Fairfield Halls, Croydon
CONCERT SEASON 2013 /14
LMP Highlights 1949 The LMP is founded by its Artistic Director Harry Blech, who gives the first concert at Wigmore Hall, an all-Mozart programme featuring violinist Neville Marriner. The Haydn-Mozart Society is created. William Walton is appointed Chairman, and committee members include Alan Rawsthorne. Regular concerts are given in Chelsea Town Hall. 1951 The LMP is invited to perform at the new Royal Festival Hall for the Festival of Britain. 1952 The BBC’s Third
Programme invites the orchestra to perform Haydn’s six Paris Symphonies over a number of evenings. The BBC stages an extensive, high profile Mozart Festival at the RFH.
1964 The LMP under Harry Blech gives its first concert at Fairfield Halls with pianist Vladimir Ashkenazy, and debuts at the BBC Proms.
1970 The orchestra’s activity by now includes past visits to over 200 cities with over 200 soloists and eleven guest conductors.
1971 Featured soloists at the RFH concerts include John Lill, Murray Perahia, Andras Schiff and Dimitri Alexeev. 1981–82 A new relationship with BP includes sponsorship of a variety of music education projects. Mark Elder is appointed principal guest conductor.
1956 – 1957 The LMP’s first © Paul Chapman
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tours abroad are taken, including visits to Amsterdam, Italy and Sicily, and East Germany.
1984 Harry Blech retires, with a ‘Farewell Concert’ of
1960 The Haydn-Mozart Society installs a Mozart memorial outside the house in which he lived during his stay in London as a boy.
1962 A young
Jacqueline Du Pré performs with the LMP whilst still a student at the
Haydn, Mozart and Schubert. Jane Glover is appointed Artistic Director, launching her ‘Mozart Explored’ programmes at the RFH, as well as extensive touring to Europe and the Far East.
1985 Jane Glover presents BBC TV series Mozart – his life with Music, broadcast in 6 episodes featuring the LMP. 1987-88 The ‘Music of Two Decades’ programme launches at London’s Queen Elizabeth Hall, featuring nine concerts combining music from 1780s with the 1980s. Composers featured include Oliver Knussen. 1989 The London Mozart Players becomes resident
orchestra of Fairfield Halls, Croydon and of the London borough of Croydon. David Juritz becomes leader of the orchestra. Fortieth anniversary concerts feature a complete performance of A Midsummer Night’s Dream with the
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complete incidental music by Mendelssohn at the Royal Festival Hall. Other celebrations include an all-Mozart BBC Prom. Croydon-based global brand Nestlé UK joins the LMP as principal sponsor.
ongoing residencies at St John’s Smith Square, the Anvil, Basingstoke, and Turner Sims Concert Hall, Southampton.
1990 HRH The Earl of Wessex becomes patron of the LMP, playing an active part in the life of the orchestra by supporting fundraising events at Windsor Castle and Buckingham Palace.
2006 The LMP’s fifteenth
1991 Volkswagon becomes a corporate sponsor of the orchestra. The ‘Volkswagon Tour’ ‘Mozart in Focus’ concerts celebrate the composer’s centenary with eleven concerts throughout the UK, directed by Jane Glover.
2008 A brand new residency is formed in the rural district of South Holland, Lincs, with concerts and community participation projects.
1992–93 Jane Glover retires as Music Director. Her
2009 The LMP celebrates its 60th
successor Matthias Bamert is appointed, with Howard Shelley as Associate Conductor.
1994 The LMP celebrates its 45th anniversary. Générale des Eaux Companies develops its sponsorship of the orchestra, including the support of four concerts annual at the South Bank Centre and the new Contemporaries of Mozart recording series on Chandos. 1995 The LMP performs at
the BBC Proms in its centenary year with a programme of works by Britten and Mozart, plus the world premiere of Sally Beamish’s Viola Concerto by soloist Philip Dukes.
performance at the BBC Proms includes music by Schnittke and Mozart.
anniversary with a concert at Fairfield Halls. Celebration concerts also include the first performance of Lynne Plowman’s new score for the 1919 silent film The Cabinet of Dr Caligari, and the premiere of RESOUND, a work featuring fragments of Mozart’s unfinished chamber music and excerpts of archive recording material of the LMP in their earliest years.
2009–’10 Conductor Gérard Korsten
1999 Matthias Bamert retires, Andrew Parrott takes up
joins the orchestra as its fifth Music Director and Hilary Davan Wetton is appointed Associate Conductor. As with Voices and with Tears, composed by Tansy Davies and performed at Portsmouth Cathedral by the LMP and Portsmouth Grammar School is nominated for a South Bank Sky Arts 2011 Award.
2001 A BBC Proms concert includes works by Beethoven, Haydn and Judith Weir. LMP’s annual Remembrance Day service with Portsmouth Grammar School is established.
2011–12 Roxanna Panufnik is appointed Associate
the position of Music Director and James Galway becomes Principal Guest Conductor. The LMP celebrates its fiftieth anniversary with a gala concert, the same all-Mozart programme performed in the orchestra’s very first concert.
Composer. The LMP participates in the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad ‘Music Nation’ with the world premiere of Panufnik’s Four World Seasons, and the orchestra performs the official gala concert for Fairfield Halls’ fiftieth anniversary celebration.
2003 The LMP tours to Austria with James Galway, and www.lmp.org
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New informal classical concerts from the London Mozart Players
Think that Classical Music isn’t for you? Worried you’ll clap in the wrong place? Love music but not sure whether you like it classical? LMP’s GET IN concerts launch at Fairfield Halls in Autumn 2013. Mind expanding, extraordinary and deconstructed, our hour-long events will give you a whole new perspective on ‘classical’ music. • Get inside the music and hear a piece being performed during our season • Bring a drink from the bar, sit back and enjoy the experience of world class musicians performing and demonstrating music in a relaxed, informal environment • You can ask questions! It is your concert and your music to discover! • Conducted by former Classic FM presenter Hilary Davan Wetton, who introduces and guides you through the music, step-by-step • £10 tickets for everyone
Fairfield Halls, Croydon, 6.30pm
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Wednesday 25 September 2013
Mozart Symphony No.40 in G minor K550 Why is this work one of the most performed and recorded of Mozart’s? What gives it its magic, grace, passion and emotion? Did Mozart write it to be performed at all? And why did he run from the concert hall during the first ever performance?!
Tuesday 22 October 2013
Vaughan Williams Symphony No.5 in D major After its first performance 70 years ago this year, why is this Symphony considered to be one of the greatest works from one of the UK’s greatest composers? Which other world-famous composer did Vaughan Williams dedicate the work to, and how has it influenced music since?
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Welcome to the LMP’s 2013/14 season
at Fairfield Halls, Croydon
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e have an outstanding choice of concerts with plenty of Mozart for which this orchestra is justifiably famous. But we also continue to explore the work of numerous other composers spanning the centuries and continents. We are delighted to be celebrating the 70th birthday of the LMP’s Associate Conductor Hilary Davan Wetton, who conducts two concerts of the best repertoire of the British Isles from the early 20th century, also reflected in programmes across the season. Our world-class soloists this season include BBC Young Musician of the Year Laura van der Heijden, Mark Simpson, Angela Hewitt and Claire Rutter, and we welcome back the LMP’s Conductor Laureate, Howard Shelley. These are
extraordinary concerts in the heart of Croydon, thanks to the generous support of Croydon Council, Fairfield Halls and our supporters in the borough. The LMP loves newcomers and we are keen for you to give the orchestra a try. You are welcome to meet some of our players, soloists and staff after the concert in the foyer bar after every concert, or try our brand new events this Autumn – Get In to Classical Music – informal concerts that explore and explain two iconic orchestral works by Mozart and Vaughan Williams in a relaxed setting. My colleagues and I look forward to welcoming you to our concerts this season.
Simon Funnell Managing Director
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t is with great pleasure that I introduce the LMP’s 2013/14 season at Fairfield Halls. I am delighted to be entering my fourth season as the Music Director of the LMP, to conduct four concerts of brilliant music. We are delighted to welcome some of the UK’s finest British soloists to Croydon. Performing with the LMP for the first time are clarinettist Mark Simpson, pianist Angela Hewitt, and the current BBC Young Musician Laura van der Heijden who joins the LMP in her debut performance of Elgar’s Cello Concerto. We welcome back soprano Claire Rutter and violinist Anthony Marwood, and the LMP once again is joined by the outstanding conductors Howard Shelley and LMP’s Associate Conductor, Hilary Davan Wetton, who we wish a very happy 70th birthday this season. We celebrate the cornerstones of the piano repertoire with several of Mozart’s best-loved concerti, and I look forward to showcasing three of Schubert’s mighty Symphonies. I am very much looking forward to the season with the LMP, and to seeing you all again for another successful year.
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2013 /14 CONCERT SEASON All concerts at 7.30pm unless otherwise stated.
Thursday 10 October
2013
Rossini Overture: The Italian Girl in Algiers Mozart Symphony No.40 in G minor K550 Schubert Symphony No.6 in C major Conductor: Gérard Korsten
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he London Mozart Players 2013/14 season opens with a programme of sparkling orchestral favourites. Mozart’s enduring 40th Symphony is the second of three ‘final’ works written by the composer only a few years
before his tragically untimely death. It is the perfect piece for new-comers to Classical music. The programme concludes with Schubert’s bold Symphony No.6, written by the 21-year old composer as a musical nod to the ‘Rossini fever’ that had recently hit Vienna.
Pre-Concert Conversations
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efore 7.30pm concerts, at 6.30 the LMP’s Managing Director, Simon Funnell hosts a lively pre-concert conversation with conductors, soloists and LMP musicians; free to concert ticket-holders.
If there is no pre-concert talk due to other events taking place, we endeavour to post this information on our website at least 24 hours before the concert
Online bookings: www.fairfield.co.uk
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Thursday 7 November
2013
Warlock Capriol Suite Elgar Cello Concerto in E minor, Op.85 Vaughan Williams Symphony No.5 in D major Conductor Hilary Davan Wetton Cello Laura van der Heijden (BBC Young Musician of the Year winner 2012)
Thursday 12 December
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MOZART Don Giovanni Overture MOZART Clarinet concerto in A major GINASTERA Concerto for Strings SCHUBERT Symphony No.1 Conductor Gérard Korsten Clarinet Mark Simpson We are delighted to welcome British clarinettist Mark Simpson, winner of the 2006 BBC Young Musician of the Year Competition, who performs this celebrated work written during Mozart’s miraculously inspired final year. The concert also introduces the LMP’s season-long celebration of Schubert’s ‘local’ connections. Written at the tender age of sixteen, Schubert’s first symphony received its world premiere at the Crystal Palace, at the time considered an exciting ‘new music’ destination. 8
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LMP Associate Conductor Hilary Davan Wetton, conducts the first of two concerts this season to mark his 70th birthday. We are delighted to welcome the 2012 BBC Young Musician winner Laura van der Heijden who takes to the stage to give her first ever public performance of Elgar’s beautiful and impassioned cello concerto of 1919. Vaughan Williams ravishing Fifth Symphony concludes this programme celebrating the very best in English repertoire.
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Family Christmas Concert Conductor
Christopher Bell Programme includes: Blake The Snowman Christopher Bell and the LMP once again bring the spirit of Christmas to Fairfield Halls with a toe-tapping, key jangling audience participation concert of Christmas classics, concluding with a screening of Raymond Brigg’s classic story The Snowman, with Howard Blake’s fantastic score performed live by the orchestra.
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Thursday 30 January
2014
ˇ Dvo Rák Symphonic Variations, Op.78 Mozart Piano Concerto No.25, K503 ˇ Dvo Rák New World Symph. No.9 in E minor Op.95 Conductor/Piano: Howard Shelley LMP regular guest artist Howard Shelley conducts and plays in the first of two concerts this season with an ever-popular Mozart Piano Concerto, and two stunning works by the Czech composer Antonín Dvoˇrák. The composer’s New World Symphony regularly appears in the top ten of favourite symphonies; it was written in 1893 whilst the composer was living in America and was even launched into space by Neil Armstrong as the piece he chose to accompany him on the Apollo 11 moon landing!
Thursday 27 February
2014
Ravel Mother Goose Suite R Strauss Four Last Songs Butterworth A Shropshire Lad; Rhapsody for orchestra Mendelssohn Symphony No.5, Op.107 Reformation Conductor Hilary Davan Wetton Soprano Claire Rutter This gala concert celebrates the 70th birthday of Hilary Davan Wetton, the LMP’s Associate Conductor. Ravel’s charming Mother Goose Suite opens the concert, before Richard Strauss’s hauntingly beautiful masterpiece Four Last Songs is performed by one of this country’s most outstanding sopranos, Claire Rutter. The ‘pastoral’ treats of Butterworth’s lush English music stand in perfect contrast to the concert finale, Mendelssohn’s grand Reformation Symphony. 10 www.lmp.org
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MENDELSSOHN Hebrides Overture ‘Fingal’s Cave’ SCHUMANN Violin Concerto in D minor SCHUBERT Symphony No.2 in B flat, D. 125
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Thursday 20 March
Conductor Gérard Korsten Violin Anthony Marwood Join the LMP for a Romantic concert and be transported to the dramatic seascape of the Scottish islands. Mendelssohn visited The Hebrides in 1830 and he sent the opening lines of the overture on a postcard to his sister, writing: “In order to make you understand how extraordinarily The Hebrides affected me, I send you the following, which came into my head there”. Schumann’s Violin Concerto welcomes back the world-class playing of
the ‘Rock star equivalent of the Classical music world’, Anthony Marwood, and Schubert’s second symphony re-visits the LMP’s trip to the sound-world of the Crystal Palace.
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Thursday 10 April
2014
Conductor/Piano: Howard Shelley
Poulenc Sinfonietta Haydn Piano Concerto No.11 in D Poulenc Aubade Haydn Symphony 104, London Howard Shelley returns to Fairfield Halls with his second LMP programme, this a charming and unusual combination of Haydn and Poulenc. Haydn was the great classical symphonist who did more than any other composer before him to push the boundaries of the form. Composing in the early part of the 20th century, Poulenc’s music is famous for a fascinating mix of moods and emotions, from the sentimental to the absurd.
Thursday 29 May
2014 7.45pm
Tippett Divertimento for Chamber Orchestra Mozart Piano Concerto No.17, K453 Beethoven Symphony No.2 in D major Op.36 Conductor Gérard Korsten Piano Angela Hewitt We are delighted to welcome one of the most outstanding pianists of her generation Angela Hewitt to Fairfield Halls and to work with the London Mozart Players for the first time, in one of Mozart’s popular piano works. The concerto is framed by Tippett’s set of variations based on an Irish dance tune harmonised by the Elizabethan Composer William Byrd, called “Sellinger’s Round”, and Beethoven’s Second Symphony, a remarkable work evoking the natural world’s beauty. 12 www.lmp.org
Friends of the LMP
Have you ever considered supporting the LMP by becoming a Friend?
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oining the LMP Friends is a great way to support the LMP and become a part of a very friendly group of people who share your love of music. We depend on the loyalty of our supporters to help us continue to present concerts and our award-winning programme of community and education work. In return, we offer wide-ranging benefits, including discounted tickets for
concerts in Fairfield, opportunities to meet the musicians and a wealth of socialising events.
For more information on the Friends of the LMP, please contact the LMP office on 020 8686 1996 or go to www.lmp.org www.lmp.org
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here are many ways for you to be involved with the LMP, to ensure that the oldest chamber orchestra in the UK has a bright future. Play your part today. From world-class concerts to inspiring education and community projects, none of the LMP’s work would be possible without the help of all our supporters. Every donation, whatever the size, is very important to us and will make a big difference.
CONDUCTORS’ CIRCLE Our most generous Benefactors belong to this exclusive group. Members of the Conductors’ Circle are closely involved with the orchestra’s musicians and management team and play a significant role in the life of the LMP. By way of a thank you for their support, members of the Conductors’ Circle are invited to a sumptuous dinner and recital hosted by the orchestra’s Patron, HRH The Earl of Wessex KG GCVO.
SUPPORTERS Bronze supporters make donations of up to £50, Silver Supporters make donations of £50 and above and Gold Supporters make donations of £100 and above.
MAKING A GIFT IN YOUR WILL Making a legacy gift to the LMP is a great way to ensure that future generations of audiences can continue to be inspired by the orchestra that has inspired you. If you have a will or are making one, this would be a
CHAIR SPONSORS From as little as £20 per month, you can sponsor the chair of one of the LMP musicians and enjoy a special connection with the orchestra. You can support an LMP chair with a single donation or you can choose to donate monthly by standing order. Whichever chair you sponsor, your donation will support a crucial part of the orchestra and will give you a unique insight into the life of the LMP.
good way to make a lasting provision for the future of the orchestra and because the LMP is a registered charity, your donation to us can help reduce your tax liability. If you have already remembered LMP in your will, we are very grateful. If you would like to, please let us know (in strictest confidence). We would value the opportunity to thank you and keep you more closely involved in our work.
BENEFACTORS Our Benefactors are musical patrons, following in the footsteps of those passionate, committed and generous philanthropists who, throughout the centuries, have enabled great musicians to compose and perform. Benefactors make an annual donation of £1,000 and above.
For more information please contact Caroline Downing at the LMP office on 020 8686 1996 or email development@ lmp.org
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BOOKING INFORMATION Telephone bookings: 020 8688 9291
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DISCOUNTS Families and young people If you would like to bring one or more children to our concerts, free tickets are available for up to 4 under-18s if you purchase at least one full price ticket. This offer is subject to availability. For more details visit www.lmp.org.
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SUBSCRIPTION SERIES If you book 3 or more LMP concerts you are entitled to generous discounts: 3-4 concerts: 10% 5-6 concerts: 15% 7-9 concerts: 20%
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