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2016/17 Concert Season at Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall
2016 HIGHLIGHTS
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Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor Vladimir Jurowski opens the season with masterpieces by Debussy and Bartók, and continues his exploration of Bruckner symphonies with a performance of the Fourth.
Osmo Vänskä conducts a fourconcert Sibelius Symphony Cycle. His Sibelius concerts with us in 2010 were widely regarded as one of the classical highlights of the year – don’t miss this chance to hear more memorable occasions.
Violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter, one of the great all-time virtuosos, makes a welcome return to perform Beethoven’s momentous Violin Concerto under the baton of Robin Ticciati.
Principal Guest Conductor Andrés Orozco-Estrada gives a performance of Beethoven’s groundbreaking Symphony No.3 (Eroica) and is joined by another stellar violinist, Hilary Hahn, for Bruch’s much-loved First Violin Concerto.
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Vladimir Jurowski is joined by an exceptional cast of singers to launch the Orchestra’s year-long festival Belief and Beyond Belief with a concert performance of Beethoven’s opera Fidelio.
Andrés Orozco-Estrada conducts the UK premiere of Kernis’s Flute Concerto, and in our FUNharmonics family concert, science meets music in the first ever concert hall laboratory!
A chance to hear more choral music to suit all tastes: Vladimir Jurowski begins the month with Penderecki’s cataclysmic St Luke Passion, while Nathalie Stutzmann closes with Mozart’s sublime Requiem.
Jurowski continues his Mahler Symphony Cycle – a chance to experience the massive orchestral and choral forces of the aptly titled ‘Symphony of a Thousand’. It is preceded by Tallis’s glorious motet Spem in Alium.
Christoph Eschenbach leads the Orchestra and talented young vocalists in Beethoven’s final Symphony No. 9 (Choral) to bring the season to an uplifting close.
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Welcome to our 2016/17 season
Other season highlights include Anne-Sophie Mutter playing Beethoven’s Violin Concerto, the return of Osmo Vänskä to conduct a Sibelius Symphony Cycle, Jurowski’s continuation of his Mahler and Bruckner symphony cycles, and the world premiere of the American jazz composer Belief and Beyond Belief will interest secular Wayne Shorter’s Clarinet Concerto. We are audiences and those of all faiths, and offers also delighted to welcome back cabaret diva everyone the opportunity for personal exploration; Meow Meow for a spectacular evening of to understand one’s belief or otherwise, and to ‘orchestrated chaos’ with the LPO and members look beyond current prejudices and preconceptions of the cross-genre band Pink Martini. I hope to what unites us in our understanding of what you will join us. makes us human. After the huge success of The Rest Is Noise festival in 2013, we are excited to be collaborating once again with Southbank Centre on a large-scale multi-artform festival.
We have devoted our 2017 concerts to the festival beginning with Beethoven’s profound statement on the human condition, Fidelio. Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor, Vladimir Jurowski, takes a major role throughout as we explore belief through meaning, science, death, ideology and society as revealed in works ranging from Haydn’s The Creation to John Adams’s Harmonielehre (see pages 26–27 for details).
Timothy Walker AM Chief Executive and Artistic Director
A selection of this season’s concerts will be broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 bbc.co.uk/radio3
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Friday 23 September 2016 7.30pm Royal Festival Hall
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Debussy Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune Szymanowski Violin Concertos Nos. 1 & 2* Bartók Suite, The Miraculous Mandarin
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Vladimir Jurowski conductor Nicola Benedetti violin A flute sighs languorously in the afternoon warmth, a harp swoons, and on a great glowing surge of sound, the London Philharmonic Orchestra’s new season comes to life. At the dawn of the 20th century Debussy’s Prélude à l’aprèsmidi d’un faune released a flood-tide of musical colour, and Vladimir Jurowski has chosen an opening night that’s positively drenched in it. Nicola Benedetti will dazzle in Szymanowski’s two Violin Concertos; no one plays this sensuous music with more radiance or panache. Then the full orchestra goes for broke as it enters the neon-lit fantasy-world of Bartók’s The Miraculous Mandarin: music that’s brutal, brilliant and utterly breathtaking.
Professor Jim Samson from Royal Holloway, University of London, looks at the two very different violin concertos by Szymanowski.
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JUROWSKI AND BENEDETTI
Wednesday 28 September 2016 7.30pm Royal Festival Hall
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ROMANTIC SYMPHONY
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Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 1* Bruckner Symphony No. 4 (Romantic)
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Vladimir Jurowski conductor Valery Afanassiev piano
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Once upon a time … The first notes of Bruckner’s Fourth have got to be amongst the most magical beginnings in all music. The air seems to shimmer, and a horn calls softly from the mists: no wonder he called this symphony the ‘Romantic’. Bruckner imagined a story of knights, forests and distant castles, but he preferred to let the music speak for itself, and that’s exactly what Vladimir Jurowski will do in this performance. It’s a noble counterpart to Beethoven’s brilliant First Piano Concerto, as the twenty-something genius composer runs exuberantly off the leash in music that wears its classical credentials with irresistibly romantic flair.
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Saturday 8 October 2016 7.30pm Royal Festival Hall
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Sibelius Suite, King Kristian II Panufnik Violin Concerto* Shostakovich Symphony No. 5
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Lady Camilla Panufnik joins actor and music enthusiast Simon Callow to share an insight into her late husband’s life and music.
Thomas Søndergård conductor Sergej Krylov violin Shostakovich called his Fifth Symphony ‘a Soviet artist’s creative response to just criticism’. Well, that was the official line. Like everything in Stalin’s Russia though, the reality was a bit more complicated, and the music is a lot more gripping. Conductor Thomas Søndergård brings all his trademark energy to a symphony that defined the 20th century – music that really is a matter of life and death. It’s the ideal companion-piece for the atmospheric Violin Concerto by Andrzej Panufnik, the post-war Polish master who found refuge in the UK, and the rich Nordic colours of Sibelius’s rarely-performed evocation of a doomed romance, far away and long ago.
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A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH
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MOZART AND MAHLER
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Wednesday 12 October 2016 7.30pm Royal Festival Hall Haydn Overture, The Apothecary Mozart Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor, K491 Mahler Symphony No. 4 Vladimir Jurowski conductor Lucas Debargue piano Sofia Fomina soprano
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Mahler’s final word was ‘Mozart’. And there’s no doubt that when you place the two composers together, they throw a fascinating light on each other – especially when one of the works in question is Mahler’s brightest and most elegant symphony, his Fourth. But there are ominous depths beneath its playful surface, just as the impassioned 24th Piano Concerto reveals a side of Mozart that’s a million miles from periwigs and minuets. It’s an inspired pairing – and an LPO debut for Lucas Debargue, the young French pianist whose intensely personal artistry caused a sensation at the 2015 Tchaikovsky Competition.
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October
THE SYMPHONY LIVES Saturday 15 October 2016 7.30pm Royal Festival Hall Stravinsky Symphonies of Wind Instruments (1947 version) Stravinsky Variations (Aldous Huxley in Memoriam) Zimmermann Violin Concerto Henze Symphony No. 7
‘The symphony lives!’ When Hans Werner Henze’s Seventh Symphony was first performed back in the 1980s, critics couldn’t believe their ears. Powerful, poetic and unashamedly grand, this is a symphony in the tradition of Beethoven and Mahler that speaks directly to audiences here and now. Vladimir Jurowski has paired it with two timeless 20th-century classics by Stravinsky – and is joined by Thomas Zehetmair to perform the extraordinary post-war Violin Concerto by Bernd Alois Zimmermann: music that sings, yells and dances its way out of one of the darkest periods in European history. Four masterpieces that simply demand to be heard.
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@LPORCHESTRA FIRST TIME SEEING THE LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA YESTERDAY, AND WHAT AN INCREDIBLE EXPERIENCE. THANK YOU.
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A SYMPHONY IS NOT JUST A COMPOSITION IN THE ORDINARY SENSE OF THE WORD; IT IS MORE OF AN INNER CONFESSION AT DIFFERENT STAGES OF ONE’S LIFE.
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OSMO VÄNSKÄ: SIBELIUS SYMPHONY CYCLE From the rock, air and water of his native Finland, Sibelius created seven symphonies that tower over 20th-century music. He drew on nature and folklore, wrestled his personal demons and confronted the turmoil of 20th-century history to redefine the symphony in the modern age. With their soaring melodies, passionate emotions and majestic scale, the works that resulted are as fresh, powerful and stirring as the northern landscape itself. Yet their elemental logic and uncompromising honesty offered a new way forward for Western music: a vision of continuity and renewal that continues to resonate today.
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So we’re thrilled to welcome Osmo Vänskä – described by The Daily Telegraph as ‘one of the greatest living Sibelius conductors’– for four concerts that match Sibelius’s symphonies with renowned British concertos. Sibelius was a potent inspiration to British composers of the first half of the 20th century. By placing Sibelius alongside the very different voices of Elgar, Britten, Walton and Vaughan Williams, Vänskä will reveal the qualities that make each of these works a classic: music that never stops sounding new.
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PRIDE AND PASSION Wednesday 19 October 2016 7.30pm Royal Festival Hall Sibelius Karelia Suite Britten Violin Concerto Sibelius Symphony No. 1 Osmo Vänskä conductor Simone Lamsma violin Every journey has to begin somewhere, and for the young Sibelius that place was the national pride and burgeoning creativity of Finland at the end of the 19th century. Osmo Vänskä launches the LPO’s Sibelius Cycle with the cheerful patriotism of the Karelia Suite and the romantic verve of the First Symphony – music of primal forces and heady romance. In between comes Britten’s anguished Violin Concerto, written on the brink of the Second World War and performed tonight by the young Dutch virtuoso Simone Lamsma. Expect dark visions and big tunes: a stirring start to a truly epic tale.
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Friday 21 October 2016 7.30pm Royal Festival Hall
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Sibelius Symphony No. 3 Vaughan Williams The Lark Ascending Sibelius Symphony No. 2
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TRIUMPH AND TRANQUILITY
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Osmo Vänskä conductor Yu-Chien Tseng violin A country scene swells to a hymn of triumph, shining crags emerge from swirling banks of fog, and in faraway England, a lark soars blissfully into the summer sky. The second instalment of Osmo Vänskä’s Sibelius adventure with the LPO ranges from the classical energy of Sibelius’s Third Symphony to the sweeping emotional odyssey of the ever-popular Second – and it all ends in a blaze of glory. We also hear the winner of the 2015 Singapore International Violin Competition, Yu-Chien Tseng, take wing in Vaughan Williams’s The Lark Ascending. Like Sibelius’s symphonies, this is music rooted in its own sense of place that somehow speaks with a universal voice.
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DARKNESS AND LIGHT
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Wednesday 26 October 2016 7.30pm Royal Festival Hall
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Elgar Cello Concerto Sibelius Symphony No. 4 Sibelius Symphony No. 5
The first concert with our 2016/17 Foyle Future Firsts, conducted by Osmo Vänskä, includes a rarely heard octet arrangement of Sibelius’s En Saga, by Jaakko Kuusisto.
Osmo Vänskä conductor Raphael Wallfisch cello Sibelius was a man of extremes: in fact, some would say that his darkest symphony is also his greatest. In his enigmatic Fourth Symphony, he stares into the bleakest corners of the human soul – and finds a surprising strength. And then, in his Fifth, he creates a vision of hope, courage and renewal, crowned by one of the simplest but most unforgettable tunes ever written. Meanwhile, in a quiet woodland cottage in the Sussex Downs, Elgar was channelling all his dreams and sorrows into his haunting Cello Concerto, performed on this occasion by Raphael Wallfisch.
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TOWARDS THE HORIZON
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Friday 28 October 2016 7.30pm Royal Festival Hall Sibelius The Oceanides Walton Violin Concerto Sibelius Symphony No. 6 Sibelius Symphony No. 7
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‘Other composers mix colourful cocktails’, said Jean Sibelius. ‘I serve pure cold water.’ Not that there’s anything cool about the luminous Mediterranean seascape of The Oceanides – or for that matter, Walton’s glittering Italian fantasy of a violin concerto, played on this occasion by Tasmin Little. But there’s no mistaking the purity and freshness of the Finnish landscape as evoked in Sibelius’s Sixth Symphony – it’s some of the most serenely beautiful music he ever wrote. Finally, Osmo Vänskä reaches the climax of his LPO Sibelius Cycle with the monumental Seventh Symphony: a life’s work, brought to completion in a single mighty gesture.
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November
MEOW MEOW WITH MEMBERS OF PINK MARTINI Tuesday 1 November 2016 7.30pm Royal Festival Hall Meow Meow’s Pandemonium
At last! An evening of (almost) completely orchestrated CHAOS. International siren and comedienne extraordinaire Meow Meow brings her glorious brand of subversive and sublime performance to Royal Festival Hall. Piano virtuoso Thomas M. Lauderdale, with a trio of musicians from his band Pink Martini, and the London Philharmonic Orchestra join the spectacular queen of song for an unforgettable evening of exquisite music and much mayhem. Prepare for Piazzolla tangos, Weill, Brecht, Brel, even Radiohead alongside original chansons by Meow.
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A CABARET DIVA OF THE HIGHEST ORDER.
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Saturday 5 November 2016 7.30pm Royal Festival Hall
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FROM THE HEART Beethoven Missa Solemnis
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Beethoven laboured for four years on his Missa Solemnis. ‘Written from the heart – that it may go to the heart’, was how he described the finished masterpiece, and whatever your own beliefs, this is one of those pieces that everyone needs to hear for themselves, as one of the greatest geniuses in the history of Western art grapples with the supreme questions of human existence. The result is intensely beautiful and profoundly moving. Sir Mark Elder shares a lifetime’s experience in this performance; add the London Philharmonic Choir and a superb team of soloists and this should be an evening that will stay with you for years. Please note there will be no interval during this performance.
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Wednesday 9 November 2016 7.30pm Royal Festival Hall Beethoven Violin Concerto Dvorˇák Symphony No. 9 (From the New World)
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With some artists, the name is enough. Anne-Sophie Mutter describes herself as having a ‘mountain-climbing personality’, though for most music-lovers, she’s purely and simply one of the best violinists in the world today. Any chance to hear her live is a major occasion, and to hear her scale the heights of Beethoven’s huge, sunlit concerto is something very special indeed. To accompany her, Robin Ticciati makes a welcome return – and he’ll bring all his insight and sense of theatre to Dvorˇák’s best-loved symphony too. Some pieces are classics for a reason, and with Ticciati conducting, expect the New World to spring sparkling to life.
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MUTTER PLAYS BEETHOVEN
Wednesday 30 November 2016 7.30pm Royal Festival Hall
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PARISIAN BLUES
THE ORCHESTRA RESPONDED HUNGRILY TO OROZCO-ESTRADA’S FURIOUS TEMPOS WITH TREMENDOUSLY EXCITING ENERGY.
Barber Overture, The School for Scandal Wayne Shorter Clarinet Concerto (world premiere)* Gershwin An American in Paris Ravel Daphnis and Chloé, Suite No. 2 Andrés Orozco-Estrada conductor Julian Bliss clarinet
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Free pre-concert event 6.15pm – 6.45pm Royal Festival Hall Julian Bliss discusses and demonstrates the new Clarinet Concerto by jazz legend Wayne Shorter.
Imagine sunrise spreading over a whole enchanted world, as streams glitter, breezes stir, and a million birds sing for joy. Now imagine it in sound – and you’re getting close to the sheer sonic wonder of Ravel’s Daphnis and Chloé. But then, this concert is all about the joy of sound, from Barber’s sassy Art-Deco overture to Gershwin’s fabulously jazzy postcard from Paris – complete with smoky dive-bar blues. Expect some seriously stylish conducting from Andrés Orozco-Estrada; and expect music-making that’s charged with electricity as Julian Bliss commits body and soul to a stunning new Clarinet Concerto by jazz legend Wayne Shorter. *Commissioned by the London Philharmonic Orchestra and argovia philharmonic.
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ROMANTIC REVOLUTION Friday 2 December 2016 7.30pm Royal Festival Hall Weber Overture, Euryanthe Bruch Violin Concerto No. 1 Beethoven Symphony No. 3 (Eroica)
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Two chords slam out, and music is changed forever. Forged by an angry young genius in an age of revolution, Beethoven’s Eroica Symphony electrified the world of music when it was first performed – and it’s still every bit as thrilling today. Under Principal Guest Conductor Andrés Orozco-Estrada, it’s a fitting climax to a concert that positively buzzes with romantic energy, from the pageantry and verve of Weber’s flamboyant overture to the summer storms and gypsy dances of Bruch’s ever-popular Violin Concerto No. 1 – performed by a true superstar amongst international violinists, Hilary Hahn.
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POSTCARDS FROM RUSSIA Wednesday 7 December 2016 7.30pm Royal Festival Hall Glinka Spanish Overtures Prokofiev Cello Concerto Dargomyzhsky Baba-Yaga (Fantasy-Scherzo) Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 2 (Little Russian) Vladimir Jurowski conductor Steven Isserlis cello Whether they were in the St Petersburg of the Tsars, or Moscow under the Soviets, Russian composers wrote music without boundaries. Dargomyzhsky imagined Russian folklore’s very worst witch flying from the heart of Russia to the coast of Latvia; Tchaikovsky took a Ukrainian folksong and transformed it into a riot of symphonic colour. Prokofiev poured out his heart in a cello concerto that goes far beyond its modest title, which is performed in this concert by Steven Isserlis, one of its most masterful living interpreters. And Mikhail Glinka has the time of his life in sunny Spain – a delightfully irreverent starting point for a voyage of musical discovery.
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ANOTHER EVENING OF AMBITION AND HIGH QUALITY FROM THE LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA. Financial Times, March 2015
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RACHMANINOFF IN LOVE Wednesday 14 December 2016 7.30pm Royal Festival Hall Glinka Waltz Fantasy Chopin Piano Concerto No. 1 Rachmaninoff Symphony No. 1 Vladimir Jurowski conductor Jan Lisiecki piano
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Inside the young Rachmaninoff was a volcano of passion – and in his First Symphony, it erupts. Soaring melodies, blazing fanfares and dark, thunderous stormclouds of emotion: it’s got everything you could ask for from Rachmaninoff – and then some. Vladimir Jurowski loves it, and he feels the same way about Glinka’s delicious little miniature from the ballrooms of imperial St Petersburg. At the age of 21, meanwhile, Jan Lisiecki has already emerged as one of the supreme Chopin interpreters of our time. Chopin was only 20 when he wrote his First Concerto, so it’s hard to imagine a better champion for this gloriously romantic music.
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SUNLIGHT AND STORM CLOUDS
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Friday 13 January 2017 7.30pm Royal Festival Hall Brahms Violin Concerto Brahms Symphony No. 1 Manfred Honeck conductor Ray Chen violin
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Think of Brahms and you could picture a grand old man with a huge beard. However, his First Symphony is the work of a young artist wrestling with love, loss and the whole weight of musical history. From the pounding heartbeats of its opening to the heaven-storming triumph of its closing bars, this is a symphony written in blood and tears; a fitting challenge for the great Viennese conductor Manfred Honeck. First though, comes another gentler side of Brahms’s genius, as the winner of both the Queen Elisabeth and Yehudi Menuhin competitions, Ray Chen, scales the peaks of Brahms’s Violin Concerto: refreshment for the spirit, bathed in Alpine sunlight.
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Belief and Beyond Belief Being human in the 21st century
A Southbank Centre Festival of Music, Literature, Performance, Exhibition and Debate in partnership with the London Philharmonic Orchestra. Since the Age of Enlightenment and the subsequent revelations of science and technology, reason has challenged religious belief. Yet despite rational explanations for so many of religion’s core beliefs, the 21st century looks set to be defined by religion, often in extreme forms. This seemingly innate need in so many people to find meaning for their lives and a sense of where they fit into the universe, with all its mystery and majesty, is a constant in all periods of human history. This combination of succour, sublime joy and the fear of eternal damnation has been one of the main sources of creative inspiration. It has produced some of the greatest music and art ever created as societies wrestled with the concept of the divine. Belief and Beyond Belief explores the music, art, culture, science, philosophy, ritual and traditions that have swirled around, informed and debated religion in its many guises. The Festival also looks at the broader question of what it means to be human, what is the human spirit, what qualities separate us from the animal kingdom whether we involve religion or not. The Festival will look at challenges to religious belief and will ask which, if any, of the mores and rituals and practices of religious belief can be relevant and useful to the world in the 21st century. What are the risks to societies if they become more secular and how will that influence artists?
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From Haydn to Strauss, from Kancheli to Glass, Belief and Beyond Belief looks at music that speaks of the Divine and the human spirit. From Richard Dawkins to Jeanette Winterson, from Rabindranath Tagore to Primo Levi, we investigate the struggle to define the absolute. Nearly all of the London Philharmonic Orchestra’s 2017 Royal Festival Hall concerts will form part of this Festival, the first half of which falls within this season brochure. Alongside these concerts (January–May 2017) there will be a wide range of additional events including performances, lectures, debates, and literary events programmed by Southbank Centre, including the first five of eight weekends covering the great questions surrounding our experiences of life – and death: — The Search for the Meaning of Life (20–22 January) — Should Science depose Religion? (3–5 February) — The Quick and the Dead... How do we live with Death? (3–5 March) — Political Ideology and its impact on a Spiritual Life (7–9 April) — What has Religion ever done for Society? (5–7 May) Find out more about additional festival content and resources throughout the season at: lpo.org.uk/beliefandbeyondbelief
THE BELIEF IN SOMETHING GREATER THAN OURSELVES HAS PREOCCUPIED HUMANITY FOR CENTURIES. IN THIS FESTIVAL OF MUSIC INSPIRED BY SPIRITUAL BELIEF, WE ATTEMPT TO LAY OPEN THE GRANDEUR, ENIGMA AND CONFLICT IN OUR SEARCH FOR, AND UNDERSTANDING OF, THE DIVINE.
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Saturday 21 January 2017 7.30pm Royal Festival Hall
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Beethoven Fidelio
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JUROWSKI AND THE LPO MADE SURE THIS GOLDEN EVENING LIVED UP TO THE BILLING.
Chained in a dungeon, an innocent man awaits certain death. But as the world goes about its business above him, someone has remembered his plight – and maybe, just maybe, the new prisonwarder Fidelio holds the key to his fate. Beethoven loved his only opera more than anything he ever wrote. It’s a tale of disguises and escapes, of tyranny and freedom, of heroism and love, all set to music of soul-stirring nobility and compassion, and it loses none of its power in concert. Vladimir Jurowski and the LPO are joined by London Voices and a world-class cast to retell one of the most inspiring stories ever set to music.
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Wednesday 25 January 2017 7.30pm Royal Festival Hall
JUROWSKI SHAPED AN EXCEPTIONALLY VIVID PERFORMANCE THAT STRESSED THE MUSIC’S ORIGINALITY AND TIMELESS APPEAL.
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Vladimir Jurowski conductor Kim Kashkashian viola Those 20th-century blues … from the darkest depths of the Second World War, Bohuslav Martinu˚ cries out in anguish and rage. In Soviet Georgia, Giya Kancheli mourns a friend with a searingly beautiful musical liturgy; music stained with tears, performed tonight by one of the world’s finest viola players. And the 85-year-old Vaughan Williams rages against the dying of the light in a Ninth Symphony of breathtaking ambition and imaginative fire. Three great composers, three extraordinary testimonies; as Vladimir Jurowski and the Orchestra invite you to discover a different face of a century we all thought we knew.
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Saturday 28 January 2017 7.30pm Royal Festival Hall
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Rebel Les élémens (Simphonie nouvelle) Milhaud La Création du monde John Adams Harmonielehre
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Vladimir Jurowski conductor How do you make a new musical world? Well, begin by forgetting everything you thought you knew about French baroque music – as Jean-Féry Rebel did in his uproarious Les élémens. Give it a bit of a swing, like Milhaud did in La Création du monde – a genre-busting ballet from the cafés and dance-halls of Jazz-Age Paris. And then, perhaps, like John Adams, close your eyes and dream of a supertanker rocketing skywards out of San Francisco Bay. That’s the astonishing vision that launches Adams’s ‘minimalist symphony’ Harmonielehre: the glittering finish to a concert that might just change the very way you listen to music.
Composers through the centuries have been fascinated by scientific discovery. This talk will guide us through their portrayal of such turning points as the speed of light, the atomic bomb and space and beyond.
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THE KIND OF HEAD-EXPANDING CONCERT THAT REGULARLY PUTS VLADIMIR JUROWSKI AND THE LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA AHEAD OF ITS LOCAL COMPETITION … AT EVERY TURN OF THE KALEIDOSCOPE THE LPO REMAINED ON THE TOP OF ITS TOP FORM.
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Haydn The Creation
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Joseph Haydn once said that when he thought of God he could write only cheerful music. So imagine the exuberance, the freshness and the pure joy that he brings to the story of the Creation. With its roof-raising choruses, bubbling melodies and glowing colours, The Creation is quite simply one of the most life-affirming and generous two hours of music you’ll ever hear – even the earthworm gets a look in! Sir Roger Norrington brings all his experience to this happiest of great choral masterpieces: add an all-star team of soloists, and this is an evening that’ll make you glad to be alive.
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MAN AND SUPERMAN Friday 10 February 2017 7.30pm Royal Festival Hall
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Richard Strauss didn’t do anything by halves. So when he sets out to tell the entire story of humanity in music, the results are spectacular. But if you only know Also sprach Zarathustra – or Ligeti’s visionary Atmosphères – from 2001: A Space Odyssey, you’re in for a thrilling surprise. Andrés Orozco-Estrada is here to tell the full story, plus a wonderfully enjoyable bit of background: Haydn’s ‘Philosopher’ Symphony – a firecracker on a slow fuse – and Poulenc’s roof-raising Organ Concerto. Soloist James O’Donnell will give the Royal Festival Hall’s famous organ the ride of its life.
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AMERICAN ADVENTURERS Saturday 11 February 2017 7.30pm Royal Festival Hall
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Philip Glass The Light Aaron Jay Kernis Flute Concerto (UK premiere) Ives The Unanswered Question John Adams Doctor Atomic Symphony Andrés Orozco-Estrada conductor Marina Piccinini flute A trumpet asks Charles Ives’s Unanswered Question – and throughout a century of American music, composers have offered their answers. They’ve been as luminous and lush as Philip Glass’s The Light, and simultaneously as dark and as dazzling as John Adams’s Dr Atomic Symphony: an electrifying orchestral summary of his 2005 opera about the dawn of the nuclear age. Find your own 21st-century truth and be ready for a few surprises, as Marina Piccinini gives the UK premiere of a vibrant new flute concerto, written specially for her by the American maverick Aaron Jay Kernis.
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Wednesday 22 February 2017 7.30pm Royal Festival Hall
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Denisov Symphony No. 2 Berg Violin Concerto Shostakovich Symphony No. 15
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Vladimir Jurowski conductor Patricia Kopatchinskaja violin Beauty is truth, truth beauty … even when that truth is so honest that it hurts. Berg dedicated his Violin Concerto ‘to the memory of an angel’, and a bottomless depth of personal loss lies beneath its gorgeous colours. Patricia Kopatchinskaja unlocks its secrets in this concert, between two final symphonies by composers who knew that truth could be a dangerous thing. Shostakovich’s Fifteenth Symphony cloaks its sorrows in jokes, enigmas and pitch-black humour; two decades later, his friend Edison Denisov said farewell in a poignant, fantastical Second Symphony of his own. This is a rare British performance of a work that’s close to Vladimir Jurowski’s heart.
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Free pre-concert event 6.15pm – 6.45pm Royal Festival Hall Dr Johnson said that the prospect of death ‘concentrates the mind wonderfully’. Writer and broadcaster Stephen Johnson takes a look at composers’ different responses, how they confronted death, and what it tells us about ‘simple faith’.
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Saturday 4 March 2017 7.30pm Royal Festival Hall
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Contemporary classical music isn’t supposed to feel like this. When Penderecki’s St Luke Passion was premiered in 1966, it left avant-garde critics lost for words. And it left audiences reeling with emotion and disbelief: that new music could speak with such feeling, such directness and such shattering power. ‘I have lived through very difficult times’, says Penderecki, and as the music fights, shouts and laments its way towards redemption, Penderecki’s massive choral re-telling of the last days of Christ takes its place as one of the 20th century’s enduring masterpieces. Under Vladimir Jurowski, it’ll make a monumental centrepiece to our festival, Belief and Beyond Belief. Please note there will be no interval during this performance. Organised in collaboration with the Adam Mickiewicz Institute as part of the Polska Music programme.
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WE ARE PEOPLE FIRST AND AN ORCHE INDIVIDUAL STORIES AND PERSONALITI THEY ARE KNOWN FOR THEIR WARMTH WE INVITE YOU TO SHARE IN THE UNIV TO FEEL WELCOME, ENGAGED AND UPLI OUT TO EVERYONE – PERSON TO PERS
STRA SECOND. OUR PLAYERS’ IES SHINE THROUGH IN THEIR MUSIC; AND FRIENDLINESS. TOGETHER, ERSAL LANGUAGE OF MUSIC, IFTED. OUR MUSIC REACHES ” ON.
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POWER AND PROVOCATION Wednesday 15 March 2017 7.30pm Royal Festival Hall Gavin Bryars The Sinking of the Titanic Gavin Bryars Jesus’ blood never failed me yet Steve Reich Music for Eighteen Musicians Members of the London Philharmonic Orchestra Synergy Vocals It starts on the streets between Elephant & Castle and Waterloo Station, with a homeless old man singing quietly to himself. It becomes … well, there isn’t really any way to describe what you’ll think or feel next, as Gavin Bryars weaves that broken scrap of human feeling into a sonic experience unlike anything else in 20th-century music. Along with Bryars’s haunted soundscape from the sunken Titanic and Steve Reich’s groundbreaking Music for Eighteen Musicians, Jesus’ Blood Never Failed Me Yet is a true modern classic: music with the power to provoke, to move, and to leave you transformed.
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EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS PERFORMANCE ... WAS PERFECT ... ONE OF THE BEST PIECES OF ORCHESTRAL PLAYING I HAVE HEARD IN QUITE A LONG TIME.
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Wednesday 22 March 2017 7.30pm Royal Festival Hall
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Magnus Lindberg Cello Concerto No. 2 (UK premiere) Bruckner Symphony No. 9
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Saturday 25 March 2017 7.30pm Royal Festival Hall
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R Strauss Death and Transfiguration Mozart Requiem
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The masked stranger, the secret commission, the deathbed struggle: if you’ve seen Amadeus, you’ll already know the legend of Mozart’s Requiem. But the music itself is more compelling than any movie: dark, majestic and heartrendingly beautiful, you simply have to hear it performed live. As a singer herself, Nathalie Stutzmann understands the Requiem from the inside. She’s assembled a world-class team of soloists, plus the London Philharmonic Choir, to bring new life to Mozart’s last testament, and she’s paired it with a dazzlingly different vision of the afterlife by one of Mozart’s biggest fans – the young Richard Strauss.
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SYMPHONY OF A THOUSAND Saturday 8 April 2017 7.30pm Royal Festival Hall Tallis Spem in Alium Mahler Symphony No. 8
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Vladimir Jurowski conductor Melanie Diener soprano Anne Schwanewilms soprano Louise Alder soprano Sarah Connolly mezzo soprano Anna Larsson mezzo soprano Torsten Kerl tenor Matthias Goerne baritone Mischa Schelomianski bass London Philharmonic Choir Tiffin Boys’ Choir ‘Try to imagine the whole universe beginning to ring and resound’, declared Gustav Mahler. ‘There are no longer human voices, but planets and suns revolving.’ And with multiple choirs, eight world-class soloists and a super-sized orchestra, it’s easy to see why Mahler’s Eighth is often called the ‘Symphony of a Thousand’. Tonight, though, Vladimir Jurowski and the Orchestra probe beneath its spectacular surface, and prepare the way with Tallis’s transcendent 40-part motet choral masterpiece Spem in Alium. Book early for what’s certain to be a real landmark in Vladimir Jurowski’s LPO Mahler cycle.
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Free pre-concert event 6.00pm – 6.45pm Clore Ballroom Floor Our creative cross-arts ensemble, LPO Soundworks, takes to the stage again. Join young performers from across London and expect the unexpected at this must-see celebration of young music-making.
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Wednesday 26 April 2017 7.30pm Royal Festival Hall Wagner Overture, The Flying Dutchman Wagner Die Walküre, Wotan’s Farewell and Magic Fire Music Bruckner Symphony No. 7 Marek Janowski conductor Egils Silins bass-baritone Bruckner first heard the opening of his Seventh Symphony in a dream – played by an angel. You can believe it: that heavenly opening tune is just our first glimpse of a limitless musical landscape, a world of sunlit peaks, shaded valleys and – at its very heart – Bruckner’s noble, deeply-felt tribute to the man he called his ‘beloved Master’, Richard Wagner. So for conductor Marek Janowski there’s no more fitting prelude to Bruckner’s Seventh than some of Wagner’s most overwhelmingly emotional music. Forget any preconceptions about Wagner, and forget yourself: as Bruckner knew better than anyone, it’s really all about love.
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Free pre-concert event 6.15pm – 6.45pm Royal Festival Hall Is Mahler’s Eighth a confession of faith? What was Wagner’s philosophical agenda in Die Walküre and what was Bach to Hindemith and Wagner: embodiment of faith, ‘Germanness’ or both? Stephen Johnson explores how this is expressed musically in our late April concerts.
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TIME BECOMES SPACE Friday 28 April 2017 7.30pm Royal Festival Hall Bach (arr. Schoenberg) Prelude & Fugue in E flat major, BWV552 (St Anne) Hindemith Suite, Nobilissima Visione Wagner (arr. Stokowski) Parsifal, Act III (excerpts) R Strauss Four Last Songs John Mauceri conductor Angel Blue soprano
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‘And the soul, unguarded, yearns to fly free …’ At the end of a long life, Richard Strauss gazed calmly into the sunset. No composer has ever left a more poignant final word than Strauss in his Four Last Songs – or bade farewell with such ravishing beauty. They’re the only possible way for John Mauceri and soprano Angel Blue to end a whole concert of music that strives for transcendence, from Schoenberg’s exquisite homage to Bach and Hindemith’s musical vision of the miracles of St Francis, to the radiant climax of Wagner’s Parsifal. Music to take you to another world: as Wagner himself put it, ‘here time becomes space’.
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Saturday 6 May 2017 7.30pm Royal Festival Hall
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Magnus Lindberg New work* Beethoven Symphony No. 9 (Choral)
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Christoph Eschenbach conductor Susanna Hurrell soprano Justina Gringyte mezzo soprano David Butt Philip tenor Jihoon Kim bass London Philharmonic Choir Beethoven’s Ninth has never been just another symphony – it’s an experience with the power to change lives. And from tragic opening to climactic, world-embracing ‘Ode to Joy’, every live performance is a special occasion. Regular guest conductor Christoph Eschenbach has assembled a team of outstanding young soloists to turn this one into a hymn to optimism and renewal – coupled with a freshly-minted work by the Orchestra’s Composer in Residence Magnus Lindberg. As Beethoven puts it, ‘Here’s a kiss for all the world’: we can’t imagine a more uplifting conclusion to the season.
Beethoven was born into a world of transition and turmoil. Dr Benjamin Walton, Cambridge University, explores how this was reflected in his music.
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HYMN TO JOY
Live, studio and archive recordings from our catalogue including critically acclaimed recordings with Jurowski, Tennstedt and Haitink are available from lpo.org.uk/recordings, London Philharmonic Orchestra Ticket Office 020 7840 4242 (Monday–Friday 10.00am–5.00pm), all good retail outlets and the Royal Festival Hall shop.
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Recordings
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Rachmaninoff’s Symphony No. 3/10 Songs (arr. Jurowski) with Vladimir Jurowski LPO-0088
Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5/Coriolan Overture with Klaus Tennstedt LPO-0087
The Genius of Film Music: Hollywood Blockbusters 1960s – 1980s with John Mauceri LPO-0086
‘Jurowski’s reading of Rachmaninoff’s Third Symphony was most remarkable for its discipline, the brief lament for horn, clarinet and cello so audaciously quiet and finely blended that you had to hold your breath.’ The Times, May 2015
‘The remastered concerts show off Tennstedt’s abilities at their best – dynamic, inspired and spontaneous. While the LPO are committed, expressive and clearly thriving as they did beneath his baton.’ Classic FM – Drive Featured Album, October, 2015
‘The performances and Mauceri’s detailed notes are well worth the attention of all serious collectors.’ Musical Opinion, October 2015
‘Jurowski grand-père displayed a mastery of instrumental colour and sensitivity to the music he was orchestrating ... The palm has to be awarded to the very fine tenor Vsevolod Grivnov, who was outstanding throughout.’ Classical Source, April 2015
‘The recording, made live in London’s Royal Festival Hall in February 1991, is pleasingly clean and immediate.’ Gramophone, November 2015
‘This two-CD set of Hollywood classics, including Herrmann’s Psycho and Mauceri’s arrangements of Rota’s Godfather, is a reminder of the LPO’s commitment to film music.’ BBC Music Magazine, October 2015
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FUNharmonics
FUNharmonics Family Concerts Royal Festival Hall What would it be like to step inside your very own living music box? This season our one-hour family concerts reflect the Orchestra’s work across the year – travelling the globe, exploring brilliant composers, and playing music inspired by great ideas. Come and meet our friendly musicians and let us welcome you to our world at our favourite music box, Royal Festival Hall. Recommended for children aged 6 and over.
Make it a day! 10.00am – 12.00pm
Our FUNharmonics Series gets younger pairs of ears and hands engrossed in music-making and is a treat for all the family. Each concert has specially designed activities including getting up close to instruments in our ever popular Have-A-Go sessions and ARTharmonics – free craft workshops.
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For very young families, we have created special tiny toddler concerts, which will take place outside of the concert hall. These are gentle 30-minute musical introductions through stories, instruments and songs (on sale a few months prior to each concert).
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TALES FROM THE NORTH
CONDUCTING SCIENCE
Sunday 9 October 2016 12.00 noon – 1.00pm
Saturday 18 February 2017 12.00 noon – 1.00pm
Inspired by the LPO’s autumn celebration of Finnish composer Jean Sibelius, join us for a musical adventure through the weird and wonderful world of folk tales from the north. We’ll meet with elves, boggarts, kings and queens to create a magical whirlwind of sounds from the mountains and enchanted valleys of Finland, Norway and beyond.
Grab your safety goggles for our first ever concert hall laboratory! Music meets science as we discover the secrets behind the extraordinary sounds of the Orchestra. With on-stage experiments, lots of chances to join in – and not to mention some fantastic music – it’s guaranteed to leave your brain and ears fizzing.
FUNharmonics
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This concert is part of Southbank Centre’s Imagine Children’s Festival.
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ALL ABOARD THE LPO Sunday 30 April 2017 12.00 noon – 1.00pm Musical stories for children
Available on the Orchestra’s own label as a CD or download. Visit www.lpo.org.uk/recordings or order the CD on 020 7840 4242 or through all good retailers.
Did you know the LPO travels thousands of miles every year, playing to people around the world? Jump on the tour bus with us and we’ll whisk you to some of the amazing cities that the Orchestra will be visiting this year. We’ll be sending musical postcards from Vienna to New York – all from the comfort of the Royal Festival Hall.
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Make a lasting contribution to our future, ensuring that we can continue to inspire thousands of people, young and old, with the power of music.
From £50
From £500
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These pages offer just a taste of how you can get involved. For more information on how to support the Orchestra as an individual, contact our team. lpo.org.uk/support/individuals
Supporting the Orchestra
Contact us
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Supporting the Orchestra
Corporate Partnerships Make a sound business decision. Engage your stakeholders with the London Philharmonic Orchestra A partnership with the London Philharmonic Orchestra offers a host of benefits and opportunities to your company. As well as a powerful international brand we are also a registered charity making your investment a socially responsible decision. From corporate entertainment packages around our concerts to national and even international partnership opportunities, we work with our Corporate Partners to create bespoke relationships that fit each company’s needs.
Align with one of the world’s best known Orchestras Leverage our brand values of world excellence, creativity and invention.
Make your events unforgettable Access our world-class musicians who can entertain your guests with exclusive private performances.
Meet your CSR objectives Through our education programmes, which reach over 30,000 people each year.
Inspire your team Our creative employee training will bring imagination, challenge and enjoyment to your workplace.
Never miss an opportunity Our year-round programme of concerts and events means there are plenty of occasions to engage your stakeholders.
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Evening concert ticket prices £10/£14/£19/£25/£32/£39/£46 Premium seats £65*
Ticket prices for 9 November and 8 April: £12/£16/£21/£28/£35/£42/£49 Premium seats £75* *We have selected the very best seats in the front stalls to be sold at premium price to ensure you the finest acoustic and view.
FUNharmonics ticket prices £5/£6/£7/£8/£9 (children) £10/£12/£14/£16/£18 (adults) Ticket Office 020 7840 4242
Monday to Friday 10.00am – 5.00pm (£2.75 transaction fee)
lpo.org.uk (£1.75 transaction fee)
Southbank Centre
Ticket Office 0844 847 9920
Daily 9.00am – 8.00pm (£2.75 transaction fee)
southbankcentre.co.uk (£1.75 transaction fee) All ticketing staff at Southbank Centre can take typetalk calls.
In person at Royal Festival Hall Ticket Office
Daily 10.00am – 8.00pm (no transaction fee) All discounts are subject to availability and cannot be combined. For details of our privacy policy, please visit lpo.org.uk or call to request details.
Book more, pay less: series discounts
— Book 3 – 4 concerts and receive a 10% discount — Book 5 – 7 concerts and receive a 15% discount — Book 8 – 10 concerts and receive a 20% discount — Book 11 – 14 concerts and receive a 25% discount — Book 15 + concerts and receive a 30% discount
Booking information
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Group bookings
With savings of up to 20% on ticket prices, and many other group benefits, everything has been done to help your group have an enjoyable evening with one of the world’s finest orchestras. Benefits include: — 20% discount for groups of ten or more — A pair of complimentary tickets for the group organiser for groups of 20+ — Exclusive ticket offers and special promotions on selected concerts — Flexible reservations until one month before the concert — No booking fee or postal charge — Customised free publicity material for your group Book now 020 7840 4205, lpo.org.uk/groups or groups@lpo.org.uk Monday to Friday 10.00am – 5.00pm
Student and Under-26 NOISE Schemes
If you are a full-time student in higher education or under 26 you can get discounted tickets to selected London Philharmonic Orchestra concerts throughout the year. Students receive £4 best available tickets and under 26 year olds receive £8 best available tickets. Several concerts are also followed by a complimentary drinks reception courtesy of the Orchestra’s Principal Beer Sponsor, Heineken. Sign up to one of the free e-bulletins at lpo.org.uk/noise to get details of these fantastic offers!
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General information
Can I exchange my tickets?
You may exchange your tickets for another concert in the Orchestra’s 2016/17 season or exchange for a credit note, provided the tickets are returned to the London Philharmonic Orchestra at the address in the right hand column, and arrive at least two working days before the concert.
Limited concessions
50% off all ticket prices for full-time students, benefit recipients (Jobseekers Allowance, Income Support, and Pension Credit) and under-16s (maximum four per transaction. Not applicable to Family Concerts). Limited availability; appropriate ID will be checked on admission.
Access
Visitors with a disability can join Southbank Centre’s free Access Scheme. You may be eligible for tickets at concessionary prices and to bring a companion who can assist you during your visit; and to receive information in alternative formats. For information, please email accesslist@southbankcentre.co.uk, call 020 7960 4200 or visit southbankcentre.co.uk/access All ticketing staff at Southbank Centre can take typetalk calls. The auditorium is fitted with Sennheiser infrared systems. Receivers can be collected from the Cloakroom on Level 1 of Royal Festival Hall. Royal Festival Hall has level access via internal lifts and ramps, and accessible toilets. For further details please call 0844 847 9910. Royal Festival Hall has wheelchair spaces in the boxes, choir seats, side and rear stalls of the auditorium. Guide and companion dogs may be taken anywhere on site.
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London Philharmonic Orchestra Resident at Southbank Centre and Glyndebourne Festival Opera 89 Albert Embankment London SE1 7TP
Timothy Walker AM Chief Executive and Artistic Director HRH The Duke of Kent KG Patron Vladimir Jurowski Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor* Andrés Orozco-Estrada Principal Guest Conductor Pieter Schoeman Leader† Magnus Lindberg Composer in Residence Tickets 020 7840 4242 T 020 7840 4200 F 020 7840 4201 lpo.org.uk *Supported by the Tsukanov Family Foundation †Supported by Neil Westreich
Getting to Southbank Centre
Royal Festival Hall Southbank Centre Belvedere Road London SE1 8XX
Southbank Centre is situated on the Thames Riverside between the Golden Jubilee Bridge and Waterloo Bridge. By underground to Waterloo, Embankment and Charing Cross By rail to Waterloo, Waterloo East or Charing Cross
Travel information
Find us
By bus to Waterloo (stopping on Waterloo Bridge, York Road, Stamford Street and Belvedere Road). For detailed bus information call 0343 222 1234 or visit tfl.gov.uk/buses
NORTH
Please note that the Hayward Gallery and Hungerford Bridge Car Parks will be closed for some periods during the Queen Elizabeth Hall refurbishment. During these times when no car parks are available on site, a drop-off area will be provided for our customers with special access requirements. Please phone 0844 847 9910 for further information.
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Diary
The 2016/17 season
All concerts are at Royal Festival Hall and start at 7.30pm unless otherwise stated.
September
October
November
December
Friday 23 September Debussy Szymanowski Bartók
Saturday 8 October Sibelius Panufnik Shostakovich
Tuesday 1 November Meow Meow’s Pandemonium Thomas M. Lauderdale piano Iain Grandage conductor
Friday 2 December Weber Bruch Beethoven
Vladimir Jurowski conductor Nicola Benedetti violin
Thomas Søndergård conductor Sergej Krylov violin
Saturday 5 November Beethoven
Wednesday 28 September Beethoven Bruckner
Wednesday 12 October Haydn Mozart Mahler
Andrés Orozco-Estrada conductor Hilary Hahn violin
Sir Mark Elder conductor Lucy Crowe soprano Paula Murrihy mezzo soprano Allan Clayton tenor Peter Rose bass London Philharmonic Choir
Wednesday 7 December Glinka Prokofiev Dargomyzhsky Tchaikovsky
Vladimir Jurowski conductor Valery Afanassiev piano
Vladimir Jurowski conductor Lucas Debargue piano Sofia Fomina soprano Saturday 15 October Stravinsky Zimmermann Henze Vladimir Jurowski conductor Thomas Zehetmair violin Wednesday 19 October Sibelius Britten Osmo Vänskä conductor Simone Lamsma violin Friday 21 October Sibelius Vaughan Williams Osmo Vänskä conductor Yu-Chien Tseng violin Wednesday 26 October Elgar Sibelius Osmo Vänskä conductor Raphael Wallfisch cello Friday 28 October Sibelius Walton
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Osmo Vänskä conductor Tasmin Little violin
Wednesday 9 November Beethoven Dvorˇák Robin Ticciati conductor Anne-Sophie Mutter violin Wednesday 30 November Barber Wayne Shorter Gershwin Ravel Andrés Orozco-Estrada conductor Julian Bliss clarinet
Vladimir Jurowski conductor Steven Isserlis cello Wednesday 14 December Glinka Chopin Rachmaninoff Vladimir Jurowski conductor Jan Lisiecki piano
February
March
April
May
Friday 13 January Brahms
Saturday 4 February Haydn
Saturday 4 March Krzysztof Penderecki
Manfred Honeck conductor Ray Chen violin
Sir Roger Norrington conductor Susan Gritton soprano Thomas Hobbs tenor Christopher Maltman baritone London Philharmonic Choir
Vladimir Jurowski conductor Omar Ebrahim narrator Elizabeth Atherton soprano Dietrich Henschel baritone Tomasz Konieczny bass-baritone
Saturday 8 April Tallis Mahler
Saturday 6 May Magnus Lindberg Beethoven
Sunday 9 October 12.00 noon – 1.00pm Tales from the north
Vladimir Jurowski conductor Melanie Diener soprano Anne Schwanewilms soprano Louise Alder soprano Sarah Connolly mezzo soprano Anna Larsson mezzo soprano Torsten Kerl tenor Matthias Goerne baritone Mischa Schelomianski bass London Philharmonic Choir Tiffin Boys’ Choir
Christoph Eschenbach conductor Susanna Hurrell soprano Justina Gringyte mezzo soprano David Butt Philip tenor Jihoon Kim bass London Philharmonic Choir
Saturday 18 February 12.00 noon – 1.00pm Conducting science
Saturday 21 January Beethoven Vladimir Jurowski conductor Ben Johnson Jaquino Sofia Fomina Marzelline Peter Rose Rocco Anja Kampe Leonore Christopher Purves Don Pizarro Michael König Florestan Ronan Collett Don Fernando London Voices Wednesday 25 January Giya Kancheli Martinu° Vaughan Williams Vladimir Jurowski conductor Kim Kashkashian viola Saturday 28 January Rebel Milhaud John Adams Vladimir Jurowski conductor
Friday 10 February Haydn Poulenc Ligeti R Strauss Andrés Orozco-Estrada conductor James O’Donnell organ Saturday 11 February Philip Glass Aaron Jay Kernis Ives John Adams
Wednesday 15 March Gavin Bryars Steve Reich Members of the London Philharmonic Orchestra Synergy Vocals Wednesday 22 March Magnus Lindberg Bruckner Jukka-Pekka Saraste conductor Anssi Karttunen cello
Andrés Orozco-Estrada conductor Marina Piccinini flute
Saturday 25 March R Strauss Mozart
Wednesday 22 February Denisov Berg Shostakovich
Nathalie Stutzmann conductor Kateryna Kasper soprano Sara Mingardo contralto Robin Tritschler tenor Leon Kosavic baritone London Philharmonic Choir
Vladimir Jurowski conductor Patricia Kopatchinskaja violin
FUNharmonics
(recommended for ages 6+)
Sunday 30 April 12.00 noon – 1.00pm All aboard the LPO
Wednesday 26 April Wagner Bruckner Marek Janowski conductor Egils Silins bass-baritone Friday 28 April Bach Hindemith Wagner R Strauss John Mauceri conductor Angel Blue soprano The London Philharmonic Orchestra gratefully acknowledges the financial support of Arts Council England and Southbank Centre. Concert texts Richard Bratby Copywriting Jim Davies Photography Patrick Harrison Design Ross Shaw @ JMG Studio Printer Tradewinds (This brochure is produced on paper from a sustainable source). Information in this brochure was correct at the time of going to press. The right is reserved to substitute artists and to vary programmes if necessary. The London Philharmonic Orchestra is a registered charity No. 238045. Southbank Centre is a registered charity No. 298909.
Diary
January
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