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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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William Berger (baritone) & Melvyn Tan (piano)


William Berger (baritone) & Melvyn Tan (piano)
4 November 2010
Odeion
19:30

"...one of the best of our younger baritones."
Gramaphone Magazine

"…Tan's technical skill and sensibility produced a very special interpretation of the work, harmonious, and most coherent."
Kronenzeitung (Oliver Lang)

William Berger is an associate and graduate of the Royal Academy of Music. In concert William has performed with the CBSO, LPO, English Concert, Philharmonia Baroque (San Francisco), Hanover Band and Cape Town Philharmonic. Recitals include his Wigmore Hall debut and Wolf's Italienisches Liederbuch (Oxford Lieder Festival) as well as two recordings: Songs of Spring and October Roses. Winner of the Kathleen Ferrier Society Bursary for Young Singers in 1999, he was also awarded a Countess of Munster Trust Scholarship, an MBF grant and the Ernest Oppenheimer Memorial Trust Award. William’s opera roles include roles in La Boheme (Schaunard), Don Giovanni (Masetto), Madam Butterfly (Prince Yamadori), A Hand of Bridge (David), Barber of Seville (Fiorello), The Carmelites (Monsieur Javelinot), Salome (Second Nazarene), Billy Budd (Novice’s Friend), Cosi fan tutte (Guglielmo), Zauberflüte (Papageno), Le Nozze di Figaro (Count Almaviva), The Cunning Little Vixen (Harastra) and Orfeo (Shepherd).

Melvyn Tan has lived in London (UK) since leaving his native Singapore at an early age to study at the Yehudi Menuhin School and the Royal College of Music. His teachers have included Nadia Boulanger, Marcel Ciampi and Vlado Perlemuter. He built a formidable international reputation during a long exploration of the precursors of the modern piano. Since returning to the modern piano in 1996, Melvyn has performed in most major festivals and concert halls throughout the world including many leading concert halls and with orchestras such as, amongst others, the London Philharmonic, the Netherlands Symphony Orchestra, Academy of St Martin's in the Fields, Salzburg's Camerata and Mozarteum Orchestras, New World and Melbourne Symphonies and the Australian Chamber Orchestra. Chamber music and Lieder hold an important place in Melvyn's repertoire. His chamber music and Lieder collaborations are numerous and include Steven Isserlis, Anne-Sophie von Otter and the Škampa Quartet. Melvyn have recently released two CDs with, among others, Mozart’s Piano Concerto no. 12 and Beethoven’s Piano Concerto no. 2

Programme:
Mahler: Selection from Das Knaben Wunderhorn
Liszt/Schubert Transcriptions: piano solo by Melvyn Tan
Schumann: Liederkreis, Op.39
Dvorak: Gypsy Songs, Op. 55
Ravel: Don Quichotte a Dulcinee
Montsalvatge: Cinco Canciones Negras

Admission:
R120 (adults)
R80 (pensioners, students and learners)
Tickets available at Computicket (at all Shoprite / Checkers shops, Mimosa Mall information desk, Izami Florist) and at the doors.

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

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