASON TICKET PACKAGE. PURCHASE ALL NINE CONCERTS TO ENJOY THE GREATEST SAVING AND ADDITIONAL BENEFITS, OR PURCHASE A SIX-CONCERT OR FOUR-CONCERT PACKAGE TO PERSONALISE YOUR EXPERIENCE.

GREAT BENEFITS

A GREAT PRIZE 3

The more you purchase the more you save: 30% or more on the regular ticket price.

Save 10% on additional tickets for Great Performers concerts.

Purchase a package by 14 November 2012 and be entered into the draw to win a mens or ladies Koppel 519 watch from Georg Jensen valued at up to $1,475.

Sit in the same seats for all your concerts – the best seats in the house.

Full-pack purchasers can renew their seats year after year.

Plans changed? Exchange your tickets for another Great Performers recital.

We’ll waive the exchange fee.2

The ultra-precise quartz movement inside the elegant round case of the 41-millimetre Koppel Dual Time, offers a secondary time zone via a fourth separately adjusted central hand. This gives the wearer the opportunity to see the time at the end destination and adjust the fourth hand to your home time – or vice versa.

EAST WINGS

Access to the Great Performers lounge.

LEVEL ONE: STALLS

Henning Koppel’s clean and understated design is instantly recognisable for its numberless dial and Swiss-made quality.

WEST WINGS

One complimentary ticket per year for you to introduce a friend to Great Performers.

Valid for concerts until 25 June, 2013.1

LEVEL TWO: CIRCLE

The Henning Koppel dual time is perfect for the modern man or woman, and represents Danish watch design at its very best.

Subscribe by 14 November 2012 and receive a free Melbourne Recital Centre Annual Membership, to unlock further benefits and discounts. 4 Priority access to other Great Performers and select Melbourne Recital Centre events.

Join us for free pre-concert talks 45 minutes before each performance.

1. Best available, subject to availability; 2. Only valid for four- and six-packs; 3. Georg Jensen Koppel 519 Watch Draw Terms and Conditions: Purchase a Melbourne Recital Centre season package by 14 November 2012 to be entered into the draw to win a mens or ladies Koppel 519 watch in the colour of your choice from Georg Jensen valued at up to $1,475. The draw will be conducted on Fri 16 November at the Melbourne Recital Centre Marketing Department offices, 31 Sturt Street, Southbank, VIC 3006.

Winner will be notified on Mon 19 November by phone/email and posted on melbournerecital.com.au. 4. Free Melbourne Recital Annual Membership offer valid until 14 November 2012. Limit of one Annual Membership per household. Your Membership pack will be fulfilled separately to your Season Tickets. Membership is not exchangeable, transferable or redeemable for cash. If you are already a Member, an additional year will be added to your existing Membership.

SEATING KEY:

PLEASE NOTE: STALLS SEATING ONLY AVAILABLE AT THIS TIME

PREMIUM

STAGE

A RESERVE B RESERVE C RESERVE

GREAT PERFORMERS PACKAGES

ELISABETH MURDOCH HALL

IN 2013, YOU CAN SAVE ON TICKETS AND HAVE THE FLEXIBILITY OF A CHOOSE-YOUR-OWN SEASON TICKET PACKAGE. PURCHASE ALL NINE CONCERTS TO ENJOY THE GREATEST SAVING AND ADDITIONAL BENEFITS, OR PURCHASE A SIX-CONCERT OR FOUR-CONCERT PACKAGE TO PERSONALISE YOUR EXPERIENCE.

GREAT BENEFITS

A GREAT PRIZE 3

The more you purchase the more you save: 30% or more on the regular ticket price.

Save 10% on additional tickets for Great Performers concerts.

Purchase a package by 14 November 2012 and be entered into the draw to win a mens or ladies Koppel 519 watch from Georg Jensen valued at up to $1,475.

Sit in the same seats for all your concerts – the best seats in the house.

Full-pack purchasers can renew their seats year after year.

Plans changed? Exchange your tickets for another Great Performers recital.

We’ll waive the exchange fee.2

The ultra-precise quartz movement inside the elegant round case of the 41-millimetre Koppel Dual Time, offers a secondary time zone via a fourth separately adjusted central hand. This gives the wearer the opportunity to see the time at the end destination and adjust the fourth hand to your home time – or vice versa.

EAST WINGS

Access to the Great Performers lounge.

LEVEL ONE: STALLS

Henning Koppel’s clean and understated design is instantly recognisable for its numberless dial and Swiss-made quality.

WEST WINGS

One complimentary ticket per year for you to introduce a friend to Great Performers.

Valid for concerts until 25 June, 2013.1

LEVEL TWO: CIRCLE

The Henning Koppel dual time is perfect for the modern man or woman, and represents Danish watch design at its very best.

Subscribe by 14 November 2012 and receive a free Melbourne Recital Centre Annual Membership, to unlock further benefits and discounts. 4 Priority access to other Great Performers and select Melbourne Recital Centre events.

Join us for free pre-concert talks 45 minutes before each performance.

1. Best available, subject to availability; 2. Only valid for four- and six-packs; 3. Georg Jensen Koppel 519 Watch Draw Terms and Conditions: Purchase a Melbourne Recital Centre season package by 14 November 2012 to be entered into the draw to win a mens or ladies Koppel 519 watch in the colour of your choice from Georg Jensen valued at up to $1,475. The draw will be conducted on Fri 16 November at the Melbourne Recital Centre Marketing Department offices, 31 Sturt Street, Southbank, VIC 3006.

Winner will be notified on Mon 19 November by phone/email and posted on melbournerecital.com.au. 4. Free Melbourne Recital Annual Membership offer valid until 14 November 2012. Limit of one Annual Membership per household. Your Membership pack will be fulfilled separately to your Season Tickets. Membership is not exchangeable, transferable or redeemable for cash. If you are already a Member, an additional year will be added to your existing Membership.

SEATING KEY:

PLEASE NOTE: STALLS SEATING ONLY AVAILABLE AT THIS TIME

PREMIUM

STAGE

A RESERVE B RESERVE C RESERVE

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