La Mer Concert Program

PLAYS LA MER 30 SEPTEMBER – 2 OCTOBER 2017

CONCERT PROGRAM

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Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Otto Tausk conductor Saleen Ashkar piano Stravinsky Scherzo fantastique Debussy La Mer INTERVAL

Brahms Piano Concerto No.1

Running time: 2 hours, including 20-minute interval Please note, Saturday’s pre-concert talk by composer, Andrew Aronowicz will be recorded for podcast by 3MBS Fine Music Melbourne.

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MELBOURNE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

OTTO TAUSK CONDUCTOR

Established in 1906, the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra (MSO) is an arts leader and Australia’s oldest professional orchestra. Chief Conductor Sir Andrew Davis has been at the helm of MSO since 2013.

Engaging more than 2.5 million people each year, and as a truly global orchestra, the MSO collaborates with guest artists and arts organisations from across the world.

Music Director of the Symphony Orchestra and Opera Theatre St. Gallen (Switzerland), Otto Tausk works with all the major orchestras in his native Netherlands, and becomes Music Director of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra in 2018.

The MSO performs a variety of concerts ranging from core classical performances at its home, Hamer Hall at Arts Centre Melbourne, to its annual free concerts at Melbourne’s largest outdoor venue, the Sidney Myer Music Bowl. The MSO also delivers innovative and engaging programs to audiences of all ages through its Education and Outreach initiatives.

The MSO also works with Associate Conductor, Benjamin Northey, and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Chorus, as well as with such eminent guest conductors as John Adams, Tan Dun, Jakub Hrůša, Mark Wigglesworth, Markus Stenz and Simone Young. It has also collaborated with non-classical musicians including Nick Cave, Sting, Tim Minchin, DJ Jeff Mills and Flight Facilities.

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In St. Gallen, Otto Tausk conducts the major concert series as well as operas. This year he conducted Wagner’s Lohengrin in the pit, Alfredo Catalani’s Mass in E minor, and the world premiere of David Philip Hefti’s Annas Maske. Recent guest appearances have included the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Stuttgart Philharmonic and Orquestra Sinfónica do Porto Casa da Música, Portugal.

In 2011, Otto Tausk was presented with the ‘de Olifant’ prize by the city of Haarlem for his contribution to the arts in The Netherlands. His recording of Pfitzner’s Orchesterlieder with the Northwest German Philharmonic won Classica France’s Choc du mois.

Between 2004 and 2006 he was assistant to Valery Gergiev at the Rotterdam Philharmonic and later worked at the Mariinsky Theatre.

SALEEM ASHKAR PIANO Saleem Ashkar was invited by Zubin Mehta to perform Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto with the Israel Philharmonic at the age of 17.

He made his Carnegie Hall debut under Daniel Barenboim at the age of 22 and since then has played with orchestras such as the Vienna Philharmonic, London Symphony, City of Birmingham Symphony, North German Radio Symphony Hamburg, Orchestra of Saint Cecilia Rome, Mariinsky Orchestra and the Danish Radio Symphony, among others. He performs regularly with conductors such as Barenboim, Riccardo Muti, Riccardo Chailly, Lawrence Foster, Nikolaj Znaider, and Pietari Inkinen.

Following a highly successful debut with Christoph Eschenbach and North German Radio Symphony Hamburg, Eschenbach invited Saleem to play the Schumann Concerto with the Dusseldorf Symphony Orchestra in the special Schumann birthday concert in June 2010. He toured extensively with Riccardo Chailly and the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra performing Mendelssohn’s First Piano Concerto in appearances that included the BBC Proms and Lucerne Festival, in a tour celebrating the bicentennial anniversary of the composer's birth.

Chailly re-invited Saleem for concerts and to record the Mendelssohn concertos.

Saleem Ashkar is a dedicated recitalist. His 2016-17 season included a complete Beethoven sonata cycle at the Konzerthaus Berlin whose culmination coincided with the double CD release by Decca of disc one in the complete cycle. Other recent appearances have included engagements with the Orchestra della Toscana in Florence, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra in Poole, Orchestra Verdi in Milan, a recital at Cal Performances in Berkeley USA, a residency at Brown University, Rhode Island and his Wigmore Hall debut.

Future performances include Mozart’s Piano Concerto No.20 with Alexander Shelley and the Tirolean Symphony Orchestra Innsbruck, further recitals in his Beethoven cycle in Duisburg, Germany and Prague, and Schumann’s A minor concerto with the Orchestre National de Lyon and Nikolaj Znaider.

Saleem Ashkar is Ambassador to the Music Fund, a humanitarian project that supports musicians and music schools in conflict areas and developing countries.

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IGOR STRAVINSKY (1882–1971) Scherzo fantastique

Early in 1909 the impresario Sergei Diaghilev attended a concert in St Petersburg at which he heard two new works by the young Stravinsky: the Scherzo fantastique and Fireworks.

According to his manager, Diaghilev had enthusiastically commented on the young composer’s ‘new and original’ music, with a ‘tone quality that should the surprise the public’.

By June that year Diaghilev had commissioned Stravinsky and several of his contemporaries to make orchestral arrangements and would soon commission the ballets that made Stravinsky’s name.

The Scherzo fantastique is the Stravinsky’s contribution to the genre of Russian music inspired by fairy tale; although it doubles as his response to The Life of the Bee, in which Belgian symbolist writer Maurice Maeterlinck meditates on ‘the formation and departure of the swarm, the foundation of the new city, the birth, combat and nuptial flight of the young queens, the massacre of the males, and finally, the return of the sleep of winter’.

Stravinsky later played down any apian significance, and disavowed the 1917 ballet version, Les abeilles. He admitted, however, that there was a hint of Rimsky-Korsakov’s Bumblebee in the piece. The iridescent scoring of the opening, though, is surely Rimskian, with its glitter of winds 6

and tuned percussion and the overall shape of the piece reflects Stravinsky’s interest in French music, such as that of Dukas and Debussy. But as Paul Griffiths notes, there is an oddly Wagnerian passage in the slow, second section. © Gordon Kerry 2017 This is the first performance of Scherzo fantastique by the MSO.

CLAUDE DEBUSSY (1862–1918) La Mer – Three Symphonic Sketches De l’aube à midi sur la mer (From Dawn to Noon on the Sea) Jeux de vagues (Play of Waves) Dialogue du vent et de la mer (Dialogue of the Wind and the Sea)

Never before had that marvellous music La Mer appeared so seductive and yet mysterious at the same time, so imbued with the enigmatic life of the Cosmos, than on that evening when her great creator, with a gentle hand, was ruling over her waves.

So wrote a young Russian composer, Lazare Saminsky, on hearing Debussy conduct La Mer in St Petersburg in 1913. But the work’s greatness had by no means seemed self evident when it had first appeared in 1905.

Debussy himself was weathering a personal scandal, having left his wife, and part of the lack of enthusiasm on the part of the Parisian public may stem from its disapproval. The first performance, too, was by all accounts

under-rehearsed and the conductor Camille Chevillard unsympathetic to Debussy’s style. The composer Edouard Lalo complained that he could neither hear, see nor feel the sea, and a reviewer in Boston wrote that ‘we clung like a drowning man to a few fragments of the tonal wreck, a bit of theme here, a comprehensible figure there, but finally this muted-horn sea overwhelmed us’.

The point missed by the authors of such remarks, however, is that Debussy’s music is not intended as visual imagery, or the soundtrack to some imaginary film. The composer may have invited such misinterpretations: in subtitling the work ‘Three Symphonic Sketches’ he of course evokes the media of visual art; moreover, he often used terms like ‘colour’ and ‘shading’ when discussing his music. But in 1903, when he began work on La Mer, Debussy wrote to a friend from the Burgundian countryside: You may not know that I was destined for a sailor’s life, and that only chance led me in another direction…You will say that the ocean does not exactly bathe the hills of Burgundy, and my seascapes may be studio landscapes, but I have an endless store of memories, and in my mind they are worth more than reality, whose beauty often weighs heavily on the imagination.

The work, then, is about the idea of the sea rather than being a representation

of it; significantly, much of its composition took place away from the coast.

Debussy’s genius for orchestration and subtle rhythmic organisation certainly make for an evocative work where it is possible to imagine the crash of waves, the call of seagulls and the protean movement of light on water.

The final climactic moments of the first movement, for instance, somehow create a sense of emerging from the deep into the light.

Other masterly touches abound: the unusual timbre of cellos divided into four parts; the use of muted horns (which Debussy admitted to taking from the music of Weber) to evoke space; the soloistic use of wind instruments and harp.

But La Mer is as much ‘symphonic’ as it is ‘sketch’. Its three movements are by no means simply rhapsodic, but rather show Debussy’s subtle and careful approach to form. In the first movement his careful development of short motifs is perfectly symphonic; the second movement is, among other things, a symphonic scherzo; and the third movement – which has one of the rare ‘big finishes’ of any work by this composer – is a symphonic finale.

By a nice paradox, Debussy’s marvellous musical reflection on the constant flux of the sea is achieved by the most painstaking and careful calculation. Not for nothing did the published score carry the intricately

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designed woodcut The Great Wave by the Japanese artist Hokusai.

Abridged from a note by Gordon Kerry © 2005 The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra first performed La Mer on 16 May 1942, with Bernard Heinze conducting, and most recently on 15 March 2013 with Benjamin Northey.

JOHANNES BRAHMS (1833–1897) Piano Concerto No.1 in D minor, Op.15 Maestoso Adagio Rondo (Allegro non troppo)

Saleem Ashkar piano Robert Schumann had been the Romantic composer par excellence, cultivating the fragmentary, the poetic and the allusive while also contributing to those genres established by composers in the classical tradition.

After his death in 1856 two roads diverged in German music: the ‘New German’ composers, led by Franz Liszt and in turn by Richard Wagner, composed the ‘music of the future’, avoiding or at least subverting the conventions of symphony and sonata with narrative or philosophical ‘programs’; in due course Brahms would come to occupy the position of antipope, breathing new life into the forms and genres of abstract music.

When Brahms’ First Piano Concerto appeared in January 1859 it shocked traditionalists in its scale and ferocity, but also because it blurred the distinction between symphony and

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concerto. The premiere in Hannover was received with polite confusion, one critic finding it ‘dry and difficult to understand’, but the performance in Leipzig a day or two later engendered frank hostility, and it is fair to say that Brahms was still less than confident in handling orchestration.

The work grew out of the Sonata for two pianos that Brahms worked on in the mid-1850s, which the Schumanns had encouraged him to orchestrate.

Not surprisingly, Brahms, still in his early 20s, was influenced by the prevailing currents of Romanticism and his music from this time contains more than its share of Sturm und Drang (storm and stress), which was carried over into the Concerto. Thanks partly to Joachim, though, a story grew up that the first movement of the Concerto enacted and registered Brahms’ reaction to Robert Schumann’s attempt to commit suicide by flinging himself into the Rhine at Düsseldorf.

Be that as it may, the concerto has one of the most excoriating openings of any work – by Brahms or anyone else – with its powerful pedal note D that only just supports a massive superstructure of unstable harmony and arresting rhetorical motifs. This provides an introduction of some minutes’ duration – as in Beethoven’s Third Piano Concerto, there is the danger that listeners will forget that they are to hear a piano concerto – before the appearance of the soloist who, as Karl Geiringer has noted, is

repeatedly given music ‘only remotely, if at all, connected to the material of the orchestral part’. Geiringer goes on to point out how this may derive from Brahms’ study of Baroque music, but the effect here is of titanic, and archRomantic, struggle between angst and brilliance.

The original two-piano sonata followed the first movement with a minor-key scherzo that Brahms omitted from the Concerto, though he did, some years later, use it as the basis for the sombre dance-like second movement of his German Requiem, Denn alles Fleisch, es ist wie Gras (for all flesh is as grass). The remainder of the Concerto is all new material, and the manuscript of the Adagio originally bore the inscription Benedictus qui venit in nomine Domini (Blessed is he that comes in the name of the Lord); as Charles Rosen has noted, ‘the juncture of religion and music’ affects ‘even the piano concertos of Brahms’. The inscription was not included in the published score, but, writing to Clara Schumann about it in 1856, Brahms said, ‘I am also painting a lovely portrait of you; it is to be the adagio.’

though the movement is by no means a vehicle for bravura display.

If there is an accidental similarity to Beethoven’s Third Concerto at the outset, there is a more conscious one in the third movement, where Brahms seems to have used the form and proportions, and even, according to Jan Swafford, certain phrase structures of Beethoven’s finale to shape his own.

Brahms was wounded by the negative response to the piece, though aware of the role his orchestral inexperience played in its reception. It would be another 15 years before the next try. © Gordon Kerry 2015 The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra first performed this concerto on 20 July 1945 with conductor Bernard Heinze and soloist Noel Mewton-Wood. The Orchestra performed it most recently on 15-17 November 2012 with Tadaaki Otaka and Garrick Ohlsson.

This suggests that the ‘blessed person’ is Clara, and the ‘Lord’ is Robert (whom Brahms occasionally referred to jokingly as ‘Mynheer Domine’) and his legacy. This is no less ‘Romantic’ than the opening movement, though of a quite different tenor and mood. The piano, perhaps representing Clara, has a more conventionally prominent role,

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