London Philharmonic Orchestra 8 Oct 2016 concert programme by London Philharmonic Orchestra

MUSIC IS OUR WORLD. WE WANT TO SHARE ITS ASTONISHING POWER AND WONDER WITH YOU. Concert programme lpo.org.uk

Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor VLADIMIR JUROWSKI supported by the Tsukanov Family Foundation Principal Guest Conductor ANDRÉS OROZCO-ESTRADA Leader pieter schoeman supported by Neil Westreich Composer in Residence magnus lindberg Patron HRH THE DUKE OF KENT KG Chief Executive and Artistic Director TIMOTHY WALKER AM

Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall Saturday 8 October 2016 | 7.30pm

Sibelius Suite, King Kristian II (23’) Panufnik Violin Concerto* (22’) Interval (20’) Shostakovich Symphony No. 5 (46’)

Thomas Søndergård conductor Sergej Krylov violin * Organised in collaboration with the Adam Mickiewicz Institute as part of the Polska Music programme

Free pre-concert event 6.15–6.45pm | Royal Festival Hall Lady Camilla Panufnik joins BBC Radio 3’s Petroc Trelawny to share an insight into her late husband’s life and music.

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 About the Orchestra 5 Leader: Pieter Schoeman 6 Thomas Søndergård 7 Sergej Krylov 8 Programme notes 11 Recommended recordings Next concerts 13 Sound Futures donors 14 Supporters 16 LPO administration

Welcome

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LPO news

This month’s LPO Label release: Wagner Just released on the LPO Label is Act 1 of Wagner’s opera Die Walküre, recorded in 1991 at Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall (LPO-0092). This marks conductor Klaus Tennstedt’s 16th release on the label, and also features soloists Eva-Maria Bundschuh (Sieglinde), René Kollo (Siegmund) and John Tomlinson (Hunding). Priced £9.99, it is available from lpo.org.uk/recordings, the LPO Ticket Office (020 7840 4242) and all good CD outlets. Download or stream online via iTunes, Spotify, Amazon and others. Ravi Shankar’s Sukanya: May 2017 In May 2017 the Orchestra will take part in the first performances of an opera by Indian music legend Ravi Shankar. Shankar was composing his pioneering opera Sukanya at the time of his death in 2012, and it explores the common ground between the music, dance and theatrical traditions of India and the West. Conductor and collaborator David Murphy – who worked with Shankar for many years, notably conducting the world premiere of his Symphony with the LPO in 2010 – completed the opera with help from Anoushka Shankar, Ravi Shankar’s daughter. The four performances will take place at Leicester’s Curve (world premiere, 12 May), The Lowry, Salford (14 May), Symphony Hall Birmingham (15 May) and London’s Southbank Centre (19 May).

PHOTOGRAPHY is not allowed in the auditorium.

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LATECOMERS will only be admitted to the auditorium if there is a suitable break in the performance.

Sukanya is a co-production between The Royal Opera, the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Curve, Leicester. The 19 May performance is a co-production between The Royal Opera, the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Curve, Leicester in association with Southbank Centre, with generous philanthropic support from Arts Council England and the Bagri Foundation.

RECORDING is not permitted in the auditorium without the prior consent of Southbank Centre. Southbank Centre reserves the right to confiscate video or sound equipment and hold it in safekeeping until the performance has ended. MOBILES, PAGERS AND WATCHES should be switched off before the performance begins.

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Out now The Autumn/Winter 2016 edition of Tune In, our free twice-yearly magazine. Copies are available at the LPO Information Desk in the foyer, or phone the LPO office on 020 7840 4200 to receive one in the post. Also available digitally: issuu.com/londonphilharmonic

On stage tonight

First Violins Pieter Schoeman* Leader Chair supported by Neil Westreich

Vesselin Gellev Sub-Leader Katalin Varnagy Chair supported by Sonja Drexler

Catherine Craig Thomas Eisner Martin Höhmann Robert Pool Sarah Streatfeild Yang Zhang Grace Lee Rebecca Shorrock Caroline Frenkel Galina Tanney Jacqueline Martens Helen Ayres Deborah Gruman Second Violins Helena Smart Guest Principal Jeongmin Kim Chair supported by Friends of the Orchestra

Nancy Elan Lorenzo Gentili-Tedeschi Nynke Hijlkema Joseph Maher Ashley Stevens Robin Wilson Philip Brett Sheila Law Emma Wragg Marie Schreer Elizabeth Baldey Jamie Hutchinson

Violas Rachel Roberts Guest Principal Gregory Aronovich Susanne Martens Benedetto Pollani Emmanuella Reiter Laura Vallejo Naomi Holt Isabel Pereira Alistair Scahill Stanislav Popov Martin Fenn Sarah Malcolm Cellos Pei-Jee Ng Principal Laura Donoghue Santiago Carvalho† Chair co-supported by Molly & David Borthwick

David Lale Elisabeth Wiklander Chair supported by Drs Oliver & Asha Foster

Sue Sutherley Helen Rowlands George Hoult Philip Taylor Iain Ward Double Basses Kevin Rundell* Principal Thomas Walley George Peniston Laurence Lovelle Charlotte Kerbegian Ben Wolstenholme Jakub Cywiński Helen Rowlands

Flutes Sue Thomas* Principal Chair supported by Victoria Robey OBE

Claire Childs Stewart McIlwham*

Trumpets Paul Beniston* Principal Philip Cobb Guest Principal Anne McAneney* Chair supported by Geoff & Meg Mann

Toby Street Piccolos Stewart McIlwham* Principal Sue Thomas* Oboes Ian Hardwick* Principal Alice Munday Clarinets Michael Whight Guest Principal Thomas Watmough James Maltby E-flat Clarinet Thomas Watmough Principal Bassoons Jonathan Davies Principal Gareth Newman Contrabassoon Simon Estell Principal Horns David Pyatt* Principal Chair supported by Simon Robey

John Ryan* Principal Chair supported by Laurence Watt

Martin Hobbs Duncan Fuller Gareth Mollison

Trombones Mark Templeton* Principal Chair supported by William & Alex de Winton

David Whitehouse Bass Trombone Lyndon Meredith Principal Tuba Lee Tsarmaklis* Principal Timpani Simon Carrington* Principal Percussion Andrew Barclay* Principal Chair supported by Andrew Davenport

Henry Baldwin Co-Principal Keith Millar Jeremy Cornes Harp Rachel Masters Principal Piano/Celeste Catherine Edwards * Holds a professorial appointment in London † Chevalier of the Brazilian Order of Rio Branco Meet our members: lpo.org.uk/players

The London Philharmonic Orchestra also acknowledges the following chair supporters whose players are not present at this concert: An anonymous donor · David & Yi Buckley · Dr Barry Grimaldi · Bianca & Stuart Roden · Caroline, Jamie & Zander Sharp · Eric Tomsett

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Everything about this performance ... was perfect ... one of the best pieces of orchestral playing I have heard in quite a long time. Seen and Heard international, February 2015

Recognised today as one of the finest orchestras on the international stage, the London Philharmonic Orchestra balances a long and distinguished history with a reputation as one of the UK’s most forwardlooking ensembles. As well as its performances in the concert hall, the Orchestra also records film and video game soundtracks, releases CDs on its own record label, and reaches thousands of people every year through activities for families, schools and local communities. The Orchestra was founded by Sir Thomas Beecham in 1932. It has since been headed by many of the world’s greatest conductors including Sir Adrian Boult, Bernard Haitink, Sir Georg Solti, Klaus Tennstedt and Kurt Masur. Vladimir Jurowski is currently the Orchestra’s Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor, appointed in 2007. Andrés Orozco-Estrada took up the position of Principal Guest Conductor in September 2015. Magnus Lindberg is the Orchestra’s current Composer in Residence. The Orchestra is resident at Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall in London, where it gives around 40 concerts each season. Throughout 2016 the LPO joined many of the UK’s other leading cultural institutions in Shakespeare400, celebrating the Bard’s legacy 400

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years since his death. In 2017 we will collaborate with Southbank Centre on Belief and Beyond Belief: a year-long multi-artform festival. Other 2016/17 season highlights include the return of Osmo Vänskä to conduct the Sibelius symphonies alongside major British concertos by Britten, Elgar, Walton and Vaughan Williams; Jurowski’s continuation of his Mahler and Brucker symphony cycles; landmark contemporary works by Steve Reich, Philip Glass, John Adams and Gavin Bryars; and premieres of new works by Aaron Jay Kernis and the Orchestra’s Composer in Residence Magnus Lindberg. Outside London, the Orchestra has flourishing residencies in Brighton and Eastbourne, and performs regularly around the UK. Each summer the Orchestra takes up its annual residency at Glyndebourne Festival Opera in the Sussex countryside, 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. Touring remains a large part of the Orchestra’s life: the 2015/16 season included visits

Pieter Schoeman leader

to Mexico, Spain, Germany, the Canary Islands and Russia; and tour plans for 2016/17 include New York, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Spain, France, Belgium, The Netherlands and Switzerland.

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 London Philharmonic Orchestra is committed to inspiring the next generation of musicians through an energetic programme of activities for young people. Highlights include the BrightSparks schools’ concerts and FUNharmonics family concerts; the Young Composers Programme; and the Foyle Future Firsts orchestral training programme for outstanding young players. Its work at the forefront of digital engagement has enabled the Orchestra to reach even more people worldwide: all its recordings are available to download from iTunes and, as well as regular concert streamings and a popular podcast series, the Orchestra has a lively presence on social media. lpo.org.uk facebook.com/londonphilharmonicorchestra twitter.com/LPOrchestra youtube.com/c/londonphilharmonicorchestra instagram.com/londonphilharmonicorchestra

The London Philharmonic Orchestra has recorded the soundtracks to numerous blockbuster films, 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 90 releases available on CD and to download: recent additions include Bruckner’s Symphony No. 5 with veteran maestro Stanisław Skrowaczewski; a disc of Stravinsky works with Vladimir Jurowski; and Act 1 of Wagner’s Die Walküre with Klaus Tennstedt.

Pieter Schoeman was appointed Leader of the London Philharmonic Orchestra in 2008, having previously been Co-Leader since 2002. Born in South Africa, Pieter made his solo debut aged 10 with the Cape Town Symphony Orchestra. Five years later he won the World Youth Concerto Competition in Michigan. Aged 17, he moved to the US to further his studies in Los Angeles and Dallas. In 1991 his talent was spotted by Pinchas Zukerman who, after several consultations, recommended that he move to New York to study with Sylvia Rosenberg. 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 Southbank Centre’s Queen Elizabeth Hall in London. As a chamber musician he regularly appears at London’s prestigious Wigmore Hall. At the invitation of Yannick Nézet-Séguin he has been part of the ‘Yannick and Friends’ chamber group, performing at festivals in Dortmund and Rheingau. Pieter has performed several times as a soloist with the LPO, and his live recording of Britten’s Double Concerto with Alexander Zemtsov was released on the Orchestra’s own label to great critical acclaim. He has also recorded numerous violin solos for film and television, and led the LPO in its soundtrack recordings for The Lord of the Rings trilogy. In 1995 Pieter became Co-Leader of the Orchestre Philharmonique de Nice. Since then he has appeared frequently as Guest Leader with the Barcelona, Bordeaux, Lyon, Baltimore and BBC symphony orchestras, and the Rotterdam and BBC Philharmonic orchestras. In April 2016 he was Guest Leader with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra for Kurt Masur’s memorial concert. He is a Professor of Violin at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in London. Pieter’s chair in the London Philharmonic Orchestra is supported by Neil Westreich.

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Thomas Søndergård conductor

Impassioned, flamboyant, endlessly enthusiastic.

The Guardian, BBC Proms 2013

Danish conductor Thomas Søndergård is Principal Conductor of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Principal Guest Conductor of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra; prior to this, he was for three seasons Principal Conductor and Musical Advisor of the Norwegian Radio Orchestra. Tonight’s concert is Thomas’s debut with the London Philharmonic Orchestra. Last month he stepped in at just three days’ notice to make his debut with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, replacing an indisposed Xian Zhang. Other plans for this season include his debut with Deutsche Oper Berlin (the world premiere of Andrea Lorenzo Scartazzini’s Edward II) and return visits to the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra and Den Norske Opera. Projects with the RSNO include Sibelius’s Violin Concerto with Janine Jansen, and with BBC National Orchestra of Wales Stravinsky’s complete Firebird, as well as recordings, touring and the BBC Proms. Recent seasons have included appearances with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Deutsches SymphonieOrchester Berlin, Mahler Chamber Orchestra and Bamberg Symphony; and tours with the Rotterdam, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Brussels, Oslo and Royal Stockholm philharmonic orchestras; the Swedish Radio, Danish National and Gothenburg symphony orchestras; the Toronto, Atlanta, Vancouver, Houston and Seattle symphony orchestras; and the BBC Symphony and Philharmonia orchestras. A passionate supporter of the music of Carl Nielsen, Thomas’s most recent programme with the Swedish

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Radio Symphony Orchestra (Symphony No. 5) received wide praise as ‘equal of the great pioneers of Nielsen interpretation … It’s harder to imagine a finer performance of this remarkable symphony’ (Dagens Nyheter). As part of the 2015 anniversary celebrations of both Sibelius and Nielsen, Thomas conducted a wide variety of works by these two composers with many leading orchestras. Thomas Søndergård is also an experienced opera conductor, at home in both mainstream and contemporary repertoire. Recent seasons have included Tosca, Turandot (with soprano Nina Stemme) and Les dialogues des Carmelites for Royal Swedish Opera. He was described as a ‘sensation’ at his debut with the Royal Danish Opera, conducting Poul Ruders’s opera Kafka’s Trial, and subsequent productions there have included The Barber of Seville, The Marriage of Figaro, La bohème and The Cunning Little Vixen. Last season he made his Norwegian Opera debut with its new, highly successful The Magic Flute. In spring 2015 Thomas Søndergård and BBC National Orchestra of Wales released their first commercial recording of Sibelius’s Symphonies Nos. 2 and 7 (Linn Records). Other noteworthy recordings include Vilde Frang’s celebrated first recording for EMI, and Poul Ruders’s Second Piano Concerto on Bridge Records, which was nominated for a 2011 Gramophone Award. Admired for his interpretations of Scandinavian contemporary repertoire, his discography also includes a number of other contemporary works. @tsondergard

Sergej Krylov violin

Krylov’s playing had all the fierce physicality Gubaidulina’s score requires. At times it felt as if he was wrestling with it, so often did he twist and turn his body to extract the swooping and stabbing solo phrases from the musical marble. The Guardian, Krylov/LPO at Royal Festival Hall, 6 November 2013

Sergej Krylov has established himself as one of the most talented violinists of his generation. He is regularly invited to perform at prestigious concert halls worldwide and has appeared with orchestras including the Staatskapelle Dresden, Philharmonique de Radio France, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Filarmonica della Scala, Accademia di Santa Cecilia and Hessischer Rundfunk Frankfurt, as well as the St Petersburg Philharmonic, Royal Philharmonic, Copenhagen Philharmonic, Russian National Symphony, NHK Symphony (Tokyo), Atlanta Symphony, English Chamber and Budapest Festival orchestras. He last appeared with the London Philharmonic Orchestra at Royal Festival Hall in November 2013, when he performed Sofia Gubaidulina’s Offertorium. Among the important personalities with whom Sergej has worked, his friendship with the conductor and cellist Mstislav Rostropovich has been one of the most significant influences in his artistic life. Krylov has appeared with many conductors including Vladimir Jurowski, Mikhail Pletnev, Dmitri Kitajenko, Valery Gergiev, Andrey Boreyko, Fabio Luisi, Omer Meir Wellber, Yuri Temirkanov, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Asher Fisch, Vasily Petrenko, Nicola Luisotti, Saulius Sondeckis, Zoltán Kocsis and Yuri Bashmet.

Sergej devotes a great deal of time to chamber music projects, playing alongside Denis Matsuev, Yuri Bashmet, Itamar Golan, Lilya Zilberstein, Aleksandar Madžar, Bruno Canino, Stefania Mormone, Maxim Rysanov, Nobuko Imai, the Belcea Quartet and Elīna Garanča. Since 2008 he has been Music Director of the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra and regularly takes on the double role of soloist and conductor in a wide repertoire ranging from Baroque music to contemporary works. Sergej’s discography, in addition to the release of the Paganini 24 Caprices, includes recordings for EMI and Melodya. Born in Moscow into a family of musicians, Sergej Krylov began studying the violin at the age of five and completed his studies at the Moscow Central Music School. While still very young he won the International Lipizer Violin Competition, the Stradivarius International Violin Competition and the Fritz Kreisler Competition.

Highlights of the 2016/17 season include concerto performances with the Berliner Konzerthaus Orchestra, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Orchestra della RAI Torino, Basel Symphony Orchestra and New Tokyo City Orchestra. With his Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra, Sergej embarks on a European tour, both as a soloist and conductor. Multiple recitals for solo violin and with piano complete his calendar.

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Programme notes

Speedread This programme consists of music by three of the leading symphonists of the 20th century – though only one of them is represented by a symphony.

manipulation of a small number of three-note cells to create singing melodic lines and propulsive forward drive.

The Finnish composer Jean Sibelius wrote his incidental music to the play King Kristian II in 1898, before embarking on his series of symphonies. The music, which has affinities with some of the earlier works in that series, portrays the 16th-century ruler of Denmark, Norway and (briefly) Sweden as fond lover, proud head of state and vengeful tyrant.

The Fifth Symphony of the Soviet Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich is a landmark in his cycle of 15. It was written in 1937, when the composer had fallen out of favour with the Soviet regime and seemed likely to become one of the numberless victims of Stalin’s Terror. After a large-scale opening movement of bleak intensity, a nervous scherzo, and an elegiac slow movement, the finale comes to an apparently optimistic conclusion which was enough to win the work official approval, but which some informed listeners even at the time recognised as deeply ironic.

Andrzej Panufnik, born in Poland but a British citizen for many years, composed his Violin Concerto of 1971 (with string orchestra) for the great violinist Yehudi Menuhin. It resembles his later symphonies in its

Jean Sibelius 1865–1957

Sibelius composed his incidental music for the play King Kristian II, by his Swedish friend Adolf Paul, in 1898. Initially, for the premiere production at the Swedish Theatre in Helsinki in February that year, he provided three short instrumental pieces and a song, all scored for small orchestra. Then during the summer he added three further pieces for larger forces: ostensibly for a new production in Stockholm (though in the event the theatre’s pit proved too small to accommodate the orchestra required); but chiefly, it seems, to form the core of a concert suite which would be taken up by conductors and publishers. The Suite was indeed accepted into the catalogue of the leading Berlin publisher Breitkopf and Härtel, and was one of the works through which Sibelius first became known outside his native Finland. 8 | London Philharmonic Orchestra

Suite: King Kristian II (1898) 1 Nocturne 2 Elegy and Musette 3 Serenade 4 Ballade

The subject of the play is Kristian II, King of Denmark and Norway from 1513 to 1523. When he married into the family of the imperial Hapsburgs in 1515, Kristian continued his affair with a mistress of Dutch bourgeois origin, Dyveke (‘little dove’). After her sudden death in 1517, he accused a nobleman of poisoning her and had him summarily tried and executed. Kristian made three attempts to gain the throne of Sweden; the third was briefly successful, but in an attempt to strengthen his position he had a large number of his opponents arrested at a banquet and publicly beheaded, in what became known as ‘the Stockholm bloodbath’ – prompting a revolt that forced him to withdraw from the country. Later, he was overthrown by opponents in Denmark, and he spent most of his later years under house arrest.

Sibelius’s Suite begins with a romantic entr’acte called ‘Nocturne’. This has been described as anticipating the composer’s First Symphony of 1900 in its musical language; but with its D major tonality, six-in-a-bar motion and melodies made largely out of fragments of scales, it has greater affinities with the Second Symphony of 1902. This movement is followed by two of the pieces for small orchestra that formed Sibelius’s original score. The grieving ‘Elegy’, for strings only, was played as the overture to the Helsinki production; the ‘Musette’, a dance for Dyveke, imitates the sound

of street musicians, including a bagpiper, through the sonorities of clarinets, bassoons and undulating strings with a static bass line. The ‘Serenade’, designed to preface a scene at court, begins and ends with a stately minuet, but in between becomes more personal and impassioned in tone. The Suite ends with the dramatic ‘Ballade’, an entr’acte depicting ‘the Stockholm bloodbath’. Here the insistence of the string figuration and the openness of the textures look as far ahead as Sibelius’s Third Symphony of 1907.

Sir Andrzej Panufnik

Violin Concerto (1971)

1914–1991

Andrzej Panufnik was born in Warsaw, and survived the Second World War there to become one of the leading figures in the post-war rebuilding of Polish music, as both composer and conductor. But in 1954, in reaction to the Stalinist suppression of his more advanced music, he made a dramatic escape to the West, and was granted political asylum in Britain. After two seasons as music director of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, from 1957 to 1959, he resigned to concentrate on composition. Although he was neglected by much of the British musical establishment, his works were championed by several leading musicians. In 1990, following the fall of the Polish Communist regime, he made a triumphant return to his homeland, conducting his own music at the Warsaw Autumn festival. He was knighted in the 1991 New Year Honours List, and died later that year, aged 77. Panufnik wrote his Violin Concerto in 1971 for the distinguished violinist and conductor Yehudi Menuhin. With an accompaniment for strings only, it was designed to be played and directed by Menuhin with his Menuhin Festival Orchestra. But in the end the first performance, at the City of London Festival in July 1972, was conducted by the composer. The commission must

Sergej Krylov violin 1 Rubato 2 Adagio – 3 Vivace

have been a congenial one, because Panufnik’s father had been an expert violin maker, and because of the composer’s admiration for Menuhin’s ‘unique spiritual and poetic qualities as a player’. The work accordingly treats the solo violin as ‘a singing instrument’ in long melodic lines. Yet these lines, and all the parts, are generated from a small number of three-note cells – a typical example of Panufnik’s lifelong melding of expression and construction, heart and head. The first movement is called Rubato, an invitation to rhythmically flexible playing. It is framed and punctuated by three short cadenzas for the soloist, which enclose and separate two long episodes for soloist and orchestra, the first getting faster as it goes on, the second speeding up and then slowing down. The central slow movement has a main theme featuring Panufnik’s characteristic alternation between bright major and dark minor thirds, over a Purcelllike descending bass line. This theme reappears at the centre of the movement on pizzicato violins and violas, beneath a solo violin descant, and returns again towards the end with the marking molto tranquillo (very calm). Continued overleaf

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The finale is a rondo in a fast jig time, enlivened by frequent cross-rhythms against the beat. A central interlude features the unusual sonority of long-held notes in the solo part, each doubled by the same note repeated in an orchestral section, half playing col legno (‘with the wood’ of the bow) and half pizzicato; the faster coda include some wide downward glissandi (slides) in the orchestra, as well as some strenuous multiple-stopping (chordal playing) by the soloist.

‘In this almost dance-like movement, I wanted the soloist to convey the most human feelings of joyousness, vitality and even some sense of humour.’ Andrzej Panufnik on the finale of his Violin Concerto

Interval – 20 minutes An announcement will be made five minutes before the end of the interval.

Dmitri Shostakovich 1906–75

The fifth of Shostakovich’s fifteen symphonies was written between April and July 1937, and first performed by the Leningrad Philharmonic under Evgeny Mravinsky in November 1937. It was the composer’s first major work since his opera The Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District had been severely criticised in the Soviet press, at the direct instigation of Stalin, and Shostakovich had been declared ‘an enemy of the people’. The Symphony, dubbed by a journalist ‘a Soviet artist’s creative reply to justified criticism’, represented a considerable risk. In order to rehabilitate himself, Shostakovich could simply have written a suitably populist patriotic cantata, rather than tackling the dangerously ‘formalist’ medium of the abstract symphony. But by writing a symphony, he made it clear that his ‘creative reply’ was on his own terms. And the work’s immediate success with the public, together with its seeming conformity to Soviet insistence on a positive conclusion, won him back a place in official favour – which was to be strengthened by the international

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Symphony No. 5, Op. 47 (1937) 1 Moderato 2 Allegretto 3 Largo 4 Allegro non troppo

acclaim won by the wartime Leningrad Symphony, and threatened only by the next round of anti-modernist purges in 1948. The moderately paced D minor first movement establishes the scale and seriousness of the whole Symphony. The opening section introduces two groups of themes, the first rhetorical, the second much more lyrical; the development section (which begins where the piano first enters) gradually accelerates in tempo, with brutal parodies of the main themes; the recapitulation of the themes winds down from a long declamatory melody in unharmonised octaves, to end in tranquillity. The second movement is a scherzo and trio in A minor, reminiscent of the symphonic scherzos of Mahler in its easy-going Ländler tempo and its mood of edgy good humour. It is followed by an F sharp minor Largo of elegiac and sometimes tragic intensity: the movement

(scored without the brass and with much-divided string sections) unfolds organically, with remarkably little exact repetition, from the quiet opening to the passionate climax, and finally dies away into silence. The finale turns the shape of the first movement inside out. It begins with a powerful, accelerating D minor march; there is a slower central section, which transforms ideas from the march into calm, expressive melodies, and attains a mood of great stillness; and finally the march returns as if approaching from the distance, to end resplendently in D major. This was the apparently optimistic ending that won Shostakovich official rehabilitation; but even at the time sympathetic listeners seem to have realised that it had a double edge. In Testimony, the composer’s supposed memoirs, which certainly reflect his state of mind towards the end of his life, its optimism is described as forced: ‘It’s as if someone were beating you with a stick, and you rise, shakily, and go marching off muttering, “our business is rejoicing, our business is rejoicing”. What kind of apotheosis is that?’ Programme notes © Anthony Burton

Next concerts at Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall Wednesday 12 October 2016 7.30pm Haydn Overture, The Apothecary Mozart Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor, K491 Mahler Symphony No. 4 Vladimir Jurowski conductor Lucas Debargue piano Sofia Fomina soprano

saturday 15 October 2016 7.30pm Stravinsky Symphonies of Wind Instruments (1947 version) Stravinsky Variations (Aldous Huxley in Memoriam) Zimmermann Violin Concerto Henze Symphony No. 7 Vladimir Jurowski conductor Thomas Zehetmair violin

Free pre-concert event | 6:15pm

Recommended recordings of tonight’s works Many of our recommended recordings, where available, are on sale this evening at the Foyles stand in the Royal Festival Hall foyer. Sibelius: Suite, King Kristian II Osmo Vänskä | Lahti Symphony Orchestra (BIS) Panufnik: Violin Concerto Alexander Sitkovetsky | New European Strings Chamber Orchestra | Dmitry Sitkovetsky (EMI/Angel Records) Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5 Kurt Masur | London Philharmonic Orchestra (LPO Label, LPO-0001)

Gramophone critic and Henze biographer Guy Rickards looks at Henze’s importance as a 20th-century symphonist.

Wednesday 19 October 2016 7.30pm sibelius symphony cycle Sibelius Karelia Suite Britten Violin Concerto Sibelius Symphony No. 1 Osmo Vänskä conductor Simone Lamsma violin

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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

The Rothschild Foundation Tom & Phillis Sharpe The Viney Family

Haitink Patrons Mark & Elizabeth Adams Dr Christopher Aldren Mrs Pauline Baumgartner Welser-Möst Circle Lady Jane Berrill William & Alex de Winton Mr Frederick Brittenden John Ireland Charitable Trust David & Yi Yao Buckley The Tsukanov Family Foundation Mr Clive Butler Neil Westreich Gill & Garf Collins Tennstedt Circle Mr John H Cook Valentina & Dmitry Aksenov Mr Alistair Corbett Richard Buxton Bruno de Kegel The Candide Trust Georgy Djaparidze Michael & Elena Kroupeev David Ellen Kirby Laing Foundation Christopher Fraser OBE & Lisa Fraser Mr & Mrs Makharinsky David & Victoria Graham Fuller Alexey & Anastasia Reznikovich Goldman Sachs International Simon Robey Mr Gavin Graham Bianca & Stuart Roden Moya Greene Simon & Vero Turner Mrs Dorothy Hambleton The late Mr K Twyman Tony & Susie Hayes Malcolm Herring Solti Patrons Catherine Høgel & Ben Mardle Ageas Mrs Philip Kan John & Manon Antoniazzi Rehmet Kassim-Lakha de Morixe Gabor Beyer, through BTO Rose & Dudley Leigh Management Consulting AG Lady Roslyn Marion Lyons Jon Claydon Miss Jeanette Martin Mrs Mina Goodman & Miss Duncan Matthews QC Suzanne Goodman Diana & Allan Morgenthau Roddy & April Gow Charitable Trust The Jeniffer & Jonathan Harris Dr Karen Morton Charitable Trust Mr Roger Phillimore Mr James R.D. Korner Ruth Rattenbury Christoph Ladanyi & Dr Sophia The Reed Foundation Ladanyi-Czernin Robert Markwick & Kasia Robinski The Rind Foundation The Maurice Marks Charitable Trust Sir Bernard Rix David Ross & Line Forestier (Canada) Mr Paris Natar

Carolina & Martin Schwab Dr Brian Smith Lady Valerie Solti Mr & Mrs G Stein Dr Peter Stephenson Miss Anne Stoddart TFS Loans Limited Lady 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 Queree The Rosalyn & Nicholas Springer Charitable Trust Timothy Walker AM Christopher Williams Peter Wilson Smith Mr Anthony Yolland and all other donors who wish to remain anonymous

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Thank you

We are extremely grateful to all donors who have given generously to the LPO over the past year. Your generosity helps maintain the breadth and depth of the LPO’s activities, as well as supporting the Orchestra both on and off the concert platform.

Artistic Director’s Circle An anonymous donor Victoria Robey OBE Orchestra Circle Natalia Semenova & Dimitri Gourji The Tsukanov Family Principal Associates An anonymous donor Mr Peter Cullum CBE Dr Catherine Høgel & Ben Mardle Mr & Mrs Philip Kan Neil Westreich Associates Simon Robey Stuart & Bianca Roden Barry Grimaldi William & Alex de Winton Gold Patrons An anonymous donor Mrs Evzen Balko David & Yi Buckley Garf & Gill Collins Andrew Davenport Georgy Djaparidze Sonja Drexler Mrs Gillian Fane Drs Oliver & Asha Foster Simon & Meg Freakley David & Victoria Graham Fuller Wim & Jackie Hautekiet-Clare The Jeniffer & Jonathan Harris Charitable Trust Alexandra Jupin & John Bean James R D Korner Mr & Mrs Makharinsky Geoff & Meg Mann Caroline, Jamie & Zander Sharp Julian & Gill Simmonds Eric Tomsett Laurence Watt Michael & Ruth West

Silver Patrons Mrs Molly Borthwick Peter & Fiona Espenhahn David Goldstone CBE LLB FRICS Rehmet Kassim-Lakha de Morixe John & Angela Kessler Vadim & Natalia Levin Mrs Virginia Slaymaker Mr Brian Smith The Viney Family Guy & Utti Whittaker Bronze Patrons Valentina & Dmitry Aksenov Dr Christopher Aldren Michael Allen Mr Jeremy Bull Desmond & Ruth Cecil Mr John H Cook Bruno De Kegel David Ellen Mrs Marie-Laure Favre-Gilly de Varennes de Bueil Igor & Lyuba Galkin Mrs Irina Gofman Mr Daniel Goldstein Mr Gavin Graham Mrs Dorothy Hambleton Mr Martin Hattrell Mr Colm Kelleher Drs Frank & Gek Lim Mrs Angela Lynch Peter MacDonald Eggers William & Catherine MacDougall Mr & Mrs David Malpas Mr Adrian Mee Mrs Elizabeth Meshkvicheva Mrs Rosemarie Pardington Ms Olga Pavlova Mr Michael Posen Mrs Karmen Pretel-Martines Dr Eva Lotta & Mr Thierry Sciard Tom & Phillis Sharpe Mr & Mrs G Stein Sergei & Elena Sudakova Captain Mark Edward Tennant Ms Sharon Thomas Mr & Mrs John C Tucker Mr & Mrs John & Susi Underwood Grenville & Krysia Williams

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Christopher Williams Mr Anthony Yolland Principal Supporters Ralph & Elizabeth Aldwinckle Mr Geoffrey Bateman Mrs A Beare Mr Charles Bott Mr Graham Brady Mr Gary Brass Mr Richard Brass Mr Frederick Brittenden David & Patricia Buck Dr Anthony Buckland Sir Terry Burns GCB Richard Buxton Mr Pascal Cagni Mrs Alan Carrington Dr Archibald E Carter The Countess June Chichester Mr & Mrs Stewart Cohen Mr Alistair Corbett Mr Alfons Cortés Mr David Edwards Ulrike & Benno Engelmann Mr Timothy Fancourt QC Mr Richard Fernyhough Mr Roger Greenwood Mr Chris Grigg Malcolm Herring Amanda Hill & Daniel Heaf J Douglas Home Ivan Hurry Mr Glenn Hurstfield Mr Peter Jenkins Per Jonsson Mr Frank Krikhaar Rose & Dudley Leigh Mr Gerald Levin Wg. Cdr. & Mrs M T Liddiard OBE JP RAF Paul & Brigitta Lock Mr John Long Mr Nicholas Lyons Mr Peter Mace Robert Markwick & Kasia Robinski Elena Mezentseva Andrew T Mills Dr Karen Morton Mr & Mrs Andrew Neill

Maestro Yannick Nézet-Séguin Pavel & Elena Novoselov Dr Wiebke Pekrull Mr Roger Phillimore Mr James Pickford Andrew & Sarah Poppleton Oleg Pukhov Miss Tatiana Pyatigorskaya Martin & Cheryl Southgate Peter Tausig Mr Jonathan Townley Andrew & Roanna Tusa Lady Marina Vaizey Howard & Sheelagh Watson Des & Maggie Whitelock Bill Yoe Supporters Mr Clifford Brown Miss Siobhan Cervin Miss Lynn Chapman Mr Joshua Coger Mr Geoffrey A Collens Timothy Colyer Miss Tessa Cowie Lady Jane Cuckney OBE Ms Holly Dunlap Ms Susanne Feldthusen Mrs Janet Flynn Mr Nick Garland Mr Derek B. Gray Dr Geoffrey Guy The Jackman Family Mrs Svetlana Kashinskaya Niels Kroninger Mrs Nino Kuparadze Mr Christopher Langridge Alison Clarke & Leo Pilkington Miss S M Longson Mr David Macfarlane Mr John Meloy Miss Lucyna Mozyrko Mr Leonid Ogarev Mr Stephen Olton Mr David Peters Mr Ivan Powell Mr & Mrs Graham & Jean Pugh Mr Christopher Queree Mr James A Reece Mr Olivier Rosenfeld Mr Robert Ross

Mr Kenneth Shaw Mr Barry Smith Ms Natalie Spraggon James & Virginia Turnball Michael & Katie Urmston Timothy Walker AM Mr Berent Wallendahl Edward & Catherine Williams Mr C D Yates

Corporate Donors Fenchurch Advisory Partners LLP Goldman Sachs Linklaters London Stock Exchange Group Morgan Lewis Phillips Auction House Pictet Bank Corporate Members

Hon. Benefactor Elliott Bernerd Hon. Life Members Kenneth Goode Carol Colburn Grigor CBE Pehr G Gyllenhammar Robert Hill Mrs Jackie Rosenfeld OBE 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: Jenny Ireland Co-Chairman William A. Kerr Co-Chairman Xenia Hanusiak Alexandra Jupin Jill Fine Mainelli Kristina McPhee David Oxenstierna Natalie Pray Robert Watson Danny Lopez Hon. Chairman Noel Kilkenny Hon. Director Victoria Robey OBE Hon. Director Richard Gee, Esq Of Counsel Jenifer L. Keiser, CPA, EisnerAmper LLP Stephanie Yoshida

Gold Sunshine Silver Accenture After Digital Berenberg Carter-Ruck French Chamber of Commerce Bronze BTO Management Consulting AG Charles Russell Speechlys Lazard Russo-British Chamber of Commerce Willis Towers Watson Preferred Partners Corinthia Hotel London Heineken Lindt & Sprüngli Ltd London Orthopaedic Clinic Sipsmith Steinway Villa Maria In-kind Sponsor Google Inc

Trusts and Foundations Axis Foundation The Bernarr Rainbow Trust The Boltini Trust Borletti-Buitoni Trust Boshier-Hinton Foundation The Candide Trust Cockayne – Grants for the Arts The Ernest Cook Trust Diaphonique, Franco-British Fund for contemporary music The D’Oyly Carte Charitable Trust Dunard Fund The Equitable Charitable Trust The Foyle Foundation The Goldsmiths’ Company Lucille Graham Trust Help Musicians UK Derek Hill Foundation John Horniman’s Children’s Trust The Idlewild Trust Kirby Laing Foundation The Leverhulme Trust The London Community Foundation London Stock Exchange Group Foundation Lord and Lady Lurgan Trust Marsh Christian Trust The Mercers’ Company Adam Mickiewicz Institute The Stanley Picker Trust The Radcliffe Trust Rivers Foundation The R K Charitable Trust RVW Trust Schroder Charity Trust Serge Rachmaninoff Foundation The David Solomons Charitable Trust Souter Charitable Trust The John Thaw Foundation The Michael Tippett Musical Foundation UK Friends of the FelixMendelssohn-BartholdyFoundation

Garfield Weston Foundation The Barbara Whatmore Charitable Trust and all others who wish to remain anonymous.

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Administration

Board of Directors Victoria Robey OBE Chairman Stewart McIlwham* President Gareth Newman* Vice-President Roger Barron Richard Brass Desmond Cecil CMG Dr Catherine C. Høgel Rachel Masters* Al MacCuish Julian Metherell George Peniston* Kevin Rundell* Natasha Tsukanova Mark Vines* Timothy Walker AM Neil Westreich David Whitehouse* * Player-Director Advisory Council Victoria Robey OBE Chairman Rob Adediran Christopher Aldren Dr Manon Antoniazzi Richard Brass David Buckley Sir Alan Collins KCVO CMG Andrew Davenport Jonathan Dawson Bruno de Kegel William de Winton Cameron Doley Edward Dolman Christopher Fraser OBE Lord Hall of Birkenhead CBE Jonathan Harris CBE FRICS Amanda Hill Rehmet Kassim-Lakha Jamie Korner Clive Marks OBE FCA Stewart McIlwham Sir Bernard Rix Baroness Shackleton Lord Sharman of Redlynch OBE Thomas Sharpe QC Julian Simmonds Barry Smith Martin Southgate Sir Philip Thomas Sir John Tooley Chris Viney Timothy Walker AM Laurence Watt Elizabeth Winter

Chief Executive

Education and Community

Public Relations

Timothy Walker AM Chief Executive and Artistic Director

Isabella Kernot Education Director

Albion Media (Tel: 020 3077 4930)

Talia Lash Education and Community Project Manager