Resident Orchestra of Fairfield Halls, Croydon
Thursday 25 April 2013 7.30 pm Nicholas Collon Conductor Nicola Benedetti Violin Leonard Elschenbroich Cello
BRAHMS Concerto for Violin and Cello, Op. 102 INTERVAL
DVOĹ˜Ă K Symphony No. 6 in D major, Op. 60
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ORCHESTRA 1st Violins Marieke Blankestijn Susanna Candlin Victoria Sayles Nicoline Kraamwinkel (Chair supported by David & Beatrix Hodgson)
Ann Criscuolo
(Chair supported by Debby Guthrie)
Martin Smith Anna de Bruin Catherine Van der Geest 2nd Violins Jenny Godson David Angel
(Chair supported by Noël & Caroline Annesley)
Andrew Roberts Helena Smart Jeremy Metcalfe Jayne Spencer
Violas Judith Busbridge Cian O' Duill (Chair supported by Anonymous)
Simone van der Giessen (Chair supported by Anonymous)
Michael Posner
(Chair supported by Stuart & Joyce Aston)
Cellos Sebastian Comberti Julia Desbruslais
(Chair supported by Jeanne & Gordon Lees)
Sarah Butcher
(Chair supported by Valerie Butcher)
Ben Chappell
(Chair supported by Anonymous)
Basses Stacey Watton
Flutes Daniel Pailthorpe
(Chair supported by Brian & Doreen Hitching)
Robert Manasse (Chair supported by Barbara Tower)
Oboes Gareth Hulse
(Chair supported by Pat Sandry)
Katie Clemmow Clarinets Peter Sparks Emma Canavan
(Chair supported by Christopher Fildes)
Bassoons Sarah Burnett
Horns Caroline O' Connell Martin Grainger Richard Lewis Craig Macdonald Trumpets Paul Archbald Peter Wright Trombones Ian White Jeremy Gough Ian Fasham Tuba Martin Knowles Timpani Ben Hoffnung
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Emma Harding
(Chair supported by Louise Honeyman)
Cathy Elliot
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NICHOLAS COLLON Conductor
Nicholas Collon is establishing an enviable reputation as a commanding and inspirational interpreter in an exceptionally wide range of music. As founder and Principal Conductor of Aurora Orchestra he has promoted imaginative programming that integrates challenging repertoire from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries with masterworks of the Classical and Romantic eras. Nicholas and Aurora were winners of Best Ensemble at the 2011 Royal Philharmonic Society Awards. In addition to his work with Aurora, he is increasingly in demand as a guest conductor with other ensembles in the UK and abroad. He is the recipient of the 2012 Critics’ Circle Award for Exceptional Young Talent and was Assistant Conductor to Vladimir Jurowski at the London Philharmonic Orchestra for 2011/12 season. Having made a very successful debut at the BBC Proms in 2010, Nicholas was re-invited to both 2011 and 2012 with Aurora Orchestra and with the London Sinfonietta and Birmingham Contemporary Music Group. With Aurora, Nicholas leads the New Moves series, a unique three-year cross-arts residency at LSO St Luke’s which has included critically acclaimed collaborations with capoeira, film, theatre, tango, and literature. With innovative programming, one recent concert, 'Jealous Guy' juxtaposed composers, Purcell, Piazzolla, Lennon, Mahler and Bernstein. Nicholas and Aurora were part of the Mozart Unwrapped season at Kings Place and in Brahms Unwrapped in 2012. Also, at Kings Place, a concert featuring the works of Nico Muhly launched the CD Seeing is Believing on Decca, to critical acclaim. Nicholas and Aurora recently collaborated with Ian Bostridge and Angelika Kirchschlager in performances of Satie’s Socrate and Britten’s Phaedra at the Wigmore Hall. www.lmp.org
Last season Nicholas made his debuts with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Philharmonia Orchestra, the London Mozart Players, Northern Sinfonia and the Munich Chamber Orchestra at the Munich Biennale. With the London Sinfonietta Nicholas conducted works by George Benjamin and Ligeti, and he made his concert debut with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in a programme of Philip Glass and Richard Strauss. In 12/13 he has re-invitations to the London Philharmonic, Philharmonia Orchestra, the London Mozart Players, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Northern Sinfonia and will make further debuts with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Philharmonic, Orchestre national du Capitole de Toulouse, Orchestre de Lyon, Spanish National Orchestra, Orchestre National d’ile de France, Bournemouth Symphony, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Academy of Ancient Music, Auckland Philharmonia and Ensemble Intercontemporain. Nicholas will make his debuts with English National Opera with The Magic Flute, Welsh National Opera with Jonathan Harvey’s Wagner Dream during the 12/13 season and also make his debut with Glyndebourne on Tour in the autumn of 2013. Other operatic highlights include a special project at Glyndebourne conducting a new work, Knight Crew by Julian Phillips, which featured in a major BBC Two series. With the Opera Group he has conducted the first performances of Elena Langer’s The Lion’s Face and Luke Bedford’s Seven Angels (the latter with Birmingham Contemporary Music Group) including performances at the Linbury Theatre at the Royal Opera House.
NICOLA BENEDETTI Violin
Violinist Nicola Benedetti has captivated audiences and critics alike with her musicality and poise. Throughout her career, Nicola’s desire to perform a broad variety of repertoire and reach a wide audience has shown her to be one of Britain’s most innovative and creative violinists. Her choice of the Szymanowski Violin Concerto for the BBC Young Musician of the Year in 2004 was just the beginning of her focus on less-often programmed repertoire. She has recorded newly commissioned works by John Tavener and James MacMillan, worked on jazz-influenced repertoire with Wynton Marsalis and others, and explored authentic Baroque performance. Whilst she is a highly sought performer on the world platform, Nicola Benedetti is also fiercely dedicated to music education. Through her work with such organisations as Sistema Scotland, she has helped to demonstrate the power that music has in transforming the lives of young people. Nicola Benedetti’s 2012/2013 season was immediately preceded by a performance at the BBC’s Last Night of the Proms with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Jiří Bělohlávek. Other highlights of the season include a tour with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra with Miguel Harth-Bedoya, as well as appearances with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra with Peter Oundjian, Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra with Jaap van Zweden, and Singapore Symphony Orchestra with Neeme Järvi. Nicola Benedetti frequently performs in recital and will make appearances this season at the Dresden Musikfestspiele, the Sapienza – University of Rome, and in Montréal at the Maison Symphonique. Previously, she has given recitals in London, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Hong Kong, Paris, Sacile, New York, Boston, and Washington D.C. She is also a devoted chamber musician and often gives concerts
with her trio (cellist Leonard Elschenbroich and pianist Alexei Grynyuk), both in the UK and further afield. She has also played chamber music at the festivals of Verbier, Moritzburg, Lockenhaus, Prussia Cove, and the Tuscan Sun in Cortona with Jean-Yves Thibaudet. Winner of Best Female Artist at the 2012 Classic BRIT Awards, as well as the Young British Classic Performer Award in 2008, Nicola Benedetti has released five CDs with Universal/Deutsche Grammophon. Her most recent recording for Decca Classics, The Silver Violin, was released in autumn 2012 and features the Korngold Violin Concerto along with cinematicinspired pieces by Shostakovich, Korngold, Mahler, and others. Appointed a Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2013 New Year Honours, Nicola Benedetti is widely respected for her commitment to working with young people. Since 2005, she has visited schools throughout the UK in conjunction with the CLIC Sargent Practice-a-thon, in which she encourages pupils of all ages to pick up their instruments and enjoy classical music. In 2010, she became involved in Sistema Scotland’s Big Noise project, a music initiative partnered with Venezuela’s El Sistema. Born in Scotland of Italian heritage, Nicola Benedetti began violin lessons at the age of five. In 1997, she entered the Yehudi Menuhin School, where she studied with Natasha Boyarskaya. Upon leaving, she continued her studies with Maciej Rakowski and then Pavel Vernikov, and continues to work with multiple acclaimed teachers. Nicola Benedetti plays the Gariel Stradivarius (1717), courtesy of Jonathan Moulds.
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LEONARD ELSCHENBROICH Cello
Leonard Elschenbroich received the Leonard Bernstein award at the opening concert of the 2009 Schleswig-Holstein Festival, following his performance of the Brahms Double with AnneSophie Mutter under the direction of Christoph Eschenbach. Since then, he has excited interest as one the most charismatic cellists of his generation. He has received invitations from a number of eminent conductors, including Dmitri Kitajenko, Valery Gergiev, Semyon Bychkov, Manfred Honeck and Christoph Eschenbach. Leonard was chosen as a BBC New Generation Artist in 2012, a prestigious award offering performances and recordings with all the BBC orchestras, recitals at Wigmore Hall and The Sage, Gateshead, and the BBC Proms, with all performances broadcast on the BBC. As a soloist he has performed with the London Philharmonic, WDR Symphony Orchestra, Konzerthaus Orchestera Berlin, Swedish Radio Symphony, Basel Symphony Orchestra, Stavanger Symphony, St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Buenos Aires Philharmonic, Nagoya Philharmonic, Japan Philharmonic, and Chicago Symphony Orchestra. He made his debut at the Musikverien in Vienna with the Dresden Staatskapelle and Christoph Eschenbach on their 2011 European tour. In the autumn of 2012 he toured China with concerts in Shanghai, Guangzhou, Tianjin, and Beijing. He then returned to Japan, giving his debut with the Japan Philharmonic conducted by Alexander Lazarev, as well as recitals in Fukushima and Tokyo. Leonard Elschenbroich has given recitals at the Wigmore Hall in London, the Auditorium du Louvre, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, at the www.lmp.org
Ravinia Festival in Chicago, the Lucerne Festival, the Gstaad Festival, the Istanbul International Festival, the Rheingau, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, and Schleswig-Holstein Festivals, where he performed the complete Beethoven sonatas with Christoph Eschenbach. On tour in South America, he has performed with the Buenos Aires Philharmonic at the Teatro Colon, and gave recitals in Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, Montevideo, Lima and Sao Paulo. As a member of two piano trios, the Sitkovetsky Trio, and with Nicola Benedetti and Alexei Grynyuk, he played in the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival, Bath Festival, many times at the Wigmore Hall, and at the BBC Proms and the Hong Kong International Festival. As a chamber musician he has appeared several times at the Verbier Festival, and with Gidon Kremer at the Kronberg and the Lockenhaus Festival. Leonard Elschenbroich’s many awards include the Leonard Bernstein Award, Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award, Eugene Istomin Prize, Pro Europa prize, Landgraf von Hessen price of the Kronberg Academy, Nordmetall Prize of the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival, and the Firmenich Prize at the Verbier Festival. From 2004-2008 he was supported by the Anne-Sophie Mutter Foundation, performing with her on a number of occasions on a European tour. Born in 1985 in Frankfurt, Leonard received a scholarship, aged ten, to study at the Yehudi Menuhin School in London. He later studied with Frans Helmerson at the Cologne Music Academy. He plays a cello made by Matteo Goffriller "Leonard Rose" (Venice, 1693), on private loan.
JOHANNES BRAHMS (1833 – 1897)
Concerto for Violin and Cello, Op. 102 I II III
Allegro Andantino Vivace non troppo
Like the Violin Concerto before it, Brahms’s Double Concerto was dedicated to the violinist Joseph Joachim. Brahms and his friend had not spoken since the composer took sides with Joachim’s wife after a messy divorce, and this new work was intended as a peace offering. It is perhaps curious, then, that the violin plays what is generally regarded as a secondary role in the concerto, with the cello not only introducing the main themes but also proving to be the stronger, more authoritative voice throughout. Joachim did, however, accept the gesture and performed the premiere of the work along with cellist Robert Hausmann in Cologne in 1888. Written after the piano concertos and symphonies, the Brahms Double Concerto is an early example of the seriousness of purpose associated with much of Brahms’s later work. Parts of it seem angular and tense, with the second movement in particular characterised by a dark, longing melancholy. However, the work also includes some charming interplay between the violin and cello, and has a beautiful air of warmth and romance. The form of the Double Concerto was, at the time, virtually unprecedented; and works in which the cello played a starring role had been out of fashion since Schumann wrote his Cello Concerto in 1848. Brahms had as reference points the Bach Concerto for Two Violins, Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante and the Beethoven Triple Concerto, but by presenting a pair of soloists in a work that adhered largely to the structural form of a traditional solo concerto, Brahms
was setting himself a significant structural challenge. The work opens by introducing the two soloists, each of whom is given an extended cadenza. The cello begins, Brahms’s highly idiomatic writing introducing the dark sonority that will come to characterise the instrument’s contribution throughout the work. When the violin takes over, it becomes clear that Brahms intends to illustrate the contrast between the two instruments: the violin part shows off the instrument’s higher range and demonstrates its tender, soulful side. Indeed, the concerto can be interpreted as a story of interplay between two lovers, with the cello representing the man (the baritone or tenor voice) and the violin the woman (the soprano). The contrast between these two musical voices continues into the second movement, where the horns develop material carried over from the cello’s first movement cadenza. A second theme is then carried by the high winds, their singing expressiveness reminiscent of the violin’s first entry. The movement progresses to become gradually darker in character, revealing the sense of isolation and loneliness that would characterise much of Brahms’s later work, particularly his chamber and piano music. The third and final movement draws on folk-like motifs, the third exhibiting a lively ambiguity of rhythm that can leave the listener unsure where the pulse lies. The closing movement is a playful rondo that draws on the love of gypsy music that Brahms shared with Joachim, a finale full of wit and geniality that brings the work to a joyful close. © Femke Colborne www.lmp.org
ANTONIN DVOŘÁK (1841 – 1904) Symphony No. 6 in D major, Op. 60 I II III IV
Allegro non tanto Adagio Scherzo (Furiant), Presto inale, Allegro con spirito
Dvořák and Brahms were great friends, and nowhere is the German composer’s influence on his Czech counterpart more apparent than in Dvořák’s Sixth Symphony. Written in 1880 at the request of Hans Richter and the Vienna Philharmonic, the symphony was the first to bring Dvořák international recognition and is noted for its radiance, freshness and richly imaginative orchestral scoring. Indeed, some critics have observed that it was the first Dvořák symphony worthy to stand alongside Brahms. The opening movement in particular owes much to Brahms’s Symphony No. 2, also in D major, which had made its appearance only three years previously, in 1877. The two opening movements share not only the same key but also a strikingly similar mood and metre. However, even in this first movement, it is clear that this is a symphony in which Dvořák has developed a startlingly original voice. Unlike the Brahms, which is characterised by thick orchestral textures, this symphony uses cleaner and sparser scoring to create a sense of space and openness that conjures up images of the sunny Czech countryside. The first movement is regarded by some critics as the pinnacle of Dvořák’s musical achievement, with its distinct folk-inspired character, driving rhythmic energy and wonderfully bright harmonic colouring. It is brimming with liveliness and contrasts, from soft whispers to vibrant bursts of colour that reflect Dvořák’s passion for his homeland and the happiness it evoked in him. Written in three-part rondo form, the second movement has a soft, yearning quality that provides a contemplative moment of calm. The third movement could not be more different in character, revealing yet more strongly the composer’s indebtedness to Czech folk music. It replaces the traditional Scherzo movement with a vivacious Czech dance known as the Furiant, alternating between www.lmp.org
duple and triple time to create a frenzied whirl of rhythms and merriment. The central trio bristles with rustic energy and charm, an intimate, wistful interlude whose gentleness contrasts with the reckless energy of the rest of the movement. The symphony closes by resurrecting the main theme of the first movement in a different melodic arrangement, continuing the mood of liveliness and good humour. This theme is taken up first by the strings, then transferred to the woodwind in the dominant before returning to the strings again as the movement picks up pace. Two further themes, both of a similarly exuberant character, are later introduced before the symphony is brought to a jubilant close. Dvořák once again shows his indebtedness to Brahms in the final movement, which has much in common with the corresponding movement of the Brahms D major symphony. In his book Music of the Romantic Era, Alfred Einstein sums up the relationship between the two composers quite neatly: “Dvořák took over the heritage of absolute music quite naively, and filled its forms with an elemental kind of music of the freshest invention, the liveliest rhythm, the finest sense of sonority – it is the most full-blooded, direct music conceivable, without its becoming vulgar. He drew always from the sources of Slavic folk dance and folksong, much as Brahms had drawn from German; the only difference was that with Dvořák everything was childlike and fresh, whereas with Brahms there was always an overtone of yearning or mystical reverence.” © Femke Colborne
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Music Nation The LMPʼs contribution to the recent BBC Music Nation weekend for the Cultural Olympiadʼs London 2012 Festival gave a unique opportunity to Croydon school children to participate in some inspiring music-making. The culmination of a four-day residency in two Croydon primary schools featured a concert by 120 young people at the start of March 2012.
CURRENT PROJECTS AND RECENT HIGHLIGHTS ‘Side By Side in Shepshed’ Led by composer/animateur Fraser Trainer, this project worked with seven primary schools (around 90 children) in Shepshed, Leicestershire, to help them build a new youth orchestra for the area. For one week, Fraser and LMP musicians worked with the children, split into three groups, to write their own piece of music. At the end of the week, at an LMP Family Music Concert, all the young people played their pieces as part of the concert, and then joined in with the whole LMP for Fraser’s arrangement of In the Hall of the Mountain King for a grand finale. It was a huge success, and proved a great way of getting everyone to play together and to inspire the young musicians with what it feels like to be part of a big orchestra. START Project In the final year of this three-year project, the LMP is working with five primary and special schools in www.lmp.org
Four World Seasons, a brand new work by LMP Associate Composer Roxanna Panufnik inspired by Vivaldi and Piazzolla's Four Seasons offered the perfect platform from which to explore and showcase the cultural diversity of South London and make connections to the rest of the world. The children created their own musical responses to the seasons in workshops led by North Indian musician Kartik, Roxanna Panufnik and LMP musicians during the weeks before the première of Four World Seasons, which the children then performed at Fairfield Hallsʼ. South Holland Symphony In July 2012 the London Mozart Players and conductor Hilary Davan Wetton gave the world premiere of South Holland Symphony, a work by sound artist and composer Duncan Chapman, created in collaboration with local communities from the Lincolnshire district of South Holland. This twenty-minute work was the result of a number of workshops led by Chapman drawing on the remote landscapes of the area. Residents worked alongside LMP musicians to gather a collection of sounds, memories and vistas from which Chapman created the work. Featuring live film projections and images by Reja Ben Gajra, the performance took place in the South Holland Centre, Spalding, and formed part of the LMP’s ongoing residency in South Holland.
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FRIENDS OF THE LONDON MOZART PLAYERS
FORTHCOMING CONCERTS St Luke’s, Grayshott Friday 26 April 2013
7.30 pm
Elgar Panufnik Vivaldi
Serenade for Strings Four World Seasons The Four Seasons
Violin
Tasmin Little
Surrey Hills Music Festival St Theresa's School, Effingham Saturday, 4 May 2013 Mendelssohn Mendelssohn Mozart Mozart Mozart Conductor Violin Mezzo Soprano
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St. Luke's Church, Battersea Saturday, 18 May 2013
Purcell Chacony for Strings in G minor, Z 730 Britten Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings Walton Two Pieces for Strings from Henry V Elgar Serenade for Strings in E minor, Op. 20 Britten Simple Symphony for Strings, Op. 4 Tenor French Horn
7:30 PM
Hebrides Overture, in B minor Op. 26 Fingal's Cave Concerto for Violin in E minor, Op. 64 Pardo, pardo ma tu ben mio Deh, per questo istante sol Symphony no 35 in D major, K385 Haffner Gergely Madaras Alexander Sitkovetsky Sarah Connolly
7:30 PM
Ben Johnson Katy Woolley
Fairfield Halls, Croydon Thursday 23 May 2013
7.30pm
Beethoven Violin Concerto Beethoven Symphony No. 5 Conductor Gérard Korsten Violin Anthony Marwood