LPO online concert programme: 28 April 2021 - La Vie Parisienne (Fabien Gabel/Alexandra Dariescu) by London Philharmonic Orchestra

SPRING 2021 CONCERT SEASON

THE STREAM OF LIFE PROGRAMME NOTES WEDNESDAY 28 APRIL 2021 8PM

LA VIE PARISIENNE Ravel Mother Goose: Suite Ravel Piano Concerto in G Offenbach Gaîté Parisienne: Ballet Suite (excerpts) Fabien Gabel conductor Alexandra Dariescu piano

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3 PROGRAMME NOTES – MOTHER GOOSE 5 PROGRAMME NOTES – PIANO CONCERTO IN G MAJOR 6 PROGRAMME NOTES – GAÎTÉ PARISIENNE 8 FABIEN GABEL 9 ALEXANDRA DARIESCU 10 LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA 11 ON STAGE TONIGHT 12 NEXT CONCERTS 13 ANNUAL APPEAL 2021: MUSIC WITH MEANING 15 MEMBERSHIPS & DONATIONS 16 CORPORATE PARTNERSHIPS 17 SOUND FUTURES DONORS 18 THANK YOU 20 LPO ADMINISTRATION Concert performed at the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall on 26 March 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 MAURICE RAVEL 1875–1937

MOTHER GOOSE: SUITE 1908–10 – APPROX 16 MINS –

1 PAVANE DE LA BELLE AU BOIS DORMANT PAVANE OF THE SLEEPING BEAUTY

2 PETIT POUCET HOP ’O MY THUMB

3 LAIDERONETTE, IMPÉRATRICE DES PAGODES LITTLE UGLY ONE, EMPRESS OF THE PAGODAS

4 LES ENTRETIENS DE LA BELLE ET DE LA BÊTE DIALOGUES BETWEEN BEAUTY AND THE BEAST

5 LE JARDIN FÉERIQUE THE FAIRY GARDEN

here seems to have been something childlike in the Parisian air in the years around 1900. In 1893 Fauré produced his Dolly Suite for piano duet; Debussy’s Children’s Corner for solo piano followed in 1908; and in 1910 appeared Ravel’s pianoduet suite Ma mere l’Oye (Mother Goose). All three evoke the state of childhood with wit, charm and a complete lack of condescension, gaining focus, like many examples of children’s literature, from having been written with specific child friends and performers in mind. In Ravel’s case, there were two: Mimie and Jean Godebski, children of two of his closest friends,

and it was while staying at their parents’ house that he completed Mother Goose. In the event, the suite proved too difficult for the young Godebskis, but something at least of its original intent was preserved at the premiere, given at a concert in Paris by two girl pianists, Jean Leleu and Geneviève Durony. ‘When you are a great virtuoso’, Ravel subsequently wrote to the 12-year-old Leleu, ‘you will perhaps have pleasant memories of having given an artist the very rare joy of hearing a work of his, of a rather special kind, interpreted just as it should be. Thank you a thousand times for your child-like and sensitive performance.’ Continues on the next page –3–

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Ravel’s almost inevitable but nonetheless meticulous orchestration of the work followed in 1911. The inspiration for the individual movements of Mother Goose came from three venerable books of fairytales, one of which, Charles Perrault’s Contes de ma mère l’Oye, also gave Ravel his title. In the first movement Sleeping Beauty is depicted slumbering in her castle, its old-world atmosphere evoked in a lilting pavane. The second shows the unhappy Hop ’o my Thumb, wandering lost in the forest and at one point seemingly mocked by the birds who have eaten the breadcrumbs he had put down to mark out his route home. The ugly Empress of the Pagodas then takes her bath to a swirlingly oriental-sounding accompaniment from a band of little people (the pagodas of the title) played, we are to imagine, on instruments fashioned from nutshells. Next comes a little scene for Beauty and the Beast, with Beauty represented by a delicate waltz and the Beast by a growling figure from the contrabassoon; the music becomes more pressing as he asks her to marry him, and when after a short but dramatic pause she accepts, a harp glissando signals his transformation into a handsome prince. Finally, a fairy garden is lovingly conjured in a climactic sarabande.

‘THE IDEA OF CONJURING UP THE POETRY OF CHILDHOOD IN THESE PIECES HAS NATURALLY LED ME TO SIMPLIFY MY STYLE AND CLARIFY MY WRITING.’ MAURICE RAVEL

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PROGRAMME NOTES MAURICE RAVEL 1875–1937

PIANO CONCERTO IN G MAJOR 1929–31 – APPROX 23 MINS –

ALEXANDRA DARIESCU PIANO 1 ALLEGRAMENTE 2 ADAGIO ASSAI 3 PRESTO

avel composed two piano concertos, both at the same time. They make a fascinating pair, one the darkly romantic D major Concerto for the Left Hand, and the other this glittering work in G major, described by the composer as ‘a concerto in the strict sense, written in the spirit of Mozart and Saint-Saëns’. The G major was begun in the summer of 1929 while Ravel was staying in the Basque country, but the commission for the D major from the onearmed pianist Paul Wittgenstein supervened, and it was not until November 1931 that the ‘first’ Concerto was finished. Ravel had originally told his pupil Marguerite Long that it was for her, but somewhere along the line he changed his mind and decided that he wanted to perform it himself. He was not, however, a great pianist – despite the extreme difficulty of some of his piano music – and although he entered on a rigorous practice regime, concerned friends eventually persuaded him to let Long give the premiere after all. Given at an all-Ravel concert in Paris in January 1932 (with the composer now conducting), it was hailed as a triumph of French art, and immediately taken on a four-month European tour.

According to one of Ravel’s friends, the outer movements were based on ideas from a projected concerto on Basque themes he had begun back in 1911. Ravel’s mother was a Basque, and Spanish music was always a prominent strain in his music, but such popular elements as exist in the G major Concerto are only part of an eclectic mix of readily apparent influences, among them jazz (Ravel had recently visited America, where he had met Gershwin), music-hall, Scarlatti, Mozart and Stravinskian Neoclassicism. The end result is a work which is often detached in its cool sophistication and humour, but which at times reaches out to the listener with an emotion that is both powerful and direct. This expressiveness is at its most exquisite in the hauntingly beautiful central slow movement, described by Long as ‘one of the most touching melodies to have come from the human heart’. The movement is framed by two brilliant companions, the first a breezy creation based on a succession of themes from both the Spanish and American camps, and the finale a witty rondo whose playfulness and irreverent comedy bring the work to a close in fairground mood.

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PROGRAMME NOTES JACQUES OFFENBACH 1819–80 ED. MANUEL ROSENTHAL (1904–2003)

GAÎTÉ PARISIENNE: BALLET SUITE (EXCERPTS) 1938 – APPROX 21 MINS –

OUVERTURE 1 ALLEGRO BRILLANTE 2 POLKA 8 VALSE LENTE 9 TEMPO DI MARCIA 10 VALSE MODERATO 17 QUADRILLE – 18 ALLEGRO – 19 ALLEGRO MODERATO 20 ALLEGRO – 21 ALLEGRO – 22 VIVO – 23 BARCAROLLE

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he inconvenience to ballet companies of a composer who wrote much excellent dance music, but very few actual ballets, is not so hard to overcome. All you have to do is make a new ballet, with a newly invented story, that cherry-picks the best and most suitable tunes you can lay your hands on. Well-known examples include Les sylphides (based on Chopin) and La boutique fantasque (based on Rossini). Another is Gaîté Parisienne, using music by the great figure of 19th-century comic opera, Jacques Offenbach, and premiered in Monte Carlo in April 1938. The ballet was the brainchild of the great choreographer Léonide Massine, who chose it to be his first production after winning a legal battle for control of the Ballet Russe de Monte-Carlo, one of two descendants of the Ballets Russes company founded in 1909 by Sergei Diaghilev, and famous for its connection with Stravinsky. At first Massine commissioned the orchestral arrangements from the composer Roger Désormière, but, finding the deadline rather tight, Désormière asked his friend the conductor and composer Manuel Rosenthal to take the project on instead. Rosenthal needed some persuading, complaining that ‘I don’t know Offenbach well; I’m not used to orchestrating the music of other people; I don’t

want to do it; I don’t know Massine’. It seems that Massine did not initially have complete confidence in Rosenthal either, and it was only after Stravinsky was asked to arbitrate that he finally accepted the score. Despite these birthing complications the resulting 40-minute ballet became not only one of Massine’s greatest successes, but also the work for which Rosenthal is now best remembered as a composer. As its title suggests, Gaîté Parisienne is more a series of scenes and divertimentos depicting the amorous intrigues, dancing and general high-jinks of Second Empire Parisian café life than a through-composed narrative; Comte Étienne de Beaumont’s libretto includes characters ranging from a flower girl to a baron, a glove-seller to an army officer, and a fashionable beauty named La Lionne to a Peruvian gentleman (danced by Massine himself). Needless to say there are flirtations aplenty and the can-can gets danced. Tonight’s selection includes numbers from the operas La vie parisienne (Ouverture), La belle Hélène (Polka), Les contes d’Hoffmann (the balmy, glinting Barcarolle) and, of course, Orphée aux enfers (Valse lente and Quadrille), as well as from less familiar works such as Mesdames de la Halle, Le voyage dans la lune, Trombalcazar and Robinson Crusoé. Programme notes © Lindsay Kemp

‘WITHOUT OFFENBACH THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN NO SAVOY OPERA … NO DIE FLEDERMAUS OR MERRY WIDOW’ MUSICIAN & AUTHOR FRITZ SPIEGEL IN THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, OCTOBER 1980

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TONIGHT'S ARTISTS FABIEN GABEL CONDUCTOR

concerts with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Orchestre Philharmonique du Capitole de Toulouse and Orchestre Philharmonique de MonteCarlo. He also appears twice with Orchestre Français des Jeunes, of which he is Music Director.

Fabien Gabel is recognised internationally as one of the stars of a new generation of conductors, appearing with such orchestras as the London Symphony Orchestra, NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester, Oslo Philharmonic, Orchestre de Paris, Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, Tonkünstler-Orchester and, further afield, The Cleveland Orchestra, the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. Tonight is Fabien Gabel’s first Royal Festival Hall appearance with the London Philharmonic Orchestra. He has previously conducted the Orchestra at their Eastbourne and Brighton residencies, and in 2012 conducted an outdoor courtyard performance at London’s Royal Academy of Arts. Gabel began the 2020/21 season with an appearance at the Grafenegg Festival with the TonkünstlerOrchester, with whom he made an impressive Viennese debut in 2019. Other engagements this season include a return to the Deutsche SymphonieOrchester Berlin and his debut with the Gürzenich-Orchester Köln. In North America, he returns to the Houston Symphony and makes his debut with the Minnesota Orchestra. In France he gives

Fabien Gabel performs with soloists such as Leif Ove Andsnes, Emmanuel Ax, Gautier Capuçon, Bertrand Chamayou, Seong-Jin Cho, Marc-André Hamelin, Håkan Hardenberger, Gidon Kremer, Simone Lamsma, Xavier de Maistre, Johannes Moser, Beatrice Rana, Julian Steckel, Christian Tetzlaff and Jean-Yves Thibaudet, and with singers such as Measha Brueggergosman, Natalie Dessay, Petra Lang, Jennifer Larmore, Marie-Nicole Lemieux, Danielle de Niese, Kristine Opolais and Anne Sophie von Otter. Gabel first attracted international attention in 2004 when he won the Donatella Flick competition in London, which subsequently led to his appointment as the LSO’s assistant conductor from 2004–06. Since then, the LSO has engaged him regularly as a guest conductor. Born in Paris into a family of accomplished musicians, Fabien Gabel began studying trumpet at the age of six, honing his skills at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris, which awarded him First Prize in trumpet in 1996, and later at the Hochschule für Musik in Karlsruhe. He went on to play in various Parisian orchestras under the direction of prominent conductors such as Pierre Boulez, Sir Colin Davis, Riccardo Muti, Seiji Ozawa, Sir Simon Rattle and Bernard Haitink. In 2002 Fabien Gabel pursued his interest in conducting at the Aspen Summer Music Festival, where he studied with David Zinman, who invited him to appear as a guest conductor at the Festival in 2009. He has additionally assisted Bernard Haitink and Sir Colin Davis.

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TONIGHT'S ARTISTS ALEXANDRA DARIESCU PIANO

Nominated for an OPUS Klassik Award in 2019, The Nutcracker and I by Alexandra Dariescu is a groundbreaking multimedia performance for solo piano with dance and digital animation. It was premiered at the Barbican’s Milton Court in 2017, and has since received over 75 performances worldwide. 2020 saw the premiere of a revised, COVID-safe version of the project, The Nutcracker – Reimagined for solo piano, brass ensemble, narrator, and dance with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, making it one of the few Christmas concerts to happen in 2020. Next month Dariescu looks forward to taking The Nutcracker and I to the Zaubersee Festival Lucerne. Also celebrated is Dariescu’s audiobook of the same name, written by Jessica Duchen and narrated by celebrated children’s TV presenter Lindsey Russell.

Romanian-born British pianist Alexandra Dariescu dazzles audiences and critics worldwide with her effortless musicality and captivating stage presence. Her vision and innovative approach to programming make her stand out as a creative entrepreneur who likes to think differently. She has performed with such orchestras as the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Orchestre National de France, Tampere Philharmonic, Oslo Philharmonic, European Union Youth Orchestra, Moscow Philharmonic, National Radio Orchestra Romania, Utah Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre Symphonique de Quebec, Sydney and Melbourne symphony orchestras, Auckland Philharmonia and Sichuan Symphony Orchestra, among others.

Dariescu’s latest release, with Angela Gheorghiu in November 2019 on the Decca label, adds to her discography, which includes her Trilogy of Preludes by Boulanger/Messiaen/Fauré; Chopin/Dutilleux; and Shostakovich/Szymanowski (Champs Hill Records). Also in her discography are recordings of Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1 with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Darrell Ang (Signum Records); and Mesmerism (NMC Records), which is a concerto written especially for Dariescu by Emily Howard.

In addition to the core repertoire, Alexandra Dariescu continues to champion lesser-known works. In past seasons she has performed Nadia Boulanger’s Fantaisie variée, Germaine Tailleferre’s Ballade, Ginastera’s Concierto Argentino and Ferdinand Ries’s Piano Concerto No. 3. Aiming for gender equality in her recital programmes, Dariescu champions works by Clara Schumann, Lili Boulanger and American composer Missy Mazzoli, alongside pieces by Tchaikovsky and Chopin.

Alexandra Dariescu has been mentored by Sir András Schiff and Imogen Cooper. After graduating from the Royal Northern College of Music with the Gold Medal, where she studied with Nelson Goerner, Alexander Melnikov, Mark Ray and Dina Parakhina, she pursued her Masters at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama with Ronan O’Hora. A former artist of the Young Classical Artists Trust, she was a Laureate at the Verbier Festival Academy and received the UK’s Women of the Future Award in the Arts and Culture category. Alexandra Dariescu wears a Maria Lucia Hohan dress.

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PRINCIPAL CONDUCTOR AND ARTISTIC ADVISOR VLADIMIR JUROWSKI PRINCIPAL CONDUCTOR DESIGNATE EDWARD GARDNER SUPPORTED BY MRS CHRISTINA LANG ASSAEL PRINCIPAL GUEST CONDUCTOR KARINA CANELLAKIS • LEADER PIETER SCHOEMAN SUPPORTED BY NEIL WESTREICH ARTISTIC DIRECTOR CRISTINA ROCCA • CHIEF EXECUTIVE DAVID BURKE • PATRON HRH THE DUKE OF KENT KG

One of the finest orchestras on the international stage, the London Philharmonic Orchestra was founded in 1932 by Sir Thomas Beecham. Since then, its Principal Conductors have included Sir Adrian Boult, Bernard Haitink, Sir Georg Solti, Klaus Tennstedt and Kurt Masur. In 2007 Vladimir Jurowski became the Orchestra’s current Principal Conductor. Edward Gardner is Principal Conductor Designate, and will take up the position from 2021. Karina Canellakis is the Orchestra’s current Principal Guest Conductor. The London Philharmonic Orchestra has performed at Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall since it opened in 1951, becoming Resident Orchestra in 1992. It also has residencies at Glyndebourne and in Brighton, Eastbourne and Saffron Walden, and performs regularly around the UK. The Orchestra also tours internationally, performing to audiences worldwide. The Orchestra broadcasts regularly on television and radio, and has recorded soundtracks for numerous films including The Lord of the Rings. In 2005 it began releasing live, studio and archive recordings on its own

CD label, which now numbers over 100 releases. The Orchestra’s work at the forefront of digital technology has enabled it to reach millions of people worldwide: all its own-label recordings are available to download and stream and, as well as a YouTube channel and ‘LPO Offstage’ podcast series, the Orchestra has a lively presence on social media. Over the pandemic period the LPO has further developed its relationship with UK and international audiences through its ‘LPOnline’ digital content: over 100 videos of performances, insights, and introductions to playlists, which have so far collectively received over 3 million views worldwide and led to the LPO being named runner-up in the Digital Classical Music Awards 2020. During Autumn 2020 and once again from Spring 2021, the Orchestra is delighted to be able to return to its Southbank Centre home to perform a season of concerts filmed live and streamed for audiences to enjoy at home free of charge via Marquee TV. lpo.org.uk

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ON STAGE TONIGHT FIRST VIOLINS Pieter Schoeman* LEADER Chair supported by Neil Westreich

Vesselin Gellev SUB-LEADER Kate Oswin Lasma Taimina

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

DOUBLE BASSES Kevin Rundell* PRINCIPAL Sebastian Pennar CO-PRINCIPAL Hugh Kluger George Peniston Tom Walley Laura Murphy

Minn Majoe Catherine Craig Thomas Eisner Yang Zhang

Chair supported by Friends of the Orchestra

Martin Höhmann Katalin Varnagy

Stewart McIlwham*

FLUTES Juliette Bausor PRINCIPAL

Chair supported by Eric Tomsett

Chair supported by Caroline, Jamie & Zander Sharp

Chair supported by Sonja Drexler

PICCOLOS Juliette Bausor Stewart McIlwham* PRINCIPAL

SECOND VIOLINS Tania Mazzetti PRINCIPAL

Chair supported by Countess Dominique Loredan

Emma Oldfield Helena Smart Nancy Elan Fiona Higham

OBOES Ian Hardwick* PRINCIPAL Alice Munday Sue Böhling*

Kate Birchall Nynke Hijlkema Ashley Stevens Joseph Maher Marie-Anne Mairesse

CLARINETS Benjamin Mellefont PRINCIPAL Thomas Watmough

Chair supported by David & Yi Buckley

VIOLAS Richard Waters PRINCIPAL Ting-Ru Lai Benedetto Pollani Laura Vallejo Katharine Leek Naomi Holt Martin Wray Stanislav Popov CELLOS Kristina Blaumane PRINCIPAL Chair supported by Bianca & Stuart Roden

Pei-Jee Ng CO-PRINCIPAL Francis Bucknall David Lale Elisabeth Wiklander Laura Donoghue

Chair supported by Dr Barry Grimaldi

TRUMPETS Paul Beniston* PRINCIPAL James Fountain* PRINCIPAL Anne McAneney* TROMBONES Mark Templeton* PRINCIPAL

Chair supported by William & Alex de Winton

David Whitehouse

BASS TROMBONE Lyndon Meredith PRINCIPAL TUBA Lee Tsarmaklis* PRINCIPAL TIMPANI Simon Carrington* PRINCIPAL Chair supported by Victoria Robey OBE

PERCUSSION Andrew Barclay* PRINCIPAL Henry Baldwin CO-PRINCIPAL Jeremy Cornes Karen Hutt Feargus Brennan

Chair supported by Roger Greenwood

Paul Richards*

HARP Rachel Masters PRINCIPAL

BASSOONS Jonathan Davies PRINCIPAL Chair supported by Sir Simon Robey

Gareth Newman

CONTRABASSOON Simon Estell* PRINCIPAL HORNS John Ryan* PRINCIPAL Martin Hobbs Mark Vines CO-PRINCIPAL

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CELESTE Catherine Edwards * Holds a professorial appointment in London

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NEXT CONCERTS SPRING 2021 CONCERT SEASON WITH MARQUEE TV

SPRING STORMS AND SUMMER NIGHTS WEDNESDAY 5 MAY 2021 8PM

HOUGH PLAYS BRAHMS WEDNESDAY 19 MAY 2021 8PM

Berlioz Les nuits d’été Schumann Symphony No. 4

Brahms Tragic Overture Brahms Piano Concerto No. 1

Maxim Emelyanychev conductor Miah Persson soprano

Lionel Bringuier conductor Stephen Hough piano

Supported by the

Generously supported by Victoria Robey OBE

Miah Persson

Stephen Hough

EAST MEETS WEST WEDNESDAY 12 MAY 2021 8PM

FURTHER ARTISTS AND PROGRAMMES TO BE ANNOUNCED IN EARLY MAY.

Arvo Pärt Fratres Mozart Symphony No. 35 Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto Ryan Bancroft conductor Gil Shaham violin

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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.

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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 Mrs Christina Lang Assael Sir Simon & Lady Robey OBE Orchestra Circle The Candide Trust William & Alex de Winton Mr & Mrs Philip Kan Neil Westreich Principal Associates Richard Buxton In memory of Brenda Lyndoe Casbon In memory of Ann Marguerite Collins Hamish & Sophie Forsyth The Tsukanov Family Associates An anonymous donor Steven M. Berzin Irina Gofman & Mr Rodrik V. G. Cave Gill & Garf Collins Countess Dominique Loredan Mr & Mrs Makharinsky George Ramishvili Stuart & Bianca Roden Julian & Gill Simmonds In memory of Hazel Amy Smith Deanie & Jay Stein Gold Patrons An anonymous donor David & Yi Buckley David & Elizabeth Challen In memory of Allner Mavis Channing Andrew Davenport Sonja Drexler Peter & Fiona Espenhahn Marie-Laure Favre-Gilly de Varennes de Beuill Virginia Gabbertas MBE Mr Roger Greenwood Robert Markwick & Kasia Robinski Francis & Marie-France Minkoff Dame Theresa Sackler Eric Tomsett Andrew & Rosemary Tusa The Viney Family Jenny Watson CBE

Silver Patrons Dr Christopher Aldren David Burke & Valerie Graham The Rt Hon. The Lord Burns GCB Bruno De Kegel Ulrike & Benno Engelmann Simon & Meg Freakley Pehr G Gyllenhammar John & Angela Kessler The Metherell Family Andrew Neill Mikhail Noskov & Vasilina Bindley Laurence Watt Guy & Utti Whittaker Grenville & Krysia Williams Bronze Patrons Anonymous donors Michael Allen Dr Manon Antoniazzi Roger & Clare Barron Mr Philip Bathard-Smith Sir Peter Bazalgette Mr Bernard Bradbury Sally Bridgeland In memory of Julie Bromley The Earl & Countess of Chichester Mr John H Cook Howard & Veronika Covington David Ellen David & Jane Gosman Mr Gavin Graham Mrs Dorothy Hambleton Malcolm Herring The Jackman Family Jan & Leni Du Plessis Jamie & Julia Korner Rose & Dudley Leigh Wg. Cdr. & Mrs M T Liddiard OBE JP RAF Drs Frank & Gek Lim Geoff & Meg Mann Mrs Elizabeth Meshkvicheva Peter & Lucy Noble Mr Michael Parlof Marianne Parsons Dr Wiebke Pekrull Jacopo Pessina Mr Roger Phillimore Gillian Pole Mr Michael Posen Mr Christopher Querée Sir Bernard Rix

Tom & Phillis Sharpe Matthew Stephenson & Roman Aristarkhov Charlotte Stevenson Mr Robert Swannell Tony & Hilary Vines Mr & Mrs John C Tucker Mr & Mrs John & Susi Underwood Marina Vaizey Mr John Weekes Christopher Williams Principal Supporters Anonymous donors Mr Mark Astaire Sir John Baker Mrs A Beare Mr Anthony Boswood Dr Carlos Carreno Desmond & Ruth Cecil Mr Julien Chilcott-Monk Mr & Mrs Stewart Cohen David & Liz Conway Mr Alistair Corbett Mrs Sam Dawson Mr Simon Douglas Mr Richard Fernyhough Mrs Janet Flynn Mrs Ash Frisby Mr Stephen Goldring Mr Milton Grundy Nerissa Guest & David Foreman The Jeniffer & Jonathan Harris Charitable Trust Michael & Christine Henry J Douglas Home Ivan Hurry Per Jonsson Alexandra Jupin & John Bean Richard & Briony Linsell Paul & Brigitta Lock Mr Peter Mace Nicholas & Lindsay Merriman Andrew T Mills Simon & Fiona Mortimore Mr Gerald Pettit Mr James Pickford Michael & Carolyn Portillo Mr Robert Ross Mr David Russell Colin Senneck & the Hartley and District LPO Group Priscylla Shaw Nigel Silby

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Mr Brian Smith Martin & Cheryl Southgate Mr & Mrs G Stein Dr Peter Stephenson Mr Ian Tegner Howard & Sheelagh Watson Mr John Wright Supporters Anonymous donors Ralph & Elizabeth Aldwinckle Julian & Annette Armstrong Lindsay Badenoch Mr John Barnard Mr John D Barnard Damaris, Richard & Friends Mr David Barrett Diana Barrett Mr Andrew Botterill Julian & Margaret Bowden & Mr Paul Michel Mr Lawrence Alfred Bradley Richard & Jo Brass Mr Shaun Brown Mr Alan C Butler Lady Cecilia Cadbury Alison Clarke & Leo Pilkington J Clay Mr Joshua Coger Mr Martin Compton Miss Tessa Cowie Mr David Davies Mr Roderick Davies Mr David Devons Anthony & Jo Diamond Mr Kevin Fogarty Christopher Fraser OBE Mrs Adele Friedland & Friends Mr Daniel Goldstein Mr & Mrs Jeffrey Herrmann Dr Joan Hester Mr David Hodgson The Jackman Family Mr Justin Kitson Mr David MacFarlane Dame Jane Newell DBE Mr Stephen Olton Mr David Peters Mr & Mrs Graham & Jean Pugh Mr Kenneth Shaw Ruth Silvestre Barry & Gillian Smith Ms Natalie Spraggon & David Thomson Ms Mary Stacey

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THANK YOU – CONTINUED –

Ms Janette Storey Ms Caroline Tate Mr Peter Thierfeldt Dr Ann Turrall Michael & Katie Urmston Dr June Wakefield Mr Dominic Wallis Joanna Williams Mr C D Yates Mr Anthony Yolland 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) Veronika Borovik-Khilchevskaya (Cyprus) Marie-Laure Favre Gilly de Varennes de Bueil (France) Aline Foriel-Destezet (France) Irina Gofman (Russia) Countess Dominique Loredan (Italy) Olivia Ma (Greater China Area) Olga Makharinsky (Russia) George Ramishvili (Georgia) Victoria Robey OBE (USA) Jay Stein (USA) Thomas Beecham Group Members David & Yi Buckley Gill & Garf Collins William & Alex de Winton 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 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 Jay Goffman Alexandra Jupin William A. Kerr Kristina McPhee Natalie Pray Damien Vanderwilt Antony Phillipson Hon. Chairman Victoria Robey OBE Hon. Director Richard Gee, Esq Of Counsel Jenifer L. Keiser, CPA, EisnerAmper LLP

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.

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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

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