Beethoven's Eroica

MATINEE SYMPHONY SERIES

Thursday 9 April 2026, 10.30am & 1.30pm

Heath Ledger Theatre

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Beethoven's Eroica

Felix MENDELSSOHN A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Nocturne (6 mins)

Ludwig van BEETHOVEN Symphony No.3 Eroica (47 mins)

Allegro con brio
Marcia funebre (Adagio assai)
Scherzo (Allegro vivace)
Finale (Allegro molto)

Riccardo Minasi conductor

This concert does not contain an interval.

Did you know?

While the famous Overture to A Midsummer Night’s Dream was written when Mendelssohn was only 17 (1826), the Incidental Music, including the Nocturne, was written 16 years later (1842) at the request of King Frederick William IV of Prussia.
Mendelssohn began taking piano lessons from his mother at age 6, before making his public debut at age 9.
Originally dedicated to Napoleon Bonaparte, Beethoven famously erased Napoleon's name with such violence that he tore a hole in the manuscript, later renaming it Eroica and dedicating it to "the memory of a great man".
Eroica was so groundbreaking that it was not universally liked at first. One audience member reportedly offered to double his admission fee if the orchestra would stop playing.

WASO On Stage

VIOLIN
Laurence Jackson
Concertmaster
Riley Skevington
Associate Concertmaster
Semra Lee
Assistant Concertmaster
Zak Rowntree*
Principal 2nd Violin
Kylie Liang
Associate Principal 2nd Violin
Kate Sullivan
Assistant Principal 2nd Violin
Sarah Blackman
Stephanie Dean
Amy Furfaro
Rebecca Glorie
Beth Hebert
Emma Hunt
William Huxtable
Sunmi Jung
Ryan Lee^
Sera Lee^
Andrea Mendham
Lucas O’Brien
Melanie Pearn
Marlene Romeo^
Louise Sandercock
Jolanta Schenk^
Jane Serrangeli
Luisa Theis^
Samantha Wickramasinghe
Susannah Williams^

VIOLA
Daniel Schmitt
Alex Brogan
Kierstan Arkleysmith
Nik Babic
Alison Hall
Rachael Kirk
James Munro
Elliot O’Brien
Katherine Potter^
Helen Tuckey

CELLO
Rod McGrath
Melinda Forsythe^
Jeremy Garside
Shigeru Komatsu
Oliver McAslan
Sacha McCulloch^
Nicholas Metcalfe
Fotis Skordas

DOUBLE BASS
Andrew Sinclair*
John Keene
Robin Brawley
Christine Reitzenstein
Mark Tooby
Giovanni Vinci

FLUTE
Andrew Nicholson
Mary-Anne Blades

OBOE
Liz Chee

COR ANGLAIS
Jonathan Ryan

CLARINET
Som Howie
Catherine Cahill^

BASS CLARINET
Alexander Millier

BASSOON
Jane Kircher-Lindner
Adam Mikulicz

CONTRABASSOON
Chloe Turner

HORN
David Evans
Eve McEwen
Robert Gladstones
Principal 3rd Horn
Julia Brooke
Francesco Lo Surdo

TRUMPET
Orson Paine
Peter Miller

TIMPANI
Alex Timcke

KEY

Principal
Associate Principal
Assistant Principal
Contract Musician°
Guest Musician^

*Instruments used by these musicians are on loan from Janet Holmes à Court AC. We greatly appreciate the support of our musicians’ Duet partners, acknowledged below.

About the Artists

Riccardo Minasi
Conductor

Italian conductor Riccardo Minasi currently serves as Principal Guest Conductor of Ensemble Resonanz who are resident at Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie, and Artistic Director of Orchestra La Scintilla at the Zurich Opera House, positions he has held since 2022. His previous appointments include co-founder and conductor of Il Pomo d’Oro from 2011 to 2016, Chief Conductor of the Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra from 2017 to 2022, and Music Director of Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa from 2022 to 2025.

In the 2025/26 season, Minasi is Artist in Residence at Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie where he conducts four programmes with Ensemble Resonanz, including a concertante performance of Bellini’s I Capuleti e i Montecchi and Haydn’s The Seven Last Words of Christ. He also performs in Hamburg with Die Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen as part of his European tour with Beatrice Rana, followed by concerts in South America alongside James Ehnes.

Other highlights of the season include his first appearances with the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra, SWR Symphonieorchester, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Dresdner Philharmonie with Martin Fröst. He also leads Mahler Chamber Orchestra in Mahler’s Symphony No.3 with Marianne Crebassa in Essen, Dortmund and Köln, and two symphonic programmes with the West Australian Symphony Orchestra and Queensland Symphony Orchestra.

Following his concert with Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra last season with Bach’s St Matthew’s Passion, Minasi returns to Accademie Nazionale de Santa Cecilia to perform the same work at Easter. Additional returns include engagements with Gurzenich Orchester Cologne and Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra with Sayaka Shoji. Recent highlights include performances with Berliner Philharmoniker, Staatskapelle Dresden (ZDF Advent concert), Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra and Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra.

His ongoing collaboration with Ensemble Resonanz takes him to Beethovenfest Bonn, Kölner Philharmonie and Concertgebouw Amsterdam and their 2024 BBC Proms debut was met with critical acclaim. Minasi returned to the BBC Proms in summer 2025 with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and the new production of Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro previously staged at Glyndebourne.

Past opera performances includes Die Zauberflöte, Le nozze di Figaro and Rodelinda at the Dutch National Opera; Dialogue des Carmélites and Don Giovanni at Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía; Le nozze di Figaro and Così fan tutte for Glyndebourne Festival Opera; The Turn of the Screw, Idomeneo, Cenerentola, Beatrice di Tenda and Norma at the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa; Les Pêcheurs de Perles for Salzburger Festspiele; Così fan tutte, Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Turco in Italia and Orlando Paladino for Opernhaus Zürich; Le nozze di Figaro, Iphigenie en Tauride, Alcina and Agrippina for Hamburg State Opera and Carmen for Opéra National de Lyon.

Riccardo Minasi has a wealth of recording experience with the world’s top artists. In 2016 alone, he appeared on four Echo Klassik award-winning albums and most recently his Harmonia Mundi recordings with Ensemble Resonanz of Joseph Haydn’s The Seven Last Words of Christ on the Cross (2018), the C.P.E. Bach’s Cello Concertos (2019), and the Antonín Kraft’s Cello Concerto with Jean-Guihen Queyras (2024) were awarded the Diapason d’Or de l’Année. His last album with Ensemble Resonanz, Mozart: Haffner-Akademie, was released in April 2025.

Minasi’s performances are characterised by their musicological integrity. He has acted as a historical advisor for the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal. Minasi was curator and editor with Maurizio Biondi of the 2016 Bärenreiter critical edition of Bellini’s Norma, a piece he later performed with Ensemble Resonanz in Hamburg, Köln and at Teatro Carlo Felice, following the great success of the production at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence in 2022.

About the Music

Felix Mendelssohn
(1809–1847)

A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Nocturne

When we think of Felix Mendelssohn, we may conjure fantasies of a young man’s adventures across Europe in the 19th Century. In his Italian and Scottish symphonies, the German composer shared the awe and excitement he felt upon discovering sites and cities for the first time in his life. Here, we experience a similar enthusiasm and youthful energy in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, his incidental music underpinning Shakespeare’s comedic play.

Mendelssohn first wrote the Overture at just 17 years old. His own relative, August Wilhelm Schlegel, had made a translation of the English work of literature, and it resonated with the composer who enjoyed reading it with his sister, Fanny. More than a decade later, Mendelssohn was invited by the King of Prussia to expand on his original musical ideas, so he crafted a fuller suite of compositions to be performed alongside the play. You’d almost certainly have heard one of those pieces: the famous Wedding March.

The Nocturne is arguably one of the most elegant and understated pieces of music ever written, beginning with an ever-so tender horn solo. Winds breeze through the scene; strings supply a gentle bed of sound befitting the name (a nocturne is music inspired by night). Here, the music depicts lovers who fall asleep in an enchanted forest. By contrast, the rapid-fire Scherzo begins with bustling winds, mimicking the energy and swiftness you’d expect of dancing faeries.

Mendelssohn’s joyful incidental music captures the magic and mischief Shakespeare’s play, and was premiered in 1843.

By Stephanie Eslake, 2026.

First performance of the complete incidental music: 14 October 1843, Potsdam (Germany). Composer conducting.
Instrumentation: two each of flutes, oboes, clarinets and bassoons; two horns, two trumpets, and tuba; timpani and strings.

Glossary

Incidental music – Composed to accompany a theatrical production that is non-musical, such as a Shakespearean play. It enhances mood and atmosphere.
Overture – Usually composed to introduce a musical production and provide previews of the melodies to come, but can occasionally function as a standalone piece.
Scherzo – A speedy and lively form of music.

About the Music

Ludwig van Beethoven
(1770–1827)

Symphony No.3 in E flat, Op.55 Eroica

Allegro con brio
Marcia funebre (Adagio assai)
Scherzo (Allegro vivace)
Finale (Allegro molto)

As is the case with the First and Second, Beethoven’s composing score for the Third Symphony has disappeared. However, circumstantial evidence suggests he finished it during the Vienna winter of 1803-04, at around the same time he was working on his massive Waldstein Piano Sonata, Op.53, whose opening Allegro shares with the Third’s the added direction ‘con brio’ (with vigour). In size and scale, the Third epitomised the major advances he had made since even his recent Second Symphony, audibly obvious in the enhanced listening span he sets his audience, in his deployment of such attention-commanding themes, and in his pursuit of a more distinctive and sonorous orchestral mix. And in the summer of 1804, one of his patrons, Prince Joseph Lobkowitz, allowed him the almost unheard-of luxury of being able to trial the score while he was still revising it, in a series of private rehearsals, with an orchestra of some 27 or 28 players, in Lobkowitz’s Vienna palace. Later the Prince also paid Beethoven a hefty gratuity for the honour of having the name Lobkowitz appear as dedicatee on the title-page of the printed edition. In this respect at least, Joseph Lobkowitz was ultimately the Third’s hero.

In early 1804, however, Beethoven was still intending to dedicate it to Napoleon Bonaparte, the great political reformer and egalitarian. But when, late that year, Napoleon renounced democracy and proclaimed himself emperor of France, Beethoven reportedly flew into a rage, and correctly predicted his former idol would ‘trample on human rights, and become a tyrant’. Even in disappointment, Beethoven still wanted to call it the ‘Bonaparte Symphony’, though by the time he corrected a new fair copy to send to his publisher in 1806 he had settled on Sinfonia Eroica (Heroic), with the regretful subtitle: ‘to the memory of a great man’.

In November 1805, Napoleon’s army had marched into Vienna largely uncontested, but unwelcome enough to make locals stay away from the premiere season of the first version of Beethoven’s opera Fidelio, leaving mainly French officers to make up his small audience. During Napoleon’s second occupation of the city in 1809, the noise of bombardment so affected the hearing-impaired Beethoven that he retreated to a basement to protect his ears. Before the Battle of Waterloo brought the warlord’s reign of terror to an end in 1815, Beethoven celebrated the Napoleonic armies’ defeat in Spain in 1813 with his short ‘battle symphony’, Wellington’s Victory, and organised the patriotic concert at which it and his Seventh Symphony were premiered to raise funds for Austrian soldiers wounded expelling the French from Germany. But time again altered his perceptions; Beethoven later told Carl Czerny, ‘I used to detest Napoleon, now I think quite differently.’ And on hearing of Napoleon’s death in 1821, Beethoven remarked he had already composed the music for the ‘sad event’ in this symphony’s Funeral March.

According to his self-appointed secretary Anton Schindler, Beethoven intended the Symphony No.3 ‘to portray the workings of Napoleon’s extraordinary mind’. In the opening Allegro, the titanic main theme has been interpreted as representing ‘Napoleon’s determined, questing character’. In the funeral march, though the shadow of Death temporarily encompasses him, in the midst of mourning a new major-key theme signifies a rising star of hope, before the music returns to the graveside, muffled drumrolls, and a farewell volley faintly echoed. In stark contrast, the motoric Scherzo overflows with an abundance of energy. The finale consists of a simple country dance tune with variations that build strategically in intensity and complexity toward a blazing orchestral rout that – forget Napoleon – no one but Beethoven could have imagined!

First performance: 7 April 1805, Vienna. Beethoven, conductor.
First WASO performance: 23 July 1949. Henry Krips, conductor.
Most recent WASO performance: 5-6 July 2024. Asher Fisch, conductor.
Instrumentation: two flutes, two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, three horns, two trumpets, timpani and strings.

Glossary

Scherzo – literally, a joke; a movement in a fast triple time which may involve playful elements and which, as the second or third movement in a symphony, replaced the minuet and trio.
Variation – a version of a theme which has been altered in some way, by changing elements such as the rhythm, the harmony, the melody and/or the accompaniment. In variation form each section of the piece is a variation of the theme.

About WASO

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From the centre of Perth to the furthest corners of the state, we have provided the soundtrack to life in WA since 1928.

As the State Orchestra, Perth’s first and finest, WASO is the largest employer of performing artists in Western Australia and reaches two million people with musical experiences each year on stage, in our community, and online.

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WASO in the Community

Music For The Ages

From the jaunty La traviata Brindisi to the gentle unfurling notes of Air on the G String, WASO has been delighting seniors around Perth with a broad range repertoire as our aged care concerts take flight for 2026. Two string quartets have been out on the road visiting seniors groups, aged care, and retirement living centres across the city.

Highlights from this season include a visit to an aged care site that accommodates homeless people aged 65+, whose coordinator said “I found the sounds of the instruments really emotional – which could have something to do with our facility housing homeless and mental health residents being stressful and I felt the music wash this away. We have residents with depression who find it difficult to get out of bed and they came to the concert and stayed for the whole performance.”

WASO musicians also got toes tapping with a visit to the music club at Selby Lodge – a mental health facility that provides services for older adults who had “not stopped raving about the performance” since WASO visited in late February.

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Today’s performance is the result of an extraordinary collaboration: musicians, conductors, guest artists, staff, volunteers and you, the audience.

Underpinning this shared experience is the generosity of WASO’s giving community who donate through our Annual Giving program, one of the most important pillars supporting your Orchestra’s work.

WASO’s Annual Giving program plays an essential role in sustaining your Orchestra. The support of donors enables WASO to present inspiring concerts, engage outstanding artists, and bring symphonic music to audiences across Western Australia.

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Thank you.

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Peter Wreford
Nancy York
Andrew & Marie Yuncken
Unnamed (50)

Tutti Circle
$500+
Catherine Bagster
Bernard & Jackie Barnwell
Michael & Nadia Berkeley-Hill
Dr Caroline Bird & Dr Jim Rhoads
John & Sue Bird in memory of Penny Bird
Davilia Bleckly
E & G Bourgault in memory of Betty Sagar
Sue Boyd
Ann Butcher & Dean R Kubank
Jennifer Butement in memory of Margaret Butement
Michelle Candy
R & R Cant
Jill Clarke
Ian Collins
John Collins
Annette Cottee
Pru Cowan
Carole & John Cox
Ann Darby
Adrian De Graaf
Hanneke & Jop Delfos
Stephen Dennis & Daniel Parker
Tania Dworsky & Charles Sutcliffe
The Hon. Richard Philip Eaton
Mary Ellen in memory of Kerensa
Gregory Fitzpatrick
Sue & David Forster
Margaret Fowler
John & Margaret Freeman
Eléonore Fuchter & Lothar Konle
Marion Funke
Jennifer & Stephen Gardiner
Neville & Jane Gibbs
Andrea Gillett
George Grainger
Allan & Jane Green
Gwenyth Greenwood
Rosemary Grigg & Peter Flanigan
Kat & Jeff Haisma
Max Hansen
P.M. Harris
Alan Harvey & Dr Paulien de Boer
David & Deborah Hayes
Elizabeth & Eric Heenan KC
Siew-Mung Ho
Judith & John Huppatz
Drs Paul & Janis Jansz
John Jarvis
Cynthia Jee
Lynn & Michael Jensen
Michael & Josephine Jones
Dr Ursula Kees
Bob Kelliher
B M Kent
Nelly Kleyn
Francis Landels
Dr Warren Lilleyman
David Lun
Stuart Macklin & Peter Lyle
Robyn Main
David Marmont
Pam Mathews & Dr Mark Brogan
Terence Middleton
Patricia & Kevin Morgan
Dr & Mrs Peter Moss
Margaret & Bruce Murdoch
Phuong N T Nguyen
Matthew Pearce & Kim Denham
Jennifer Rankin
Rosie Reeman
Geraldine Roxburg
Chris & Serge Rtshiladze
Jane & Steve Sherwood
Helen Shilkin-Reinhold
Jan Sillence
Hendrik Smit
John & Elizabeth Spoor
Ian & Di Taylor
Gavin Toovey
Judith & Rod Tudball
Heather & Jim Tunmore
Robyn & Loren White
Deborah Wiseman
Alison Woodman
Andrew Yeates
Dr Susan Young
Mr Chris & Mrs Kathy Ziatas
Unnamed (40)

Friends Circle
$40+
593 Members

The Instrument Fund
John Albright & Susan Lorimer – Education Double Bass and set of Trumpets
Dr Glenda Campbell-Evans & Dr Ken Evans AM – Tenor Trombone
Peter Ingram – Piccolo
Deborah Marsh – Conductor’s Podium and Cor Anglais
Margaret & Rod Marston – Bass Clarinet
Peggy & Tom Stacy – Cor Anglais and Piccolo
Jean & Peter Stokes – Cello, Tuba, Tenor Trombone, Bass Trombone, Wooden Trumpet, French Horn and Music Score Folders

Legacy
Major Gifts
Tom & Jean Arkley
Bendat Family Foundation
Gavin Bunning Family
Janet Holmes à Court AC
Rod & Margaret Marston
Minderoo Foundation
Rosalin Sadler
In memory of Bob Tonkinson
In memory of Francis Edward Yeomans
Sagitte Yom-Tov Fund

Estates
Lee Bickford
Rachel Mabel Chapman
S & J Dale
Sandra Gray
Liz Harrison
Malcolm Hood
Clive Knight
Paul Lee
Wolfgang Lehmkuhl
Tony & Gillian Milne
William Muston
Patricia New
Anna Nottage in memory of Edgar Nottage
Claude & Noreen Riordan
Colleen Rintoul
Wendy Scanlon
Judy Sienkiewicz
Roslyn Warrick
Unnamed (8)

The Symphony Circle
Julian Agafonoff & David Escott
Kevin 'Joe' Blake
Davilia Bleckly
Jon Bonny
Dr G Campbell-Evans
Deirdre Carlin
Phillip & Frances Chadwick
Fleur Challen
Dr Anne Chester
Anita & James Clayton
Lesley & Peter Davies
Dr Michael Flacks
John Foster
Judith Gedero
Robyn Glindemann
Gwenyth Greenwood
The Guy Family
Angus Holmes
J.A.M
Roger Jennings in memory of Lilian Jennings
Emy & Warren Jones
Barbara Joseph
Colin & Jo King
Rachael Kirk & Tim White
Jaehan Lee
Stewart Lloyd
Dr Mary Ellen MacDonald
Anne & William MacLeod
Deborah Marsh
Lesley & Murray McKay
Suzanne Nash
Paul Nendick
Paula Phillips
Wayne Robinson
Jan & Bryan Rodgers
Nigel & Dr Heather Rogers
Rosalin Sadler in memory of Joyce Durbin Sadler
Peta Saunders
Jacinta Sirr-Williams
Ross & Laurel Smith
Susan Stitt
Ruth Stratton
Ruth E. & Neville Thorn
Gavin Toovey
George Van Beek
Agatha van der Schaaf
Sheila Wileman
Sagitte Yom-Tov Fund
Unnamed (55)

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