LPO programme: 22 Nov 2023 - Julian Joseph plays Gershwin (with Jader Bignamini & Anna Lapwood) by London Philharmonic Orchestra

2023/24 concert season at the Southbank Centre

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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 Wednesday 22 November 2023 | 7.30pm

Julian Joseph plays Gershwin Julian Joseph Spiritual Fiction or Fact? (No. 5 of Symphonic Stories: The Great Exception) (7’) Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue (15’) Interval (20’)

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Welcome LPO news 3 On stage tonight 4 London Philharmonic Orchestra 5 Leader: Pieter Schoeman 6 Jader Bignamini 7 Julian Joseph 8 Anna Lapwood 9 Programme notes 13 Recommended recordings 14 LPO Offstage podcast LPO Label 15 Next concerts 17 Sound Futures donors 18 Thank you 20 LPO administration

Saint-Saëns Symphony No. 3 (Organ) (34’)

Jader Bignamini conductor Julian Joseph piano Julian Joseph Trio Anna Lapwood organ

The timings shown are not precise and are given only as a guide. Concert presented by the London Philharmonic Orchestra

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London Philharmonic Orchestra • 22 November 2023 • Julian Joseph plays Gershwin

Welcome

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World Heart Beat Music Academy A very warm welcome to the students of World Heart Beat Music Academy who have joined us for the concert this evening. World Heart Beat Music Academy is a joyful, welcoming and innovative organisation, providing young people in South West London with opportunities to share their love of music together with world-class musicians. Today, 20 students from the Academy met Julian Joseph for a Q&A before the concert, and we are delighted that they are here to enjoy the performance this evening.

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Tour news The Orchestra have just returned from a busy 10-concert tour of Germany – plus a date in Paris – with Principal Conductor Edward Gardner, pianist Hélène Grimaud and cellist Nicolas Altstaedt. They performed in Hamburg, Düsseldorf, Hanover, Cologne, Munich, Frankfurt, Freiburg and Friedrichshafen, as well as at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris.

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On stage tonight First Violins

Pieter Schoeman* Leader Chair supported by Neil Westreich

Vesselin Gellev Sub-Leader Lasma Taimina

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

Minn Majoe Martin Höhmann Katalin Varnagy

Chair supported by Sonja Drexler

Yang Zhang Cassandra Hamilton Elizaveta Tyun Nilufar Alimaksumova Katherine Waller Amanda Smith Alice Hall Gabriela Opacka

Second Violins

Emma Oldfield Principal Sophie Phillips Helena Smart Ashley Stevens Joseph Maher Claudia Tarrant-Matthews Chair supported by Friends of the Orchestra

Nynke Hijlkema Fiona Higham

Chair supported by David & Yi Buckley

Nancy Elan Sioni Williams Eleanor Bartlett Emma Purslow

Violas

Fiona Winning

Guest Principal

Martin Wray Katharine Leek Benedetto Pollani Laura Vallejo Daniel Cornford Stanislav Popov Richard Cookson Jisu Song Toby Warr

Cellos

Steffan Morris

Bass Clarinet

Timpani

Alto Saxophones

Chair supported by Victoria Robey OBE

Paul Richards* Principal

Guest Principal

Francis Bucknall David Lale Tom Roff Helen Thomas George Hoult Jane Lindsay Hee Yeon Cho

Kyle Horch Naomi Sullivan

Tenor Saxophone Tom Law

Double Basses

Bassoons

Sebastian Pennar Principal George Peniston Laura Murphy Tom Walley

Guylaine Eckersley Guest Principal

Catriona McDermid

Chair supported by William & Alex de Winton

Cathy Colwell Catherine Ricketts

Contrabassoon

Flutes

Horns

Simon Estell* Principal

Fiona Kelly Guest Principal Brontë Hudnott Stewart McIlwham*

John Ryan* Principal Annemarie Federle Principal

Martin Hobbs Mark Vines Co-Principal Gareth Mollison

Piccolo

Stewart McIlwham* Principal

Trumpets

Paul Beniston* Principal Tom Nielsen Co-Principal Anne McAneney*

Oboes

Ian Hardwick* Principal Alice Munday

Trombones

Cor Anglais

Mark Templeton* Principal

Sue Böhling* Principal

Chair supported by William & Alex de Winton

Chair supported by Dr Barry Grimaldi

David Whitehouse

Clarinets

Bass Trombone

Benjamin Mellefont

Lyndon Meredith Principal

Principal

Thomas Watmough

Tuba

Chair supported by Roger Greenwood

Lee Tsarmaklis* Principal

Simon Carrington* Principal

Percussion

Andrew Barclay* Principal Chair supported by Gill & Garf Collins

Mike Tetrault Karen Hutt

Chair supported by Mr B C Fairhall

Feargus Brennan

Harp

Rachel Masters Principal

Piano

Catherine Edwards Iain Clarke

Banjo

Dan Thomas *Holds a professorship at a London conservatoire

The LPO also acknowledges the following chair supporters whose players are not present at this concert: Sir Simon Robey Bianca & Stuart Roden Caroline, Jamie & Zander Sharp Eric Tomsett

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London Philharmonic Orchestra

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.

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, 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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Jader Bignamini conductor

Jader has conducted Manon Lescaut at the Bolshoi, La traviata at the Bavarian State Opera, Eugene Onegin at the Stadttheater Klagenfurt, Turandot at the Teatro Filarmonica, Il trovatore at Rome’s Teatro dell’Opera, the opening concert of the Orchestra Filarmonica del Teatro Comunale di Bologna conducting Carmina Burana, La bohème at the Municipal de São Paulo and La Fenice, L’elisir d’amore in Ancona, Tosca at the Comunale di Bologna, La forza del destino at the Verdi Festival in Parma, La bohème, Cavalleria rusticana, and El amor brujo at the Teatro Filarmonico di Verona, Aida at Rome’s Teatro dell’Opera, Madama Butterfly at La Fenice, and engagements with Maggio Musicale in Florence, the Festival della Valle d’Itria in Martina Franca, and the MITO Festival conducting Berlioz’s Messe solennelle. He made his concert debut at La Scala in 2015. Jader Bignamini began his conducting career as Assistant and then Resident Conductor of the Orchestra Sinfonica la Verdi in Milan, having been appointed by Riccardo Chailly in 2010. He was born in Crema and studied at the Piacenza Music Conservatory.

Jader Bignamini is Music Director of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, leading his third full season in 2023/24. Tonight’s concert is his debut with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, and this season he will also make his debut with the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, as well as returns to the Vienna State Opera for Manon Lescaut and the Opéra de Paris for Adriana Lecouvreur. Recent highlights include concerts with The Cleveland Orchestra at the Blossom Festival, the Houston and New Jersey symphony orchestras, the Residentie Orkest in The Hague, and the Bern Symphony Orchestra, as well as operatic engagements with the Metropolitan Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Bavarian State Opera, Dutch National Opera, Oper Frankfurt and Canadian Opera Company. In summer 2021 Jader led triumphant performances of Turandot at the Arena di Verona with Anna Netrebko and Yusif Eyvazov, as well as a staged production of Rossini’s Stabat Mater at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro. Other recent highlights include Cavalleria rusticana at Michigan Opera Theatre, La bohème at Santa Fe Opera, and La traviata in Tokyo directed by Sofia Coppola. On the concert stage he has led the Dallas and Milwaukee symphony orchestras, the Minnesota Orchestra, the Slovenian and Freiburg Philharmonic orchestras, the Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz and the Mannheim National Theater Orchestra.

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Julian Joseph piano

Southbank Centre in 2018, and summer 2022 saw Julian’s violin concerto, Karyryouacou, written for Harriet Mackenzie, premiered at the Salisbury International Arts Festival. In 2007 Julian branched out into opera. Bridgetower, about the 18th-century Black violin prodigy, was staged at LSO St Lukes and subsequently toured the UK. In 2010 he produced an opera for children, Shadowball, about the American Negro Baseball Leagues, which has featured in education programmes across the UK, and in 2014 he collaborated on another children’s production, Trench Brothers, dramatising Black British soldiers’ experiences of the First World War. In 2018 he premiered his first large-scale work for vocals, chorus, jazz ensemble and symphony orchestra at the Southbank Centre’s Queen Elizabeth Hall, based on the mythic Tristan and Isolde story.

Julian Joseph is one of the finest, most influential and highly respected musicians in British jazz today. Devoting his career to championing jazz music across the UK and into the far corners of the world, he has forged a reputation beyond his formidable skills as a performer and composer to become universally recognised as a highly knowledgeable and engaging broadcaster, musical ambassador and cultural advocate.

Julian has composed several dance pieces, beginning with two commissions for JazzXchange – Bare Hands Broad Feet and White Spirits. The Brown Bomber, his 12-minute ballet for the 2012 Cultural Olympiad, based on the historic 1938 World Heavyweight Championship fight between Joe Louis and Max Schmeling, was premiered at London’s Southbank Centre. A short film of his latest ballet project, Othello21, was officially selected at the 2021 ARFF Berlin International Awards, the Phoenix Shorts Film Festival, the London Indie Film Festival of 24 Frames and the Toronto International Dance Festival.

Julian’s career has been characterised by many ground-breaking advances. He was the first Black British jazz musician to host a series of concerts at London’s Wigmore Hall, and the first to headline a latenight televised performance at the BBC Proms with his All Star Big Band. In 2002 he was commissioned to open the London Jazz Festival with a new piece, The Great Sage, which was broadcast live on BBC Radio 3. In 2003 he premiered an original arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue for his All-Star Big Band at the City of London Festival.

As well as performing, composing, recording, teaching and broadcasting, Julian has also turned to writing, publishing his first book, Music of Initiative, in 2018, in which he shares unique insights into the philosophy and practice of jazz performance. Julian’s charitable work and generous skills as an educator have led to his patronage of a variety of educational programmes, and he has been a formative presence in the dissemination of jazz music and its heritage to children of all ages. Since the launch of the ABRSM Jazz syllabus in 1998, he has remained at the forefront of initiatives to introduce jazz into mainstream music education, leading to the foundation of his own Jazz Academy in 2013.

Julian’s music includes thousands of original compositions and arrangements – from pieces for solo piano, small jazz and classical ensembles and his All Star Big Band, to large-scale works for symphony orchestra. Movements from his orchestral suite Symphonic Stories, which he began in 2003 and from which we hear a movement tonight, have been performed by the BBC Concert Orchestra, the Hallé and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Throughout his career Julian has been supported by major commissions from the BBC, the Hackney Music Development Trust, the City of London Festival and the London Jazz Festival. Carry That Sound, a commission for the Chineke! Orchestra, was performed at the

Julian has made a major contribution to Britain’s cultural landscape and heritage, and is celebrated for his service to others and for sharing all the benefits of his life in music to inspire the musicians of the future. In 2018 he was awarded an OBE in The Queen’s Birthday Honours.

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Anna Lapwood organ

Making her TV presenting debut hosting coverage of BBC Young Musician, Anna went on to present a televised Prom from the Royal Albert Hall. In 2022 she was Chair of the Jury for BBC Young Musician and an adjudicator for the televised Welsh choral competition, Côr Cymru. As a radio broadcaster she is a regular contributor to BBC Radio 3 and Radio 4, as well as independent stations, and has been featured in multiple global television and radio programmes and podcasts.

Anna is a terrific protagonist for her instrument, the organ. She is a natural communicator and reaches a huge audience through her concerts and via social media, with over a million followers across all platforms, amassing tens of millions of views in a short space of time. Anna’s passion for the organ is matched by her mission to support girls and women in music. She was the first female in Magdalen College Oxford’s 560-year history to be awarded the Organ Scholarship, and since then has run regular organ workshops for young players around the country, hosted the Cambridge Organ Experience for Girls, and organised an annual 24-hour ‘Bachathon’ for to raise money to support musicians in Zambia.

Anna Lapwood is an organist, conductor and broadcaster, and holds the positions of Director of Music at Pembroke College Cambridge, Associate Artist of the Royal Albert Hall, and Artist in Association with the BBC Singers. In 2023 she was awarded the prestigious ‘Gamechanger’ Award from the Royal Philharmonic Society, and signed to SONY Classical as an exclusive recording artist.

A strong advocate for music education at home and abroad, Anna is dedicated to bringing music to children of all backgrounds. Her commitment to equality and diversity is evident in almost every aspect of her life and work, and new music that she has commissioned features in her recitals across Europe and North America. ‘Gregoriana’ – an anthology of 12 new organ pieces by female composers, curated and edited by Anna for Stainer & Bell – was awarded Presto Music’s Publication of the Year in 2022. Her own compositions are published by Boosey & Hawkes.

Having made her BBC Proms debut in 2021 as soloist in Saint-Saëns’s ‘Organ’ Symphony with the Hallé under Mark Elder, Anna gave her Proms recital debut with her programme ‘Moon and Stars’ in July 2023. She regularly performs concertos with leading symphony orchestras and conductors, has guested at Classic FM Live, and collaborated with artists including Alison Balsom, Raye, Bonobo, and Benedict Cumberbatch. Tonight’s concert is her debut with the London Philharmonic Orchestra; other highlights of the 2023/24 season include concerts on the East and West Coasts of the United States, including her recital debut at Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles.

Having spent some years being encouraged to ‘play like a man’, Anna is proud and humbled to see so many adopt her hashtag #playlikeagirl.

Anna’s debut solo organ album, ‘Images’, was released on Signum Records in 2021 and features her transcription for organ of Britten’s ‘Four Sea Interludes’ from Peter Grimes. Three further albums with the Choirs of Pembroke College have also been released on Signum to great acclaim. Under Anna’s direction, the Choirs guested on ‘To Shiver the Sky’ on Decca with multi-Grammy-winning composer, Christopher Tin, recorded at Abbey Road Studios. Signing exclusively to SONY in 2023, the relationship was launched with an EP – ‘Midnight Sessions at the Royal Albert Hall’. Anna’s first album on SONY Classical, ‘LUNA’, was released on 29 September 2023.

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Programme notes Julian Joseph born 1966

Spiritual Fiction or Fact? (No. 5 of ‘Symphonic Stories’: The Great Exception) 2005

with Julian Joseph Trio: Julian Joseph piano Mark Hodgson acoustic bass Mark Mondesir drums

both from classical music (in colour and setting) and jazz music (in form and conception). ‘‘Symphonic Stories’ depicts a bright, young and vivacious woman in the full flow of living her dreams in the midst of an uncertain future, and as she tries to reconcile her past. Her life is a creative one, and she is the power at the centre of a multitude of wildly diverse people who adore her and feed off her creation and personality. As she asks herself the big questions and ponders her own mortality, does the spiritual dimension of the religion she’s grown up with come to the fore and guide her to a higher truth where she feels comforted? In the aftermath, as she passes, the world carries the quiet poignant weight of her absence as her irresistible charisma, humour, unfiltered beauty and energetic joy shine through as her legacy. Spiritual Fiction or Fact? is the fifth part of ‘Symphonic Stories’, a group of five pieces that composer Julian Joseph began in 2003 with Jacqueline, premiered by the Hallé Orchestra. Spiritual Fiction or Fact? was premiered at the 2005 Chichester Festival by the BBC Concert Orchestra under Clark Rundell, and the series continued with When the World Goes Quiet, premiered in 2018 by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra.

‘This series of compositions draws its inspiration from this basic narrative, and I attempt to capture moments of a truth-filled life and highlight the emotion in the abstract. Each movement is a moment, isolating a feeling or thought brought to its own life and dimension in sound. ‘In tonight’s work, Spiritual Fiction or Fact?, I muse on an age-old question: do we find truth in reality or in imagination? What fuels our spiritual beliefs, and do our spiritual leaders serve us well? Perhaps we are being fed a personal truth, but then what is truth, if not personal? Therein lies a conflict, because spirituality is both

On the overarching concept, Joseph writes: ‘‘Symphonic Stories’ is an ongoing tone-poem that I’ve been adding to over the last couple of decades. It serves as an experiment in texture and devices drawn

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Programme notes personal and universal. By finding our ‘own’ way, our personal journey leads us into the universal territory of our own enlightenment. In Spiritual Fiction or Fact I have apportioned a small area of improvisation for the orchestra. It frees the orchestral players for a moment of colour and texture, but also allows all players to share, in part, that which the jazz musician thrives on and expects to be called upon to do! Julian Joseph

More new music this season

Victoria Vita Polevá Tania León

John Williams Violin Concerto No. 2 with Anne-Sophie Mutter – UK premiere 13 Jan 2024 Victoria Vita Polevá Cello Concerto with Inbal Segev – UK premiere 9 Feb 2024 Francisco Coll Ciudad sin Sueño with Javier Perianes – world premiere 16 Feb 2024 Tania León New work – world premiere 6 Mar 2024 Ryan Carter Concerto Molto Grosso – UK premiere 12 Mar 2024 Luís Tinoco Accordion Concerto with João Barradas – UK premiere 13 Mar 2024 Daniel Kidane Violin Concerto with Julia Fischer – world premiere 16 Mar 2024

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Programme notes George Gershwin 1898–1937

Rhapsody in Blue, for piano and orchestra 1924

Julian Joseph piano

George Gershwin began his career in Tin Pan Alley, as a composer of popular songs and musicals, before making his mark in the realms of concert music and opera. The beginning of this shift is marked by his Rhapsody in Blue. This was one of a number of pieces of ‘symphonic jazz’ requested from various composers by the white band-leader Paul Whiteman, for a New York concert in February 1924 called ‘An Experiment in Modern Music’. Gershwin wrote the Rhapsody in about three weeks, enlisting the help of Whiteman’s arranger Ferde Grofé to score it for the band. The first performance, with the composer playing the solo part (including a cadenza he had not yet written down), was a triumphant success with the star-studded audience. The piece was soon repeated in various cities by Gershwin and the Whiteman band. Later, to give it greater circulation, Grofé also made versions accompanied by theatre orchestra and by full symphony orchestra – though he retained the saxophone section and the banjo of the original.

and transformation, that gives the Rhapsody the depth and complexity of a serious concert work. Programme note © Anthony Burton

Julian Joseph: A new hue for the Rhapsody in Blue ‘Beyond the challenge of performing Rhapsody in Blue, I’m always staggered by how beautifully the music exudes the jazz feeling in its orchestral setting. Knocking on the door to a century, its irresistible cascading themes, its immediacy and its rhythmic vibrancy charge, excite, and communicate the genius of the great American composer George Gershwin. In recent years, more and more jazz musicians have performed this timeless piece with interpretations broadening the scope of possibility to include aspects of the jazz improvisational art. A jazz performer can choose to delve and mine the potential that this jazz-sounding, wonderfully crafted and ever-renewing masterpiece offers.

The Rhapsody in Blue is a single-movement work in the tradition of pieces such as Liszt’s Hungarian Fantasy, with a brilliant solo part including several extended cadenzas. Right from the famous trill and glissando of the opening clarinet solo, it is permeated by the instrumental colouring of jazz, together with its melodic and harmonic inflections, and above all its syncopated rhythms. There is also what might well be a full-blown Broadway show tune in the slower interlude towards the end. But it is the way in which Gershwin treats his material, not in a suite-like succession of episodes but in a continuous process of organic development, transition

‘For me, it’s a privilege that with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and conductor Jader Bignamini we have the opportunity to live up to the spirit of the work’s original title when Gershwin first performed it in 1924 with Paul Whiteman and his Palais Royal Orchestra: “An Experiment In Modern Music”. I hope you enjoy it!’

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Programme notes Camille Saint-Saëns 1835–1921

Symphony No. 3 in C minor, Op. 78 (Organ) 1886

Anna Lapwood organ

I Adagio – Allegro moderato – Poco adagio II Allegro moderato – Presto – Maestoso – Allegro Born in Paris in 1835, Camille Saint-Saëns spent two decades as organist of the city’s Church of La Madeleine, where he played an instrument built by Aristide Cavaillé-Coll, the engineer who invented the circular saw and effectively established the tradition of ‘symphonic’ organ composing (and playing) in France by mechanical means. The organ, though, probably wasn’t the first thing on Saint-Saëns’s mind when he came to write his Third Symphony. The piece was written for the London Philharmonic Society and the first performance, under the composer’s direction, was at St James’s Hall in London on 19 May 1886. The organ there wasn’t French and it wasn’t particularly big either. Saint-Saëns actually advised that a harmonium be used if an organ wasn’t available, which says a thing or two about his concept. A concerto this isn’t; the organ is really only used to throw in some transitional chords and colour the orchestral conversation. The latter fact is particularly relevant. Saint-Saëns expressed his desire ‘to take advantage of advances in modern instrumentation’ in his Third Symphony, and the use of the organ (not named in the Symphony’s original title) was but one element of that. Another, and an arguably more interesting one, was the composer’s use of a piano within the orchestra, played by two pianists. ‘Though this Symphony is divided into two parts, it does comprise in principle the four traditional movements’, wrote Saint-Saëns of the piece, adding that by avoiding the Germanic tradition of thematic development he ‘sought to avoid somewhat interminable repeats and

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Programme notes ‘I have the image, at the end of the Symphony, of the concert hall being miraculously lifted off the ground and held aloft by the combined efforts of all those pipes and all that air; all that counterpoint and all that time-stretching speeding up and slowing down; all that scraping and blowing, and all those keyboards. The whole work is a magnificent and fantastical symphonic machine that's an apotheosis of the orchestral technology of the late 19th century.’

repetitions that are tending to disappear from instrumental music’. In a sense, though, the composer does ‘develop’ his themes, and in quite a remarkable way. Following the example of Liszt (to whom the Symphony was dedicated), Saint-Saëns took a single musical ‘motto’ and transformed it as his Symphony proceeded. That motto is first heard courtesy of the nervous string semiquavers that follow the Symphony’s slow introduction. It’s this very theme – transformed into the major – that forms the ‘big tune’ of the Symphony’s finale, famously thrust out on huge organ chords. The motto appears in numerous guises in between, often changing character chameleon-like according to its dramatic or musical surroundings. Similarly the organ itself: it’s exhilarating in those final pages, but appears to speak in confidence in the mystical dialogue with divided strings that comes earlier on. The motto theme is derived from the Dies Irae plainsong beloved of Liszt, and all Saint-Saëns’s themes, even the transitional and incidental, have a Lisztian cut and a propulsive, dramatic swagger. On top of what is effectively Saint-Saëns’s harmonic conservatism and reliance on the complex counterpoint between concurrent themes, it makes for a piece of mouthwatering clarity, purpose and narrative depth. Or, in the words of Marcel Proust, ‘the most beautiful of symphonies since Beethoven’s’.

– Tom Service in The Guardian’s ‘50 Greatest Symphonies’, February 2014

Programme note © Andrew Mellor

Recommended recordings of tonight’s works

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London Philharmonic Orchestra • 22 November 2023 • Julian Joseph plays Gershwin

OFFSTAGE Tonight’s organ soloist Anna Lapwood was a recent guest on our ‘LPO Offstage’ podcast, chatting with host YolanDa Brown and LPO players about Saint-Saëns’s Organ’ Symphony and her own musical journey. Listen for free: scan the QR code above or visit lpo.org.uk/podcast

Saint-Saëns’s ‘Organ’ Symphony on the LPO Label Saint-Saëns Symphony No. 3 in C minor (Organ) Poulenc Organ Concerto

LPO-0081

Yannick Nézet-Séguin conductor James O’Donnell organ London Philharmonic Orchestra Recorded live at Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall on 26 March 2014

‘The LPO excels in the Saint-Saëns: plenty of verve and passion in equal measure, rightly rewarded by a rapturous response from the audience.’ Choir & Organ, Jan/Feb 2015

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Next LPO concerts at the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall TICCIATI CONDUCTS MAHLER Saturday 25 November 2023 | 7.30pm Mahler Symphony No. 3 Robin Ticciati conductor Alice Coote mezzo-soprano London Philharmonic Choir Trinity Boys Choir

BEETHOVEN’S FIFTH

Wednesday 29 November 2023 | 7.30pm Beethoven Leonore Overture No. 3 Florence Price Violin Concerto No. 2* Beethoven Symphony No. 5 Kristiina Poska conductor Pieter Schoeman violin† *A grant from the ABO Trust’s Sirens programme (supporting the promotion of music by historical women composers) has made this performance possible.

†LPO chair supported by Neil Westreich.

ANGELA GHEORGHIU OPERATIC GALA Saturday 2 December 2023 | 7.30pm

Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 1 (Winter Daydreams) Prokofiev Troika from Lieutenant Kijé Borodin Polovtsian Dances Plus operatic excerpts by Tchaikovsky, Giordani, Refice, Giordano & Puccini Gergely Madaras conductor Angela Gheorghiu soprano* *Please note change of artist from previously advertised.

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JUROWSKI CONDUCTS

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London Philharmonic Orchestra • 22 November 2023 • Julian Joseph plays Gershwin

Sound Futures donors We are grateful to the following donors for their generous contributions to our Sound Futures campaign. Thanks to their support, we successfully raised £1 million by 30 April 2015 which has now been matched pound for pound by Arts Council England through a Catalyst Endowment grant. This has enabled us to create a £2 million endowment fund supporting special artistic projects, creative programming and education work with key venue partners including our Southbank Centre home. Supporters listed below donated £500 or over. For a full list of those who have given to this campaign please visit lpo.org.uk/soundfutures.

Masur Circle Arts Council England Dunard Fund Victoria Robey OBE Emmanuel & Barrie Roman The Underwood Trust

Welser-Möst Circle William & Alex de Winton John Ireland Charitable Trust The Tsukanov Family Foundation Neil Westreich

Tennstedt Circle Valentina & Dmitry Aksenov Richard Buxton The Candide Trust Michael & Elena Kroupeev Kirby Laing Foundation Mr & Mrs Makharinsky Alexey & Anastasia Reznikovich Sir Simon Robey Bianca & Stuart Roden Simon & Vero Turner The late Mr K Twyman

Solti Patrons Ageas John & Manon Antoniazzi Gabor Beyer, through BTO Management Consulting AG Jon Claydon Mrs Mina Goodman & Miss Suzanne Goodman Roddy & April Gow The Jeniffer & Jonathan Harris Charitable Trust Mr James R.D. Korner Christoph Ladanyi & Dr Sophia Ladanyi-Czernin Robert Markwick & Kasia Robinski The Maurice Marks Charitable Trust

Mr Paris Natar The Rothschild Foundation Tom & Phillis Sharpe The Viney Family

Haitink Patrons Mark & Elizabeth Adams Dr Christopher Aldren Mrs Pauline Baumgartner Lady Jane Berrill Mr Frederick Brittenden David & Yi Yao Buckley Mr Clive Butler Gill & Garf Collins Mr John H Cook Mr Alistair Corbett Bruno De Kegel Georgy Djaparidze David Ellen Christopher Fraser OBE David & Victoria Graham Fuller Goldman Sachs International Mr Gavin Graham Moya Greene Mrs Dorothy Hambleton Tony & Susie Hayes Malcolm Herring Catherine Høgel & Ben Mardle Mrs Philip Kan Rehmet Kassim-Lakha de Morixe Rose & Dudley Leigh Lady Roslyn Marion Lyons Miss Jeanette Martin Duncan Matthews KC Diana & Allan Morgenthau Charitable Trust Dr Karen Morton Mr Roger Phillimore Ruth Rattenbury The Reed Foundation The Rind Foundation Sir Bernard Rix David Ross & Line Forestier (Canada)

Carolina & Martin Schwab Dr Brian Smith Lady Valerie Solti Mr & Mrs G Stein Dr Peter Stephenson Miss Anne Stoddart TFS Loans Limited Marina Vaizey Jenny Watson Guy & Utti Whittaker

Pritchard Donors Ralph & Elizabeth Aldwinckle Mrs Arlene Beare Mr Patrick & Mrs Joan Benner Mr Conrad Blakey Dr Anthony Buckland Paul Collins Alastair Crawford Mr Derek B. Gray Mr Roger Greenwood The HA.SH Foundation Darren & Jennifer Holmes Honeymead Arts Trust Mr Geoffrey Kirkham Drs Frank & Gek Lim Peter Mace Mr & Mrs David Malpas Dr David McGibney Michael & Patricia McLaren-Turner Mr & Mrs Andrew Neill Mr Christopher Querée The Rosalyn & Nicholas Springer Charitable Trust Timothy Walker CBE AM Christopher Williams Peter Wilson Smith Mr Anthony Yolland and all other donors who wish to remain anonymous

London Philharmonic Orchestra • 22 November 2023 • Julian Joseph plays Gershwin

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

The American Friends of the London Philharmonic Orchestra Anonymous donors Mrs Aline Foriel-Destezet Aud Jebsen In memory of Mrs Rita Reay Sir Simon & Lady Robey OBE

Orchestra Circle

William & Alex de Winton Edward Gardner & Sara Övinge Patricia Haitink Catherine Høgel & Ben Mardle Mr & Mrs Philip Kan Neil Westreich

Principal Associates

Richard Buxton Gill & Garf Collins In memory of Brenda Lyndoe Casbon In memory of Ann Marguerite Collins Irina Gofman & Mr Rodrik V. G. Cave George Ramishvili The Tsukanov Family Mr Florian Wunderlich

Associates

Mrs Irina Andreeva In memory of Len & Edna Beech Steven M. Berzin The Candide Trust John & Sam Dawson HSH Dr Donatus, Prince of Hohenzollern Stuart & Bianca Roden In memory of Hazel Amy Smith

Gold Patrons

Mrs Dorothy Hambleton Iain & Alicia Hasnip Eugene & Allison Hayes J Douglas Home Molly Jackson Mrs Farrah Jamal Mr & Mrs Jan Mr & Mrs Ralph Kanza Mr Peter King Jamie & Julia Korner Rose & Dudley Leigh Wg. Cdr. & Mrs M T Liddiard OBE JP RAF Drs Frank & Gek Lim Mr & Mrs Makharinsky Mr Gordon McNair Andrew T Mills Denis & Yulia Nagy Andrew Neill Jamie Njoku-Goodwin Peter & Lucy Noble Oliver & Josie Ogg Mr Stephen Olton Simon & Lucy Owen-Johnstone Mr Roger Phillimore Mr Michael Posen Saskia Roberts John Romeo Priscylla Shaw Mr & Mrs John C Tucker Mr & Mrs John & Susi Underwood Karina Varivoda Grenville & Krysia Williams Joanna Williams

An anonymous donor David & Yi Buckley In memory of Allner Mavis Channing Sonja Drexler Peter & Fiona Espenhahn Mr B C Fairhall Hamish & Sophie Forsyth Virginia Gabbertas MBE Mr Roger Greenwood Malcolm Herring Julian & Gill Simmonds Eric Tomsett The Viney Family Guy & Utti Whittaker

Silver Patrons

Dame Colette Bowe David Burke & Valerie Graham Cameron & Kathryn Doley Ulrike & Benno Engelmann Dmitry & Ekaterina Gursky The Jeniffer & Jonathan Harris Charitable Trust John & Angela Kessler Mrs Elena & Mr Oleg Kolobov Mrs Elizabeth Meshkvicheva Mikhail Noskov & Vasilina Bindley Tom & Phillis Sharpe Mr Joe Topley & Ms Tracey Countryman Andrew & Rosemary Tusa Jenny Watson CBE Laurence Watt

Principal Supporters

Anonymous donors Ralph & Elizabeth Aldwinckle Mr John D Barnard Roger & Clare Barron Dr Anthony Buckland Dr Simona Cicero & Mr Mario Altieri Mr Alistair Corbett Guy Davies David Devons Igor & Lyuba Galkin Prof. Erol & Mrs Deniz Gelenbe In memory of Enid Gofton Alexander Greaves Prof. Emeritus John Gruzelier Michael & Christine Henry Mrs Maureen Hooft-Graafland Per Jonsson Mr Ian Kapur Ms Elena Lojevsky Pippa Mistry-Norman

Bronze Patrons

Anonymous donors Chris Aldren Michael Allen Mrs A Beare Mr Anthony Blaiklock Lorna & Christopher Bown Mr Bernard Bradbury Simon Burke & Rupert King Desmond & Ruth Cecil Mr John H Cook Deborah Dolce Ms Elena Dubinets David Ellen Christopher Fraser OBE Mr Daniel Goldstein David & Jane Gosman Mr Gavin Graham Lord & Lady Hall

Mrs Terry Neale John Nickson & Simon Rew Mr James Pickford Filippo Poli Mr Robert Ross Martin & Cheryl Southgate Mr & Mrs G Stein Christopher Williams

Supporters

Anonymous donors Mr Francesco Andronio Julian & Annette Armstrong Mr Philip Bathard-Smith Emily Benn Mr Julien Chilcott-Monk Alison Clarke & Leo Pilkington Mr Peter Coe Mr Joshua Coger Miss Tessa Cowie Caroline Cox-Johnson Mr Simon Edelsten Will Gold Mr Stephen Goldring Mr & Mrs Graham & Jean Pugh Mr Geordie Greig Mr Peter Imhof The Jackman Family Mr David MacFarlane Paul & Suzanne McKeown Nick Merrifield Dame Jane Newell DBE Mr David Peters Nicky Small Mr Brian Smith Mr Michael Timinis Mr & Mrs Anthony Trahar Tony & Hilary Vines Mr John Weekes Mr Roger Woodhouse Mr C D Yates

Hon. Benefactor Elliott Bernerd

Hon. Life Members Alfonso Aijón Kenneth Goode Carol Colburn Grigor CBE Pehr G Gyllenhammar Robert Hill Keith Millar Victoria Robey OBE Mrs Jackie Rosenfeld OBE Timothy Walker CBE AM Laurence Watt

London Philharmonic Orchestra • 22 November 2023 • Julian Joseph plays Gershwin

Thank you

Thomas Beecham Group Members

David & Yi Buckley Gill & Garf Collins William & Alex de Winton Sonja Drexler Mr B C Fairhall The Friends of the LPO Roger Greenwood Dr Barry Grimaldi Mr & Mrs Philip Kan John & Angela Kessler Sir Simon Robey Victoria Robey OBE Bianca & Stuart Roden Caroline, Jamie & Zander Sharp Julian & Gill Simmonds Eric Tomsett Neil Westreich Guy & Utti Whittaker

Corporate Donor Barclays

LPO Corporate Circle Principal

Bloomberg Carter-Ruck Solicitors French Chamber of Commerce

Tutti

German-British Chamber of Industry & Commerce Lazard Natixis Corporate Investment Banking Sciteb Ltd Walpole

Preferred Partners

Trusts and Foundations

Board of the American Friends of the LPO

ABO Trust The Barbara Whatmore Charitable Trust BlueSpark Foundation The Boltini Trust Borrows Charitable Trust Cockayne – Grants for the Arts The London Community Foundation Dunard Fund Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation Foyle Foundation Garrick Charitable Trust Idlewild Trust Institute Adam Mickiewicz John Coates Charitable Trust John Horniman’s Children’s Trust John Thaw Foundation Kirby Laing Foundation The Kurt Weill Foundation for Music The Lennox Hannay Charitable Trust Lord and Lady Lurgan Trust Lucille Graham Trust The Marchus Trust PRS Foundation The R K Charitable Trust The Radcliffe Trust Rivers Foundation Rothschild Foundation Scops Arts Trust TIOC Foundation The Thriplow Charitable Trust Vaughan Williams Foundation The Victoria Wood Foundation The Viney Family

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 Kara Boyle Jon Carter Jay Goffman Alexandra Jupin Natalie Pray Damien Vanderwilt Marc Wassermann Elizabeth Winter Catherine Høgel Hon. Director Jenifer L. Keiser, CPA, EisnerAmper LLP

LPO International Board of Governors Natasha Tsukanova Co-Chair Martin Höhmann Co-Chair Mrs Irina Andreeva Steven M. Berzin Shashank Bhagat HSH Dr Donatus, Prince of Hohenzollern Aline Foriel-Destezet Irina Gofman Olivia Ma George Ramishvili Sophie Schÿler-Thierry Florian Wunderlich

and all others who wish to remain anonymous.

Jeroboams Lindt & Sprüngli Ltd Neal’s Yard OneWelbeck Sipsmith Steinway

In-kind Sponsor Google Inc

London Philharmonic Orchestra • 22 November 2023 • Julian Joseph plays Gershwin

London Philharmonic Orchestra Administration Board of Directors

General Administration

Dr Catherine C. Høgel Chair Martin Höhmann* President Mark Vines* Vice-President Emily Benn Kate Birchall* David Burke Deborah Dolce Elena Dubinets Tanya Joseph Hugh Kluger* Katherine Leek* Minn Majoe* Tania Mazzetti* Jamie Njoku-Goodwin Andrew Tusa Neil Westreich Simon Freakley (Ex officio – Chairman of the American Friends of the London Philharmonic Orchestra) *Player-Director

Elena Dubinets Artistic Director

Advisory Council Roger Barron Chairman Christopher Aldren Richard Brass Helen Brocklebank YolanDa Brown OBE David Buckley Simon Burke Simon Callow CBE Desmond Cecil CMG Sir Alan Collins KCVO CMG Andrew Davenport Guillaume Descottes Cameron Doley Christopher Fraser OBE Jenny Goldie-Scot Jonathan Harris CBE FRICS Marianna Hay MBE Nicholas Hely-Hutchinson DL Amanda Hill Dr Catherine C. Høgel Martin Höhmann Rehmet Kassim-Lakha Jamie Korner Geoff Mann Andrew Neill Nadya Powell Sir Bernard Rix Victoria Robey OBE Baroness Shackleton Thomas Sharpe KC Julian Simmonds Barry Smith Martin Southgate Chris Viney Laurence Watt Elizabeth Winter

Education and Community Talia Lash Education and Community Director

David Burke Chief Executive Chantelle Vircavs PA to the Executive and Employee Relations Manager

Lowri Davies Hannah Foakes Education and Community Project Managers

Concert Management

Hannah Smith Education and Community Co-ordinator

Roanna Gibson Concerts and Planning Director

Claudia Clarkson Regional Partnerships Manager

Graham Wood Concerts and Recordings Manager Maddy Clarke Tours Manager

Development Laura Willis Development Director

Madeleine Ridout Glyndebourne and Projects Manager

Rosie Morden Individual Giving Manager

Alison Jones Concerts and Recordings Co-ordinator

Siân Jenkins Corporate Relations Manager Anna Quillin Trusts and Foundations Manager

Robert Winup Concerts and Tours Assistant Matthew Freeman Recordings Consultant

Katurah Morrish Development Events Manager

Andrew Chenery Orchestra Personnel Manager

Eleanor Conroy Al Levin Development Co-ordinators

Sarah Thomas Martin Sargeson Librarians Laura Kitson Stage and Operations Manager

Nick Jackman Campaigns and Projects Director

Stephen O’Flaherty Deputy Operations Manager

Kirstin Peltonen Development Associate

Benjamin Wakley Assistant Stage Manager

Marketing

Felix Lo Orchestra and Auditions Manager

Kath Trout Marketing and Communications Director

Finance

Sophie Harvey Marketing Manager

Frances Slack Finance Director

Rachel Williams Publications Manager

Dayse Guilherme Finance Manager

Gavin Miller Sales and Ticketing Manager

Jean-Paul Ramotar Finance and IT Officer

Ruth Haines Press and PR Manager Hayley Kim Residencies and Projects Marketing Manager

Greg Felton Digital Creative Alicia Hartley Digital and Marketing Co-ordinator Isobel Jones Marketing Assistant

Archives Philip Stuart Discographer Gillian Pole Recordings Archive

Professional Services Charles Russell Speechlys Solicitors Crowe Clark Whitehill LLP Auditors Dr Barry Grimaldi Honorary Doctor Mr Chris Aldren Honorary ENT Surgeon Mr Simon Owen-Johnstone Hon. Orthopaedic Surgeon London Philharmonic Orchestra 89 Albert Embankment London SE1 7TP Tel: 020 7840 4200 Box Office: 020 7840 4242 Email: admin@lpo.org.uk lpo.org.uk Cover illustration Selman Hoşgör 2023/24 season identity JMG Studio Printer John Good Ltd