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 Saturday 25 November 2023 | 7.30pm
Mahler’s Third Mahler Symphony No. 3 in D minor (95’)
Mark Elder conductor* Alice Coote mezzo-soprano London Philharmonic Choir Chorus Director: Madeleine Venner
Trinity Boys Choir
Chorusmaster: David Swinson There will be no interval in this performance. * It is with regret that due to health reasons Robin Ticciati must withdraw from this performance of Mahler Symphony No.3. The LPO is very grateful to Sir Mark Elder for stepping in at short notice.
The timings shown are not precise and are given only as a guide. Concert presented by the London Philharmonic Orchestra
Contents 2
Welcome LPO news 3 On stage tonight 4 London Philharmonic Orchestra 6 Mark Elder 7 Alice Coote 8 London Philharmonic Choir 9 Trinity Boys Choir 10 Programme notes 13 Texts & translations 14 Next concerts 16 Mahler on the LPO Label 17 Sound Futures donors 18 Thank you 20 LPO administration
London Philharmonic Orchestra • 25 November 2023 • Mahler’s Third
Welcome
LPO news
Welcome to the Southbank Centre
Christmas at the Southbank Centre Next month we’re getting into the festive spirit with three concerts as part of the Southbank Centre’s Christmas season. On Thursday 14 December, Christmas in Tinseltown features favourite seasonal film themes – from Miracle on 34th Street to The Holiday and The Grinch – presented by Mark Kermode and featuring singer Tommy Blaize alongside the LPO.
We’re the largest arts centre in the UK and one of the nation’s top visitor attractions, showcasing the world’s most exciting artists at our venues in the heart of London. We’re here to present great cultural experiences that bring people together, and open up the arts to everyone. The Southbank Centre is made up of the Royal Festival Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Purcell Room, Hayward Gallery, National Poetry Library and Arts Council Collection. We’re one of London’s favourite meeting spots, with lots of free events and places to relax, eat and shop next to the Thames.
On Saturday 16 December at 3pm & 7.30pm we join the London Philharmonic Choir & London Youth Choirs, West End star Marisha Wallace (Guys and Dolls, Hairspray, Dreamgirls, Waitress), and host YolanDa Brown for Christmas Classics. Sing along to some of the ultimate Christmas tunes, from Hark! The Herald Angels Sing to Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree. You’ll be feeling festive in no time! Tickets available via the Southbank Centre only (online, by phone or in person): southbankcentre.co.uk
We hope you enjoy your visit. If you need any information or help, please ask a member of staff. You can also write to us at Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, London SE1 8XX, or email hello@southbankcentre.co.uk
Carols at Waterloo – Tuesday 5 December
Subscribers to our email updates are the first to hear about new events, offers and competitions. Just head to our website to sign up.
On 5 December we’re bringing back one of our favourite LPO traditions – Christmas carols at Waterloo railway station. Members of our brass section and friends, plus singers from the London Philharmonic Choir, will be spreading some festive cheer on the main concourse from 5pm onwards, raising money for Save the Children. If you’re passing, please do join us for a carol or two, and please give generously!
Drinks 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.
Christmas gifts from the LPO Looking for a Christmas present for the music-lover in your life? LPO gift vouchers are the perfect option – vouchers can be purchased for any amount, are presented in a smart gift card, and can be redeemed against any concert in the LPO season at the Southbank Centre within a year of purchase. Or how about a gift membership to our LPO Friends scheme? Get up close to the Orchestra with opportunities to see behind the scenes at members’ rehearsals and special events throughout the season. It’s the perfect gift for music connoisseurs and newcomers alike. Gift membership starts at just £60 (£6 per month equivalent). Visit lpo.org.uk/gifts to find out more or buy online.
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.
2
London Philharmonic Orchestra • 25 November 2023 • Mahler’s Third
On stage tonight First Violins
Alice Ivy-Pemberton Leader Kate Oswin
Rachel Robson Kate De Campos Anita Kurowska
Lasma Taimina
Cellos
Chair supported by Eric Tomsett
Chair supported by Irina Gofman & Mr Rodrik V. G. Cave
Minn Majoe Thomas Eisner Katalin Varnagy
Chair supported by Sonja Drexler
Yang Zhang Cassandra Hamilton Elizaveta Tyun Alice Hall Nilufar Alimaksumova Amanda Smith Jamie Hutchinson Eleanor Bartlett Alice Apreda Howell Katherine Waller
Second Violins
Tania Mazzetti Principal Emma Oldfield Co-Principal Claudia Tarrant-Matthews Chair supported by Friends of the Orchestra
Helena Smart Fiona Higham
Chair supported by David & Yi Buckley
Ashley Stevens Nancy Elan Marie-Anne Mairesse Nynke Hijlkema Sioni Williams Joseph Maher Kate Cole Jessica Coleman Beatriz Carbonell
Violas
Nathan Braude
Guest Principal
Martin Wray Benedetto Pollani Laura Vallejo Raquel López Bolívar Julia Doukakis Naomi Holt Mark Gibbs James Heron
Clarinets
Benjamin Mellefont* Principal
James Maltby Jernej Albreht Paul Richards*
Kristina Blaumane Principal
Chair supported by Bianca & Stuart Roden
Richard Birchall Silvestrs Kalniņš Francis Bucknall David Lale Tom Roff Helen Thomas George Hoult Sibylle Hentschel Leo Melvin
Tuba
Chair supported by Roger Greenwood
Jernej Albreht
Bassoons
Jonathan Davies* Principal Chair supported by Sir Simon Robey
Dominic Tyler Simon Estell* Patrick Bolton
Contrabassoon
Simon Estell* Principal
Horns
Juliette Bausor Principal Brontë Hudnott Stewart McIlwham* Katie Bicknell
Stewart McIlwham* Principal
Katie Bicknell
Oboes
Ian Hardwick* Principal Alice Munday Sue Böhling* Emily Cockbill
Timpani
Simon Carrington* Principal Chair supported by Victoria Robey OBE
Jeremy Cornes
Percussion
Andrew Barclay* Principal Chair supported by Gill & Garf Collins
Mike Tetrault Karen Hutt
Chair supported by Mr B C Fairhall
Feargus Brennan James Crook Sarah Mason
Martin Hobbs Mark Vines Co-Principal Gareth Mollison Duncan Fuller Elise Campbell Jonathan Farey Jason Koczur
Harps
Cor Anglais
Tom Nielsen Principal Anne McAneney* David Hilton Katie Smith Holly Clark
Chair supported by Dr Barry Grimaldi
Offstage Posthorn Paul Beniston* Principal
3
Lee Tsarmaklis* Principal
Offstage Percussion
Trumpets
Sue Böhling* Principal
Lyndon Meredith Principal Paul Milner
John Ryan* Principal Annemarie Federle Principal
Piccolos
David Whitehouse Merin Rhyd
E-flat Clarinets Principal
Flutes
Chair supported by William & Alex de Winton
Bass Trombones
Thomas Watmough
Sebastian Pennar Principal Hugh Kluger George Peniston Colin Paris Cathy Colwell Martin Ludenbach Catherine Ricketts Emma Prince
Mark Templeton* Principal
Bass Clarinet
Paul Richards* Principal
Double Basses
Trombones
Keith Millar Graham Johns Richard Horne
Rachel Masters Principal Emma Ramsdale * Professor at a London conservatoire The LPO also acknowledges the following chair supporters whose players are not present: Caroline, Jamie & Zander Sharp Neil Westreich
London Philharmonic Orchestra • 25 November 2023 • Mahler’s Third
© Mark Allan
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.
4
London Philharmonic Orchestra • 25 November 2023 • Mahler’s Third
Alice Ivy-Pemberton Leader
Next generations 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.
Alice Ivy-Pemberton joined the London Philharmonic Orchestra as Co-Leader in February 2023. Praised by The New York Times for her ‘sweet-toned playing’, Alice has performed as a soloist, chamber and orchestral musician to international acclaim. While growing up in New York City and studying with Nurit Pacht, Alice made a nationally televised Carnegie Hall debut aged ten, and was a finalist at the Menuhin International Competition at the age of 12.
Looking forward 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.
Alice earned her Bachelors and Masters degrees at The Juilliard School under the tutelage of Itzhak Perlman and Catherine Cho as a fully-funded recipient of the Kovner Fellowship. During her studies she won Juilliard’s Violin Concerto Competition, performed extensively with the New York Philharmonic and The Philadelphia Orchestra, and led orchestras under the baton of Barbara Hannigan, Xian Zhang and Matthias Pintscher. Upon graduating in 2022 she was awarded the Polisi Prize and a Benzaquen Career Advancement Grant in recognition of ‘tremendous talent, promise, creativity, and potential to make a significant impact in the performing arts’.
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.
An avid chamber musician, Alice has collaborated with Itzhak Perlman, Anthony Marwood, Gil Shaham and members of the Belcea, Doric, Juilliard and Brentano string quartets, and performed with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. Festival appearances include Music@Menlo, Moritzburg and Yellow Barn. Also a passionate advocate for new music and its social relevance, Alice created Drowning Monuments, a noted multimedia project on climate change that brought together five world premieres for solo violin.
lpo.org.uk
5
London Philharmonic Orchestra • 25 November 2023 • Mahler’s Third
Sir Mark Elder CH CBE conductor
From 2011–19 Sir Mark was Artistic Director of Opera Rara, with whom his recordings included Donizetti’s Dom Sebastien, Imelda di Lambertazzi, Linda di Chamounix, Maria di Rohan, a multi-award-winning release of Les Martyrs and, most recently, Rossini’s Semiramide.
© Benjamin Ealovega
Sir Mark Elder has made many recordings with the Hallé, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, and the orchestras of the Royal Opera House and English National Opera, in repertoire ranging from Verdi, Strauss and Wagner to contemporary music. In 2003 the Hallé launched its own CD label, and releases have met with universal acclaim, culminating in Gramophone Awards for The Dream of Gerontius in 2009 and Götterdämmerung and Elgar’s Violin Concerto in 2010. The Apostles won Recording of the Year in the 2013 BBC Music Magazine Awards. A recent release of Siegfried completed Elder’s Ring Cycle on disc with the Hallé, and the complete cycle of Vaughan Williams symphonies is now available. A live recording of Lohengrin has been released by the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.
Sir Mark Elder has been Music Director of the Hallé since 2000, and became Principal Guest Conductor of the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra in September 2022. He was Music Director of English National Opera (1979–93), Principal Guest Conductor of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (1992–95), and Music Director of Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, USA (1989–94). He has also held positions as Principal Guest Conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the London Mozart Players.
Recent and forthcoming concert engagements, as well as his commitment to the Hallé, include Pittsburgh and Cincinnati Symphony, National Symphony Orchestra Washington, London Symphony Orchestra, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, Rotterdam Philharmonic, Bergen Philharmonic, Budapest Festival Orchestra, Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome, Vienna Symphony and the OAE. Operatic engagements include a complete performance of Parsifal at the BBC Proms with the Hallé; Tannhäuser and La bohème at the Opéra National de Paris; Benvenuto Cellini for The Netherlands Opera; Die Meistersinger for San Francisco Opera; Billy Budd, Falstaff and La traviata for Glyndebourne; several productions for Covent Garden including Wozzeck, Fidelio, La bohème, Il Barbiere di Siviglia and L’etoile; and concert performances of Lohengrin with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. He returned to Covent Garden in 2022 for a new production of Peter Grimes, and earlier this year he conducted Aida at Covent Garden and Meyerbeer’s Le prophète with the LSO at the Aix-en-Provence Festival.
Sir Mark’s most recent appearance with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir was in December 2021, when he conducted the world premiere of James MacMillan’s Christmas Oratorio at the Royal Festival Hall, later released on the LPO Label. He has worked with many of the world’s other leading symphony orchestras including the Berlin Philharmonic, Orchestre de Paris, Chicago Symphony, Boston Symphony, Royal Concertgebouw and Budapest Festival Orchestra. He is a Principal Artist of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and works regularly with the London Symphony Orchestra. He has appeared annually at the BBC Proms for many years, including in 1987 and 2006, the internationally televised Last Night of the Proms and from 2003 with the Hallé Orchestra. He works regularly in the most prominent international opera houses, including the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Metropolitan Opera New York, Opéra National de Paris, Lyric Opera of Chicago and Glyndebourne Festival Opera. Other guest engagements have taken him to the Bayreuth Festival (where he was the first English conductor to conduct a new production), Munich, Amsterdam, Zürich, Geneva, Berlin, and the Bregenz Festival.
Sir Mark Elder was appointed a Companion of Honour in the 2017 Queen’s Birthday Honours, was knighted in 2008 and awarded the CBE in 1989. He won an Olivier Award in 1991 for his outstanding work at ENO, and in 2006 he was named Conductor of the Year by the Royal Philharmonic Society. He was awarded Honorary Membership of the Royal Philharmonic Society in 2011.
6
London Philharmonic Orchestra • 25 November 2023 • Mahler’s Third
Alice Coote mezzo-soprano
Elgar’s Sea Pictures with the Philharmonia Orchestra and John Eliot Gardiner; Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Ryan Wigglesworth; Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde with the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia; and Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 with the National Symphony Orchestra and Michael Tilson Thomas in Washington.
© Phil Sharp
Driven by her passion for exploring and challenging gender stereotypes in characterisation, Alice is renowned for her interpretations of some of opera’s most important male and female roles, including Dejanira (Hercules), Leonore (La favorite), the title roles in Carmen and Ariodante, Charlotte (Werther), Dorabella (Così fan tutte), Lucretia (The Rape of Lucretia), Marguerite (La damnation de Faust), Penelope (Ulysses), Octavian (Der Rosenkavalier), Composer (Ariadne auf Naxos), Orfeo (Orfeo ed Euridice), Idamante (Idomeneo), Poppea and Nerone (L’incoronazione di Poppea), Hänsel (Hänsel und Gretel), Sesto and Vitelia (La clemenza di Tito), Sesto (Giulio Cesare), Maffio Orsini (Lucrezia Borgia), Le Prince Charmant (Cendrillon), and Ruggiero (Alcina).
Established as a major star on both the operatic and concert stages, Alice Coote is regarded as one of the great artists of our time. She has performed major roles at the Metropolitan Opera, the Royal Opera House, Bavarian State Opera, Glyndebourne, Opéra de Paris, Vienna State Opera, LA Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago and Salzburg Festival. Equally acclaimed on the concert stage, she has performed with orchestras including the London Symphony, Boston Symphony, New York Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony, Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Hallé and Royal Concertgebouw orchestras. Her most recent appearance with the LPO was in October 2019, when she sang Mary Magdalene/ Narrator in Elgar’s The Apostles under Martyn Brabbins at the Royal Festival Hall.
The recital platform is central to Alice’s musical life, and she has performed throughout the UK, Europe and the US. Engagements have included at the Wigmore Hall (where she has been a resident artist), the BBC Proms, Edinburgh International Festival, the Royal Concertgebouw, the Vienna Konzerthaus, New York’s Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall, and the Stars of the White Nights Mariinsky Festival in St Petersburg, with regular recital partners such as Julius Drake, Graham Johnson and Christian Blackshaw.
Engagements in the 2023/24 season include singing the role of Storgé in Handel’s Jephtha at the Royal Opera House, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 and Mass in C minor with John Eliot Gardner and the Monterverdi Choir & Orchestra, Mahler’s Symphony No. 3 with the Danish National Symphony and Michael Tilson Thomas, and a return to the Wigmore Hall.
Committed to audience development and redefining genre barriers, this season Alice premiered her latest project, ‘The Rebellious Recital’, a song recital including works by Mahler, David Bowie, Joni Mitchell, Bach and John Lennon at the Wigmore Hall. A prolific and critically-acclaimed recording artist, her extensive catalogue includes Mahler Song Cycles (Pentatone); Songs by Robert Schumann and Gustav Mahler (EMI); Handel’s Messiah and Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 (EMI); Angel in Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius and The Apostles (Hallé); Composer in Ariadne auf Naxos (Chandos); Handel Arias (Hyperion), The Power of Love: An English Songbook (Hyperion), L’île heureuse: A French Songbook (Hyperion); Schubert’s Winterreise (Wigmore Hall Live); and Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde (Pentatone). In 2018 she was awarded an OBE for services to music.
Alice’s recent operatic engagements include Madame de Croissy in Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmélites at the Metropolitan Opera, the title role in Handel’s Agrippina at the Staatsoper Hamburg, and Mère Marie in Dialogues des Carmélites at Opernhaus Zürich. Recent concert highlights include the role of Cassandra in concert performances of Berlioz’s Les Troyens with Dinis Sousa and the Monteverdi Choir & Orchestra at the BBC Proms, as well as further festival appearances at Salzburg, Berliner Festspiele, Festival Berlioz and Opéra Royal (Château de Versailles); Ravel’s Shéhérazade with the Sinfonia of London and John Wilson at the Barbican;
7
London Philharmonic Orchestra • 25 November 2023 • Mahler’s Third
London Philharmonic Choir Patron HRH Princess Alexandra President Sir Mark Elder Artistic Director Neville Creed Chairman Tessa Bartley Choir Manager Bethea Hanson-Jones Accompanist Jonathan Beatty
Sopranos
Founded in 1947 as the chorus for the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the London Philharmonic Choir is widely regarded as one of Britain’s finest choirs. For the last seven decades the Choir has performed under leading conductors, consistently meeting with critical acclaim and recording regularly for television and radio.
A well-travelled choir, it has visited numerous European countries and performed in Kuala Lumpur, Hong Kong and Australia. The Choir has appeared twice at the Touquet International Music Masters Festival and was delighted to travel to the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Paris, in December 2017 to perform Bach’s Christmas Oratorio with the London Philharmonic Orchestra.
Annette Argent Chris Banks Tessa Bartley Hilary Bates Amy Brewster Grace Chau Issy Davies Jessica Dixon Lucy Doig Ella Frost Rachel Gibbon Rosie Grigalis Hannah Grigg Jane Hanson Sasha Holland Camellia Johnson Mary Beth Jones Ashley Jordan Erin Kendrick Charlotte Lam Joy Lee Ilona Lynch Janey Maxwell Amanda May Meg McClure Harriet Murray Mariana Nina Ellii Olivia Elizabeth Ortiz Niraali Patel Marie Power Courtney Reed Frankie Richards Danielle Roman Victoria Smith Tania Stanier Susan Thomas Beatrice Tinsley Rachel Topham
The Choir prides itself on its inclusive culture, achieving first-class performances from its members, who are volunteers from all walks of life.
Supported by
Enjoying a close relationship with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Choir frequently joins it for concerts in the UK and abroad. Recent highlights have included Mahler’s Symphony No. 2, Tippett’s The Midsummer Marriage and A Child of Our Time, Janáček’s Glagolitic Mass, Schoenberg’s Gurrelieder and Berlioz’s Damnation of Faust, all under LPO Principal Conductor Edward Gardner; the UK premieres of James MacMillan’s Christmas Oratorio with the Choir’s President, Sir Mark Elder, and Tan Dun’s Buddha Passion; Walton’s Belshazzar’s Feast with Marin Alsop; Mahler’s Symphonies Nos. 2 & 8 and Tallis’s Spem in alium with Vladimir Jurowski; Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis with Sir Mark Elder; and Haydn’s The Creation with Sir Roger Norrington. The Choir appears annually at the BBC Proms, and performances have included the UK premieres of Mark-Anthony Turnage’s A Relic of Memory and Goldie’s Sine Tempore in the Evolution! Prom. In recent years the Choir has also given performances of works by Beethoven, Elgar, Howells, Liszt, Orff, Vaughan Williams, Verdi and Walton. This year for the first time, the Choir has taken part in the ‘Films in Concert’ series at the Royal Albert Hall, performing the score for Amadeus.
The Choir is delighted to welcome Madeleine Venner as guest Chorus Director this evening. lpc.org.uk
8
Altos
Emma Barslund Alison Biedron Sally Brien Jenny Burdett Andrei Caracoti Lara Carim Noel Chow Evangeline Cullingworth Andrea Easey Pauline Finney Bethea Hanson-Jones Joanna James Judy Jones Julia King Andrea Lane Ethel Livermore Lisa MacDonald Laetitia Malan Ian Maxwell Caroline Morris Anna Mulroney Rachel Murray Beth O’Brien Kathryn O’Leary Elizabeth Reynard Carolyn Saunders Rima Sereikiene Natasha Sofla Annette Strzedulla Erica Tomlinson Catherine Travers Susi Underwood
London Philharmonic Orchestra • 25 November 2023 • Mahler’s Third
Trinity Boys Choir Chorusmaster David Swinson
Trinity Boys Choir comprises pupils of Trinity School, Croydon, and has been directed by David Swinson since 2001. The boys frequently appear in operas at Glyndebourne, the Royal Opera House, English National Opera, Garsington, and throughout the world. The Choir is especially well known for its role in Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, in which it has appeared in over 150 professional performances, on a Warner DVD, on a Virgin Classics CD and on Glyndebourne’s ownlabel CD. Trinity’s famed soloists frequently perform principal roles in operas and concerts: recent appearances have included at La Scala Milan, Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, the Paris Philharmonie, Müpa in Budapest, and the Palau de les Arts in Valencia. On the concert platform, the Choir is regularly invited to perform at the BBC Proms and with all the major London orchestras, and has toured with Sir John Eliot Gardiner in Spain, Germany and Italy. Other recent concert tours have included China, Germany, Holland, Japan and Poland.
Arjun Agrawal Alexander Albu Josiah Alfred Benyameen Ali Charles Arthanayake Freddie Balcombe Adam Battersby Christopher Bergs Elliot Bergs Alan Bernstein Aodhan Boakye-Keating Oistin Boakye-Keating Alex Bradburn Hamish Carnell Charlie Cormack Freddie Dawe Tom Day Leighton Dekas Ishaan Godber Jacob Hayee
The boys recorded Bach’s St Matthew Passion with Sir John Eliot Gardiner and the Monteverdi Choir, and its recent releases have met with critical acclaim: Ludford’s Missa Dominica was MusicWeb International’s Recording of the Month, and Refugium was a Critic’s Choice in the American Record Guide. TV appearances have included the Royal Variety Performance and Strictly Come Dancing, and the boys can be heard on the soundtracks of numerous films including Maleficent and Fantastic Beasts 1, 2 and 3. Engagements in 2023 include Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary and Italy. The Choir performed Mahler’s Symphony No. 3 with the BBC Symphony Orchestra at the 2023 BBC Proms.
9
Hal Heaton Oliver Hull Zandy Hull Jamie Hung Rishabh Jain Caspar Johnson Xavier Karelis Max Kayacan Sam Kingston Dennis Lalic Edward Molony Michael Mulroy Oliver O’Hara Eshan Patel Savith Peiris Thomas Price-Harries Hardik Tandon Filip Tattersall David Tokan-Iawal Caspar Vehring
London Philharmonic Orchestra • 25 November 2023 • Mahler’s Third
Programme notes Gustav Mahler 1860–1911
Symphony No. 3 in D minor 1902
Alice Coote mezzo-soprano London Philharmonic Choir Trinity Boys Choir
Part One 1 Kräftig Entschieden [Powerful. Resolute] There will be a short pause after the first movement (please remain seated).
Part Two 2 Tempo di Menuetto. Sehr mässig [At a very moderate pace] 3 Comodo. Scherzando. Ohne Hast [Unhurried] 4 Sehr langsam [Very slow]. Misterioso. Durchaus ppp [As quiet as possible] 5 Lustig im Tempo und keck im Ausdruck [At jaunty tempo with bold expression] 6 Langsam. Ruhevoll. Empfunden [Slow. Peaceful. With feeling]
No work by Gustav Mahler has stirred up more passionate controversy than his Third Symphony. The world premiere, in the German town of Krefeld in 1902, was a spectacular triumph, despite sweltering summer heat, poor acoustics and an ad hoc orchestra thrown together at the last minute. Two years later the Viennese premiere was a scandal: the critics were incensed, one of them walked out of the performance muttering that Mahler ought to be put in jail. Since then the Symphony has continued to polarise opinion. ‘It’s all very well’, spluttered the composer William Walton, ‘but you can’t call that a symphony.’ For Arnold Schoenberg however, the Third Symphony revealed ‘a human being, a drama, truth, the most ruthless truth!’
It is easy to see why the Third Symphony should provoke such extreme reactions. In both form and content it is Mahler’s most extravagant, outrageous work. Mahler famously told Sibelius that ‘the symphony must be like the world. It must embrace everything’. Mahler wrote revealingly about the Third Symphony in his letters to the soprano Anna von Mildenburg: ‘Just imagine a work of such magnitude that it actually mirrors the whole world – one is, so to speak, an instrument played upon by the universe … In my Symphony the whole of nature finds a voice.’ For a while, Mahler contemplated giving the Third Symphony a title: perhaps Pan, after the Greek nature god, or maybe The Joyful Science, after one of Friedrich Nietzsche’s philosophical works. In the fourth movement of the Third Symphony Mahler sets the most famous
10
London Philharmonic Orchestra • 25 November 2023 • Mahler’s Third
Programme notes 1. ‘Summer marches in’. 2. ‘What the flowers of the meadow tell me’. 3. ‘What the animals of the forest tell me’. 4. ‘What night tells me (mankind)’. 5. ‘What the morning bells tell me (the angels)’. 6. ‘What love tells me’.
Photo courtesy of the Royal College of Music, London
A philosophical plan emerges, in which each movement aspires higher than the one before. The awakening of elemental nature leads eventually to the realisation of transcendent love. But painful experience had planted doubts in Mahler’s mind about titles and literary programmes, and in later performances the Third Symphony appeared without detailed explanatory notes. Clearly there are elements in the Third Symphony that cry out for more than musical explanation – how else can we make sense of his choice of texts in the fourth and fifth movements, or the strangely evocative offstage posthorn solo in the third? Of course it’s helpful to know what Mahler had in mind, but at all times the listener’s imagination must be free to divine its own meanings. The listener also needs to be prepared for the Third Symphony’s extraordinary proportions. The first movement is huge: around 35 to 40 minutes in most performances, and at times it feels more like a fantastic kaleidoscope of wildly contrasting sounds than a traditional symphonic argument. However one can say that this movement alternates three kinds of music: the dark, primordial sounds of the opening (described by Mahler as ‘Pan awakes’), pastoral sounds (murmurous wind and string trills, woodwind birdcalls), and an increasingly wild collage of raucous, garish march music. Eventually it is the martial music which triumphs: ‘Summer marches in’.
lines from Nietzsche’s Thus Spake Zarathustra. This was the work in which Nietzsche first put forward the ideal of the ‘Superman’, the man who can embrace life – nature – in all its fullness, who can confront both the beauty and the horror of existence without faltering. After writing the Third Symphony’s second movement, Mahler made this very Nietzschian observation: ‘It always strikes me as strange that most people, when they speak of “nature”, think only of flowers, little birds, and woodsy smells. No one knows the god Dionysus, the great Pan. There now! You have a sort of programme ... Everywhere and always it is only the voice of nature!’
The ‘flowers of the meadow’ minuet that follows is on a much more intimate scale, with delicately aromatic scoring and gentle folksy tunefulness. This movement quickly became a hit in its own right – like the famous Adagietto from the Fifth Symphony. The third movement is more complex. The naïve vitality of the opening ‘animals of the forest’ music is twice interrupted by the offstage posthorn, sounding through a quiet halo of high strings. Physical distance here creates an effect of emotional distance – a warmly tinged memory perhaps, or an evocation of lost primal innocence. Then, near the end of this movement comes a ferocious fortissimo outburst: Pan is revealed again in all his frightful majesty.
Fired by this vision, Mahler set out his programme in more detail. The Symphony’s six movements were to have subtitles:
Continues overleaf
11
London Philharmonic Orchestra • 25 November 2023 • Mahler’s Third
Programme notes Quiet echoes of the deep bass stirrings from near the beginning of the Symphony introduce the fourth movement, almost all of which is delivered in an awestruck pianissimo. Here the subject is mankind’s struggle to make sense of the world, its joy and its grief, as expressed enigmatically in Nietzsche’s verses. But having gone this far with Nietzsche, Mahler’s philosophical journey turns in a new direction. Nietzsche rejected Christian compassion as unworthy of his ‘Superman’. Mahler now embraces it in his fifth movement. The sound of church bells (literally and mimicked by the boys’ choir) introduces the voices of angels. In simple, folk-like tones they tell of God’s forgiveness of Peter, the ‘all too human’ disciple of Christ who became the rock on which the Christian Church was built.
Recommended recording by Laurie Watt Mahler: Symphony No. 3 London Philharmonic Orchestra | Klaus Tennstedt (Warner Classics)
Complete our survey to win a £75 Amazon voucher! We hope you enjoyed tonight’s concert. Could you spare a few moments to complete a short survey about your experience this evening? Your feedback is invaluable to us and will help to shape our future plans. To say thank you, at the end of the survey you will have the chance to opt in to a prize draw to win a £75 Amazon voucher.
This is the Symphony’s turning point. The sixth movement now combines the functions of slow movement and finale, moving from rapt meditation to grand summing-up. An ardent, hymn-like theme for strings (‘What love tells me’) alternates with troubled, searching music. Ideas from earlier in the Symphony return, then the hymn builds to a grand apotheosis, using the force of the full orchestra (minus the harps) for the first time since the end of the first movement. Writing to Anna von Mildenburg, Mahler composed a little verse motto for this movement: ‘Father, see these wounds of mine! Let no creature of yours be lost!’ So, Mahler concluded, the Symphony finally holds out the hope of something like Christian redemption. ‘I could almost call this “What God tells me”. And truly, in the sense that God can only be understood as love. And so my work begins as a musical poem embracing all stages of development in a step-wise ascent. It begins with inanimate nature and ascends to the love of God.’
Just scan the QR code to begin the survey. Thank you!
Programme note © Stephen Johnson
12
London Philharmonic Orchestra • 25 November 2023 • Mahler’s Third
Mahler: Symphony No. 3 Texts & translations
4. Mezzo-soprano solo O Mensch, gib Acht! Was spricht die tiefe Mitternacht? Ich schlief, ich schlief! Aus tiefem Traum bin ich erwacht! Die Welt ist tief, Und tiefer als der Tag gedacht! Tief ist ihr Weh! Lust, tiefer noch als Herzeleid! Weh spricht: Vergeh! Doch alle Lust will Ewigkeit, Will tiefe, tiefe Ewigkeit!
O Man, take heed! What does the deep midnight say? I slept, I slept! From a deep dream I was awakened! The world is deep, And deeper than the day imagined! Deep is its woe! Joy, deeper still than heartache! Woe says: Begone! But all joy seeks eternity, Seeks deep, deep eternity.
Text from Nietzsche’s Also sprach Zarathustra: the ‘Midnight Song’
5. Choirs Es sungen drei Engel einen süssen Gesang, Mit freuden es selig in dem Himmel klang, Sie jauchzten fröhlich auch dabei, Das Petrus sei von Sünden frei. Und als der Herr Jesus zu Tische sass, Mit seinen zwölf Jüngern das Abendmahl ass Da sprech der Herr Jesus: Was stehst du denn hier? Wenn ich dich anseh’, so weinest du mir!
Three angels were singing a sweet song, With joy it rang blissfully in Heaven, At the same time they rejoiced That Peter was freed from sin. And as the Lord Jesus sat at table With his twelve disciples at evening meal, Lord Jesus said: Why do you stand here? When I look at you, you weep before me!
Mezzo-soprano solo Und sollt’ ich nicht weinen Du gütiger Gott, Ich hab’ übertreten die zehn Gebot’. Ich gehe und weine ja bitterlich, Ach komm und erbarme dich über mich!
And should I not weep, Thou benevolent God, I have broken the ten commandments. I go and weep so bitterly, Ah come and have mercy upon me!
Choirs Hast du denn übertreten die zehn Gebot’, So fall’ auf die Knie und bete zu Gott, Liebe nur Gott in alle Zeit! So wirst du erlangen die himmlische Freud’. Die himmlische Freud’ ist ein selige Stadt, Die himmlische Freud’, die kein Ende mehr hat! Die himmlische Freud’ war Petro bereit’t Durch Jesum und Allen zur Seligkeit.
If you have broken the ten commandments, Then fall on your knees and pray to God, Love only God for evermore! Then heavenly joy will be yours. Heavenly joy is a blessed city, Heavenly joy, which has no end! Heavenly joy was granted to Peter Through Jesus and all in blessed state.
Text from Des Knaben Wunderhorn
English translations © Eric Mason
13
Next LPO concerts at the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall 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.
SCHEHERAZADE
Wednesday 6 December 2023 | 7.30pm Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 5 (Emperor) Rimsky-Korsakov Scheherazade Tianyi Lu conductor Tom Borrow piano
LPO.ORG.UK
New on the LPO Label Edward Gardner conducts
Berlioz: The Damnation of Faust LPO-0128
Recorded live at the Royal Festival Hall, 4 Feb 2023
Out now Exclusively on Apple Music Classical
Karen Cargill Marguerite John Irvin Faust Christopher Purves Mephistopheles Jonathan Lemalu Brander London Philharmonic Choir London Symphony Chorus London Youth Choirs
General release: 3 February 2024
Look for the Apple Music Classical app for iPhone and Android in the App Store or Google Play Store.
songbirdsongs JOHN LUTHER ADAMS
RUSH HOUR CONCERT WEDNESDAY 17 JANUARY 2024, 6.30PM ST JOHN’S CHURCH, WATERLOO TICKETS FROM £12 LPO.ORG.UK
Generously supported by TIOC Foundation
15
Mahler Symphonies on the LPO Label
LPO-0044
LPO-0012
LPO-0070
Scan the QR codes to listen instantly now
Symphony No. 1
Vladimir Jurowski conductor
plus Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen Klaus Tennstedt conductor Thomas Hampson baritone
LPO-0113
LPO-0054
including ‘Blumine’
Symphony No. 2 Klaus Tennstedt conductor Yvonne Kenny soprano Jard van Nes mezzo-soprano London Philharmonic Choir
LPO-0033
Symphony No. 1
Symphony No. 5
Vladimir Jurowski conductor Adriana Kucerová soprano Christianne Stotijn mezzo-soprano London Philharmonic Choir
Vladimir Jurowski conductor Sofia Fomina soprano
Jaap van Zweden conductor
Symphony No. 6 Klaus Tennstedt conductor
LPO-0121
LPO-0052
Symphony No. 4
LPO-0038
Symphony No. 2
Symphony No. 8
Symphony No. 8
Vladimir Jurowski conductor
Klaus Tennstedt conductor
All LPO Label recordings are available on CD from all good outlets, and to download or stream via Apple Music Classical, Spotify, Idagio and others.
16
London Philharmonic Orchestra • 25 November 2023 • Mahler’s Third
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)
17
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 • 25 November 2023 • Mahler’s Third
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
18
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 • 25 November 2023 • Mahler’s Third
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
19
London Philharmonic Orchestra • 25 November 2023 • Mahler’s Third
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
20
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