2003 CONCERT ARCHIVES

NOËL! NOËL! 2003

Featuring the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra and Choir
Guest soloist, soprano TARYN FIEBIG

Artistic Director PAUL DYER
Australian Brandenburg Orchestra

Surround yourself with the true spirit of Christmas in a unique and heart-warming Brandenburg tradition - divine carols and joyous noëls taken from 700 years of music inspired by the Christmas season.

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BRANDENBURG SERIES 2003, Concert 5
CORONATION

Artistic Director and baroque chamber organ, Paul Dyer
Featuring the Brandenburg Choir with the boy trebles of St Mary's Cathedral, Sydney

From the triumphant to the spiritual, celebrate 300 years of European opulent grandeur and ceremony with the two most celebrated baroque composers Handel and Bach.

Handel's Coronation Anthem, Zadok the Priest, has embodied the pomp and ceremony of the British Monarchy since its composition in 1727 and is most recently remembered for its performance at Princess Diana's wedding.

A central movement of the Bach Cantata Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben, the mellifluous Jesu, joy of man's desiring is one of the best-loved of all baroque melodies. Rarely heard in its entirety, this richly scored cantata is a showpiece for soloists, choir and orchestra.

Celebrate the anticipated arrival of the Brandenburg's newly commissioned and exquisitely crafted chamber organ. Artistic Director Paul Dyer showcases the organ in the radiant Sinfonia from Bach's Cantata 29 and in Handel's regal Organ Concerto in F, written for Handel himself to play.

BACH
Sinfonia from Cantata No. 29, Wir danken Dir, Gott, wir danken Dir, BWV 29 {Dyer}
BACH
Cantata No. 147, Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben, BWV 147
HANDEL
Organ Concerto in F major Op. 4 No. 4, HWV 292 {Kent}
HANDEL
Coronation Anthem Zadok the Priest, HWV 258

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BRANDENBURG SERIES 2003, Concert 4
SANCTUARY

Guest soloist, baroque oboe Paul Dombrecht (Belgium)

Immerse yourself in the expressively mellow sound of baroque oboe legend Paul Dombrecht - with two of the most famous and meltingly beautiful oboe concertos.

The oboe "played well, has a delicacy superior to any Wind instrument now in use; and when blown and fingered by a skilful Performer, you have the sweetness of tone, the pleasing grace, and every other beauty necessary to charm the Mind and delight the Ear."
New and complete instructions for the oboe or hoboy. c.1780

From its creation in the 17th century, the oboe has found favour with composers and audiences for its melodic quality and beautiful refined tone. Its sound is rich, plaintive, sensual, mellow, and like the human voice the oboe can provide every shade of expression. It can sing with a sweet legato, yet is also amazingly agile and sprightly - even humorous.

The exquisite Albinoni and Marcello oboe concertos and the richness of the Brandenburg string sound in an irresistible concert that will sweep you away and haunt you with its evocative melodies.

TELEMANN
Overture in D Major for 3 oboes and strings* {Dombrecht}
VIVALDI
Concerto for 2 Violins in G major, RV516 arranged for Violin & Cello by Jamie Hey {Moon, Hey}
DALL'ABACO
Concerto a piu Instrumenti in D Major, Op. 5 No. 6*
ALBINONI
Oboe Concerto in D minor, Op. 9, No. 2 {Dombrecht}
DALL'ABACO
Concerto a piu Istrumenti in E Major, Op. 6 No. 11 {Moon}
MARCELLO
Oboe Concerto in D minor {Dombrecht}


* Premiere Australian performance

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BRANDENBURG SERIES 2003, Concert 3
TURKISH DELIGHT

Guest director and soloist,
baroque violin
Andrew Manze (UK)

The shining international star of baroque violin and director of the London-based Academy of Ancient Music, Andrew Manze brings to life Mozart's greatest violin concerto as well as some of the late 18th century's most innovative composers.

J.S. Bach's second son, Carl Philipp Emmanuel, was the most influential German instrumental composer of the early classical generation. His strikingly expressive style had a profound impact on the music of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven - Mozart is said to have commented, 'He is the father, we are the children'.

Haydn's Symphony no. 64 comes from his most intensely creative period and is full of bizarre and beautiful ideas - such as his innovative use of silence.

Mozart too loved the exotic and unusual. Andrew Manze revels in Mozart's Violin Concerto in A Major which passes from exuberant beauty and lyrical poise to the dashing spectacle of the last movement, leaping suddenly into 'Turkish' style.

C.P.E. BACH
Orchestra-Sinfonie No. 3 in F major
HAYDN
Symphony No. 64 in A major, Tempora mutantur (Times, they are a-changing)
MOZART
Violin Concerto No. 5 in A major, The Turkish, K219 {Manze}
C.P.E. BACH
Orchestra-Sinfonie No. 1 in D major

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BRANDENBURG SERIES 2003, Concert 2
2003 CONCERT ARCHIVE - CELESTIAL MOZART

Guest soloists, classical flute Kate Clark and classical harp Marshall McGuire

Paul Dyer, Artistic Director

From the worldly power of Mozart's famed Prague Symphony to the heavenly character of his Concerto for Flute and Harp.

"Marshall McGuire…a musician of exceptional imagination and flair"
The Times London

MOZART:
Overture to The Marriage of Figaro;
Concerto for Flute and Harp;
Variations on Ah vous dirai-je maman;
Symphony No. 38, Prague

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BRANDENBURG SERIES 2003, Concert 1
THE SECRET LOVER

Guest soloist, soprano Maria Cristina Kiehr (Argentina/Switzerland)
Paul Dyer, Artistic Director Australian Brandenburg Orchestra

Works from CORELLI, MERULA, MONTEVERDI, ORTIZ, PICCINNI and VALENTE as well as STROZZI'S L'amante segreto (The Secret Lover) and VIVALDI'S violin concerto Il Sospetto (Suspicion).

Passions of a clandestine love - revealed through the rapturous sound of Latin America's most evocative soprano. A colourfully staged 'pasticcio' featuring amorous rarities from the 16th to 18th centuries.