2019/20 concert season at Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall
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Concert programme
Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor VLADIMIR JUROWSKI Principal Conductor Designate EDWARD GARDNER supported by Mrs Christina Lang Assael Leader PIETER SCHOEMAN supported by Neil Westreich Patron HRH THE DUKE OF KENT KG Chief Executive and Artistic Director TIMOTHY WALKER CBE AM Chief Executive Designate DAVID BURKE
Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall Wednesday 26 February 2020 | 7.30pm
Elgar In the South (Alassio), Op. 50 (20’) Spohr Violin Concerto No. 2 in D minor, Op. 2 (25’) Interval (20’) Webern Im Sommerwind (13’) Rautavaara Book of Visions (36’) Osmo Vänskä conductor Sergej Krylov violin
Free pre-concert event 6.00–7.00pm | Royal Festival Hall As part of 2020 Vision, the Foyle Future Firsts present 21st-century chamber repertoire alongside works by earlier composers, under the baton of Osmo Vänskä.
The timings shown are not precise and are given only as a guide. CONCERT PRESENTED BY THE LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Contents 2 Welcome LPO 2020/21 season 3 On stage tonight 4 About the Orchestra 5 Leader: Pieter Schoeman 6 2020 Vision at a glance 8 Osmo Vänskä 9 Sergej Krylov 10 Programme notes 13 Recommended recordings 14 Recent LPO Label releases 15 LPO Annual Appeal 2019/20 16 LPO Ring Cycle 2021 17 Sound Futures donors 18 Supporters 20 LPO administration
WELCOME
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Out now The Spring 2020 edition of our free LPO magazine, Tune In. Copies are available at the Welcome Desk, Level 2, Royal Festival Hall, or phone the LPO office on 020 7840 4200 to receive one in the post. Also available digitally: issuu.com/londonphilharmonic
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Details of next season’s concerts are now online at lpo.org.uk/newseason. General booking opens at 10am on Tuesday 3 March online and via the LPO Ticket Office. To take advantage of priority booking (open now), become a Friend of the London Philharmonic Orchestra for as little as £60 a year. Call Izzy Keig on 020 7840 4225 or visit lpo.org.uk/friends. Highlights of the new season include:
2020 Vision We continue with our acclaimed 2020 Vision project, during which we present works composed and premiered since 2000 that we believe will stand the test of time, and that deserve to be heard again. Each of these pieces is combined in concert with works composed exactly 100 and 200 years earlier, and we mark the end of 2020 Vision with the world premiere of James MacMillan’s Christmas Oratorio (see pages 6–7).
Beethoven’s 250th anniversary As part of the year-long celebrations, we continue our Beethoven Symphony Cycle with performances of the composer’s final three symphonies alongside a rare performance of the Choral Fantasy.
Wagner’s Ring Cycle We present our most ambitious project yet, with two complete Wagner Ring Cycles conducted by Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor Vladimir Jurowski alongside a stellar cast of Wagnerians including Torsten Kerl, Burkhard Fritz, Matthew Rose and Lise Lindstrom. With Jurowski in his final year as Principal Conductor, this will be an event to remember for years to come (see page 16).
Celebrated artists We welcome Brett Dean as our new Composer in Residence, and will perform a number of his works across the season. We are also delighted to present an array of guest artists of the highest calibre throughout the season. Alongside our Principal Conductor Designate, Edward Gardner, guest conductors include Zubin Mehta, Karina Canellakis, Christoph Eschenbach, Alondra de la Parra and Klaus Mäkelä, and soloists include, among others, Anoushka Shankar, Vikingur Ólafsson, Mark Padmore, Sophie Bevan and Miloš Karadaglić. Browse the full season at lpo.org.uk/newseason
ON STAGE TONIGHT First Violins Pieter Schoeman Leader Chair supported by Neil Westreich
Vesselin Gellev Sub-Leader Lasma Taimina Chair supported by Irina Gofman and Mr Rodrik V. G. Cave
Katalin Varnagy Chair supported by Sonja Drexler
Thomas Eisner Chair supported by the Chiltern Friends of the LPO
Martin Hรถhmann Robert Pool Sarah Streatfeild Yang Zhang Chair supported by Eric Tomsett
Amanda Smith Rebecca Shorrock Grace Lee Morane Cohen-Lamberger Nilufar Alimaksumova John Dickinson Gabriela Opacka Second Violins Tania Mazzetti Principal Chair supported by Countess Dominique Loredan
Nandor Farkas Helena Smart Kate Birchall Nancy Elan Fiona Higham Chair supported by David & Yi Buckley
Nynke Hijlkema Joseph Maher Ashley Stevens Ioana Forna Mathilde Gheorghiu Sioni Williams Alison Strange Harry Kerr
Violas David Quiggle Principal Richard Waters Co-Principal Robert Duncan Ting-Ru Lai Laura Vallejo Naomi Holt Stanislav Popov Joseph Fisher Daniel Cornford Paloma Cueto-Felgueroso Martin Wray Sarah Malcolm
Piccolo Katherine Bicknell
Cellos Ilia Laporev Guest Principal Francis Bucknall Laura Donoghue David Lale Elisabeth Wiklander Susanna Riddell Tom Roff Helen Rathbone George Hoult David Bucknall
James Maltby Charys Green Elliot Gresty
Double Basses Kevin Rundell* Principal Sebastian Pennar Co-Principal Hugh Kluger George Peniston Laura Murphy Charlotte Kerbegian Lowri Morgan Dominic Dudley Flutes Juliette Bausor Principal Sue Thomas* Chair supported by Caroline, Jamie & Zander Sharp
Katherine Bicknell
Trombones Mark Templeton* Principal
Oboes Ian Hardwick* Principal Alice Munday
Chair supported by William & Alex de Winton
David Whitehouse Bass Trombone Lyndon Meredith Principal
Cor Anglais Sue Bรถhling* Principal Chair supported by Dr Barry Grimaldi
Tuba Lee Tsarmaklis* Principal
Clarinets Thomas Watmough Principal
Timpani Simon Carrington* Principal
Chair supported by Roger Greenwood
Chair supported by Victoria Robey OBE
Percussion Andrew Barclay* Principal
Bass Clarinet Paul Richards* Principal
Chair supported by Andrew Davenport
Bassoons Jonathan Davies Principal Chair supported by Sir Simon Robey
Gareth Newman Contrabassoon Simon Estell* Principal Horns John Ryan* Principal Stephen Craigen Guest Principal Martin Hobbs Elise Campbell Gareth Mollison Jonathan Lipton Trumpets Paul Beniston* Principal Chair supported by Donors to the 2019 Gala Player Appeal
Anne McAneney* Paul Bosworth
Henry Baldwin Co-Principal Keith Millar Harps Rachel Masters Principal Lucy Haslar * Holds a professorial appointment in London Meet our members: lpo.org.uk/players
The London Philharmonic Orchestra also acknowledges the following chair supporters whose players are not present at this concert: The Candide Trust Gill & Garf Collins Friends of the Orchestra Bianca & Stuart Roden
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LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
The LPO all-Russian Prom was one of the rarest programmes of the season, sumptuously persuasive about Glazunov’s theme-park Fifth (has the orchestra ever sounded more top-league?) The Arts Desk: ‘Best of 2019’ (BBC Proms 2019: Vladimir Jurowski conducts Rimsky-Korsakov, Rachmaninoff & Glazunov)
One of the finest orchestras on the international stage, the London Philharmonic Orchestra balances a long and distinguished history with its reputation as one of the UK’s most forward-looking ensembles. As well as its concert performances, the Orchestra also records film soundtracks, releases CDs and downloads on its own label, and reaches thousands of people every year through activities for families, schools and local communities. The Orchestra was founded by Sir Thomas Beecham in 1932, and has since been headed by many great conductors including Sir Adrian Boult, Bernard Haitink, Sir Georg Solti, Klaus Tennstedt and Kurt Masur. In 2017 Vladimir Jurowski celebrated his tenth anniversary as the Orchestra’s Principal Conductor. Edward Gardner is currently Principal Conductor Designate, and will take up the position when Jurowski’s tenure concludes in September 2021. The Orchestra is resident at Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall in London, where it gives around
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40 concerts each season. This year’s focus is our 2020 Vision series, which features some of the most exciting works written since 2000, each combined in concert with pieces composed exactly 100 and 200 years earlier. Outside London, the Orchestra has flourishing residencies in Brighton, Eastbourne and at Saffron Hall in Essex, and performs regularly around the UK. Each summer the Orchestra takes up its annual residency at Glyndebourne Festival Opera in the Sussex countryside, where it has been Resident Symphony Orchestra for over 50 years. The Orchestra also tours internationally, performing to sell-out audiences worldwide. In 1956 it became the first British orchestra to appear in Soviet Russia and in 1973 made the first ever visit to China by a Western orchestra. Touring remains a large part of the Orchestra’s life: highlights of recent seasons have included a major tour of Asia including South Korea, Taiwan and China, as well as performances in Belgium, France, Germany, The Netherlands, Spain, Greece, Switzerland and the USA.
PIETER SCHOEMAN leader
In summer 2012 the London Philharmonic Orchestra performed as part of The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Pageant on the River Thames, and was also chosen to record all the world’s national anthems for the London 2012 Olympics. In 2013 it was the winner of the RPS Music Award for Ensemble. The London Philharmonic Orchestra is committed to inspiring the next generation of musicians. We recently celebrated the 30th anniversary of our Education and Community department, whose work over three decades has introduced so many people of all ages to orchestral music and created opportunities for people of all backgrounds to fulfil their creative potential. Our dynamic and wide-ranging programme provides first musical experiences for children and families; offers creative projects and professional development opportunities for schools and teachers; inspires talented teenage instrumentalists to progress their skills; and develops the next generation of professional musicians. The Orchestra’s work at the forefront of digital technology has enabled it to reach millions of people worldwide: all its recordings are available to download and stream and, as well as a YouTube channel and podcast series, the Orchestra has a lively presence on social media. lpo.org.uk facebook.com/londonphilharmonicorchestra twitter.com/LPOrchestra youtube.com/londonphilharmonicorchestra instagram.com/londonphilharmonicorchestra
Pieter Schoeman was appointed Leader of the London Philharmonic Orchestra in 2008, having previously been Co-Leader since 2002. © Benjamin Ealovega
The London Philharmonic Orchestra has recorded many blockbuster film scores, from The Lord of the Rings trilogy to Lawrence of Arabia, East is East, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey and Thor: The Dark World. It also broadcasts regularly on television and radio, and in 2005 established its own record label. There are now over 100 releases available on CD and to download. Recent additions include Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 conducted by Vladimir Jurowski, Mozart chamber works with LPO Principal players, and Ravi Shankar’s only opera, Sukanya (see page 14).
Born in South Africa, Pieter made his solo debut aged 10 with the Cape Town Symphony Orchestra. Five years later he won the World Youth Concerto Competition in Michigan. Aged 17, he moved to the US to further his studies in Los Angeles and Dallas. In 1991 his talent was spotted by Pinchas Zukerman who, after several consultations, recommended that he move to New York to study with Sylvia Rosenberg. Pieter has performed worldwide as a soloist and recitalist in such famous halls as the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Moscow’s Rachmaninov Hall, Capella Hall in St Petersburg, Staatsbibliothek in Berlin, Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles and Southbank Centre’s Queen Elizabeth Hall in London. As a chamber musician he regularly appears at London’s prestigious Wigmore Hall. At the invitation of Yannick Nézet-Séguin he has been part of the ‘Yannick and Friends’ chamber group, performing at festivals in Dortmund and Rheingau. Pieter has performed several times as a soloist with the LPO, and his live recording of Britten’s Double Concerto with Alexander Zemtsov was released on the Orchestra’s own label to great critical acclaim. He has also recorded numerous violin solos for film and television, and led the LPO in its soundtrack recordings for The Lord of the Rings trilogy. In 1995 Pieter became Co-Leader of the Orchestre Philharmonique de Nice. Since then he has appeared frequently as Guest Leader with the Barcelona, Bordeaux, Lyon, Baltimore and BBC Symphony orchestras, and the Rotterdam and BBC Philharmonic orchestras. In April 2016 he was Guest Leader with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra for Kurt Masur’s memorial concert. He is a Professor of Violin at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in London. Pieter’s chair in the London Philharmonic Orchestra is supported by Neil Westreich.
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in collaboration with
Tonight’s concert is part of our year-long 2020 Vision series, exploring the journey of music with pioneering works that have defined the sound of the 21st century, alongside music written exactly 100 and 200 years before.
NEW CENTURY, NEW SOUNDS
SATURDAY 8 FEBRUARY 2020
Beethoven Symphony No. 1 Eötvös Snatches of a Conversation Scriabin Symphony No. 2 Vladimir Jurowski conductor Marco Blaauw trumpet Omar Ebrahim speaker Generously supported by Cockayne Grants for the Arts and The London Community Foundation.
2002
THREE ADVENTURES
WEDNESDAY 19 FEBRUARY 2020
Beethoven Symphony No. 2 Knussen Violin Concerto Sibelius Symphony No. 2 Vasily Petrenko conductor Daniel Pioro violin Generously supported by Victoria Robey OBE.
2003
FANTASY AND REVOLUTION
SATURDAY 22 FEBRUARY 2020
Jörg Widmann Lied for Orchestra Ravel Shéhérazade Beethoven Symphony No. 3 (Eroica) Dima Slobodeniouk conductor Christine Rice mezzo-soprano 6 | London Philharmonic Orchestra
BEETHOVEN’S FIFTH SATURDAY 28 MARCH 2020
Sibelius Symphony No. 3 Dutilleux Le temps l’horloge Beethoven Symphony No. 5
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2001
2007
2004
NEW VISIONS
WEDNESDAY 26 FEBRUARY 2020
Elgar In the South Spohr Violin Concerto No. 2 Webern Im Sommerwind Rautavaara Book of Visions Osmo Vänskä conductor Sergej Krylov violin
2005
POETRY & BELIEF FRIDAY 28 FEBRUARY 2020
Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 4 Krzysztof Penderecki Chaconne in memory of John Paul II Enescu Symphony No. 1 Osmo Vänskä conductor Jeremy Denk piano Generously supported by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute and the Romanian Cultural Institute.
2006
THE NEW BACCHUS
WEDNESDAY 25 MARCH 2020
Beethoven Symphony No. 4 Kaija Saariaho Notes on Light Scriabin Symphony No. 4 (The Poem of Ecstasy) Omer Meir Wellber conductor Johannes Moser cello
Edward Gardner conductor Sally Matthews soprano Generously supported by Mrs Aline Foriel-Destezet.
2008
LANDSCAPE AND MEMORY
WEDNESDAY 1 APRIL 2020
Ives The Unanswered Question Thomas Adès In Seven Days Beethoven Symphony No. 6 (Pastoral) Vladimir Jurowski conductor Nicolas Hodges piano
2009
THE EVEREST OF PIANO CONCERTOS WEDNESDAY 8 APRIL 2020
Méhul Symphony No. 1 Ryan Wigglesworth Augenlieder* Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 3 Vladimir Jurowski conductor Sophie Bevan soprano Nikolai Lugansky piano *Supported by Resonate. Resonate is a PRS Foundation initiative in partnership with the Association of British Orchestras, BBC Radio 3 and Boltini Trust.
2010
2014
WEDNESDAY 22 APRIL 2020
WEDNESDAY 21 OCTOBER 2020
CROSSING CULTURES
A PADMORE CYCLE
John Corigliano Stomp Philip Glass Double Concerto for violin and cello Shankar Symphony
Schubert Symphony No. 2 Thomas Larcher A Padmore Cycle Nielsen Symphony No. 4 (The Inextinguishable)
Karen Kamensek conductor Daniel Hope violin Alban Gerhardt cello Anoushka Shankar sitar
Thierry Fischer conductor Mark Padmore tenor
Generously supported by Cockayne Grants for the Arts and The London Community Foundation.
2011
STORMING THE HEAVENS
WEDNESDAY 30 SEPTEMBER 2020
Julian Anderson The Discovery of Heaven Nielsen Violin Concerto Beethoven Symphony No. 7 John Storgårds conductor Simone Lamsma violin
2012
ABSOLUTE JEST
SATURDAY 3 OCTOBER 2020
John Adams Absolute Jest Bartók Four Orchestral Pieces Beethoven Symphony No. 8 Karina Canellakis conductor Heath Quartet
2013
RITES OF RENEWAL
WEDNESDAY 7 OCTOBER 2020
Schubert Symphony No. 1 Magnus Lindberg Cello Concerto No. 2 (UK premiere) Stravinsky The Rite of Spring Jukka-Pekka Saraste conductor Anssi Karttunen cello
2015
THE MIDNIGHT SUN
WEDNESDAY 11 NOVEMBER 2020
Schubert Symphony No. 3 Krzysztof Penderecki Concertino for Trumpet and Orchestra Lotta Wennäkoski Verdigris (London premiere) Sibelius Symphony No. 5 Hannu Lintu conductor Gábor Boldoczki trumpet
2016
SONG OF THE NIGHT
WEDNESDAY 25 NOVEMBER 2020
Prokofiev Symphony No. 1 (Classical) Schubert Symphony No. 5 Magnus Lindberg Two Episodes Szymanowski Symphony No. 3 (The Song of the Night) Thomas Søndergård conductor Michael Weinius tenor London Philharmonic Choir
2017
GAVRYLYUK PLAYS PROKOFIEV
SATURDAY 28 NOVEMBER 2020
Ravel Le tombeau de Couperin Schubert Symphony No. 6 Anna Thorvaldsdottir Metacosmos Prokofiev Piano Concerto No. 3 Thomas Søndergård conductor Alexander Gavrylyuk piano
2018
JUROWSKI CONDUCTS ENESCU
WEDNESDAY 2 DECEMBER 2020
J S Bach Orchestral Suite No. 1 Elena Kats-Chernin Piano Concerto No. 3 (European premiere) Enescu Symphony No. 3* Vladimir Jurowski conductor Tamara-Anna Cislowska piano London Philharmonic Choir Trinity Boys Choir *Generously supported by the Romanian Cultural Institute.
2019
ALL THE WORLD’S A STAGE
SATURDAY 5 DECEMBER 2020
J S Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 Brett Dean The Players, for accordion and orchestra (UK premiere) Stravinsky Pulcinella (complete) Vladimir Jurowski conductor Pieter Schoeman violin Juliette Bausor flute Catherine Edwards harpsichord James Crabb accordion Angharad Lyddon soprano Sam Furness tenor David Soar bass Generously supported by Cockayne Grants for the Arts and The London Community Foundation.
2020
CHRISTMAS ORATORIO
SATURDAY 12 DECEMBER 2020
James MacMillan Christmas Oratorio (world premiere) Vladimir Jurowski conductor Mary Bevan soprano Christopher Maltman baritone London Philharmonic Choir Commissioned by the London Philharmonic Orchestra, NTR Zaterdag Matinee, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and the New York Philharmonic Orchestra.
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OSMO VÄNSKÄ conductor
Vänskä isn’t only about meticulous preparation. In concert he’s a wiry dynamo: lean, whippy and indefatigably energetic. His interpretations are the same. He never stops probing and pushing.
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The Times
Osmo Vänskä has been Music Director of the Minnesota Orchestra for 16 years, and in January 2020 began a new role as Music Director of the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra. Recognised for his compelling interpretations of repertoire of all ages and an energetic presence on the podium, his democratic and inclusive style of work has been key in forging longstanding relationships with different orchestras. With the Minnesota Orchestra Vänskä has undertaken five major European tours, as well as historic trips to Cuba in 2015, at the invitation of the Cuban Ministry of Culture – the first visit by an American orchestra since the two countries announced steps to re-establish diplomatic relations – and South Africa in 2018, as part of worldwide celebrations for Nelson Mandela’s centenary. The latter was the first visit by an American orchestra to the country and drew together South African and American performers in musical expressions of peace, freedom and reconciliation, in a five-city tour that followed a successful return to London’s BBC Proms. Other highlights of his tenure in Minnesota include 19 album recordings; leading and mentoring young composers during the annual Composer Institute seminar; initiating and conducting the annual Future Classics concerts; and various educational and outreach projects in Minneapolis and other cities. As a guest conductor, this season Vänskä makes his debut with the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra and returns to the Pittsburgh Symphony, City of Birmingham Symphony, Israel Philharmonic and Taiwan Philharmonic orchestras, and the Orchestre National de Lyon, while also making his regular season appearances with the Helsinki Philharmonic and Iceland Symphony orchestras.
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A distinguished recording artist, primarily for the BIS label, Vänskä is currently recording all of Mahler’s symphonies with the Minnesota Orchestra. With four discs already released, they received a Grammy nomination for their recording of Symphony No. 5. They also previously recorded the complete symphonies of Beethoven and Sibelius, also for BIS, to excellent international reviews, winning a Grammy Award for ‘Best Orchestral Performance’ in 2014 and receiving further nominations. Vänskä has been Principal Guest Conductor of the Iceland Symphony Orchestra since 2014 (after serving as Chief Conductor from 1993–96) and Conductor Laureate of the Lahti Symphony Orchestra since 2008 (following his previous period as Music Director since 1988). He also held the position of Chief Conductor of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra between 1996 and 2002. Vänskä studied conducting at Finland’s Sibelius Academy and was awarded First Prize in the 1982 Besançon Competition. He began his career as a clarinettist, occupying the Co-Principal chair of the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra. He regularly performs chamber music as a clarinettist, having been invited to La Jolla Summerfest, Seattle Chamber Music Festival, Naantali Summer Festival, Sysmä Summer Sounds, Music in Ruovesi and others. Osmo Vänskä is the recipient of a Royal Philharmonic Society Award, the Finlandia Foundation’s Arts and Letters Award, and the 2010 Ditson Award from Columbia University. He holds honorary doctorates from the universities of Glasgow and Minnesota.
SERGEJ KRYLOV violin
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The gloriously rich sound of his instrument was one which he could adapt to be forceful, cajoling, calm or jovial as the moment required. And how he made his violin sing! Bachtrack, November 2019 (Beethoven’s Violin Concerto with the Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra)
Effervescent musicianship, intense lyricism and beguiling tonal beauty are among the qualities that have secured Sergej Krylov’s place as one of today’s most renowned performers. A regular guest with the world’s leading orchestras, Krylov has appeared with the Russian National Orchestra, Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala, Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, DSO Berlin and Budapest Festival Orchestra. He last appeared with the London Philharmonic Orchestra in February 2018, when he performed Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto at Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall under the baton of Vasily Petrenko. Other renowned conductors with whom he has collaborated include Vladimir Jurowski, Marin Alsop, Mikhail Pletnev, Dmitrij Kitajenko, Fabio Luisi, Valery Gergiev, Andrey Boreyko, Roberto Abbado, Yuri Temirkanov, Dmitry Liss, Yuri Bashmet and Michał Nesterowicz.
Born into a family of musicians in Moscow in 1970, Sergej Krylov began studying the violin at the age of five and completed his training at the Moscow Central School of Music. His discography includes recordings for EMI and Melodiya, two releases on Deutsche Grammophon, Ezio Bosso’s Violin Concerto released by Sony Classical, and Krzysztof Penderecki’s Violin Concerto Metamorphosen.
As Music Director of the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra since 2008, Krylov enjoys assuming the dual role of soloist and conductor in a wide repertoire ranging from Baroque to contemporary music. Forthcoming engagements in the 2019/20 season include performances with the Royal Philharmonic, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Dresden Philharmonic, Strasbourg Philharmonic, Moscow Philharmonic and St Petersburg Philharmonic orchestras, and the Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino.
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PROGRAMME NOTES 2004: NEW VISIONS Elgar’s In the South was not what it was meant to be. Fame had brought significant pressure to the composer’s life, and his public had demanded a symphony. But despite Elgar’s good intentions, his First Symphony would take another four years to complete. Instead, for the date of its proposed premiere in 1904, Elgar offered this overture-cumtone-poem celebrating the history and landscape of Italy, where it was written. Like Elgar, Louis Spohr enjoyed great fame as a composer, as well as being a virtuoso violinist. But as his second violin concerto (of some 15 official and 18 unofficial such works) makes dazzlingly clear,
1904 In late 1903 Elgar was supposed to be completing his First Symphony. The work had been promised for a premiere at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in March 1904. It was to form the centrepiece of an Elgar Festival that would mark the composer’s coming of age, thanks to the national and, indeed, international success of his 1899 Variations on an Original Theme (‘Enigma’) and The Dream of Gerontius, first performed in Birmingham in 1900. Although the premiere of that oratorio had not been a total triumph, later performances encouraged Richard Strauss, no less, to call Elgar ‘the first English progressivist’. Progressive he may have been, but Elgar was making little progress on his First Symphony while in Italy in December 1903. Indeed, the Symphony would have to wait until 1908 for its world premiere. During that 10 | London Philharmonic Orchestra
the two sides of Spohr’s musical personality were far from exclusive. Webern, too, had something of a dual nature, in that he emerged from the perfume of Romanticism, as heard in the warm breezes of his 1904 Im Sommerwind, but was headed towards a more brutally distilled idiom. His and his generation’s serialism cast a lasting shadow, including over the early works of Finnish composer Einojuhani Rautavaara. Yet the music Rautavaara wrote towards the end of his life, including the 2004 Book of Visions, speaks more openly of a search for the transcendent that, perhaps, informs all our lives.
Edward Elgar (1857–1934) In the South (Alassio), Op. 50
sojourn in the seaside town of Alassio, in the northwestern region of Liguria, Elgar did, however, manage to write a new concert overture entitled In the South, with its place of composition included as a subtitle. Inspired by Berlioz’s Byronic Harold in Italy, as well as Strauss’s recent tone-poems, including Ein Heldenleben (in the same key of E flat major), Elgar completed In the South in time for the closing concert of the 1904 Elgar Festival. This 20-minute work is a grand reflection on the history of the Italian peninsula, ‘a land’, as Byron wrote in Childe Harold, ‘which was the mightiest in its old command and is the loveliest’. Reflecting Byron’s words, Elgar’s extended sonata-form composition pits bold, muscular themes, representing ‘the mightiest’, against a second group of melodies, more pastoral in vein and reflecting on the country’s ‘loveliest’ landscape. The development section’s passages of brute force signify
the harshness of Roman rule, while a solo viola (as in Berlioz’s Harold in Italy) plays a contrastingly simple folk-song, later arranged by Elgar as In Moonlight and setting a poem by Byron’s friend and contemporary Shelley. Finally, all the themes come together in a thrilling apotheosis, in turn looking to the conclusion of the Symphony that Elgar was due to have completed during his time ‘in the south’.
1804 Ludwig – or Louis – Spohr was one of the most prominent musical celebrities of his day. Born during the last decade of Mozart’s life, his work was unsurprisingly imbued with the Viennese Classicism that the Salzburg-born composer had made his own. And yet, as Spohr’s alternative first name indicates, his music was equally indebted to the more florid style of the French, an influence from early in the composer’s life, given that his second violin teacher was a Frenchman by the name of Dufour. And although he would only visit Paris for the first time in 1820, the French violin school of Rodolphe Kreutzer and Pierre Rode, whom Spohr heard in his hometown of Brunswick, would always be a prominent feature.
Spohr’s birthplace and the patronage of Duke Carl Wilhelm Ferdinand offered much, but the composer was ambitious and wished to travel, first under the Duke’s aegis and then under that of the court of Gotha, where the violinist moved in 1805. That was some eight months after Spohr had given the stirring premiere of his Second Violin Concerto. And for those who did not have the good luck to hear the work live, the enthusiastic review of Friedrich Rochlitz in the widelyread Leipziger Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung left curious parties in no doubt as to its qualities:
Ludwig (Louis) Spohr (1784–1859) Violin Concerto No. 2 in D minor, Op. 2 Sergej Krylov violin 1 Allegro moderato 2 Adagio 3 Alla Polacca
Spohr may without doubt take rank among the most eminent violinists of the present day and one would be astonished at his powers, more especially when his youth is considered, were it possible to pass from a sense of real delight to cold astonishment. He gave us a grand concerto of his own composition. […] We know of no violin concerto which can take precedence of that in D minor, whether as regards conception, soul and charm or also in respect of precision and firmness. The Concerto is cast in three movements, opening with an imposing, militaristic march. Mozartian ghosts are manifest, not least those of the Requiem and the hellish Don Giovanni, though so too are the liquid lines of more beneficent forces. As the violinist enters, Spohr immediately varies the material, lending spontaneity to his seeming points of reference and an even richer lyricism to the second subject. Following its aria-like tones, there comes an enrapt duet in the Adagio, not between soloist and orchestra, but with the soloist offering both lines in a lyrical chain of double-stopping. The orchestra strikes a more imperious note in the middle section, with dotted rhythms harking back to the Concerto’s opening march, but it is the soloist’s charm that wins through. The last movement
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PROGRAMME NOTES CONTINUED begins as a relatively four-square Polonaise, featuring the characteristic rhythms of the Polish national dance, but as Spohr unfolds another lyrical, major-key theme, we glean yet another insight into the ‘soul and charm’ that so wowed the composer’s contemporaries.
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1904 Anton Webern would become Schoenberg’s most rigorous disciple, though his musical career began in more perfumed terms. He adored Mahler and Strauss and, following in their stead, wrote Im Sommerwind, an ‘idyll for large orchestra’, during the summer of 1904. Like his heroes’ evocations of the natural world, Webern’s ambitious tone-poem tapped contemporary obsessions with nature worship and pantheism, demonstrated in words from Bruno Wille’s Offenbarungen eines Wachholderbaums (Revelations of a Juniper Tree), on which Webern’s diaphanous work is based: The warm summer air stirs. Juniper bushes, brambles And bracken gently nod, wave. The shaggy pines sway; Red-brown branches creak; Around their delicate, slight, Light-green sprigs is scattered The resinous scent. And the soft air Moves speechlessly.
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Anton Webern (1883–1945) Im Sommerwind
Employing typically vast forces, Im Sommerwind begins with an eerie hum, not unlike the ‘sound of nature’ that opens Mahler’s First Symphony. Woodwind calls and trilling strings portray the balmy heat of summer before pointillist splashes amass to form a radiant panorama, only to vanish once more. And when we hear these panting musical aphorisms in the context of Webern’s later works – what were to be described by Stravinsky as coming from the hand of a diamond cutter – the collage-style approach seems entirely in character. Just weeks after he completed the idyll, Webern met Schoenberg, an event that was to change his musical path forever.
2004 Four ‘tales’ make up Einojuhani Rautavaara’s 2004 orchestral work Book of Visions, first performed by the Belgian National Orchestra and conductor Mikko Franck in Brussels the year after its completion. And there are, similarly, many tales to Rautavaara’s musical development: the protégé of Sibelius; the avid neoclassicist turned serial composer; the occasionally Brucknerian symphonist; and the visionary of later years, imbuing his scores with the kind of numinous spirituality likewise witnessed in the work of those living on the other side of the Gulf of Finland.
Asked whether he was religious, however, Rautavaara replied in ambiguous terms: ‘I have no religion, although officially I am Lutheran; I have only a sense of depth and mystery’. ‘It is my belief’, he said, quoting the philosopher Friedrich Schleiermacher, ‘that music is great if, at some moment, the listener catches “a glimpse of eternity through the window of time” […] this, to my mind, is the only true justification for all art.’ The windows of Book of Visions were inspired by four elemental ‘phenomena’, named at the head of each movement. The score does not, however, outline a four-part programme of night, fire, love and fate, but, as Rautavaara explained, describes ‘the effect of these phenomena on me – or rather, on the music being born’. And just as the visions concern effect rather than cause or, ‘not by me using the music but by the music telling me’, so he hoped to provide a springboard for his audience’s own, individual visions. Night, for Rautavaara ‘a time of omens, of horror and splendour, of hidden treasures’ as a child, is suitably urgent, albeit containing great beauty. Yet the lyricism always has a malevolent edge, witnessed in the lines of a Sibelian cor anglais. ‘A Tale of Fire’ similarly recalls
Einojuhani Rautavaara (1928–2016) Book of Visions 1 2 3 4
A Tale of Night A Tale of Fire A Tale of Love A Tale of Fate
a moment from Rautavaara’s past, specifically the fires that raged through the composer’s native Helsinki during World War II and licking up here in half-waltzing strains. A tenderer vision emerges in ‘A Tale of Love’, hushed and luscious in its celebration of amorous strength, but ‘fate’ intervenes, as does a reprise of the music of ‘A Tale of Night’. Within this finale, Rautavaara perceived a Mahlerian forewarning of his own circumstances, for soon after completing Book of Visions he was hospitalised due to a ruptured aorta. The rest of Rautavaara’s life would be dogged by health issues, though these never came to dim the intensely knowing, visionary quality of his music. Programme notes © Gavin Plumley
Recommended recordings of tonight’s works by Laurie Watt Elgar: In the South (Alassio) London Philharmonic Orchestra | Adrian Boult (Warner) or Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra Constantin Silvestri (Warner) Spohr: Violin Concerto No. 2 Jascha Heifetz | London Symphony Orchestra Malcolm Sargent (Naxos) Webern: Im Sommerwind Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | Pierre Boulez (Deutsche Grammophon) Rautavaara: Book of Visions Orchestre Nationale de Belgique | Mikko Franck (Ondine)
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RAVI SHANKAR Sukanya David Murphy conductor Released January 2020
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MOZART Flute Concerto No. 2 Sinfonia Concertante for Four Winds Bassoon Concerto Vladimir Jurowski conductor Soloists of the LPO Released November 2019
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WAGNER’s complete Ring Cycle with Vladimir Jurowski January/February 2021
Join us as we reach the end of a remarkable three-year journey with two star-studded semi-staged complete Ring Cycles at Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall. Ring Cycle 1 Das Rheingold Die Walküre Siegfried Götterdämmerung Ring Cycle 2 Das Rheingold Die Walküre Siegfried Götterdämmerung
Mon 25 Jan 2021 Wed 27 Jan 2021 Fri 29 Jan 2021 Sun 31 Jan 2021
Fri 5 Feb 2021 Sat 6 Feb 2021 Mon 8 Feb 2021 Wed 10 Feb 2021
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‘Next year’s complete cycle promises to be an orchestral miracle.’ David Nice, The Arts Desk (Review of Wagner’s Siegfried, Feb 2020)
On sale now For full cast information and booking, visit lpo.org.uk/ringcycle or call the LPO Ticket Office on 020 7840 4242. Support us as we realise this bold project and enjoy an enhanced concert experience. Include an add-on donation with your order. Visit lpo.org.uk/ringcycle or call 020 7840 4212 for more details.
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SOUND FUTURES DONORS We are grateful to the following donors for their generous contributions to our Sound Futures campaign. Thanks to their support, we successfully raised £1 million by 30 April 2015 which has now been matched pound for pound by Arts Council England through a Catalyst Endowment grant. This has enabled us to create a £2 million endowment fund supporting special artistic projects, creative programming and education work with key venue partners including our Southbank Centre home. Supporters listed below donated £500 or over. For a full list of those who have given to this campaign please visit lpo.org.uk/soundfutures. Masur Circle Arts Council England Dunard Fund Victoria Robey OBE Emmanuel & Barrie Roman The Underwood Trust
The Rothschild Foundation Tom & Phillis Sharpe The Viney Family
Haitink Patrons Mark & Elizabeth Adams Dr Christopher Aldren Mrs Pauline Baumgartner Welser-Möst Circle Lady Jane Berrill William & Alex de Winton Mr Frederick Brittenden John Ireland Charitable Trust David & Yi Yao Buckley The Tsukanov Family Foundation Mr Clive Butler Neil Westreich Gill & Garf Collins Tennstedt Circle Mr John H Cook Valentina & Dmitry Aksenov Mr Alistair Corbett Richard Buxton Bruno De Kegel The Candide Trust Georgy Djaparidze Michael & Elena Kroupeev David Ellen Kirby Laing Foundation Christopher Fraser OBE Mr & Mrs Makharinsky David & Victoria Graham Fuller Alexey & Anastasia Reznikovich Goldman Sachs International Sir Simon Robey Mr Gavin Graham Bianca & Stuart Roden Moya Greene Simon & Vero Turner Mrs Dorothy Hambleton The late Mr K Twyman Tony & Susie Hayes Malcolm Herring Solti Patrons Catherine Høgel & Ben Mardle Ageas Mrs Philip Kan John & Manon Antoniazzi Rehmet Kassim-Lakha de Morixe Gabor Beyer, through BTO Rose & Dudley Leigh Management Consulting AG Lady Roslyn Marion Lyons Jon Claydon Miss Jeanette Martin Mrs Mina Goodman & Miss Duncan Matthews QC Suzanne Goodman Diana & Allan Morgenthau Roddy & April Gow Charitable Trust The Jeniffer & Jonathan Harris Dr Karen Morton Charitable Trust Mr Roger Phillimore Mr James R.D. Korner Ruth Rattenbury Christoph Ladanyi & Dr Sophia The Reed Foundation Ladanyi-Czernin The Rind Foundation Robert Markwick & Kasia Robinski The Maurice Marks Charitable Trust Sir Bernard Rix David Ross & Line Forestier (Canada) Mr Paris Natar
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THANK YOU We are extremely grateful to all donors who have given generously to the LPO over the past year. Your generosity helps maintain the breadth and depth of the LPO’s activities, as well as supporting the Orchestra both on and off the concert platform.
Artistic Director’s Circle Anonymous donors Mrs Aline Foriel-Destezet Sir Simon & Lady Robey OBE Orchestra Circle The Candide Trust Mr & Mrs Philip Kan Mrs Christina Lang Assael Neil Westreich Principal Associates Richard Buxton In memory of Brenda Lyndoe Casbon In memory of Ann Marguerite Collins Associates An anonymous donor Steven M. Berzin Kay Bryan William & Alex de Winton Hamish & Sophie Forsyth Irina Gofman and Mr Rodrik V. G. Cave Countess Dominique Loredan Mr & Mrs Makharinsky George Ramishvili Stuart & Bianca Roden In memory of Hazel Amy Smith Gold Patrons An anonymous donor David & Yi Buckley In memory of Allner Mavis Channing The Chiltern Friends of the LPO Gill & Garf Collins Andrew Davenport Sonja Drexler Mrs Gillian Fane Marie-Laure Favre-Gilly de Varennes de Beuill Virginia Gabbertas MBE Mr Roger Greenwood The Jeniffer and Jonathan Harris Charitable Trust Geoff & Meg Mann Francis & Marie-France Minkoff Julian & Gill Simmonds Eric Tomsett The Viney Family Laurence Watt
Silver Patrons Ms Terri Borain Andrea d’Avack Georgy Djaparidze Ulrike & Benno Engelmann Peter & Fiona Espenhahn Rehmet Kassim-Lakha de Morixe John & Angela Kessler Jamie & Julia Korner The Metherell Family Denis & Yulia Nagy Mikhail Noskov & Vasilina Bindley Tom & Phillis Sharpe Andrew & Rosemary Tusa Guy & Utti Whittaker Grenville & Krysia Williams Bronze Patrons Anonymous donors Michael Allen Mr Mark Astaire Margot Astrachan Mr Geoffrey Bateman Mrs A Beare Dr Anthony Buckland Mr Alan C Butler Desmond & Ruth Cecil The Earl & Countess of Chichester Mr Michael Cole-Fontayn Mr John H Cook Howard & Veronika Covington Mrs Maria Danilova Guy Davies Bruno De Kegel Cameron & Kathryn Doley Jill Dyal David Ellen Ignor & Lyuba Galkin Mr Daniel Goldstein David & Jane Gosman Mr Gavin Graham Lord & Lady Hall Mrs Dorothy Hambleton Wim & Jackie Hautekiet-Clare Eugene & Allison Hayes Ms Elena Heinz Malcolm Herring Catherine Høgel & Ben Mardle J Douglas Home Rose & Dudley Leigh
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Thomas Beecham Group Members David & Yi Buckley The Candide Trust The Chiltern Friends of the LPO Gill & Garf Collins Andrew Davenport William & Alex de Winton Donors to the 2019 Gala Player Appeal Sonja Drexler The Friends of the LPO Irina Gofman Roger Greenwood Dr Barry Grimaldi Mr & Mrs Philip Kan John & Angela Kessler Countess Dominique Loredan Sir Simon Robey Victoria Robey OBE Bianca & Stuart Roden Caroline, Jamie & Zander Sharp Julian & Gill Simmonds Eric Tomsett Natasha Tsukanova Neil Westreich Guy & Utti Whittaker We are grateful to the Board of the American Friends of the London Philharmonic Orchestra, who assist with fundraising for our activities in the United States of America: Simon Freakley Chairman Alexandra Jupin William A. Kerr Kristina McPhee Natalie Pray Antony Phillipson Hon. Chairman Victoria Robey OBE Hon. Director Richard Gee, Esq Of Counsel Jenifer L. Keiser, CPA, EisnerAmper LLP
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ADMINISTRATION Board of Directors Victoria Robey OBE Chairman Martin Höhmann* President Gareth Newman* Vice-President Dr Catherine C. Høgel Vice-Chairman Henry Baldwin* Roger Barron David Buckley Bruno De Kegel Tanya Joseph Al MacCuish Susanne Martens* Stewart McIlwham* Pei-Jee Ng* Andrew Tusa Timothy Walker CBE AM Neil Westreich David Whitehouse* * Player-Director Advisory Council Martin Höhmann Chairman Rob Adediran Christopher Aldren Dr Manon Antoniazzi Richard Brass Helen Brocklebank Desmond Cecil CMG Sir Alan Collins KCVO CMG Andrew Davenport William de Winton Cameron Doley Edward Dolman Christopher Fraser OBE Lord Hall of Birkenhead CBE Jonathan Harris CBE FRICS Marianna Hay Amanda Hill Rehmet Kassim-Lakha Jamie Korner Geoff Mann Clive Marks OBE FCA Stewart McIlwham Andrew Neill Jamie Njoku-Goodwin Nadya Powell Sir Bernard Rix Victoria Robey OBE Baroness Shackleton Thomas Sharpe QC Julian Simmonds Barry Smith Martin Southgate Andrew Swarbrick Sir John Tooley Chris Viney Timothy Walker CBE AM Laurence Watt Elizabeth Winter
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