Mostly Mozart 2012

MOSTLY MOZART

2012 MORNING CONCERTS

Mid-week morning concerts for an hour of wonderful music and the chance to catch up with friends over a cup of tea featuring the music of Mozart performed by Orchestra Victoria and musicians and alumni from the Australian National Academy of Music.

SPEND AN HOUR WITH GOOD COMPANY, GREAT MUSIC AND LIGHT REFRESHMENTS.

SYMPHONY OF THE GODS Wednesday 30 May 2012 11.30am Elisabeth Murdoch Hall Rossini Overture to The Barber of Seville Bottesini Double Bass Concerto No.2 in B minor Mozart Symphony No.41 in C major, K.551 Jupiter Phoebe Russell double bass Mozart’s last symphony is his greatest – a culmination of his intelligence, musical genius and virtuosity presented on the grandest of scales. With its shifting moods of jovial good humour and driving energy, it’s no wonder that this symphony was nicknamed after the king of the gods. Mozart’s Olympian powers of creation reach their peak in a finale where melodies ecstatically intertwine in masterly polyphony.

The ‘Paganini of the Double Bass’ 19th-century virtuoso Giovanni Bottesini composed prolifically for his instrument, including three concerti which elegantly show just how graceful and fleet-footed this giant can be. And there’s no finer curtain-raiser than Rossini’s buoyant overture for his farcical Barber.

PIPE DREAMS Wednesday 25 July 2012 11.30am Elisabeth Murdoch Hall Glanville-Hicks Gymnopedie No.1 Mozart Oboe Concerto in C major, K.314 Mozart Symphony No.39 in E flat major, K.543 Thomas Hutchinson oboe Mozart’s Oboe Concerto was only rediscovered in 1920 but oboists have been making up for lost time, firmly establishing this gem as one of the most popular works in the repertoire (perhaps supplanting the better known version for flute).

Designed to showcase the oboe’s unique timbre and agility, the concerto finds Mozart at his cheeky best, setting up an obstacle course for the dextrous soloist to deftly overcome.

Mozart’s final trilogy of symphonies of 1788 begins with the opulently-scored and majestic No.39, a confident affirmation of Mozart’s powers as a symphonist. This would be the crown in any other composer’s career but Mozart’s two final symphonies took him to unexplored realms of darkness and light.

But we open on a serene note with Peggy Glanville Hicks’ Gymnopedie for oboe, harp and strings, an homage to the Melbourne composer in her centenary year.

BACH & BATTLE Wednesday 3 October 2012 11.30am Elisabeth Murdoch Hall Biber Battalia Bach Concerto for two violins in D minor, BVW 1043 Mozart Symphony No.38 in D major, K.504 Prague Edwina George violin Adam Chalabi violin The interplay of the soloists in Bach’s Double Concerto ranges from the athletic to the rapturous, making it one of the most compelling conversations in all music and perennial audience favourite. In contrast to Bach’s intricate perfection, earlyBaroque composer Biber’s vivid depiction of a battle comes complete with cannon-fire and other very special effects.

‘Mozart seems to have written for the people of Bohemia… even in the countryside his music is widely loved,’ said the Praguer Neue Zeitung not long after the composer’s death.

Prague gave Mozart many of his greatest box office successes so, as you might expect, the high-esteem was mutual. ‘My Praguers understand me,’ Mozart said, and he gifted them with one of his most glorious symphonies, premiered there in January 1786.

Complimentary morning tea served from 10.45am each performance day in the Audi Foyer.

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