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Chamber Music New Zealand presents
Heath
Quartet
Touring NZ
23 June – 2 July 2018
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CHAMBER MUSIC NEW ZEALAND presents
HEATH QUARTET
Oliver Heath violin
Sara Wolstenholme violin
Gary Pomeroy viola
Christopher Murray cello
BACH Chorale Preludes Page 5
GARETH FARR Te Kōanga (CMNZ commission) Page 5
HAYDN String Quartet No. 55 in D Major, op. 71, no. 2 Page 6
- INTERVAL -
BRITTEN String Quartet No. 2 in C Major, op. 36 Page 7
DURATION: 100 minutes – including interval
Sat 23 June, 7.30pm AUCKLAND Concert Chamber
Sun 24 June, 5pm MTG Century Theatre HAWKE’S BAY
Wed 27 June, 7.30pm Michael Fowler Centre WELLINGTON
Sat 30 June, 7.30pm Glenroy Auditorium DUNEDIN
Mon 2 July, 7.30pm The Piano CHRISTCHURCH
Programme notes written by Sarah Chesney.
*The Artists reserve the right to make changes to the programme.
The Wellington concert will be recorded for live broadcast by RNZ Concert
Please respect the music, the musicians, and your fellow audience members, by switching off all cellphones,
pagers and watches. Taking photographs, or sound or video recordings during the concert is strictly prohibited
unless with the prior approval of Chamber Music New Zealand.
Kia ora tātou
Here we are, in the middle of the year, hosting concerts, they are giving a concert for primary
our first full string-quartet tour of the season. and intermediate-age children in Wellington, a
We’ve wanted our audiences to experience family concert in Dunedin and will be involved in
something very different with every tour - from workshops and performances with the students
the alternately playful and dramatic Anderson & at Sistema Aotearoa in South Auckland. CMNZ is
Roe, to the Early Music riches of Phantasm and proud of its education and outreach programme
the avant-garde adventures of Stroma with Alex and grateful to the Heath Quartet for their
Ross and Bianca Andrew. willingness to be part of that.
After all that, it will be a treat to have some core I would also like to thank Rosalind Giffney and
classical chamber music played by the Heath her colleagues at Sistema Aotearoa for their
Quartet. I’d like to welcome them on their first enthusiasm and assistance. We are very grateful
visit to New Zealand and to say how much we to Maurice and Kaye Clark who have made it
are all looking forward to hearing the beautiful possible for us to bring children from low decile
programme that they have offered. This has schools into central Wellington for the Heath
a contrapuntal theme (so, to that extent, joins Quartet’s education concert.
hands with Phantasm’s programme). It begins
This tour is supported by the CMNZ Foundation.
with Bach and ends with Britten but with one
The Foundation exists to support chamber music
of Haydn’s most beautiful string quartets in
in New Zealand. It is, in turn, funded through
the middle.
the thoughtfulness of music lovers. Please think
One special element of this programme about sustaining the work of the Foundation
is the world premiere of Gareth Farr’s Te through a donation or making provision in your
Kōanga (“Spring”). This piece was generously will. Don’t hesitate to call me if you would like to
commissioned by the family of Keith Lyons in his talk about this.
memory. Keith was well-known in string-playing
circles as a skilled and sympathetic luthier,
making and repairing valuable instruments. He
was also a cellist. A string quartet from Gareth is
a fitting tribute.
Peter Walls ONZM
The Heath Quartet are well known in the U.K. for Chief Executive
their concerts for young people at Wigmore Hall Music Up Close | Puoro Taupiri
and elsewhere. In addition to their subscription Chamber Music New Zealand
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Photo: Andi Crown
Photo: Simon Way
“…an electrifying intensity, maintaining an
irresistible impetus and negotiating abrupt
character changes with aplomb…”
- Stephen Pettitt, The Sunday Times, 4 June
2017 [Bartók, Complete String Quartets]
In 2017/18 the quartet returns to Wigmore Hall
at numerous points in the season for a series
of concerts programmed around a complete
cycle of Jörg Widmann’s quartets, alongside
HEATH
collaborators including Nils Mönkemeyer,
Hannes Minnaar and Carolyn Sampson. Jörg
Widmann’s quartets are also the basis for
QUARTET
their debut at the Pierre Boulez Saal in Berlin
in March 2018, where the composer and
clarinetist is an artist in focus. Other highlights
Oliver Heath violin include a return to the Concertgebouw in
Sara Wolstenholme violin Amsterdam. They will also return to North
Gary Pomeroy viola America for appearances at the Chicago
Christopher Murray cello Chamber Music Society and Lincoln Center
among others, as well as continuing their
The charismatic and sought-after Heath Quartet residence at Middlebury College in Vermont.
won the 2016 Gramophone Chamber Award for The quartet also maintain a strong presence
their recording of the complete string quartets at home with appearances throughout the
of Sir Michael Tippett, and in May 2013 became season in Cambridge, Chester, Leicester and
the first ensemble in fifteen years to win the Manchester among others, as well as having
prestigious Royal Philharmonic Society’s Young a continued association with British festivals
Artists Award. Formed in 2002 at the Royal such as Dartington, Kilkenny, Ryedale and
Northern College of Music they were selected Two Moors.
for representation by YCAT, awarded a Borletti-
Notable performances of previous seasons
Buitoni Special Ensemble Scholarship and in
have included the world premiere of a John
2012 won the Ensemble Prize at the Festspiele
Tavener piece at the BBC Proms, concerts
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern where they are now
at the Beethovenfest Bonn, Mecklenburgh-
regular visitors.
Vorpommern Festival and their debuts at the
Following their award-winning debut recording Musée d’Orsay and Louvre Auditorium in Paris.
of Tippett on the Wigmore LIVE label, the quartet
recorded two discs for the Harmonia Mundi/
PIAS label featuring Tchaikovsky’s first and third
quartets (November 2016) and the complete
Bartók quartets (June 2017) respectively, both
receiving outstanding feedback in the press.
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J.S. BACH (1685—1750) GARETH FARR (1968—)
Chorale Preludes Te Kōanga
Wenn wir in höchsten Nöten sein Commissioned by the Chamber Music
(When in the Hour of Utmost Need), BWV 641 New Zealand Trust to be performed by the
Das alte Jahr vergangen ist
Heath Quartet. In memory of Ian Lyons, this
(The Old Year Has Passed Away), BWV 614
commission is generously supported by the
O Mensch, bewein' dein' Sünde gross
(O Man, Bewail your Great Sin), BWV 622 Lyons Family.
Between 1708 and 1717, Johann Sebastian Bach "'Te Kōanga' means Spring or 'Planting Season'
lived in Weimar, where he held the position of in Te Reo Māori. Written in the Spring of
court organist. During this time he wrote many 2017, the piece is a celebration of life and
of his Chorale Preludes – short verses played regeneration, and the happiness that the return
by the organ to introduce a congregational of the sun gives us.
hymn. By Bach’s time, these sacred interludes
had developed as a genre in their own right. Ian Lyons was a cellist and luthier in Wellington,
Organists embellished the melody and added New Zealand, who passed away suddenly and
parts to create polyphonic harmonies that unexpectedly in 2015.
lead smoothly from one phrase to the next. In addition to his passion for music, he was
Bach combined imaginative countermelodies passionate about nature and the outdoors and
with the original hymn tunes to achieve an
spent much time observing and experiencing
expressiveness that sets his Chorale Preludes
the beautiful and rich environment that
apart from others in the genre. Additionally, he
Wellington boasts. This piece is not a lament
considered the Chorale Prelude an invaluable
for Ian - rather, it is a joyous celebration of the
teaching tool. As his son, C. P. E. Bach (also a
things that were most important to him."
notable composer), explained: ‘first he wrote the
bass [of the chorale] himself, then [the students] Distinguished New Zealand composer Gareth
had to invent the alto and tenor parts for Farr has received commissions from orchestras,
themselves…this is indisputably the best way of ensembles, and soloists from around the world.
learning composition, including harmony.’ His music has reached diverse audiences not
The three Chorale Preludes performed tonight only inside theatres and concert halls, but also
come from Bach’s Orgel-Büchlein, a set of 45 at international events, including the 2000
melodies on Lutheran chorales. Wenn wir in and 2008 Olympic Games and the 2011 Rugby
höchsten Nöten sein (When in the Hour of World Cup. Farr has received prestigious
Utmost Need) BWV 641 reverberates with a awards for his music and in 2006 became an
sense of dignity. This is followed by Das alte Jahr Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit
vergangen ist (The Old Year Has Passed Away) for services to music and entertainment. He
BWV 614, a similarly-paced piece with bold studied composition and percussion at the
chromaticism. Lastly, O Mensch, bewein' dein' University of Auckland, Victoria University of
Sünde gross (O Man, Bewail your Great Sin), Wellington and the Eastman School of Music in
BWV 622 expresses the Passion – Bach later set Upstate New York.
the same hymn in his St Matthew Passion.
Duration: 10 minutes
Duration: 10 minutes
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FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN (1732—1809)
String Quartet No. 55 in D Major, op. 71, no. 2
I. Adagio – Allegro
II. Andante cantabile
III. Menuetto – Allegro
IV. Allegretto
Haydn’s String Quartet No. 55 is an
animated dialogue of melodies,
capturing the composer’s innovative and
incomparable mature style.
Franz Joseph Haydn may commonly be known The first movement’s slow introduction leads
as the father of the symphony, but his impact to an energetic, melody-driven Allegro,
on the string quartet is perhaps even more characterised by unusual octave leaps. The
impressive. He composed around seventy works lilting and delicate second movement evolves
in the genre, mostly in three bursts of activity through different textures as Haydn unites and
across his career. An example of his late style, separates each instrument’s distinct voice. The
Haydn composed String Quartet No. 55 in 1793. minuet, which Haydn typically placed as the
He intended to present this new work in London third movement, includes a change to the minor
on his upcoming second visit. Haydn thrived key that gives this brief section an intriguing
in London’s vibrant artistic world. At the time character. The opening of the fourth and final
of his first visit, in 1791, he had spent 30 years movement exudes a folk-like quality reminiscent
directing music at the Austro-Hungarian court of of English songs Haydn undoubtedly knew
Eszterházy. The prospect of earning substantially from his first trip. Haydn masterfully restrains the
more performing, composing and teaching music’s pace to create a sense of anticipation
for the English aristocracy surely helped lure before leading us to a flourishing climax.
him back to England, but the experience also
Duration: 20 minutes
influenced his compositional style.
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BENJAMIN BRITTEN (1913—1976)
String Quartet No. 2 in C Major, op. 36
I. Allegro calmo, senza rigore
II. Vivace
III. Chacony: sostenuto
Britten’s String Quartet No. 2 will ensnare
you between layers of colours and
moods: its absorbing energy coats a
nagging sense of anguish.
Benjamin Britten composed his String Quartet Britten’s talent as a dramatic composer shines
No. 2 in 1945, soon after World War Two ended through this String Quartet. Each instrument is
– a war he condemned as a conscientious a subtle and individual character wound into
objector. Just weeks after the allied some of Britten’s most evocative descriptive
liberation, Britten accompanied the violinist writing. Britten alters the conventional structural
Yehudi Menuhin to Germany to perform for proportions of the first movement. He gradually
concentration camp survivors; the experience infuses his musical ideas in the first section,
profoundly affected him. but curtails the last section, when we would
typically expect to hear these ideas restated.
Back at home near England’s Suffolk coast,
Britten continued the burst of creative energy The phasing of voices in the fleeting Vivace
launched by his efforts composing the follows in masterful contrast. The third
opera Peter Grimes the previous year. Britten movement reimagines a chaconne, a Baroque
directed some of this energy to close study dance form used by Purcell (and others).
of the English Baroque composer Henry Usually this form overlays a repeated bass line
Purcell’s music – at this time arguably the most with melodic variations. Here, the stability of the
successful English-language opera composer. bass line is passed between the instruments’
String Quartet No. 2 premiered on the 250th registers. Solo cadenzas space the movement’s
anniversary of Purcell’s death, 21 November, sections in a modernist representation of
performed by the all-female Zorian Quartet. Baroque embellishments.
Duration: 30 minutes
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