Adelaide Symphony OrchestraPrincipal ConductorNicholas Carter \

Principal Guest Conductor and Artistic AdviserJeffrey Tate \

Artist-in-AssociationPinchas Zukerman \

VIOLINS

Elizabeth Layton** (Guest Concertmaster)

Cameron Hill** (Associate Concertmaster)

Shirin Lim* (Principal 1st Violin)

Michael Milton** (Principal 2nd Violin)Hilary Bruer~ (Acting Associate Principal 2nd Violin)Erna BerberyanMinas BerberyanGillian Braithwaite Julia BrittainElizabeth CollinsJane CollinsAlison HeikeAlexis MiltonJennifer NewmanJulie NewmanAlexander PermezelMarie-Louise SlaytorKemeri Spurr

VIOLAS Juris Ezergailis** Anna Hansen~ (Acting Associate Principal)Lesley CockramRosemary McGowranMichael RoberstonCecily Satchell

CELLOS Ewen Bramble**

(Acting Principal)Sarah Denbigh~ (Acting Associate Principal)

Gemma Phillips David Sharp Cameron Waters

DOUBLE BASSES David Schilling** David Phillips ~ (Acting Associate Principal)Jacky ChangHarley Gray

FLUTES Geoffrey Collins** Lisa Gill

PICCOLO Julia Grenfell*

OBOES

Celia Craig** Joshua Oates

COR ANGLAIS

Peter Duggan*

CLARINETS

Dean Newcomb** Darren Skelton Samantha Webber

E FLAT CLARINETDarren Skelton*

BASS CLARINETMitchell Berick*

BASSOONS Mark Gaydon** Leah Stephenson

CONTRA BASSOONKristina Phillipson* (Guest Principal)

HORNSSraah Barrett** (Acting Section Leader)Emma GreganPhilip Paine*Alex Miller

TRUMPETSOwen Morris** Timothy KeenihanGregory Frick

TROMBONECameron Malouf ** Ian Denbigh

BASS TROMBONEHoward Parkinson*

TUBAPeter Whish-Wilson*

TIMPANIRobert Hutcheson*

PERCUSSIONSteven Peterka** Gregory RushJamie Adam

HARPSuzanne Handel*

ORGAN/HARPSICHORDPeter Kelsall* (Guest Principal)

** denotes Section Leader

* denotes Principal Player~ denotes Associate Principal

denotes Musical Chair Support (see pp 16-18 for list)

\ denotes Conductors’ Circle Support (see pg 16 for list)

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Unwrapped: SwoonWed 20 Apr 2016 ADELAIDE TOWN HALL

Thyne Reid Foundation

Classics Unwrapped presented in association with ABC Classic FM

ABC Classic FM was first broadcast from Adelaide in January 1976. In its 40th birthday year ABC Classic FM is proud to partner with the ASO for this sparkling series of concerts that invites you to share some of the best loved classical music.

This concert runs for approximately one hour (with no interval). This concert will be recorded by ABC Classic FM for broadcast on Tuesday 26 April at 8pm.

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PROGRAM

Konstantin Shamray Piano Elizabeth Layton ViolinGuy Noble Conductor & Presenter

Guy Noble is a conductor, broadcaster, pianist, writer and producer who loves most genres of music and has played, conducted or talked about most of them. He regularly conducts the ASO, SSO, MSO, WASO, TSO and QSO and has worked with the Canberra Symphony Orchestra, the Auckland Philharmonia, the Hong Kong and Malaysian Philharmonic orchestras. He has been Musical Director and Musical Supervisor of many major musicals including Phantom of the Opera, Sunset Boulevard, South Pacific, Man of La Mancha, Gypsy and the Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber.

He was the host of the Breakfast show on ABC Classic FM from 1999-2001 and is still a regular guest presenter on the network. He writes a regular column for Limelight Magazine and has worked with a wide variety of international and local artists including Harry Connick Jnr, Ben Folds, The Beach Boys, The Whitlams, The Pointer Sisters, Human Nature, Dianne Reeves, Glenn Frey, Randy Newman, Michael Bolton, Maggie Beer and Simon Bryant, and Clive James. Recent performances include Great Opera Hits for Opera Australia (Sydney Opera House), Opera in The Markets with David Hobson and The Proms at Yarralumla (Canberra Symphony).

He has recorded 12 CDs and ABC Classics has just released his new comedy sketch CD entitled The Guy Noble Radio Show. Guy also presents the classical audio programs on Qantas, Gulf Air, Air China and China Airlines.

Music makes us feel like swooning, but it also (conveniently) does the swooning for us – and far more gracefully. All those sighs and cries and sobs and moans can be downright awkward in real life. But in music, they’re beautiful…

Ennio Morricone The Mission: Gabriel’s OboeWhen Ennio Morricone first saw the footage of Jeremy Irons pretending to play an oboe, he could have despaired. Instead, inspired by the actor’s hesitant, fumbling movements, he crafted a most unlikely melody… listen to how it struggles to get going, how it repeats itself, then meanders forlornly upwards hoping for the best. Conventional music theory says it shouldn’t work. But it soars.

Albinoni arr. Giazotto Adagio in G MinorIt’s hard to imagine a more sorrowful piece than Albinoni’s Adagio (which is actually the work of Remo Giazotto, a 20th-century musicologist). Everything about this music feels weighed down with grief: the slow, solemn tread of the basses, the mellow hum of the organ, and the drawn-out sighing phrases of the violins, always falling, falling…

Rachmaninov Concerto for Piano No 2 in C Minor Op 18: 2nd Movt.Rachmaninov wrote his Second Piano Concerto upon recovering from several years of agonizing self-doubt and a terrible writer’s block. Here is a swoon of relief: the orchestra’s moody opening chords dissolve into quiet bliss when the piano begins to play. The rippling accompaniment cleverly hides the beat, allowing the melody to float in utter contentment.

Gershwin arr. SchoenfeldI Got Rhythm VariationsGershwin’s ‘I got rhythm’ is a celebration of syncopation. This little collection of variations sounds like the tune having a dance after a few drinks: relaxed, happy, and not afraid of being a bit silly. And swooning? Listen for the little violin sighs during the slow variation…

Barber Adagio for StringsOne of music’s most distinctive sighs is the cadence that opens Barber’s Adagio for Strings and permeates the whole work. The mood is mournful and desolate, but unlike Albinoni’s Adagio, this music is always ascending. It circles slowly upwards until it reaches an excruciating cry… answered, once more, by those sighing cadences.

Elgar Enigma Variations Op 36: Variation IX NimrodElgar’s ‘Nimrod’ was written as a tribute to a very dear friend. If you are going to swoon in public, this is the way to do it. The music has all the nobility and grandeur of a Beethoven slow movement, but is nevertheless filled with those romantic ‘sighing’ figures that by now are very familiar.

Shostakovich The Gadfly: Romance Op 97aWe return to film music, where music’s ‘swooning’ potential is highly valued. Shostakovich’s ‘Romance’ for The Gadfly is a violin melody that seems as unlikely to work as the Morricone’s oboe tune. It wanders all over the place, with so many notes! Yet somehow it hits the spot. Again.

Tchaikovsky The Nutcracker: Pas de deuxSo, have we discovered the secret to a good musical swoon? Descending melody, sighing phrasing, and some orchestral magic… why not just use a descending scale? That’s all Tchaikovsky needs for the pas de deux of The Nutcracker. Add the flutter of a harp, some pulsing bass notes… and, if it’s a real swoon you’re after, let the music crescendo to a climax powerful enough to knock you out!

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Guy Noble Konstantin Shamray Elizabeth LaytonKonstantin Shamray was born into a musical family in 1985 in Novosibirsk, Russia, thus his passion for piano and classical music began early. At six, he embarked on formal studies at Kemerovo Music School with Natalia Knobloch, and aged eleven he relocated to Moscow to study at the Gnessin Special Music School, progressing to the Russian Gnessin Academy of Music with Prof Tatiana Zelikman, then post-graduate studies with Vladimir Tropp, and post-masters-equivalent advanced courses at Hochschule fuer Musik in Freiburg, Germany with Professor Tibor Szasz.

In 2008, he won the Sydney International Piano Competition – and he is is the first and only musician in the 30+ year history of the competition to win both First and People’s Choice Prize, in addition to six other prizes. He has toured Australia, partnered with the Australian String Quartet, and recorded CDs for the labels Naxos, ABC Classics and Fonoforum. International performances include solo recitals and collaborations with orchestras and distinguished conductors in Russia, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and China. He has performed with the Russian National Philharmonic, the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra, Moscow Virtuosi, Orchestre National de Lyon, Prague Philharmonia, Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra and the Sydney Symphony, andperformed with distinguished conductors including Vladimir Spivakov, Dmitry Liss, Tugan Sokhiev, Nicholas Milton and Alexandr Vedernikov. He has collaborated with with Johannes Moser, Kristof Barati, Boris Brovtsyn, Alban Gerhardt, Feng Ning. He has received critical acclaim at the Klavier-Festival Ruhr, the Bochum Festival in Germany, the White Nights Festival with the Maryinsky Theatre Orchestra in St. Petersburg and the Adelaide Festival.

Elizabeth Layton was born in London and studied at the Yehudi Menuhin School and the Juilliard School, New York with Dorothy DeLay.

Elizabeth’s UK concerto debut was with the Philharmonia, and she has appeared as soloist with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, English Chamber Orchestra, London Mozart Players, Bournemouth Symphony, English Sinfonia, Calgary Philharmonic, City of Barcelona Symphony, Lahti Symphony, and festival appearances include Bath, Edinburgh, Harrogate, Cheltenham, Valencia, Gstaad and numerous music societies. She has toured worldwide with the Nash Ensemble, and went on to record the complete piano trios of Beethoven (nominated for a Gramophone Award) and violin and piano works of Schubert (Daily Telegraph ‘CD Choice’). Other recordings include chamber music by Ravel, Schubert, Brahms, Faure and Shostakovich for DG, Hyperion, BIS and Chandos. She was Associate Leader of the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, and Concertmaster of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.

A commitment to contemporary music has seen the BBC broadcast a number of solo performances, including a critically acclaimed CD of Jonathan Harvey’s ‘Scena’ with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra under Ilan Volkov.

Elizabeth moved to Australia with her family in 2010 and collaborates regularly with many leading musicians, including Selby&Friends and the Australian String Quartet. She broadcasts frequently for the ABC, and is a regular guest Concertmaster with leading orchestras in Australia and New Zealand, and given many recitals in Adelaide, Melbourne and Canberra.

Wed 02 Nov 6.30PM ADELAIDE TOWN HALL

Wed 17 Aug 6.30PM ADELAIDE TOWN HALL

From Beethoven to Bernstein, there are no shrinking violets here – just prodigiously talented musical superstars scoring the turbulent and stormy chambers of their hearts, and the vibrant, soaring joys of existence.

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3For Classics Unwrapped #3, you get to decide the program!

From 1 – 30 September, vote for the pieces you like best at aso.com.au, and be artistic director for an evening in this dynamic, interactive concert format.

The final program will only be announced on the night, so come along to see if your selections made the cut, and enjoy an evening of Adelaide’s favourites.

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Classics Unwrapped Virtual Reality Concert online now!

This digital project is part of the ASO’s world-leading partnership with Adelaide-based company Jumpgate VR who first captured this footage during the ASO’s Classics Unwrapped concert at the Adelaide Town Hall in May 2015 using a small camera tree comprising 16 GoPro cameras.

View it on the ASO’s YouTube channel or ASO Facebook!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZlNCAGWtwE

Fri 24 Jun 8pm & Sat 25 Jun 6.30pm ADELAIDE TOWN HALL

Nicholas Carter Conductor

Konstantin Shamray Piano

Master 4: Dazzling Prokofiev

Dukas The Sorcerer’s ApprenticeProkofiev Piano Concerto No 3Ross Edwards White Ghost DancingStravinsky Petrushka

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