LPO at Eastbourne Congress Theatre 2014-15 by London Philharmonic Orchestra

London Philharmonic Orchestra 2014/15 Concert Season Eastbourne Congress Theatre eastbournetheatres.co.uk

Welcome to our 2014/15 season at Eastbourne’s Congress Theatre We are delighted to launch the season with our Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor, Vladimir Jurowski, leading the Orchestra in a programme including Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6 (Pathétique) and Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini. As part of our London season, we are celebrating a year-long festival, Rachmaninoff: Inside Out which explores the composer’s major and lesser-known masterpieces, and we look forward to bringing a taste of this repertoire to Eastbourne. Other acclaimed conductors joining us in Eastbourne include Jaime Martín, former Principal Flute of the LPO and a natural conducting talent who made his debut with the LPO in Eastbourne in 2013 and has directed many of Europe’s major orchestras; rising Venezuelan star Domingo Hindoyan returning to the LPO after an electrifying debut in 2012; one of Britain’s brightest young stars Garry Walker; applauded Australian conductor Daniel Smith; and ‘wild card’ of the pack Aziz Shokhakimov, an artist

who exhibits a rare sensitivity to music-making at just 22 years of age. As always, we enjoy fostering young talent in our Eastbourne season, and look forward to welcoming violinist Tamsin Waley-Cohen to perform Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto on Sunday 22 February; Andreas Brantelid to play Elgar’s Cello Concerto on Sunday 29 March; and Madalyn Parnas who performs Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto on Sunday 12 April. We hope you will join us for another fine season of concerts at the Congress Theatre.

Timothy Walker AM Chief Executive and Artistic Director

Dvorˇák The Noonday Witch Rachmaninoff Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 6 (Pathétique)

October

Sunday 5 October 2014 | 3.00pm Eastbourne Congress Theatre

Vladimir Jurowski conductor Jean-Efflam Bavouzet piano When Serge Rachmaninoff heard the famous Caprice in A minor by the mysterious ‘devil’s violinist’ Paganini, he fell under the spell of its tonal to-and-fro and swaggering rhythmic shape. In 1934, Rachmaninoff set about examining, twisting, refracting and elaborating the tune into his spectacular Rhapsody that, once finished, proved devilish in the truest sense of the word. Some 40 years earlier Pyotr Tchaikovsky embarked upon the last creative act of his life – the composition of his overwhelming final symphony. From the gloom of its opening to the unleashing of its fateful torrents, the Symphony was a direct expression of Tchaikovsky’s hopelessness, and arguably the most original since Beethoven’s Ninth.

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The music of Dvorák, Rachmaninoff and Tchaikovsky is available on the Orchestra’s own label as CDs or downloads. Vladimir Jurowski

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November

Sunday 30 November 2014 | 3.00pm Eastbourne Congress Theatre Beethoven Violin Concerto Brahms Symphony No. 1 Aziz Shokhakimov conductor Dmitri Berlinsky violin

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Dmitri Berlinsky

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Did Brahms love Clara Schumann, the widow of his mentor? He certainly tried to. After a seemingly irreconcilable argument in September 1868, Brahms wrote to Clara from the Swiss Alps, scribbling a tune he’d heard played by a shepherd boy. ‘High on the mountain, deep in the valley, I greet you’, wrote Brahms, and the shepherd’s tune became the radiant horn-call that soars over strings in the finale of his First Symphony like sunlight breaking through clouds. Clara inhabits the whole work, in a special musical ‘motto’ woven by Brahms and in the anguished love that infuses every bar – a total contrast to the trouble-free radiance and joy of Beethoven’s only violin concerto.

Borodin In the Steppes of Central Asia Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto Dvorˇák Symphony No. 9 (From the New World)

February

Sunday 22 February 2015 | 3.00pm Eastbourne Congress Theatre

Garry Walker conductor Tamsin Waley-Cohen violin Inspiration can come from the most unexpected sources. On his visits to America in the 1890s, Antonín Dvorák discovered a new world of music that immediately began to enrich what he wrote. He injected the rich, exotic colours he heard in the songs and spirituals of America into his Ninth Symphony, creating a piece whose warmth of character and stringent optimism were like nothing heard from an orchestra before. Tchaikovsky thought he was ‘all played out’ in the spring of 1878, until the young violinist Josef Kotek paid him a visit and prompted him to spawn his Violin Concerto – a scintillating journey through bravura, self-doubt and heartfelt rapture.

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The music of Tchaikovsky and Dvorˇák is available on the Orchestra’s own label as CDs or downloads. Tamsin Waley-Cohen Truls Mørk

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March

Sunday 15 March 2015 | 3.00pm Eastbourne Congress Theatre Beethoven Symphony No. 1 Haydn Piano Concerto in D major, Hob. VIII.11 Rossini Overture, The Barber of Seville Mozart Symphony No. 41, K551 (Jupiter) Daniel Smith conductor Maria Meerovitch piano

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Daniel Smith

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Three works of consummate perfection from the composers who effectively created what we now know as ‘the symphony’. Beethoven’s First might be stunningly proportioned and neat, but from its opening discord the Symphony showed that its creator had new and compelling things to say. After Haydn’s most enchanting piano concerto we hear Mozart’s final symphony – a staggering and uncanny marriage of technical wizardry and emotional profundity, and the peak of Mozart’s orchestral achievements. The only way to top that is with the clipped musical rollercoaster-ride that is Rossini’s effervescent overture to his undisputed operatic masterpiece, The Barber of Seville.

March

Sunday 29 March 2015 | 3.00pm Eastbourne Congress Theatre Tchaikovsky Romeo and Juliet (Fantasy Overture) Elgar Cello Concerto Rimsky-Korsakov Scheherazade Jaime Martín conductor Andreas Brantelid cello When his older brother started sending letters back home from his naval adventures in the Far East, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov fell in love with the faraway land he’d never see. The composer eventually made it as far as Istanbul on a family holiday, but his spellbinding orchestral adventure after The Arabian Nights was as great a tribute to his beloved land of the Orient as anyone could hope to make, and the greatest piece of musical storytelling ever crafted. Hear Rimsky-Korsakov’s sultry, dramatic and captivating portrayal of the young Sultana Scheherazade’s stories here, alongside Tchaikovsky’s own slice of orchestral fantasy and Elgar’s noble but fierce Cello Concerto.

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The music of Tchaikovsky, Elgar and Rimsky-Korsakov is available on the Orchestra’s own label as CDs or downloads. Andreas Brantelid

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April

Sunday 12 April 2015 | 3.00pm Eastbourne Congress Theatre Elgar Introduction and Allegro Mendelssohn Violin Concerto Beethoven Symphony No. 7 Domingo Hindoyan conductor Madalyn Parnas violin A mysterious introduction, a propulsive musical explosion, a strangely hypnotic march and an unstoppable, elemental outpouring of dance-like tunes – Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony is probably the most unusual and certainly the most energetic symphony he wrote. Its fascinating jagged edges and emphatic outbursts are heard in this concert after the smooth radiance of Mendelssohn’s noble Violin Concerto, a heartfelt gift for a violin-playing friend that took a long time coming but was, in its exquisite craft and care, utterly worth the wait. Venezuelan Domingo Hindoyan opens this last concert of the Eastbourne season with the poised nostalgia of Elgar’s Introduction and Allegro for strings.

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Madalyn Parnas

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Congress Theatre is situated on Carlisle Road, close to Eastbourne seafront and a short distance from the town centre. We are just 45 minutes from Brighton, 30 minutes from Hastings and Bexhill and 60 minutes from Tunbridge Wells.

The Congress Theatre has several specially designed seat positions as well as a wheelchair-accessible toilet on the ground floor. A companion sitting in a neighbouring seat may be admitted free of charge, via the essential companion scheme. Please ask the Ticket Office for further details.

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Parking Disabled parking is available between the Congress Theatre’s main entrance and the Winter Garden – approximately 100m to the right of the Congress Theatre’s main doors. Patrons may also be dropped off and collected from this point. Pay and display parking is available at the College Road car park, approximately 250m behind the Congress Theatre. Coach parking is available at Wartling Road near the seafront. Please telephone the Supervisor on 01323 415282 or email amenities@eastbourne.gov.uk for details of facilities and charges.

Public transport Eastbourne Station is a 10-15 minute walk away, with fast, regular services to Eastbourne from Hastings, Lewes, Brighton, Haywards Heath, London and elsewhere. To book tickets and for travel updates visit southernrailway.com or call National Rail Enquiries on 08457 484950. There is a frequent bus service from all areas of the city. Visit stagecoachbus.co.uk or call Traveline on 0871 200 2233 for details.

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