JULIA FISCHER P L AY S M O Z A R T LPO Artist-in-Residence Spring 2022
CONCERT PROGR AMME
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 2 February 2022 | 7.30pm
Julia Fischer plays Mozart: Straight out of Salzburg R Strauss Don Juan (18’) Mozart Violin Concerto No. 3 in G major, K216 (24’) Interval (20’) Mozart Violin Concerto No. 4 in D major, K218 (24’) R Strauss Tod und Verklärung (Death and Transfiguration) (24’) Thomas Søndergård conductor Julia Fischer violin
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The timings shown are not precise and are given only as a guide. CONCERT PRESENTED BY THE LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
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On stage tonight First Violins
Pieter Schoeman* Leader Chair supported by Neil Westreich
Vesselin Gellev Sub-Leader Kate Oswin Chair supported by Friends of the Orchestra
Lasma Taimina
Chair supported by Irina Gofman & Mr Rodrik V. G. Cave
Minn Majoe Thomas Eisner Yang Zhang
Chair supported by Eric Tomsett
Sophie Phillips Katalin Varnagy
Violas
David Quiggle Principal Richard Waters Co-Principal
Chair supported by Chris Aldren
Cassi Hamilton Catherine Craig Alice Hall Nilufar Alimaksumova Gabriela Opacka
Second Violins
Tania Mazzetti Principal Chair supported by Countess Dominique Loredan
Emma Oldfield Helena Smart Kate Birchall Nancy Elan Fiona Higham
Chair supported by David & Yi Buckley
Nynke Hijlkema Joseph Maher Marie-Anne Mairesse Ashley Stevens Sioni Williams Anna Harpham Kate Cole Lyrit Milgram
Trumpets
Piccolo
Trombones
Katie Bedford Guest Principal Imogen Royce Stewart McIlwham*
Chair supported by Caroline, Jamie & Zander Sharp
Ting-Ru Lai Katharine Leek Benedetto Pollani Laura Vallejo Michelle Bruil Raquel López Bolivar Stanislav Popov Mark Gibbs Daniel Cornford Martin Wray
Stewart McIlwham* Principal
Oboes
Ian Hardwick* Principal Alice Munday
Cor Anglais
Chair supported by Sonja Drexler
Amanda Smith Martin Höhmann
Flutes
Sue Böhling* Principal
Cellos
Pei-Jee Ng Principal Chair supported by The Candide Trust
Jean Kim Francis Bucknall Gregory Walmsley Laura Donoghue David Lale Sue Sutherley Susanna Riddell Sibylle Hentschel Helen Thomas
Paul Beniston* Principal Anne McAneney Tom Nielsen
Mark Templeton* Principal Chair supported by William & Alex de Winton
David Whitehouse
Bass Trombone
Lyndon Meredith Principal
Tuba
Chair supported by Dr Barry Grimaldi
Lee Tsarmaklis* Principal
Clarinets
Timpani
Benjamin Mellefont Principal Thomas Watmough
Simon Carrington* Principal Chair supported by Victoria Robey OBE
Chair supported by Roger Greenwood
Bass Clarinet
Paul Richards* Principal
Bassoons
Jonathan Davies Principal
Double Basses
Chair supported by Sir Simon Robey
Gareth Newman
Kevin Rundell* Principal Sebastian Pennar
Contrabassoon
Co-Principal
George Peniston Tom Walley
Simon Estell* Principal
Chair supported by William & Alex de Winton
Horns
Laura Murphy Charlotte Kerbegian Lowri Morgan Adam Wynter
Percussion
Andrew Barclay* Principal Chair supported by Gill & Garf Collins
Keith Millar Oliver Yates
Harps
Rachel Masters Principal Ruth Faber * Holds a professorial appointment in London
John Ryan* Principal Nicholas Mooney Guest Principal
Martin Hobbs Mark Vines Co-Principal Gareth Mollison
The London Philharmonic Orchestra also acknowledges the following chair supporters whose player is not present at this concert: Bianca & Stuart Roden
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London Philharmonic Orchestra • 2 February 2022 • Julia Fischer plays Mozart: Straight out of Salzburg
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the Orchestra takes up its annual residency at Glyndebourne Festival Opera, where it has been Resident Symphony Orchestra for over 50 years. The Orchestra also tours internationally, performing to sell-out audiences worldwide. In 1956 it became the first British orchestra to appear in Soviet Russia and in 1973 made the first ever visit to China by a Western orchestra.
One of the finest orchestras on the international stage, the London Philharmonic Orchestra balances a long and distinguished history with its reputation as one of the UK’s most forward-looking ensembles. As well as its concert performances, the Orchestra also records film soundtracks, releases CDs and downloads on its own label, and reaches thousands of people every year through activities for families, schools and local communities.
The London Philharmonic Orchestra has recorded many blockbuster film scores, from The Lord of the Rings trilogy to Lawrence of Arabia, East is East, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey and Thor: The Dark World. It also broadcasts regularly on television and radio, and in 2005 established its own record label. There are now over 100 releases available on CD and to download. Recent highlights include Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 11 and Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 under Vladimir Jurowski, and a commemorative box set of historic recordings with former Principal Conductor Sir Adrian Boult.
The Orchestra was founded by Sir Thomas Beecham in 1932, and has since been headed by many great conductors including Sir Adrian Boult, Bernard Haitink, Sir Georg Solti, Klaus Tennstedt and Kurt Masur. In September 2021 Edward Gardner became the Orchestra’s Principal Conductor, succeeding Vladimir Jurowski, who became Conductor Emeritus in recognition of his transformative impact on the Orchestra as Principal Conductor from 2007–21. Karina Canellakis is the Orchestra’s current Principal Guest Conductor and Brett Dean is the Orchestra’s current Composer-in-Residence.
In summer 2012 the London Philharmonic Orchestra performed as part of The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Pageant on the River Thames, and was also chosen to record all the world’s national anthems for the London 2012 Olympics. In 2013 it was the winner of the RPS Music Award for Ensemble.
The Orchestra is resident at the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall in London, where it gives around 40 concerts each season. It also enjoys flourishing residencies in Brighton, Eastbourne and Saffron Walden, and performs regularly around the UK. Each summer
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Pieter Schoeman
The London Philharmonic Orchestra is committed to inspiring the next generation of musicians, and recently celebrated the 30th anniversary of its Education and Community department, whose work over three decades has introduced so many people of all ages to orchestral music and created opportunities for people of all backgrounds to fulfil their creative potential. Its dynamic and wide-ranging programme provides first musical experiences for children and families; offers creative projects and professional development opportunities for schools and teachers; inspires talented teenage instrumentalists to progress their skills; and develops the next generation of professional musicians. The Orchestra’s work at the forefront of digital technology has enabled it to reach millions of people worldwide. Over the pandemic period the LPO further developed its relationship with UK and international audiences through its ‘LPOnline’ digital content: over 100 videos of performances, insights, and introductions to playlists, which collectively received over 3 million views worldwide and led to the LPO being named runner-up in the Digital Classical Music Awards 2020. From Autumn 2020 the Orchestra was delighted to be able to return to its Southbank Centre home to perform a season of concerts filmed live and streamed free of charge via Marquee TV.
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Leader
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. 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 London’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, JeanGuihen Queyras, Yannick Nézet-Séguin and Martin Helmchen.
September 2021 saw the opening of a new live concert season at the Royal Festival Hall, featuring many of the world’s leading musicians including Sheku KannehMason, Klaus Mäkelä, Renée Fleming, Bryn Terfel and this season’s Artist-in-Residence, Julia Fischer. The Orchestra is delighted to be continuing to offer digital streams to selected concerts throughout the season through its ongoing partnership with Intersection and Marquee TV.
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.
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Pieter has appeared as Guest Leader with the BBC, Barcelona, Bordeaux, Lyon and Baltimore symphony orchestras, and the Rotterdam and BBC Philharmonic orchestras. Pieter’s chair in the LPO is generously supported by Neil Westreich.
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Julia Fischer violin LPO Artist-in-Residence Spring 2022
During the 2020/21 season Julia Fischer appeared in concert with the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg and Alan Gilbert, the Svetlanov Symphony Orchestra and Vladimir Jurowski and the Bamberg Symphony under Jakub Hrůša, and premiered a new piece by Pascal Zavaro with the Orchestre national de France under Cristian Măcelaru. In 2011 Julia Fischer founded her own Quartet with Alexander Sitkovetsky, Nils Mönkemeyer and Benjamin Nyffenegger, and continues to tour extensively in this formation. Her concert at the Alte Oper Frankfurt in 2010 marked her debut as a pianist: she performed Grieg’s Piano Concerto in the second half of the concert, having played Saint-Saëns’s Violin Concerto No. 3 in the first half. The performance is available on a Decca-released DVD. Teaching is another integral part of Julia’s musical life, as she continues to nurture and guide young talent including performances alongside her students. She regularly gives masterclasses at Musikferien at Lake Starnberg (Starnberger See). In 2019 she founded a children’s orchestra, the Kindersinfoniker, teaming up with conductor Johannes X. Schachtner and pianist Henri Bonamy in her hometown of Munich.
One of the world’s leading violinists, Julia Fischer is a versatile musician also known for her extraordinary abilities as a concert pianist, chamber musician and violin teacher. Born in Munich to German-Slovakian parents, she received her first violin lessons at the age of three and her first piano lessons shortly after from her mother, Viera Fischer. At the age of nine she started studying with renowned violin professor Ana Chumachenco, later becoming her successor. Winning First Prize at the Yehudi Menuhin International Competition in 1995 was one of the milestones in her early career and she has since performed with top orchestras worldwide.
Over the course of her artistic career Julia Fischer has released numerous critically acclaimed and awarded CD and DVD recordings, first under the Pentatone label and later under Decca. Breaking new ground in the classical music market, in 2017 she launched her own music platform, the JF CLUB, which offers exclusive audio and video footage and previews of her new recordings as well as personal insights into music and her work. Franck’s Sonata in A major, Szymanowski’s Sonata in D minor and Beethoven’s String Trio in C minor are all available exclusively on JF CLUB. In August 2021 Julia Fischer released a limited vinyl recording of Ysaÿe’s Sonatas as an exclusive JF CLUB edition in collaboration with Hänssler Classic.
In March 2019 Julia embarked on a major tour of China, Taiwan and South Korea with the London Philharmonic Orchestra under Vladimir Jurowski, and in September 2019 performed Britten’s Violin Concerto with the Orchestra, again under Jurowski, at the Royal Festival Hall and Saffron Hall. This spring she is Artist-in-Residence with the Orchestra, performing Mozart’s Concertos with Thomas Søndergård, as well as play-directing a Mozart programme and joining LPO Principal players in a chamber music concert – see opposite page for details.
Julia Fischer holds numerous awards including the Federal Cross of Merit, a Gramophone Award and the German Culture Prize. She plays a violin by Giovanni Battista Guadagnini (1742) as well as an instrument made by Phillipp Augustin (2018).
She also embarks on an extensive tour with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, an ensemble with whom she has enjoyed a long-standing relationship. Other tours include with the Royal Philharmonic and Vasily Petrenko, and the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra with Vladimir Jurowski. Julia also collaborates with the Lucerne Symphony under its new Chief Conductor Thomas Sanderling, and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra under Michael Tilson Thomas. She embarks on a recital tour of major European venues with pianist Yulianna Avdeeva, as well as with her own Julia Fischer Quartet.
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JULIA FISCHER
ART I ST- I N- R E S I D E N C E Spring 2022 at the Southbank Centre SINFONIA CONCERTANTE
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Thomas Søndergård conductor
The 2021/22 season sees the RSNO’s return to live performances, showcasing works by, amongst others, Stravinsky, Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich and Berlioz. In November 2021 Thomas led the orchestra in performances of Dvořák’s ‘New World’ Symphony and (with Midori), the world premiere of Detlev Glanert’s Violin Concerto No. 2, To the Immortal Beloved, in tandem with the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Glasgow. © Bjarke Johansen
Recent highlights with the RSNO have included tours to China and the United States, premieres of new commissions and Wynton Marsalis’s Violin Concerto with Nicola Benedetti, and much-praised appearances at the Edinburgh International Festival. This season he makes first visits to the Montreal Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra and Bergen Philharmonic, and returns to many orchestras, among them the NDR Radiophilharmonie Hannover, the Royal Danish Opera (Die Walküre and New Year concerts) and the Danish National Symphony Orchestra.
Danish conductor Thomas Søndergård is current Music Director of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, following six seasons as Principal Guest Conductor. Between 2012 and 2018 he served as Principal Conductor of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, after stepping down as Principal Conductor and Musical Advisor of the Norwegian Radio Orchestra. Thomas Søndergård’s last appearance with the London Philharmonic Orchestra was in December 2020, when he conducted a programme of Ravel, Schubert and Bent Sørensen, filmed at the Royal Festival Hall and broadcast on Marquee TV. He has appeared with many other notable orchestras in leading European centres, such as Berlin (including the Berlin Philharmonic, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin and Mahler Chamber Orchestra), Leipzig (Gewandhausorchester), Paris (Orchestre National de France), London (BBC Symphony, London Symphony and Philharmonia Orchestra), Amsterdam and Rotterdam (Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Netherlands Philharmonic, Rotterdam Philharmonic), and is a familiar figure in Scandinavia with such orchestras as the Oslo Philharmonic, Gothenburg Symphony, Danish National Symphony, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, Swedish Radio Symphony, Finnish Radio Symphony and Helsinki Philharmonic orchestras. North American appearances to date have included the symphony orchestras of Chicago, Toronto, Atlanta, Montreal, Vancouver, Houston and Seattle. He has made highly successful tours to China, Korea, Australia and New Zealand.
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Programme notes Richard Strauss 1864–1949
Don Juan: tone-poem after Nikolaus Lenau, Op. 20 1889
24-year-old composer in 1889 would have the nerve to portray such a celebrated – and risqué – figure in music? Surely not Richard Strauss – the golden boy of Munich’s music scene, son of a famous horn player and the composer (so far) of respectable imitations of Brahms and Weber? Young Richard seemed to have grown up terribly suddenly. In Don Juan he took the colour, sensuousness and drama of Wagner’s style and gave it the lean, classical energy of Brahms’s best symphonic movements. And he did it with a brilliance, an impertinence, and a swaggering panache that were entirely his own. Don Juan was premiered on 11 November 1889 by the Weimar court orchestra. Someone asked Strauss whether he was a Wagnerian or a Brahmsian. ‘Neither’, he replied: ‘I’m a Selfian’. Strauss took his hero from a drama of 1851 by the German poet Nikolaus Lenau. Lenau’s Juan lives fast and dies young, and in Strauss’s final bars we hear him stabbed in a duel and breathing his last. But there’s some sensational living to be done first. The great seducer springs immediately into action. A solo violin introduces his first conquest but the swirling, swooning love music soon yields to the next call to action; and the adventures continue until stopped in their tracks by Juan’s one true love – a poignant melody for solo oboe.
Of the three genres for which Strauss is best known – tone-poem, song and opera – it was the first and second that preoccupied his earlier years as a composer, and the tone-poem in particular that spread his name as an important new voice in German music. The first work to which he applied the term was the now rarely heard Macbeth, begun in 1886 and completed in 1888. By the end of the following year, however, he had completed two more tone-poems which have better stood the test of time and both of which we hear this evening: Don Juan and Tod und Verklärung (‘Death and Transfiguration’).
Juan hesitates, before rising to the challenge with a magnificent new theme: a ringing, virile call for all four horns. This is young man’s music, after all. As Strauss himself told an orchestra that was about to play Don Juan: ‘Those of you who are married: play it as if you’ve just got engaged.’ But even as an upstart, a true artist sees further. Strauss’s final bars – a sudden, chilling, fade to black – are the work of a realist, not an escapist.
Don Juan opens with a rocketing flurry of strings, a cocksure fanfare and a crowning flourish – you don’t need to know the name of this piece to realise, within seconds, that we’re in for swashbuckling adventure of the most breathless kind. Everyone’s heard of Don Juan – Casanova’s role-model, Mozart’s Don Giovanni and one of Johnny Depp’s most romantic roles. What kind of
Programme note © Richard Bratby
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London Philharmonic Orchestra • 2 February 2022 • Julia Fischer plays Mozart: Straight out of Salzburg
Programme notes Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756-91
Violin Concerto No. 3 in G major, K216 1775 Julia Fischer violin 1 Allegro 2 Adagio 3 Rondeau: Allegro Despite these peripatetic successes, it was Salzburg that was the real spiritual home of Mozart’s violin music. It was there – where violin concerto movements were as likely to be heard as outdoor entertainment music or as an embellishment to a church service as in a concert hall – that he first played a concerto at the age of seven, later toiled in the court orchestra, and as a teenager composed his five violin concertos – the first in 1773, and the remaining four in 1775. They may not probe the depths of his later, Viennese piano concertos, but it true to say that they all reveal some degree of Mozartian inspiration, often of the most ravishing kind. With their accent on lyricism and eloquent personal expressiveness rather than technical brilliance, they marked a new stage in the artistic development of the composer with whom, above all, such qualities were to become associated.
Although the prevailing image of Mozart the performer is that of a pianist, the part played by the violin in his early development as a musician was an equally important one. How, indeed, could it be otherwise when his father and teacher, Leopold, was the author of Violinschule, one of the 18th century’s most influential treatises on violin technique? Accounts of the child prodigy’s triumphs around Europe suggest that, at that stage at least, he was equally proficient on violin and keyboard, and right into the mid-1770s his letters home to his family contained reports of public appearances as a violinist: ‘I played Vanhal’s Violin Concerto in B flat, which was unanimously applauded’, he wrote from Augsburg in 1777. ‘In the evening at supper I played my Strasbourg Concerto, which went like oil. Everyone praised my beautiful, pure tone.’
Programme note © Lindsay Kemp
Interval – 20 minutes An announcement will be made five minutes before the end of the interval.
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Programme notes Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756-91
Violin Concerto No. 4 in D major, K218 1775 Julia Fischer violin 1 Allegro 2 Andante cantabile 3 Rondeau: Andante grazioso the tripping Allegro that interrupts its every appearance. And if there is a hint of pastoral dance about the latter, there is no mistaking the folk-music inspiration for the episode which occurs about halfway through the movement, when an exaggeratedly powdered Frenchstyle gavotte turns up, followed by a more rustic tune with bagpipe-like drones from the soloist. It would be a mistake, however, to imagine Mozart empathising too strongly with the lot of country folk; this is a rural world whose origins lie more in the make-believe of French ballet than in the realities of the Austrian countryside. Even so, it has a pleasantly calming atmosphere of its own, and helps to lead the Concerto towards a conclusion charmingly free of bombast.
The second of the four violin concertos that Mozart composed between June and December 1775, the Fourth is a work which breathes the air of confidence its composer had acquired only a month earlier in the better-known Third Concerto. Compared to its predecessor it is a less dreamy work, bolder and cleaner. The first movement is lean and muscular, yet at the same time maintains an elegant clarity and grace. And where the Third had revelled in delicate dialogue between soloist and orchestra, the Fourth allows the violin to indulge in a more continuous flow of melody, with the orchestra providing a supportive role. As ever in his concertos, Mozart also shows skill and imagination in the ordering and handling of his various themes. The little fanfare with which it opens, for instance, returns to inaugurate the first solo, its reappearance in a higher register transforming it into a lyrical statement. After that it is not heard again.
Programme note © Lindsay Kemp
The radiant Andante cantabile extends the dominance of the soloist, for after the orchestra’s opening statement, it is the violin that carries the song-like melody almost without interruption. This is violin-writing of the most serenely classical kind, making use both of the instrument’s clear higher register and of the soulful richness of its lower strings. The finale is a rondeau in which Mozart delights in keeping the listener guessing by constantly hopping between two different musics – the poised Andante grazioso with which it opens, and
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Programme notes Richard Strauss 1864–1949
Tod und Verklärung (Death and Transfiguration), Op. 24 1888–89
Tod und Verklärung, which Strauss himself conducted for the first time at a concert in Eisenach in June 1890, is a typically bold depiction in music of the dying moments of an idealistic artist. Although on his own deathbed 60 years later Strauss remarked that ‘dying is just as I composed it in Tod und Verklärung’, he did not seem to have had himself in mind when he wrote the piece in 1888–89, just after Don Juan. But even if the original inspiration for the work is unknown – he himself had as yet had no close encounters with death – it is clear that it did have some personal significance for him; he later quoted from it in the more transparently autobiographical tone-poem Ein Heldenleben (A Hero’s Life) and at the question ‘Is this perhaps death?’ at the end of ‘Im Abendrot’ from the Four Last Songs.
theme rises to dominate the work’s radiant closing pages, reaching ever higher as the soul takes flight, ‘in order’, said Strauss, ‘to find gloriously achieved in everlasting space those things which could not be fulfilled here below’. Programme note © Lindsay Kemp
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Tod und Verklärung is in sonata form with a slow introduction and a (significant) coda, and Strauss provided a detailed programme for it. At the beginning a sick man lies asleep, his faltering breathing represented by irregular rhythms on strings and timpani. A solo oboe leads off a section in which he is comforted by ‘agreeable dreams’ before a convulsive start to the main Allegro section of the work shows him wracked with pain and shivering with fear. Eventually the pains ease and a broad new theme is heard, characterised by an up-and-over octave leap; symbolic of the artist’s ideals, this is the theme Strauss re-used in those later works.
Recommended recordings of tonight’s works by Laurie Watt R Strauss: Don Juan London Philharmonic Orchestra | Bernard Haitink (LPO Label LPO-0079: see right) Mozart: Violin Concertos Nos. 3 & 4 Julia Fischer | Netherlands Chamber Orchestra Yakov Kreizberg (Pentatone)
In the central development section there are representations of the dying man’s memories of childhood, youthful exploits and a passionate love scene, while the idealism theme makes three differing and widely separated statements. After a while the music subsides along with the memories and we are returned to the fitful palpitations of the opening. A final stab of pain climaxes in kindly gong-strokes to signal the moment of death, but out of this darkness the idealism
R Strauss: Tod und Verklärung London Philharmonic Orchestra | Klaus Tennstedt (Warner download) or Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin Robin Ticciati (Linn Records)
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On the LPO Label: Strauss’s Don Juan Strauss: Don Juan Ein Heldenleben (A Hero’s Life) Bernard Haitink conductor £9.99 | LPO-0079 Don Juan recorded live at the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall on 3 December 1992. Ein Heldenleben recorded live at the Royal Albert Hall on 29 August 1986.
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HELP US OPEN THE DOORS TO MORE PEOPLE, AND SHARE THE MUSIC YOU LOVE. DONATE ONLINE AT LPO.ORG.UK/OPENTHEDOORS, OR CALL THE INDIVIDUAL GIVING TEAM ON 020 7840 4212 OR 020 7840 4225. THANK YOU.
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London Philharmonic Orchestra • 2 February 2022 • Julia Fischer plays Mozart: Straight out of Salzburg
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 QC Diana & Allan Morgenthau Charitable Trust Dr Karen Morton Mr Roger Phillimore Ruth Rattenbury The Reed Foundation The Rind Foundation Sir Bernard Rix
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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 • 2 February 2022 • Julia Fischer plays Mozart: Straight out of Salzburg
Thank you We are extremely grateful to all donors who have given generously to the LPO over the past year. Your generosity helps maintain the breadth and depth of the LPO’s activities, as well as supporting the Orchestra both on and off the concert platform.
Artistic Director’s Circle Anonymous donors Mrs Aline Foriel-Destezet Mrs Christina Lang Assael In memory of Mrs Rita Reay Sir Simon & Lady Robey OBE
Orchestra Circle
The Candide Trust William & Alex de Winton Aud Jebsen Mr & Mrs Philip Kan Neil Westreich The American Friends of the London Philharmonic Orchestra
Principal Associates
An anonymous donor Richard Buxton Gill & Garf Collins In memory of Brenda Lyndoe Casbon In memory of Ann Marguerite Collins Hamish & Sophie Forsyth The Tsukanov Family
Associates
Anonymous donors Steven M. Berzin Ms Veronika BorovikKhilchevskaya Irina Gofman & Mr Rodrik V. G. Cave The Lambert Family Charitable Trust Countess Dominique Loredan Mr & Mrs Makharinsky George Ramishvili Stuart & Bianca Roden Julian & Gill Simmonds In memory of Hazel Amy Smith Deanie & Jay Stein
Gold Patrons
An anonymous donor Chris Aldren David & Yi Buckley David Burke & Valerie Graham David & Elizabeth Challen In memory of Allner Mavis Channing Sonja Drexler The Vernon Ellis Foundation Peter & Fiona Espenhahn Marie-Laure Favre-Gilly de Varennes de Beuill Mr Roger Greenwood Malcolm Herring John & Angela Kessler Dame Theresa Sackler
Scott & Kathleen Simpson Eric Tomsett Andrew & Rosemary Tusa The Viney Family Guy & Utti Whittaker
Silver Patrons
Mrs A Beare The Rt Hon. The Lord Burns GCB Bruno De Kegel Jan & Leni Du Plessis Ulrike & Benno Engelmann Simon & Meg Freakley Pehr G Gyllenhammar The Jeniffer & Jonathan Harris Charitable Trust Catherine Høgel & Ben Mardle Wg. Cdr. & Mrs M T Liddiard OBE JP RAF Sofiya Machulskaya Mrs Elizabeth Meshkvicheva The Metherell Family Andrew Neill Peter & Lucy Noble Marianne Parsons Tom & Phillis Sharpe Laurence Watt Grenville & Krysia Williams
Marianne Parsons Dr Wiebke Pekrull Mr Gerald Pettit Mr Roger Phillimore Gillian Pole Mr Michael Posen Mr Christopher Querée Sir Bernard Rix Mr Robert Ross Priscylla Shaw Patrick & Belinda Snowball Charlotte Stevenson Mr Robert Swannell Tony & Hilary Vines Mr & Mrs John C Tucker Mr & Mrs John & Susi Underwood Marina Vaizey Jenny Watson CBE Mr John Weekes Christopher Williams
John Nickson & Simon Rew Mr James Pickford Michael & Carolyn Portillo Mr David Russell Colin Senneck & the Hartley and District LPO Group Mr John Shinton Nigel Silby Mr Brian Smith Martin & Cheryl Southgate Mr & Mrs G Stein Dr Peter Stephenson Mr Ian Tegner Dr June Wakefield Howard & Sheelagh Watson Joanna Williams Roger Woodhouse Mr John Wright
Principal Supporters
Anonymous donors Ralph & Elizabeth Aldwinckle Alexander & Rachel Antelme Julian & Annette Armstrong Lindsay Badenoch Mr Mark Bagshaw & Mr Ian Walker Mr John Barnard Mr John D Barnard Damaris, Richard & Friends Mr David Barrett Diana Barrett Mr Simon Baynham Harvey Bengen Nick & Rebecca Beresford Mr Paul Bland Mr Keith Bolderson Mr Andrew Botterill Julian & Margaret Bowden & Mr Paul Michel Richard & Jo Brass Mr & Mrs Shaun Brown Mr Alan C Butler Lady Cecilia Cadbury Mrs Marilyn Casford Alison Clarke & Leo Pilkington J Clay Mr Joshua Coger Mr Martin Compton Mr Martin Connelly Mr Stephen Connock Miss Tessa Cowie Mr David Davies Mr Roderick Davies Mr David Devons Anthony & Jo Diamond Miss Sylvia Dowle Patricia Dreyfus Mr Andrew Dyke Mr Declan Eardly Mrs Maureen Erskine Mr Peter Faulk
Anonymous donors Dr R M Aickin Mr Mark Astaire Sir John Baker Tessa Bartley Mr Geoffrey Bateman Mrs Julia Beine Mr Anthony Boswood Dr Anthony Buckland Dr Carlos Carreno Mr Julien Chilcott-Monk Mr & Mrs Stewart Cohen David & Liz Conway Mr Alistair Corbett Andrew Davenport Mr Simon Douglas Mr B C Fairhall Mr Richard Fernyhough Mrs Janet Flynn Mrs Ash Frisby Jason George Mr Stephen Goldring Mr Daniel Goldstein Mr Milton Grundy Prof. Emeritus John Gruzelier Nerissa Guest & David Foreman Michael & Christine Henry Mark & Sarah Holford Ivan Hurry Per Jonsson Alexandra Jupin & John Bean Mr Ian Kapur Ms Kim J Koch Richard & Briony Linsell Paul & Brigitta Lock Mr Peter Mace Nicholas & Lindsay Merriman Andrew T Mills Simon & Fiona Mortimore Mrs Terry Neale
Bronze Patrons
Anonymous donors Michael Allen Dr Manon Antoniazzi Julian & Annette Armstrong Roger & Clare Barron Mr Philip Bathard-Smith Sir Peter Bazalgette Mikhail Noskov & Vasilina Bindley Mr Bernard Bradbury Sally Bridgeland In memory of Julie Bromley Desmond & Ruth Cecil Mr John H Cook Howard & Veronika Covington John & Sam Dawson Cameron & Kathryn Doley David Ellen Christopher Fraser OBE Virginia Gabbertas MBE David & Jane Gosman Mr Gavin Graham Mrs Dorothy Hambleton J Douglas Home The Jackman Family Mr & Mrs Ralph Kanza Jamie & Julia Korner Rose & Dudley Leigh Drs Frank & Gek Lim Nicholas & Felicity Lyons Geoff & Meg Mann Harriet & Michael Maunsell
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Thank you
Mr Joe Field Ms Chrisine Louise Fluker Mr Kevin Fogarty Mr Richard France Mr Bernard Freudenthal Mrs Adele Friedland & Friends Will Gold Mrs Alison Goulter Mr Andrew Gunn Mr K Haines Mr Martin Hale Roger Hampson Mr Graham Hart Mr & Mrs Nevile Henderson The Jackman Family Martin Kettle Mr Justin Kitson Ms Yvonne Lock Mrs Sally Manning Belinda Miles Dr Joe Mooney Christopher & Diane Morcom Dame Jane Newell DBE Oliver & Josie Ogg Mr Stephen Olton Mr David Peters Nadya Powell Ms Caroline Priday Mr Richard Rolls Mr Richard Rowland Mr & Mrs Alan Senior Tom Sharpe Mr Kenneth Shaw Ruth Silvestre Barry & Gillian Smith Mr David Southern Ms Mary Stacey Mr Simon Starr Mrs Margaret Thompson Philip & Katie Thonemann Mr Owen Toller Mrs Rose Tremain Ms Mary Stacey Ms Caroline Tate Mr Peter Thierfeldt Dr Ann Turrall Michael & Katie Urmston Dr June Wakefield Mr Dominic Wallis Mrs C Willaims Joanna Williams Mr Kevin Willmering Mr David Woodhead
Hon. Life Members
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:
Alfonso Aijón Kenneth Goode Carol Colburn Grigor CBE Pehr G Gyllenhammar Robert Hill Mrs Jackie Rosenfeld OBE Laurence Watt
Simon Freakley Chairman Jay Goffman Alexandra Jupin William A. Kerr Kristina McPhee Natalie Pray Damien Vanderwilt Elizabeth Winter Victoria Robey OBE Hon. Director Jenifer L. Keiser, CPA, EisnerAmper LLP
LPO International Board of Governors
Natasha Tsukanova Chair Steven M. Berzin (USA) Veronika Borovik-Khilchevskaya (Cyprus) Marie-Laure Favre Gilly de Varennes de Bueil (France) Aline Foriel-Destezet (France) Irina Gofman (Russia) Countess Dominique Loredan (Italy) Olivia Ma (Greater China Area) Olga Makharinsky (Russia) George Ramishvili (Georgia) Victoria Robey OBE (USA) Jay Stein (USA)
Corporate Donors
Barclays CHANEL Fund for Women in the Arts and Culture Pictet Bank
LPO Corporate Circle Leader
Thomas Beecham Group Members
freuds Sunshine
Chris Aldren David & Yi Buckley Gill & Garf Collins William & Alex de Winton Sonja Drexler The Friends of the LPO Irina Gofman Roger Greenwood Dr Barry Grimaldi Mr & Mrs Philip Kan John & Angela Kessler Countess Dominique Loredan Sir Simon Robey Victoria Robey OBE Bianca & Stuart Roden Caroline, Jamie & Zander Sharp Julian & Gill Simmonds Eric Tomsett Neil Westreich Guy & Utti Whittaker
Principal Berenberg Bloomberg Carter-Ruck French Chamber of Commerce
Tutti Lazard Russo-British Chamber of Commerce Walpole
Trialist Allianz Musical Insurance Sciteb
Preferred Partners Gusbourne Estate Lidl Lindt & Sprüngli Ltd OneWelbeck Steinway
Hon. Benefactor Elliott Bernerd
In-kind Sponsor Google Inc
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Trusts and Foundations The Boltini Trust Borrows Charitable Trust Boshier-Hinton Foundation The Candide Trust Cockayne – Grants for the Arts The London Community Foundation The David Solomons Charitable Trust The D’Oyly Carte Charitable Trust Dunard Fund Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation The Fidelio Charitable Trust Foyle Foundation Garrick Charitable Trust The Leche Trust Lucille Graham Trust John Horniman’s Children’s Trust John Thaw Foundation The Idlewild Trust Kirby Laing Foundation The Marchus Trust Adam Mickiewicz Institute PRS Foundation The Radcliffe Trust Rivers Foundation The R K Charitable Trust Romanian Cultural Institute Rothschild Foundation RVW Trust Schroder Charity Trust Serge Rachmaninoff Foundation Sir William Boreman’s Foundation Souter Charitable Trust The Stanley Picker Trust The Thomas Deane Trust The Thriplow Charitable Trust The Vaughan Williams Charitable Trust The Victoria Wood Foundation The Viney Family The Barbara Whatmore Charitable Trust The William Alwyn Foundation
and all others who wish to remain anonymous. The LPO would also like to acknowledge all those who have made donations to the Play On Appeal and who have supported the Orchestra during the COVID-19 pandemic.
London Philharmonic Orchestra • 2 February 2022 • Julia Fischer plays Mozart: Straight out of Salzburg
London Philharmonic Orchestra Administration Board of Directors Victoria Robey OBE Chairman Martin Höhmann* President Dr Catherine C. Høgel Vice-Chairman Mark Vines* Vice-President Kate Birchall* David Buckley David Burke Bruno De Kegel Deborah Dolce Tanya Joseph Hugh Kluger* Al MacCuish Tania Mazzetti* Stewart McIlwham* Jamie Njoku-Goodwin Andrew Tusa Neil Westreich Simon Freakley (Ex officio – Chairman of the American Friends of the London Philharmonic Orchestra) *Player-Director
Advisory Council Martin Höhmann Chairman Christopher Aldren Dr Manon Antoniazzi Roger Barron Richard Brass Helen Brocklebank YolanDa Brown Simon Callow CBE Desmond Cecil CMG Sir Alan Collins KCVO CMG Andrew Davenport Guillaume Descottes Cameron Doley Christopher Fraser OBE Lord Hall of Birkenhead CBE Jonathan Harris CBE FRICS Marianna Hay MBE Amanda Hill Rehmet Kassim-Lakha Jamie Korner Geoff Mann Clive Marks OBE FCA Stewart McIlwham Andrew Neill Nadya Powell Sir Bernard Rix Victoria Robey OBE Baroness Shackleton Thomas Sharpe QC Julian Simmonds Barry Smith
Finance
Martin Southgate Chris Viney Laurence Watt Elizabeth Winter
Frances Slack Finance Director Dayse Guilherme Finance Manager
General Administration
Jean-Paul Ramotar Finance and IT Officer
Elena Dubinets Artistic Director David Burke Chief Executive Chantelle Vircavs PA to the Executive
Education and Community Talia Lash Interim Education and Community Director
Concert Management
Rebecca Parslow Education and Community Project Manager
Roanna Gibson Concerts Director Graham Wood Concerts and Recordings Manager
Hannah Foakes Tilly Gugenheim Education and Community Project Co-ordinators
Fabio Sarlo Glyndebourne and Projects Manager
Development
Grace Ko Tours Manager
Laura Willis Development Director
Alison Jones Concerts and Recordings Co-ordinator
Scott Tucker Development Events Manager
Christina Perrin Concerts and Tours Assistant Matthew Freeman Recordings Consultant Andrew Chenery Orchestra Personnel Manager
Marketing Kath Trout Marketing and Communications Director Mairi Warren Marketing Manager Rachel Williams Publications Manager
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Greg Felton Digital Creative Kiera Lockard 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 Simon Owen-Johnstone Hon. Orthopaedic Surgeon
Kirstin Peltonen Development Associate
Felix Lo Orchestra and Auditions Manager
Sophie Harvey Digital and Residencies Marketing Manager
Rosie Morden Individual Giving Manager
Nick Jackman Campaigns and Projects Director
Freddie Jackson Assistant Stage Manager
Ruth Knight Press and PR Manager
Mr Chris Aldren Honorary ENT Surgeon
Priya Radhakrishnan Georgia Wiltshire Development Assistants
Laura Kitson Stephen O’Flaherty Stage Managers
Gavin Miller Sales and Ticketing Manager
Stef Woodford Corporate Relations Manager
Anna Quillin Trusts and Foundations Manager
Sarah Thomas Martin Sargeson Librarians
Harrie Mayhew Website Manager
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 photo Felix Broede 2021/22 season identity JMG Studio Printer John Good Ltd