Onstage E-NewsEdition 1 - February 2015

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ne of the most exciting things about classical music is how ‘three-dimensional’ it is. It’s rarely just chords and

melody; there are layers of sound, and often layers of meaning too.

Cosima Wagner awoke on Christmas morning in 1870 to the sound of music – her husband had assembled some musicians on the stairs outside her bedroom to play an ‘Idyll’ he had composed. Was it the string quartet he had promised to write, with the peaceful theme he had sketched when they first fell in love? It was more than that – to Cosima’s wonder, other instruments joined in, and the music continued to grow… there was the lullaby, written when she’d first joined Richard in this house in Switzerland… and there was the theme he’d written after the birth of their son, Siegfried, that morning with the orange sunrise and the bird outside the window… and there was bird, singing over the top of the horn call from Siegfried, the opera Richard had been working on! So much beautiful music, layered together – and to cap it all, Siegfried’s trumpet call, played by a family friend who had learned the instrument especially for the occasion!

The powerful climax of Wagner’s Siegfried Idyll occurs at its core, and the music wrapped around on either side grows ever thinner towards the edges, like a musical pastry. Camille Saint-Saëns’ First Cello Concerto, written in France just a couple of years later, is more like a chocolate truffle – thick and hard on the outside (where the music is fast and loud), but with a deliciously tender centre. It begins and ends with crunching orchestral chords and a thrilling solo cello melody, racing up

and down in wild excitement. The outer stages of the music are full of passion and contrast, aggressive one moment, lyrical the next. No instrument does emotional extremes as well as the cello! But in the middle: a tiptoed minuet, charming in its simplicity and suffused with a hint of French melancholy. A half-remembered dream of a lost age…

Rather than a vehicle for personal expression, music used to be an objective craft, the search for a beauty above and beyond the chaotic circumstances of life. Mozart wrote his final three symphonies in the summer of 1788, while moving house with a young family, struggling to pay his debts, and suffering the death of his baby daughter. We don’t know if he ever got to hear them. The final one, now known as the ‘Jupiter’ Symphony, is one of the brightest, most joyful pieces ever written. Its first movement is like an incredibly witty introductory speech, somehow fashioned from seemingly trivial ideas – a throat-clearing motif and a couple of melodic clichés. The solemn, palatial second movement is textured like a block of marble, veins of its gorgeous melody running throughout the orchestra, its different colours separating, then melding. The third movement is a minuet, but nothing like Saint-Saëns’ – the flirty curve of its sensuous melody is more fit for a waltz! Then the finale: a succession of irrepressibly joyful themes, chasing each other, overtaking each other, and finally criss-crossing everywhere in one of music’s most miraculous and delicious layered desserts!

© David John Lang 2015

Nathan Aspinall ConductorSimon Cobcroft CelloJulian Ferraretto Presenter

Richard WAGNER (1813-1883)Siegfried Idyll

Camille SAINT-SAËNS (1835-1921)Cello Concerto No 1 in A minor (Op 33) Allegro non troppo – Allegretto con moto – Tempo primo

Interval

Wolfgang Amadeus MOZART (1756-1791)Symphony No 41 in C major Jupiter (K 551) Allegro vivace Andante cantabile Menuetto: Allegretto Molto Allegro

ADELAIDE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 2015

VIOLINS Natsuko Yoshimoto** (Concertmaster)Lachlan Bramble** (Acting Associate Concertmaster) Hilary Bruer* (Acting Principal 1st Violin)Shirin Lim** (Acting Principal 2nd Violin)Julie Newman~ (Associate Principal 2nd Violin)Erna BerberyanMinas BerberyanGillian BraithwaiteJulia BrittainElizabeth Collins Wendy Heiligenberg

Danielle Jaquillard Alexis MiltonEmma PerkinsMarie-Louise Slaytor Kemeri Spurr

VIOLAS Imants Larsens** (Acting Principal)Rosi McGowran~ (Acting Associate)Lesley CockramLinda GarrettMichael Robertson

CELLOS Ewen Bramble** (Acting Principal)Gemma Phillips~ (Acting Associate)Sherrilyn HandleyCameron Waters

DOUBLE BASSES David Schilling**Hugh Kluger~Jacky Chang

FLUTES Geoffrey Collins**Lisa Gill

OBOES Celia Craig**Renae Stavely

CLARINETS Mitchell Berick** (Acting Principal)Darren Skelton

EFLAT CLARINET Darren Skelton

BASSOONS Jackie Hansen** (Acting Principal)Leah Stephenson

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TRUMPETS Martin Phillipson** (Acting Principal)Robin Finlay

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