Ph programme singlepage

2014  /15 Esa-Pekka Salonen Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor Concerts September 2014 – June 2015 Royal Festival Hall

…wild, witty, soulful and new Anna Piccard, The Times, February 2014

AT A GLANCE SEPTEMBER 2014 Thu 25 / 7.30pm Esa-Pekka Salonen / Sébastien Droy / Gloucester Choral Society / Bristol Choral Society / Philharmonia Voices BERLIOZ Requiem

OCTOBER 2014 Thu 2 / 7.30pm Christoph von Dohnányi / Frank Peter Zimmermann BEETHOVEN Overture, Leonore No. 3 / MENDELSSOHN Violin Concerto / BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 5 M Sun 12/3.00pm Nicholas Collon / Alisa Weilerstein / Elizabeth Watts RAVEL Le tombeau de Couperin / ELGAR Cello Concerto / VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Symphony No. 3, Pastoral

Thu 23/7.30pm Krzysztof Urbanski / Jan Lisiecki SMETANA 'Vltava' from Ma Vlast / CHOPIN Piano Concerto No. 1 / DVORÁK Symphony No. 9, From the New World Thu 30/7.30pm Tugan Sokhiev / Khatia Buniatishvili BEETHOVEN Overture, Coriolan/ LISZT Piano Concerto No. 2 / BERLIOZ Symphonie fantastique

NOVEMBER 2014 M Sun 2/3.00pm Jakub Hrůša / Julia Fischer GLINKA Overture, Ruslan and Ludmilla /

GLAZUNOV Violin Concerto in A minor / TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 2 in C minor, Little Russian Thu 6/7.30pm Lionel Bringuier / Simon Trpceski DEBUSSY Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune / PROKOFIEV Piano Concerto No. 3 / BARTÓK Concerto for Orchestra N Thu 13/7.30pm Paavo Järvi / Viktoria Mullova HAYDN Symphony No. 82, The Bear / BEETHOVEN Violin Concerto / NIELSEN Symphony No. 1

Thu 27/7.00pm Esa-Pekka Salonen / Monica Bacelli / Stéphane Degout et al. / Philharmonia Voices DEBUSSY Pelléas et Mélisande CL

DECEMBER 2014 Thu 4/7.30pm Juraj Valcuha / Jonathan Biss Olena Tokar / Tara Erraught STRAUSS Don Juan / MOZART Piano Concerto No. 9, K271 Jeunehomme / HUMPERDINCK Suite, Hänsel und Gretel / STRAUSS Suite, Der Rosenkavalier Thu 11/7.30pm Santtu-Matias Rouvali / Colin Currie KODÁLY Dances of Galanta / MACMILLAN Percussion Concerto No. 2 (UK première) / PROKOFIEV Romeo and Juliet (excerpts)

M Sun 14/3.00pm Santtu-Matias Rouvali / Vilde Frang SMETANA 'Šárka' from Ma Vlast / BRAHMS Violin Concerto / TCHAIKOVSKY Nutcracker (excerpts)

JANUARY 2015 M Sun 25/3.00pm John Wilson / Steven Isserlis BAX Tintagel / WALTON Cello Concerto / VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Symphony No. 5

FEBRUARY 2015 Thu 5/7.30pm Daniele Gatti / Markus Werba MENDELSSOHN Overture, A Midsummer Night’s Dream/ MAHLER Des Knaben Wunderhorn / BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 6, Pastoral Sun 8/7.30pm Andris Nelsons /Paul Lewis MOZART Piano Concerto No. 25, K503 / BRUCKNER Symphony No. 3 CL Thu 12/7.30pm Esa-Pekka Salonen / Mitsuko Uchida / Barbara Hannigan et al / Philharmonia Voices DUTILLEUX Correspondances/ RAVEL Piano Concerto in G ; L’enfant et les sortilèges CL Thu 19/ 7.30pm Esa-Pekka Salonen / PierreLaurent Aimard / Camilla Nylund RAVEL Pavane pour une infante défunte; Shéhérazade; Piano Concerto for the Left Hand/ STRAVINSKY The Firebird

M CL

Sunday Matinee Series concert City of Light Series concert

Sun 22/7.30pm Andris Nelsons / Håkan Hardenberger GRUBER Aerial / MAHLER Symphony No. 5

MARCH 2015 Thu 12/7.30pm Tugan Sokhiev / Katy Woolley BEETHOVEN Overture, Egmont / STRAUSS Horn Concerto No. 2/ BRAHMS Symphony No. 4 Sun 15/7.30pm Edward Gardner / Sunwook Kim MENDELSSOHN Overture, The Hebrides/ MOZART Piano Concerto No. 24, K.491 / MAHLER Symphony No. 1 AS Thu 19/7.30pm Vladimir Ashkenazy/Vadim Repin SIBELIUS Finlandia; Violin Concerto; Lemminkäinen

APRIL 2015

AS

N

Ashkenazy Sibelius Series concert Nielsen Series

MOZART Violin Concerto No. 5, K.219/ TCHAIKOVSKY Manfred Symphony

DUKAS Overture, Polyeucte/ SCHUMANN Piano Concerto / MENDELSSOHN Symphony No. 4, Italian

Fri 24/7.30pm Carl Davis Buster Keaton’s One Week; The General (Live with Film)

M AS Sun 17/3.00pm Vladimir Ashkenazy/ Daniil Trifonov SIBELIUS Nightride and Sunrise/ RACHMANINOV Piano Concerto No. 3 / SIBELIUS Symphony No. 5

Sun 26/7.30pm Yuri Temirkanov/Daniil Trifonov BERLIOZ Overture, Benvenuto Cellini / RACHMANINOV Piano Concerto No. 1 / DVORÁK Symphony No. 8 in G Thu 30/7.30pm Jakub Hrůša et al. / Philharmonia Voices BORODIN Overture, Prince Igor / CUI Overture, Le flibustier / RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Overture on Three Russian Themes / MUSSORGSKY Boris Godunov (excerpts)

MAY 2015

Sun 12 / 3.00pm Paavo Järvi / Martin Helmchen HAYDN Symphony No. 88 / BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 5, Emperor / NIELSEN Symphony No. 4, The Inextinguishable

Thu 7/7.30pm Vasily Petrenko / Till Fellner MOZART Piano Concerto No. 27, K595/ MAHLER Symphony No. 10

Thu 16/7.30pm Juraj Valcuha / Ingrid Fliter RESPIGHI Fontane di Roma / DE FALLA Nights in the Gardens of Spain / RESPIGHI Feste romane; Pini di Roma

Sun 10/7.30pm Vasily Petrenko /Mark Padmore / Katy Woolley SCHUBERT Symphony No. 8, Unfinished / BRITTEN Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings / SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 5

N M

Sun 19/7.30pm Vladimir Ashkenazy / Eric Silberger SCRIABIN Rêverie /

Thu 14/7.30pm Jérémie Rhorer / Francesco Piemontesi

CL Thu 28/7.30pm Esa-Pekka Salonen / PierreLaurent Aimard /Samuel Coles / Sophie Bevan /Anna Stéphany/ Philharmonia Voices (Ladies) DEBUSSY Syrinx; La damoiselle élue / MESSIAEN Turangalîla-Symphonie

JUNE 2015 AS Thu 11 7.30pm Vladimir Ashkenazy/ Helena Juntonen SIBELIUS Suite, Pelléas et Mélisande; Luonnotar & Songs; Symphony No. 2

Thu 25/7.30pm Yuri Temirkanov / Nikolai Lugansky WEBER Overture, Der Freischütz / BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 4 / BRAHMS Symphony No. 2 Sun 28/7.30pm Christoph von Dohnányi/ Arabella Steinbacher / Lawrence Power BARTÓK Divertimento for String Orchestra / MOZART Sinfonia Concertante for Violin and Viola, K364 / BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 7

SPONSORS AND SUPPORTERS The Philharmonia Orchestra is grateful to its sponsors and supporters who make possible the quality and diversity of its work. The Philharmonia Orchestra’s 2014 / 15 Royal Festival Hall season would not be possible without the particular support of Mr Vincent Meyer and The Meyer Foundation.

The Philharmonia Orchestra would also like to thank the following major donors, Trusts and Foundations and Corporate Partners: • Mr Baha and Mrs Gabriella Bassatne • Mrs Joscelyn Fox • Mercedes and Michael Hoffman • Sir Sydney & Lady Lipworth • The Zvi & Ofra Meitar Family Fund • Mr & Mrs G Modiano • Dr David Potter CBE • Mr Geoff Richards • The Revd and Mrs John Wates • The Edith Murphy Foundation • Dunard Fund • Esmée Fairbairn Foundation • The Embassy of Finland • The Amaryllis Fleming Foundation

• Robert Fleming Hannay Memorial Charity • The Hugh Fraser Foundation • Foundation for Sport and the Arts • Edwin Fox Foundation • The Garfield Weston Foundation • The Golsoncott Foundation • J Paul Getty Jnr Charitable Trust • The Monument Trust • Paul Morgan Charitable Trust • Palazetto Bru Zane • David and Elaine Potter Foundation • The Prince of Wales’s Charitable Foundation • Royal Philharmonic Society • Rubin Foundation Charitable Trust • Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung • The Embassy of Sweden • The Wixamtree Trust

SUPPORT US The income that the Philharmonia Orchestra receives through our public funding and sales at the Box Office covers only 60% of our annual expenditure. This means that, even with consistently soldout concert halls, our artistic ambitions can only be realised with contributions from generous individuals, corporate support and Trusts and Foundations.

There are many different ways you can support the Philharmonia. You may wish to make a personal contribution to support our work by becoming a Friend or a member of our Conductors’ Circle, entitling you to a number of benefits that grant you exclusive access to the Orchestra and its players.

Your company may also benefit from a relationship with the Orchestra as part of our Members’ Club or as a Corporate Partner, taking advantage of a range of bespoke corporate entertaining and marketing opportunities that we can offer.

For more information on how you can support the Philharmonia: Tel 020 7921 3903 Email development@philharmonia.co.uk Web philharmonia.co.uk/support

Shop & Eat at Southbank Centre With sweeping views across the River Thames from the London Eye to St Paul’s Cathedral, Festival Riverside and Festival Terrace are lined with shops and a range of restaurants, linking the constantly evolving creative spaces in Southbank Centre.

WELCOME TO SOUTHBANK CENTRE’S ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL Southbank Centre is located on the Thames riverside between Golden Jubilee and Waterloo Bridges.

Getting to Southbank Centre Southbank Centre. Belvedere Road, London SE1 8XX By underground: To Waterloo or cross the river from Temple, Embankment or Charing Cross By rail: To Waterloo or Waterloo East or cross the river from Charing Cross By bus: To Waterloo: 1, RV1, 4, 26, 59, 68, X68, 76, 139, 168, 171, 172, 176, 188, 243, 341, 521 stop on Waterloo Bridge; 77, 211, 381, 507 stop in York Rd and Stamford St. 24-hour bus information 020 7222 1234 Southbank Centre has 2 car parks, both open 24 hours: Southbank Centre Car Park – Hayward Gallery Southbank Centre Car Park – Hungerford Bridge Evening discounted rates apply after 5pm. southbankcentre.co.uk/visitor-info/parking Access Southbank Centre is accessible to people with disabilities.

Access line 0844 847 9910 www.southbankcentre.co.uk / access

Esa-Pekka Salonen Š B Ealovega

ESA-PEKKA SALONEN Thursday 25 September 2014 7.30pm Esa-Pekka Salonen conductor Sébastien Droy tenor Gloucester Choral Society Bristol Choral Society Philharmonia Voices BERLIOZ Requiem (Grande messe des morts) Esa-Pekka Salonen opens the new season with Berlioz’s vast Requiem (Grande messe des morts). ‘If I were threatened with the burning of all of my works except one,’ Berlioz once confessed, ‘it is for the Requiem that I would beg for mercy.’ The great Frenchman unleashes an awesome range of expression, from the merest vocal and instrumental whispers to the all-engulfing Tuba mirum’s five pairs of rumbling timpani and four additional brass ensembles.

This concert is dedicated by Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Philharmonia Orchestra to the memory of Maestro Lorin Maazel (1930-2014)

CHRISTOPH VON DOHNÁNYI 85TH BIRTHDAY CONCERT Thursday 2 October 2014 7.30pm Christoph von Dohnányi conductor Frank Peter Zimmermann violin BEETHOVEN Overture, Leonore No. 3 MENDELSSOHN Violin Concerto BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 5 Beethoven changed the face of music forever. From his Fifth Symphony’s obsession with its famous opening rhythm to his epic Leonore Overture No. 3, audiences had never heard anything like it before.

By comparison, Mendelssohn’s greatest innovation was a sleight-of-hand brilliance that creates the impression of elfin dreamworlds floating free of gravity. This concert celebrates the 85th birthday of the Orchestra’s Honorary Conductor for Life, Christoph von Dohnányi.

Christoph von Dohnányi’s 85th Birthday Concert is supported by Vincent Meyer and the Philharmonia Orchestra

This concert is supported by a syndicate of trustees from the Philharmonia Trust: Sir Sydney and Lady Lipworth, Mr and Mrs Geoff Richards and Mr and Mrs Daan Knottenbelt

8

Freephone Box Office 0800 652 6717

FIRST WORLD WAR COMMEMORATION CONCERT: NICHOLAS COLLON M Sunday 12 October 2014 3.00pm (please note start time) Nicholas Collon conductor Alisa Weilerstein cello Elizabeth Watts soprano RAVEL Le tombeau de Couperin ELGAR Cello Concerto VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Symphony No. 3, Pastoral

This afternoon’s programme features three masterworks composed within just a few years of each other that meditate upon the appalling carnage of the First World War in strikingly different ways, ranging from Ravel’s tantalising neoclassical restraint and the impassioned nostalgia of Elgar to Vaughan Williams’s haunting eloquence that Holst considered ‘his very essence.’

This concert is supported

by The Meyer Foundation

KRZYSZTOF URBANSKI Thursday 23 October 2014 7.30pm Krzysztof Urbanski conductor Jan Lisiecki piano SMETANA ‘Vltava', from Ma Vlast CHOPIN Piano Concerto No. 1 DVORÁK Symphony No. 9 From the New World When it comes to contributions to the classical music world, Poland has always punched well above its weight, and continues to do so. This concert showcases two of Poland’s most gifted young artists, performing a piano

9

concerto with proud roots in that country’s folk tradition. Its finale is inspired by the krakowiak dance, and creates one of the liveliest finales to a concerto in all music. This is bookended by two masterpieces from neighbouring Bohemia.

6pm. Pre-concert recital, Royal Festival Hall. Recital by violinist Mathilde Milwidsky, a winner of the Martin Musical Scholarship Fund.

FREE admission.

Freephone Box Office 0800 652 6717

TUGAN SOKHIEV

JAKUB HRUŠA M Sunday 2 November 2014 3.00pm (please note start time)

Thursday 30 October 2014 7.30pm Tugan Sokhiev conductor Khatia Buniatishvili piano BEETHOVEN Overture, Coriolan LISZT Piano Concerto No. 2 BERLIOZ Symphonie fantastique A captivating fantasy programme that contrasts Berlioz’s groundbreaking Symphonie fantastique, climaxing in an orgiastic, opium-fuelled witches’ Sabbath, with Beethoven’s overture Coriolan, written for Heinrich von Collins’ play of the same name, telling the story of the gallant Roman general, Coriolanus, destroyed by his overweening pride. Separating these pieces is a work by Berlioz’s long-time admirer, Liszt, who once transcribed the Symphonie fantastique for piano in an effort to have it heard by more people.

Jakub Hrůša conductor Julia Fischer violin GLINKA Overture, Ruslan and Ludmilla GLAZUNOV Violin Concerto in A minor TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 2 in C minor, Little Russian This concert explores the resurgence in Russian nationalism that took place toward the end of the 19th century, and gets off to a thrilling start with Glinka’s whirlwind overture to Ruslan and Ludmilla. Glazunov’s captivating Violin Concerto has hints of Slavic melancholy, the perfect complement to Tchaikovsky’s Little Russian Symphony, which draws on the folk melodies of Ukraine.

This concert is supported by an anonymous donor

This concert is supported by an anonymous donor

6pm. Pre-concert recital, Royal Festival Hall. Recital by cellist Jane Lindsay, a winner of the Martin Musical Scholarship Fund. FREE admission.

10

Freephone Box Office 0800 652 6717

LIONEL BRINGUIER Thursday 6 November 2014 7.30pm Lionel Bringuier conductor Simon Trpcˇeski piano DEBUSSY Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune PROKOFIEV Piano Concerto No. 3 BARTÓK Concerto for Orchestra Debussy and Bartók discovered strikingly different solutions to the problem of composing contemporary music that captivated general audiences.

In his Prélude, Debussy gently suspended time by loosening the bonds of musical convention. Bartók’s Concerto is an intense virtuoso orchestral showpiece in which every department has a chance to shine.

Supported by The Meyer Foundation 6pm, Music of Today, Royal Festival Hall. A composer portrait of Marko Nikodijevic conducted by Baldur Brönnimann with Andrew Zolinsky (piano). FREE admission.

11

PAAVO JÄRVI: NIELSEN SERIES N Thursday 13 November 2014 7.30pm Paavo Järvi conductor Viktoria Mullova violin HAYDN Symphony No. 82, The Bear BEETHOVEN Violin Concerto NIELSEN Symphony No. 1 Tonight’s concert celebrates the work of three great symphonists at the height of their creative powers. Nielsen’s First was memorably described by one critic as ‘a child playing with dynamite,’ and if Haydn’s The Bear finds the old Master composing with a youthful pizzazz and energy, Beethoven’s Violin Concerto possesses a radiant lyrical expansiveness. This concert is part of a complete Nielsen symphony cycle conducted by Paavo Järvi, which is presented over three seasons.

6pm, Pre-concert talk, Royal Festival Hall, David Fanning and Michelle Assay introduce the evening’s concert.

FREE admission.

Freephone Box Office 0800 652 6717

CITY OF LIGHT: PARIS 1900-1950 Esa-Pekka Salonen Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor Esa-Pekka Salonen leads a major series of events exploring the cultural history of Paris between 1900 and 1950, the follow-up to his acclaimed Vienna series, City of Dreams. The series opens with a rare opportunity to hear Debussy’s groundbreaking 1902 opera Pelléas et Mélisande, and continues with performances in February and May (see pages 10 - 11 and 21). Visit philharmonia.co.uk/paris for films, essays and images relating to the series.

“The composers working in Paris in the first half of the twentieth century were responding musically to a series of seismic cultural, social and political changes. For me, the music of this period has a very special artistic significance: I hope that you will join us to hear the music of Debussy, Ravel, Messiaen and their compatriots, contextualised by the influence of the artists, writers and thinkers that inspired them.” — Esa-Pekka Salonen City of Light: Paris 1900-1950 conceived and supported by Vincent Meyer, President, Philharmonia Orchestra.

EXPLORE PELLÉAS ET MÉLISANDE Sun 23 Nov 13.00–16.30 J.P. Morgan Pavilion, Southbank Centre. An afternoon of talks exploring Debussy’s seminal opera Pelléas et Mélisande led by musicologists Caroline Potter and Caroline Rae. Tickets £12.

CL Thursday 27 November 2014 7.00pm (please note start time) Esa-Pekka Salonen conductor Stéphane Degout Pelléas Monica Bacelli Mélisande Laurent Naori Golaud Felicity Palmer Geneviève Darren Jeffery A Physician 12

Jérôme Varnier Arkel Chloé Briot Yniold Philharmonia Voices DEBUSSY Pelléas et Mélisande (semi-staged) Debussy’s only completed opera is a landmark in 20th century music. It is widely considered to be a perfect fusion of the French language and music, fulfilling the composer’s wish to ‘graft his dream’ on a text. Maeterlinck’s symbolist drama, focusing on a claustrophobic love triangle in the imaginary city of Allemonde, is made unforgettably poignant by Debussy’s music. This concert performance is sure to be a highlight of the City of Light series.

Freephone Box Office 0800 652 6717

JURAJ VALCUHA Thursday 4 December 2014 7.30pm Juraj Valcuha conductor Jonathan Biss piano Olena Tokar soprano Tara Erraught mezzo-soprano STRAUSS Don Juan MOZART Piano Concerto No. 9, K271 Jeunehomme HUMPERDINCK Suite, Hänsel und Gretel STRAUSS Suite, Der Rosenkavalier The festive season begins with tonight’s concert, coupling the suite from Humperdinck’s Hänsel und Gretel

with Strauss’s good-humoured high farce about two young lovers, Der Rosenkavalier. The opening work, also by Strauss, set the musical world on fire in 1888. In less than 20 minutes of music, Strauss stretches the limits of what a symphony orchestra is capable of with a finale that will, quite simply, knock your socks off.

Supported by The Meyer Foundation 6pm, Music of Today, Royal Festival Hall. A composer portrait of Anders Hillborg conducted by Kevin John Edusei with Magnus Holmander (clarinet). FREE admission.

SANTTU-MATIAS ROUVALI Thursday 11 December 2014 7.30pm Santtu-Matias Rouvali conductor Colin Currie percussion KODÁLY Dances of Galánta MACMILLAN Percussion Concerto No. 2 (UK première) PROKOFIEV Romeo and Juliet (excerpts) The Philharmonia Orchestra is delighted to present the UK première of James MacMillan’s Second Percussion Concerto, the highlyanticipated successor to the acclaimed Veni, Veni, Emmanuel. It is played by its dedicatee Colin Currie, recently described by The Spectator as ‘the world’s finest and most daring percussionist’. This is alongside two 13

popular choreographic classics that distill the bracing dance rhythms of Hungary and Russia into musical gold. This concert marks the Royal Festival Hall début of Santtu-Matias Rouvali, a leading light in the younger generation of Finnish conductors.

MacMillan Percussion Concerto No. 2 has been commissioned by the Philharmonia Orchestra with Southbank Centre.

Part of Southbank Centre’s Colin Currie Festival

6pm, Pre-concert talk, James MacMillan and Colin Currie in conversation with Gillian Moore, Royal Festival Hall. FREE admission.

Freephone Box Office 0800 652 6717

CHRISTMAS CONCERT: SANTTU-MATIAS ROUVALI M Sunday 14 December 2014 3.00pm (please note start time) Santtu-Matias Rouvali conductor Vilde Frang violin SMETANA Šárka, from Ma Vlast BRAHMS Violin Concerto TCHAIKOVSKY Nutcracker (excerpts)

Tchaikovsky’s Christmas ballet favourite embraces some of his most ravishing miniature gems, including the Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy, Arabian Dance, Dance of the Reed Flutes and Waltz of the Flowers. Before it, Brahms’s Violin Concerto, described by the celebrated virtuoso Bronislav Huberman as ‘a concerto for violin against orchestra – and the violin wins!’.

This concert is supported by the Friends of the Philharmonia Orchestra

ENGLISH IDYLLS: JOHN WILSON M Sunday 25 January 2015 3.00pm (please note start time) John Wilson conductor Steven Isserlis cello BAX Tintagel WALTON Cello Concerto VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Symphony No. 5

14

Three British classics of hypnotic poetic intensity open with Bax’s magical distillation of the Cornish landscape, inspired by the imposing presence of Tintagel Castle. The improvisatory musings of Walton’s favourite concerto are perfectly matched by the heartfelt meditations of Vaughan Williams’s Fifth Symphony, dedicated in appreciation to Sibelius.

Freephone Box Office 0800 652 6717

DANIELE GATTI Thursday 5 February 2015 7.30pm

Danielle Gatti © Abramowitz

Daniele Gatti conductor Markus Werba baritone MENDELSSOHN Overture, A Midsummer Night’s Dream MAHLER Des Knaben Wunderhorn (selections) BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 6, Pastoral Daniele Gatti makes a very welcome return to the Royal Festival Hall, conducting two exultant gems inspired by the wonders of the natural world. If the Pastoral Symphony is Beethoven’s personal musical response to Nature, his most cherished and dependable companion in life, Mahler’s delight in rusticity and musical folklore is captured in a stunning collection of songs that

ANDRIS NELSONS Sunday 8 February 2015 7.30pm Andris Nelsons conductor Paul Lewis piano MOZART Piano Concerto No. 25, K503 BRUCKNER Symphony No. 3

15

was to have a far-reaching impact on the remainder of his output.

Supported by The Meyer Foundation 6pm, Music of Today, Royal Festival Hall. A composer portrait of Marc-André Dalbavie conducted by Shi-Yeon Sung. FREE admission.

Bruckner’s mighty symphonies unfold gradually with an awesome sense of inevitability, unleashing an all-engulfing emotional power unlike anything else in music. His Third, nicknamed the ‘Wagner Symphony’, has a smattering of quotations from Wagner’s operas, operating in the same otherworldly universe as Wagner, and is dedicated to him. It is paired with Mozart’s K503 performed by Paul Lewis, whose recent performances of this piece are justly acclaimed.

Freephone Box Office 0800 652 6717

CITY OF LIGHT: PARIS 1900-1950 Esa-Pekka Salonen Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor

La Tour Eiffel, 1926, Delaunay Robert. © Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Droits réservés

From La Belle Époque and Les Années Folles to the aftermath of World War II, Paris was a melting pot for new music and new artistic ideas. Leading writers, artists and dancers of the age were drawn to the City of Light, collaborating with some of the best-loved composers to create sumptuous orchestral music in a celebration of sheer luxuriance of sound. Esa-Pekka Salonen leads a major series of events exploring the cultural history of Paris between 1900 and 1950, the follow-up to his acclaimed Vienna series, City of Dreams.

City of Light: Paris 1900-1950

conceived and supported by Vincent Meyer, President, Philharmonia Orchestra

Explore Paris 1900-1950: 20 short documentary films, archive images, essays, programme notes and sound clips: philharmonia.co.uk/paris

16

EXPLORE THE CITY OF LIGHT Sun 1 Feb 10.30am–16.30pm Portico Room, Somerset House, London A day of talks and live music exploring Parisian music, culture and society from 1900-1950 with a distinguished group of musicologists and academics led

by Caroline Potter and Caroline Rae. Tickets £12

Freephone Box Office 0800 652 6717

CL Thursday 12 February 2015 7.30pm Esa-Pekka Salonen conductor Mitsuko Uchida piano Barbara Hannigan soprano Chloé Briot soprano Elodie Méchain alto Andrea Hill mezzo soprano Sabine Devieilhe soprano François Piolino tenor Nicolas Courjal bass Philharmonia Voices Irina Brown director

The City of Light series continues with Ravel’s beguiling fantasy opera of magic and enchantment in which animals and household objects come to life to teach a rebellious child the errors of his ways. Setting Colette’s text, Ravel’s luxuriant music is both witty and profound. His exuberantly jazzy G major Piano Concerto explores a rich palette of orchestral colours that juxtapose with the darker warmth of Dutilleux’s powerfully expressive song-cycle.

DUTILLEUX Correspondances RAVEL Piano Concerto in G major RAVEL L’Enfant et les Sortilèges (semi-staged)

Sung in French with English surtitles

CL Thursday 19 February 2015 7.30pm

The ballet music Stravinsky composed for Diaghilev, inspired by an exotic Russian legend, is paired with Ravel’s lush song cycle and the dark colours of his Piano Concerto for the Left Hand.

Esa-Pekka Salonen conductor Camilla Nylund soprano Pierre-Laurent Aimard piano RAVEL Pavane pour une infante défunte RAVEL Shéhérazade RAVEL Piano Concerto for the Left Hand STRAVINSKY The Firebird The Franco-Russian connection in the early 1900s, epitomised by Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes, produced orchestral music of unmatched luxuriant colour.

6pm, Pre-concert talk, Royal Festival Hall. An introduction to the evening’s programme by Caroline Potter.

6pm, FREE pre-concert chamber music by students from the Royal College of Music, Clore Ballroom Floor, Royal Festival Hall. Programme to include Musique d’Ameublement (‘Furniture Music’) by Satie.

philharmonia.co.uk – book tickets, watch films, listen to and buy recordings 17 Freephone Box Office 0800 652 6717

ANDRIS NELSONS Sunday 22 February 2015 7.30pm Andris Nelsons conductor Håkan Hardenberger trumpet GRUBER Aerial MAHLER Symphony No. 5 Tonight we have a rare opportunity to see Swedish trumpet virtuoso Håkan Hardenberger (the work’s dedicatee) perform HK Gruber’s Aerial, a thrilling concerto roller-coaster in two main parts,

which requires the soloist to play the cowhorn, trumpet and piccolo trumpet, using techniques including playing and singing simultaneously. Mahler’s Fifth Symphony, famed for its serene Adagietto, follows a clear progression from dark despair to joyful reconciliation.

6pm, Pre-concert talk, Håkan Hardenberger in conversation.

Royal Festival Hall. FREE admission.

TUGAN SOKHIEV Thursday 12 March 2015 7.30pm Tugan Sokhiev conductor Katy Woolley horn BEETHOVEN Overture, Egmont STRAUSS Horn Concerto No. 2 BRAHMS Symphony No. 4

Katy Woolley © Benjamin Ealovega

Concertgoers have a rare chance to see Katy Woolley, the Philharmonia’s brilliant co-principal horn, playing Richard Strauss’s ravishing Second Concerto, alongside Beethoven’s overture to Goethe’s Egmont, and Brahms’s valedictory Fourth Symphony, which climaxes in a variation finale of awesome power.

This concert is supported by The Rev’d John Wates OBE and Mrs Carol Wates 18

Freephone Box Office 0800 652 6717

EDWARD GARDNER Sunday 15 March 2015 7.30pm Edward Gardner conductor Sunwook Kim piano MENDELSSOHN Overture, The Hebrides MOZART Piano Concerto No. 24, K491 MAHLER Symphony No. 1 Tonight’s concert features two stirring evocations of the natural world, ranging from Mendelssohn’s wellknown representation of Fingal’s Cave to Mahler’s conjuring up of Nature’s awakening. The inexorable mood

and depth of the C-minor concerto set it apart from Mozart’s earlier compositions, and have led many to cite this work as a true forerunner to the concertos of Beethoven.

This evening’s concert is supported by the Principal Friends of the Philharmonia

6pm. Pre-concert recital, Royal Festival Hall. Recital by violist Luba Tunnicliffe, a winner of the Martin Musical Scholarship Fund. FREE admission.

JOIN US BECOME A FRIEND OF THE PHILHARMONIA FROM JUST £35 A YEAR, FRIENDS ENJOY:

© Benjamin Ealovega

- Opportunities to meet the players - Priority booking - Private Members’ Bar - Access to Open Rehearsals - Invitations to exclusive events - Regular behind the scenes news - Annual Members’ Publication JOIN NOW Tel 020 7921 3906 Email friends@philharmonia.co.uk Web philharmonia.co.uk/friends philharmonia.co.uk – book tickets, watch films, listen to and buy recordings 19 Freephone Box Office 0800 652 671719

ASHKENAZY: SIBELIUS AS Thursday 19 March 2015 7.30pm Vladimir Ashkenazy conductor Vadim Repin violin SIBELIUS Finlandia SIBELIUS Violin Concerto SIBELIUS Lemminkäinen Sibelius was initially determined to become a world-class violinist and even got as far as an audition with the Vienna Philharmonic. Had he succeeded, some of the finest orchestral music of the 20th century might never have been written. The most immediate outcome was the glorious

Violin Concerto, composed for the virtuoso which Sibelius never became.

The Lemminkäinen suite – a set of four tone poems, including the haunting Swan of Tuonela – depicts scenes from the life of the legendary warrior Lemminkäinen, the hero of the Finnish national epic, the Kalevala.

This concert is supported by Michael and Mercedes Hoffman

6pm. Pre-concert recital, Royal Festival Hall. Recital by harpist Glain Dafydd, a winner of the Martin Musical Scholarship Fund. FREE admission.

PAAVO JÄRVI: NIELSEN SERIES M N Sunday 12 April 2015 3.00pm (please note start time) Paavo Järvi conductor Martin Helmchen piano HAYDN Symphony No. 88 BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 5, Emperor NIELSEN Symphony No. 4, The Inextinguishable

20

Paavo Järvi’s unmissable Nielsen series continues with The Inextinguishable, a fight for the very future of life itself, as batteries of drums duel it out over a raging orchestra. Such was Beethoven’s iron-clad will that he completed his mighty Emperor Concerto as Napoleon’s bombardment crumbled the walls of Vienna around him and his hearing was fast-fading.

Freephone Box Office 0800 652 6717

JURAJ VALCUHA

VLADIMIR ASHKENAZY

Thursday 16 April 2015 7.30pm

Sunday 19 April 2015 7.30pm

Juraj Valcuha conductor Ingrid Fliter piano

Vladimir Ashkenazy conductor Eric Silberger violin

RESPIGHI Fontane di Roma DE FALLA Nights in the Gardens of Spain RESPIGHI Feste romane RESPIGHI Pini di Roma

SCRIABIN Rêverie MOZART Violin Concerto No. 5, K219 TCHAIKOVSKY Manfred Symphony

Tonight’s concert provides a rare opportunity to hear Respighi’s supervirtuosic Roman trilogy of symphonic poems, which paints in striking hues and colours the city’s Renaissance fountains, its imposing pine-groves and exuberant annual festivals, while relishing the dramatic contrasts between modern Rome and her Imperial splendour.

Supported by the Meyer Foundation 6pm, Music of Today, Royal Festival Hall. A composer portrait of Olga Neuwirth conducted by Clement Power with Mei Yi Foo (piano).

FREE admission.

Tchaikovsky’s gripping Manfred Symphony was inspired by the work of the ultimate romantic, Lord Byron, and his poem about a guilt-ridden mountain dweller who summons seven spirits in the vain hope they might help him forget the past. The music’s surging power takes the listener on an unforgettable emotional journey, from inconsolable despair to supreme elation.

6pm. Pre-concert recital, Royal Festival Hall. Recital by violinist Pablo Hernan, a winner of the Martin Musical Scholarship Fund.

FREE admission.

The concerts on 16 and 19 April were originally to have been conducted by Maestro Lorin Maazel, who sadly died in July 2014.

The repertoire remains almost exactly as he programmed it.

philharmonia.co.uk – book tickets, watch films, listen to and buy recordings 21 Freephone Box Office 0800 652 671721

The General film still © Park Circus

PHILHARMONIA AT THE MOVIES: BUSTER KEATON’S THE GENERAL

Friday 24 April 2015 7.30pm Carl Davis conductor/composer Buster Keaton’s One Week and The General (Live with film)

composer. From doomed attempts to construct a DIY marital home in One Week, to Keaton exacting sweet revenge with a locomotive in The General, this is bound to be a night to remember.

An unmissable concert featuring two of Buster Keaton’s most celebrated films accompanied by Carl Davis’s brilliantly inventive music, conducted live by the

22

Freephone Box Office 0800 652 6717

YURI TEMIRKANOV Sunday 26 April 2015 7.30pm Yuri Temirkanov conductor Daniil Trifonov piano BERLIOZ Overture, Benvenuto Cellini RACHMANINOV Piano Concerto No. 1 DVORÁK Symphony No. 8 in G The dazzling and rousing overture to Benvenuto Cellini was written as the introduction to Berlioz’s opera based on the memoirs of the 16th Century sculptor, goldsmith, and hero of the same name. One of the brightest stars

of the piano world, Daniil Trifonov, performs Rachmaninov’s First Piano Concerto - part of a series that will see him perform the complete works for piano and orchestra during the course of 2015. Composed with amazing fluency in just a month, Dvorák’s Eighth Symphony is full of the joyous melodies from his Bohemian homeland.

JAKUB HRUŠA Thursday 30 April 2015 7.30pm Jakub Hru˚ša conductor Cast to include Dimitry Ivashchenko Philharmonia Voices BORODIN Overture, Prince Igor CUI Overture, Le flibustier RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Overture on Three Russian Themes MUSSORGSKY Boris Godunov (excerpts) Four of Russia’s ‘Mighty Handful’ of composers combine forces in a programme bookended by music from epic blockbuster operas. Both were later ‘revised’ by Rimsky-Korsakov, whose colourful Overture on Three Themes

23

epitomizes the St Petersburg nationalist style, while Cui’s sparkling overture prefaces a charming domestic comedy.

Sung in Russian with English surtitles This concert is supported by an anonymous donor

6pm, Pre-concert talk, Jakub Hruša in conversation with Nigel Simeone, Royal Festival Hall.

FREE admission.

Freephone Box Office 0800 652 6717

VASILY PETRENKO Thursday 7 May 2015 7.30pm

Sunday 10 May 2015 7.30pm

Vasily Petrenko conductor Till Fellner piano

Vasily Petrenko conductor Mark Padmore tenor Katy Woolley horn

MOZART Piano Concerto No. 27, K595 MAHLER Symphony No. 10 Mahler’s final symphony, sketched in the summer before he died and completed many years later by the British musicologist, Deryck Cooke, is a life-affirming victory that shows the composer exorcising his terrors and finding peace. It is paired with Mozart’s last piano concerto, a ray of light written after two years of hardship and financial turmoil.

The two completed movements of Schubert’s Unfinished Symphony ushered in the Romantic style, which can be heard resonating in Britten’s hauntingly beautiful song cycle.

Shostakovich had effectively been backed into a corner by Stalin’s cultural watchdogs when he produced his all-conquering Fifth Symphony as an ‘artist’s response to just criticism.’

Vasily Petrenko © Benjamin Ealovega

Supported by the Meyer Foundation 6pm, Music of Today, Royal Festival Hall. A composer portrait of Giacinto Scelsi conducted by PierreAndré Valade with Irvine Arditti (violin). FREE admission.

SCHUBERT Symphony No. 8, Unfinished BRITTEN Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 5

24

Freephone Box Office 0800 652 6717

JÉRÉMIE RHORER Thursday 14 May 2015 7.30pm Jérémie Rhorer conductor Francesco Piemontesi piano DUKAS Overture, Polyeucte SCHUMANN Piano Concerto MENDELSSOHN Symphony No. 4, Italian Schumann and Mendelssohn were in awe of each other, and although both were brilliant musical fantasists, tonight’s concert provides the perfect opportunity to contrast the dreamlike, time-suspending romance of Schumann’s Concerto with Mendelssohn’s neo-classical sparkle

25

and lithe textures – what Schumann referred to as ‘Mozart’s second coming’.

Opening the concert, a rare opportunity to hear Dukas’s symphonic poem, based on the story of an early Christian martyr.

The performance of Dukas Polyeucte is supported by Palazzetto Bru Zane - Centre de musique romantique française

6pm. Pre-concert recital, Royal Festival Hall. Recital by flautist Helena Gourd, a winner of the Martin Musical Scholarship Fund.

FREE admission.

Freephone Box Office 0800 652 6717

ASHKENAZY: SIBELIUS M AS Sunday 17 May 2015 3.00pm (please note start time) Vladimir Ashkenazy conductor Daniil Trifonov piano SIBELIUS Nightride and Sunrise RACHMANINOV Piano Concerto No. 3 SIBELIUS Symphony No. 5

Vladimir Ashkenazy © Keith Saunders

Vladimir Ashkenazy’s landmark Sibelius series continues with the

tone poem Nightride and Sunrise as experienced from a speeding horsedrawn sleigh, and his Fifth Symphony, completed just in time for his fiftieth birthday celebrations and climaxing in the finale’s unforgettable horn calls, likened by one musicologist to Thor smashing down his hammer. Separating these two pieces, Daniil Trifonov performs one of the most popular works ever written for the piano, returning for his second concert with the Philharmonia this season.

26

Freephone Box Office 0800 652 6717

CITY OF LIGHT: PARIS 1900-1950 Esa-Pekka Salonen Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor City of Light: Paris 1900-1950 conceived and supported by Vincent Meyer, President, Philharmonia Orchestra CL Thursday 28 May 2015 7.30pm Esa-Pekka Salonen conductor Pierre-Laurent Aimard piano Samuel Coles flute Sophie Bevan soprano Anna Stephany mezzo soprano Valérie Hartmann-Claverie ondes Martenot Philharmonia Voices (Ladies) DEBUSSY Syrinx DEBUSSY La damoiselle élue MESSIAEN Turangalîla-symphonie

6pm, Pre-concert talk, Caroline Rae introduces the evening’s programme, Royal Festival Hall. FREE admission.

© Benjamin Ealovega

An exploration of nostalgic yearning and the triumphant fulfilment of love

concludes the City of Light series.

Lamentation at lost love in the solo flute’s magical evocation of the amorous God Pan introduces Debussy’s early Wagner-inspired cantata based on Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s mystic poem of love dreams. Fulfilment comes with Messiaen’s gargantuan Song of Love, a celebration of the Tristanesque love-death here expressing superhuman joy that is overflowing, dazzling and abandoned.

Visit philharmonia.co.uk/paris for films, essays and images relating to theBox series 27 Freephone Office 0800 652 6717

ASHKENAZY: SIBELIUS Thursday 11 June 2015 7.30pm Vladimir Ashkenazy conductor Helena Juntunen soprano SIBELIUS Suite, Pelléas et Mélisande SIBELIUS Luonnotar; Andante Festivo and other songs with orchestral accompaniment SIBELIUS Symphony No. 2

Helena Juntunen© Heikki Tuuli

Ashkenazy’s Sibelius Series continues with one of the composer’s most popular symphonies. The finale is a real epic, with a triumphant ‘big tune’ as the work’s crowning glory. Before it, a rare performance of Luonnotar, an arresting tone poem based on Norse legend, whose title refers to the Mother of the Seas.

6pm, Pre-concert talk, Vladimir Ashkenazy in conversation with David Nice, Royal Festival Hall. FREE admission.

YURI TEMIRKANOV Thursday 25 June 2015 7.30pm Yuri Temirkanov conductor Nikolai Lugansky piano WEBER Overture, Der Freischütz BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 4 BRAHMS Symphony No. 2

28

A programme drawn from the great canon of German music, featuring the last of Beethoven’s piano concertos to be performed by him, and Brahms’s Symphony No. 2. When working on his sublime Second Symphony, Brahms wrote contentedly to a friend: ‘The melodies flow so freely that one must be careful not to tread on them.’

Freephone Box Office 0800 652 6717

CHRISTOPH VON DOHNÁNYI Sunday 28 June 2015 7.30pm Christoph von Dohnányi conductor Arabella Steinbacher violin Lawrence Power viola BARTÓK Divertimento for String Orchestra MOZART Sinfonia Concertante for Violin and Viola, K364 BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 7

Supported by the Meyer Foundation and in partnership with the Royal Philharmonic Society.

6pm, Music of Today, Royal Festival Hall.

Young Composers Academy culmination concert, conducted by Patrick Bailey.

FREE admission.

Christoph von Dohnányi © Tristram Kenton/Lebrecht Music & Arts

Bartók’s effervescent Divertimento, written shortly before his departure to the USA, opens the final concert of the 14/15 season, creating the perfect foil for Mozart’s much-lauded masterpiece,

Sinfonia Concertante. The climax comes in the second half featuring Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony – a work full of rhythmic vitality that was described by Richard Wagner as ‘the apotheosis of the dance’. Its glorious slow movement featured in the Oscar-winning The King’s Speech.

29

Freephone Box Office 0800 652 6717

HOW TO BOOK YOUR TICKETS All of our concerts are eligible for substantial discounts if you book for more than 3 concerts in one transaction.

The table below will help you to calculate the cost of your tickets by showing you the price per ticket in each seating area at each discount code. If you would like us to calculate the total cost, please leave payment totals blank and we will advise you

Royal Festival Hall Pricing Codes

Signature seats

No. of Concerts

Price per ticket

P1

P2

P3

when we send your tickets.

Subscription ticket prices (for seating plan see page 23) Transaction fees apply, phone and post £2.75, online £1.75 on all bookings through the Philharmonia box office P4

P5

P6

P7

Full price (1-2 concerts)

£48

£40.00

£31.00

£25.00

£20.00

£15.00

£12.00

£9.00

3-5 concerts 10%

£48

£36.00

£27.90

£22.50

£22.50

£13.50

£10.80

£8.10

6-8 concerts 15%

£48

£34.00

£26.35

£21.25

£17.00

£12.75

£10.20

£10.20

9-11 concerts 20%

£48

£32.00

£24.80

£20.00

£16.00

£12.00

£9.60

£7.20

12-14 concerts 25%

£48

£30.00

£23.25

£18.75

£15.00

£11.25

£9.00

£6.75

15+ concerts 30%

£48

£28.00

£21.70

£17.50

£14.00

£10.50

£8.40

£6.30

Study Days

£12

PHONE: Call the FREEPHONE Philharmonia Orchestra Box Office on 0800 652 6717 to book your tickets (Mon–Fri 9.30am–5.30pm call back answerphone service out of hours).

POST: Fill in the booking form and post to Philharmonia Orchestra Box Office, FREEPOST RRGTAHSU-GXRE, London, SE1 7NX ONLINE: www.philharmonia.co.uk (NB this facility is not available for group bookings) E-MAIL: boxoffice@philharmonia.co.uk FAX: Complete the booking form and fax it to 020 7921 3950 Tickets may also be purchased from Southbank Centre PHONE: 0844 847 9921 (9am-8pm daily) * ONLINE: www.southbankcentre.co.uk * FAX: 0871 663 2594 * IN PERSON: Ticket Office, Royal Festival Hall 10am–8pm daily *Transaction fees apply.

No fee for Southbank Centre Members or Supporters’ Circles.

30

GROUP BOOKINGS Book 10 or more tickets for any concert and qualify for the Philharmonia Orchestra Group rate: 25% discount. Other benefits include 1 free ticket for every 20 purchased, flexible reservations and exclusive ticket offers.

School parties: 50% discount and 1 free teacher’s ticket for every 10 purchased.

FAMILY TICKETS – SPECIAL DISCOUNTS FOR CHILDREN Each adult attending a concert can purchase up to 2 tickets for under-16s at half-price.

Philharmonia Orchestra concerts are usually suitable for children aged 7 upwards. Children under 6 may not be admitted at the discretion of the orchestra and hall management. Please contact us to discuss your requirements if you need additional guidance.

CONCESSIONS A limited allocation of half-price tickets is available for recipients of Jobseekers Allowance, Income Support, Pension Credit, Under-16s and full-time students. Appropriate cards to be shown.

Please note that discounts / concessions cannot be combined.

PATRONS WITH DISABILITIES Southbank Centre is accessible to people with disabilities. Visitors with a disability should join Southbank Centre’s free Access List. You may be eligible for tickets at concessionary prices; a free ticket for a companion who can assist you during your visit; and receive information in alternative formats. To join please call 0844 847 9910, email accesslist@ southbankcentre.co.uk or visit www. southbankcentre.co.uk / access The auditorium is fitted with Sennheiser infra-red systems.

Receivers can be collected from cloakroom in Royal Festival Hall.

LEVEL ACCESS There is level access throughout Royal Festival Hall from the internal lifts (some of the lifts have a limited weight capacity; please call 0844 847 9910 to confirm), and there are wheelchair spaces in the boxes, choir seats, side and rear stalls of the auditorium. Tickets for wheelchair spaces can be booked online or by phone on 0800 652 6717 or 0844 847 9910.

This brochure is available in alternative formats Call 0800 652 6717

Freephone Box Office 0800 652 6717

BOOKING FORM Date

Example

Preferred Pricing & Area Code 1st choice

2nd choice

FS / P1

RS / P1

No of subscription tickets

25 Sep 2014 Salonen (Choir n/a) 2 Oct 2014 Dohnányi/Zimmermann 12 Oct 2014 Collon et al.

No of additional tickets (charged at full price)

Cut out and post this booking form to: Philharmonia Orchestra Box Office, FREEPOST RRGT-AHSU-GXRE, London, SE1 7NX Or scan and email to: boxoffice@philharmonia.co.uk Or fax to: 020 7921 3950

23 Oct 2014 Urbanski/Lisiecki 30 Oct 2014 Sokhiev/Buniatishvili 2 Nov 2014 Hru ˚ša/Fischer 6 Nov 2014 Bringuier/Trpcˇeski 13 Nov 2014 Järvi/Mullova 27 Nov 2014 Salonen et al. (Choir n/a) 4 Dec 2014 Valcˇuha et al.

11 Dec 2014 Rouvali/Currie 14 Dec 2014 Rouvali/Frang 25 Jan 2015 Wilson/Isserlis 5 Feb 2015 Gatti/Werba 8 Feb 2015 Nelsons/Lewis 12 Feb 2015 Salonen et al. (Choir n/a) 19 Feb 2015 Salonen/Aimard 22 Feb 2015 Nelsons/Hardenberger 12 Mar 2015 Sokhiev/Woolley 15 Mar 2015 Gardner/Kim 19 Mar 2015 Ashkenazy/Repin 12 Apr 2015 Järvi /Helmchen 16 Apr 2015 Valcˇuha/Fliter

1. Select the concerts you wish to attend 2. Select where you would like to sit in the concert hall from the plan overleaf (NB you do not have to sit in the same area for all of your concerts – please indicate your requirements on the booking form) Please note that choir seats are not available for the concerts marked ‘Choir n /a’ 3. If you require additional tickets for any concerts please indicate the number you require in the ‘additional tickets’ box If you would like help completing your booking form, please call us on FREEPHONE 0800 652 6717.

If you would prefer us to calculate the total costs of your tickets, please feel free to leave the payment totals blank: we will advise you of the costs when we send your tickets.

19 Apr 2015 Ashkenazy/Silberger 24 April 2015 Davis (Choir n/a) 26 Apr 2015 Temirkanov/Trifonov 30 Apr 2015 Hru ˚ša (Choir n/a) 7 May 2015 Petrenko/Fellner 10 May 2015 Petrenko/Padmore 14 May 2015 Rhorer/Piemontesi 17 May 2015 Ashkenazy/Trifonov 28 May 2015 Salonen et al. (Choir n/a) 11 Jun 2015 Ashkenazy/Juntunen 25 Jun 2015 Temirkanov/Lugansky 28 Jun 2015 Dohnányi/Steinbacher/Power 23 Nov 2014 Explore Pelléas et Mélisande 1 Feb 2015 Explore the City of Light Sub-total: cost of subscription tickets Add together the discounted prices of your tickets – see p.16 for details Sub-total: cost of additional tickets Add a £2.75 fee per transaction Total

31

Freephone Box Office 0800 652 6717

Please fill in your name and address and payment details below (BLOCK CAPITALS PLEASE)

Forename / Initial

Title

Surname

Friend / Customer Number (if known) Contact phone numbers (in case we have a query with your booking) Day

Evening

Address Postcode E-mail address

Please tick as many of the boxes below EVEN IF you received this brochure from the Philharmonia Orchestra and have ticked similar boxes before.

I would like to join / remain on the Philharmonia Orchestra’s Marketing List, and give my permission to the Orchestra to send me information about future Philharmonia Orchestra events.

I am happy to receive information from other carefully selected arts organisations.

PAYMENT DETAILS I enclose a cheque / postal order stating an upper limit and made payable to Philharmonia Ltd (this is in case your first choice of seats is not available).

I enclose three cheques stating an upper limit made payable to Philharmonia Ltd, one with today’s date, two post-dated with dates in the next two months.

Cheque 1: date:

/

/

£:

Cheque 2: date:

/

/

£:

Cheque 3: date:

/

/

£:

I wish to pay by credit card (Mastercard, Visa Credit, Visa Debit, Amex, Maestro) Card number Issue number & start date (Maestro only)

Expiry date

/

CSC number* Signature Today’s date

*For most credit / debit cards the CSC number is the last 3 digits of the number printed on the signature band on the REVERSE of your card. For AMEX cards the CSC number is 4 digits and is printed on the FRONT of the card after and above the main number. This is an additional security measure to help prevent credit card fraud and is required before your transaction can be completed.

Please ensure you have written your postcode on the booking form, as this is also required.

Send your booking form to: Philharmonia Orchestra Box Office, FREEPOST RRGT-AHSU-GXRE, London, SE1 7NX or Email boxoffice@philharmonia.co.uk | Fax 020 7921 3950 Your tickets will be posted to you within 28 days of receipt of your booking form.

32

Freephone Box Office 0800 652 6717

BOOKING INFORMATION / TICKET PRICES ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL

Balcony

P7 P6 P5 P4 P2

Rear Stalls P7 P6 P4 P3 P2

P7 P6 P5 P4 P3 P2 P1

P2 Side Stalls

Side Stalls

Front Stalls P6

P2 P3

P2 Boxes

P7

P6

P1 P2 P4

P4

Boxes

P7

Performance Area P2

P1

P1 Choir P7

P2

SINGLE TICKET PRICES Transaction fees apply, phone and post £2.75, online £1.75 on all bookings through the Philharmonia box office Prices codes

Signature seats *

P1

P2

P3

P4

P5

P6

P7

Standard priced concert

£48

£40

£31

£25

£20

£15

£12

£9

Location (Royal Festival Hall)

Selected Front Stalls

Front Stalls (FS) Rear Stalls (RS) Boxes (BX)

Front Stalls (FS) Rear Stalls (RS) Balcony (BY) Boxes (BX) Side Stalls (SS)

Front Stalls (FS) Rear Stalls (RS)

Rear Stalls (RS) Balcony (BY) Side Stalls (SS) Wheelchair (WH)

Rear Stalls (RS) Balcony (BY) Wheelchair (WH)

Rear Stalls (RS) Balcony (BY) Side Stalls (SS) Wheelchair (WH)

Rear Stalls (RS) Balcony (BY) Side Stalls (SS) Choir (CH) Wheelchair (WH)

Study Days

£12

* SIGNATURE SEATS We have selected the front stalls seats in the auditorium with the best acoustic and view (concerts with a piano soloist will have keyboard side premium seats) and will sell these on a first come first served basis at £48 each.

Subscription discounts do not apply although these events can be included in the total number of concerts when applying the subscription discount. Please call FREEPHONE 0800 652 6717 for more information.

SUBSCRIBE AND SAVE: Great discounts if you book for 3 or more concerts!

Book for 3 or more concerts and receive the following discounts on your tickets: 3-5 concerts 10% discount 6-8 concerts 15% discount 9-11 concerts 20% discount 12-14 concerts 25% discount 15 + concerts 30% discount For discounted ticket prices see page 16 Philharmonia Orchestra subscribers also receive other special benefits, including: - Free ticket exchange scheme (up to 2 working days before concert) - Flexible payment: spread the costs of your tickets over 3 months

33

Freephone Box Office 0800 652 6717

Š Benjamin Ealovega

The Philharmonia conjured a vivid and supercharged performance Martin Kettle, The Guardian, November 2013

Philharmonia Orchestra 6th Floor, The Tower Building, 11 York Road, London SE1 7NX Tel 020 7921 3900, Fax 020 7921 3950 Freephone box office 0800 652 6717 Email boxoffice@philharmonia.co.uk www.philharmonia.co.uk @philharmonia Philharmonia Orchestra /philharmonialondon /philharmonia Philharmonia Orchestra and Southbank Centre are both registered charities.

All the information in this brochure was correct at the time of going to press, but changes may be unavoidable.

Concerts copy Julian Haylock, Caroline Potter, Caroline Rae Design HarrimanSteel Print cantate.biz Official Paper Supplier Sappi Fine Paper Europe.

Printed on Sappi Magno™ natural 250g/m2 cover and Magno™ natural 250g/m2 text, a member of the Magno™ range.

Sappi is a sustainable paper product.