Zurich International Concert Series 2010-11

Cadogan Hall Zurich International Concert Series 2010-11 PRESENTS

I N A S S O C I AT I O N W I T H I M G A RT I S T S

Cadogan Hall Zurich International Concert Series 2010-11 PRESENTS

I N A S S O C I AT I O N W I T H I M G A RT I S T S

2010

Now in its fourth year, Cadogan Hall’s International Concert Series, sponsored

by Zurich, presents six world-class touring orchestras with exceptional soloists.

Thursd ay 2 5 N ove mbe r Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra Schubert / Mozart / Beethoven

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Presented in an intimate environment with fine acoustics, these concerts are always a powerful and memorable experience and this season we welcome many great artists from around the world including Freddy Kempf, the Vienna Tonkünstler Orchestra, Antony Pappano, Joshua Bell, Orchestre National d’Ile de France and singers from the Bolshoi Opera.

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Thursd ay 1 0 Fe bruary Vienna Tonkünstler Orchestra Mozart / Beethoven / Brahms

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Sun d ay 27 Fe bruary Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden Mahler / Wagner

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Frid ay 4 M arc h Academy of St Martin in the Fields Haydn / Mendelssohn / Brahms

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Mo n d ay 7 M arc h Orchestre National d’île de France Debussy / Rachmaninov / Saint Saëns

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Thursd ay 1 2 M ay Bolshoi Symphony Orchestra All Tchaikovsky programme

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Cadogan Hall Zurich International Concert Series 2010-11 PRESENTS

I N A S S O C I AT I O N W I T H I M G A RT I S T S

2010

Now in its fourth year, Cadogan Hall’s International Concert Series, sponsored

by Zurich, presents six world-class touring orchestras with exceptional soloists.

Thursd ay 2 5 N ove mbe r Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra Schubert / Mozart / Beethoven

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2011

Presented in an intimate environment with fine acoustics, these concerts are always a powerful and memorable experience and this season we welcome many great artists from around the world including Freddy Kempf, the Vienna Tonkünstler Orchestra, Antony Pappano, Joshua Bell, Orchestre National d’Ile de France and singers from the Bolshoi Opera.

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Thursd ay 1 0 Fe bruary Vienna Tonkünstler Orchestra Mozart / Beethoven / Brahms

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Sun d ay 27 Fe bruary Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden Mahler / Wagner

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Frid ay 4 M arc h Academy of St Martin in the Fields Haydn / Mendelssohn / Brahms

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Mo n d ay 7 M arc h Orchestre National d’île de France Debussy / Rachmaninov / Saint Saëns

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Thursd ay 1 2 M ay Bolshoi Symphony Orchestra All Tchaikovsky programme

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Thursday 25 November 2010, 7.30PM Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra P rogramme

Schubert Mozart Beethoven

S y mphon y N o . 8 ‘ U nfinished ’

P iano C oncerto N o . 2 3 in A major , K . 4 8 8 S y mphon y N o . 6 ‘ P astora l’

The remarkable pianist Freddy Kempf is one of today’s most successful young artists. He returns to Cadogan Hall to play Mozart’s lyrical Piano Concerto No.23, with the Mozarteum Orchestra from Salzburg, Mozart’s native city.

Written just five years before the composer died, the work features one of Mozart’s most poignantly beautiful slow movements. The programme opens with Schubert’s great ‘Unfinished’ Symphony, one of the composer’s mightiest works, featuring brilliant melodies, triumphant harmonies and soaring orchestral passages, and ends with Beethoven’s evocative ‘Pastoral’ Symphony, which celebrates the composer’s love of the countryside, with vividly descriptive passages imitating bird song and the sounds of a violent thunderstorm.

Ivor Bolton Freddy Kempf

C onductor

£9, £32, £6, £8 E ncore members pa y £28 for T O P two prices S eries discounts Up to 30% off ticket prices see booking information on back cover T ickets

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Freddy Kempf Image by Neda Nevaee

P iano

Photo: Christian Schneider

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Thursday 25 November 2010, 7.30PM Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra P rogramme

Schubert Mozart Beethoven

S y mphon y N o . 8 ‘ U nfinished ’

P iano C oncerto N o . 2 3 in A major , K . 4 8 8 S y mphon y N o . 6 ‘ P astora l’

The remarkable pianist Freddy Kempf is one of today’s most successful young artists. He returns to Cadogan Hall to play Mozart’s lyrical Piano Concerto No.23, with the Mozarteum Orchestra from Salzburg, Mozart’s native city.

Written just five years before the composer died, the work features one of Mozart’s most poignantly beautiful slow movements. The programme opens with Schubert’s great ‘Unfinished’ Symphony, one of the composer’s mightiest works, featuring brilliant melodies, triumphant harmonies and soaring orchestral passages, and ends with Beethoven’s evocative ‘Pastoral’ Symphony, which celebrates the composer’s love of the countryside, with vividly descriptive passages imitating bird song and the sounds of a violent thunderstorm.

Ivor Bolton Freddy Kempf

C onductor

£9, £32, £6, £8 E ncore members pa y £28 for T O P two prices S eries discounts Up to 30% off ticket prices see booking information on back cover T ickets

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Freddy Kempf Image by Neda Nevaee

P iano

Photo: Christian Schneider

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Thursday 10 February 2011, 7.30PM Vienna Tonkünstler Orchestra P rogramme

Mozart Beethoven Brahms

O verture to M arriage of F igaro P iano C oncerto N o . 5 ' E mperor '

S y mphon y N o . 2

A trio of uplifting works by Mozart, Beethoven and Brahms. The programme opens with Mozart’s sparkling Overture to The Marriage of Figaro, before talented young pianist Natasha Paremski joins the Vienna Tonkünstler Orchestra to perform Beethoven’s explosive Fifth Piano Concerto, a work that shows the composer at his boldest and most innovative. Although not Beethoven’s name, the work’s nickname ‘Emperor’ aptly evokes the music’s impressive scale and majesty, from the march-like theme in the first movement, to the gently lyrical second movement and triumphant finale. Brahms’ Second Symphony was nicknamed the ‘Pastoral’, mirroring Beethoven’s work of the same name, and moves from a lush, rural idyll to a fiery, dramatic finale.

Andrés Orozco-Estrada Natasha Paremski

C onductor S o l oist

£9, £32, £6, £8 £28 for T O P two prices S eries discounts Up to 30% off ticket prices see booking information on back cover T ickets

Image by Peter Rigaud

P iano

E ncore members pa y

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Thursday 10 February 2011, 7.30PM Vienna Tonkünstler Orchestra P rogramme

Mozart Beethoven Brahms

O verture to M arriage of F igaro P iano C oncerto N o . 5 ' E mperor '

S y mphon y N o . 2

A trio of uplifting works by Mozart, Beethoven and Brahms. The programme opens with Mozart’s sparkling Overture to The Marriage of Figaro, before talented young pianist Natasha Paremski joins the Vienna Tonkünstler Orchestra to perform Beethoven’s explosive Fifth Piano Concerto, a work that shows the composer at his boldest and most innovative. Although not Beethoven’s name, the work’s nickname ‘Emperor’ aptly evokes the music’s impressive scale and majesty, from the march-like theme in the first movement, to the gently lyrical second movement and triumphant finale. Brahms’ Second Symphony was nicknamed the ‘Pastoral’, mirroring Beethoven’s work of the same name, and moves from a lush, rural idyll to a fiery, dramatic finale.

Andrés Orozco-Estrada Natasha Paremski

C onductor S o l oist

£9, £32, £6, £8 £28 for T O P two prices S eries discounts Up to 30% off ticket prices see booking information on back cover T ickets

Image by Peter Rigaud

P iano

E ncore members pa y

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Antonio Pappano Image by Laurie Lewis

Sunday 27 February 2011, 7PM Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden P rogramme

Mahler Wagner Mahler

P iano Q uartet movement in a minor S iegfried I d y l l D as Lied von der E rde ( chamber version , arranged

S choenberg , arrangements comp l eted b y R ainer R iehn )

Gustav Mahler is generally known for his large-scale symphonies, as his Piano Quartet Movement is the only example of his chamber music that survives, written at the tender age of 16. The composer only completed the one movement, which features three contrasting themes, full of opulently tender romantic ideas. Similarly, Wagner’s symphonic poem, Siegfried Idyll - written as a birthday gift for his wife - is a surprisingly intimate work, with the richly colourful music radiating expressions of triumphant love and affection. The programme ends with Mahler’s ‘Songs of the Earth’, originally a set of songs with orchestra, but later arranged for chamber orchestra by Schoenberg. The work is typical of Mahler’s expressive, musical language, full of rich colours and evocative textures.

Antonio Pappano Thomas Hampson Klaus Florian Vogt

C onductor / piano S o l oist S o l oist

baritone tenor

£9, £32, £6, £8 £28 for T O P two prices S eries discounts Up to 30% off ticket prices see booking information on back cover T ickets

E ncore members pa y

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Antonio Pappano Image by Laurie Lewis

Sunday 27 February 2011, 7PM Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden P rogramme

Mahler Wagner Mahler

P iano Q uartet movement in a minor S iegfried I d y l l D as Lied von der E rde ( chamber version , arranged

S choenberg , arrangements comp l eted b y R ainer R iehn )

Gustav Mahler is generally known for his large-scale symphonies, as his Piano Quartet Movement is the only example of his chamber music that survives, written at the tender age of 16. The composer only completed the one movement, which features three contrasting themes, full of opulently tender romantic ideas. Similarly, Wagner’s symphonic poem, Siegfried Idyll - written as a birthday gift for his wife - is a surprisingly intimate work, with the richly colourful music radiating expressions of triumphant love and affection. The programme ends with Mahler’s ‘Songs of the Earth’, originally a set of songs with orchestra, but later arranged for chamber orchestra by Schoenberg. The work is typical of Mahler’s expressive, musical language, full of rich colours and evocative textures.

Antonio Pappano Thomas Hampson Klaus Florian Vogt

C onductor / piano S o l oist S o l oist

baritone tenor

£9, £32, £6, £8 £28 for T O P two prices S eries discounts Up to 30% off ticket prices see booking information on back cover T ickets

E ncore members pa y

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Friday 4 March 2011, 7.30PM Academy of St Martin in the Fields P rogramme

Haydn Mendelssohn Brahms

S y mphon y no . 1 3 in D major I ta l ian S y mphon y N o . 4

C oncerto for V io l in and C e l l o

One of the world’s leading chamber orchestras, the Academy of St Martin in the Fields is joined by three of today’s leading classical musicians to perform an exhilarating programme. Acclaimed worldwide for his purity of musicianship and expressive sensitivity, cellist Steven Isserlis joins his regular chamber music partner, American violinist Joshua Bell, to perform Brahms’ Concerto for Violin and Cello – the composer’s last work for orchestra. Both solo instruments play truly virtuosic parts throughout, accompanied by rich orchestral harmonies. The programme includes Haydn’s sunny Symphony No.13 - featuring long, extended solo cello passages in the second movement - and Mendelssohn’s optimistic, cheerful ‘Italian’ Symphony. directors / C onductors

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Joshua Bell Image by Marc Hom

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Steven Isserlis Ian Brown Joshua Bell

Joshua Bell Steven Isserlis

VIOLIN ce l l o

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Friday 4 March 2011, 7.30PM Academy of St Martin in the Fields P rogramme

Haydn Mendelssohn Brahms

S y mphon y no . 1 3 in D major I ta l ian S y mphon y N o . 4

C oncerto for V io l in and C e l l o

One of the world’s leading chamber orchestras, the Academy of St Martin in the Fields is joined by three of today’s leading classical musicians to perform an exhilarating programme. Acclaimed worldwide for his purity of musicianship and expressive sensitivity, cellist Steven Isserlis joins his regular chamber music partner, American violinist Joshua Bell, to perform Brahms’ Concerto for Violin and Cello – the composer’s last work for orchestra. Both solo instruments play truly virtuosic parts throughout, accompanied by rich orchestral harmonies. The programme includes Haydn’s sunny Symphony No.13 - featuring long, extended solo cello passages in the second movement - and Mendelssohn’s optimistic, cheerful ‘Italian’ Symphony. directors / C onductors

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Joshua Bell Image by Marc Hom

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Steven Isserlis Ian Brown Joshua Bell

Joshua Bell Steven Isserlis

VIOLIN ce l l o

£9, £32, £6, £8 £28 for T O P two prices S eries discounts Up to 30% off ticket prices see booking information on back cover T ickets

E ncore members pa y

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Monday 7 March 2011, 7.30PM Orchestre National d’Ile de France P rogramme

Debussy Rachmaninov Saint Saëns

P re l ude a l’ apres midi d ’ un faune P iano C oncerto N o . 3

S y mphon y N o . 3 ( O rgan S y mphon y )

Russian pianist Anna Vinnitskaya makes her debut performance at Cadogan Hall performing one of the most difficult concertos in the repertoire, Rachmaninov’s Third Piano Concerto, which requires both phenomenal technique and exceptional lyricism. The work’s three movements include thunderous climaxes, heavily romantic themes and extended firework displays of extreme virtuosity. In contrast, Debussy’s gentle Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune is an early masterpiece of musical impressionism, shimmering with evocative colours and sounds. The programme ends with Saint-Saen’s Symphony No.3, featuring virtuoso piano passages, brilliant orchestral writing and prominent sections for a pipe organ.

Yoel Levy Anna Vinnitskaya

C onductor

P iano

£9, £32, £6, £8 £28 for T O P two prices S eries discounts Up to 30% off ticket prices see booking information on back cover T ickets

E ncore members pa y

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Anna Vinnitskaya Image by Gela Megrelidze

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Monday 7 March 2011, 7.30PM Orchestre National d’Ile de France P rogramme

Debussy Rachmaninov Saint Saëns

P re l ude a l’ apres midi d ’ un faune P iano C oncerto N o . 3

S y mphon y N o . 3 ( O rgan S y mphon y )

Russian pianist Anna Vinnitskaya makes her debut performance at Cadogan Hall performing one of the most difficult concertos in the repertoire, Rachmaninov’s Third Piano Concerto, which requires both phenomenal technique and exceptional lyricism. The work’s three movements include thunderous climaxes, heavily romantic themes and extended firework displays of extreme virtuosity. In contrast, Debussy’s gentle Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune is an early masterpiece of musical impressionism, shimmering with evocative colours and sounds. The programme ends with Saint-Saen’s Symphony No.3, featuring virtuoso piano passages, brilliant orchestral writing and prominent sections for a pipe organ.

Yoel Levy Anna Vinnitskaya

C onductor

P iano

£9, £32, £6, £8 £28 for T O P two prices S eries discounts Up to 30% off ticket prices see booking information on back cover T ickets

E ncore members pa y

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Anna Vinnitskaya Image by Gela Megrelidze

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Thursday 12 May 2011, 7.30PM Bolshoi Symphony Orchestra P rogramme

Tchaikovsky

E x tracts from E ugene O negin :

po l onaise , T atiana ’ s Letter S cene , O negin ’ s A ria , F ina l D uet

Tchaikovsky

M usic from T he N utcracker ( M ravinsk y ) :

A ct I ( N o . 6 to the end of act ) A ct I I ( N o . 1 4 P as de D eu x to the end of act )

One of the world’s largest symphony orchestras, the Bolshoi Symphony Orchestra is the oldest orchestra in Russia, founded in 1776. Under conductor Alexander Lazarev – former Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of the Bolshoi Opera – the orchestra is joined by principal singers from Bolshoi Opera to perform music by one of Russia’s greatest composers: Tchaikovsky.

Tchaikovsky’s opera Eugene Onegin is built around the famous ‘Letter Scene’, as the composer wrote the music for this scene first. The opera remains one of his most popular works. Similarly, The Nutcracker has become perhaps the most popular of all ballets, first performed in 1892 at the Imperial Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg.

Alexander Lazarev Bolshoi Opera

C onductor S o l oist S

P rincipa l singers

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Thursday 12 May 2011, 7.30PM Bolshoi Symphony Orchestra P rogramme

Tchaikovsky

E x tracts from E ugene O negin :

po l onaise , T atiana ’ s Letter S cene , O negin ’ s A ria , F ina l D uet

Tchaikovsky

M usic from T he N utcracker ( M ravinsk y ) :

A ct I ( N o . 6 to the end of act ) A ct I I ( N o . 1 4 P as de D eu x to the end of act )

One of the world’s largest symphony orchestras, the Bolshoi Symphony Orchestra is the oldest orchestra in Russia, founded in 1776. Under conductor Alexander Lazarev – former Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of the Bolshoi Opera – the orchestra is joined by principal singers from Bolshoi Opera to perform music by one of Russia’s greatest composers: Tchaikovsky.

Tchaikovsky’s opera Eugene Onegin is built around the famous ‘Letter Scene’, as the composer wrote the music for this scene first. The opera remains one of his most popular works. Similarly, The Nutcracker has become perhaps the most popular of all ballets, first performed in 1892 at the Imperial Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg.

Alexander Lazarev Bolshoi Opera

C onductor S o l oist S

P rincipa l singers

£9, £32, £6, £8 £28 for T O P two prices S eries discounts Up to 30% off ticket prices see booking information on back cover T ickets

E ncore members pa y

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Zurich International Concert Series 2010-2011 Booking information Booking open From 24 June for Encore members and invited guests.

From 30 June for general booking Series discounts* Series discounts are available on top and second price tickets for all concerts in the series where available. To qualify for the discount the same number of tickets must be bought for each event. Please call the box office on 020 7730 4500 or book online at www.cadoganhall.com GOLD Book all six concerts and save 30% plus free concert programmes Silver Book four or five concerts and save 25% Bronze Book two or three concerts and save 15% *Note: Series discounts cannot be used in conjunction with any other offer.

Online booking www.cadoganhall.com This is a secure site available 24 hours a day. Booking fee £2.50 per transaction.

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