LPO online concert programme: 19 May 2021 - Hough plays Brahms (Stephen Hough/Lionel Bringuier) by London Philharmonic Orchestra

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THE STREAM OF LIFE PROGRAMME NOTES WEDNESDAY 19 MAY 2021 8PM

HOUGH PLAYS BRAHMS Brahms Tragic Overture Brahms Piano Concerto No. 1 Lionel Bringuier conductor Stephen Hough piano Generously supported by Victoria Robey OBE

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3 PROGRAMME NOTES – TRAGIC OVERTURE 4 PROGRAMME NOTES – PIANO CONCERTO NO. 1 6 LIONEL BRINGUIER 7 STEPHEN HOUGH 8 LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA 9 ON STAGE TONIGHT 10 NEXT CONCERTS 11 ANNUAL APPEAL 2021: MUSIC WITH MEANING 13 MEMBERSHIPS & DONATIONS 14 CORPORATE PARTNERSHIPS 15 SOUND FUTURES DONORS 16 THANK YOU 18 LPO ADMINISTRATION

Concert performed at the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall on 16 April 2021 and filmed by Intersection. The safety of our musicians and staff is paramount, and filming sessions adhere strictly to safety measures in line with UK Government guidance. The London Philharmonic Orchestra is grateful to all those whose who are generously supporting the Orchestra during the 2020/21 season. This performance has been made possible through a grant from the Cultural Recovery Fund from the Department of Digital, Culture, Media and Sport. #HereForCulture

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PROGRAMME NOTES JOHANNES BRAHMS 1833–97

TRAGIC OVERTURE, OP. 81 1880 – APPROX 13 MINS –

Typically, Brahms provided no clues as to any specific ‘tragedy’ – literary or personal – that might have inspired his Tragic Overture. At the time he wrote this work, ‘programme music’ – music illustrating a story or depicting a specific mood or moods – was all the rage in the German-speaking countries; but Brahms was careful to distance himself from this sort of thing. For him, music was ultimately music: it should speak for itself, not rely on external props to make its point. Not long before he wrote the Overture in 1880, Brahms had contemplated writing incidental music for a production of Goethe’s verse drama Faust at the Vienna Burgtheater. It is possible that ideas for that project found their way into the Tragic Overture, but if so, Brahms was in no hurry to point them out.

building at last to a grimly emphatic ending in the minor key. We may not know the identity of Brahms’s hero, but we can guess how his story ends. Programme note © Stephen Johnson

Brahms in 1889 © Royal College of Music, London

Fortunately for us, the Tragic Overture really does speak for itself. It begins with two stark fortissimo chords, which Brahms’s biographer Malcolm MacDonald aptly calls ‘a veritable hammer-blow of fate’. From then on the Overture can be enjoyed as a logical but darkly impassioned symphonic demonstration of that ‘fate’ in action. The unmistakably tragic first theme leads, via a mysterious transition – veiled bustling string figures and hushed bass brass – to a warmly consoling second theme, led by violins. At the point where we might expect a stormy ‘development’ section to begin, the tempo halves, and a ghostly processional emerges, based on motifs from earlier in the Overture. Another mysterious transition – all romantic shadows and half-lights – leads to a return of the consoling second theme. But eventually the initial mood of tragic striving returns and intensifies, –3–

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PROGRAMME NOTES JOHANNES BRAHMS 1833–97

PIANO CONCERTO NO. 1 IN D MINOR, OP. 15 1858 – APPROX 42 MINS –

STEPHEN HOUGH PIANO 1 MAESTOSO 2 ADAGIO 3 RONDO: ALLEGRO NON TROPPO The D minor Piano Concerto is Brahms’s first orchestral work, composed in his early twenties. That it took him four years to complete is probably due partly to inexperience and partly to his uncertainty of mind during a traumatic period caused by the attempted suicide, mental illness and eventual death in 1856 of his friend and mentor Robert Schumann. Shortly after the first of these incidents, in 1854, Brahms began work on a sonata for two pianos, but soon started converting the piece to a four-movement symphony. Growing dissatisfaction with this version, however, led him to hit on the idea of combining both to form a piano concerto; the first movement was recast, but the others abandoned and new second and third movements composed in their place. The work was finished in 1858, and the premiere given early the following year in Hanover with Brahms as soloist. If the first movement was born of a mixture of compromise and second thinking, it is not evident in the final result, unless it be in the fact that it displays a spectacular symphonic grandeur and expressive

strength that had not been present in the concerto genre (nor even, in truth, in the symphony) since Beethoven, and that the piano part, though certainly taxing, is not principally driven by virtuosity as an end but plays a role effectively integrated with that of the orchestra. The grim Sturm und Drang passion of the movement as a whole, and of its opening theme in particular, may well owe something to the Schumann situation, but there are consoling moments, too, in this richly thematic sonata design, many of them memorably associated with the soloist, such as the Bachian first entry and the richly chordal delivery of the second subject. This allows the most dramatic stroke of the movement to be the moment of recapitulation, when the piano for the first time takes up the turbulent opening theme, thundering it out over the same held Ds in the bass, but now cast into the disorientatingly darkening key of E major. In his autograph score of the Adagio, Brahms wrote words from the Latin Mass under the calmly mystical opening: ‘Benedictus qui venit in nomine Domini’

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PROGRAMME NOTES

(‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord’). He left no further explanation, and there has been speculation (not otherwise supported) that the theme was once intended for a Mass setting. Less equivocally, Brahms had been in the habit of addressing Schumann as ‘Domine’ and had privately told Schumann’s widow Clara that he was ‘painting a lovely portrait of you’, but whether connected to the Schumanns or not, this glorious music certainly appears moved by emotions as profound and heartfelt as those that inspired the first movement. The symphonic drama of that first movement is not an easy force to summon again within the necessarily altered atmosphere of a finale, and Brahms’s choice of rondo form – in which a principal theme returns several times separated by contrasting episodes – is perhaps not the most obvious way to attempt it. Several commentators over the years have drawn attention to structural parallels between Brahms’s finale and that of Beethoven’s Third Piano Concerto – including the manner in which the main theme is presented, the extravagant piano lead-backs and the central fugato episode – but the way the demonic energy of the opening movement is here successfully recalled while at the same time finding a lighter and more optimistic trajectory surely has a spiritual model in the finale of another great D minor piano concerto, Mozart’s K466. Programme note © Lindsay Kemp

Johannes Brahms & Robert Schumann

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TONIGHT'S ARTISTS LIONEL BRINGUIER CONDUCTOR

Over the past decade, Bringuier has developed strong relationships with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and New York Philharmonic, as well as the orchestras of Cleveland, Philadelphia, Boston and San Francisco. He has also worked extensively in Asia, conducting the Tokyo Symphony regularly and working with the Seoul and Malaysian Philharmonics. In 2019 he returned to Australia with a programme of Russian music with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, and conducted a French programme with the West Australian Symphony Orchestra in Perth.

Lionel Bringuier has already travelled extensively across the globe at the invitation of symphony orchestras, chamber orchestras and opera houses, and in the 2021/22 season he will continue his position of Artiste Associé in his hometown with Opéra de Nice. This unique appointment gives him the opportunity to curate a series of special programmes which he will also conduct, and to invite several of his closest musical partners including Alina Pogostkina, Khatia Buniatishvili and Nicolas Bringuier. Well-known across Europe, most recently having served as Music Director of the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich (2014 – 18), Bringuier has held previous posts at the Orquesta Sinfónica de Castilla y León in Valladolid, the Orchestre de Bretagne, and the Ensemble Orchestral de Paris. This concert is his debut with the London Philharmonic Orchestra. The 2021/22 season will feature concerts with the Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona, Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, Orchestre National de Belgique, Orchestre National de Lille and Houston Symphony Orchestra. An operatic highlight of this season will be Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte in Tokyo with the Nikikai Opera Foundation.

Bringuier regularly collaborates with pianist Yuja Wang, with whom he has recorded the Ravel Piano Concerto for Deutsche Grammophon as part of a complete cycle of the composer’s works. Other recordings include Chopin with Nelson Freire (DG) and Saint-Saëns with Renaud and Gautier Capuçon (Erato), who are also regular partners. He works closely with some of the finest instrumentalists in the world, including Lisa Batiashvili, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Yefim Bronfman, Emmanuel Ax, Leif Ove Andsnes and Janine Jansen. Lionel Bringuier comes from a family of musicians and studied cello and conducting at the Paris Conservatoire, winning the prestigious International Besançon Competition for Young Conductors only a year after graduating. He cares passionately about education, outreach, and developing the careers of emerging conductors and soloists. In September 2020 he served on the jury of La Maestra, the first international conducting competition for women, and he continues to work with local schools in his hometown of Nice to introduce children to classical music and orchestral experiences. Lionel Bringuier was named a Chevalier de l’Ordre National du Mérite by the French government, and has been lauded with the Médaille d’or à l’unanimité avec les félicitations du jury à l’Académie Prince Rainier III de Monaco and the Médaille d’or from the City of Nice.

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TONIGHT'S ARTISTS STEPHEN HOUGH PIANO

Stephen Hough was appointed CBE in the 2014 New Year Honours. A laureate of the MacArthur Fellowship and the Royal Philharmonic Society, his extensive discography of over 60 CDs has garnered international accolades including the Diapason d’Or de l’Année and eight Gramophone Awards. His celebrated iPad app, ‘The Liszt Sonata’, was released by Touch Press in 2013.

On 1 June 2020 Stephen Hough re-opened Wigmore Hall, performing the UK’s first live classical music concert in a major venue since the first nationwide lockdown in March. Later that summer he made his 29th appearance at the BBC Proms, performing Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 2 with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Stephen’s last appearance with the London Philharmonic Orchestra was in April 2019, when he performed Saint-Saëns’s Piano Concerto No. 5 at the Royal Festival Hall under Edward Gardner. Other recent highlights include performances with the New York Philharmonic, the Wiener Symphoniker, the Cleveland and Minnesota orchestras, and the Finnish Radio, Tokyo, Toronto, Singapore, Iceland and City of Birmingham symphony orchestras. In the 2019/20 season he spearheaded a Brahms series at Wigmore Hall, performing with Renaud Capuçon, Steven Isserlis, Michael Collins and the Castalian Quartet.

As a composer, he has been commissioned by Wigmore Hall, Musée du Louvre, London’s National Gallery, Westminster Abbey, Westminster Cathedral, the Genesis Foundation, Gilmore International Keyboard Festival, the Walter W. Naumburg Foundation, the Cliburn Foundation, the Orquesta Sinfónica de Euskadi and the Berlin Philharmonic Wind Quintet. As an author, his first novel, The Final Retreat, was published by Sylph Editions in March 2018, and his collection of essays Rough Ideas: Reflections on Music and More – winner of the 2020 Royal Philharmonic Society Awards’ ‘Storytelling’ category and named one of the Financial Times Books of the Year 2019 – was published by Faber & Faber in August 2019.

Currently scheduled concerts in 2020/21 include concerto performances with the Philharmonia, City of Birmingham Symphony, Bournemouth Symphony, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Royal Philharmonic and Seoul Philharmonic orchestras. –7–

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ON STAGE TONIGHT FIRST VIOLINS Pieter Schoeman* LEADER

CELLOS Kristina Blaumane PRINCIPAL

Vesselin Gellev SUB-LEADER Kate Oswin Lasma Taimina

Pei-Jee Ng CO-PRINCIPAL Francis Bucknall Laura Donoghue Elisabeth Wiklander Sue Sutherley

Chair supported by Neil Westreich

Chair supported by Irina Gofman & Mr Rodrik V. G. Cave

Minn Majoe Catherine Craig Martin Höhmann Katalin Varnagy

Chair supported by Sonja Drexler

Yang Zhang

Chair supported by Eric Tomsett

Morane Cohen-Lamberger

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DOUBLE BASSES Kevin Rundell* PRINCIPAL Sebastian Pennar CO-PRINCIPAL George Peniston Tom Walley Laura Murphy Chair supported by Friends of the Orchestra

SECOND VIOLINS Tania Mazzetti PRINCIPAL

Chair supported by Countess Dominique Loredan

Emma Oldfield Helena Smart Kate Birchall Nancy Elan Fiona Higham

Chair supported by David & Yi Buckley

Nynke Hijlkema Joseph Maher Marie-Anne Mairesse Ashley Stevens

VIOLAS David Quiggle PRINCIPAL Richard Waters CO-PRINCIPAL Katharine Leek Benedetto Pollani Laura Vallejo Stanislav Popov Martin Wray Joseph Fisher

FLUTES Juliette Bausor PRINCIPAL

HORNS John Ryan* PRINCIPAL Martin Hobbs Mark Vines CO-PRINCIPAL Gareth Mollison Duncan Fuller TRUMPETS Paul Beniston* PRINCIPAL Anne McAneney* TROMBONES Mark Templeton* PRINCIPAL

Chair supported by William & Alex de Winton

David Whitehouse

BASS TROMBONE Lyndon Meredith PRINCIPAL

Chair supported by Caroline, Jamie & Zander Sharp

Imogen Royce Stewart McIlwham*

TUBA Peter Smith GUEST PRINCIPAL

OBOES Ian Hardwick* PRINCIPAL Jennifer Brittlebank

TIMPANI Henry Baldwin PRINCIPAL

CLARINETS Benjamin Mellefont PRINCIPAL Thomas Watmough

* Holds a professorial appointment in London

Chair supported by Roger Greenwood

Paul Richards*

BASSOONS Jonathan Davies PRINCIPAL Chair supported by Sir Simon Robey

Gareth Newman Simon Estell*

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The London Philharmonic Orchestra also acknowledges the following chair supporters whose players are not present at this concert: Dr Barry Grimaldi Victoria Robey OBE

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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.

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Corporate Donors AT&T Barclays L Catterton CHANEL Fund for Women in the Arts and Culture Paul Hastings LLP Payne Hicks Beach Pictet Bank Velocity Black White & Case LLP LPO Corporate Circle Leader freuds Sunshine Principal Berenberg Bloomberg Carter-Ruck French Chamber of Commerce Tutti Ageas Lazard Russo-British Chamber of Commerce Walpole

Connecticut Gala Committee Bea Crumbine & Jill Dyal Co-Chairmen Rodica Brune Mandy DeFilippo Rachel Franco Nick Gutfreund Mary Hull Steve Magnuson Natalie Pray Victoria Robey OBE Lisa & Scot Weicker

Preferred Partners After Digital Lidl Lindt & Sprüngli Ltd London Orthopaedic Clinic Steinway In-kind Sponsor Google Inc Trusts and Foundations The Bernarr Rainbow Trust The Boltini Trust Borrows Charitable Trust Boshier-Hinton Foundation The Candide Trust The Chalk Cliff Trust Cockayne – Grants for the Arts The London Community Foundation The David Solomons Charitable Trust The D’Oyly Carte Charitable Trust

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Dunard Fund Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation The Fidelio Charitable Trust Foyle Foundation Garrick Charitable Trust The Leche Trust Lucille Graham Trust John Horniman’s Children’s Trust John Thaw Foundation The Idlewild Trust Kirby Laing Foundation Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation Lord & Lady Lurgan Trust Adam Mickiewicz Institute PRS Foundation The Radcliffe Trust Rivers Foundation The R K Charitable Trust Romanian Cultural Institute RVW Trust Schroder Charity Trust Serge Rachmaninoff Foundation Souter Charitable Trust The Steel Charitable Trust The Thomas Deane Trust The Thriplow Charitable Trust The Vaughan Williams Charitable Trust The Victoria Wood Foundation The Viney Family Garfield Weston Foundation The Barbara Whatmore Charitable Trust The William Alwyn Foundation and all others who wish to remain anonymous. The LPO would also like to acknowledge all those who have made donations to the Play On Appeal and who have supported the Orchestra during the current pandemic.

LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA • HOUGH PLAYS BRAHMS • 19 MAY 2021

LPO ADMINISTRATION BOARD OF DIRECTORS Victoria Robey OBE Chairman Martin Höhmann* President Dr Catherine C. Høgel Vice-Chairman Henry Baldwin* Vice-President Roger Barron David Buckley David Burke Bruno De Kegel Tanya Joseph Al MacCuish Tania Mazzetti* Stewart McIlwham* Pei-Jee Ng* Cristina Rocca Andrew Tusa Mark Vines* David Whitehouse* * Player-Director ADVISORY COUNCIL Martin Höhmann Chairman Robert Adediran Christopher Aldren Dr Manon Antoniazzi Richard Brass Helen Brocklebank Simon Callow CBE Desmond Cecil CMG Sir Alan Collins KCVO CMG Andrew Davenport William de Winton Guillaume Descottes Cameron Doley Christopher Fraser OBE Lord Hall of Birkenhead CBE Jonathan Harris CBE FRICS Marianna Hay MBE 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 Chris Viney Laurence Watt Elizabeth Winter

DEVELOPMENT Laura Willis Development Director

GENERAL ADMINISTRATION Cristina Rocca Artistic Director David Burke Chief Executive CONCERT MANAGEMENT Roanna Gibson Concerts Director

Stef Woodford Corporate Relations Manager