MONDAY, JANUARY 13

In Concert: No opera today

SPECIAL PROGRAM: ASO: Roam

On a bright sunny day in winter, with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra at Elder Hall, British Baritone Roderick Williams sings music by war-lost young composers, George Butterworth and William Denis Browne, conducted by Carlo Antonioli. In today's concert you'll hear Roderick Williams' own arrangements of these songs, which frame his voice with delightfully glowing orchestral colours.

Butterworth's songs from 'A Shropshire Lad' are disarmingly sensitive, capturing the idealism of contemplative youthfulness, and Roderick Williams raises wave after wave of goosebumps with his burnished voice. The best-known song by the little-known composer W Denis Browne. He was a friend of Australian composer Frederick Septimus Kelly, and they sailed fatefully together towards Gallipoli in 1915, playing duets on the way. Neither would survive the Great War. Browne's 'To Gratiana Dancing and Singing', lilting and swaying gracefully, is performed today.

The optimism of Mendelssohn is unclouded by fate in the second half of the concert, shining bright with perhaps his most joyful and ebullient creation: his Italian Symphony. You can hear that Mendelssohn is swept away with the irrepressible energy of youth in this bright and brilliant music, and so is the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra. Perfect for warming up wintry spirits!

Recorded live in concert at Elder Hall on May 31st 2024 by ABC Classic. Producer Luke Altmann. Engineer Tom Henry.

Program

Jack Buckskin arr. Ferguson: Pudnanthi Padninthi 
George Butterworth arr. Roderick Williams: Six Songs from A Shropshire Lad 
William Denis Browne arr. Roderick Williams: To Gratiana Dancing and Singing 
Felix Mendelssohn: Symphony No 4 In A Op. 90 'Italian' 

Artists

Roderick Williams (baritone) 
Adelaide Symphony Orchestra 
Carlo Antonioli (conductor)

SPECIAL PROGRAM: Composer of the Week

Disappointment and solace
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) Episode 1 of 5

Donald Macleod compares and contrasts two of Haydn's closest and longest personal relationships, with music including his early Salve Regina and his celebrated Horn Concerto in D.

The streets must have seemed like they were paved with gold when Haydn visited London in 1791. He was feted and applauded everywhere he went as one of Europe’s leading composers. He hobnobbed with royalty, the Prince of Wales commissioned a portrait of him from leading society portraitist John Hoppner. It’s still regarded as one of the best images we have today.

Haydn could hardly have imagined all this as a boy. His really is a rags-to-riches story. Born in 1732 in humble circumstances, Haydn's musical talent won him a position as a choir boy in Vienna's St. Stephen's Cathedral. However, he was forced to leave after his voice broke and, by the age of 17, he was on the streets, with only “three miserable shirts and a worn-out coat” to his name. Happily, his life did then take an upward turn. Haydn was employed by the Esterhàzys, one of the most powerful and influential families in the Hapsburg monarchy, for an astonishing 48 years.

But this week, Donald Macleod puts the public face of this celebrated figure to one side. He’s going to be looking at Haydn through a narrower lens, drawing a picture of the composer through the relationships he enjoyed with some of his closest family and friends.

If Haydn had applied hindsight to his decision to marry, it's highly probable he would have reconsidered his options. By contrast, his feelings for one of the court singers were considerably warmer, enduring long after their affair had petered out.

Piano Trio No. 4 in F major, Hob.XV:39
Scherzo
Beaux Arts Trio

Signor voi sapete, Hob.XXIVb:7
Written for insertion in Anfossi’s “Il matrimonio per inganno”
Chen Reiss, soprano, Rosina
l’Arte del mondo
Werner Ehrhardt, conductor

Symphony no 1 in D major, Hob 1/1
I: Presto
Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orchestra
Ádám Fischer, conductor

Salve Regina in E major, Hob. XXIIIb:1
I. Salve Regina
Nancy Argenta, soprano
Collegium Musicum 90 Choir
Collegium Musicum 90
Richard Hickox, director

Horn Concerto no 1 in D, Hob.VIId:3
I: Allegro
II: Adagio
III: Allegro
Alec Frank-Gemmill, horn
Swedish Chamber Orchestra
Nicholas McGeegan, conductor

Vada adagio, signorina, Hob.XXIVb:12
for P. Guglielmi: La Quakera spiritosa
Chen Reiss, soprano, Cardellina
l’Arte del mondo
Werner Ehrhardt, conductor

L'isola disabilitata, Act 2, sc 12
Quartet: Sono contenta appieno
Anett Fritsch, soprano, Costanza
Sunhae Im, soprano, Silvia
Krystian Adam, tenor Enrico
André Morsch, baritone, Gernando’s companion
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin
Bernhard Forck, musical direction

Producer: Johannah Smith for BBC Audio (1 hr.)

Ooperiõhtu: Fantastilised Hoffmanni lood Metropolitanist

3. jaanuari Ooperiõhtul kell 19 kõlab kuulsa Prantsuse operetimeistri Jacques Offenbachi viimane teos, romantismiaja poeedi õnnetuid armulugusid kirjeldav ooper, mis viib meid tagasi kahe maailmasõja vahelisse dekadentsi. Piinatud poeedi osas on prantsuse tenor Benjamin Bernheim, tema armastatuid kehastavad Erin Morley, Pretty Yende ja Clémentine Margaine. Offenbachi säravat partituuri juhatab METis üle 500 etenduse teinud Itaalia dirigent Marco Armiliato. Stuudios on Anne Aavik.

Jacques Offenbach jättis endast maha 102 lavateost. Pariisi operetimeistrina tunti teda üle kogu maailma. Alles oma elu lõpul tõestas helilooja, et suudab luua ka mahuka ooperi.

Helilooja tippteose neli tegevusliini seob tervikuks romantismiajastu kirjanik Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann, kes ilmub lavale esimese vaatuse eelmängu ajal, et jutustada oma kolmest äpardunud armuseiklusest.

Ooperi kolm vaatust võiks alapealkirjastada vastavalt naispeategelastele - Olympia, Antonia ja Giulietta. Kui traditsiooniliselt esitab neid küllatki erinevaid partiisid sama laulja, siis Metropolitani ooperiteatris on laval kolm esimest armastajat. Erin Morley kehastab mehaanilist nukku Olympiat, Pretty Yende diiva Antoniat ning Clémentine Margaine Veneetsia kurtisaani Giuliettat. Piinatud poeedi Hoffmanni osa laulab Benjamin Bernheim.

Osades:

E.T.A. Hoffmann - Benjamin Bernheim
Nicklausse, Luule muusa - Vasilisa Berzhanskaya
Olympia - Erin Morley
Antonia, Stella - Pretty Yende
Giulietta - Clémentine Margaine
Lindorf, Coppélius, Dapertutto - Christian van Horn
Andrès, Cochenille, Frantz, Pitichinaccio - Aaron Blake
trahteripidaja Luther, isa Crespel - Bradley Garvin
Hermann, Schlémil - Jeongcheol Cha
Nathanael, Spalanzani - Tony Stevenson
Antonia ema - Eve Gigliotti

Metropolitan Opera koor ja orkester, dirigent Marco Armiliato (1 hr., 55 min.)

Koncert Orkiestry Symfonicznej w Barcelonie – Narodowej Orkiestry Katalonii (Orquesta Sinfónica de Barcelona y de Cataluña) i Chóru Młodzieżowego Orfeó Català pod dyrekcją Marty Gardolińskiej
soliści: Jone Martinez – sopran
Jorge Navarro Colorado – tenor
José Antonio López – baryton
(Palau de la Música Catalana w Barcelonie, 1.03.2024)

Joseph Haydn Stworzenie świata XXI: 2 [Creation] – oratorium (2 hrs.)