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Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor VLADIMIR JUROWSKI supported by the Tsukanov Family Foundation Principal Guest Conductor ANDRÉS OROZCO-ESTRADA Leader pieter schoeman supported by Neil Westreich Patron HRH THE DUKE OF KENT KG Chief Executive and Artistic Director TIMOTHY WALKER AM

Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall Wednesday 7 November 2018 | 7.30pm

Klein, arr. Saudek Partita for String Orchestra (13’) Schulhoff Concerto for String Quartet and Wind Ensemble (21’) Interval (20’) Martinů Concerto for String Quartet and Orchestra (17’) Janáček Sinfonietta (17’)

Vladimir Jurowski conductor Borodin Quartet

Free pre-concert performance 6.00–6.45pm | Royal Festival Hall In their first performance of the year, our new cohort of Foyle Future Firsts present a chamber programme of music from Hans Krása, Gideon Klein and Viktor Ullmann, conducted by Tim Murray.

The timings shown are not precise and are given only as a guide. CONCERT PRESENTED BY THE LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA

Contents 2 Welcome Die Walküre: January 2019 3 On stage tonight 4 About the Orchestra 5 Leader: Pieter Schoeman 6 Vladimir Jurowski 7 Borodin Quartet 8 Programme notes 11 Recommended recordings 12 Next concerts 13 Sound Futures donors 14 Supporters 16 LPO administration

Welcome

Welcome to Southbank Centre We hope you enjoy your visit. We have a Duty Manager available at all times. If you have any queries, please ask a member of staff for assistance. Eating, drinking and shopping? Enjoy fresh seasonal food for breakfast and lunch, coffee, teas and evening drinks with riverside views at Concrete Cafe, Queen Elizabeth Hall, and Riverside Terrace Cafe, Level 2, Royal Festival Hall. Visit our shops for products inspired by our artistic and cultural programme, iconic buildings and central London location.

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Following the success of Das Rheingold in January 2018, Vladimir Jurowski presents the second instalment of our Wagner Ring Cycle.

If you wish to get in touch with us following your visit, please contact the Visitor Experience Team at Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, London SE1 8XX, phone us on 020 3879 9555, or email customer@southbankcentre.co.uk We look forward to seeing you again soon. A few points to note for your comfort and enjoyment: PHOTOGRAPHY is not allowed in the auditorium. LATECOMERS will only be admitted to the auditorium if there is a suitable break in the performance. RECORDING is not permitted in the auditorium without the prior consent of Southbank Centre. Southbank Centre reserves the right to confiscate video or sound equipment and hold it in safekeeping until the performance has ended. MOBILES AND WATCHES should be switched off before the performance begins.

Out now The Autumn 2018 edition of Tune In, our free LPO magazine. Copies are available at the Welcome Desk in the Royal Festival Hall foyer, 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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Wagner: Die Walküre Sunday 27 January 2019 | 4.00pm Royal Festival Hall

Tickets £15–60 (premium seats £80) Book via lpo.org.uk or or call 020 7840 4242 Transaction fee £1.75 online/£2.75 phone

VIP reception packages also available: visit lpo.org.uk/walkure Vladimir Jurowski conductor Stuart Skelton Siegmund Evgeny Nikitin Wotan* Ruxandra Donose Sieglinde* Stephen Milling Hunding Claudia Mahnke Fricka Svetlana Sozdateleva Brünnhilde Ursula Hesse von den Steinen Waltraute Sinéad Campbell-Wallace Helmwige Alwyn Mellor Gerhilde Gabriela Iştoc Ortlinde Hanna Hipp Rossweisse Angela Simkin Siegrune Rachael Lloyd Grimgerde Susan Platts Schwertleite London Philharmonic Orchestra * Please note a change of artist from previously advertised. Generously supported by members of the Orchestra’s Ring Cycle Syndicate

On stage tonight

First Violins Pieter Schoeman* Leader Chair supported by Neil Westreich

Vesselin Gellev Sub-Leader Katalin Varnagy Chair supported by Sonja Drexler

Catherine Craig Thomas Eisner Martin Höhmann Geoffrey Lynn Chair supported by Caroline, Jamie & Zander Sharp

Robert Pool Sarah Streatfeild Yang Zhang Chair supported by Eric Tomsett

Tina Gruenberg Grace Lee Rebecca Shorrock Lasma Taimina Eleanor Bartlett Nilufar Alimaksumova Second Violins Tania Mazzetti Principal Chair supported by Countess Dominique Loredan

Helena Smart Kate Birchall Nancy Elan Fiona Higham Chair supported by David & Yi Buckley

Nynke Hijlkema Joseph Maher Marie-Anne Mairesse Ashley Stevens Csilla Pogány Helena Nicholls Sioni Williams Robin Wilson Ioana Forna Violas David Quiggle Principal Michael Casimir Katharine Leek Susanne Martens Benedetto Pollani Naomi Holt Daniel Cornford Isabel Pereira

Stanislav Popov Luca Casciato Richard Cookson Martin Fenn Cellos Kristina Blaumane Principal Chair supported by Bianca & Stuart Roden

Pei-Jee Ng Co-Principal Francis Bucknall Laura Donoghue David Lale Elisabeth Wiklander Sue Sutherley Susanna Riddell Helen Rathbone George Hoult Double Basses Kevin Rundell* Principal Sebastian Pennar Co-Principal Hugh Kluger George Peniston Tom Walley Laurence Lovelle Charlotte Kerbegian Laura Murphy Flutes Juliette Bausor Principal Sue Thomas* Chair supported by Victoria Robey OBE

Emilia Zakrzewska Stewart McIlwham* Piccolo Stewart McIlwham* Principal Oboes Ian Hardwick* Principal Alice Munday Chair supported by Friends of the Orchestra

Cor Anglais Sue Böhling* Principal Chair supported by Dr Barry Grimaldi

Clarinets Ishay Lantner Guest Principal Massimo Di Trolio Bass Clarinet Paul Richards* Principal E flat Clarinet Thomas Watmough Principal Chair supported by Roger Greenwood

Offstage Bass Trumpets Beth Calderbank Simon Wills Trombones Mark Templeton* Principal Chair supported by William & Alex de Winton

David Whitehouse Dudley Bright Bass Trombones Lyndon Meredith Principal Joe Arnold Offstage Tenor Tubas David Whitehouse Rory Cartmell

Bassoons Jonathan Davies Principal Gareth Newman

Tuba Lee Tsarmaklis* Principal

Contrabassoon Simon Estell* Principal

Timpani Simon Carrington* Principal

Horns John Ryan* Principal

Percussion Andrew Barclay* Principal

Chair supported by Laurence Watt

Chair supported by Andrew Davenport

Martin Hobbs Adam Howcroft Gareth Mollison Duncan Fuller

Henry Baldwin Co-Principal

Trumpets Paul Beniston* Principal Niall Keatley Guest Principal Anne McAneney*

Assistant Conductor Gabriella Teychenné

Harp Rachel Masters Principal

* Holds a professorial appointment in London

Chair supported by Geoff & Meg Mann

William O’Sullivan Offstage Trumpets Paul Beniston* Robin Totterdell Tony Cross Gwyn Owen Matthew Williams Paul Bosworth Gerry Ruddock Darren Moore Catherine Knight

The London Philharmonic Orchestra also acknowledges the following chair supporter whose player is not present at this concert: Sir Simon Robey

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London Philharmonic Orchestra

The London Philharmonic’s closing concert took excellence and courageous programme planning to levels of expectation and emotional intensity more than once defying belief. Here was an orchestra in terrific form, rising to every challenge. Classicalsource.com (LPO at Royal Festival Hall, 2 May 2018: Panufnik, Penderecki & Prokofiev)

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 performances in the concert hall, the Orchestra also records film and video game soundtracks, has its own record 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. It has since been headed by many of the world’s greatest conductors including Sir Adrian Boult, Bernard Haitink, Sir Georg Solti, Klaus Tennstedt and Kurt Masur. Vladimir Jurowski is the Orchestra’s current Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor, and in 2017 we celebrated the tenth anniversary of this extraordinary partnership. Andrés Orozco-Estrada took up the position of Principal Guest Conductor in 2015. The Orchestra is resident at Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall in London, where it gives around 40 concerts each season. Throughout the remainder of

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2018 we continue our series Changing Faces: Stravinsky’s Journey, charting the life and music of one of the 20th century’s most influential composers. In 2019 we celebrate the music of Britain in our festival Isle of Noises, exploring a range of British and British-inspired music from Purcell to the present day. Outside London, the Orchestra has flourishing residencies in Brighton and Eastbourne, 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 the 2018/19 season include 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. In 2017/18 we 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. Highlights include the BrightSparks schools’ concerts and FUNharmonics family concerts; the LPO Young Composers programme; the Foyle Future Firsts orchestral training programme; and the LPO Junior Artists scheme for talented young musicians from communities and backgrounds currently underrepresented in professional UK orchestras. The Orchestra’s work at the forefront of digital engagement and social media has enabled it to reach even more people worldwide: as well as a YouTube channel and regular 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 the soundtracks to numerous blockbuster films, 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 a Poulenc disc conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Tchaikovsky’s Symphonies Nos. 2 & 3 under Vladimir Jurowski, and a film music disc under Dirk Brossé.

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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Vladimir Jurowski Principal Conductor & Artistic Advisor

Ten years of Vladimir Jurowski in London have brought a non-stop journey of discovery. As the London Philharmonic Orchestra celebrates his decade as music director, it can look back on a period of unrivalled adventure, taking audiences to places other orchestras never reach. Richard Fairman, Financial Times, 30 November 2017

Vladimir Jurowski was appointed Principal Guest Conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra in 2003, becoming Principal Conductor in 2007: last season we celebrated the tenth anniversary of this extraordinary partnership.

The Cleveland Orchestra; the Boston, San Francisco and Chicago symphony orchestras; and the TonhalleOrchester Zürich, Leipzig Gewandhausorchester, Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Staatskapelle Dresden and Chamber Orchestra of Europe.

One of today’s most sought-after conductors, acclaimed worldwide for his incisive musicianship and adventurous artistic commitment, Vladimir Jurowski was born in Moscow and studied at the Music Academies of Dresden and Berlin. In 1995 he made his international debut at the Wexford Festival conducting Rimsky-Korsakov’s May Night, and the same year saw his debut at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, with Nabucco.

His opera engagements have included Rigoletto, Jenůfa, The Queen of Spades, Hansel and Gretel and Die Frau ohne Schatten at the Metropolitan Opera, New York; Parsifal and Wozzeck at Welsh National Opera; War and Peace at the Opéra National de Paris; Eugene Onegin at the Teatro alla Scala, Milan; Ruslan and Ludmila at the Bolshoi Theatre; Salome with the State Academic Symphony of Russia; Moses und Aron at the Komische Oper Berlin; Iolanta and Die Teufel von Loudun at Semperoper Dresden, and numerous operas at Glyndebourne including Otello, Macbeth, Falstaff, Tristan und Isolde, Don Giovanni, The Cunning Little Vixen, Peter Eötvös’s Love and Other Demons, and Ariadne auf Naxos. In 2017 he made an acclaimed Salzburg Festival debut with Wozzeck and his first return to Glyndebourne as a guest conductor, in the world premiere production of Brett Dean’s Hamlet with the LPO.

In 2021 Vladimir will take up the position of Music Director at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich. In 2017 he became Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra. In addition he holds the titles of Principal Artist of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Artistic Director of the Russian State Academic Symphony Orchestra and Artistic Director of the George Enescu International Festival, Bucharest. He has previously held the positions of First Kapellmeister of the Komische Oper Berlin (1997–2001), Principal Guest Conductor of the Teatro Comunale di Bologna (2000–03), Principal Guest Conductor of the Russian National Orchestra (2005–09), and Music Director of Glyndebourne Festival Opera (2001–13). Vladimir is a regular guest with many leading orchestras in both Europe and North America, including the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra; the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Rome; the New York Philharmonic; The Philadelphia Orchestra;

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The London Philharmonic Orchestra has released a wide selection of Vladimir Jurowski’s live recordings with the Orchestra on its own label, including Brahms’s complete symphonies; Mahler’s Symphonies Nos. 1 and 2; and Rachmaninoff’s Symphony No. 3 and Symphonic Dances. Autumn 2017 saw the release of a sevendisc set of Tchaikovsky’s complete symphonies under Jurowski (LPO-0101), and a special anniversary sevendisc set of his previously unreleased recordings with the LPO spanning the symphonic, choral and contemporary genres (LPO-1010). Visit lpo.org.uk/recordings to find out more.

Borodin Quartet

They have loomed grandly over the chamber music scene for decades and attained a refinement of expression, an effortlessness of technique, an interpretative poise, to marvel at. Paul Driver, The Sunday Times, June 2015 (Shostakovich/Beethoven Cycle at Wigmore Hall)

For more than 70 years, the Borodin Quartet has been celebrated for its insight and authority in the chamber music repertoire. Revered for its searching performances of Beethoven and Shostakovich, the Quartet is equally at home in music ranging from Mozart to Stravinsky. The Borodin Quartet’s particular affinity with Russian repertoire is based on constant promotion, performances and recording of the pillars of Russian string quartet music – Borodin, Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich, as well as Glinka, Stravinsky, Prokofiev and Schnittke. The Quartet is universally recognised for its genuine interpretation of Russian music, generating critical acclaim all over the world; the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung wrote: ‘Here we have not four individual players, but a single sixteen-stringed instrument of great virtuosity.’ The Quartet’s connection with Shostakovich’s chamber music is intensely personal, since it was stimulated by a close relationship with the composer, who personally supervised its study of each of his quartets. Widely regarded as definitive interpretations, the Quartet’s cycles of the complete Shostakovich quartets have been performed all over the world. In recent seasons the ensemble has returned to a broader repertoire, including works by Schubert, Prokofiev, Borodin and Tchaikovsky, while continuing to be welcomed and acclaimed at major venues throughout the world. The Borodin Quartet was formed in 1945 by four students from the Moscow Conservatory, and remains one of the very few existing established chamber ensembles with uninterrupted longevity. The world has changed beyond recognition since 1945; the Borodin Quartet, meanwhile, has retained its commitment

to tonal beauty, technical excellence and penetrating musicianship. The ensemble’s cohesion and vision have survived successive changes in personnel, thanks not least to the common legacy shared by its members from their training at the Moscow Conservatory. The current members of the Quartet are Ruben Aharonian, Sergei Lomovsky, Igor Naidin and Vladimir Balshin. Highlights in 2018/19 include widely anticipated full tours of Australia for Musica Viva and New Zealand for Chamber Music New Zealand; performances at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in New York, the Library of Congress in Washington DC, Friends of Chamber Music Miami, Victoria Concert Hall in Singapore, Wigmore Hall in London, the Royal Concertgebouw Amsterdam and the Società dei Concerti di Milano, as well as a special residency at the Kanazawa Spring Green Festival in Japan; further performances include Taipei, Hong Kong and Moscow, with tours of South Korea, China, Belgium and Canada. Tonight’s programme is part of an ongoing collaboration between the Borodin Quartet and Vladimir Jurowski, through which they have previously performed the Schulhoff and Martinů concertos together in Moscow and in Dresden. The Quartet’s first release on the Onyx label, featuring Borodin, Schubert, Webern and Rachmaninoff, was nominated for a Grammy in 2005 in the Best Chamber Performance category. The Borodin Quartet has produced a rich heritage of recordings over several decades, for labels including EMI, RCA and Teldec, including the complete Beethoven quartets for Chandos. The Quartet’s recording of the complete Shostakovich string quartet cycle for Decca was released in September 2018.

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Programme notes

Music of a new nation In the year marking the 100th anniversary of the founding of an independent Czechoslovakia, tonight’s concert consists of Czech music from the turbulent first three decades of the country’s existence. It includes two concertos, both written at the beginning of the 1930s, for the rare combination of string quartet and an orchestra other than one of strings. The Concerto by Erwin Schulhoff – who was to die in a Nazi prison camp – pits the quartet against a brightly coloured wind ensemble. The Concerto by Bohuslav Martinů – who was to flee from the Nazi invasion of France to a new life in the USA – employs a full orchestra, sometimes to powerful effect.

Gideon Klein 1919–45

Gideon Klein, born in Moravia, was an outstanding student of piano and composition at the Prague Conservatoire between 1938 and 1940. He was offered a scholarship by the Royal Academy of Music in London, but because of his Jewish origins the Nazi rulers of Czechoslovakia did not allow him to take it up. In December 1941 he was sent to Terezín (Theresienstadt), the concentration camp which was a show camp for the purposes of propaganda films and Red Cross visits, and which nevertheless was a staging-post on the route to the death camps. At Terezín Klein came to the fore in the camp’s intensive musical activities, as pianist, conductor and organiser. He was transported in October 1944 to Auschwitz; he was put to work in a nearby coal mine, and is thought to have been killed the following January.

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The programme begins with a Partita for string orchestra arranged from the String Trio by Gideon Klein, a folk-tinged piece written while its youthful composer was incarcerated in the notorious Terezín concentration camp. And it ends with the Sinfonietta for large orchestra, with a separate fanfare band, by Leoš Janáček: written in 1926, in the astonishing flood of creativity of the ageing composer’s last years, this is a joyful celebration of the birth of the new nation in Janáček’s home city of Brno.

Partita for String Orchestra Arranged by Vojtěch Saudek (1951–2003) 1 Allegro spiccato 2 Variations on a Moravian folk song 3 Molto vivace

While at Terezín, Klein composed several pieces of vocal and instrumental music, tailored to the performers available. The last of them was a String Trio (for violin, viola and cello), written in 1944. Around half a century later, to make up for the absence of any orchestral music in Klein’s surviving output, this was arranged for string orchestra by the Czech-born French composer Vojtěch Saudek. The arrangement is notably lean in texture, with very little added material. The piece was inspired by the folk music of Klein’s native Moravia: two short dance-like movements enclose a set of free variations on the elegiac song ‘The spire of Kneždub’.

Erwin Schulhoff

Concerto for String Quartet and Wind Ensemble Borodin Quartet 1 Allegro moderato alternating with Allegro molto con spirito 2 Largo 3 Finale: Allegro con brio

1894–1942

Erwin (or Ervín) Schulhoff was born in Prague, and in his boyhood showed promise as a pianist; he was encouraged to pursue a musical career by Dvořák. He studied mostly in Germany, where his composition teachers included Max Reger. In the years after the First World War, he became a significant member of the German artistic avant-garde, allying himself briefly with the Dadaist movement and incorporating elements of jazz into his music. He returned to Prague at the end of 1923, working as a teacher and pianist, and establishing an international reputation as a composer. Following the Nazi occupation of his homeland in 1939, he was imprisoned because of his Jewish origins and his Communist affiliations; he died of tuberculosis in the Wülzburg concentration camp in 1942. Schulhoff composed his Concerto for String Quartet and Wind Ensemble in 1930; it was first performed in Prague in November 1932 by the Ondříček Quartet and

the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Václav Talich. The scoring requires the string quartet, which plays always as a unit, to be balanced against a colourful wind ensemble, without percussion or keyboards. The first movement is breezily neo-Classical in manner, clean and clear in texture, mechanistic in rhythm and spiced with dissonances; the tempo alternates all the way through between the initial Allegro moderato and an Allegro molto a couple of notches faster, each speed associated with its own group of themes. Towards the end the string quartet emerges on its own in an extended cadenza. The central slow movement, darker in tone, is in 5/4 time throughout, with a middle section dominated by repeated-note fanfare figures. The Finale reverts to the mood of the first movement; it includes an episode marked Tempo di Slowfox (slow foxtrot), beginning with the strings pizzicato and becoming more bluesy, before the opening idea returns and is worked up into a headlong accelerando to the end.

Interval – 20 minutes An announcement will be made five minutes before the end of the interval.

Marking 100 years since the end of World War One Saturday 10 November 2018 7.30pm Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall

Debussy Berceuse héroïque Magnus Lindberg Triumph to Exist world premiere* Stravinsky Requiem Canticles Janáček The Eternal Gospel

Vladimir Jurowski conductor Andrea Dankova | Angharad Lyddon | Maxim Mikhailov London Philharmonic Orchestra & Choir

* Triumph to Exist is co-commissioned by the London Philharmonic Orchestra and 14-18 NOW: WW1 Centenary Art Commissions (with support from the National Lottery through Arts Council England and the Heritage Lottery Fund, and from the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport), the Gulbenkian Orchestra and the Orchestra National de Lille.

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Programme notes continued

Bohuslav Martinů 1890–1959

Bohuslav Martinů was the most prominent Czech-born composer of the mid-20th century. He left his native country in 1923 to study in Paris with Albert Roussel, and remained in the French capital until 1940, when, blacklisted by the invading Nazis as a radical artist, he fled to the United States. It was in Paris in June 1931 that he composed his Concerto for String Quartet and Orchestra. It was written for the progressive Belgian ensemble the Pro Arte Quartet, which gave the first performance in Marseilles in March 1932. (The Quartet repeated it in London in October 1932 with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Malcolm Sargent, three days after the Orchestra had made its official debut.) Martinů once described himself as ‘a concerto grosso type’; and this ‘String Quartet with Orchestra’ (as it is called in the published score) is the first of several concertos with multiple soloists which he composed

Leoš Janáček 1854–1928

In the last years of his long life, Leoš Janáček took his individual musical language, rooted in the folk music and staccato speech-rhythms of his native region of Moravia, to new heights in an astonishing series of masterpieces for the opera house and the concert platform. Among these, the only completed work for

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Concerto for String Quartet and Orchestra Borodin Quartet 1 Allegro vivo 2 Adagio 3 Tempo moderato

over the next two decades, in the tradition of Corelli’s string concertos and Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos. Comparing the form of the concerto grosso with that of the symphony, Martinů once wrote that ‘the whole structure of this form points to quite a different conception’. Certainly the opening Allegro vivo of his Concerto has a shape which is nothing like that of a symphonic first movement. He described it in terms of ‘continuous development and variations’ – applied chiefly to the assertive opening theme. The central slow movement is even freer in form, consisting in outline of two separate halves: the first half building up to a strident climax; the second half beginning with woodwind flourishes over pizzicato strings, and returning to them shortly before the quiet close. The finale has a more straightforward outline: it is a rondo, on the polka-like tune played by the woodwind at the outset; the last return of this theme is followed by an acceleration in stages to the ending.

Sinfonietta 1 Allegretto 2 Andante – Allegretto 3 Moderato 4 Allegretto 5 Allegro

orchestra alone is the Sinfonietta. It was composed in the spring of 1926, and first performed by the Czech Philharmonic under Václav Talich in June that year. At that point, it was called ‘Military Sinfonietta’, and was to have been dedicated to the Czechoslovak armed forces. Janáček later explained that he associated the

work with the liberation of Brno, the Moravian capital, from the old Austro-Hungarian empire in 1918. He described this event in visionary terms: ‘As if by a miracle, liberty was conjured up, glowing over the town – the rebirth of 28 October 1918. I saw myself in it, I belonged to it. And the blare of the victorious trumpets, the holy peace of the Queen’s Monastery, the shadows of night, the breath of the green hill and the vision of the growing greatness of the town, of my Brno, were all giving birth to my Sinfonietta.’ ‘The blare of the victorious trumpets’ is heard in the opening movement, a fanfare in three sections scored for nine trumpets, two bass trumpets, two tenor tubas and Janáček’s favourite high-pitched timpani. This fanfare band is a separate entity, and is never merged into the main orchestra, although the latter includes three more trumpets, a bass tuba and percussion (but not timpani). The fanfare is followed by four movements which adhere loosely to the traditional four-movement plan of the symphony, though on a compact scale justifying the diminutive ‘Sinfonietta’. The second movement is a mosaic of tempos and related ideas, with two Maestoso episodes in which the breadth of the fanfares is briefly recaptured. The slow movement was associated in Janáček’s mind with the Queen’s Monastery, where he had been a choirboy. It is in rondo form, with a tender main theme; the second and longer of the two contrasting episodes begins with a none-too-serious trombone tune, but rises to an intense climax with extraordinary high yelps on the first horn – more than a little reminiscent of the animal world of Janáček’s opera The Cunning Little Vixen. The fourth movement is a scherzo based on a single insistently repeated idea; there is a tiny trio section alternating between solemn Adagio and slithering Presto, followed by a return of the scherzo material at a slower tempo, and a fast coda. The finale begins as another mosaic, but its open form is closed by the return of the initial fanfares, with the fanfare band this time vibrantly accompanied by orchestral trills, and with a sonorous seven-bar orchestral Adagio by way of conclusion. Programme notes © Anthony Burton

PLAYER’S PERSPECTIVE

‘I’m a big fan of Janáček – he has such a unique and identifiable voice, whose music frequently has the hairs on the back of my neck standing on end. In the 1970s there was a drama series on Granada TV called Crown Court, and the opening theme featured part of the fourth movement of the Sinfonietta. I remember that those staccato quavers in the trumpets made a real impression on me and, curious to hear more, I later went to hear the Hallé performing it at the Free Trade Hall in Manchester. I sometimes wish I played the trumpet instead of the clarinet, so I could take part in the opening fanfare; however, it’ll still be great to be able to hear our magnificent brass section perform it. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do! Paul Richards, Principal Bass Clarinet

Recommended recordings of tonight’s works Many of our recommended recordings, where available, are on sale this evening at the Foyles stand in the Royal Festival Hall foyer. Klein: Partita for String Orchestra Philadelphia Orchestra | Christoph Eschenbach (Ondine) Martinů: Concerto for String Quartet and Orchestra Endellion String Quartet | City of London Sinfonia Richard Hickox (Virgin Classics) Janáček: Sinfonietta Vienna Philharmonic | Charles Mackerras (Decca)

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Bizet L’Arlésienne Suite No. 1 Verdi Ballet music from Macbeth Puccini Le Villi

In association with Opera Rara * Please note a change of artist from previously advertised.

†Triumph to Exist is co-commissioned by the London Philharmonic Orchestra and 14-18 NOW: WW1 Centenary Art Commissions (with support from the National Lottery through Arts Council England and the Heritage Lottery Fund, and from the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport), the Gulbenkian Orchestra and the Orchestra National de Lille.

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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 & Lisa Fraser 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

Carolina & Martin Schwab Dr Brian Smith Lady Valerie Solti Mr & Mrs G Stein Dr Peter Stephenson Miss Anne Stoddart TFS Loans Limited Marina Vaizey Jenny Watson Guy & Utti Whittaker Pritchard Donors Ralph & Elizabeth Aldwinckle Mrs Arlene Beare Mr Patrick & Mrs Joan Benner Mr Conrad Blakey Dr Anthony Buckland Paul Collins Alastair Crawford Mr Derek B. Gray Mr Roger Greenwood The HA.SH Foundation Darren & Jennifer Holmes Honeymead Arts Trust Mr Geoffrey Kirkham Drs Frank & Gek Lim Peter Mace Mr & Mrs David Malpas Dr David McGibney Michael & Patricia McLaren-Turner Mr & Mrs Andrew Neill Mr Christopher Querée The Rosalyn & Nicholas Springer Charitable Trust Timothy Walker AM Christopher Williams Peter Wilson Smith Mr Anthony Yolland and all other donors who wish to remain anonymous

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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 An anonymous donor Sir Simon & Lady Robey OBE Orchestra Circle The Candide Trust Mr & Mrs Philip Kan Neil Westreich The Tsukanov Family Dr James Huang Zheng (of Kingdom Music Education Group) Principal Associates Gabor Beyer, through BTO Management Consulting AG In memory of Ann Marguerite Collins Mr & Mrs Makharinsky Associates Steven M. Berzin Kay Bryan William & Alex de Winton George Ramishvili Stuart & Bianca Roden In memory of Hazel Amy Smith Gold Patrons David & Yi Buckley John Burgess Richard Buxton In memory of Allner Mavis Channing Garf & Gill Collins Andrew Davenport Sonja Drexler Mrs Gillian Fane Marie-Laure Favre-Gilly de Varennes de Beuill Hamish & Sophie Forsyth Virginia Gabbertas Mr Roger Greenwood The Jeniffer and Jonathan Harris Charitable Trust Rehmet Kassim-Lakha de Morixe Countess Dominique Loredan Geoff & Meg Mann

Sally Groves & Dennis Marks Robert Markwick & Kasia Robinski Melanie Ryan Julian & Gill Simmonds Eric Tomsett The Viney Family Laurence Watt Silver Patrons Dr Christopher Aldren Peter Blanc Georgy Djaparidze Ulrike & Benno Engelmann Peter & Fiona Espenhahn Will & Kate Hobhouse Matt Isaacs & Penny Jerram John & Angela Kessler The Metherell Family Simon Millward Mikhail Noskov & Vasilina Bindley Susan Wallendahl Guy & Utti Whittaker

Drs Frank & Gek Lim Mrs Elizabeth Meshkvicheva Maxim & Natalia Moskalev Mr & Mrs Andrew Neill Peter & Lucy Noble Noel Otley JP & Mrs Rachel Davies Jacopo Pessina Mr Roger Phillimore Mr Michael Posen Tatiana Pyatigorskaya Dr Eva Lotta & Mr Thierry Sciard Tom & Phillis Sharpe Mr Christopher Stewart Mr & Mrs John C Tucker Andrew & Rosemary Tusa Mr & Mrs John & Susi Underwood Marina Vaizey Grenville & Krysia Williams Christopher Williams Ed & Catherine Williams Mr Anthony Yolland

Bronze Patrons Anonymous donors Michael Allen Andrew Barclay Mr Geoffrey Bateman Peter & Adrienne Breen Mr Jeremy Bull Mr Alan C Butler Desmond & Ruth Cecil Mr John H Cook Bruno De Kegel Mr John L G Deacon David Ellen Ignor & Lyuba Galkin Mrs Irina Gofman David Goldberg Mr Daniel Goldstein David & Jane Gosman Mrs Dorothy Hambleton Wim & Jackie Hautekiet-Clare Catherine Hogel & Ben Mardle J Douglas Home Mr James R. D. Korner Rose & Dudley Leigh

Principal Supporters Ralph & Elizabeth Aldwinckle Margot Astrachan Mr Philip Bathard-Smith Mr Edwin Bisset Dr Anthony Buckland Mr & Mrs Stewart Cohen Sir Alan Collins KCVO David & Liz Conway Mr Alistair Corbett Mrs Alina Davey Guy Davies Henry Davis MBE Mr Richard Fernyhough Patrice & Federica Feron Ms Kerry Gardner Malcolm Herring Ivan Hurry Per Jonsson Mr Ralph Kanza Ms Katerina Kashenceva Vadim & Natalia Levin Wg. Cdr. & Mrs M T Liddiard OBE JP RAF Mr Christopher Little

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Paul & Brigitta Lock Mr Peter Mace Mr John Meloy Andrew T Mills Dr Karen Morton Dr Wiebke Pekrull Mr James Pickford Andrew & Sarah Poppleton Natalie Pray Mr Christopher Querée Martin & Cheryl Southgate Ms Nadia Stasyuk Matthew Stephenson & Roman Aristarkhov Louise Walton Howard & Sheelagh Watson Des & Maggie Whitelock Liz Winter Bill Yoe Supporters Mr John D Barnard Mr Bernard Bradbury Mr Richard Brooman Mrs Alan Carrington Alison Clarke & Leo Pilkington Mr Joshua Coger Mr Geoffrey A Collens Miss Tessa Cowie Lady Jane Cuckney OBE Mr David Devons Samuel Edge Manuel Fajardo & Clémence Humeau Mrs Janet Flynn Christopher Fraser OBE Will Gold Mr Peter Gray Mrs Maureen HooftGraafland The Jackman Family Mr David MacFarlane Mr Frederic Marguerre Mr Mark Mishon Mr Stephen Olton Mr David Peters Mr & Mrs Graham & Jean Pugh Mr David Russell Mr Kenneth Shaw

Ms Elizabeth Shaw Ms Natalie Spraggon & Mr David Thomson Mr John Weekes Joanna Williams Hon. Benefactor Elliott Bernerd Hon. Life Members Alfonso Aijón Kenneth Goode Carol Colburn Grigor CBE Pehr G Gyllenhammar Robert Hill Mrs Jackie Rosenfeld OBE Laurence Watt LPO International Board of Governors Natasha Tsukanova Chair Steven M. Berzin (USA) Gabor Beyer (Hungary) Kay Bryan (Australia) Marie-Laure Favre Gilly de Varennes de Bueil (France) Joyce Kan (China/Hong Kong) Olivia Ma (Greater China Area) Olga Makharinsky (Russia) George Ramishvili (Georgia) Victoria Robey OBE (USA) Dr James Huang Zheng (of Kingdom Music Education Group) (China/ Shenzhen)

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 Xenia Hanusiak Alexandra Jupin William A. Kerr Kristina McPhee Natalie Pray Stephanie Yoshida Antony Phillipson Hon. Chairman Noel Kilkenny Hon. Director Victoria Robey OBE Hon. Director Richard Gee, Esq Of Counsel Jenifer L. Keiser, CPA, EisnerAmper LLP Corporate Donors Arcadis Christian Dior Couture Faraday Fenchurch Advisory Partners IMG Pictet Bank Steppes Travel White & Case LLP

Corporate Members Gold freuds Sunshine Silver After Digital Berenberg Carter-Ruck French Chamber of Commerce Bronze Ageas Lazard Russo-British Chamber of Commerce Walpole Preferred Partners Fever-Tree Heineken Lindt & Sprüngli Ltd London Orthopaedic Clinic Sipsmith Steinway Villa Maria In-kind Sponsor Google Inc Trusts and Foundations The Bernarr Rainbow Trust The Boltini Trust Sir William Boreman’s Foundation Borletti-Buitoni Trust Boshier-Hinton Foundation The Candide Trust The Ernest Cook Trust Diaphonique, Franco-British Fund for contemporary music The D’Oyly Carte Charitable Trust Dunard Fund The Foyle Foundation Lucille Graham Trust Help Musicians UK

John Horniman’s Children’s Trust The Idlewild Trust Embassy of the State of Israel to the United Kingdom Kirby Laing Foundation The Lawson Trust The Leverhulme Trust Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation London Stock Exchange Group Foundation Lord & Lady Lurgan Trust Marsh Christian Trust The Mercers’ Company Adam Mickiewicz Institute Newcomen Collett Foundation The Stanley Picker Trust The Austin & Hope Pilkington Trust PRS For Music Foundation The Radcliffe Trust Rivers Foundation Romanian Cultural Institute The R K Charitable Trust The Sampimon Trust Schroder Charity Trust Serge Rachmaninoff Foundation Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation The David Solomons Charitable Trust Souter Charitable Trust The Steel Charitable Trust Spears-Stutz Charitable Trust The John Thaw Foundation The Thistle Trust UK Friends of the FelixMendelssohn-BartholdyFoundation The Clarence Westbury Foundation Garfield Weston Foundation The Barbara Whatmore Charitable Trust The William Alwyn Foundation and all others who wish to remain anonymous.

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Administration

Board of Directors Victoria Robey OBE Chairman Stewart McIlwham* President Gareth Newman* Vice-President Dr Catherine C. Høgel Vice-Chairman Henry Baldwin* Roger Barron Richard Brass David Buckley Bruno De Kegel Martin Höhmann* Al MacCuish Susanne Martens* Pei-Jee Ng* Andrew Tusa Timothy Walker AM Neil Westreich David Whitehouse* * Player-Director Advisory Council Martin Höhmann Chairman Rob Adediran Christopher Aldren Dr Manon Antoniazzi Richard Brass 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 Amanda Hill Rehmet Kassim-Lakha Jamie Korner Geoff Mann Clive Marks OBE FCA Stewart McIlwham Andrew Neill 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 AM Laurence Watt Elizabeth Winter

General Administration Timothy Walker AM Chief Executive and Artistic Director

Education and Community Isabella Kernot Education and Community Director

Public Relations Albion Media (Tel: 020 3077 4930)

David Burke General Manager and Finance Director

Talia Lash Education and Community Manager