The New Zealand Herald Premier Series: Magnificent Mendelssohn

PREMIER
SERIES
MAGNIFICENT
MENDELSSOHN
THURSDAY 17 FEBRUARY 2022

AUCKLAND PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA
The Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra
(APO) is New Zealand’s designated
metropolitan orchestra, serving
Auckland, the country’s largest and most
vibrant city, with concerts and events
throughout the year.
The APO presents more than 60
performances annually. A comprehensive
season of symphonic work brings
Auckland’s orchestra together with
many of the world’s finest classical
musicians, while collaborations with
some of New Zealand’s most exciting
contemporary artists speaks to the APO’s
reputation of being endlessly innovative,
passionate and versatile.
Internationally acclaimed Italian-Danish
conductor Giordano Bellincampi has been
Music Director of the APO since 2016.
Beloved by APO musicians, audiences
and donors alike, his tenure has resulted
in a period of significant artistic growth for
Auckland’s orchestra.
Recent guest artists with the orchestra
have included tenor Simon O’Neill,
pianist Michael Houstoun, violinists
Arabella Steinbacher, Ning Feng and
Viktoria Mullova, cellist Julian Steckel,
pipa virtuoso Wu Man, and conductors
Vladimir Ashkenazy, Bertrand de Billy,
and Xian Zhang.
In 2022, the APO presents a wideranging
and dynamic season featuring
many of Aotearoa’s best talents alongside
debuts and welcome returns of many
renowned international musicians.
The exceptional guest artists sharing the
stage with the APO this year include
violinists Clara-Jumi Kang and James
Ehnes, pianists Kristian Bezuidenhout,
Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, and Benjamin
Grosvenor, trumpeter Tine Thing
Helseth, and conductors Gilbert Varga,
Shiyeon Sung and Alpesh Chauhan.
Complementing our international artists,
we are also delighted to showcase
New Zealand-born violinist Amalia Hall,
conductor Tianyi Lu, and APO’s own
Principal Clarinettist Jonathan Cohen
and Principal Harpist Ingrid Bauer
among many more.
The APO is proud to support both
New Zealand Opera and the Royal
New Zealand Ballet in their Auckland
performances. It also works in
partnership with Auckland Arts Festival,
the Auckland Pride Festival, the New
Zealand International Film Festival and
the Australian National Academy of Music
among other organisations.
Through its numerous APO Connecting
(education, outreach and community)
initiatives, the APO offers opportunities
to more than 20,000 young people
and adults nationwide.
Each year the APO performs to
more than 250,000 people live and
over the course of the pandemic, has
reached more than 4.3 million viewers
globally through livestreams and other
digital offerings.

WELCOME / HAERE MAI
Tēnā koutou,
Through the ongoing uncertainties
of the pandemic, we believe in the
importance and power of music.
The last two years have taught us
to always be open to change – so
while disruptions will continue and
our delivery methods will need to be
flexible, this year Auckland’s Orchestra
will be keeping the music playing.
There will be something for everyone in
this year’s Premier Series, which is packed
with a vibrant collection of classical delights,
contemporary masters and breath-taking
musical experiences. Every concert offers
something special to look forward to, be
it a new work by Brooklyn-based New
Zealand composer Gemma Peacocke, an
improvisation on the elaborate Hungarian
instrument the cimbalom, or the dark
emotional thunder of Brahms’ final symphony
– to name but a few.
Our season is made possible by the
ongoing generosity of our supporters, and
we particularly thank The New Zealand
Herald and its parent company NZME. for its
longstanding support of the APO. We also
thank our core funders Auckland Council,
Creative New Zealand, Foundation North
and the Four Winds Foundation. Especially
throughout the upheaval of the past year,
their ongoing support has been invaluable.
Kia kaha,
Welcome,
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Year on year, the APO showcases
exceptional performances featuring some
of the world’s leading artists alongside the
best of New Zealand’s own. We continue to
be impressed by the APO’s dedication to its
art form, and determination to keep making
music available for us all no matter what the
pandemic throws in the way.
At NZME we are focused on keeping
Kiwis in the know. This year’s series has
been carefully crafted to appeal to everyone
from long-time classical music lovers to
those listening for the first time. I’m thrilled
by the breadth of artistry awaiting us, from
the piano concertos of Grieg and Mozart to
the magical soundscapes of Debussy and
Ravel, and don’t forget the daring delights of
contemporary composers John Adams and
Thomas Adès.
We look forward to sharing a fantastic
2022 season with you all.
Michael Boggs
Chief Executive Officer, NZME
Barbara Glaser
Chief Executive, Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra

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GUEST MUSICIANS
Violin: Jessica Alloway,
Mark Bennett, Diane
Huh, Hanny Lee, Naomi
Lee, Alexander Pilchen,
Lydia Sewell
Viola: Sophia Acheson,
Lisa Boyes, Ping Tong
Chan, Wen-Chuan Lin
Cello: Ashley Brown,
Hyein Kim, Jacky Siu
Double Bass: Paul
Altomari, Tim Shacklock
Horn: Valentin Eschmann
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MENDELSSOHN
Conductor Giordano Bellincampi
Violin Monique Lapins
Gade Echoes of Ossian
Mendelssohn Violin Concerto
Dvořák Symphony No.8
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GIORDANO
BELLINCAMPI
CONDUCTOR
Giordano Bellincampi is the Music Director
of the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra.
Born in Italy and moving to Copenhagen
at a young age, he began his career as a
trombonist with the Royal Danish Orchestra
before making his professional conducting
debut in 1994.
Previous positions include Principal
Conductor of I Pomeriggi Musicali (Milan),
Music Director of the Duisburg Philharmonic
(2012-2017), Music Director of the Danish
National Opera, Aarhus (2005-2013)
and Music Director of the Copenhagen
Philharmonic Orchestra (2000-2006). From
1997-2000 he was also Chief Conductor
of the Athelas Sinfonietta Copenhagen,
the leading contemporary music ensemble
in Denmark.
Highlights of recent seasons have
included gala performances of Wagner’s
operatic and orchestral music with the
Duisburg Philharmonic, as well as a much
acclaimed visit to Amsterdam’s legendary
Concertgebouw Hall, performing repertoire
by Nielsen, Sibelius and Beethoven.
As Associate Professor at the Royal
Danish Academy, he also regularly gives
masterclasses and judges international
conducting competitions.
In 2010, he was created a Knight of the
Order of the Dannebrog, an award bestowed
by the Danish Royal Family for services to
Danish culture, and he also holds the title of
Cavaliere from the President of Italy.
MONIQUE
LAPINS
VIOLIN
Monique Lapins is the Second violinist of
the New Zealand String Quartet, violinist
in the Ghost Piano Trio, Ensemble Gô
and lectures at the New Zealand School
of Music - Te Kōkī at Victoria University of
Wellington.
Monique was twice a finalist in the
Asia Pacific Chamber Music Competition
and has performed in festivals across the
Czech Republic, France, Holland, Japan,
Hong Kong, Australia and at the Open
Chamber Music Seminars in Prussia Cove
directed by world-renowned cellist Steven
Isserlis. Monique has toured extensively in
collaboration with the Australian Chamber
Orchestra Collective, the Melbourne
Chamber Orchestra and the Singapore
Symphony Orchestra.
Hailed as “a formidable violinist” (Lindis
Taylor - Middle C), Monique has performed
with artists including conductors Seiji
Ozawa and Philippe Herreweghe, pianist
Dénes Várjon, violinist Oliver Charlier,
the Jerusalem String Quartet, and most
recently with Gillian Ansell and the Dunedin
Symphony Orchestra.
Monique Lapins is a recording artist with
Naxos and Rattle Labels and in 2022, will
be celebrating the release of her latest
Rattle Records recording with pianist Jian
Liu featuring Sonatas for Violin and Piano by
Béla Bartók.
Monique performs on a 1784 Lorenzo
Storioni violin kindly loaned by David
Duncan Craig on behalf of the Lily
Duncan Trust.
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PROGRAMME NOTES
Niels Gade (1817-1890)
Echoes of Ossian
ONE SINGLE MOVEMENT
DURATION: c.14’
During the 19th century, Niels Gade was
one of Denmark’s two major composers (the
other was the slightly younger Carl Nielsen).
Gade was a follower of Mendelssohn – quite
literally, since in 1843 he moved from
Copenhagen to Leipzig, where Mendelssohn
was the successful director of the city’s
Gewandhaus Orchestra.
Gade had already sent the score of his
first symphony to Mendelssohn, who loved
the work and immediately scheduled it for
performance in Leipzig. Earlier, the Danish
musical decision-makers had rejected it
outright.
After Mendelssohn’s early death,
Gade was appointed his successor at
the Gewandhaus but in 1848, when war
broke out between Prussia and Denmark,
he returned to Copenhagen where he set
about building a career as a prominent and
influential musician.
Predictably, Gade’s compositions
show very clear affinities with the music
of ‘Magnificent Mendelssohn’, especially
the Mendelssohn of the 1830s and 40s,
the years that saw his musical pictures of
Scotland, such as the Hebrides Overture
and ‘Scottish’ Symphony.
Gade’s overture turns towards the
legendary background of the Gaelic
poet-warrior Ossian. It opens in a poetic vein
with a slow, misty start but soon ushers in a
noble, warrior-like theme by the trombones.
The two musical ideas are mixed,
contrasted and developed until, after a final
fortissimo presentation in full dress, the soft
opening returns, then fades into silence.
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
Violin Concerto
THREE MOVEMENTS, WITH THE FIRST TWO
JOINED TOGETHER:
I. Allegro molto appassionato
II. Andante – Allegro non troppo
III. Allegro molto vivace
DURATION: c.29’
In March 1845, Niels Gade, as assistant
conductor of the Leipzig Gewandhaus
Orchestra, was summoned at short notice
to stand in for the ailing Mendelssohn,
and conduct the very first performance of
Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto in E minor.
Since then, the work has become one of
the most popular classics of the concerto
repertory, its inspired charm and graceful
flow disguising the fact that it took its
composer all of 10 years to complete.
Yet the work seizes its audience from the
first note, with a haunting, beautifully shaped
melody that cannot wait for the usual long
orchestral opening, but dances in after only
a bar and a half. A couple of minutes later,
the strings create a broad, downward tune
that is immediately hijacked by the solo violin,
and gradually turned into a drifting, upward
movement that seems to move towards
heaven itself. Suddenly we are in the relative
major key, with a woodwind serenade of
soft, repeated notes – so gentle that we
might think we have slipped into the second
movement by mistake. But the opening
theme returns, the tempo picks up, and after
an exhilarating development and a dazzling
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cadenza, the recapitulation bounds happily to
its end.
But not quite. In a stroke of genius,
Mendelssohn lets the bassoon prolong the
note B out of the movement’s final chord, and
in a series of upward-stepping semitones,
he slides the music smoothly into the key of
C major for the famous violin ‘song’ that now
appears and opens the way to a toe-tapping
finale, in which the violin can show off to
wonderful advantage.
INTERVAL
Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904)
Symphony No.8
FOUR MOVEMENTS:
I. Allegro con brio
II. Adagio
III. Allegretto grazioso
IV. Allegro ma non troppo
DURATION: c.34’
Can any symphony ever claim a more beautiful
opening than this? Breathing in gently from
the minor key, Dvořak’s cellos sing their way
through a pulsating 16-bar tune that has
Bohemian folksong written all over it and
makes its melodious way through different
velvety keys before emerging into the sunlight
of G Major.
Such untroubled music suggests
contentment on the part of the composer, and
yes, Dvořak’s situation in 1889, the year of the
symphony’s composition, could very well have
been described as one of contentment. His
music was being increasingly performed and
bringing him a fine reputation, to say nothing
of the increased royalties that allowed him to
buy a house deep in the Czech countryside,
where he could compose in tranquillity.
Growing musical fame meant greater
confidence, and Dvořak began to bend the
rules of musical composition to suit his own
particular voice and style. True, he stuck to
the general outlines of Sonata Form in major
movements, but often he allowed his themes
to come and go with a life of their own,
playing down their constructive possibilities
in favour of tuneful, folksong like phrases of
great charm.
After the warm, sunlit opening, the main
theme of this first movement is in two clear
parts: a mi-re-do assertion by divided violas
and cellos, followed by a chirpy, bird-like
decoration from the flutes, eventually melting
into the ‘proper’ second subject in the key
of the relative minor, and providing all the
material for a colourful development with
a thrilling recapitulation that blazes out its
reappearance in unison trumpets.
Second and Third movements seem to have
a close affinity with each other. Both are in
a minor key, and each has one single mood
– pastoral in the Adagio and nostalgic in the
waltz-like Allegretto grazioso.
A spirit of exultation rings out in the opening
trumpet fanfares of the finale, before the
cellos lead off with the main musical material,
just as they did in the first movement. A few
minutes in, the pace increases and all the
instruments fall over themselves to lead the
theme to its brilliant conclusion. Watch for
the enormous flute solo at the centre, and
the music’s occasional sudden dips back
into the minor key. This is Dvořak at his most
inspired, and his musical journey, despite its
momentary shadows and re-tracings, is an
untroubled one, where contentment becomes
increasingly animated and bounds to a
conclusion of high-spirited happiness.
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its main stage concert series and its community, outreach and education concerts and
other programmes.
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which will enable the orchestra to go from strength to strength and play a part in shaping
the cultural future of Auckland.
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John Harris
Geoffrey H. Haughey
Graeme & Margaret Hitch
Michael Hooper
Robert & Hilary Howard
Trevor Hudson
Neil Jenkins
Eric Johnston & Alison Buchanan
Pamela Kean
Katherine Kozel & Matt Hennessy
Liggins Family Trust
David Lovell
Caroline May
Gerda McGechan
Ken & Pat Meiklejohn
Dr Pamela Melding
Darryl & Maureen Milner
Dr Tom & Ann Morris
David & Jackie Pittman
Dame Judith Potter
Anne Pullin
John & Jessica Pybus
Nyla Rae
Carolyn Reid
Laurie & Claire Reynolds
Ronald Saunders & Nuala Grove
Geraldine Rose
Dr Sylvia Rosevear
David & Dian Ross
Stewart & Pauline Rundle
Olivia Sheehan
Barbara Spiers
Paula Stephen
Gordon & Madeline Stern
Ian Stevenson
Anne Stewart
Garrick Stuckey
Shan Su
Chris Swannell
Elizabeth Swier
Donald Trott
Belinda Vernon
James Wallace Foundation
Pauline Wetton
Lorraine Wilson
Peter Wilson
Lynette Youlden
There are a further 55 anonymous
promised bequests.
The Auckland Philharmonia Foundation gratefully acknowledges recent bequests advised
and received from the estates of M G Blumhardt, W F Ryan, Elaine Marjorie Robinson,
L A Hadfield and Denver Olde.
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AUCKLAND
PHILHARMONIA
ORCHESTRA
Chief Executive Barbara Glaser
Deputy CEO/Director of
Business Partnerships &
Marketing Stuart Angel
LEADERSHIP TEAM
Director of APO Connecting
Thomas Hamill
Director of Artistic Planning
Gale Mahood
Director of Business Services
Heather Wallace
Director of Development
Natalie Macaulay
Director of Operations
Wendy Gardiner
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
AUCKLAND
PHILHARMONIA
ORCHESTRA
BOARD & SUPPORT
ORGANISATIONS
Patrons
Dame Jenny Gibbs, DNZM
Dame Rosanne Meo, DNZM,
OBE
Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, DBE,
ONZ
Auckland Philharmonia
Orchestra Board
Chair
Geraint A. Martin
Sylvia Ding
Gordon Hill
Pare Keiha
Elizabeth Kerr
Oliver Sealy
Julian Smith
Kate Vennell
Lucy Whineray
Auckland Philharmonia
Orchestra Society
Executive Committee
Chair
Huw Dann
Secretary
Jennifer Raven
Jonathan Cohen
Ainsley Murray
Timothy Sutton
Susan Wedde
AUCKLAND
PHILHARMONIA
ORCHESTRA
FOUNDATION
Chair
Robert Clark
Trustees
Richard Ebbett
Mark Gatward
Haydn Staples
Simon Williams
Kate Vennell
Murray Lander
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AUCKLAND
PHILHARMONIA
ORCHESTRA
AUCKLAND
PHILHARMONIA
ORCHESTRA
CHAIR DONORS
The Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra sends a heartfelt thank you to the following generous
donations that contribute to our Chair Donor programme. Chair Donors enjoy a special
relationship with individual APO musicians whilst also receiving invitations to exclusive
events, as part of the APO family, throughout the year.
CRESCENDO
Crescendo is the APO’s membership
programme that provides an enriched
APO experience for concertgoers. As a
Crescendo member, you will be invited to
exclusive Crescendo events throughout
the year.
Make friends with fellow music lovers and get
closer to the orchestra. Crescendo gives you
the chance to engage and get an inner glimpse
into the workings of the orchestra.
For information about opportunities to support the orchestra please contact:
Samara Somerville-Petch samaras@apo.co.nz 027 250 4660
AUCKLAND
PHILHARMONIA
ORCHESTRA
FRIENDS
The Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra
gratefully acknowledges the more than 40
years of invaluable support of volunteers who
give substantial assistance behind the scenes
and at each performance.
President Jackie Wilkinson
Secretary Anne Norris
To join the APO Friends,
contact Bryce Bartley,
Membership Secretary:
bryce_chris@inspire.net.nz
Music is better with friends
– Join the APO Friends
The Friends of the APO are an integral part
of the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra
family. Founded in 1981, the Friends help
the orchestra in a variety of ways including
selling programmes at concerts and providing
suppers for guest artists and the orchestra.
Funds raised from Friends events, subscriptions
and raffles are donated to support the APO
Connecting programme. Membership to
the Friends is open to all. Annual dues are a
modest $35 per person and benefits include
newsletters, invitations to monthly Meet the
Artist mornings and, most of all, the satisfaction
of knowing that your contribution helps support
an essential element of Auckland’s cultural life.
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SERIOUS ABOUT YOUR COMMUNITY
Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra gratefully acknowledges the contributions
made by the following companies, trusts and organisations.
CORE FUNDERS
PLATINUM
Sir William & Lady
Manchester
Charitable Trust
TRILLIAN
TRUST
GOLD
The Douglas Goodfellow
Charitable Trust
SILVER
Deirdre & Tony Anselmi
Family Trust
Australian Communities
Foundation – Sylvia Fisher Fund
Lesley French Estate
Maurice Paykel
Charitable Trust
BRONZE
Adrian Malloch Photography
APRA AMCOS NZ
Eurovintage
Karajoz Coffee
Marshall Day Acoustics
Ministry of Education
MusicHelps
Nicholas Jermyn
NZ Premium Foods
Riverside Homestead
Scarecrow – deli, café & florist
2will Physiotherapy
& Pilates Studio
For information about business partnerships and corporate events, contact:
partnerships@apo.co.nz (09) 638 6266 ext 201
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