LPO 10-11 Season Brochure

London Philharmonic Orchestra 2010/11 Concert Season

2010/11 Concert Season at Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall

Saturday 22 January FRANCK FAURÉ Yannick Nézet-Séguin conductor Sally Matthews soprano Gerald Finley bass baritone London Philharmonic Choir

PREMIÈRES First performances of works by Matteo D’Amico, Magnus Lindberg and Brett Dean

Wednesday 26 January EÖTVÖS LISZT ZEMLINSKY Vladimir Jurowski conductor Alexander Markovich piano Melanie Diener soprano Thomas Hampson baritone

VLADIMIR JUROWSKI The Orchestra’s Principal Conductor continues his survey of the symphonies of Tchaikovsky with performances of the Second, Fourth and Fifth OPERA RARA A rare opportunity to hear Rossini’s opera Aureliano in Palmira in collaboration with long term partner Opera Rara

February

Saturday 29 January LIGETI BARTÓK MAHLER Vladimir Jurowski conductor Barnabas Kelemen violin Melanie Diener soprano Christianne Stotijn mezzo soprano Michael Koenig tenor Christopher Purves baritone London Philharmonic Choir Friday 4 February BRAHMS Kurt Masur conductor Anne-Sophie Mutter violin Daniel Müller-Schott cello Wednesday 9 February RACHMANINOV LISZT RACHMANINOV DVOrˇ ÁK Osmo Vänskä conductor Bernd Glemser piano

Wednesday 23 March DEAN ADAMS HOLST Marin Alsop conductor London Philharmonic Choir

Wednesday 16 February RAVEL BERLIOZ Yannick Nézet-Séguin conductor Anna Caterina Antonacci soprano

Saturday 26 March ELGAR Edward Gardner conductor Christine Rice mezzo soprano Paul Groves tenor Alastair Miles bass London Philharmonic Choir

Saturday 19 February MOZART MAHLER Yannick Nézet-Séguin conductor Stefan Jackiw violin Richard Yongjae O’Neill viola Sarah Connolly mezzo soprano Toby Spence tenor

Saturday 16 April LISZT DVOrˇ ÁK TCHAIKOVSKY Vladimir Jurowski conductor Alban Gerhardt cello

April

Wednesday 19 January BEETHOVEN MAHLER Yannick Nézet-Séguin conductor Nicholas Angelich piano

A chance to hear key works by Mahler’s contemporaries including Zemlinsky, Bartók and Ligeti

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Friday 11 February WEBER MOZART BEETHOVEN SCHUMANN Louis Langrée conductor David Fray piano

Wednesday 20 April MAHLER SHOSTAKOVICH WEBERN BEETHOVEN (ARR. MAHLER) Vladimir Jurowski conductor Janine Jansen violin

Friday 25 February MAHLER Christoph Eschenbach conductor Christopher Maltman baritone Sunday 27 February 11.30am FUNharmonics Family concert Magic Music David Angus conductor Chris Jarvis presenter Friday 18 March PROKOFIEV HAYDN STRAVINSKY SHOSTAKOVICH Vladimir Jurowski conductor Emanuel Ax piano Saturday 19 March ANDERSON BEETHOVEN TCHAIKOVSKY Vladimir Jurowski conductor Christian Tetzlaff violin

May

MAHLER ANNIVERSARY SEASON A fascinating exploration of Mahler’s symphonies and the complete song-cycles alongside his striking orchestral arrangements of the music of other major composers

Friday 14 January SZYMANOWSKI MAHLER Jaap van Zweden conductor Leonidas Kavakos violin

March

Season Highlights

January

Diary 2011

Wednesday 4 May WAGNER R STRAUSS TCHAIKOVSKY Vladimir Jurowski conductor Christine Brewer soprano Sunday 15 May 11.30am FUNharmonics Family concert TICK TOCK Stuart Stratford conductor Chris Jarvis presenter Saturday 28 May HAYDN MAHLER BRAHMS Vladimir Jurowski conductor Christian Gerhaher baritone

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WELCOME TO THE 2010/11 SEASON Timothy Walker AM Chief Executive and Artistic Director

This season we present music new and old that can help us understand ourselves, our world and even our universe.

At the season’s core is a survey of the music of Gustav Mahler.

No other composer has created such a powerful philosophy of life in such consistently pleasing music. Where Mahler sought to understand the physical and emotional world around him, subsequent composers have gone a step further. Music by Gustav Holst, John Adams, Brett Dean and Julian Anderson – the latter joining us this season as Composer in Residence – takes us beyond the confines of our own planet like only music can.

Back here on earth we are seeing and hearing the effects of Vladimir Jurowski’s three years as the Orchestra’s Principal Conductor: at home and abroad critical acclaim for our concerts and recordings is increasingly rapturous. Principal Guest Conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin has already conjured performances of atmosphere and intelligence in his two seasons with us; we look forward to his relationship with the Orchestra continuing to flourish.

There’s varied, entertaining, challenging and rewarding music in our season. As always, we welcome artists renowned and upcoming – all of them united by quality.

Enjoy exploring our season brochure. We look forward to you joining us at Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall.

© Chris Blott

‘Only when I experience do I compose – only when I compose do I experience’ Gustav Mahler

‘A symphony must be like the world, it must embrace everything’ Gustav Mahler

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Portrait of Gustav Mahler, 1907

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M Mahler anniversary Look for this symbol throughout the concert season as a guide to all our Mahler performances

Mahler performances for your diary Wednesday 22 September Symphony No. 3 See page 04 Wednesday 27 October Kindertotenlieder See page 15 Saturday 30 October Beethoven (arr. Mahler) Symphony No. 3 See page 16 Wednesday 17 November Rückert-Lieder See page 17 Wednesday 1 December Symphony No. 4 See page 20 Saturday 4 December Symphony No. 1 See page 21 Friday 14 January Symphony No. 6 See page 24 Wednesday 19 January Symphony No. 5 See page 25 Saturday 29 January Das klagende Lied (original version) See page 30 Saturday 19 February Das Lied von der Erde See page 35 Friday 25 February Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen/ Symphony No. 9 See page 36 Wednesday 20 April Suite from the Orchestral Works of J S Bach/Beethoven (arr. Mahler) String Quartet in F minor, Op. 95 See page 47 Saturday 28 May Des knaben Wunderhorn (excerpts) See page 50

2010/11 mahler aNNIVERSARY SEASON This season, 150 years after Mahler’s birth (1860) and 100 years since his death (1911), the Orchestra explores his symphonies, song-cycles and orchestral arrangements of other composers’ music, alongside works of his contemporaries.

There’s something about Mahler. Something untouchable, indescribable, perplexing and alluring. You can read about it. You can hear it on recordings. But it only really hits you when you experience it live.

Mahler’s orchestras don’t just look different, they sound different. The composer put instruments together that had never born a kinship before. His ensembles resound with a sharp, etched sonority that was entirely new a century ago and still sounds unique today. He pushed strikingly different moods right up against one another: passionate embraces next to aching loneliness; optimism and hope next to inevitable and urgent tragedy.

Mahler’s philosophy knew no compromise. In his symphonies he expounded his ecstasies and grappled with his demons on full view, ratcheting psychological tension up to breaking point. He put all his understanding of man and the planet into them. Mahler’s works for voice and orchestra underline his very human expressions of longing and questioning.

They reveal the touching vulnerability that exists in us all.

Performing Mahler isn’t easy. There are challenges mental, physical and logistical. But that, in a way, is the point. The coming together of a group of humans and their striving towards the artistic goals of an epic symphony like the Third is as good a metaphor for Mahler’s great artistic and human struggle as any. You can hear that struggle, and live in concert, you can see it. And when it finally turns to victory, acceptance or submission, there’s no feeling quite like it.

Wednesday 22 September 2010 | 7.30pm Royal Festival Hall

Zemlinsky Six Maeterlinck Songs, Op. 13 Mahler Symphony No. 3

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Vladimir Jurowski conductor Petra Lang mezzo soprano London Philharmonic Choir Trinity Boys Choir

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In a tiny hut perched in the Salzburg Alps, Gustav Mahler set about creating one of the most extraordinary visions of nature in all of art.

The resulting Third Symphony harnessed the expanse that surrounded him: horns bray and trombones growl in the face of nature’s primeval force; strings and winds murmur through traditional pastoral scenes only to be invaded by the blazing march of summer; human voices move from grief to hope before, as Mahler declared, ‘nature in its totality rings and resounds.’ But it will do so only after the haunting songs by Mahler’s colleague and rival, the deliciously talented Alexander Zemlinsky.

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6.15pm–6.45pm Free Royal Festival Hall In the first of five talks across the season, Surrey University music lecturer Jeremy Barham gives an overview of the Mahler anniversary

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The Guardian on Jurowski and the LPO – September 2009

Vladimir Jurowski – Principal Conductor

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‘a masterful performance from a world-class orchestra-conductor team’

Haydn Symphony No. 63 (La Roxelane) Matteo D’Amico Flight from Byzantium (world première)* Dufay Moribus et genere†; Vergene bella† Dufay Lamentatio sanctae matris ecclesiae Constantinopolitanae† Bartók The Miraculous Mandarin (complete) Tickets £9–£38 Premium seats £55 Book now 020 7840 4242 www.lpo.org.uk Discounted subscription packages available See page 56

6.15pm–6.45pm Free Royal Festival Hall Members of The Hilliard Ensemble discuss D’Amico’s Flight from Byzantium

Barlines – post concert event Free Level 2 Foyer at Royal Festival Hall An informal discussion with Vladimir Jurowski following the evening’s performance

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The Hilliard Ensemble

Vladimir Jurowski conductor THE Hilliard Ensemble London Philharmonic Choir 1918, and Béla Bartók encountered the legend of a young girl, forced by three thugs to lure men from the street into their den.

When she encounters a magical Mandarin, a wild pursuit ensues before she embraces him and he dies. The story drew from Bartók his most astonishing orchestral creation, a piece that thrusts life into the manic tumult of the chase as the orchestra screws itself towards breaking point before plunging into its final catastrophic chords. Matteo D’Amico’s view of the flight of civilisation from ancient Istanbul receives its world première at this concert – a piece for speaker, vocal ensemble and orchestra whose sudden journeying offers a provocative counterpoint to Bartók’s. *Commissioned by the London Philharmonic Orchestra with the assistance of the Orchestra Giovanile Italiana †The Hilliard Ensemble only

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September

Saturday 25 September 2010 | 7.30pm Royal Festival Hall

Friday 1 October 2010 | 7.30pm Royal Festival Hall

Fauré Suite, Pelléas et Mélisande Saint-Saëns Piano Concerto No. 2 Stravinsky The Rite of Spring

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Yan Pascal Tortelier conductor Behzod Abduraimov piano*

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As the 20th century loomed, Paris seized control of Western music’s future. Even the conservative Saint-Saëns began to suggest the exotic in his highly stylised piano concertos, while also quoting a serene melody by his elegant pupil Fauré in the Second. But no Parisian was quite prepared for Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring, which unleashed a total reappraisal of both dance and music, replacing foot-led ballet with pelvic-born ritual dance and favouring the pounding, jagged rhythms of the earth over traditional principles of harmony. *Grand Prize winner of the London International Piano Competition 2009

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Yan Pascal Tortelier

Wednesday 6 October 2010 | 7.30pm Royal Festival Hall

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October

Suk Scherzo fantastique Chopin Piano Concerto No. 2 ˇ ák Symphony No. 9 (From the New World) Dvor

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Neeme Järvi conductor Evgeny Kissin piano So much great music is born of longing to be somewhere else. With the easy elegance and pruned sophistication of his Second Piano Concerto, Chopin hoped to endear himself to the opinion-forming concertgoers of Paris, 850 miles from his home in Warsaw. Antonín Dvorˇák had already hit the big-time when he wrote his New World Symphony. But parachuted into America to run New York’s fledgling music college, the composer felt himself longing for home: the Symphony’s spirituals and plantation songs – its shapely and contented melodies – are tinged with a slight Slavic sadness.

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‘Like a jazz musician losing himself in the music and his turbulent feelings, Kissin played as if in a world of his own’ LA Times on Kissin – March 2009

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Evgeny Kissin

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Saturday 9 October 2010 | 7.30pm Royal Festival Hall

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ˇ ák Te Deum Dvor ˇ Dvorák Stabat Mater

Neeme Järvi conductor Lisa Milne soprano Karen Cargill mezzo soprano Peter Auty tenor Peter Rose bass London Philharmonic Choir

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Dvorˇák so often found words a hindrance rather than a help when tasked with setting them to music. But how could he be anything but inspired by the touching text depicting the weeping mother of Christ at the foot of the cross, the Stabat Mater? It certainly stirred something in Dvorˇák: melodies of fresh-minted beauty flow forth, the composer revels in intimacy and grandeur, poeticism and reverence. But before the solemnity of Dvorˇák’s first choral utterance, we hear the joyous outburst of his last: the blazing open-air Te Deum, a work of ear-bending strength and conviction; a true masterpiece in miniature.

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Neeme Järvi

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Wednesday 13 October 2010 | 7.30pm Royal Festival Hall

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October

Magnus Lindberg New work for orchestra (UK première)* Mendelssohn Violin Concerto Walton Symphony No. 1

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Osmo Vänskä conductor Agata Szymczewska violin† Walton’s First Symphony is a massively structured epic; a work of broad Romantic sweep and struggle; a canvas that places Sibelius-like grandeur and high-voltage electricity alongside the infectious syncopations of jazz. If Mendelssohn’s perfected and instantly heart-string-tugging Violin Concerto felt like God’s gift to violinists, Walton’s Symphony appeared the same to English symphony orchestras, hungry for a successor to Elgar’s masterpieces that would at last wrestle the symphonic crown from the European mainland.

6.00pm–6.45pm Free

*Commissioned by the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra and Casa da Musica Porto

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†London Music Masters Artist 2009–2012

A performance by children participating in the Bridge Project, a music education initiative in partnership with London Music Masters. For more information see www.londonmusicmasters.org

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Osmo Vänskä

Friday 15 October 2010 | 7.30pm Royal Festival Hall

Berlioz Overture, Benvenuto Cellini Elgar Cello Concerto R Strauss Ein Heldenleben

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David Zinman conductor Truls Mørk cello

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How life changes us. In his late Cello Concerto, Edward Elgar shed the swaggering Edwardian confidence of his youth in favour of more inward, thoughtful expressions. The Concerto’s elegiac themes shun excess but speak as loudly as the luscious rollercoaster that is Richard Strauss’s orchestral autobiography, Ein Heldenleben.

No sign of restraint here. But like Elgar, Strauss did change, and he depicted as much in the music: it starts heroic and exhibitionistic, scattering adversaries with panache. It finishes in a place of peace, fulfilled and contented, suddenly as disarmingly noble as Elgar’s Cello Concerto.

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Truls Mørk

Sunday 17 October 2010 | 11.30am–12.30pm Royal Festival Hall

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WAGNER Prelude to Act 3, Lohengrin BIZET Prelude and Aragonaise from Carmen VANGELIS (ARR. RAINE) Chariots of Fire NOTT (ARR. RAINE) Wallace and Gromit MANCINI (ARR. GASCOIGNE) The Pink Panther PATTERSON/STURROCK Little Red Riding Hood BIZET March of the Toreadors from Carmen GLINKA Overture, Russlan and Ludmila

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Musical Stories for Children Available on the Orchestra’s own label as a CD or download. Visit www.lpo.org.uk/shop or order the CD on 020 7840 4242 or through all good retailers

Generously supported by The Jeniffer & Jonathan Harris Charitable Trust

FUNharmonics Family Concerts for your diary 27 February See page 39 15 May See page 49

JOHN RIGBY conductor CHRIS JARVIS presenter Join Chris ‘Superman’ Jarvis for this FUNharmonics feast of music filled with heroic figures. Knights in shining armour; a gypsy femme fatale; two Olympic gold medallists; a cheese-loving inventor and his long-suffering right-hand dog; Hollywood’s hippest cartoon star; and, every wolf’s worst nightmare – a pretty little girl dressed in red (with a pistol in her knickers)! Watch out for the odd hero or heroine lurking in the midst of the orchestra or come dressed as your favourite heroic character. Points will be awarded for the best costumes and, of course, points mean prizes!

Foyer events throughout the morning You can try your hand at playing an orchestral instrument in one of our Have-a-Go sessions, get your face painted or join our human orchestra – in the foyers before and after the performance.

October

FUNharmonics Family Concert Heroes and Heroines

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Saturday 23 October 2010 | 7.00pm Royal Festival Hall

Rossini Aureliano in Palmira Concert performance given in association with Opera Rara Sung in Italian with English surtitles

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This performance will last approximately 2 hours 45 minutes including interval

Maurizio Benini conductor Annick Massis Zenobia Silvia Tro Santafé Arsace Kenneth Tarver Aureliano Andrew Foster-Williams Gran Sacerdote Ezgi Kutlu Publia Geoffrey Mitchell Choir In his day, Gioacchino Rossini was simply a superstar: a crowd-pleaser and a cultural pivot. In the opera house he formed the bridge from Classicism to Romanticism; in wider society he linked revolution against monarchy to liberalism and autocracy. Aureliano in Palmira is both unique and fascinating: a moment of distinct elegance and poise in the career of an out-and-out entertainer. From his stirring, heroic subject matter Rossini creates a lightly-scored, charming and sensitive piece; male heroism is meted out in one instance by a noble horn obbligato; female defiance by consistently attractive but controlled coloratura. When the voices of Arsace and Zenobia combine, they do so to form, for the 19th-century French commentator Henri Beyle, the ‘finest duet Rossini has ever written.’

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6.00pm–6.30pm Free Royal Festival Hall Opera Rara continues its exploration of lesser known operas with a discussion around Rossini’s Aureliano in Palmira

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Annick Massis

Wednesday 27 October 2010 | 7.30pm Royal Festival Hall

Mendelssohn Symphony No. 5 (Reformation) Mahler Kindertotenlieder Brahms Symphony No. 3

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Vladimir Jurowski conductor Sarah Connolly mezzo soprano

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6.00pm–6.45pm Free Royal Festival Hall A performance including Arvo Pärt’s L’abbé Agathon with soloists from the London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Vladimir Jurowski

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Sarah Connolly

Mahler came to set Friedrich Rückert’s poems ‘on the deaths of children’ in 1901, six years before his own daughter would die from the same disease as Rückert’s two children had. And the songs themselves seem an uncanny premonition: emotionally dumbfounded, frantically grief-stricken, touchingly affectionate but glowingly consolatory. Where words fail, this music speaks through gentle orchestration and a disarmingly honest voice; a haven of sleep amid the thrusting and cutting orchestral statements of Mendelssohn’s Reformation Symphony and the provocative fist-shaking of Brahms’s Third Symphony.

Saturday 30 October 2010 | 7.30pm Royal Festival Hall

Brahms Piano Concerto No. 2 Beethoven (arr. Mahler) Symphony No. 3 (Eroica)

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Vladimir Jurowski conductor Leif Ove Andsnes piano

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Decades after Beethoven’s death he was still the most important artist around. Brahms behaved like Beethoven was watching over his shoulder and created symphonies and symphony-like concertos in which the scale and declamation of Beethoven’s ‘Heroic’ Third Symphony could be readily detected. The second of Brahms’s Piano Concertos was the biggest since Beethoven’s Emperor – a piece marked out by maturity and skill but itself displaying heroism, virtuosity and Romantic depth. Mahler acted purely on artistic conviction when he ‘re-touched’ Beethoven’s Symphony; instruments, concert halls and audiences had changed, and Mahler invested Beethoven’s minute detail with the strength – in 1890s Vienna – to enter everyone’s ears.

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Leif Ove Andsnes

Wednesday 17 November 2010 | 7.30pm Royal Festival Hall

R Strauss Death and Transfiguration Mahler Rückert-Lieder Ravel Suites Nos. 1 and 2, Daphnis et Chloé

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Kazushi Ono conductor Nathalie Stutzmann contralto

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A sense of withdrawal from the world – a mood of nostalgia and nobility established by the great late-Romantic song-writer Richard Strauss – seems to arrive in Mahler’s setting for voice and orchestra of five poems by Friedrich Rückert. ‘I am dead to the world’s commotion and at peace in a still land’, sings Mahler’s contralto over a delicate harp-seasoned orchestra. In Ravel’s Daphnis et Chloé suites there are some of the most startling orchestral effects ever conceived, and yet still, a very individual sense of nostalgia: in Ravel’s swirling surges, glowing textures and excitable orchestral rallyings is a delicate, naive innocence from a man whose childhood was a paradise lost.

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Wednesday 24 November 2010 | 7.30pm Royal Festival Hall

November

Stravinsky Scherzo fantastique Prokofiev Piano Concerto No. 3 Shostakovich Symphony No. 11

Vasily Petrenko conductor Oleg Marshev piano At the height of his cinematic powers, Dmitri Shostakovich created one of his most vivid and pictorial symphonies. At its core the Eleventh depicts the massacre in 1905 of a group of peaceful demonstrators in St Petersburg by the Tzar’s guard. The intense, filmic realism of Shostakovich’s orchestral world is uncanny: snare drums incite panic in the strings before the orchestra lurches towards massacre with brass yelps and percussion crashes. And yet in spite of its darkness, there’s hardly anything more engaging or colourful in Shostakovich’s oeuvre. He might be known for his wry wit, but in this concert Shostakovich leaves that to his compatriot Prokofiev.

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6.15pm–6.45pm Free Royal Festival Hall Writer and broadcaster David Nice explores ‘A Symphony of revolutionary songs: Shostakovich’s individuality versus the spirit of 1905’

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Vasily Petrenko

Friday 26 November 2010 | 7.30pm Royal Festival Hall

Mozart Piano Concerto No. 25, K503 Bruckner Symphony No. 9

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Gunther Herbig conductor Andreas Haefliger piano

November

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Andreas Haefliger

For the last two years of his life, Anton Bruckner laboured over the final movement of his Ninth Symphony. He never finished it.

The flame of his existence was extinguished even as he leant over the symphony’s incomplete score. But as life was leaving Bruckner, vision and faith were only strengthening in him. The performing version of the Ninth Symphony played today has inspiring optimism and boldness. Instruments glide confidently towards unusual and pleasing harmonies and keys before intoning a chorale taken from Bruckner’s own setting of the sacred Te Deum text. ‘Art had its beginning in God’, believed Bruckner, ‘And so it must lead back to God.’

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Wednesday 1 December 2010 | 7.30pm Royal Festival Hall

Debussy (orch. Colin Matthews) Préludes: Des pas sur la neige La cathédrale engloutie Feux d’artifice Britten Les Illuminations Mahler Symphony No. 4

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Vladimir Jurowski conductor Christine Schäfer soprano

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After the cataclysmic natural conflicts of his Third Symphony, Mahler glanced elsewhere in the more contented, downsized pastoral of his Fourth. Within the delicate frame of this piece is some of the composer’s most heart-easing music; the spectres of Mozart and Beethoven peer through its clean dances and calming lullabies.

Clouds gather, only to be gently breathed away by the soprano’s song of Heavenly Life and the harp’s contented thrumming. Following the taut, spring-like exhilarations of Britten’s orchestral songs Les Illuminations, Mahler’s reposeful symphony will glow even warmer.

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6.00pm–7.00pm Free Royal Festival Hall A performance of chamber music including Giya Kancheli’s Exil by the Orchestra’s outstanding young apprentice musicians conducted

by Vladimir Jurowski

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Vladimir Jurowski

Saturday 4 December 2010 | 7.30pm Royal Festival Hall

BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 4 Mahler Symphony No. 1 (original version including Blumine)

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Vladimir Jurowski conductor Hélène Grimaud piano

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Barlines – post concert event Free Level 2 Foyer at Royal Festival Hall An informal discussion with Vladimir Jurowski following the evening’s performance

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Hélène Grimaud

Mahler’s First Symphony: the opening chapter of his spiritual autobiography. And the music itself seems to awaken – emerging from hushed strings and woodwind cuckoos into its stride, marching forth, stamping towards an eerie realisation of a nursery rhyme and arriving at a final, blazing affirmation of confidence.

Here Vladimir Jurowski includes additional, cleansing musical statements: Beethoven’s ‘taming the furies’ Fourth Piano Concerto, and the movement of the First Symphony that Mahler’s publisher discarded, Blumine – a pure and touching statement shot through with Mahler’s own inimitable sense of resignation and regret.

Wednesday 15 December 2010 | 7.30pm Royal Festival Hall

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December

BEETHOVEN Overture, Egmont ˚ Violin Concerto No. 2 MartinU Julian Anderson The Stations of the Sun Nielsen Symphony No. 5

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6.15pm–6.45pm Free Royal Festival Hall The Orchestra’s new Composer in Residence Julian Anderson discusses his role and looks at the evening’s performance of The Stations of the Sun

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Jukka-Pekka Saraste

Jukka-Pekka Saraste conductor Frank Peter Zimmermann violin This is the first chance this season to hear a work by the Orchestra’s new Composer in Residence Julian Anderson. Also comes music that lives no less: there’s a tinge of magic to Martinu˚’s Second Violin Concerto, filled with endearing harmonic flicks and flounces as it forages restlessly through a jungle of orchestral effects. And what is it about Fifth Symphonies? Beethoven’s, Shostakovich’s, Sibelius’s – they appear invested with an extra profundity. They seem to reach out from their neighbours. Nielsen’s Fifth is no different. An epic struggle between darkness and light, minor and major, violence and humanity; the lone voice of the snare drum silenced eventually by a surging, searing orchestra.

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Friday 14 January 2011 | 7.30pm Royal Festival Hall

Szymanowski Violin Concerto No. 2 Mahler Symphony No. 6

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Jaap van Zweden conductor Leonidas Kavakos violin And then it all changed. At the dawn of 2011 we come to Mahler’s turning point: the Fifth and Sixth Symphonies. Gone are the jaunty folk tunes that dominate the first four symphonies; in their place is a thrusting rhythm, a demonic drive and an argumentative edge – all heard through an enlarged, empowered orchestra. The Sixth is compelling and overwhelming: a full-on charge towards a face-off with fate, represented by three infamous hammer blows in the orchestra’s percussion. Mahler wrings himself out.

The optimism, luxury and gleam of Szymanowski’s kaleidoscopic Violin Concerto will feel like a distant memory.

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6.15pm–6.45pm Free Royal Festival Hall With the help of the Orchestra’s percussion section we take a look at Mahler’s growing interest in non-standard instrumentation

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Leonidas Kavakos

Wednesday 19 January 2011 | 7.30pm Royal Festival Hall

Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 5 (Emperor) Mahler Symphony No. 5

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Yannick Nézet-Séguin conductor Nicholas Angelich piano

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Where the darkness of Mahler’s Sixth Symphony (performed on 14 January) seems to end with a resounding ‘No’, its predecessor retains its fighting spirit from the single trumpet fanfare of its opening moments to the cock-a-hoop orchestral flourish of its closing ones. In between is an epic tussle between mourning and rapture.

The music is assured, sweeping, changeable and hair-raising. Mahler had come of age. And if his trumpet heralds a new orchestral style, then Beethoven’s Fifth Piano Concerto wrapped up history’s most remarkable cycle of concertos with suitably explosive and emotive power.

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‘a performance that exuberantly confirmed what an asset he is to London’s musical life’ The Times on Nézet-Séguin and the LPO – October 2009

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Yannick Nézet-Séguin – Principal Guest Conductor

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Saturday 22 January 2011 | 7.30pm Royal Festival Hall

January

Franck Symphony in D minor Fauré Requiem

Yannick Nézet-Séguin conductor Sally Matthews soprano Gerald Finley bass baritone London Philharmonic Choir

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After the fire and brimstone of settings by Mozart and Verdi, the contemplative, restful Requiem by Gabriel Fauré seemed to propose a new religious philosophy. Fauré’s work is at its most powerful when at its most calm and reassuring; its clean lines, pure vocal textures and elegant orchestrations feel characteristically French in their understatement. But César Frank created very French music, too, albeit with rather different means. His Symphony in D minor ‘risked a great deal’ in his own words. The expanse of Bruckner, the narrative suggestion of Liszt and the compelling ‘motto’ techniques of Beethoven combined to create Franck’s imposing signature work.

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Gerald Finley

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Wednesday 26 January 2011 | 7.30pm Royal Festival Hall

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January

Peter Eötvös Shadows (UK première of the orchestral version) Liszt Piano Concerto No. 2 Zemlinsky Lyric Symphony

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Vladimir Jurowski conductor Alexander Markovich piano Melanie Diener soprano Thomas Hampson baritone

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6.15pm–6.45pm Free Royal Festival Hall Surrey University music lecturer Jeremy Barham discusses Mahler, fin-de-siècle Vienna and the avant-garde generation

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When Franz Liszt strode onto the concert stage in the middle of the 19th century, he changed it for ever. With Liszt’s thunderous piano concertos the age of the virtuoso was born, a fusion of Beethoven’s single-mindedness and Paganini’s breathtaking virtuosity. The concertos continue to stun with their drama and dexterity today.

If Liszt created the modern virtuoso, then Alexander Zemlinsky in early 20th-century Vienna prophesied the language of the movie score. His setting of Hindu poetry by Rabindranath Tagore is an alluring, mysterious and sexy slice of late Romantic lusciousness in which soprano and baritone drape alternate verses over a kaleidoscopic orchestra. A rare chance to hear a brilliantly individual work.

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Melanie Diener

Saturday 29 January 2011 | 7.30pm Royal Festival Hall

Ligeti Lontano Bartók Violin Concerto No. 1 Mahler Das klagende Lied (original version)

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Vladimir Jurowski conductor Barnabas Kelemen violin Melanie Diener soprano Christianne Stotijn mezzo soprano Michael Koenig tenor Christopher Purves baritone London Philharmonic Choir

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Two brothers are rivals for the love of a queen. One kills the other.

A musician fashions a flute from the victim’s bones. The instrument speaks the truth, revealing the horrid crime and naming its perpetrator, driven to fratricide in his quest to wed the queen. In Das klagende Lied we glimpse for the first time Mahler’s characteristic use of grotesque fairytales, driving marches and folk-conceived melodies. In Bartók’s First Violin Concerto the narrative is a little closer to home: in the work’s shapely, pining violin weave is mapped out the composer’s hopeless love for the violinist Stefi Geyer.

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Christianne Stotijn

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Friday 4 February 2011 | 7.30pm Royal Festival Hall

Brahms Double Concerto for violin and cello Brahms Symphony No. 1

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Kurt Masur conductor Anne-Sophie Mutter violin Daniel Müller-Schott cello

February

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Anne-Sophie Mutter

Few orchestral creations operate on so many levels as Brahms’s, so which is the Brahms for you? The First Symphony can be a psychological battle, or it can simply be a succession of gripping sounds, shapes and melodies. Feel free to immerse yourself in the music’s immaculately crafted surface, or to do battle with the cauldron of shifting, simmering and surging emotions below.

Is Brahms ‘fire’ or is Brahms ‘crystal’? You choose. And as in the dark and handsome Double Concerto, he’ll feel entirely natural and entertaining, whichever Brahms you prefer.

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Wednesday 9 February 2011 | 7.30pm Royal Festival Hall

February

RACHMANINOV The Isle of the Dead Liszt Totentanz Rachmaninov Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini ˇ ák Symphony No. 7 Dvor

Osmo Vänskä conductor Bernd Glemser piano London has always had a soft spot for Antonín Dvorˇák’s music.

In the 1880s the Czech composer hadn’t quite achieved the grand, patriarchal status that would see him travel to America and produce the Ninth Symphony (see 6 October). But still London recognised his talent, and begged Dvorˇák to fulfil a commission. Soon he excitedly agreed, and the urge to impress England drew from him a piece that would overshadow anything he had previously written. Here is the result: the Seventh Symphony, a work of vibrancy, colour and depth.

Only a piece brimming with such alluring rhythms and tunefulness can follow Rachmaninov’s devilish Paganini Rhapsody.

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Friday 11 February 2011 | 7.30pm Royal Festival Hall

WEBER Overture, Der Freischütz Mozart Piano Concerto No. 22, K482 Beethoven Overture, Coriolan Schumann Symphony No. 4

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February

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David Fray

At home, on 31 May 1841, Clara Schumann noticed the sounds of her husband at work. ‘Robert’s spirit is very active’, she wrote in her diary. ‘I hear the D minor wildly sounding in the distance, so that I know already in advance, it is once again a work emerging from the bottom of his heart.’ She was right. The work taking shape was the Fourth Symphony: a continuously flowing masterpiece of beauty and subtlety. What Clara couldn’t have known was that Robert was, at that very moment, writing her into his symphony.

In the delicately winding string and bassoon theme of the work’s opening, he movingly and purposefully captures their unerring love.

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Wednesday 16 February 2011 | 7.30pm Royal Festival Hall

February

Ravel Suite, Mother Goose Berlioz La Mort de Cléopâtre Berlioz Symphonie fantastique

Yannick Nézet-Séguin conductor Anna Caterina Antonacci soprano As a performance of Shakespeare’s Hamlet unfurled before a Paris audience in 1827, one theatregoer got more than he bargained for. He not only ‘glimpsed the whole heaven of art’ on hearing Shakespeare’s text, but also fell madly in love with Harriet Smithson, the young Irish actress playing Ophelia. That audience member was a young composer, Hector Berlioz. Artistic possibility, passionate love and unerring striving fused in him. He became the great Romantic he’s known as today, and set about thrusting all his feelings into a yearning, heartfelt symphony, the Symphonie fantastique. Berlioz’s untouchable, captivating musical language was born.

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Yannick Nézet-Séguin

Saturday 19 February 2011 | 7.30pm Royal Festival Hall

Mozart Sinfonia Concertante, K364 Mahler Das Lied von der Erde

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Yannick Nézet-Séguin conductor Stefan Jackiw violin Richard Yongjae O’Neill viola Sarah Connolly mezzo soprano Toby Spence tenor

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Stefan Jackiw

1908, and the broken, vilified Mahler was forced to resign his directorship of the Vienna Court Opera. At this dusk of his compositional life he turned to his most cherished textural combination: voice and orchestra. The result was his Song of the Earth – an allegory of life and death; a summation of man’s existence on the planet; a final marrying of song and symphony.

And Mahler achieves something in this music that Mozart had two centuries earlier in his Sinfonia Concertante. He lets us glimpse his own soul. Like Mozart had before him, he lays himself bare with the most achingly personal music imaginable.

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Friday 25 February 2011 | 7.30pm Royal Festival Hall

February

Mahler Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen Mahler Symphony No. 9

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Christoph Eschenbach conductor Christopher Maltman baritone Here is a beginning and an ending: Mahler’s first mature song-cycle and his last completed symphony, and a telling view of his obsession with death. The young composer of the Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (Songs of a Wayfarer) creates music in which the love of life and nature combats despair and grief. In Das Lied von der Erde (19 February) Mahler encounters death, but on poetic, philosophical terms in music of beautiful, poignant reflection. In the Ninth Symphony Mahler experiences, for his biographer Deryck Cooke, a ‘naked encounter with the arch-enemy himself, who invades the music, turning everything to dust and ashes.’

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6.15pm–6.45pm Free Royal Festival Hall Surrey University music lecturer Jeremy Barham explores ‘Ends and beginnings: Mahler and the Ninth’

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Christoph Eschenbach

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Chris Jarvis

Sunday 27 February 2011 | 11.30am–12.30pm Royal Festival Hall

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PATTERSON The Magic Orchestra DUKAS The Sorcerer’s Apprentice RAVEL Emperor of the Pagodas from Mother Goose Suite CHADWICK Anansi the Magical Spiderman DE FALLA Ritual Fire Dance from Love, the Magician ARNOLD Overture, Tam O’Shanter WILLIAMS Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (Hedwig’s Theme) OFFENBACH Orpheus in the Underworld

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FUNharmonics Family Concerts for your diary 17 October See page 11 15 May See page 49

DAVID ANGUS conductor CHRIS JARVIS presenter Composers often use magical powers in their music as today’s FUNharmonics concert shows starting with the sounds of Paul Patterson’s Magic Orchestra. And how else could Paul Dukas prevent his disobedient apprentice from flooding the Royal Festival Hall? Or Maurice Ravel save the princess from the wicked witch? Then there’s the trickster, Anansi, captured in song by Stephen Chadwick for all to sing and let’s not forget that Spanish composer, the fiery Manuel de Falla, who also uses some powerful musical magic to ward off evil spirits. Malcolm Arnold brings a famous poem back to life in his musical tail (sic) replete with witches coven and a thrilling chase on horseback. John Williams sprinkles us with some of his celestial magic before the big finish with Jacques Offenbach’s Underworld gods and goddesses having a musical knees up.

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February

FUNharmonics Family Concert Magic Music

Friday 18 March 2011 | 7.30pm Royal Festival Hall

Prokofiev Suite, The Love for Three Oranges Haydn Piano Concerto in D Stravinsky Capriccio Shostakovich Symphony No. 6

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Vladimir Jurowski conductor Emanuel Ax piano

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How remarkable it is that Shostakovich was consistently innovative in his art and yet was always so kind to the ears of his listeners. The Sixth Symphony doesn’t just offer a plethora of seductive musical shapes and gestures, it also presents a clear journey through desolation and nostalgia to wit and the boundless joy of fulfilment.

And the three other composers featured tend to smile infectiously through their music, too: Prokofiev’s Love for Three Oranges brims with delightfully untrustworthy tunes; Stravinsky’s ebullient Capriccio for piano and orchestra shines gloriously and Haydn’s feisty D major Piano Concerto sparkles with bright, witty perfection.

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Emanuel Ax

How serious was the music of Haydn, Stravinsky, Prokofiev and Shostakovich? Professor Alexander Ivashkin discusses the use of jokes, allusions, parodies and enciphered riddles through the centuries

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Saturday 19 March 2011 | 7.30pm Royal Festival Hall

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March

Julian Anderson The Crazed Moon Beethoven Violin Concerto Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4

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Vladimir Jurowski

Vladimir Jurowski conductor Christian Tetzlaff violin Fate. It has hung dagger-like over the art of music since Beethoven seized it by the throat. In 1877, Tchaikovsky felt its weighty hand on his shoulder. His artistic response was a symphony completely unlike anything he had created before: ‘This is fate’, he confided to his friend Nadezhda von Meck, explaining the opening notes of his heart-on-sleeve Fourth Symphony. But by the Symphony’s final chapter, Tchaikovsky’s darkness had turned to light. ‘Rejoice in other’s rejoicing’, he urged Nadezhda, and the Symphony veered towards the sort of unstoppable, ebullient joy that Beethoven had sought refuge in with his radiantly smiling Violin Concerto.

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Wednesday 23 March 2011 | 7.30pm Royal Festival Hall

March

Brett Dean Komarov’s Fall (London première) JOHN Adams Dr Atomic Symphony Holst The Planets

Marin Alsop conductor London Philharmonic Choir Words fail to reflect the scale, beauty and mystery of space and the place of our planet. But music, as Marin Alsop suggests in the tantalising promise of this concert, does rather better. Brett Dean is one of a handful of composers to have written short orchestral ‘asteroids’ to add to Gustav Holst’s bold and bustling Planets.

Komarov’s Fall continues Dean’s fascination with the death of a Soviet cosmonaut in panicked human circumstances. John Adams’s urgent, engaging music for his recent opera, about the testing of the atomic bomb, is heard here in symphonic form, in which a lone trumpet plaintively yet angrily intones the work’s poignant monologue Batter my heart.

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6.00pm–6.45pm Free Royal Festival Hall A performance by Lambeth and Southwark school children marking the culmination of their composition project, inspired by this evening’s repertoire

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Marin Alsop

Saturday 26 March 2011 | 7.30pm Royal Festival Hall

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Elgar The Dream of Gerontius

March

Please note there will be no interval during this performance

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6.15pm–6.45pm Free Royal Festival Hall

Edward Gardner conductor Christine Rice mezzo soprano Paul Groves tenor Alastair Miles bass London Philharmonic Choir ‘Night after night, looking across our illimitable horizon, I’ve seen in thought the Soul go up and have written my own heart’s blood into the score.’ The words of Edward Elgar, as he worked the inspiration he received from Cardinal Newman’s poem The Dream of Gerontius into what he knew would be his greatest creation. The resulting oratorio depicts the soul of man, slipping from life to death, from judgement to paradise. Elgar’s journey through prayerful, demonic, expectant and angelic music to the redemption he so resolutely believed in creates an experience that’s at once personal and communal for all in the audience.

Edward Gardner talks about Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius

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Saturday 16 April 2011 | 7.30pm Royal Festival Hall

April

LISZT Nocturnal Procession & Mephisto Waltz No. 1 ˇ ák Cello Concerto Dvor TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 2 (Little Russian)

Vladimir Jurowski conductor Alban Gerhardt cello Franz Liszt’s infatuation with the Faust legend and his personal development of the symphonic poem are married in the two Faust ‘episodes’, which take their inspiration not directly from Goethe but from a colourful poem by Nicolaus Lenau. He was the man who prompted Richard Strauss’s orchestral rollercoaster Don Juan, and expect no less revelry in Liszt’s two slices of orchestral melodrama, including Mephisto’s intoxicating, fervour-inducing waltz. That gives even the feverish Scherzo from Tchaikovsky’s Second Symphony a run for its money. These two high-octane works surround a most tender, delicate orchestral creation: the beautiful Cello Concerto by Dvorˇák.

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Vladimir Jurowski

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Wednesday 20 April 2011 | 7.30pm Royal Festival Hall

Mahler Suite from the Orchestral Works of J S Bach Shostakovich Violin Concerto No. 2 WEBERN Five Movements, Op. 5 Beethoven String Quartet in F minor, Op. 95 (arranged for string orchestra by Mahler)

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Vladimir Jurowski conductor Janine Jansen violin

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Janine Jansen

In the heroic, free-flowing momentum of the Third Symphony’s opening, Beethoven poured out his enthusiasm for Napoleon Bonaparte, the military leader who seemed to champion everything the composer stood for. A decade later, things were rather different.

Napoleon ignited Beethoven’s fury with his totalitarian egotism and rampage through Europe. As the general invaded Vienna, Beethoven shunned the mass exodus and stayed put. Amidst the canon fire, he penned his Eleventh String Quartet – unmatched in all of Beethoven’s output in its compression, tension and exaggeration. Themes are spat out; silences brood ominously. In Mahler’s orchestral arrangement, Beethoven’s most explosive quartet gains even more firepower.

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Wednesday 4 May 2011 | 7.30pm Royal Festival Hall

May

Wagner Overture, Die Meistersinger R Strauss Four Last Songs Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 5

Vladimir Jurowski conductor Christine Brewer soprano If in the midst of his Fourth Symphony (19 March) Tchaikovsky was wrought with anguish, he at last found some solace in the late 1880s, freed from the catastrophes that were besetting his private life and carving a tragic path through his career. In the Fifth Symphony Tchaikovsky at last finds peace: the music seems to ease even its own suffering; into troubled orchestral shadows are thrust bright shafts of melodic optimism. By 1949 Richard Strauss had witnessed the destruction of his beloved Germany from within.

He, too, turned to music: his final goodbye, his resigned willingness to sleep, floats touchingly through the weaving soprano of his Four Last Songs.

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Sunday 15 May 2011 | 11.30am–12.30pm Royal Festival Hall

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KODÁLY The Viennese Musical Clock from Háry János Suite PROKOFIEV Suite No. 1, Cinderella (waltz) HAYDN ‘The Clock’ Symphony No. 101 (excerpt) MCNEFF The Clockwork Suite BEETHOVEN Allegretto from Symphony No. 8 J STRAUSS Perpetuum mobile PONCHIELLI La gioconda (excerpt)

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FUNharmonics Family Concerts for your diary 17 October See page 11 27 February See page 39

Stuart Stratford conductor Chris Jarvis presenter Our journey across different time zones starts on the stroke of noon in the court of the Austrian emperor before we fast-forward to join Cinderella at the ball with a midnight deadline to meet. Time was never an issue back in the 18th century with good old ‘Papa’ Haydn and his ever-reliable Clock Symphony. However, Stephen McNeff’s newly-arranged suite inspired by Philip Pullman’s novel, Clockwork or All Wound Up may well cross a few timelines. A metronome could come in handy at times like this, if only Beethoven would stop making fun of this ingenious invention. Of course Strauss has to join in the fun with his rather silly musical joke – Perpetuum Mobile. Order is restored in the nick of time with Ponchielli’s ballet, Dance of the Hours, which was used so brilliantly in the original Fantasia film.

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May

FUNharmonics Family Concert Tick Tock

Saturday 28 May 2011 | 7.30pm Royal Festival Hall

Haydn Symphony No. 88 Mahler Songs from Des knaben Wunderhorn Brahms Symphony No. 4

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Vladimir Jurowski conductor Christian Gerhaher baritone

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Brahms’s Fourth Symphony itself seems like a journey embarked upon and completed; the music embraces you like lake water – so naturally building before dying away, its last drops bringing our season to a close as they did their composer’s symphonic career.

We have a goodbye from Mahler, too. In the songs of Des knaben Wunderhorn (The Youth’s Magic Horn) the composer sketches so many of the moods and motifs that find their way into his Second and Third Symphonies. There are flowing ländlers, trance-like nocturnes and prophetic marches. But there’s immense textural skill from the young Mahler, too, who gifts his musical lines the clarity of an engraving.

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6.15pm–6.45pm Free Royal Festival Hall Surrey University music lecturer Jeremy Barham examines ‘Music of the people? Mahler’s folksong revival in the Lieder and symphony’

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Friends and Benefactors As well as sharing the London Philharmonic Orchestra’s passion for performance at the highest level, Friends and Benefactors generously support the Orchestra by contributing between £50 and £1,000 a year through membership. In addition to playing a vital role in supporting the Orchestra both on and off the stage, members enjoy a wide variety of exclusive benefits including: — Priority booking to ensure access to favourite seats in Royal Festival Hall — Access to exclusive Members’ Rehearsals — Access to the Friends’ Bar with private cloakroom — Access to the Corporate Bar with complimentary fine wines, canapés, chocolates and concert programmes — Priority access to purchase rehearsal and performance tickets at Glyndebourne Festival Opera — Invitation to the annual Christmas party with London Philharmonic Orchestra musicians and staff

For further information about Friends, Benefactors or LPO Contemporaries please contact:

Anna Gover Charitable Giving Officer 020 7840 4225 anna.gover@lpo.org.uk Find out more or join online by visiting www.lpo.org.uk / support_the_lpo

LPO CONTEMPORARIES LPO Contemporaries are young, dynamic Londoners in their 20s and 30s, keen to become involved in the city’s cultural life as members of an exclusive social group. For more information please see page 54 .

THOMAS BEECHAM GROUP This group encompasses the Orchestra’s most generous donors.

Members are closely involved with its musicians and management team, and play a significant role in the life and financial well-being of the Orchestra. Thomas Beecham Group patrons enjoy access to a wide range of unique benefits including: — Access to exclusive private events, tours and recitals — Acknowledgement as the supporter of a London Philharmonic Orchestra musician’s chair

For further information about becoming a member of the Thomas Beecham Group please contact:

Emma O’Connell Development Director 020 7840 4211 emma.oconnell@lpo.org.uk

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CORPORATE Partnerships

For more information on partnerships with the London Philharmonic Orchestra please contact:

Phoebe Rouse Corporate Relations Manager on 020 7840 4210 phoebe.rouse@lpo.org.uk

The London Philharmonic Orchestra offers a rich portfolio of opportunities for corporate engagement. Building bespoke packages to support marketing, client entertaining, corporate responsibility and brand development is our forte. With packages starting from just £2,500, there is a level to suit every company.

SPONSORSHIP Exclusive sponsorships of tours, players, individual concerts as well as private events and corporate training create unforgettable experiences and provide opportunities to promote a partnership with the Orchestra. Create distinctive brand synergies and gain access to London Philharmonic Orchestra musicians.

CORPORATE MEMBERSHIP Treat your staff and guests to a unique concert experience with stunning hospitality opportunities that provide a new direction for corporate entertaining. Guests will listen to a world-class orchestra and mix with fellow executives at Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall and Glyndebourne Festival Opera.

EDUCATION and COMMUNITY Complement sponsorship and entertaining activities by supporting the Orchestra’s diverse Education and Community programmes.

A partnership around our projects creates a strong corporate responsibility message.

Corporate Partners play a vital role in supporting the London Philharmonic Orchestra’s work both on and off the concert platform.

As a registered charity, we increasingly rely on corporate support to continue delivering world-class concerts and pioneering education and community programmes.

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Supporting the Orchestra

LPO Contemporaries

LPO Contemporaries are young, dynamic Londoners in their 20s and 30s, keen to become involved in the city’s cultural life as members of an exclusive social group. At the centre of this group is the London Philharmonic Orchestra.

Membership starts from £150 a year and LPO Contemporaries perks include: — Priority access to a specially selected LPO Contemporaries Subscription Series — Complimentary tickets to exclusive LPO Contemporaries VIP Evenings and Champagne Saturdays — Bespoke events hosted by the Orchestra and its cultural partners across London — Discounts and special offers with select London Philharmonic Orchestra partners Through their annual membership LPO Contemporaries support the work of the Philharmonic Orchestra; a registered charity dedicated to bringing music and education to people from all walks of life.

John O’Connell, LPO Contemporaries Member

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‘Being a member of LPO Contemporaries has been a great way to meet interesting people in a relaxed environment and enjoy fantastic music on some really good nights out’

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To find out more or join LPO Contemporaries please contact:

Anna Gover Charitable Giving Officer 020 7840 4225 anna.gover@lpo.org.uk Find out more or join online by visiting www.lpo.org.uk / lpocontemporaries LPO Contemporaries Subscription Series 2010/11 1 October See page 06 22 January See page 28 4 May See page 48

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Booking information

How to Book

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

London Philharmonic Orchestra Ticket Office Book now 020 7840 4242 www.lpo.org.uk Monday to Friday 10.00am – 5.00pm No transaction fee F 020 7840 4201

GROUP BOOKINGS Make the most of our group bookings scheme. With savings of up to 20% on ticket prices, and many other group benefits, everything has been done to help you and your group have an enjoyable and affordable evening out with one of the world’s finest orchestras.

Benefits include — 20% discount for groups of ten or more — An additional pair of complimentary tickets for the group organiser for groups of 20 or more — Exclusive ticket offers and special promotions on selected concerts throughout the season — Flexible reservations until one month before the concert — No booking fee or postal charge — Discounted coach hire — Customised free publicity material for your group London Philharmonic Orchestra Group Bookings Book now 020 7840 4205, www.lpo.org.uk/groups or groups@lpo.org.uk Monday to Friday 10.00am – 5.00pm

Students and under-26s If you are a full time student or under 26 you can get discounted tickets to selected London Philharmonic Orchestra concerts throughout the year. 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 www.lpo.org.uk/noise to get details of these fantastic offers!

Southbank Centre Ticket Office Book now 0844 847 9920 Daily 9.00am – 8.00pm (transaction fees apply)

www.southbankcentre.co.uk (transaction fees apply) In person at Royal Festival Hall Ticket Office Daily 10.00am – 8.00pm (no transaction fee)

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getting to southbank centre

How do I get to Southbank Centre?

Southbank Centre is situated on the Thames Riverside between the Golden Jubilee Bridge and Waterloo Bridge.

Tube to Embankment (Bakerloo, Northern, District and Circle lines); to Waterloo (Northern, Jubilee, Bakerloo and Waterloo & City lines).

Rail to Waterloo, Waterloo East or Charing Cross.

Bus to Waterloo. Bus numbers 1, 4, 59, 68, 75, 139, 168, 171, 172, 176, 188, 243, 341, 521, RV1 X68 all stop on Waterloo Bridge and 77 and RV1 stop on Belvedere Road.

Car parking: Access to Southbank Centre Car Parks is off Belvedere Road. Both car parks are open daily from 7am to 1am. Discounted rate after 5pm and for patrons attending daytime paid events (up to 7pm). To obtain the special daytime rate, present your car park ticket and event ticket at the Ticket Office in Royal Festival Hall or Hayward Gallery. Congestion charge payment machines (credit/debit card only) are located in both car parks. For further details visit www.southbankcentre.co.uk/visitor-info

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Information

General information

When will I receive my tickets?

Ticket bookings will be processed on a first-come, first-served basis. You will be advised if your booking cannot be fulfilled.

We will endeavour to allocate tickets in your preferred seating area.

Tickets will be sent to you by 2nd class post unless booked within 4 days of the concert, in which case they will be available for collection at Royal Festival Hall Ticket Office on the evening of the concert.

Can I exchange my tickets?

You may exchange your tickets for another concert in the London Philharmonic Orchestra’s 2010/11 season or a credit voucher at no additional charge up to two working days before the concert.

All tickets are non-refundable.

— All discounts are subject to availability and cannot be combined — The right is reserved to substitute artists and to vary programmes if necessary — Please post to the Orchestra’s office address on the right hand side

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 Position supported by Macquarie Group HRH The Duke of Kent KG Patron Vladimir Jurowski Principal Conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin Principal Guest Conductor Pieter Schoeman Leader Julian Anderson Composer in Residence

Limited concessions 50% off all ticket prices for full-time students, benefit recipients (Jobseekers Allowance; Income Support; and Pension Credit) and under-16s (maximum 4 per transaction. Not applicable to Family Concerts). Limited availability; appropriate cards will be checked on admission. Call 0871 663 2530 for further details.

T 020 7840 4200 F 020 7840 4201 Tickets 020 7840 4242 www.lpo.org.uk

Cloakroom

The London Philharmonic Orchestra gratefully acknowledges the financial support of Arts Council England and Southbank Centre.

Situated on Level 1 of Royal Festival Hall and in the foyer of Queen Elizabeth Hall.

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access

Access list Visitors with a disability can join Southbank Centre’s free Access List.

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 a form or information, please email accesslist@southbankcentre.co.uk, call 0871 663 2587 or visit www.southbankcentre.co.uk/access. It is advisable to pre-book tickets as numbers for some events are limited.

The auditoria are fitted with Sennheiser infrared systems. Receivers can be collected from the Cloakroom on Level 1 of Royal Festival Hall.

Level access All levels of Royal Festival Hall have level access via internal lifts and ramps. Some of the lifts have a limited weight capacity.

For further details please call 0871 663 2587.

The Royal Festival Hall has wheelchair spaces in the boxes, choir seats, side and rear stalls of the auditorium. Tickets for wheelchair spaces can be booked online or by phone on 0871 663 2500.

Guide and companion dogs may be taken anywhere on site.

Accessible parking Accessible parking is available in Southbank Centre Car Park – The Hayward on a first-come, first-served basis. To collect your free exit voucher, please present your parking ticket, along with your event ticket and Blue Badge, at the Queen Elizabeth Hall Artists’ Entrance or Royal Festival Hall Ticket Office.

Accessible toilets Available on all floors of Royal Festival Hall.

In Queen Elizabeth Hall, unisex accessible toilets are on the ground floor by the Artists’ Entrance. Other toilets are located off the foyer.

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Seating information

Evening concerts

Ticket prices

£9 £12

£16 £21

£27 £32

£38

Premium seats £55*

Monday to Friday 10.00am – 5.00pm No transaction fee F 020 7840 4201

Ticket prices for 6 October (Järvi/Kissin):

£12 £16

£21 £27

£32 £38

London Philharmonic Orchestra Ticket Office Book now 020 7840 4242 www.lpo.org.uk

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Premium seats £60* *Premium seats 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.

Southbank Centre Ticket Office Book now 0844 847 9920 Daily 9.00am – 8.00pm (transaction fees apply) All ticketing staff at Southbank Centre can take typetalk calls

www.southbankcentre.co.uk (transaction fees apply) In person at Royal Festival Hall Ticket Office Daily 10.00am – 8.00pm (no transaction fee)

Balcony

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funharmonics family concerts

Royal Festival Hall has wheelchair spaces in the boxes, choir seats, side and rear stalls of the auditorium

Sunday 17 October Sunday 27 February Saturday 15 May

Adult £8 Adult £10 Adult £12 Adult £14 Adult £16

Child £4 Child £5 Child £6 Child £7 Child £8

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Latest releases on our own label

Like what you heard?

The London Philharmonic Orchestra experience doesn’t have to stop when you leave the concert hall. A fantastic range of recordings showcasing the Orchestra’s remarkable heritage as well as capturing recent concerts will make an exciting addition to your recording collection.

Have you seen our recordings catalogue?

The Orchestra’s own-label CDs are unique: amongst them are archive recordings, studio recordings, live concert recordings and recordings of world-première performances. Repertoire encompasses music from the baroque to the present day; music for the concert hall, music for the opera house, and music for children.

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RECORDINGS OF MAHLER ON THE LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA’S LABEL ‘This performance of Mahler’s Fifth Symphony is as absorbing on CD as it was when I heard it live in the Festival Hall in January’ The Daily Telegraph on Jaap van Zweden conducting Mahler Symphony No.5 (LPO-0033)

For a full list of all our recordings so far, download the FREE London Philharmonic Orchestra catalogue at www.lpo.org.uk

Buy now www.lpo.org.uk /shop (CDs and downloads)

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Gramophone Magazine: Editor’s Choice

Gramophone Magazine: Editor’s Choice

Diary 2010

Wednesday 22 September ZEMLINSKY MAHLER Vladimir Jurowski conductor Petra Lang mezzo soprano London Philharmonic Choir Trinity Boys Choir

Friday 15 October BERLIOZ ELGAR R STRAUSS David Zinman conductor Truls Mørk cello Sunday 17 October 11.30am FUNharmonics Family concert Heroes and heroines John Rigby conductor Chris Jarvis presenter

Saturday 25 September HAYDN D’AMICO DUFAY BARTÓK Vladimir Jurowski conductor The Hilliard Ensemble London Philharmonic Choir

Saturday 23 October 7.00pm ROSSINI Maurizio Benini conductor Annick Massis soprano Silvia Tro Santafé mezzo soprano Kenneth Tarver tenor Andrew Foster-Williams bass Ezgi Kutlu mezzo soprano Geoffrey Mitchell Choir

Friday 1 October FAURÉ SAINT-SAËNS STRAVINSKY Yan Pascal Tortelier conductor Behzod Abduraimov piano

Wednesday 27 October MENDELSSOHN MAHLER BRAHMS Vladimir Jurowski conductor Sarah Connolly mezzo soprano

Wednesday 6 October SUK CHOPIN DVOrˇ ÁK Neeme Järvi conductor Evgeny Kissin piano

Wednesday 13 October LINDBERG MENDELSSOHN WALTON Osmo Vänskä conductor Agata Szymczewska violin

Wednesday 1 December DEBUSSY (ORCH. COLIN MATTHEWS) BRITTEN MAHLER Vladimir Jurowski conductor Christine Schäfer soprano Saturday 4 December BEETHOVEN MAHLER Vladimir Jurowski conductor Hélène Grimaud piano Wednesday 15 December BEETHOVEN ˚ MARTINu ANDERSON NIELSEN Jukka-Pekka Saraste conductor Frank Peter Zimmermann violin

Saturday 30 October BRAHMS BEETHOVEN (ARR. MAHLER) Vladimir Jurowski conductor Leif Ove Andsnes piano

November

Saturday 9 October DVOrˇ ÁK Neeme Järvi conductor Lisa Milne soprano Karen Cargill mezzo soprano Peter Auty tenor Peter Rose bass London Philharmonic Choir

Friday 26 November MOZART BRUCKNER Gunther Herbig conductor Andreas Haefliger piano

December

September

All concerts are at Royal Festival Hall and start at 7.30pm unless otherwise stated

October

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Wednesday 17 November R STRAUSS MAHLER RAVEL Kazushi Ono conductor Nathalie Stutzmann contralto Wednesday 24 November STRAVINSKY PROKOFIEV SHOSTAKOVICH Vasily Petrenko conductor Oleg Marshev piano

Concert texts Andrew Mellor London Philharmonic Orchestra Photography © Patrick Harrison www.patrickharrison.co.uk Design Roundel www.roundel.com 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

Saturday 22 January FRANCK FAURÉ Yannick Nézet-Séguin conductor Sally Matthews soprano Gerald Finley bass baritone London Philharmonic Choir

PREMIÈRES First performances of works by Matteo D’Amico, Magnus Lindberg and Brett Dean

Wednesday 26 January EÖTVÖS LISZT ZEMLINSKY Vladimir Jurowski conductor Alexander Markovich piano Melanie Diener soprano Thomas Hampson baritone

VLADIMIR JUROWSKI The Orchestra’s Principal Conductor continues his survey of the symphonies of Tchaikovsky with performances of the Second, Fourth and Fifth OPERA RARA A rare opportunity to hear Rossini’s opera Aureliano in Palmira in collaboration with long term partner Opera Rara

February

Saturday 29 January LIGETI BARTÓK MAHLER Vladimir Jurowski conductor Barnabas Kelemen violin Melanie Diener soprano Christianne Stotijn mezzo soprano Michael Koenig tenor Christopher Purves baritone London Philharmonic Choir Friday 4 February BRAHMS Kurt Masur conductor Anne-Sophie Mutter violin Daniel Müller-Schott cello Wednesday 9 February RACHMANINOV LISZT RACHMANINOV DVOrˇ ÁK Osmo Vänskä conductor Bernd Glemser piano

Wednesday 23 March DEAN ADAMS HOLST Marin Alsop conductor London Philharmonic Choir

Wednesday 16 February RAVEL BERLIOZ Yannick Nézet-Séguin conductor Anna Caterina Antonacci soprano

Saturday 26 March ELGAR Edward Gardner conductor Christine Rice mezzo soprano Paul Groves tenor Alastair Miles bass London Philharmonic Choir

Saturday 19 February MOZART MAHLER Yannick Nézet-Séguin conductor Stefan Jackiw violin Richard Yongjae O’Neill viola Sarah Connolly mezzo soprano Toby Spence tenor

Saturday 16 April LISZT DVOrˇ ÁK TCHAIKOVSKY Vladimir Jurowski conductor Alban Gerhardt cello

April

Wednesday 19 January BEETHOVEN MAHLER Yannick Nézet-Séguin conductor Nicholas Angelich piano

A chance to hear key works by Mahler’s contemporaries including Zemlinsky, Bartók and Ligeti

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Friday 11 February WEBER MOZART BEETHOVEN SCHUMANN Louis Langrée conductor David Fray piano

Wednesday 20 April MAHLER SHOSTAKOVICH WEBERN BEETHOVEN (ARR. MAHLER) Vladimir Jurowski conductor Janine Jansen violin

Friday 25 February MAHLER Christoph Eschenbach conductor Christopher Maltman baritone Sunday 27 February 11.30am FUNharmonics Family concert Magic Music David Angus conductor Chris Jarvis presenter Friday 18 March PROKOFIEV HAYDN STRAVINSKY SHOSTAKOVICH Vladimir Jurowski conductor Emanuel Ax piano Saturday 19 March ANDERSON BEETHOVEN TCHAIKOVSKY Vladimir Jurowski conductor Christian Tetzlaff violin

May

MAHLER ANNIVERSARY SEASON A fascinating exploration of Mahler’s symphonies and the complete song-cycles alongside his striking orchestral arrangements of the music of other major composers

Friday 14 January SZYMANOWSKI MAHLER Jaap van Zweden conductor Leonidas Kavakos violin

March

Season Highlights

January

Diary 2011

Wednesday 4 May WAGNER R STRAUSS TCHAIKOVSKY Vladimir Jurowski conductor Christine Brewer soprano Sunday 15 May 11.30am FUNharmonics Family concert TICK TOCK Stuart Stratford conductor Chris Jarvis presenter Saturday 28 May HAYDN MAHLER BRAHMS Vladimir Jurowski conductor Christian Gerhaher baritone

London Philharmonic Orchestra 2010/11 Concert Season

2010/11 Concert Season at Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall