London Philharmonic Orchestra 2015/16 Concert Season Brighton Dome Concert Hall 01273 709709 brightondome.org
‘ This was a whiplash interpretation, swift to scorch and devastatingly focused.’ The Arts Desk, September 2014
Welcome to our 2015/16 season at Brighton Dome We are delighted to return to Brighton for our fifteenth season of concerts at Brighton Dome Concert Hall. Opening the season with a programme of rapturous French music on Saturday 14 November is conductor Robin Ticciati, who began his tenure as Music Director of Glyndebourne Festival Opera, of which the LPO is Resident Symphony Orchestra, in 2014. We’re particularly excited to welcome Andrés Orozco-Estrada back to Brighton Dome where he made his debut with the LPO in 2013. This time in his new role as Principal Guest Conductor of the Orchestra, Orozco-Estrada conducts a programme including Stravinsky’s luminous Firebird Suite and Khachaturian’s Violin Concerto on Saturday 27 February.
As always, we welcome exciting emerging talent to share the stage with us, such as prize-winning pianist Stefan C´iric´, who performs Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 2 on Saturday 16 January, and more established world-class soloists including Classic FM Award-winning classical guitarist Miloš, who gives a rare performance of Castelnuovo-Tedesco’s Guitar Concerto No. 1 on Saturday 16 April. We hope you will join us for another exciting season of music-making at Brighton Dome.
Timothy Walker AM Chief Executive and Artistic Director
As part of the worldwide Shakespeare anniversary celebrations of 2016, we are presenting a series of Shakespeare-inspired works in both our London and Brighton seasons, including Strauss’s Macbeth on Saturday 27 February and excerpts from Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet on Saturday 16 April.
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NOVEMBER
Saturday 14 November 2015 7.30pm Brighton Dome Concert Hall Fauré Suite, Pelléas et Mélisande Ravel Piano Concerto in G major Ravel Valses nobles et sentimentales Debussy La mer Robin Ticciati conductor Louis Schwizgebel piano Robin Ticciati leads the London Philharmonic Orchestra in this celebration of exquisite orchestral craftsmanship. At the heart of this concert is Ravel’s toe-tapping concerto, a musical postcard from the streets of Harlem where he experienced the harmonic exoticism and rhythmic drive of jazz. The composer is a little more restrained in his teasing waltzes, which come with the same clarity and luminous restraint that imbues Fauré’s delicate reflection of the tragedy of Pelléas et Mélisande. To finish comes Debussy’s orchestral depiction of the sea, sketched down on the coast in Eastbourne: a swirling musical canvas unrivalled in its subtlety and evocation.
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© Marco Borggreve
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JANUARY
Saturday 16 January 2016 7.30pm Brighton Dome Concert Hall Mozart Overture, Lucio Silla Brahms Piano Concerto No. 2 Beethoven Symphony No. 7 Adrian Prabava conductor Stefan C´iric´ piano Not until the upheavals of the 20th century would another composer conceive of a piece so controlled and driven by rhythm as Beethoven did in his Seventh Symphony. Here is a work in which you hear the controlling rhythms in almost every bar, whether in the propulsive energy of the outer movements or in the inevitable tread of the slow march. While his first Piano Concerto had spoken of the love and yearning of a young man, when he came to write his second 22 years later, Brahms was a changed being. This intimate yet wholly magisterial concerto – Brahms’s ultimate musical summation of civilisation – is performed by prize-winning pianist Stefan C´iric´.
© Ulrike von Loeper
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FEBRUARY
Saturday 27 February 2016 7.30pm Brighton Dome Concert Hall R Strauss Macbeth Khachaturian Violin Concerto Stravinsky Firebird Suite (1945 version) Andrés Orozco-Estrada conductor Kristóf Baráti violin The Stravinsky who would change music forever was first glimpsed in the luminous 1910 score, The Firebird. In this blazing ballet music, Stravinsky unleashed the pictorial powers with which he would shock and enchant generations of theatregoers. The composer had found the perfect subject matter in the compelling collision of the evil powers of Kashchei the Magician with the forceful good of the irrepressible Firebird; the ballet would end in an infernal dance, ripe for Stravinsky’s own brand of violent syncopation. Principal Guest Conductor Andrés Orozco-Estrada conducts the condensed Suite from the ballet alongside the rhythmic vivacity and emotional fervour of Khachaturian’s rhapsodic Violin Concerto.
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© Martin Sigmund
The music of Strauss and Khachaturian is available on the Orchestra's own label as CDs or downloads.
APRIL
Saturday 16 April 2016 7.30pm Brighton Dome Concert Hall De Falla The Three-cornered Hat (Suite No. 2) Castelnuovo-Tedesco Guitar Concerto No. 1 Prokofiev Romeo and Juliet (excerpts) Jaime Martín conductor Miloš Karadaglic´ guitar
© Margaret Malandruccolo
Long before the Kirov Ballet staged their Romeo and Juliet ballet using Prokofiev’s music in 1940, the bulk of the score was widely heard in a suite in which the composer arranged the most vivid moments of the score for concert performance. Audiences can’t have been in any doubt as to the characters and events Prokofiev was describing in what is surely one of the most remarkable conjurings of character, mood and circumstance in musical history. Before this ground-shaking depiction of Shakespeare’s Montagues and Capulets comes a rare performance of Castelnuovo-Tedesco’s beautifully intoxicating Guitar Concerto No.1 by star guitarist, Miloš.
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BOOKING INFORMATION
Brighton Dome Ticket Office 01273 709709 29 New Road, Brighton BN1 1UG
Book online brightondome.org Tickets £10 – £27.50 Premium seats £32.50 There is a £2 per order charge for booking online, by phone and by post. Additional postage charges apply (50p standard or £1.50 recorded delivery). There is no per order charge for bookings made over the counter in person.
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Book more, pay less: series discounts — 10% discount for 2 concerts — 15% discount for 3 concerts — 20% discount for 4 concerts Book all 4 concerts and receive a voucher for you and your guests to enjoy a free glass of house wine at Brighton Dome. Redeemable on Saturday 14 November 2015 only. Please note these discounts are only available by ringing the Ticket Office on 01273 709709.
Group discounts: Bring friends – save money! — Groups of 10 or more will receive a 20% discount on ticket prices — Groups of 20 or more will receive a 20% discount as well as an extra complimentary ticket for the group organiser. Please call the Ticket Office for details. Please note that offers cannot be combined.
Students and under 26-year-olds If you are a full-time student 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 (excluding premium seats). Valid ID required. Sign up to one of the free e-bulletins at lpo.org.uk/noise to get details of these fantastic offers!
Access Brighton Dome is committed to making your visit easy and enjoyable. Where possible, we operate family friendly and accessible venues but may ask customers who cause unreasonable disturbance during events to leave the auditoria. Concessionary priced tickets, where available, are offered to registered disabled people, and where possible a range of prices is available for disabled customers. Each disabled customer can apply for one complimentary ticket per booking, in order to bring an access assistant or companion with them. For detailed access information contact the Visitor Services Department on 01273 261 525/541 or access@brightondome.org.
Brighton Dome is situated on Church Street in the heart of historic Brighton, on the Royal Pavilion Estate. It comprises three spaces – the Concert Hall, Corn Exchange and Studio Theatre.
Brighton Station is a ten-minute walk away with fast, regular services to Brighton from London (under an hour from Victoria and London Bridge) and elsewhere. To book tickets and for travel updates visit southernrailway.com or call National Rail Enquiries on 08457 484950. For information on frequent local bus services go to buses.co.uk. Visit visitbrighton.com for information on car parking and accommodation in Brighton. journeyon.co.uk has information on public transport and walking routes around the city.
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There is a Sennheiser radio frequency system in the Concert Hall, which can be used with or without a hearing aid. Please collect the unit and a headset from the Ticket Office upon arrival at the venue. Please allow 15 minutes before the start of the performance to pick up your headset, and note that a £20 returnable cash deposit will be required.
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GENERAL INFORMATION
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The Concert Hall has several specially designed seat positions as well as lift access and accessible toilets (RADAR keys in operation). A companion sitting in a neighbouring seat may be admitted free of charge, subject to availability.
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Parking You can take advantage of a special £4.50 evening rate at the RCP North Road on North Road for parking from 5pm – midnight. RCP North Road Car Park is a 4 minute walk from Brighton Dome. Brighton Dome and Festival Members can save 30% on standard parking charges at any time when coming to events – simply collect a follow-on car park ticket at the venue after the performance. (This does not apply to parking that is pre-booked online.) NB Car park charges correct at time of going to press.
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RECORDINGS AND SOCIAL MEDIA
London Philharmonic Orchestra Label 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), and all good retail outlets. Download or stream online via iTunes, Amazon, Spotify and others.
Recent recording highlights Richard Strauss’s Don Juan/Ein Heldenleben with Bernard Haitink LPO-0079 ‘The orchestra sounds wonderful here [Don Juan], and the performance sweeps one along.’ International Record Review, November 2014
Shostakovich’s Symphonies Nos. 6 & 14 with Vladimir Jurowski LPO-0080 ‘This is by far the most stunning Shostakovich disc I have heard this year.’ Recording of the Month, BBC Music Magazine, November 2014
Organ works by Poulenc & Saint-Saëns with Yannick Nézet-Séguin LPO-0081 ‘The Poulenc, in particular, gets a blistering performance. The Saint-Saëns plays a long game and rises to a suitably magniloquent ending. James O’Donnell, organist of Westminster Abbey, is master of the king of instruments.’ Financial Times, November 2014 08
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The London Philharmonic Orchestra gratefully acknowledges the financial support of Arts Council England. Brighton Dome & Festival is grateful for the support of Brighton & Hove City Council. Concert texts Andrew Mellor Photography Benjamin Ealovega 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.
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