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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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Free State Symphony Orchestra
Thursday 3 March 2011
Odeion
19:30

Conductor: Arjan Tien
Soloist: Maria du Toit (clarinet)

Hendrik ANDRIESSEN Variations on a theme by Kuhnau
WEBER Clarinet Concerto No. 2
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 7

Dutch conductor Arjan Tien has been working with South African orchestras since 1998 - the Kwa-Zulu Natal Philharmonic, Chamber Orchestra of South Africa, th JPO and the Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra. This is the first visit of the popular conductor to Bloemfontein. In 2000, at short notice, Arjan Tien was invited to conduct the Netherlands Youth Orchestra, and in 2001 he made a successful debut in the summer season of the Amsterdam Concertgebouw. 2002 marked the beginning of a successful relationship with the Metropole Orchestra, recording with them the film music for the awarded Dutch film "Twin Sisters", which has also been released on CD. His second CD with the Metropole Orchestra, “Quand tu dors” with Wende Snijders, received an Edison Award, the oldest and most prestigious Dutch music award. His extensive symphonic and opera repertoire ranges from Baroque to Contemporary music.

He has conducted numerous television, radio, CD and DVD recordings and several world premieres, appearing in Austria, Germany, Greece, Hungary, the Netherlands, Slovenia, South Africa, Serbia Montenegro, Sweden, Switzerland and Turkey, where he worked with orchestras such as the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic and the Bilkent Symphony Orchestra (Ankara), L'Orchestre Symphonique de Bienne, the KwaZulu Natal Philharmonic Orchestra (Durban), the Chamber Orchestra of South Africa, the Metropole Orchestra, the Cape Town and Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestras, the Residentie Orchestra (The Hague), the Arnhem Philharmonic, the Netherlands Symphony Orchestra, and the Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra.

Principal clarinettist of the Cape Philharmonic Orchestra in Cape Town, Maria du Toit is not only recognised as a distinguished orchestral musician, but indeed as one of South Africa’s finest solo instrumentalists. She has won numerous prizes in South African instrumental competitions, and in 2006 also the first prize of the international clarinet competition Jeunesses Musicales held in Bucharest, Romania.

Du Toit has appeared on various occasions as soloist with the Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra, the Johannesburg Philharmonic and in 2002 with the FSSO. Active also as recitalist and chamber musician, her performance credits include the Stellenbosch International Chamber music Festival, Aardklop Arts Festival, Klein Karoo Klassiek, Darling Festival, Greyton Festival, Cape Town Concert Series, Stellenbosch Festival, International Classical Music Festival South Africa and UNISA Concert Series, among others.


Admission
R120 (adults) per concert
R80 (pensioners, students and learners) per concert

Tickets @ Computicket (Shoprite / Checkers, Mimosa Mall)
Book online at www.computicket.com  

Enquiries:
Ella Kotze (FSSO), tel. 051 – 401 2342 (8:00 – 13:00)
www.fsso.org.za

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