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Handel the Great
2018-04-25

The Odeion Baroque Ensemble of the OSM presents

Handel the Great

Wednesday 25 April 2018

Odeion

19:30

The Odeion Baroque Ensemble presents this concert – Handel the Great. This concert consists of a variety of some of the most attractive and popular works by Georg Friedrich Handel (1685 - 1759). The famous Water Music, concerto’s and arias are on the programme. The artists who will perform, include members of the Henkins family – Tilla, Francois, Brahm, and Alba; the Kriges – Petrus and Maretha; Kimberley based oboist Kobus Malan; percussionist Heinrich Lategan and tenor Lance Phillip.

Petrus Krige arranged the works on the programme for an ensemble of violins, violas, cello, double bass, three recorders, two oboes, bassoon, harpsichord, organ, Baroque timpani and tenor.

The guaranteed highlight on the programme will be the Water Music and Music for the Royal Fireworks. Handel composed his Water Music with the arrival of the new King George I on the Thames river. This king was Handel’s employer before (in Hannover). Thirty five years later he composed the Music for the Royal Fireworks for 59 wind instruments. About 12 000 people attended the performance in Green Park.

Lance Phillip will open the programme with the popular Where’er you walk from Semele - a Shakespeare sonnet set to music. He will also perform a complete secular cantata and give a rendition of opera extracts from Rodelinda.

The rest of the programme will consist of concerto’s for violin and oboe. Handel himself was a violinist and oboist. His only Violin Concerto, with demanding technical abilities, will be performed by Francois Henkins. Handel is most likely the most prominent composers of organ concerto’s. Maretha Krige plays the first and second movement from a lesser known organ concerto.

Where’er you walk, an aria from Semele
Adagio, from Organ Concerto in D minor
Excerpts from the three Water Music suites
Look down, harmonious Saint
Oboe Concerto in G minor
Violin Concerto in B-flat major (Sonata à 5)
Fatto inferno and Pastorello, from opera Rodelinda
Excerpts from Music for the Royal Fireworks

ADMISSION

  • R120 (adults)
  • *R80 (pensioners)
  • *R70 (UFS staff)
  • *R50 (students, learners and block bookings of 10+)

Tickets available at Computicket or online at http://online.computicket.com/web/

*Please note that tickets for pensioners, students, learners and UFS staff can only be purchased at a Computicket outlet (Shoprite Checkers) or at the doors since a valid card or ID has to be presented to qualify for the above mentioned discount.

ENQUIRIES
Ninette Pretorius (tel. 051 401 2504 / pretoriusn@ufs.ac.za)


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UFS Department of Music presents: Haydn Trio Eisenstadt

UFS Department of Music presents
Haydn Trio Eisenstadt
Wednesday, 13 May 2009
Odeion
19:30

The Haydn Trio Eisenstadt, founded in 1992, is one of Austria’s leading chamber music ensembles. A full concert schedule together with a large number of CD recordings is proof of the Trio’s outstanding reputation.  The Trio is focussing to a large extent on the "Haydn Year 2009", the bicentenary of Haydn’s death. The three musicians have been preparing themselves for this date ever since the ensemble was founded in 1992, and during 2009 they will travel the whole world as musical ambassadors of Joseph Haydn’s home region.

The musicians received instruction in the chamber music class of the Vienna Academy of Music under Georg Ebert, and took part in master classes given by the Trio di Trieste. In 1994, the renowned Accademia Chigiana in Siena, bestowed on the Haydn Trio Eisenstadt the Honorary Diploma for the best piano trio and an award for the best foreign contribution of the entire festival. This distinction led to their being admitted to the Scuola Internazionale di Musica da Camera del Trio di Trieste, which the ensemble attended for two years.

In addition to regular concerts all over Austria, the Haydn Trio Eisenstadt is often on tour abroad.  Concerts have taken them to Germany, Italy, France, Belgium, England, Scotland, Ireland, Switzerland, Denmark, Hungary, Turkey, Russia, Israel, Japan and the USA.

Since 2002 the Haydn Trio Eisenstadt cooperates with the highly esteemed Scottish singers Lorna Anderson (soprano) and Jamie MacDougall (tenor) in the first ever presentation of all 429 folksong arrangements composed by Haydn, both in live concerts and on CDs.

In May 2008, the ensemble completed its large-scale project of recording Joseph Haydn’s complete piano chamber music oeuvre - all 39 piano trios, all 429 Scottish Songs and all Divertimenti and Concertini (28 CDs).  Another large-scale project, the worldwide composition project entitled D2H - Dedicated to Haydn, has been devised by the Trio’s pianist, Harald Kosik, for 2009.  Taking as its motto Joseph Haydn’s famous saying “The whole world understands my language”, 6 Austrian composers, 6 composers from other European countries and 6 composers from all other continents have been invited to compose a piano trio “dedicated to Haydn” for the bicentenary.  During this concert, the trio by Bongani Ndodana-Breen will be performed.

Program:
Joseph Haydn - Piano Trio in E flat major Hob. XV/29
Bongani Ndodana-Breen - Piano Trio – Dedication to Haydn
Joseph Haydn - Piano Trio in C major Hob.XV/27
Franz Schubert - Piano Trio in E flat major

Admission:
R100 (adults)
R60 (pensioners, students and learners)
Tickets available at Computicket (at all Shoprite / Checkers shops, Mimosa Mall information desk) and at the doors.

Enquiries:
Ninette Pretorius (tel. 051 - 401 2504)

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