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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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Georgi Anichenko (cello) & Anastasya Terenkova (piano)

Georgi Anichenko (cello) & Anastasya Terenkova (piano)
21 February 2011
Odeion
19:30

Georgi Anichenko, winner of the Fifth International String Competition (cello section), began playing the cello at the age of five. By the age of eight, he was performing with the Minsk State Music College Orchestra. In 1996, he received First Prize at the International Competition for the Young Musicians in Moscow and a year later he took the Virtuosity Prize at the Junior International Tchaikovsky Competition.

Georgi entered the Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique de Paris at the age of fifteen. He won Second Prize at the Lions Club International Cello Competition in Nantes (France) and in 2004, he graduated (with honours) from the Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique de Paris. In 2008 Georgi received the first prize at the Note et Bein International French Music Cello Competition. In 2009 he received the Second Witold Lutoslawski Cello Competition in Warsaw (Poland). He regularly gives solo recitals and takes part in chamber music concerts worldwide.

Anastasya Terenkova started taking piano lessons at the age of six at the famous Moscow Gnessin's Special Music School for Gifted Children. At the age of eleven she gave her first solo recital. In 2001 she entered the Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique de Paris. She has performed solo and chamber music throughout Russia, South Africa, France and the USA. She is a scholarship recipient of Tarazzi Foundation of the Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique de Paris (2003-5), Nadia et Lily Boulanger Foundation (2005), the ADAMI Foundation (2006-7) and the Meyer Foundation (2010). Anastasya is prize winner of various international piano competitions like the Stravinsky Awards International Piano Competition (1995); Arcachon International Piano Competition (2002) and the Epinal International Piano Competition (2003), to name but a few.

Programme:
Fauré – Three Pieces
Poulenc – Sonata for cello and piano
Hanmer – Elegy: 24 Maraisburg
Prokofiev – Five Melodies, Op. 35a
Shostakovich – Sonata for cello and piano, Op. 40

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

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

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