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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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LUKÁŠ VONDRÁCEK piano recital

6 March 2015

Odeion

19:30

 

"Lukáš Vondrácek drew the finest possible lines and added bell-like sounds as soft as butter, allowing the disparate compositional elements to become part of a greater whole. It comes as no surprise that this young musician is recognized as one of the greatest pianistic talents of our times.” (Stuttgarter Zeitung, April 2012)

 

"27-year-old Czech pianist Lukáš Vondrácek and conductor Anu Tali collaborated on a brilliant reading of Rachmaninoff’s “Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini,” bringing out inner voices and colors that made this work seem reborn. There were ripples of humor, stretches of passion and intense musicality that delineated the kind of music-making generally relegated to the best of chamber performances." (Herald-Tribune (Sarasota), November 2013)

 

 

Born in Opava (Czech Republic) in 1986, Lukáš gave his first concert at the age of four and now, has already visited 27 different countries giving in excess of 1000 concerts.  His first international tour was at the age of ten. 

 

He also spent time studying at the Vienna Hochschule with Prof Peter Barcaba, at the Academy of Music in Katowice (Poland), with Prof Andrzej Jasinsky, and at Ostrava University with Prof Rudolf Bernatik.  Currently Lukáš is pursuing an Artist Diploma at the New England Conservatory (Boston) under the tutelage of Prof Hung-Kuan Chen.  He performed debut recitals at La Cite in Paris, the Palais des Beaux Arts (Brussels), the Auditorio Nacional (Madrid), the Concertgebouw (Amsterdam) and the Tonhalle (Zurich).

 

Lukáš made his debut with the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra and conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy in May 2002.  As a concert soloist Lukáš has played with orchestras throughout the world: the Philharmonia, Royal Liverpool, and Royal Scottish National Orchestra (UK), St. Petersburg Philharmonic, Hong Kong Philharmonic, Cape Town Philharmonic, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester (Berlin), Malta National Orchestra and the symphonies of Iceland, Dallas and Cincinnati. 

 

He has toured in Japan with the NHK Symphony. In December 2007 he performed in Sao Paulo (Brasil), with one of the leading orchestras in South America, the Orquestra Sinfonica do Estado de Sao Paulo.  During the 2008/2009 season he made his recital debut in Istanbul before returning to the US for a number of concerts with the El Paso, the Colorado, and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestras.  Performances in Germany, Switzerland, Canada, the United States, Nigeria and Great Britain were among the highlights of the 2010/2011 season.  Engagements of 2011/2012 include concerts with the Orchestre National de Belgique, Orquestra Sinfonica Portuguesa, London Philharmonic and Washington's National Symphony Orchestra.

 

In 2010 he won first prize at the 10th Hilton Head International Piano Competition in South Carolina (USA).  In 2012 he took first prize, grand prize plus four special prizes at the 2012 UNISA Vodacom International Piano Competition (Pretoria). 

 

PROGRAMME

Mozart: Sonata No. 10 in C major, K.330

Smetana: Three Czech Dances (Furiant, Hulán, Cibulicka)

Dohnanyi: Capriccio from Four Pieces, Op. 4 No. 2

Suk: Piano Pieces, Op. 7 (No. 1 Love Song, No. 4 Little Idylls)

Schumann: Symphonic Etudes, Op. 13

 

ADMISSION

R130 (adults)

R90 (pensioners)

R70 (UFS staff)

R50 (students and learners)

R50 (group bookings of 10+)

Tickets available at Computicket.

 

ENQUIRIES

Ninette Pretorius (tel. 051 – 401 2504)

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