LPO/Marquee TV digital concert programme: Edward Gardner conducts Rachmaninoff by London Philharmonic Orchestra

2024/25 concert season

Filmed live at the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall

Edward Gardner conducts Rachmaninoff

Digital concert programme

Rachmaninoff The Bells

Edward Gardner conductor

Generously supported by Aud Jebsen

Kristina Mkhitaryan soprano

Dmytro Popov tenor

Kostas Smoriginas bass-baritone

London Philharmonic Choir

Artistic Director: Neville Creed

London Philharmonic Orchestra on Marquee TV • Edward Gardner

On stage

First Violins

Pieter Schoeman* Leader

Chair supported by Neil Westreich

Alice Ivy-Pemberton Co-Leader

Kate Oswin

Chair supported by Eric Tomsett

Lasma Taimina

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

Minn Majoe

Chair supported by Dr Alex & Maria

Chan

Elizaveta Tyun

Martin Höhmann

Katalin Varnagy

Cassandra Hamilton

Yang Zhang

Thomas Eisner

Chair supported by Ryze Power

Nilufar Alimaksumova

Amanda Smith

Eleanor Bartlett

Camille Buitenhuis

Gabriel Opacka

Second Violins

Tania Mazzetti Principal

Emma Oldfield Co-Principal

Coco Inman

Marie-Anne Mairesse

Nynke Hijlkema

Fiona Higham

Chair supported by David & Yi Buckley

Claudia Tarrant-Matthews

Nancy Elan

Kate Birchall

Ricky Gore

Sarah Thornett

Emma Crossley

Charlie MacClure

José Nuno Cabrita Matias

Violas

Fiona Winning

Guest Principal

Lucia Ortiz Sauco

Martin Wray

Chair supported by David & Bettina

Harden

Laura Vallejo

Linda Kidwell

Stanislav Popov

Julia Doukakis

Kate De Campos

Michelle Bruil

Lukas Bowen

Daniel Cornford

Charles Cross Cellos

Kristina Blaumane Principal

Chair supported by Bianca & Stuart Roden

Leo Melvin

Waynne Kwon

George Hoult

David Lale

Sibylle Hentschel

Francis Bucknall

Auriol Evans

Sue Sutherley

Tom Roff

Double Basses

Kevin Rundell* Principal

Sebastian Pennar* Co-Principal

Hugh Kluger

George Peniston

Laura Murphy

Chair supported by Ian Ferguson & Susan Tranter

Tom Walley

Chair supported by William & Alex de Winton

Elen Roberts

Colin Paris

Flutes

Juliette Bausor Principal

Marie Sato

Ruth Harrison

Piccolo

Stewart McIlwham* Principal

Oboes

Ian Hardwick* Principal

Alice Munday

Emily Cockbill

Cor Anglais

Sue Böhling* Principal

Chair supported by Dr Barry Grimaldi

Clarinets

Benjamin Mellefont* Principal

Chair supported by Sir Nigel Boardman & Prof. Lynda Gratton

Thomas Watmough

Chair supported by Roger Greenwood

Isha Crichlow

Bass Clarinet

Paul Richards* Principal

Bassoons

Jonathan Davies* Principal

Chair supported by Sir Simon Robey

Helen Storey

Chair supported by Friends of the Orchestra

Ruby Collins

Contrabassoon

Simon Estell* Principal

Horns

John Ryan* Principal

Annemarie Federle

Principal

Chair supported by Victoria Robey CBE

Martin Hobbs

Mark Vines Co-Principal

Gareth Mollison

Elise Campbell

Duncan Fuller

Trumpets

Paul Beniston* Principal

Tom Nielsen Co-Principal

Anne McAneney*

Chair supported in memory of Peter Coe

Trombones

Mark Templeton* Principal

Chair supported by William & Alex de Winton

David Whitehouse

Bass Trombone

Lyndon Meredith Principal

Tuba

Lee Tsarmaklis* Principal

Chair supported by William & Alex de Winton

Timpani

Simon Carrington*

Principal

Chair supported by Victoria Robey CBE

Percussion

Andrew Barclay* Principal

Chair supported by Gill & Garf Collins

Karen Hutt

Oliver Yates

Jeremy Cornes

Francesca Lombardelli

Harp

Sue Blair Guest Principal

Piano

Catherine Edwards

Celeste

Philip Moore

Organ

Clíodna Shanahan

Assistant Conductor

Matthew Lynch

*Professor at a London conservatoire

© Mark Allan

London Philharmonic Orchestra

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. Our mission is to share wonder with the modern world through the power of orchestral music, which we accomplish through live performances, online, and an extensive education and community programme, cementing our position as a leading orchestra for the 21st century.

Our home is 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 worldwide. In 2024 we celebrated 60 years as Resident Symphony Orchestra 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 Grammy-nominated London Philharmonic Orchestra, whether it’s playing the world’s National Anthems for 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 worldwide

We’re one of the world’s most-streamed orchestras, with over 15 million plays of our content each month. In 2023 we were the most successful orchestra worldwide on YouTube, TikTok and Instagram, with over 1.1m followers across all platforms, and in spring 2024 we featured in a TV documentary series on Sky Arts: ‘Backstage with the London Philharmonic Orchestra’, still available to watch via Now TV. During 2024/25 we’re once again working with Marquee TV to broadcast selected live concerts to enjoy from your own living room.

Our conductors

Our Principal Conductors have included some of the greatest historic names like Sir Adrian Boult, Bernard Haitink, Klaus Tennstedt and Kurt Masur. In 2021 Edward Gardner became our 13th Principal Conductor, and 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.

Next generations

We’re committed to nurturing the next generation of musicians and music-lovers: we love seeing the joy of children and families experiencing their first musical moments, and we’re passionate about inspiring schools and teachers through dedicated concerts, workshops,

London Philharmonic Orchestra on Marquee

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 disabilities and special educational needs.

Today’s young instrumentalists are the orchestra members of the future, and we have a number of opportunities to support their progression. Our LPO Junior Artists programme leads 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 two outstanding early-career conductors from backgrounds under-represented in the profession.

2024/25 season

Principal Conductor Edward Gardner leads the Orchestra in an exciting 2024/25 season, with soloists including Joyce DiDonato, Leif Ove Andsnes, Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Víkingur Ólafsson and Isabelle Faust, and works including Strauss’s Alpine Symphony, Ravel’s Daphnis and Chloe and Mahler’s Eighth Symphony. Principal Guest Conductor Karina Canellakis joins us for three concerts including Bruckner’s Fourth Symphony, Tchaikovsky’s Sixth Symphony, and Mozart with pianist Benjamin Grosvenor. We’ll also welcome back Conductor Emeritus Vladimir Jurowski, as well as guest conductors including Mark Elder, Lidiya Yankovskaya, Robin Ticciati and Kevin John Edusei.

Throughout the season we’ll explore the relationship between music and memory in our ‘Moments Remembered’ series, featuring works like Beethoven’s ‘Eroica’ Symphony, Strauss’s Metamorphosen and John Adams’s On the Transmigration of Souls. During the season there’ll be the chance to hear brand new works by composers including Freya Waley-Cohen and David Sawer, as well as performances by renowned soloists violinist Gidon Kremer, sarod player Amjad Ali Khan, soprano Renée Fleming and many more. The season also features tours to Japan, the USA, China and across Europe, as well as a calendar bursting with performances and community events in our Brighton, Eastbourne and Saffron Walden residencies.

Pieter Schoeman 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 Rachmaninoff Hall, Capella Hall in St Petersburg, Staatsbibliothek in Berlin, Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles and the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall. As a chamber musician he regularly appears at London’s prestigious Wigmore Hall. His chamber music partners have included Anne-Sophie Mutter, Veronika Eberle, Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Boris Garlitsky, Jean-Guihen Queyras, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Martin Helmchen and Julia Fischer.

Pieter has performed numerous times as a soloist with the London Philharmonic Orchestra. Highlights have included an appearance as both conductor and soloist in Vivaldi’s Four Seasons at the Royal Festival Hall, the Brahms Double Concerto with Kristina Blaumane, Florence Price’s Violin Concerto No. 2, and the Britten Double Concerto with Alexander Zemtsov, which was recorded and released on the LPO Label to great critical acclaim.

Pieter has appeared as Guest Leader with the BBC, Barcelona, Bordeaux, Lyon and Baltimore symphony orchestras; the Rotterdam and BBC Philharmonic orchestras; and the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra.

Pieter’s chair in the LPO is generously supported by Neil Westreich.

© Benjamin Ealovega

Edward Gardner

Principal Conductor, London Philharmonic Orchestra

Edward Gardner has been Principal Conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra since September 2021, recently extending his contract until at least 2028. He is also Music Director of the Norwegian Opera & Ballet, and Honorary Conductor of the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, following his tenure as Chief Conductor from 2015–24.

In 2024/25 – his fourth season as Principal Conductor –Edward conducts nine LPO concerts at the Royal Festival Hall. In October 2024 he and the Orchestra embarked on a major US tour with celebrated violinists Patricia Kopatchinskaja and Randall Goosby, earning resounding praise throughout. Later in the Royal Festival Hall season, Edward is joined by more superb soloists including Isabelle Faust, Alexandra Dovgan and Augustin Hadelich, and presents works including Strauss’s mighty Alpine Symphony, Ravel’s Daphnis and Chloe and Mahler’s Symphony No. 8.

Edward opened his inaugural season as Music Director of the Norwegian Opera & Ballet with concert performances of Wagner’s The Flying Dutchman and Mahler’s ‘Resurrection’ Symphony. He will later conduct two fully staged operas; Verdi’s La traviata and Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen, following earlier productions of Bartók’s Bluebeard’s Castle, Zemlinsky’s A Florentine Tragedy and Verdi’s Un ballo in maschera

In demand as a guest conductor, this season Edward appears with the Bavarian Radio Symphony, Frankfurt Radio, Dallas Symphony, New World Symphony, Minnesota, Seoul Philharmonic, Sydney Symphony and West Australian Symphony orchestras. Debuts in recent seasons have included with the New York Philharmonic, the Philadelphia and Cleveland Orchestras, and the

San Francisco Symphony, Staatskapelle Berlin, Berlin Radio Symphony and Vienna Symphony orchestras. In the UK, he has had longstanding collaborations with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, where he was Principal Guest Conductor from 2010-16, and the BBC Symphony Orchestra, whom he has conducted at both the First and Last Night of the BBC Proms.

In spring 2025 Edward returns to London’s Royal Opera House to conduct the world premiere of Mark-Anthony Turnage’s Festen, and in June he returns to the Bavarian State Opera for Rusalka, following his debut with Peter Grimes in 2022 and Otello in 2023. Music Director of English National Opera for eight years (2007–15), Edward has also built a strong relationship with New York’s Metropolitan Opera, with productions of The Damnation of Faust, Carmen, Don Giovanni, Der Rosenkavalier and Werther. Elsewhere, he has conducted at La Scala, Chicago Lyric Opera, Glyndebourne Festival Opera and Opéra National de Paris.

In February this year, the LPO Label released a recording of Berlioz’s The Damnation of Faust with Edward Gardner, recorded live in February 2023. This follows his recording of Tippett’s The Midsummer Marriage, which won the 2023 Gramophone Opera Award. A second Tippett disc (featuring Symphony No. 2 and the Piano Concerto with Steven Osborne) will be released on 29 November 2024. In spring 2024 Edward and the LPO were the subject of a TV documentary series on Sky Arts: ‘Backstage with the London Philharmonic Orchestra’, still available to watch on Now TV.

A passionate supporter of young talent, Edward founded the Hallé Youth Orchestra in 2002 and regularly conducts the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain. He has a close relationship with the Juilliard School of Music, and with the Royal Academy of Music who appointed him their inaugural Sir Charles Mackerras Conducting Chair in 2014.

Born in Gloucester in 1974, Edward was educated at the University of Cambridge and the Royal Academy of Music, and gained early recognition as Assistant Conductor of the Hallé and Music Director of Glyndebourne Touring Opera. His many accolades include the Royal Philharmonic Society Conductor of the Year Award (2008), an Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Opera (2009) and an OBE for Services to Music in The Queen’s Birthday Honours (2012).

Edward Gardner’s position at the LPO is generously supported by Aud Jebsen.

© Mark Allan

Kristina Mkhitaryan

soprano

Kristina Mkhitaryan is a graduate of the Galina Vishnevskaya Theatre Studio in Moscow. Career highlights include her 2018 Royal Opera House debut as Micaëla in Bizet’s Carmen, a role she now sings to acclaim in major opera houses worldwide; Gilda in Verdi’s Rigoletto with Opera Australia and Hamburg State Opera; the title role in Handel’s Alcina at Opéra National de Lorraine; and Armida in Handel’s Rinaldo under the baton of Maxim Emelyanychev at the Glyndebourne Festival. She has also appeared at the Grand Théâtre de Genève as Leila in The Pearl Fishers; at the Vienna State Opera in productions including La traviata, L’elisir d’amore and Turandot; and at the Metropolitan Opera in productions of Gianni Schicchi and La bohème.

Kristina’s ongoing success has recently seen her make two major role debuts: one in Dutch National Opera’s acclaimed production of Donizetti’s Maria Stuarda, and then Tatiana in Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin at the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona.

An exciting 2024/25 season will see Kristina return to the role of Tatiana in Eugene Onegin at the Royal Opera House (in a new production by Ted Huffman), and at the Teatro Real, Madrid. She will also make her role debut as Mimì in La bohème at the Metropolitan Opera, and will feature in productions of La traviata at the Teatro Pérez Galdós in Gran Canaria; Massenet’s Manon at the Vienna State Opera; and as the title role in a concert performance of Donizetti’s Maria Padilla at the Teatro de la Maestranza, Seville.

This is Kristina’s debut with the London Philharmonic Orchestra.

Dmytro Popov

tenor

Ukranian tenor Dmytro Popov began his career as a soloist with the Kyiv National Theatre, and came to international attention in 2013 when he sang the role of Rodolfo (La bohème) at London’s Royal Opera House. In 2003 he was the youngest ever opera artist to be granted the title of Honoured Artist of Ukraine, which recognises outstanding contribution to the performing arts. In 2007 he won the prestigious Plácido Domingo Operalia Competition.

Dmytro has performed many roles internationally at significant opera houses, with highlights including Alfredo (La traviata) at the Hamburg State Opera, Bavarian State Opera, Vienna State Opera and Metropolitan Opera; Don José (Carmen) at the Teatro Regio Turin, Bavarian State Opera and the 2024 Glyndebourne Festival; Pinkerton (Madama Butterfly) at the Opéra national de Paris and Teatro dell’Opera di Roma; Vaudemont (Iolanta) at the Opéra national de Paris and Teatro Real, Madrid; and The Prince (Rusalka) at the Bavarian State Opera. With Deutsche Oper Berlin, he has performed the roles of Cavaradossi (Tosca), Rodolfo (Luisa Miller), Alfredo (La traviata) and Pinkerton (Madama Butterfly). 2024/25 season highlights include Carmen at the Teatro di San Carlo, a return to the Metropolitan Opera for their revival of La bohème; Iolanta at the Vienna State Opera; and Rusalka with the Norwegian Opera and Ballet.

Dmytro made his London Philharmonic Orchestra debut in 2015 as a soloist in Verdi’s Requiem under Vladimir Jurowski at the Royal Festival Hall, and in 2018 sang the same work with the LPO under Andrés Orozco-Estrada at the BBC Proms.

© Anton Ovcharov

© Diana Guledani

Kostas Smoriginas

bass-baritone

During 2024/25, Kostas Smoriginas sings Jochanaan in Salome in Hannover, Antwerp, Malmö and Zurich; Verdi’s Requiem with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin; and the King’s Herald in Lohengrin in his Bavarian State Opera debut. Tonight is his debut with the London Philharmonic Orchestra.

Last season, Kostas sang Donner (Das Rheingold) and Escamillo (Carmen) for the Royal Opera House; Escamillo in Hamburg; and Rachmaninoff’s Aleko and Francesca da Rimini in concert with the Munich Radio Orchestra. Other recent engagements include concerts of Elektra in Rome with Sir Antonio Pappano, and Salome at the Bergen International Festival with Edward Gardner; the title role in Eugene Onegin for Opéra de Lausanne; Jochanaan in Cologne; Scarpia (Tosca) at Opéra de Rouen; and Kurwenal (Tristan und Isolde) in Valencia.

Kostas Smoriginas made his Berlin State Opera debut as Escamillo in Carmen, and has since sung the role with the Berlin Philharmonic under Sir Simon Rattle, and at the Salzburg Easter Festival, Santa Fe Opera and Semperoper Dresden. Elsewhere, he has appeared at the Bregenz Festival, La Monnaie, the houses of Washington, San Francisco Opera and Santiago, Opera de Bordeaux, the Aix-en-Provence Festival and Teatro alla Scala Milan; and in concert with the London Symphony Orchestra under Valery Gergiev, the Boston Symphony Orchestra under Andris Nelsons, the Orchestre de Paris, and the City of Birmingham, BBC and Frankfurt Radio symphony orchestras.

Kostas Smoriginas represented Lithuania in the 2005 BBC Cardiff Singer of the World competition and was a member of the Jette Parker Artists Programme at the Royal Opera House.

London Philharmonic Choir

Patron HRH Princess Alexandra President Sir Mark Elder

Artistic Director Neville Creed Associate Chorus Director Victoria Longdon Accompanist Jonathan Beatty Chair Tessa Bartley Choir Manager Natasha Sofla Language Coach Arina Mkrtchian

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.

Enjoying a close relationship with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Choir frequently joins it for concerts in the UK and abroad. Recent concerts with LPO Principal Conductor Edward Gardner 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, Berlioz’s Damnation of Faust, Haydn’s Creation and Mozart’s Mass in C minor. Other highlights have included Mahler’s Symphony No. 3 with Robin Ticciati; 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; Wagner’s Götterdämmerung, Mahler’s Symphonies Nos. 2 & 8 and Tallis’s Spem in alium with Vladimir Jurowski; and Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis with Sir Mark Elder.

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. Last year for the first time, the Choir took part in the ‘Films in Concert’ series at the Royal Albert Hall, performing the score for Amadeus

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.

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

Sopranos

Anna-Maria Achilleos

Pippa Alderson

Annette Argent

Chris Banks

Tessa Bartley

Hilary Bates

Coco Burch

Carole Cameron

Charlotte Cantrell

Paula Chessell

Jenni Cresswell

Megan Cunnington

Issy Davies

Shehara de Soysa

Jessica Dixon

Ella Frost

Rachel Gibbon

Rosie Grigalis

Jane Hanson

Olivia Haslam

Penny Huang

Erin Kendrick

Mai Kikkawa

Joy Lee

Sarah Leffler

Clare Lovett

Maddie Lovett

Ilona Lynch

Janey Maxwell

Amanda May

Meg McClure

Sally Morgan

Hannah Morse

Harriet Murray

Elizabeth Ortiz

Linda Park

Alexandra Poncia

Danielle ReeceGreenhalgh

Danielle Roman

Kwankaew

Ruangtrakool

Elizabeth Schweizer

Emma Secher

Katie Stuffelbeam

Lucy Taylor

Susan Thomas

Beatrice Tinsley

Isabella von Holstein

Sarah Walker

Holly Wray

Sze Ying Chan

Altos

Alison Biedron

Sally Brien

Jenny Burdett

Andrei Caracoti

Cannis Chan

May Chan

Noel Chow

Eimear Crealey

Pat Dixon

Jennifer Downie

Andrea Easey

Pauline Finney

Bethea HansonJones

Grace Hewett

Kitty Howse

Rosheen Iyer

Joanna James

Judy Jones

Julia King

Andrea Lane

Ethel Livermore

Lisa MacDonald

Laetitia Malan

Ian Maxwell

Nicola Mooney

Anna Mulroney

Beth O’Brien

Kathryn O’Leary

Liudmila Pagis

Nicola Prior

Elizabeth Reynard

Angela Schmitz

Rima Sereikiene

Natasha Sofla

Annette Strzedulla

Muriel Swijghuisen

Reigersberg

Eleni Thwaites

Erica Tomlinson

Catherine Travers

Susi Underwood

Jenny Watson

Tenors

Geir Andreassen

Tim Appleby

Giulio Beltramo

Andrew Chavez

Kline

Kevin Cheng

Robert Geary

Alan Glover

Philippe Gosset

Josh Haley

Iain Handyside

David Hoare

Stephen Hodges

James Hopper

Patrick Hughes

Alex Marshall

Luke Phillips

Matthew Pinto

Daisy Rushton

George Smart

Christopher Stuart

Tim Tian

Claudio Tonini

Mikolaj Walczak

Toby Wilson

Emre Yavuz

Basses

Martyn Atkins

Jonathon Bird

Peter Blamire

Nathan Chu

Marcus Daniels

Myrddin Edwards

Ellie Fayle

Paul Fincham

Ian Fletcher

Gary Freer

Ian Frost

John Graham

Luke Hagerty

Alan Hardwick

Mark Hillier

David Hodgson

Rylan Holey

Michael Jenkins

Alan Jones

David Kent

Nigel Ledgerwood

Maurice

MacSweeney

John D Morris

John Salmon

Edwin Smith

Philip Tait

Geoff Walker

Oliver Walsh

Sam Watson

Programme note

Serge Rachmaninoff 1873–1943

The Bells, Op. 35

1913

Kristina Mkhitaryan soprano

Dmytro Popov tenor

Kostas Smoriginas bass-baritone

London Philharmonic Choir

1 Allegro ma non tanto (‘The silver sleigh-bells’)

2 Lento (‘The mellow wedding bells’)

3 Presto (‘The loud alarum bells’)

4 Lento lugubre (‘The mournful iron bells’)

The text begins on page 12.

Any musical dictionary will tell you that Rachmaninoff wrote three symphonies. But his huge choral-orchestral The Bells is a symphony in all but name; in fact it’s one of the most original choral symphonies composed since Beethoven’s Ninth. Rachmaninoff’s choice of poetry by Edgar Allan Poe as his text has drawn some sniffy remarks from English critics – in this country there is a well-entrenched literary tradition of sneering at Poe’s artificial rhythmic schemes and his admittedly sometimes contrived use of rhyme. But those same features can be a gift to a composer, suggesting musical possibilities to an open and unprejudiced mind. It is striking too that Poe’s poetry has been much more inspirational abroad – to French and Scandinavian composers for instance – and, thanks to Konstantin Balmont’s fine translations, to Russians like Rachmaninoff.

It wasn’t just the sound of Balmont’s Poe translations that attracted Rachmaninoff. The fatalism of Poe’s ‘The Bells’, with its gradual but inevitable transition from the innocent hopefulness of the first two sections,

through grim experience in the third to the bleak funereal imagery of the ending, fitted Rachmaninoff’s temperament like a well-worn winter coat. Moreover, hearing the awe-inspiring sound of Russian church bells had been one of the most vividly recalled experiences of his childhood. So we owe a great deal to the young cellist Maria Danilova, whose idea it was to send Balmont’s version of ‘The Bells’ anonymously to Rachmaninoff in 1912. A year later – ‘mad with joy’ according to one account – Danilova read of the result: Rachmaninoff had transformed the poem into a colossal symphony. The premiere was one of Rachmaninoff’s greatest successes, and The Bells remained one of the composer’s own special favourites.

Aside from the challenging vocal writing – challenging for soloists and chorus alike – Rachmaninoff shows a new daring in his use of orchestral colour in The Bells. The opening evocation of ‘silver sleigh-bells’ on harp, piano, celeste and glockenspiel is delicious, but the use later on of the same instruments (minus the glockenspiel) with chorus quietly humming, at the image

Programme note

of the ‘universal slumber’ that awaits us all, sends a prophetic chill through the music. The introduction to the second movement’s ‘mellow wedding bells’ is likewise strangely chilling. The rapt luxuriant lyricism that follows doesn’t quite dispel this shadow, and in the chorus’s final phrases one of those shadows becomes more distinct. Rachmaninoff had a lifelong fascination with the medieval Catholic funeral chant Dies irae –‘Day of Wrath’. It has already been hinted at in The Bells, but so far this is its clearest manifestation.

The progressive darkening of the bell imagery gathers pace in the third movement, where evocation of ‘loud alarum bells’ builds in a long, steady dramatic crescendo conveying growing panic and, finally, despair. Now it is the turn of death, invoked by quietly tolling strings, harp and horns, lamenting cor anglais and a sombre priestlike bass solo. At the end, however, the music offers a kind of comfort not suggested by the words. ‘There is neither rest nor respite, save the quiet of the tomb’, Poe tells us; yet Rachmaninoff’s finale strings, harp and quietly soaring solo flute seem to tell us that ‘rest’ and ‘respite’ are at least a possibility.

Programme note © Stephen Johnson

The Bells

Text & translation

1 The silver sleigh-bells

Slyshish, slyshish, sani mchatsja v ryad, mchatsja v rjad.

Kolokolchiki zvenyat, serebristym lehkim zvonam slukh nash sladostna tamyat etim penem i gudenem a zabvene govoryat.

O, kak zvonka, zvonka, zvonka, tochna zvuchnyj smekh rebyonka, v yasnom vozdukhe nochnom govoryat oni o tom, shto za dnyami zabluzhdenye nastupayet vozrazhdenye, shto volshebno naslazhdene, naslazhdene nezhnym snom. Sani mchatsya, sani mchatsya v ryad, kolokolchiki zvenyat, zvyozdy slushayut, kak sani, ubegaya, govoryat, i vnimaya im, goryat, i mechtaya, i blistaya, v nebe dukhami paryat; i izmenchivym siyanem, molchalivym abayanem, vmeste s zvonam, vmeste s penem, a zabvene govoryat.

2 The mellow wedding bells

Slyshysh k svadbe zov svyatoy zolotoy. Skolko nezhnava blazhenstva v etoy pesne molodoy! Slyshysh, k svadbe zov … Skvos spokoynyi vozdukh nochi slovno smotryat chi-ta ochi i blestyat, iz volny pevuchikh zvukov, na lunu oni glyadyat. Iz prizyvnykh divnykh keliy, polny skazachnykh veseliy, narastaja, upodaya, bryzgi svetliye letyat.

Vnov potukhnut, vnov blestyat, i ronyayut svetlyi vzglyad na gryadushcheye, gde dremlyet bezmyatezhnost nezhnykh snov,

Hear, hear, the sleighs fly past in line, fly in line.

The little bells ring out, their light silvery sound sweetly obsesses our hearing with their singing and their jingling they tell of oblivion. Oh, how clearly, clearly, clearly, like the ringing laughter of a child, in the clear night air they tell the tale, of how days of delusion will be followed by renewal, of the enchanting delight, the delight of tender sleep. The sleighs fly past, the sleighs fly past in line, the little bells ring out, the stars listen, as the sleighs fly into the distance, with their tale, and listening, they glow, and dreaming, glimmering, spread a scent in the heavens; and with their flickering radiance and their silent enchantment, together with the ringing, together with the singing, they tell of oblivion.

Hear the holy call to marriage of golden bells. How much tender bliss there is in that youthful song! Hear the call to marriage … Through the tranquil night air it is like someone’s eyes glowing, and through the waves of singing sounds, gazing at the moon. From beckoning, wondrous cells, filled with fairytale delights, soaring, falling, fly out sparks of light. Dimmed again, glowing again, they shed their radiant light on the future, where tender dreams slumber tranquilly,

The Bells

Text & translation

vozveshchayemykh soglasem zolotykh, zolotykh kolokolov. Slyshysh k svadbe zov svyatoy zolotoy.

3 The loud alarum bells

Slyshysh, slyshysh, voyushchiyi nabat, tochna stonet mednyi ad. Eti zvuki, v dikoy muke, skasku uzhasov tverdyat. Tochna molyat im pomoch, krik kidayut pryama v noch, pryama v ushi temnoy nochi, kazhdyi zvuk, to dlinneye, to koroche, vozveshchayet svoj ispug. I ispug ikh tak velik, tak bezumen kazhdyi krik, shto razorvanniye zvony, nespasobnye zvuchat, mogut tolko bitsya, bitsya, i krichat, krichat, krichat, tolko plakat o poshchade i k pylayushchev gramade vopli skorbi obrashchat. A mezh tem ogon bezumnyi, i glukhoy i mnogoshumnyi, vsyo gorit. To iz okon, to po kryshe, mchitsya vyshe, vyshe, vyshe, i kak budto govorit: – Ya khochu vyshe mchatsya, razgoratsya vstrechu lunnamu luchu. Il umru, il totchas vplot da mesyatsa vzlechu. O, nabat, nabat, nabat, yesli b ty vernul nazad etot uzhas, eto plamya, etu iskru, etot vzglyad, etot pervyi vzglyad ognya, o kotorom ty veshchayesh s voplem, s plachem, i zvenya. A teper nam net spasenya, vsyudu plamya i kipene a teper nam net spasenya, vsjudu strakh i vozmushchene. Tvoj prizyv, dikikh zvukav nesaglasnost, vozveshchayet nam opasnost, to rastyot beda glukhaya, to spadayet, kak priliv. Slukh nash chutka lovit volny v peremene zvukavoy,

heralded by the golden harmony, harmony of golden bells. Hear the holy call to marriage of golden bells.

Hear, hear, the howling of the alarm bell, like the groaning of a brazen hell. These sounds, in a wild torment, keep repeating a tale of horror. As though begging for help, hurling cries into the night, straight into the ears of the dark night, every sound, now strange, now shorter, proclaims its terror. And so great is their terror, so desperate every shriek, that the tortured bells, incapable of ringing out, can only batter, batter, and shriek, shriek, shriek, only weep for mercy and to the thunderous blaze address their wails of grief. But meanwhile the raging fire, both heedless and tumultuous, ever burns. From the windows, on the roof, it soars higher, higher, higher, as though announcing: – I want to soar higher, and aflame meet the beams of moonlight. I will die, or now, now fly right up to the moon. O alarm bell, alarm bell, alarm bell, if you could only take back the horror, the flames, the spark, the look, that first look of the fire, which you proclaim with your howls and cries and wails. But now we are past help, the flames seethe everywhere, but now we are past help, everywhere is fear and wailing. Your call, this wild, discordant noise, proclaims our peril, the hollow sounds of misfortune, flowing and ebbing like a tide. We can only hear the waves in the changing sounds,

The Bells

Text & translation

vnov spadayet, vnov rydayet, medno-stonushchyi priboy.

4 The mournful iron bells

Pokhoronnyi slyshen zvon, dolgiy zvon!

Gorkoy skorbi slyshny zvuki, gorkoy zhizni konchen son.

Zvuk zheleznyi vozveshchayet o pechali pokhoron. I nevolna my drazhim, ot zabav svoikh speshim, i rydayem, vspominayem, shto i my glaza smezhim. Neizmenno monotonnyi, etat vozglas otdalennyi, pokhoronnyi tyazhkiy zvon, tochna ston, skorbnyi, gnevnyi, i plachevnyi, vyrastayet v dolgyi gul.

Vozveshchayet, shto stradalets neprobudnym snom usnul.

V kolokolnych kelyach rzhavykh on dlya pravykh i nepravykh grozna vtorit ob odnom: shto na sertse budet kamen, shto glaza samknutsya snom.

Fakel traurnyi gorit, s kolokolni kto-to kriknul, kto-to gromko govorit. Kto-to chyornyi tam stoit, i khokhochet, i gremit, i gudit, gudit, gudit. K kolokolne pripadayet, gulkiy kolokol kochayet, gulkiy kolokol rydayet, stonet v vozdukhe nemom, i pratyazhno vozveshchayet o pokoye grobovom.

now ebbing, now sobbing, of the brazen groaning surf.

Hear the funeral knell, lengthy knell!

Hear the sound of bitter sorrow, ending the dream of a bitter life. The iron sound proclaims a funeral’s grief. And we unwittingly shiver, hurry away from our amusements, and we weep, and remember, that we too shall close our eyes. Unchanging and monotonous, that faraway call, the heavy funeral knell, like a groan, plaintive, angry, and lamenting, swells to a lengthy booming. It proclaims that a sufferer sleeps the eternal sleep. From the belfry’s rusty cells for the just and the unjust it sternly repeats its theme: that a stone shall cover your heart, that your eyes will close in sleep. As the mourning torch burns someone shrieks from the belfry, someone is loudly talking. Someone dark is standing there, laughing and roaring, and howling, howling, howling. He leans against the belfry, and swings the hollow bell, and the hollow bell sobs and groans through the silent air, slowly proclaiming the stillness of the grave.

Edgar Allan Poe (1809–49), translated into Russian by Konstantin Balmont (1867–1942)

Marquee TV – Streaming Platform

Marquee TV is the official streaming partner of the London Philharmonic Orchestra.

With a carefully curated selection of performances from the world’s leading arts organisations, Marquee TV is your key to seeing more of what you love. Subscribe today and enjoy unlimited access to an extensive range of music, opera, jazz, theatre, dance and more. ‘Edward Gardner conducts Rachmaninoff’ will be available to stream on demand from 9 November, alongside many more concerts from your favourite orchestras. For 50% off an annual subscription, scan the QR code or visit discover.marquee.tv/50lpo

Available online, on iOS and Android apps, Amazon Prime, Amazon Fire, Apple TV, Android TV, Comcast X1, Cox, Roku, and Samsung TV. Follow @MarqueeartsTV on Instagram, Facebook and X to stay up to date on the latest launches.

including Joyce DiDonato, Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Víkingur Ólafsson, Augustin Hadelich, Gidon Kremer, Amjad Ali Khan, Renée Fleming, Benjamin Grosvenor and many more.

Sound Futures donors

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

Masur Circle

Arts Council England

Dunard Fund

Victoria Robey OBE

Emmanuel & Barrie Roman

The Underwood Trust

Welser-Möst Circle

William & Alex de Winton

John Ireland Charitable Trust

The Tsukanov Family Foundation

Neil Westreich

Tennstedt Circle

Valentina & Dmitry Aksenov

Richard Buxton

The Candide Trust

Michael & Elena Kroupeev

Kirby Laing Foundation

Mr & Mrs Makharinsky

Alexey & Anastasia Reznikovich

Sir Simon Robey

Bianca & Stuart Roden

Simon & Vero Turner

The late Mr K Twyman

Solti Patrons

Ageas

John & Manon Antoniazzi

Gabor Beyer, through BTO

Management Consulting AG

Jon Claydon

Mrs Mina Goodman & Miss Suzanne Goodman

Roddy & April Gow

The Jeniffer & Jonathan Harris

Charitable Trust

Mr James R.D. Korner

Christoph Ladanyi & Dr Sophia Ladanyi-Czernin

Robert Markwick & Kasia Robinski

The Maurice Marks Charitable Trust

Mr Paris Natar

The Rothschild Foundation

Tom & Phillis Sharpe

The Viney Family

Haitink Patrons

Mark & Elizabeth Adams

Dr Christopher Aldren

Mrs Pauline Baumgartner

Lady Jane Berrill

Mr Frederick Brittenden

David & Yi Yao Buckley

Mr Clive Butler

Gill & Garf Collins

Mr John H Cook

Mr Alistair Corbett

Bruno De Kegel

Georgy Djaparidze

David Ellen

Christopher Fraser OBE

David & Victoria Graham Fuller

Goldman Sachs International

Mr Gavin Graham

Moya Greene

Mrs Dorothy Hambleton

Tony & Susie Hayes

Malcolm Herring

Catherine Høgel & Ben Mardle

Mrs Philip Kan

Rehmet Kassim-Lakha de Morixe

Rose & Dudley Leigh

Lady Roslyn Marion Lyons

Miss Jeanette Martin

Duncan Matthews KC

Diana & Allan Morgenthau

Charitable Trust

Dr Karen Morton

Mr Roger Phillimore

Ruth Rattenbury

The Reed Foundation

The Rind Foundation

Sir Bernard Rix

David Ross & Line Forestier (Canada)

Carolina & Martin Schwab

Dr Brian Smith

Lady Valerie Solti

Mr & Mrs G Stein

Dr Peter Stephenson

Miss Anne Stoddart

TFS Loans Limited

Marina Vaizey

Jenny Watson

Guy & Utti Whittaker

Pritchard Donors

Ralph & Elizabeth Aldwinckle

Mrs Arlene Beare

Mr Patrick & Mrs Joan Benner

Mr Conrad Blakey

Dr Anthony Buckland

Paul Collins

Alastair Crawford

Mr Derek B. Gray

Mr Roger Greenwood

The HA.SH Foundation

Darren & Jennifer Holmes

Honeymead Arts Trust

Mr Geoffrey Kirkham

Drs Frank & Gek Lim

Peter Mace

Mr & Mrs David Malpas

Dr David McGibney

Michael & Patricia McLaren-Turner

Mr & Mrs Andrew Neill

Mr Christopher Querée

The Rosalyn & Nicholas Springer Charitable Trust

Timothy Walker CBE AM

Christopher Williams

Peter Wilson Smith

Mr Anthony Yolland

and all other donors who wish to remain anonymous

London Philharmonic Orchestra on Marquee TV •

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

The American Friends of the London Philharmonic Orchestra

William & Alex de Winton

Catherine Høgel & Ben Mardle

Aud Jebsen

In memory of Mrs Rita Reay

Sir Simon & Lady Robey CBE

Orchestra Circle

Mr & Mrs Philip Kan

Neil Westreich

Principal Associates

An anonymous donor

Mrs Irina Andreeva

Steven M. Berzin

Richard Buxton

Gill & Garf Collins

In memory of Brenda Lyndoe Casbon

In memory of Ann Marguerite Collins

Irina Gofman & Mr Rodrik V. G.

Cave

Patricia Haitink

George Ramishvili

In memory of Kenneth Shaw

The Tsukanov Family

Mr Florian Wunderlich

Associates

In memory of Len & Edna Beech

Sir Nigel Boardman & Prof. Lynda Gratton

The Candide Trust

Stuart & Bianca Roden

In memory of Hazel Amy Smith

Gold Patrons

An anonymous donor

David & Yi Buckley

Dr Alex & Maria Chan

In memory of Allner Mavis Channing

In memory of Peter Coe

Michelle Crowe Hernandez

Hamish & Sophie Forsyth

Virginia Gabbertas MBE

Jenny & Duncan Goldie-Scot

Mr Roger Greenwood

Malcolm Herring

Julian & Gill Simmonds

Mr Brian Smith

Mr Jay Stein

Eric Tomsett

The Viney Family

Guy & Utti Whittaker

Silver Patrons

David Burke & Valerie Graham

Clive & Helena Butler

John & Sam Dawson

Ulrike & Benno Engelmann

Fiona Espenhahn in memory of Peter

Luke Gardiner

Prof. Erol & Mrs Deniz Gelenbe

The Jeniffer & Jonathan Harris

Charitable Trust

Iain & Alicia Hasnip

John & Angela Kessler

Mrs Elizabeth Meshkvicheva

Dr Irene Rosner David

Tom & Phillis Sharpe

Jenny Watson CBE

Laurence Watt

Bronze Patrons

Anonymous donors

Chris Aldren

Michael Allen

Alexander & Rachel Antelme

Annie Berglof

Nicholas Berwin

Lorna & Christopher Bown

Mr Bernard Bradbury

Richard & Jo Brass

Desmond & Ruth Cecil

Mr John H Cook

Emmanuelle & Thierry d’Argent

Mrs Elizabeth Davies

Guy Davies

Cameron & Kathryn Doley

Ms Elena Dubinets

David Ellen

Cristina & Malcolm Fallen

Mr Daniel Goldstein

David & Jane Gosman

Mr Gavin Graham

Mrs Dorothy Hambleton

Eugene & Allison Hayes

J Douglas Home

Mr & Mrs Jan

Mr & Mrs Ralph Kanza

Mrs Elena Kolobova & Mr Oleg

Kolobov

Rose & Dudley Leigh

Wg. Cdr. M T Liddiard OBE JP

RAF

Drs Frank & Gek Lim

Andrew T Mills

Mr & Mrs Andrew Neill

John Nickson & Simon Rew

Peter Noble & L Vella

Mikhail Noskov & Vasilina

Bindley

Simon & Lucy Owen-Johnstone

Andrew & Cindy Peck

Mr Roger Phillimore

Mr Michael Posen

Marie Power

Sir Bernard Rix

Baroness Shackleton

Tim Slorick

Sir Jim Smith

Mrs Maria Toneva

Mr Joe Topley & Ms Tracey Countryman

Mr & Mrs John C Tucker

Andrew & Rosemary Tusa

Galina Umanskaia

Mr & Mrs John & Susi

Underwood

The Viney Family

Mr Rodney Whittaker

Grenville & Krysia Williams

Joanna Williams

Principal Supporters

Anonymous donors

Julian & Annette Armstrong

Chris Banks

Mr John D Barnard

Roger & Clare Barron

Mrs A Beare

Chris Benson

Peter & Adrienne Breen

Dr Anthony Buckland

Mr Julien Chilcott-Monk

David & Liz Conway

Mr Alistair Corbett

David Devons

Deborah Dolce

In memory of Enid Gofton

Prof Emeritus John Gruzelier

Mrs Farrah Jamal

Bruce & Joanna Jenkyn-Jones

Per Jonsson

Tanya Joseph

Mr Ian Kapur

Jozef & Helen Kotz

Mr Peter Mace

Peter Mainprice

Miss Rebecca Murray

Mrs Terry Neale

Mr Stephen Olton

Mr James Pickford

Neil & Karen Reynolds

Mr Robert Ross

Kseniia Rubina

Mr Andrea Santacroce & Olivia Veillet-Lavallée

Penny Segal

Priscylla Shaw

Michael Smith

Mr & Mrs G Stein

Dr Peter Stephenson

Ben Valentin KC

Sophie Walker

Christopher Williams

Liz Winter

Elena Y Zeng

Supporters

Anonymous donors

Ralph & Elizabeth Aldwinckle

Robert & Sarah Auerbach

Dr Simona Cicero & Mr Mario Altieri

Alison Clarke & Leo Pilkington

Sarah Connor

Miss Tessa Cowie

Andrew Davenport

Stephen Denby

Mr Simon Edelsten

Steve & Cristina Goldring

In memory of Derek Gray

Nick Hely-Hutchinson

The Jackman Family

Molly Jackson

Jan Leigh & Jan Rynkiewicz

Mr David MacFarlane

Simon Moore

Simon & Fiona Mortimore

Dana Mosevicz

Dame Jane Newell DBE

Diana G Oosterveld

Mr David Peters

Mr & Mrs Graham & Jean Pugh

Clarence Tan

Tony & Hilary Vines

Dr June Wakefield

Mr John Weekes

Mr Roger Woodhouse

Mr C D Yates

Hon. Benefactor

Elliott Bernerd

London Philharmonic Orchestra on Marquee TV • Edward Gardner

Thank you

Hon. Life Members

Alfonso Aijón

Carol Colburn Grigor CBE

Pehr G Gyllenhammar

Robert Hill

Keith Millar

Victoria Robey CBE

Mrs Jackie Rosenfeld OBE

Cornelia Schmid

Timothy Walker CBE AM

Laurence Watt

Thomas Beecham

Group Members

Sir Nigel Boardman & Prof. Lynda Gratton

David & Yi Buckley

In memory of Peter Coe

Dr Alex & Maria Chan

Garf & Gill Collins

William & Alex de Winton

The Friends of the LPO

Irina Gofman & Mr Rodrik V. G.

Cave

Mr Roger Greenwood

Barry Grimaldi

David & Bettina Harden

Mr & Mrs Philip Kan

Mr & Mrs John Kessler

Sir Simon Robey

Victoria Robey OBE

Stuart & Bianca Roden

Julian & Gill Simmonds

Eric Tomsett

Neil Westreich

Guy & Utti Whittaker

LPO Corporate Circle

Principal

Bloomberg

Carter-Ruck Solicitors

French Chamber of Commerce

Ryze Power

Tutti

German-British Chamber of Industry & Commerce

Lazard

Natixis Corporate Investment

Banking

Walpole

Preferred Partners

Jeroboams

Lindt & Sprüngli Ltd

Neal’s Yard Remedies

OneWelbeck

Sipsmith

Steinway & Sons

In-kind Sponsor Google Inc

Trusts and Foundations

ABO Trust

Art Mentor Foundation Lucerne

BlueSpark Foundation

The Boltini Trust

Candide Trust

Cockayne Grants for the Arts in London

Dunard Fund

Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation

Foyle Foundation

Garfield Weston Foundation

Garrick Charitable Trust

The Golsoncott Foundation

Jerwood Foundation

John Coates Charitable Trust

John Horniman’s Children’s Trust

John Thaw Foundation

Idlewild Trust

Institute Adam Mickiewicz

Kirby Laing Foundation

The John S Cohen Foundation

The Lennox Hannay Charitable Trust

Kurt Weill Foundation

Lord and Lady Lurgan Trust

Lucille Graham Trust

The Marchus Trust

Maria Bjӧrnson Memorial Fund

PRS Foundation

The R K Charitable Trust

The Radcliffe Trust

Rivers Foundation

Rothschild Foundation

Scops Arts Trust

Sir William Boreman’s Foundation

TIOC Foundation

Vaughan Williams Foundation

The Victoria Wood Foundation

The Viney Family

The Barbara Whatmore Charitable Trust

and all others who wish to remain anonymous.

Board of the American Friends of the LPO

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 MBE

Damien Vanderwilt

Marc Wassermann

Elizabeth Winter

Catherine Høgel Hon. Director

LPO International Board of Governors

Natasha Tsukanova Chair

Mrs Irina Andreeva

Steven M. Berzin

Shashank Bhagat

Irina Gofman

Olivia Ma

George Ramishvili

Florian Wunderlich

London Philharmonic Orchestra Administration

Board of Directors

Dr Catherine C. Høgel Chair

Nigel Boardman Vice-Chair

Mark Vines* President

Kate Birchall* Vice-President

Emily Benn

David Buckley

David Burke

Michelle Crowe Hernandez

Deborah Dolce

Elena Dubinets

Simon Estell*

Tanya Joseph

Katherine Leek*

Minn Majoe*

Tania Mazzetti*

Jamie Njoku-Goodwin

Neil Westreich

David Whitehouse*

Simon Freakley (Ex officio –

Chairman of the American Friends of the LPO)

*Player-Director

Advisory Council

Roger Barron Chairman

Christopher Aldren

Kate Birchall

Richard Brass

Helen Brocklebank

YolanDa Brown OBE

David Burke

Simon Burke

Simon Callow CBE

Desmond Cecil CMG

Jane Coulson

Andrew Davenport

Guillaume Descottes

Cameron Doley

Elena Dubinets

Lena Fankhauser

Christopher Fraser OBE

Jenny Goldie-Scot

Jonathan Harris CBE FRICS

Nicholas Hely-Hutchinson DL

Dr Catherine C. Høgel

Martin Höhmann

Jamie Korner

Andrew Neill

Nadya Powell

Sir Bernard Rix

Victoria Robey CBE

Baroness Shackleton

Thomas Sharpe KC

Julian Simmonds

Daisuke Tsuchiya

Mark Vines

Chris Viney

Laurence Watt

Elizabeth Winter

New Generation Board

Ellie Ajao

Peter De Souza

Vivek Haria

Rianna Henriques

Pasha Orleans-Foli

Priya Radhakrishnan

Zerlina Vulliamy

General Administration

Elena Dubinets

Artistic Director

David Burke

Chief Executive

Concert Management

Roanna Gibson

Concerts & Planning Director

Graham Wood

Concerts & Recordings Manager

Maddy Clarke

Tours Manager

Madeleine Ridout

Glyndebourne & Projects Manager

Alison Jones

Concerts & Artists Co-ordinator

Dora Kmezić

Concerts & Recordings Co-ordinator

Tom Cameron

Concerts & Tours Assistant

Matthew Freeman Recordings Consultant

Andrew Chenery

Orchestra Personnel Manager

Helen Phipps

Orchestra & Auditions Manager

Sarah Thomas

Martin Sargeson Librarians

Laura Kitson

Stage & Operations Manager

Stephen O’Flaherty Deputy Operations Manager

Benjamin Wakley

Deputy Stage Manager

Finance

Frances Slack

Finance Director

Dayse Guilherme Finance Manager

Jean-Paul Ramotar Finance & IT Officer

Education & Community

Talia Lash

Education & Community Director

Lowri Davies

Eleanor Jones

Education & Community Project Managers

Hannah Smith

Education & Community Co-ordinator

Claudia Clarkson Regional Partnerships Manager

Development

Laura Willis

Development Director

Rosie Morden

Individual Giving Manager

Owen Mortimer

Corporate Relations Manager

Anna Quillin

Trusts & Foundations Manager

Eleanor Conroy

Development Events Manager

Al Levin

Development Co-ordinator

Holly Eagles Development Assistant

Nick Jackman Campaigns & Projects Director

Kirstin Peltonen

Development Associate

Marketing

Kath Trout

Marketing & Communications Director

Sophie Lonergan (née Harvey) Marketing Manager

Rachel Williams

Publications Manager

Gavin Miller

Sales & Ticketing Manager

Josh Clark

Data, Insights & CRM Manager

Georgie Blyth

Press & PR Manager

Greg Felton

Digital Creative

Alicia Hartley

Digital & Marketing Co-ordinator

Isobel Jones

Marketing Co-ordinator