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philharmonia baroque by jeff hudSon Over the past three decades, Philharmonia Baroque has issued quite a few albums under conductor Nicholas McGegan—and pianist Emanuel Ax has released even more recordings, featuring both orchestral and chamber works, going back into the 1970s. Here are a few highlights from recent years and decades past: —Philharmonia Baroque launched its own label a few years ago, and earlier this year it issued a two-disc album featuring the rarely encountered Handel opera Atalanta, written in 1736 (to celebrate the marriage of Prince of Wales) and premiered in Covent Garden. —Last year, Philharmonia’s label also issued one of the most popular and frequently recorded works in the Baroque repertoire: Vivaldi’s Four Seasons. The soloist was Philharmonia’s concertmaster Elizabeth Blumenstock (who’s appeared in Davis many times with the American Bach Soloists). There are three other Vivaldi concertos on the album as well. —Last year, Philharmonia Baroque also issued (for the first time) some historic recordings with the late mezzo Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, dating from the 1990s. She sings arias by Handel, as well as Nuits d’Ete by Hector Berlioz. Davis audiences will recall that Lorraine Hunt Lieberson sang in Jackson Hall during the opening week of concerts at the Mondavi Center in October 2002. She died, age 52, in 2006. —Emanuel Ax has released multiple albums over the decades with cellist Yo-Yo Ma, covering sonatas by Beethoven, Brahms, Rachmaninoff, Prokofiev and others—well worth looking up. Then in 2010, Ax and Ma partnered for the first time with Itzhak Perlman for an album featuring the two Mendelssohn piano trios. PPt pre-performance Talk moderator: don roth, ph.d. Don Roth is the executive director of the Robert and Margrit Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts, UC Davis. A native of New York City, Roth joined the Mondavi Center in June 2006, arriving from the Aspen Music Festival and School, where he served as president from 2001–06. His tenure at the Mondavi Center has seen the initiation of new artistic and educational partnerships with the San Francisco Symphony and the Curtis Institute; the development of residencies by world-renowned companies such as Shakespeare’s Globe and the St. Louis Symphony; the launching of a program to increase interest in Classical Music funded by a major Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant; and the beginnings of the popular “Just Added” events. Previously Roth served as president of the St. Louis Symphony and of the Oregon Symphony and as general manager of the San Francisco Symphony. 22 | Mondavi Center Presents Program issue 3: nov 2012 fUrther lIstenIng —Tonight’s concert features Ax on a historic fortepiano—the sort of keyboard that existed when Beethoven wrote the Concerto No. 4 in 1805–6. In the 1990s, Ax also recorded the two Chopin piano concertos on an 1851 Erard keyboard—the kind of instrument that Chopin played—under the baton of Sir Charles Mackerras with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. And if you’re looking for Ax performing these works on a modern piano, he recorded the Beethoven concertos with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra under Andre Previn and Chopin concertos with the Philadelphia Orchestra under Eugene Ormandy. —Ax also has an interest in newer music, and in March of this year he performed Morton Feldman’s Piano and Orchestra— an unconventional 1975 piece that the composer described as one of his “still-life titles”—at Carnegie Hall with the San Francisco Symphony under Michael Tilson Thomas. No word thus far whether a recording of that performance will be issued. —Ax has a new recital album scheduled for release sometime around the time of this concert. It will feature music by Josef Haydn, Robert Schumann (whose music Ax played when he visited Mondavi in 2010) and Aaron Copland, organized around the concept of theme-and-variations. Jeff Hudson contributes coverage of the performing arts to Capital Public Radio, the Davis Enterprise and Sacramento News and Review. Currently, Roth serves as the co-chair of Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson’s regional arts initiative, “For Arts’ Sake.” Roth is also an overseer of the Curtis Institute of Music and a member of the Directors Council (emeritus Board) of the League of American Orchestras. He has chaired numerous panels for the National Endowment for the Arts and chaired the Orchestra League’s Management Fellowship Program. Roth has served as a member of the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors of the Sacramento Philharmonic. Roth holds a doctorate from the University of Texas with a specialty in African- American History. He has written about popular music for Rolling Stone and Texas Monthly.
Photo by Randi Beach A Western Health Advantage Orchestra Series Event Wednesday, November 7, 2012 • 8PM Jackson Hall, Mondavi Center, UC Davis Sponsored by Individual support provided by Shipley and Dick Walters. pre-performance Talk Wednesday, November 7, 2012 • 7PM Jackson Hall, Mondavi Center, UC Davis Speaker: Nicholas McGegan in conversation with Don Roth, Executive Director, Mondavi Center, UC Davis. philharmonia baroque orcheSTra Photo by Randi Beach nicholas mcGegan, music director and conductor emanuel ax, fortepiano ProgrAm Concerto No. 4 for Fortepiano and Orchestra in G Major, Op. 58 Beethoven Allegro moderato Andante con moto Rondo: Vivace Emanuel Ax, fortepiano Intermission Twelve Contredanses for Orchestra, WoO 14 Symphony No. 4 in B-flat Major, Op. 60 Adagio – Allegro vivace Adagio Menuetto: Allegro vivace – Trio: Un poco meno allegro Allegro ma non troppo Program is subject to change. The artists and your fellow audience members appreciate silence during the performance. Please be sure that you have switched off all electronic devices. Videotaping, photographing and audio recording are strictly forbidden. Violators are subject to removal. Photo by Harald Haugan MondaviArts.org | 23
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