To open the bill, Wagner’s original Tannhauser overture rang out in grave sonorous horns, mournful and majestic, with viola and cello answering in funereal mode lifting in violins then woodwind before horns redoubled the strain over cascading strings. Camera Icon Pietari Inkinen conducts WA Symphony Orchestra at Perth Concert Hall on Friday. “Our home in harmony” came around again with a touch of musical theatre in a voice-trumpet combination, and a tender farewell in the last stanza: “It is you who must remain and I alone, depart.”Īs applause and cheers flowed, Inkinen, the disappearing director, deferred all ovations to the soloists and composer a wholesome trinity of harmony and grace. Share Wisdom, inspired by words inscribed on the bench, brought more meditation in voice over rippling harp and sustaining strings rising then falling to a peaceful conclusion.įinally, Thank You for the Memories led in a jaunty rhythm across the orchestra and a folkloric motif matched in balladic voice with hints of the opening sea shanty and the mechanical music of travel. A solemn “Ave” in mezzo was echoed in cor anglais, the orchestra quickening as the singers invoked divinity in “Maria”, inspiration of ages the mood cooling to a complex chordal close and a final bell. Strings chimed in as voices sailed over the top, playful and uplifting, the composer channelling nature as soundtrack to a life lived in harmony.Īve Maria, the title song, opened in stern bass and brass chords. Gentle rhythm in harp, glockenspiel and piano painted a riverine scene inspired by Mary’s memorial bench in Nedlands. The composer also said she had conceived A Life Travelled and the next piece, Bird on the Bench, without voice: “But I have gold,” she said, referring to the soloists, “so I use gold.” Credit: Adrian ThomsonĪ Life Travelled was another biographical note frantic energy in tuned percussion and strings joined by brass in a halting yet compelling rhythm, opening another vista into which Macliver and Campbell sang a song without words.Ī towering trumpet motif answered before a return to calming ambience and a sudden close: Kats-Chernin mentioned a railway in her brief synopsis, and it hit the buffers firmly. Camera Icon Soprano Sara Macliver and mezzo Fiona Campbell sing the world premiere of Ave Maria, with conductor Pietari Inkinen and WA Symphony Orchestra at Perth Concert Hall on Friday. ”Ĭommissioned by Dr Paul Rodoreda in memory of his mother, Mary, the song celebrated her origins in the coastal NSW town. Each echoed the other as they sang a round, sea shanty-style, over an undulating ensemble a panoramic sweep in voice and orchestra tolling out over fateful bells and the refrain: “Ballina, Ballina.
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