Fire & Passion

Experience the Enlightenment through Mozart, Haydn & Gluck

PERTH 23 JANUARY | BUNBURY 24 JANUARY | BRIDGETOWN 25 JANUARY

Optimism! Discovery! The need for new frontiers! Australia is a living result of the ideas of the Enlightenment. To experience it today, you need to feel the full force of its music. Beginning with Mozart, Haydn and Gluck.

This summer, the Australian Classical Era Orchestra will bring these three giants of the Enlightenment to life in Western Australia.

Mozart’s Horn Concerto in D major, with the brilliant Natural Horn Soloist Darryl Poulsen, will inspire you. The transparency of the string and wind sections demands exacting accuracy. Mozart takes his horn player and his audience on a thrilling adventure.

Haydn’s Symphony No. 67 pushes your expectations of what normal music is. It may not be comfortable, but then he believes progress never is.

Gluck brings you the intensity of Lust, Fire and the Horrors of Hell itself as he takes you down into the netherworld with Don Juan.

The Australian Classical Era Orchestra is passionate about authentically recreating music from the Classical Era of 1740 to 1830. All the musicians perform on period instruments, or their replicas, displaying the depth of talent in Western Australian.

When and Where

Saturday 23 January 7.30pm
Perth Government House Ballroom (Google Map)
Tickets available through BOCS, Tel: 08 9484 1133

Sunday 24 January 3pm
Bunbury Regional Entertainment Centre (Google Map)
Tickets available through BREC, Tel: 1300 661 272

Monday 25 January 7.30pm
Bridgetown Repertory Theatre (Google Map)
Tickets available through Bridgetown Visitor Centre, Tel: 08 9761 1740

Mozart & The Joker — Program Notes Snapshot

I compare Mozart’s compositions to a gold snuffbox, manufactured in Paris, and Haydn’s to one finished off in London

– Emperor Joseph II, Vienna, Spring 1786

This program is a celebration of the originality, wit and good humour of one of the Classical Era’s most sentinel figures, Franz Joseph Haydn, and 2009 marks two hundred years since his death at the end of May 1809, in the Viennese suburb of Gumpendorf, with the advancing guns of Napoleon booming in the background.

Like a mischievous clown flouting stagecraft, peeping out between the curtains at the audience – even giving a silly wave – before the house lights are dimmed and the show officially begins, Haydn needs only to 'peep out' waving a musical theme in order to give the listener a feeling that tends towards the comical. Take for instance the theme in the last movement of our Symphony. In gigue rhythm, its tempo is so quick that to even attempt to dance, however, would guarantee a complete tangle of legs and bodies falling in an hilarious heap on the floor – while the oboes give a silly wave with a twee “Cuc-koo”!

Full Program Notes will available be at the venue, complimentary to all ticket holders.

Mozart & The Joker

Audiences will again be thrilled with the wonderful presence and voice of London-based, Perth-born Kathryn McCusker (soprano) treating them to 4 arias from Mozart’s Don Giovanni, the Marriage of Figaro, The Shepherd King & the Abduction from the Seraglio.

To mark the bicentenary of the death of Franz Joseph Haydn, well known violinist, Paul Wright will add sparkle to each concert with his performances of Haydn’s brilliant G major violin concerto.

And to compliment the vocal works, full use will be made of the tonal colours available from the ACE Orchestra’s classical instruments in the presentation of Haydn’s amazing Symphony No. 61 in D major.

Where and When

Perth Government House Ballroom
Thursday 15 January 2009 at 7.30pm

Tickets available through BOCS, Tel: 9484 1133

Bunbury Regional Entertainment Centre
Friday 16 January 2009 at 7.30pm

Tickets available through BREC, Tel: 1300 661 272

Margaret River Cultural Centre
Saturday 17 January at 7.30pm

Tickets available through Arts Margaret River, Tel: 9758 7316


Sponsors:

WA Mozart's 250th Birthday

Western Australia celebrates WA Mozart’s 250th Birthday !

Two concerts in celebration of WA Mozart’s 250th Birthday - with opera favourites arranged by Tim Blomfield for soprano with classical flute, classical clarinet, classical bassoon, two classical violins, classical viola, & classical cello.

Players include:
Kathryn McCusker — soprano
Georgia Browne — flute
Nicola Boud — clarinet
Kate Walpole — bassoon
Paul Wright & Kirra Thomas — violins
Shaun Lee — viola
Tim Blomfield — cello

When and Where
7 January 2006 at 8pm — UWA Winthrop Hall , Perth, WA
8 January 2006 at 8pm — Margaret River Cultural Centre, Margaret River, WA

Programme

1. Idomeneo, Opera seria in tre atti KV366 — Zeffiretti lusinghieri (Ilia)
2. La Clemenza di Tito, Opera seria in due atti KV621 — S’altro che lagrime (Servilia)
3. Clarinet Quintet in A major KV 581 – Allegro, Larghetto, Menuetto, Allegretto con Variazioni
4. Die Zauberflöte, Oper in zwei Aufzügen KV620 – Ach, ich fühl’s (Pamina)
5. Don Giovanni, Opera seria in due atti KV527 — Ah! fuggi il traditor! (Donna Elvira)
   INTERVAL
6. Le Nozze di Figaro, Opera buffa in quattro atti KV492 — E Susanna non vien! Dove sono (Contessa)
7. Flute Quartet in D major KV285 — Allegro, Adagio, Rondeau
8. Zaide (Das Serail), Singspiel in zwei Akten KV344 — Ruhe sanft, mein holdes Leben (Zaide)
9. Nehmt meinen Dank, ihr holden Gönner KV383

Tickets are on sale now !

Please contact BOCS +618 9484 1133 for 7th January's concert, and +618 9758 7316 for 8th January's concert.