Name: Colours
Start: 2023-07-22T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2023-07-22T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Michael Fowler Centre

Artist

Admin

Pianist

Jian Liu

Piano

Tenor

Oliver Sewell

Baritone

Hadleigh Adams

Bariton

Orchestra

Orchestra Wellington

Gregorio Chávez Coutiño

Colours

Wellington

New Zealand

Michael Fowler Centre

Colours: Burleske, TrV 145 Strauss,R (+1 More)

Public

Private

Concert

Burleske, TrV 145

5 Pieces for Orchestra op.16 IAS 26

The Song of the Earth

Approved

Bass

Instrumentalist

Violinist

Cellist

Violist

Flutist

Clarinetist

Guitarist

Organist

Percussionist

Oboist

hornist

Bassoonist

Trumpeter

Contrabassist

Harper

Saxophonist

Trombonist

Harpsichordist

Accordionist

Bassist

Tuba Player

Recorder Player

Lutenist

Tenor Violinist

Timpani

Mandoline Player

Baroque Flutist

Baroque Oboist

Baroque Trumpetist

Violino Piccolo Player

Viola da gamba

Musette de cour Player

Viola Pomposa Player

Archlutenist

Vibraphonist

Cornettist

Viola d’amore Player

Theorbist

Composer

Conductor

Stage director

Librettist

Set designer

Costume designer

Choreographer

Lighting designer

Dancer

Actor

Chorus master

Video designer

Dramaturge

Translator

Sound designer

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Makeup artist

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Other

Stage Manager

Choir

Poet

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Teacher

Photographer

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Writing and performance

Chorus Director

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Orchestra Operations

Illustrator

Extra

Singer

Mezzo-soprano

Contralto

Countertenor

Soprano

Bass-baritone

Spoken

Child vocalist

Silent

Alto

Continuo

Richard Strauss (1864–1949)

Burleske

Jian Liu – piano

Strauss’s precocious talent is manifest in this strongly Romantic 1886 work, written when he was twenty. The solo part is fearsomely virtuosic and the entire work sparkles with the confidence of youth. Strauss’ orchestration is inventive and assured in this witty piece that tosses themes between soloist and orchestra with ease.

Arnold Schoenberg (1874–1951)

5 Pieces for Orchestra Op. 16

In 1909, as he composed these pieces that Strauss had requested, Schoenberg told him, “They are short orchestra pieces (between one and three minutes long), not cyclically related… However, I am expecting colossal things of them, sound and mood especially. That is all they are about: absolutely not symphonic – precisely the opposite – no architecture, no structure. Merely a bright, uninterrupted interchange of colours, rhythms and moods.”

Gustav Mahler (1860–1911)

Das Lied von der Erde

Oliver Sewell – tenor

Hadleigh Adams – baritone

In 1907, Hans Bethge published a volume of his German translations of Chinese poetry. A year later, Mahler used seven of these poems to create this mighty song cycle or voice-led symphony that encapsulates his enduring concerns: nature and mortality. Its six movements traverse strange and beautiful inner visions. The first, Drinking Song of the Earth’s Misery, is perhaps the strangest, reeling giddily between drama and solace, from brassy alarm calls to delicate woodwind trills or caressing vocal phrases. The second song, Autumn Loneliness, is like a slow movement; it is filled with Mahler’s trademark melancholy yearning. The three shortest movements, Youth, Beauty, and The Drunkard in Spring, are three poetic snapshots revelling in life, and function as a symphony’s scherzo. The final movement, the Farewell, is a slow journey that dissolves magically into ineffable peace:

My heart is still and awaits its hour.

The beloved earth everywhere blossoms and greens in springtime

Anew. Everywhere and forever the distances

brighten blue!

Forever… forever...

English

Colours by Strauss, Schoenberg, Arnold, Mahler, Fra (2023/2023), Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington, New Zealand

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