2023/24 concert season at the Southbank Centre
Free concert programme
Principal Conductor Edward Gardner supported by Aud Jebsen Principal Guest Conductor Karina Canellakis Conductor Emeritus Vladimir Jurowski Patron HRH The Duke of Kent KG Artistic Director Elena Dubinets Chief Executive David Burke Leader Pieter Schoeman supported by Neil Westreich
Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall Friday 16 February 2024 | 7.30pm
Colour and Fantasy Stravinsky Scherzo fantastique (11’) Francisco Coll Ciudad sin Sueño (Fantasia for piano and orchestra)* (world premiere) (20’) Interval (20’) de Falla Nights in the Gardens of Spain (23’) Stravinsky The Firebird Suite (1919 version) (19’) Gustavo Gimeno conductor Javier Perianes piano *Co-commissioned by the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Toronto
Symphony Orchestra, Sinfonieorchester Basel and Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía.
The Orchestra is honoured to dedicate this performance to the memory of Jaime Burguera Eleta.
The timings shown are not precise and are given only as a guide. Concert presented by the London Philharmonic Orchestra
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Welcome LPO news 3 On stage tonight 4 London Philharmonic Orchestra 5 Leader: Pieter Schoeman 6 Gustavo Gimeno 7 Javier Perianes 8 Programme notes 14 Recommended recordings 15 The Music in You: 2–16 March 2024 16 LPO Player Appeal 2023/24 17 Sound Futures donors 18 Thank you 20 LPO administration
Free pre-concert performance: LPO Junior Artists 6.00pm | Royal Festival Hall Our Junior Artists play alongside LPO musicians, Foyle Future Firsts and Junior Artist alumni in a celebration of vibrant young talent, all under the baton of LPO Fellow Conductor Luis CastilloBriceño. All welcome – free to attend and no ticket required.
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Welcome
LPO news
Welcome to the Southbank Centre
LPO Junior Artists Free performance tonight, 6pm
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This evening we welcome our talented LPO Junior Artists, who give a free pre-concert performance on the Royal Festival Hall stage at 6pm alongside LPO musicians, Foyle Future Firsts and Junior Artist alumni, all under the baton of LPO Fellow Conductor Luis Castillo-Briceño. They will perform music by Bronsart, Bizet, Bartók, Judith Margaret Bailey, and a world premiere by former LPO Young Composer Tayla-Leigh Payne. Please do come along!
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LPO Junior Artists is the London Philharmonic Orchestra’s annual orchestral experience programme for eight talented young musicians from backgrounds currently under-represented in professional UK orchestras. The programme offers support, advice and professional insight to exceptional players of orchestral instruments aged 15–19 and at a minimum Grade 8 playing standard. Junior Artists become part of the London Philharmonic Orchestra family for a year, getting to know our musicians, staff and artists, as well as members of our Rising Talent schemes and former LPO Junior Artists.
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Drinks
LPO Junior Artists: Overture Day Last chance to apply!
You are welcome to bring drinks from the venue’s bars and cafés into the Royal Festival Hall to enjoy during tonight’s concert. Please be considerate to fellow audience members by keeping noise during the concert to a minimum, and please take your glasses with you for recycling afterwards. Thank you.
LPO Junior Artists: Overture Days are free, fun orchestral skills days where young musicians aged 11–14 and Grade 4+ standard play alongside LPO musicians and get a flavour of what it’s like to play in a professional orchestra. The next Overture Day is taking place on Sunday 17 March 2024 at Saint Gabriel’s College, SW9 6UL, as part of the Classical Vauxhall festival 2024, and there’s still chance to apply before the deadline of this Monday, 19 February at 9am.
Enjoyed tonight’s concert? Help us to share the wonder of the LPO by making a donation today. Use the QR code to donate via the LPO website, or visit lpo.org.uk/donate. Thank you.
Applications are open to all, but priority will be given to young musicians from Lambeth and from backgrounds and communities that are under-represented in professional orchestras, who may be eligible for LPO Junior Artists in the future. For more information visit lpo.org.uk/overture LPO Junior Artists: Overture is generously funded by Classical Vauxhall, the Kirby Laing Foundation, TIOC Foundation and The Radcliffe Trust.
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On stage tonight First Violins
Pieter Schoeman* Leader
Chair supported by Neil Westreich
Alice Ivy-Pemberton Co-Leader
Kate Oswin
Chair supported by Eric Tomsett
Lasma Taimina
Chair supported by Irina Gofman & Mr Rodrik V. G. Cave
Minn Majoe Thomas Eisner Katalin Varnagy
Chair supported by Sonja Drexler
Cassandra Hamilton Elizaveta Tyun Amanda Smith Beatriz Carbonell Alice Apreda Howell Nilufar Alimaksumova Katherine Waller Eleanor Bartlett Ricky Gore
Second Violins
Emma Oldfield Principal Helena Smart Nynke Hijlkema Nancy Elan Joseph Maher Kate Birchall Ashley Stevens Fiona Higham Chair supported by David & Yi Buckley
Claudia Tarrant-Matthews Chair supported by Friends of the Orchestra
Sioni Williams Kate Cole Sheila Law Harry Kerr José Nuno Cabrita Matias
Violas
Richard Waters Principal
Chair supported by Caroline, Jamie & Zander Sharp
Martin Wray Katharine Leek Benedetto Pollani Laura Vallejo
Cor Anglais
Lucia Ortiz Sauco James Heron Julia Doukakis Toby Warr Daniel Cornford Delyth John Kate De Campos
Sue Böhling* Principal Chair supported by Dr Barry Grimaldi
Chair supported by Bianca & Stuart Roden
Principal
Chair supported by Victoria Robey CBE
E-flat Clarinet
Leo Popplewell Francis Bucknall Sue Sutherley Helen Thomas Sibylle Hentschel Colin Alexander Pedro Silva Jessica Hayes Julia Morneweg
Thomas Watmough Principal
Chair supported by Roger Greenwood
Bass Clarinet
Paul Richards* Principal
Co-Principal
Hugh Kluger George Peniston Laura Murphy Charlotte Kerbegian Sam Rice Thea Sayer
Percussion
Andrew Barclay* Principal Chair supported by Gill & Garf Collins
Karen Hutt
Chair supported by Mr B C Fairhall
Feargus Brennan James Crook
Harps
Jonathan Davies* Principal Helen Storey
*Professor at a London conservatoire
Chair supported by Sir Simon Robey
Kevin Rundell* Principal Sebastian Pennar
Principal
Rachel Masters Principal Tamara Young Tomos Xerri
Bassoons
Double Basses
Timpani
Simon Carrington*
Thomas Watmough James Maltby
Kristina Blaumane Principal
Lee Tsarmaklis* Principal
Clarinets
Benjamin Mellefont*
Cellos
Tuba
Contrabassoon
Simon Estell* Principal
Horns
John Ryan* Principal Annemarie Federle Principal
Flutes
Martin Hobbs Mark Vines Co-Principal Gareth Mollison
Fiona Kelly Guest Principal Jack Welch Stewart McIlwham* Katherine Bicknell
Trumpets
Piccolos
Paul Beniston* Principal Anne McAneney* David Hilton
Stewart McIlwham* Principal
Katherine Bicknell
Trombones
Alto Flute
Mark Templeton* Principal Chair supported by William & Alex de Winton
Stewart McIlwham*
David Whitehouse
Oboes
Ian Hardwick* Principal Alice Munday
Bass Trombone
Lyndon Meredith Principal
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Welcome to our newest member, Helen Storey, who joined the Orchestra this month as SubPrincipal Bassoon. A member of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra from 2001– 24, she is now excited about embarking on her new adventure with the LPO!
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Our conductors
Uniquely groundbreaking and exhilarating to watch and hear, the London Philharmonic Orchestra has been celebrated as one of the world’s great orchestras since Sir Thomas Beecham founded it in 1932. With every performance we aim to bring wonder to the modern world and cement our position as a leading orchestra for the 21st century.
Our Principal Conductors have included some of the greatest historic names like Sir Adrian Boult, Bernard Haitink, Sir Georg Solti, Klaus Tennstedt and Kurt Masur. In 2021 Edward Gardner became our 13th Principal Conductor, taking the Orchestra into its tenth decade. Vladimir Jurowski became Conductor Emeritus in recognition of his impact as Principal Conductor from 2007–21. Karina Canellakis is our current Principal Guest Conductor and Tania León our Composer-in-Residence.
Our home is here at the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall, where we’re at the beating heart of London’s cultural life. You’ll also find us at our resident venues in Brighton, Eastbourne and Saffron Walden, and on tour throughout the UK and internationally, performing to sell-out audiences worldwide. Each summer we’re resident at Glyndebourne Festival Opera, combining the magic of opera with Glyndebourne’s glorious setting in the Sussex countryside.
Soundtrack to key moments Everyone will have heard the London Philharmonic Orchestra, whether it’s playing the world’s National Anthems at every medal ceremony of the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics, our iconic recording with Pavarotti that made Nessun Dorma a global football anthem, or closing the flotilla at The Queen’s Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant. And you’ll almost certainly have heard us on the soundtracks for major films including The Lord of the Rings.
Sharing the wonder You’ll find us online, on streaming platforms, on social media and through our broadcast partnership with Marquee TV. During the pandemic period we launched ‘LPOnline’: over 100 videos of performances, insights and introductions to playlists, which led to us being named runner-up in the Digital Classical Music Awards 2020. During 2023/24 we’re once again be working with Marquee TV to broadcast selected live concerts, so you can share or relive the wonder from your own living room.
We also release live, studio and archive recordings on our own label, and are the world’s most-streamed orchestra, with over 15 million plays of our content each month.
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Pieter Schoeman Leader
There’s nothing we love more than seeing the joy of children and families enjoying their first musical moments, and we’re passionate about equipping schools and teachers through schools’ concerts, resources and training. Reflecting our values of collaboration and inclusivity, our OrchLab and Open Sound Ensemble projects offer music-making opportunities for adults and young people with special educational needs and disabilities. Our LPO Junior Artists programme is leading the way in creating pathways into the profession for young artists from under-represented communities, and our LPO Young Composers and Foyle Future Firsts schemes support the next generation of professional musicians, bridging the transition from education to professional careers. We also recently launched the LPO Conducting Fellowship, supporting the development of outstanding early-career conductors from backgrounds currently under-represented in the profession.
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Next generations
Pieter Schoeman was appointed Leader of the London Philharmonic Orchestra in 2008, having previously been Co-Leader since 2002. He is also a Professor of Violin at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music & Dance.
Looking forward
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 the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall. As a chamber musician he regularly appears at London’s prestigious Wigmore Hall. His chamber music partners have included Anne-Sophie Mutter, Veronika Eberle, Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Boris Garlitsky, Jean-Guihen Queyras, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Martin Helmchen and Julia Fischer.
The centrepiece of our 2023/24 season is our spring 2024 festival The Music in You. Reflecting our adventurous spirit, the festival embraces all kinds of expression – dance, music theatre, and audience participation. We’ll collaborate with artists from across the creative spectrum, and give premieres by composers including Tania León, Julian Joseph, Daniel Kidane, Victoria Vita Polevá, Luís Tinoco and John Williams. Rising stars making their debuts with us in 2023/24 include conductors Tianyi Lu, Oksana Lyniv, Jonathon Heyward and Natalia Ponomarchuk, accordionist João Barradas and organist Anna Lapwood. We also present the long-awaited conclusion of Conductor Emeritus Vladimir Jurowski’s Wagner Ring Cycle, Götterdämmerung, and, as well as our titled conductors Edward Gardner and Karina Canellakis, we welcome back classical stars including Anne-Sophie Mutter, Robin Ticciati, Christian Tetzlaff and Danielle de Niese.
Pieter has performed numerous times as a soloist with the London Philharmonic Orchestra. Highlights have included an appearance as both conductor and soloist in Vivaldi’s Four Seasons at the Royal Festival Hall, the Brahms Double Concerto with Kristina Blaumane, Florence Price’s Violin Concerto No. 2, and the Britten Double Concerto with Alexander Zemtsov, which was recorded and released on the LPO Label to great critical acclaim. Pieter has appeared as Guest Leader with the BBC, Barcelona, Bordeaux, Lyon and Baltimore symphony orchestras; the Rotterdam and BBC Philharmonic orchestras; and the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra.
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Pieter’s chair in the LPO is generously supported by Neil Westreich.
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Gustavo Gimeno conductor
As Music Director Designate of the Teatro Real, in December 2023 Gimeno conducted the Orquesta Sinfónica de Madrid, Pequeños Cantores de la ORCAM, Coro Nacional de España and mezzo-soprano Marina Viotti in Mahler’s Symphony No. 3.
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Gustavo Gimeno is much sought-after as a guest conductor worldwide, and made his London Philharmonic Orchestra debut in 2018 with Rossini’s Petite messe solennelle at the Royal Festival Hall. This season he also appears with the Royal Concertgebouw, Los Angeles Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, Cincinnati Symphony and Dallas Symphony orchestras. Highlights of past seasons include engagements with the Berlin Philharmonic, Munich Philharmonic, Bavarian Radio Symphony, Leipzig Gewandhaus, Vienna Symphony, French National, Swedish Radio Symphony, Boston Symphony, Chicago Symphony, Washington’s National Symphony and The Cleveland orchestras, and the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, while touring projects have included concerts as far afield as Japan and Taiwan.
Gustavo Gimeno is Music Director of both the Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra – a title he has held since 2015 – and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, where he will remain until the 2029/30 season. He is also Music Director Designate of the Teatro Real in Madrid, where he will assume his role from the 2025/26 season.
Gustavo Gimeno and the Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra have an extensive discography on the Pentatone label. Releases include a Francisco Coll monograph featuring the Violin Concerto with Patricia Kopatchinskaja; Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 1 and Bruckner’s Symphony No. 1; Ravel’s complete Daphnis et Chloé; Mahler’s Symphony No. 4; Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring; Rossini’s Petite messe solennelle; and Franck’s Symphony in D minor.
During the 2023/24 season Gimeno and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra usher in a bold new beginning for the orchestra in its 101st year, with major symphonic works – including Mahler’s Symphony No. 3, Brahms’s Symphony No. 1, Respighi’s Pines of Rome and Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring and Pulcinella – presented alongside an unprecedented number of pieces never before performed by the TSO. Gimeno will share the stage with, among other soloists, Daniil Trifonov, James Ehnes, Emily D’Angelo, Frank Peter Zimmermann and Jean-Yves Thibaudet.
As an opera conductor, Gimeno is regularly invited by major opera houses such as the Liceu Opera Barcelona, Opernhaus Zürich, Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía in Valencia and Teatro Real in Madrid. Last season he returned to the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía to conduct a production by Katie Mitchell of Janáček’s Jenůfa.
With the Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra Gimeno explores repertoire including Brahms’s Symphony No. 4, Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2, Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique and Mahler’s Symphony No. 5. International touring has formed a significant part of his commitment with the Luxembourg Philharmonic during the last seven years, and this season he tours with them to Stockholm, Cologne and Belgium. Throughout his tenure, Gimeno and the orchestra have visited many of Europe, South Korea and South America’s most prestigious concert halls, and soloists with whom he has shared the stage include Daniel Barenboim, Gautier Capuçon, Anja Harteros, Leonidas Kavakos, Bryn Terfel, Yuja Wang and Martin Grubinger. A particular highlight has been performances of the complete Beethoven Piano Concertos with Krystian Zimerman.
February 2024 sees the release of Gimeno’s first commercial recording with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, memorialising Messiaen’s TurangalîlaSymphonie on the Harmonia Mundi label. This builds on Gimeno’s relationship with the label, for which he has recorded Rossini’s Stabat Mater, Puccini’s Messa di Gloria, and Stravinsky’s ballets The Firebird and Apollon musagète with the Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra.
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Javier Perianes piano
A keen chamber musician, Javier Perianes regularly collaborates with violist Tabea Zimmermann and the Quiroga Quartet, appearing at festivals such as the BBC Proms, Lucerne, Argerich Festival, Salzburg Whitsun, La Roque d’Anthéron, Grafenegg, Prague Spring, Ravello, Stresa, San Sebastián, Santander, Granada, Vail, Blossom, Ravinia, and the Canary Islands Festival. This season sees Perianes and Zimmermann tour to the Boulez Saal, SPOT Groningen, and Heidelberg Festival. © Igor Studio
Career highlights have included concerts with the Vienna Philhamonic, Leipzig Gewandhaus, Chicago Symphony, Boston Symphony, San Francisco Symphony, Washington’s National, Yomiuri Nippon Symphony and Danish National Symphony orchestras; the London, New York, Los Angeles, Czech and Oslo Philharmonic orchestras; the Orchestre de Paris; the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal; and the Philharmonia, Cleveland, Swedish Radio, Norwegian Radio, Mahler Chamber and Budapest Festival orchestras.
Javier Perianes’s international career has led him to perform in the most prestigious concert halls with the world’s foremost orchestras, working with celebrated conductors including Daniel Barenboim, Charles Dutoit, Zubin Mehta, Gustavo Dudamel, Klaus Mäkelä, Gianandrea Noseda, Gustavo Gimeno, Santtu-Matias Rouvali, Simone Young, Vladimir Jurowski and FrançoisXavier Roth.
Recording exclusively for Harmonia Mundi, Javier Perianes has developed a diverse discography ranging from Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Schubert, Grieg, Chopin, Debussy, Ravel and Bartók to Blasco de Nebra, Mompou, Falla, Granados and Turina. The 2020/21 season saw the release of Jeux de Miroirs and Cantilena. Jeux de Miroirs centres around Ravel’s Concerto in G recorded with the Orchestre de Paris and Josep Pons, and includes piano and orchestral versions of Le tombeau de Couperin and Alborada del gracioso. Together with Tabea Zimmerman, he released Cantilena in April 2020, a celebration of music from Spanish and Latin America. His other recent albums pay tribute to Claude Debussy on the centenary of his death with a recording of the first book of his Préludes and Estampes, and Les Trois Sonates — The Late Works (with Jean-Guihen Queyras), which won a Gramophone Award in 2019. In 2021 Perianes released his latest album featuring Chopin’s Sonatas Nos. 2 & 3 interspersed with the three Mazurkas from Op. 63.
Javier Perianes is a regular guest of the LPO: as well as performing all five Beethoven concertos over two nights at the Royal Festival Hall and on tour in Spain in 2019, in February 2022 he gave the world premiere of Jimmy López Bellido’s Ephemerae with the Orchestra. This season’s array of high-profile concerts includes the US and Canadian premieres of Ephemerae with The Philadelphia Orchestra and the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal. Following tonight’s world premiere of Francisco Coll’s Ciudad sin Sueño, later this month he will give the Canadian premiere with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Other highlights this season include as a soloist with the Royal Concertgebouw, Spanish National, Brussels Philharmonic, NDR Radio Philharmonic, Norrköping Symphony, Iceland Symphony and Bern Symphony orchestras, and play/directing the Orchestre de Chambre de Paris, Orquesta Ciudad de Granada, Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra and Orquesta Sinfónica del Principado de Asturias. Perianes’s Beethoven cycle with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra continues in summer 2024 with the Piano Concerto No. 1. Perianes frequently appears in recital across the globe, with performances in Bilbao, Frankfurt, Regensburg, Canary Island Festival, San Francisco, Montreal and Vancouver this season.
Javier Perianes was awarded the National Music Prize in 2012 by the Ministry of Culture of Spain and named Artist of the Year at the International Classical Music Awards (ICMA) in 2019.
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Programme notes Igor Stravinsky 1882–1971
Scherzo fantastique, Op. 3 1908
Igor Stravinsky’s big break came in 1909. The formidable Russian ballet impresario Serge Diaghilev – increasingly desperate to find a composer for his planned ballet The Firebird – acted on an inspired hunch and commissioned the virtually unknown 27-year-old to write the score. It was the making of Stravinsky as a composer, and perhaps also as a man. The Firebird (the Suite from which we hear later this evening) may be Stravinsky’s first masterpiece, but the two works he finished the year earlier, Fireworks and Scherzo fantastique, are more than interesting juvenilia. The Scherzo fantastique contains several strong foretastes of the glittering, sensuous orchestral colours of Kashchei’s enchanted garden in The Firebird. (In their original versions both scores make imaginative use of three harps.) Listening to this score, it is easy to understand why the ‘fantastic’ fairytale imagery of The Firebird should have brought out the best in the young composer. Photo courtesy of the Royal College of Music, London
In later years Stravinsky liked to claim that such things were of no interest to him at the time; but the older Stravinsky was always keen to distance himself from his earlier late-romantic self. In any case, when he steeled himself to look over the score of Scherzo fantastique again in the 1960s, even the exacting Stravinsky was pleased by what he found. ‘The orchestra “sounds”, the music is light’, he commented approvingly. True genius, we may sense, is only one more step around the corner. Programme note © Stephen Johnson
Stravinsky in 1911
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Programme notes Francisco Coll born 1985
Ciudad sin Sueño (City That Does Not Sleep) Fantasia for piano and orchestra (world premiere) Javier Perianes piano
1 Desplantes – 2 Duende – 3 Orgía Spanish composer-conductor Francisco Coll has received the advocacy of some of the world’s leading orchestras and ensembles, including the Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra, LA Philharmonic New Music Group, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Lucerne Symphony Orchestra and Ensemble Modern. His music has been heard at festivals from Aldeburgh, Aix and Aspen to the BBC Proms, Verbier and Tanglewood. Born in Valencia in 1985, Coll studied at the Valencia and Madrid Conservatoires before moving to London to work privately with Thomas Adès (as his only pupil to date) and with Richard Baker at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama. In 2019 he became the first composer to receive an International Classical Music Award (ICMA).
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Coll’s short orchestral work Hidd’n Blue (2012) was premiered by the London Symphony Orchestra and has since been taken up by over nine others, including the SWR Symphony, Munich Philharmonic and Cincinnati Symphony orchestras. His 2014 chamber opera Café Kafka, to a text by Meredith Oakes, was premiered by Aldeburgh Music, Opera North and the Royal Opera, Covent Garden, and has since been staged at Valencia’s Palau de les Arts. In 2016 Coll made his BBC Proms composer debut with his Four Iberian Miniatures for violin and chamber
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Programme notes orchestra, with Augustin Hadelich and the Britten Sinfonia conducted by Thomas Adès. 2016 also saw the premiere of Mural by the Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Gustavo Gimeno, who has become one of Coll’s strongest supporters. Cuarteto Casals premiered two works in 2017: a Concerto Grosso with the Spanish National Orchestra and David Afkham, and the quartet movement Cantos. Turia, a concerto for guitar and seven players, was premiered in 2017 by Jacob Kellermann and Norrbotten NEO conducted by Christian Karlsen and recorded on BIS.
Composer Francisco Coll on ‘Ciudad sin Sueño’ Ciudad sin Sueño (‘City That Does Not Sleep’) shares its name with a poem from the third section of Federico García Lorca’s Poet in New York. Much of its musical material derives from Spanish Flamenco. Like Manuel de Falla’s Nights in the Gardens of Spain, this 20-minute work is almost – but not quite – a concerto. Tracing one arc over its three parts, it behaves more like a fantasia: developing its material freely, in a manner that is ostentatious, intense and almost improvisatory.
Francisco Coll has been Composer-in-Residence with both the Orquestra de València (2018–20) and Camerata Bern (2018–19), conducting the premiere of his Les Plaisirs Illuminés with the latter together with Patricia Kopatchinskaja and Sol Gabetta as soloists. The Double Concerto was later released on Alpha records. A Violin Concerto for Kopatchinskaja, commissioned by the Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Seattle Symphony, NTR ZaterdagMatinee and Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, was premiered in February 2020, and features on an orchestral portrait disc from the Luxembourg Philharmonic and Gustavo Gimeno, released in 2021 on Pentatone.
A rich, exotic and unique musical style born out of Spain’s nature as a crossroads of cultures, Flamenco is something I feel born into. In this work I dive into my inheritance, reworking traditional material as a sculptor moulds clay. Filtered through my own imagination, these familiar tropes become more like hallucinations. ‘Desplantes’, the first part, takes its name and character from some of Flamenco’s signature gestures; rude, flamboyant movements imbued with a particular kind of effrontery.
Tonight’s work, Ciudad sin Sueño, was cocommissioned by the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Sinfonieorchester Basel and Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía. Tonight is its world premiere. Later this month Javier Perianes will give the Canadian premiere with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra at the Roy Thomson Hall in Toronto, again under Gustavo Gimeno.
‘All that has dark sound has duende’, wrote Lorca, ‘that mysterious power that everyone feels but no philosopher can explain.’ El duende – the ineffable, untranslatable, spirit of earthiness, authenticity, possession … In the last part, ‘Orgía’, the music takes on a festive character. It moves erratically through angular and repetitive rhythms in a kind of excessive spiral, in which the soloist becomes the leader of the group. I wrote Ciudad sin Sueño at the invitation of Javier Perianes – a wonderful champion of and ambassador for Spanish music. It is dedicated to him in the form of a musical portrait. Francisco Coll
Interval – 20 minutes An announcement will be made five minutes before the end of the interval.
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Hear it first. More new music this spring
Tania León
Daniel Kidane
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Raíces (Roots) World premiere 6 March 2024 plus works by Ravel & Szymanowski
Ryan Carter
Concerto Molto Grosso (for audience and orchestra) UK premiere 12 March 2024 plus works by Alex Ho & Ligeti
Luís Tinoco
Accordion Concerto with João Barradas UK premiere 13 March 2024 plus Weill’s The Seven Deadly Sins
Daniel Kidane
Aloud for violin and orchestra with Julia Fischer World premiere 16 March 2024 plus works by Mozart
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Programme notes Manuel de Falla 1876–1946
Nights in the Gardens of Spain
(Symphonic impressions for piano and orchestra) 1916 Javier Perianes piano
1 In the Generalife: Allegretto tranquillo e misterioso 2 Distant Dance: Allegretto giusto – 3 In the Gardens of the Sierra de Córdoba: Vivo Manuel de Falla was the composer who brought Spain into the mainstream of 20th-century European music, treating the material of the country’s distinctive folk music with subtle imagination and a unique flair for orchestration. His Noches en los Jardines de España (Nights in the Gardens of Spain) reflects his love of his native Andalusia, in its conception as a series of scenes set in the south of the country and its absorption of the region’s Arab-tinged musical idioms. He began writing it in 1909, during his seven-year sojourn in Paris; it was suggested by a book of garden paintings by the Catalan artist and writer Santiago Rusiñol. At that stage, the work was intended to be a set of nocturnes for solo piano, to be played by the Paris-based Spanish pianist Ricardo Viñes. But Viñes persuaded Falla to rework the piece for piano and orchestra. Falla began this task in the summer of 1915, while staying at the home of the artist Rusiñol in Sitges, near Barcelona, and completed it early the following year in Madrid. The result, now subtitled ‘Symphonic impressions’, was first performed in Madrid in April 1916. Viñes did not give the premiere, because his near-sightedness prevented him learning the solo part from the manuscript, but he was still rewarded with the dedication of the work.
ideas in constantly varied colours. Later, a simple tune emerges on the piano, which Falla later recognised as one he used to hear played by a blind beggar outside his block of flats in Madrid. Gradually the ideas of the opening section return, with the piano at one point imitating the rapid strumming of repeated notes in flamenco guitar playing. The second movement is a ‘Distant Dance’, consisting of a sequence of variations on the opening woodwind melody, another sequence of variations on a smooth idea introduced by flute and high tremolo violins, and a closing section in which elements of both themes are developed and intermingled. This movement leads without a break into the finale, ‘In the Gardens of the Sierra de Córdoba’ – the mountain range overlooking the city of Córdoba. The scene pictured here is said to be a gypsy fiesta, which would explain the movement’s profusion of melodic ideas, most of them growing out of the opening triple-time dance. One of these ideas, played by the piano in high octaves, imitates the flamenco genre of cante jondo, or ‘deep song’, with its elaborate ornamentation; and this theme returns shortly before the calm ending.
The first movement is set ‘In the Generalife’, the historic gardens on the Alhambra hill in Granada. It begins with tremolo violas alternating between two adjacent notes, a motif that generates a wide range of fragmentary
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Programme notes Igor Stravinsky 1882–1971
The Firebird Suite 1919
Introduction – Appearance of the Firebird – Dance of the Firebird – The Princesses’ Khorovod – Infernal Dance of King Kashchei and his Subjects – Lullaby – Finale
When in the summer of 1909 Sergei Diaghilev decided to commission a new score for his 1910 Ballets Russes seasons in Paris, Stravinsky wasn’t the first choice. He wasn’t even the second. The author of the ballet’s scenario, Alexandre Benois, wanted to use Nikolai Tcherepnin. Diaghilev favoured Rimsky-Korsakov’s pupil Anatoly Liadov. Unfortunately, Diaghilev had temporarily forgotten one important fact about Liadov: he was an extremely slow worker. With plans already confirmed for the new ballet’s premiere, he turned instead to another, much younger Rimsky pupil: 27-year-old Igor Stravinsky.
highly flattering to be chosen from among the musicians of my generation…’ Rimsky-Korsakov’s sons loaned him the family’s country dacha, and early in November 1909, Stravinsky got down to work. ‘I worked strenuously at it’, he remembered, though unsurprisingly in the circumstances, the dacha wasn’t the only thing that Stravinsky borrowed from his late teacher. Rimsky had written his own opera on a similar Russian folktale, Kashchei the Immortal, in 1902, and The Firebird is full of orchestral techniques and even melodies learned from Rimsky-Korsakov. (Stravinsky’s Khorovod and Rimsky-Korsakov’s Sinfonietta of 1884 use the same old Russian dance tune).
It was a bold choice. Stravinsky, though gifted, was something of a late developer, and although earlier in 1909 he’d orchestrated a couple of pieces of Chopin for Diaghilev’s Les Sylphides, this would be his first score on such an ambitious scale. He’d been working on his opera Le Rossignol in St Petersburg. ‘But a telegram then arrived to upset all my plans’, he recalled in his autobiography:
Still, with his master no longer looking over his shoulder, Stravinsky’s imagination soared. The Firebird is as colourful as Rimsky-Korsakov at his most extravagant – Stravinsky even devised a wholly new orchestral effect, the whispered, iridescent ‘harmonic glissandos’ of the strings during the Introduction. The ballet premiered at the Paris Opéra on 25 June 1910 with Michel Fokine’s stunning choreography and Tamara Karsavina in the title role. Stravinsky, though, was concentrating on his music: ‘The stage and the whole theatre glittered at the
‘Though alarmed by the fact that this was a commission for a fixed date and afraid lest I should fail to complete the work in time – I was still unaware of my own capabilities – I accepted the order. It was
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Programme notes premiere, and that is all I recall.’ Diaghilev was more perceptive. ‘Mark him well’, he remarked of Stravinsky during rehearsals. ‘He is a man on the eve of celebrity.’
Recommended recordings of tonight’s works
This concert suite – one of three created by Stravinsky – follows the story of the ballet. The realm of the immortal demon-king Kashchei is dark and lifeless (Introduction). Enter, in a shower of sparks, the magical Firebird (Dance of the Firebird), hotly pursued by Prince Ivan Tsarevich. The Prince catches the Firebird, and to win its freedom the bird gives him one of its enchanted feathers – the only thing that can break Kashchei’s spells. The Prince now encounters 13 beautiful princesses, enslaved by Kashchei. As he watches them dance a gentle Russian khorovod (round dance), he falls in love; but Kashchei’s attendant monsters swarm round and prepare to turn him to stone in a frenetic Infernal Dance. In the nick of time, the Prince remembers the magic feather. The Firebird re-appears, putting the monsters to sleep with an eerie Lullaby. Guided by the Firebird, the Prince finds and smashes the egg containing Kashchei’s immortal soul; and the spells are undone. While a solo horn sings a quiet folk-song, Kashchei’s petrified victims gradually return to life, and as light spreads across the kingdom, the full orchestra celebrates in a jubilant closing hymn.
by Laurie Watt Stravinsky: Scherzo fantastique London Philharmonic Orchestra | Vladimir Jurowski (LPO Label LPO-0123: see below) De Falla: Nights in the Gardens of Spain Alicia de Larrocha | London Philharmonic Orchestra Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos (Decca) Stravinsky: The Firebird (complete ballet) London Philharmonic Orchestra | Vladimir Jurowski (LPO Label LPO-0123: see below)
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Tonight’s works on the LPO Label Vladimir Jurowski conducts Stravinsky Vol. 1
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THE MUSIC IN YOU 2–16 MARCH 2024
This March we’re celebrating the creativity in everyone during our cross-artform festival. Reflecting our adventurous spirit, the festival embraces all kinds of expression – from dance, to music theatre and even audience participation! Join us and discover The Music in You.
lpo.org.uk/themusicinyou Haydn’s Creation
Dance Re-imagined
Seven Deadly Sins
Haydn The Creation
Tania León Raíces (Roots) (world premiere)* Ravel La valse Wayne McGregor & Ben Cullen Williams A Body for Harnasie (based on Szymanowski’s Harnasie)**
Luís Tinoco Accordion Concerto (UK premiere) Weill The Seven Deadly Sins
Saturday 2 March | 7.30pm Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall Sung in English
Edward Gardner conductor Louise Alder soprano Allan Clayton tenor Michael Mofidian bass-baritone London Philharmonic Choir Concert generously supported by Victoria Robey CBE.
FUNharmonics Family Concert: Goal! Sunday 3 March | 12 noon Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall Charlotte Politi conductor Clarice Assad presenter Join the LPO for the European premiere of É Gol! by Brazilian-American composer Clarice Assad, imagining a day in the life of legendary Brazilian footballer Marta Vieira da Silva as she gets ready for the big game. Created for orchestra and audience, this piece offers the whole family a chance to perform with the LPO throughout, using your voices, breath and body percussion. So grab your favourite football shirt and join us for this fun, participatory concert, culminating in a football match soundtrack finale! Join in the free pre-concert foyer activities from 10am–12 noon (concert ticket-holders only).
Wednesday 6 March | 7.30pm Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall
Edward Gardner conductor Robert Murray tenor Flemish Radio Choir * Co-commissioned by the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Concertgebouw Brugge. ** An original co-production of NOSPR The Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra in Katowice (initiator), London Philharmonic Orchestra (with support from the Adam Mickiewicz Institute), conceived and produced by Studio Wayne McGregor. Project partner: Concertgebouw Brugge.
Concert generously supported by Victoria Robey CBE.
6.15–6.45pm | Free pre-concert event Royal Festival Hall LPO Artistic Director Elena Dubinets discusses the evening’s programme with Tania León.
An Imagination Shared Tuesday 12 March | 6.30pm St John’s Church Waterloo
Alex Ho Breathe and Draw (for sinfonietta, two conductors and audience participation) Ryan Carter Concerto Molto Grosso (for audience and orchestra) (UK premiere) Ligeti Poème symphonique for 100 metronomes Charlotte Politi conductor* Luis Castillo-Briceño conductor* *Inaugural participants in the LPO Conducting Fellowship programme. This programme is generously supported by Patricia Haitink with additional support from Gini and Richard Gabbertas.
Wednesday 13 March 6.30pm & 8.15pm Battersea Arts Centre
Edward Gardner conductor João Barradas accordion Danielle de Niese Anna Ross Ramgobin Brother Callum Thorpe Mother Zwakele Tshabalala Father Amar Muchhala Brother * These performances are funded in part by the Kurt Weill Foundation for Music, Inc., New York, NY.
The Gift of Youth
Saturday 16 March | 7.30pm Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall Mozart Overture, The Magic Flute Daniel Kidane Aloud, for violin and orchestra (world premiere)* Mozart Mass in C minor Edward Gardner conductor Julia Fischer violin Hera Hyesang Park soprano Elizabeth Watts soprano Pavel Kolgatin tenor Ashley Riches bass-baritone London Philharmonic Choir * Commissioned by the London Philharmonic Orchestra. Concert generously supported by Aline Foriel-Destezet.
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