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LSO Season 2016/17 Concert Guide

From our home in London … Season 2016/17 The London Symphony Orchestra is bringing the greatest music to the greatest number of people around the globe – it’s at the heart of everything we do.

Sir Simon Rattle’s Great Passions In January 2016, Sir Simon Rattle and Peter Sellars transformed the Barbican Hall for a special performance of Debussy’s opera Pelléas et Mélisande. Combining their creative forces once again, this coming season the pair present Ligeti’s monumental Le grand macabre. Sir Simon, who takes up his post as LSO Music Director in September 2017, also conducts a Mark-Anthony Turnage world premiere, Remembering, brings the LSO’s choral forces together in a children’s opera by Andrew Norman, and ends the season in concert with pianist Lang Lang.

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As Resident Orchestra at the Barbican Centre since it opened in 1982, our 70 symphonic concerts here form the back-bone of the Orchestra’s concerts abroad – we take London’s music to the world. In our city, we also programme 25 concerts at our venue LSO St Luke’s as well as 122 workshops and 147 concerts every season through our community and education programme, LSO Discovery.

LSO Principals The LSO has a signature sound which eminates from the combined virtuosity of its 95 brilliant musicians who come from around the world. Many also have flourishing chamber and solo careers, and give masterclasses and teach at conservatoires both in London and worldwide. In 2016/17, LSO Leader Roman Simovic plays Bruch’s Violin Concerto, LSO Principal Trumpet Philip Cobb performs Haydn’s Trumpet Concerto, Roman returns with LSO Principal Cello Tim Hugh for Brahms’ Double Concerto, and Tim Hugh appears alongside our other LSO Principal Cello Rebecca Gilliver in a BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert.

Meet our Family of Conductors The Orchestra is fortunate to work with a family of artists who share and inspire the LSO musicians’ boundless ambition. Gianandrea Noseda, the most recently appointed member of the LSO family as Principal Guest Conductor, opens the 2016/17 season with a monumental choral work – Verdi’s Requiem. Michael Tilson Thomas was named LSO Conductor Laureate in February 2016 and is joined by Yuja Wang and Lisa Batiashvili; while Daniel Harding, LSO Principal Guest Conductor, conducts the UK premiere of Mark-Anthony Turnage’s Håkan and André Previn, LSO Conductor Emeritus, performs Dvorˇák. The Orchestra also welcomes Bernard Haitink, Valery Gergiev, Sir Antonio Pappano and Sir Mark Elder.

… to 30 cities around the world BRISTOL

NEW YORK

TAMPERE

BRIGHTON SAFFRON WALDEN

CURRENT VENUE

AALBORG COPENHAGAN MALMÖ ESSEN DÜSSELDORF BONN FRANKFURT

Lincoln Center TOTAL NO OF LSO CONCERTS IN NEW YORK

106

PRAGUE MANNHEIM

FIRST PERFORMANCE

8 April 1912

MERANO LOCARNO

(first European Orchestra to tour to the US)

VIENNA

VERONA NEWARK

BREGENZ MILAN STRESA

TURIN GSTAAD LUXEMBOURG

MADRID

BARCELONA

PARIS CURRENT VENUE

Philharmonie de Paris, previously La Salle Pleyel TOTAL NO OF LSO CONCERTS IN PARIS

122 MOST FREQUENT CONDUCTOR

Valery Gergiev 24 concerts FIRST PERFORMANCE

10 January 1906 (the first ever LSO tour)

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INNSBRUCK

DIJON

LONDON RESIDENT ORCHESTRA

Barbican Centre

Where the LSO has performed 2,887 concerts in the Barbican Hall BARBICAN OFFICIAL OPENING CONCERT

3 March 1982 TOTAL NO OF LSO CONCERTS IN GREATER LONDON

7,165 MOST FREQUENT CONDUCTOR

Sir Colin Davis 433 concerts BEIJING

FIRST EVER PERFORMANCE

SEOUL

9 Jun 1904

SHANGHAI MACAU

FAR EAST MOST VISITED COUNTRY

Japan 199 concerts MOST VISITED VENUE

Suntory Hall, Tokyo MOST FREQUENT CONDUCTORS

Michael Tilson Thomas 29 concerts André Previn 28 concerts Valery Gergiev 28 concerts FIRST TOUR TO FAR EAST

Japan 1963

WORLDWIDE TOTAL NO OF LSO CONCERTS

10,505 MOST FREQUENT CONDUCTORS

Sir Colin Davis 674 concerts André Previn 577 concerts Michael Tilson Thomas 433 concerts

5 Figures correct as at 1 July 2016

Dominic Morgan Principal Contra-bassoon

Nigel Broadbent First Violin Carmine Lauri Co-Leader

Neil Percy Principal Percussion Claire Parfitt First Violin David Jackson Percussion

London’s Symphony Orchestra Celebrating Members with 20+ years’ service For a list of all current LSO Members and those who have celebrated 20 years’ service or more with the Orchestra see page 58

Christine Pendrill Principal Cor Anglais

Colin Paris Co-Principal Double Bass Matthew Gibson Co-Principal Double Bass Lennox Mackenzie Sub-Leader

Jennifer Brown Cello

2016/17 LISTINGS Main Season Concert in the Barbican Hall | Please note, Sunday evening concerts start at 7pm throughout the 2016/17 season

SEPTEMBER 2016

OCTOBER 2016

NOVEMBER 2016

Sat 17 Sep 2016 11am–4.30pm, LSO St Luke’s

Thu 6 Oct 2016 1pm, LSO St Luke’s

Thu 3 Nov 2016 1pm, LSO St Luke’s

LSO CHORAL SINGING DAY †

BBC RADIO 3 LUNCHTIME CONCERT

Verdi Requiem accompanied by piano

Tchaikovsky Barcarolle (‘June’) from ‘The Seasons’; Valse-Scherzo No 1 in A major; Impromptu-Caprice in G major Dumka; Humoresque; Aveu passioni Mozart Menuet in D major K355; Gigue in G major K574 Variations on a theme by Gluck K455

Brahms Trio in A minor for viola, cello and piano Brahms Piano Trio No 1 in B major

VERDI REQUIEM

MOZART & TCHAIKOVSKY I

Simon Halsey conductor Sun 18 Sep 2016 7pm & Tue 20 Sep 2016 7.30pm Verdi Requiem Gianandrea Noseda conductor Erika Grimaldi soprano Daniela Barcellona mezzo-soprano Francesco Meli tenor Michele Pertusi baritone London Symphony Chorus † Simon Halsey chorus director

Thu 13 Oct 2016 1pm, LSO St Luke’s BBC RADIO 3 LUNCHTIME CONCERT

MOZART & TCHAIKOVSKY II Mozart Fantasy in D minor for solo piano K379 Tchaikovsky Piano Trio in A minor

Sun 16 Oct 2016 7pm Mendelssohn Violin Concerto Mendelssohn Symphony No 2 (‘Lobgesang’) Sir John Eliot Gardiner conductor Alina Ibragimova violin Lucy Crowe soprano Jurgita Adamonyté soprano Michael Spyres tenor Monteverdi Choir

Mon 19 Sep 2016 7.30pm

LEIF OVE ANDSNES RECITAL Beethoven Piano Sonata No 18 in E-flat major (‘The Hunt’) Sibelius Selected works Debussy Estampes Chopin Ballade No 2 in F major; Nocturne in F Major; Ballade No 4 in F minor Leif Ove Andsnes piano Thu 22 Sep 2016 7.30pm Debussy La mer Haydn Trumpet Concerto Shostakovich Symphony No 5 Gianandrea Noseda conductor Philip Cobb trumpet Sun 25 Sep 2016 7pm Jack Sheen Lung (world premiere, LSO Panufnik scheme commission) Sibelius Violin Concerto Mahler Symphony No 4

5.30pm LSO Platforms: Guildhall Artists Featuring solo piano works by Mendelssohn Thu 20 Oct 2016 1pm, LSO St Luke’s BBC RADIO 3 LUNCHTIME CONCERT

MOZART & TCHAIKOVSKY III A selection of Mozart and Tchaikovsky songs Robin Tritschler tenor Iain Burnside piano Thu 20 Oct 2016 7.30pm Mendelssohn Violin Concerto Mendelssohn Symphony No 2 (‘Lobgesang’)

LSO DISCOVERY DAY

STEVE REICH AT 80 An open rehearsal, Steve Reich in discussion, and music including the UK premiere of Six Pianos – arranged for piano solo performed by Vincent Corver. Sun 6 Nov 2016 7pm

STEVE REICH AT 80 Reich Daniel Variations Reich You Are (Variations) Reich The Desert Music Kristjan Järvi conductor Synergy Vocals Thu 10 Nov 2016 1pm, LSO St Luke’s BBC RADIO 3 LUNCHTIME CONCERT

LAWRENCE POWER & FRIENDS III Veress String Trio Beethoven String Trio in E-flat major Vilde Frang violin Lawrence Power viola Nicolas Altstaedt cello

BBC RADIO 3 LUNCHTIME CONCERT

LAWRENCE POWER & FRIENDS I

5.30pm LSO Platforms: Guildhall Artists A selection of songs by Sibelius

Lawrence Power viola Simon Crawford-Phillips piano

2016/17 LISTINGS ~ LSO.CO.UK

Sun 6 Nov 2016 11am–5.30pm, Barbican and LSO St Luke’s

Thu 27 Oct 2016 1pm, LSO St Luke’s

J S Bach Gamba Sonata No 1 in G major Mark-Anthony Turnage Power Play Bowen Viola Sonata No 2 in F major

LAWRENCE POWER (27 OCT; 3, 10 & 17 NOV)

Sir John Eliot Gardiner conductor Alina Ibragimova violin Lucy Crowe soprano Jurgita Adamonyté soprano Michael Spyres tenor Monteverdi Choir

Daniel Harding conductor Nikolaj Znaider violin Christiane Karg soprano

LSO Panufnik scheme commission supported by Lady Hamlyn and The Helen Hamlyn Trust

Lawrence Power violin, viola Paul Watkins cello Simon Crawford-Phillips piano

Pavel Kolesnikov piano

Sitkovetsky Piano Trio

CHRISTIANE KARG (25 SEP)

LAWRENCE POWER & FRIENDS II

ALINA IBRAGIMOVA (16 & 20 OCT)

Thu 24 Nov 2016 7.30pm Rossini Overture: William Tell Bruch Violin Concerto Strauss An Alpine Symphony Sir Antonio Pappano conductor Roman Simovic violin 6pm LSO Platforms: Guildhall Artists A selection of songs from the Bel Canto tradition Sat 26 Nov 2016 7.30pm

THE BEST OF JOHN WILLIAMS Introduced on screen by John Williams

JAMES EHNES (24 NOV & 14 DEC)

The LSO’s close connection with John Williams goes back nearly 40 years to the first notes of Star Wars in 1977. In this unique celebration of Williams’s extraordinary career, hear the LSO play his greatest film hits with each score introduced by John Williams himself, in an exclusive interview to be screened in the hall on the evening.

LEILA JOSEFOWICZ (8 DEC)

In association with Tommy Pearson Music

Thu 10 Nov 2016 7.30pm

Tue 29 & Wed 30 Nov 2016 7.30pm

Ravel Le tombeau de Couperin Previn Concerto for Cello and Orchestra Dvorˇák Symphony No 8

Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No 1 Prokofiev Symphony No 6 Valery Gergiev conductor Barry Douglas piano

André Previn conductor Daniel Müller-Schott cello Thu 17 Nov 2016 1pm, LSO St Luke’s BBC RADIO 3 LUNCHTIME CONCERT

LAWRENCE POWER & FRIENDS IV

DECEMBER 2016

Schubert Overture in C minor Beethoven Fugue in D minor Brahms Clarinet Quintet in B minor (version for viola and string quartet)

Sat 3 Dec 2016 2.30pm

Lawrence Power viola Vertavo String Quartet

Timothy Redmond conductor LSO Discovery Choirs †

LSO DISCOVERY

FAMILY CONCERT: ROALD DAHL CELEBRATION

Supported by LSO Friends

Thu 17 Nov 2016 7pm

6pm LSO Platforms: Guildhall Artists Chamber works by Stravinsky and Bartók Wed 14 Dec 2016 7.30pm Ravel La valse Shostakovich Violin Concerto No 1 Michael Taplin Ebbing Tides (world premiere, LSO Panufnik scheme commission) Mussorgsky arr Ravel Pictures at an Exhibition Fabien Gabel conductor James Ehnes violin

Supported by LSO Friends. LSO Panufnik scheme commission supported by Lady Hamlyn and The Helen Hamlyn Trust.

COMPETITION FINAL

Verdi Overture: The Force of Destiny Elgar Variations on an Original Theme (‘Enigma’) Rachmaninov Symphonic Dances

Sun 18 Dec 2016 7pm Mozart Violin Concerto No 1 Mozart Violin Concerto No 4 Tchaikovsky Symphony No 4

Thu 24 Nov 2016 1pm, LSO St Luke’s

Nikolaj Znaider conductor/violin

BBC RADIO 3 LUNCHTIME CONCERT

MOZART & TCHAIKOVSKY IV

Wed 21 Dec 2016 7.30pm

Mozart String Quartet in B-flat major K589 Tchaikovsky String Quartet No 1 in D major

JENNIFER JOHNSON CANO (4 DEC)

Ehnes String Quartet Sun 4 Dec 2016 7pm

JOHN ADAMS AT 70 John Adams El Niño

John Adams conductor Leila Josefowicz violin

6pm LSO Platforms: Guildhall Artists Piano pieces by Shostakovich and Mussorgsky

Please note start time

THE DONATELLA FLICK LSO CONDUCTING COMPETITION

DANIEL MÜLLER-SCHOTT (10 NOV)

Thu 8 Dec 2016 7.30pm Bartók Hungarian Sketches Stravinsky Orpheus John Adams Scheherazade.2

John Adams conductor Joelle Harvey soprano Jennifer Johnson Cano mezzo-soprano Daniel Bubeck, Brian Cummings, Nathan Medley counter-tenors Davone Tines bass London Symphony Chorus † Simon Halsey chorus director

LONDON SYMPHONY CHORUS

A CHORAL CHRISTMAS Simon Halsey conductor LSO String Ensemble London Symphony Chorus † LSO Community Choir † LSO Discovery Choirs † Join Simon Halsey, all of the LSO’s choral groups and the Orchestra’s String Ensemble in this festive choral celebration of Christmas. † LSO Sing is supported by the John S Cohen Foundation, LSO Friends, Rothschild Charities Committee, Barnett & Sylvia Shine No 2 Charitable Trust, Slaughter and May and Sir Siegmund Warburg’s Voluntary Settlement.

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2016/17 LISTINGS Thu 9 Feb 2017 1pm, LSO St Luke’s

JANUARY 2017

BBC RADIO 3 LUNCHTIME CONCERT

RUSSIAN REVOLUTIONARIES II

Fri 13 Jan 2017 7.30pm, Milton Court Concert Hall

Prokofiev Romeo and Juliet Before Parting from ‘Ten Pieces from Romeo and Juliet’ Medtner Fairy Tale in A Minor Rachmaninov Fragments Rachmaninov Piano Sonata No 1

J S Bach Orchestral Suite No 1 W F Bach Symphony in F major C P E Bach Symphony in G major Telemann Recorder Concerto in C major Haydn Symphony No 49 (‘La Passione’)

Alexei Volodin piano

Giovanni Antonini conductor/recorder LSO Chamber Orchestra

Sat 11 Feb 2017 7pm, LSO St Luke’s

Please note venue

LSO DISCOVERY

SOUNDHUB SHOWCASE: PHASE II LSO Soundhub offers composers a flexible environment to explore, collaborate and experiment, and this annual showcase gives an opportunity to hear what they’ve been working on in the last year. Featuring music by Oliver Leith and Lee Westwood, plus works which formed part of a unique residency by Cevanne Horrocks-Hopayian.

Sat 14 & Sun 15 Jan 2017 7pm Ligeti Le grand macabre (semi-staged performance) Sir Simon Rattle conductor Peter Sellars director Peter Hoare Piet the Pot Ronnita Miller Amando Elizabeth Watts Amanda Pavlo Hunka Nekrotzar Frode Olsen Astradamors Heidi Melton Mescalina Audrey Luna Venus, Gepopo Anthony Roth Costanzo Prince Gogo Peter Tantsits White Minister Joshua Bloom Black Minister London Symphony Chorus † Simon Halsey chorus director Produced by the LSO and Barbican Part of LSO 2016/17 Season and Barbican Presents Multi-buy and group discounts do not apply to these concerts

Supported by Esmée Fairbairn Foundation

Wed 15 Feb 2017 7.30pm HÅKAN HARDENBERGER (15 FEB)

FEBRUARY 2017

Mark-Anthony Turnage Håkan (UK premiere, LSO co-commission) Rachmaninov Symphony No 2 Daniel Harding conductor Håkan Hardenberger trumpet Supported by LSO Patrons

Thu 2 Feb 2017 1pm, LSO St Luke’s BBC RADIO 3 LUNCHTIME CONCERT

6pm LSO Platforms: Guildhall Artists Works for piano by Rachmaninov

RUSSIAN REVOLUTIONARIES I Prokofiev Sarcasms Schnittke Variations on a Chord Tchaikovsky Grand Sonata in G major

Thu 16 Feb 2017 1pm, LSO St Luke’s

Elisabeth Leonskaja piano

Tchaikovsky Selection from ‘The Seasons’ Shostakovich Puppet Dances Prokofiev Piano Sonata No 6 in A major

Sun 5 Feb 2017 10am–5pm, Barbican and LSO St Luke’s

BBC RADIO 3 LUNCHTIME CONCERT

RUSSIAN REVOLUTIONARIES III

Anna Vinnitskaya piano

LSO DISCOVERY DAY

MARK-ANTHONY TURNAGE (27 OCT, 19 JAN, 15 FEB)

Thu 19 Jan 2017 7.30pm Mark-Anthony Turnage Remembering: In memoriam Evan Scofield (world premiere, LSO co-commission) Mahler Symphony No 6 Sir Simon Rattle conductor

NIELSEN

Thu 23 Feb 2017 1pm, LSO St Luke’s

Watch Sir Antonio Pappano rehearse the LSO in Nielsen’s Fourth Symphony (‘The Inextinguishable’) plus an afternoon talk with guest speaker Stephen Johnson and chamber music.

BBC RADIO 3 LUNCHTIME CONCERT

Sun 5 Feb 2017 7pm Sibelius The Oceanides Bernstein Serenade Nielsen Symphony No 4 (‘The Inextinguishable’)

RUSSIAN REVOLUTIONARIES IV Rachmaninov Preludes Op 32 Nos 1, 2 & 11 Medtner Three Fairy Tales Op 9 No 2; Op 20 No 2; Op 51 No 1 Rachmaninov Selections from Études Tableaux Vadym Kholodenko piano

Sir Antonio Pappano conductor Janine Jansen violin 5.30pm LSO Platforms: Guildhall Artists Songs by Bernstein

LSO commission generously supported by Susie Thomson

6pm LSO Platforms: Guildhall Artists Chamber works and songs by Mark-Anthony Turnage Thu 26 Jan 2017 7.30pm Brahms Piano Concerto No 1 Brahms Variations on a Theme by Haydn Strauss Death and Transfiguration Alpesh Chauhan conductor Benjamin Grosvenor piano 10

2016/17 LISTINGS ~ LSO.CO.UK

Wed 8 Feb 2017 7.30pm Wagner Prelude to ‘Tristan and Isolde’ Wagner Wesendonck Lieder Wagner Act I from ‘The Valkyrie’ Sir Antonio Pappano conductor Jonas Kaufmann tenor Karita Mattila soprano Eric Halfvarson bass Part of Barbican Presents, LSO discounts do not apply

ALPESH CHAUHAN (26 JAN)

MARCH 2017

Thu 16 Mar 2017 1pm, LSO St Luke’s

Thu 2 Mar 2017 1pm, LSO St Luke’s

Bruch Piano Quintet in G minor Vaughan Williams String Quartet No 2 in A minor

BBC RADIO 3 LUNCHTIME CONCERT

NASH ENSEMBLE III

NASH ENSEMBLE I

Nash Ensemble

Vaughan Williams St Denio from ‘Welsh Hymn Tunes’ Bruch String Quintet in E-flat major Vaughan Williams Piano Quintet in C minor

Beethoven Piano Concerto No 5 (‘Emperor’) Brahms Symphony No 2

Nash Ensemble

Thu 16 Mar 2017 7.30pm

Fabio Luisi conductor Igor Levit piano

Thu 23 Mar 2017 7.30pm Prokofiev Overture on Hebrew Themes Shostakovich Cello Concerto No 1 Ravel Daphnis and Chloé – complete ballet Alain Altinoglu conductor Gautier Capuçon cello London Symphony Chorus † Simon Halsey chorus director Sun 26 Mar 2017 2.30pm LSO DISCOVERY

FAMILY CONCERT Supported by LSO Friends

Sun 5 Mar 2017 11am–4.30pm, LSO St Luke’s LSO CHORAL SINGING DAY †

BRAHMS GERMAN REQUIEM

Thu 30 Mar 2017 1pm, LSO St Luke’s

Brahms German Requiem accompanied by piano

BBC RADIO 3 LUNCHTIME CONCERT

NASH ENSEMBLE IV

Bruch Songs from ‘Lieder und Gesänge’ Bruch String Quintet in A minor Vaughan Williams On Wenlock Edge

Simon Halsey conductor

Nash Ensemble John Mark Ainsley tenor Thu 30 Mar 2017 7.30pm Debussy Jeux Bartók Piano Concerto No 3 Mahler Symphony No 1 (‘Titan’) IGOR LEVIT (16 MAR)

Sun 19 Mar 2017 10am–5pm, Barbican and LSO St Luke’s LSO DISCOVERY DAY

BRAHMS & SCHUBERT

François-Xavier Roth conductor Simon Trpcˇeski piano

† LSO Sing is supported by the John S Cohen Foundation, LSO Friends, Rothschild Charities Committee, Barnett & Sylvia Shine No 2 Charitable Trust, Slaughter and May and Sir Siegmund Warburg’s Voluntary Settlement.

A morning watching Fabio Luisi rehearse two 19th-century masterpieces followed by afternoon discussion and chamber music. Sun 19 Mar 2017 7pm Schubert Symphony No 8 (‘Unfinished’) Brahms German Requiem JANINE JANSEN (5 FEB, 12 MAR & 6 APR)

Thu 9 Mar 2017 1pm, LSO St Luke’s BBC RADIO 3 LUNCHTIME CONCERT

Fabio Luisi conductor Julia Kleiter soprano Ruben Drole bass-baritone London Symphony Chorus † Simon Halsey chorus director

NASH ENSEMBLE II

Vaughan Williams Phantasy String Quintet Bruch Selection from Eight Pieces for Clarinet, Viola and Piano Vaughan Williams Quintet in D major for piano, clarinet, horn, violin and cello Nash Ensemble Sun 12 Mar 2017 7pm Brahms Violin Concerto Strauss Also sprach Zarathustra Valery Gergiev conductor Janine Jansen violin 5.30pm LSO Platforms: Guildhall Artists A selection of chamber works by Brahms VALERY GERGIEV (29 & 30 NOV; 12 MAR)

SIMON TRPCˇESKI (30 MAR)

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2016/17 LISTINGS

APRIL 2017

MAY 2017

Thu 6 Apr 2017 1pm, LSO St Luke’s

Thu 4 May 2017 1pm, LSO St Luke’s

BBC RADIO 3 LUNCHTIME CONCERT

Schumann Adagio and Allegro Brahms Cello Sonata No 2 in F major Fauré Après un rêve Debussy Cello Sonata

Beethoven Cello Sonata in D major Shostakovich Sonata in D minor

VOICE OF THE CELLO I

VOICE OF THE CELLO IV

Alban Gerhardt cello Steven Osborne piano

Narek Hakhnazaryan cello Pavel Kolesnikov piano Thu 6 Apr 2017 7.30pm

ANTOINE TAMESTIT (23 APR)

Berg Violin Concerto Mahler Symphony No 7 Gianandrea Noseda conductor Janine Jansen violin

Thu 13 Apr 2017 1pm, LSO St Luke’s BBC RADIO 3 LUNCHTIME CONCERT

VOICE OF THE CELLO II Sun 9 Apr 2017 11am–4.30pm, LSO St Luke’s LSO CHORAL SINGING DAY †

BRUCKNER FAVOURITES Bruckner Te Deum; Locus Iste; Ave Maria accompanied by piano

Barrière Sonata No 10 in G major Thomas Demenga Duo? o, Du … Ravel arr Nigel Broadbent Sonata for violin and cello Paganini Introduction and Variations on Rossini’s ‘Dal tuo stellato’

Simon Halsey conductor

Rebecca Gilliver cello Tim Hugh cello

Sun 9 Apr 2017 7pm

Thu 20 Apr 2017 10am–1.30pm & 2.30–6pm, LSO St Luke’s

NATIONAL YOUTH ORCHESTRA OF GREAT BRITAIN

ANNE-SOPHIE MUTTER (7 MAY)

LSO DISCOVERY

PANUFNIK COMPOSERS WORKSHOP

Shostakovich Cello Concerto No 1 Revueltas Night of the Mayas Shostakovich Symphony No 5

François-Xavier Roth conductor

Carlos Miguel Prieto conductor Sheku Kanneh-Mason cello

Mussorgsky arr Shostakovich Prelude to ‘Khovanshchina’ Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto Shostakovich Symphony No 15

Free entry, booking essential Generously supported by Lady Hamlyn and The Helen Hamlyn Trust

Sir Mark Elder conductor Anne-Sophie Mutter violin

Sat 22 Apr 2017 7.30pm

5.30pm LSO Platforms: Guildhall Artists A selection of Russian songs

NATIONAL YOUTH BRASS BAND OF GREAT BRITAIN Bramwell Tovey conductor Sun 23 Apr 2017 7pm

TIM HUGH (13 APR)

Sun 7 May 2017 7pm

Six composers on the Panufnik Composers Scheme have their new pieces workshopped by the LSO, plus a chance to hear two works from the previous year’s participants which will receive Barbican premieres.

Sun 14 May 2017 7pm Mozart Violin Concerto No 5 Tchaikovsky Symphony No 5 Nikolaj Znaider conductor/violin

Debussy Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune Bartók Viola Concerto Bruckner Symphony No 4 François-Xavier Roth conductor Antoine Tamestit viola 5.30pm LSO Platforms: Guildhall Artists Piano works by Debussy and Bartók Thu 27 Apr 2017 1pm, LSO St Luke’s BBC RADIO 3 LUNCHTIME CONCERT

VOICE OF THE CELLO III

Saint-Saëns Cello Sonata No 1 in C minor Nadia Boulanger Three Pieces Fauré Cello Sonata No 2 in G minor

REBECCA GILLIVER (13 APR)

2016/17 LISTINGS ~ LSO.CO.UK

Christian Poltéra cello Kathryn Stott piano

NIKOLAJ ZNAIDER (25 SEP, 18 DEC & 14 MAY)

JUNE 2017 Thu 1 Jun 2017 7.30pm Beethoven Piano Concerto No 3 Bruckner Symphony No 9 Bernard Haitink conductor Mitsuko Uchida piano Sat 3 Jun 2017 2.30pm LSO DISCOVERY

FAMILY CONCERT: THE FIREBIRD Elim Chan conductor Rachel Leach presenter Supported by LSO Friends

TCHAIKOVSKY

Thu 18 May 2017 7.30pm Vaughan Williams Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus Brahms Double Concerto Holst The Planets – Suite Sir Mark Elder conductor Roman Simovic violin Tim Hugh cello Ladies of the London Symphony Chorus † Simon Halsey chorus director

Hear Tchaikovsky’s final symphony – the ‘Pathétique’ – in rehearsal with Michael Tilson Thomas, followed by an afternoon exploring this great composer through music and talks.

Elim Chan conductor LSO On Track Next Generation London Symphony Orchestra Witness the electrifying results when an orchestra founded at the beginning of the 20th century meets young musicians born at the beginning of the 21st. This concert showcases the talent of Londoners of all ages alongside one of the world’s finest orchestras. 6.30pm LSO On Track: Festival Takeover Talented young musicians from East London come together to present an unforgettable performance in the Barbican Centre’s unique foyer spaces, produced with the LSO On Track Music Education Hub partnership.

Sun 25 Jun 2016 7pm Daniel Harding conductor Anna Larsson alto Ladies of the London Symphony Chorus † Simon Halsey chorus director

Sun 4 Jun 2017 7pm Stravinsky Scènes de ballet Prokofiev Violin Concerto No 1 Tchaikovsky Symphony No 6 (‘Pathétique’) Michael Tilson Thomas conductor Lisa Batiashvili violin

Thu 8 Jun 2017 7.30pm

ANNA LARSSON (25 JUN)

Brahms Piano Concerto No 2 Nielsen Symphony No 5 Michael Tilson Thomas conductor Yuja Wang piano

JULY 2017 Sun 9 Jul 2017 7pm Andrew Norman Incredible Things (world premiere of a children’s opera, LSO commission) Sibelius Symphony No 2

Supported by Baker & McKenzie LLP

Tue 23 May 2017 7.30pm

Sir Simon Rattle conductor London Symphony Orchestra Guildhall School Musicians LSO Discovery Choirs † LSO Community Choir † Simon Halsey chorus director

Mahler Symphony No 9 Bernard Haitink conductor 6pm LSO Platforms: Guildhall Artists Mahler Piano Quartet in A minor Sun 28 May 2017 7pm

Tue 11 & Wed 12 Jul 2017 7.30pm

Bruckner Te Deum Bruckner Symphony No 9

Wagner Prelude and Liebestod from ‘Tristan and Isolde’ Bartók Piano Concerto No 2 Haydn An imaginary orchestral journey – featuring excerpts from Symphonies Nos 6, 45, 46, 60, 64, 90 and 101; ‘The Creation’; ‘The Seasons’; ‘The Desert Island’; and ‘The Seven Last Words of Christ on the Cross’

Bernard Haitink conductor Sally Matthews soprano Karen Cargill mezzo-soprano Eric Cutler tenor Alessandro Spina bass London Symphony Chorus † Simon Halsey chorus director

Sir Simon Rattle conductor Lang Lang piano MICHAEL TILSON THOMAS (4 & 8 JUN)

ANNUAL LSO DISCOVERY SHOWCASE

Mahler Symphony No 3

LSO DISCOVERY DAY

LSO DISCOVERY

LSO On Track Next Generation is supported by Mizuho and the Hedley Foundation

Sun 4 Jun 2017 10am–5pm, Barbican and LSO St Luke’s

MITSUKO UCHIDA (1 JUN)

Thu 22 Jun 2017 7.30pm

Wed 12 Jul supported by LSO Music Director Donors

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Edward Vanderspar Principal Viola

Andrew Marriner Principal Clarinet Harriet Rayfield First Violin

Andrew Pollock Second Violin Patrick Harrild Principal Tuba Jonathan Lipton Horn

Matthew Gardner Second Violin

Patrick Laurence Double Bass Elizabeth Pigram First Violin Sylvain Vasseur First Violin

NoĂŤl Bradshaw Cello

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LSO ARTIST PORTRAIT: JANINE JANSEN ~ LSO.CO.UK

LSO ARTIST PORTRAIT JANINE JANSEN

Sat 8 Oct 2016 7.30pm, Wigmore Hall

Making music with others has always been at the heart of Janine Jansen’s career. The Dutch violinist, who recalls that ‘there was always music at home’, grew up playing chamber music with her family (her father is an organist and harpsichordist, her mother and uncle both singers). These days, she has run her own chamber music festival in Utrecht, subtitled ‘Janine Jansen & Friends’, and often rounds off her show-stopping performances with the LSO by teaming up with the Orchestra’s Leader, Roman Simovic, for a duet encore.

Janine Jansen violin Alexander Gavrylyuk piano

Watching from the audience, the same powerful commitment to communication and connection is present. Jansen’s performances are full of feeling, energy and intensity, taking listeners on journeys through the music. ‘There’s nothing like a live concert,’ she says. ‘When those moments happen – if you feel that everybody in the hall is there in the same moment, with the same attention – that is magic. That’s what one plays music for.’ Jansen made her debut with the LSO in 2006, and the last ten years with the Orchestra have taken in tours, workshops, lunchtime concerts and recordings – most recently Bartók’s First Violin Concerto, an experience she describes as ‘creative, and also relaxed because of the atmosphere and good vibes’. In 2016/17 she is the focus of the LSO’s Artist Portrait, giving audiences the chance to experience all sides of her celebrated artistry – three concerts with the Orchestra, alongside a complementary series of chamber recitals at Wigmore Hall. She takes on three very different interpretations of the violin concerto – from the peak of 19th-century Romanticism to the Second Viennese School and beyond. Working with Sir Antonio Pappano – a conductor she praises for ‘how natural it is to make music together with him’ – she leads us through the changing characters and moods of Bernstein’s Serenade, a meditation on love inspired by Plato. In April, the focus is on Berg’s Violin Concerto, a moving, modernist masterpiece. It’s the Brahms Violin Concerto, a soaring blend of drama, lyricism and spirited folk-dance rhythms, that forms the centrepiece of the series. Jansen first performed the work at the age of 16, with her father conducting. ‘It remains a challenge,’ she says. ‘It’s a fantastic piece, a very symphonic piece. I’ve been playing it for 20 years – maybe that feels like a long time, but on the other hand, it’s actually nothing in a whole lifetime, and it’s a piece that needs to be with you for many, many years.’ Of all of the high-points of emotion and beauty in this work, there is one moment that Jansen looks forward to the most, when she knows that a performance has come together for soloist, conductor, orchestra and audience alike. ‘After the cadenza, it ends with this trill on the violin, going to the theme … time stands still. It’s an amazing moment. You don’t want to breathe!’.

Poulenc Sonata for Violin and Piano Brahms Sonata for Violin and Piano No 3 in D minor Szymanowski Mythes (‘Trois Poemes’) Prokofiev Sonata for Violin and Piano No 2 in D major

Sun 5 Feb 2017 7pm, Barbican Sibelius The Oceanides Bernstein Serenade Nielsen Symphony No 4 (‘The Inextinguishable’) Sir Antonio Pappano conductor Janine Jansen violin Wed 8 Feb 2017 7.30pm, Wigmore Hall Berg Adagio from ‘Kammerkonzert’ for Piano, Clarinet and Violin Schoenberg/Webern Chamber Symphony No 1 Korngold Suite for two violins, cello and piano left hand Janine Jansen, Boris Brovtsyn violins Torleif Thedéen cello Eldar Nebolsin piano Clara Andrada de La Calle flute Olivier Patey clarinet Sun 12 Mar 2017 7pm, Barbican Brahms Violin Concerto Strauss Also sprach Zarathustra Valery Gergiev conductor Janine Jansen violin

Thu 6 Apr 2017 7.30pm, Barbican Berg Violin Concerto Mahler Symphony No 7 Gianandrea Noseda conductor Janine Jansen violin

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Fri 2 Jun 2017 7.30pm, Wigmore Hall Schubert Fantasy Messiaen Quartet for the End of Time

In partnership with Wigmore Hall Janine Jansen’s LSO concerts are interspersed with chamber music recitals featuring some of her closest musical collaborators at London’s Wigmore Hall. For information about those performances visit wigmore-hall.org.uk

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Janine Jansen violin Torleif Thedéen cello Martin Fröst clarinet Lucas Debargue piano

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Sounds of America PIONEERING COMPOSERS FROM THE UNITED STATES In the 2016/17 season the LSO marks the 70th and 80th birthdays of two of the most iconic names in contemporary American classical music, John Adams and Steve Reich. The series opens with an LSO Discovery Day and concert to celebrate the 80th birthday of one of classical music’s greatest living pioneers – American composer Steve Reich. The concert features three of his most significant scores, and during the afternoon Reich will be in discussion about his works at LSO St Luke’s. Reich’s is one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary classical music, at once progressive and forward-thinking, yet entirely accessible and immediately evocative. The first half of the evening’s programme features a pair of kaleidoscopic works for ensemble and voices, Reich’s You Are (Variations) and Daniel Variations, both of which consist of a series of increasingly embellished variations which form around terse fragments of text. The concert closes with a performance of one of Reich’s mightiest musical achievements, The Desert Music, a work on a colossal scale for chorus and extended orchestra which depicts the vast, ever-shifting landscape of a scorched desert. America’s pre-eminent musician John Adams has been a regular collaborator of the LSO’s for over two decades. The Orchestra first performed his music in 1994 and he has regularly appeared in the dual roles of composer and conductor since 1998, bringing the idiosyncratic vision of his music to life as well as providing a unique insight into the scores of composers including Stravinsky, Ravel, Carter, Copland and Ives. In 2016/17 Adams returns to the LSO to present a pair of programmes marking the occasion of his 70th birthday. In his first concert Adams will conduct a concert performance of his sparkling opera-oratorio El Niño, a contemporary re-imagining of the traditional nativity story. The work explores the issues surrounding the traditional nativity paying particular attention to the character of Mary and the journey of motherhood. The libretto, compiled by Adams himself, draws on a variety of sources from pre-Christian prophets to 20th-century Hispanic female writers, which Adams responds to with music of astounding diversity and unabashed brilliance. For his second concert Adams will conduct the second UK performance of Scheherazade.2, his so-called ‘dramatic-symphony’ for violin and orchestra. Scheherazade.2 takes the traditional Scheherazade tale as its starting point re-imagining the title role – portrayed in the dazzling acrobatics of the solo violin – as an empowered, defiant character who is unafraid of conflict. The work is as much inspired by the breath-taking virtuosity and musicianship of its dedicatee, violinist Leila Josefowicz, as the traditional tale from which it borrows its name. She joins the LSO and Adams for this performance to inhabit the role of Scheherazade once more. Benjamin Picard, LSO Assistant Librarian 18

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ADAMS BRINGS THE IDIOSYNCRATIC VISION OF HIS MUSIC TO LIFE.

REICH IS ONE OF THE MOST DISTINCTIVE VOICES IN CONTEMPORARY CLASSICAL MUSIC.

Sun 6 Nov 2016 11am–5.30pm, Barbican and LSO St Luke’s LSO DISCOVERY DAY

STEVE REICH AT 80 Sun 6 Nov 2016 7pm Reich Daniel Variations Reich You Are (Variations) Reich The Desert Music Kristjan Järvi conductor Synergy Vocals Sun 4 Dec 2016 7pm John Adams El Niño John Adams conductor Joelle Harvey soprano Jennifer Johnson Cano mezzo-soprano Daniel Bubeck, Brian Cummings, Nathan Medley counter-tenors Davone Tines bass London Symphony Chorus Simon Halsey chorus director LSO Sing is supported by Sir Siegmund Warburg’s Voluntary Settlement.

Thu 8 Dec 2016 7.30pm Bartók Hungarian Sketches Stravinsky Orpheus John Adams Scheherazade.2 John Adams conductor Leila Josefowicz violin

Barbican presents: The Sounds that Changed America Throughout the 2016/17 season the Barbican and its associate ensembles present a series of orchestral concerts, chamber music, theatre performances and talks with John Adams, Steve Reich and Philip Glass. Visit barbican.org.uk/music for details.

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STEVE REICH ON LSO LIVE The LSO Percussion Ensemble’s first disc on LSO Live featuring Steve Reich’s Sextet, Clapping Music and Music for Pieces of Wood. Buy online at lsolive.lso.co.uk or on digital music services. Supported by

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Le grand macabre HONK! HONK! HONK! IT’S THE END OF THE WORLD! MAKE WAY FOR LE GRAND MACABRE … ‘The opera is a shocking kind of excretory apocalypse. It’s not just irreverent, it knows no shame: it is in very bad taste, it’s filled with bad jokes, the music is outrageous. And to put this giant mess on the stage will be one of the great privileges of my life’. Peter Sellars introducing Le grand macabre at the premiere of the revised version (1997)

If a stranger comes from a tomb and carries a scythe and predicts the end of the world, does that make him Death? And if ‘Death’ dies during this ‘apocalypse’ that nobody remembers because they were drunk, what then? Did they miss the Last Judgement and pass straight into Paradise? Or are they just hungover with a charlatan’s corpse? These are the questions that frame Le grand macabre, the wildest and most absurd musical work to emerge in the last 50 years, and perhaps the most brilliant and original opera since the first in 1607. It was written by the Hungarian composer György Ligeti in 1974–77 and premiered the next year in Stockholm, 13 years after they asked for it. And while the audience loved it, and the critics acclaimed it, they couldn’t decide what to call it because Mozart and Verdi wrote operas and this did not sound like Mozart, Verdi, Wagner, Berg or anything other than the perverse and extravagant mess that it was. And that was the point, because Ligeti had set out to write the world’s first and only ‘anti-anti-opera’, which he summarised on an episode of Desert Island Discs: ‘I used the whole story of opera, more, even the whole story of music, like garbage objects!’. It takes a lot of love to go through someone’s trash, to sift through all the waste and pick out the parts to keep, to discover El Dorado in the detritus. In Le grand macabre, operatic conventions are faithfully recreated and then mischievously dismantled before our ears: the coloratura soprano takes her big aria and stutters through the whole thing, the accompanist plays the recitatives as if he were drunk, the lovers’ duet reaches its climax as each of them reach their own, the chorus of the docile masses sings its solo 64 times in a row, a dies irae is interrupted by hiccups and ‘heavenly’ off-stage trombones announce the Armageddon with a fanfare of wrong notes. But all this playful teasing is not done just to poke fun at the genre: it creates a lingering sense that something isn’t quite right.

Ligeti used another analogy to describe this process – he talked about a piece of pâté that falls to the carpet and gets rubbed in underfoot. You might not notice the stain, but you know that something’s there because eventually it starts to smell. The genius of Le grand macabre lies in the many ambiguities, like these, that it holds on to without resolution. Ligeti relished this state of confusion and took full advantage of its comic potential, spinning that old maxim round to reveal the work first as farce before tragedy. The jokes themselves are extreme and extensive – at times crude and puerile (‘send me a man with bow legs and a hunchback if you like, as long as he’s well hung!’), at others poignant and poetic (a prince comes off his rocking horse: ‘Thus do dynasties fall!’). But these two sides share a single purpose as humour becomes the lens by which Ligeti reveals the latent absurdities of life, and with them the mechanisms of power and policy that we – as individuals and as a society – consent to be subjected to. So the opera is a critique, and a bleak one because everyone ‘dies’ in the end. But Ligeti was never one to express his reservations in the form of a prescription. We must never forget that he despised the dogmatic; he literally walked out of communist Hungary. And at Darmstadt, that spiritual home of the post-war avant-garde, where his peers preached a vision of musical utopia, he filled his notebook with doodles of dinosaurs from the made-up kingdom of his childhood, Kilwiria. His preferred method was always to meet ideology with imagination, and there is enough of that packed into Le grand macabre to combat any regime that stands in its way from now until the end of the world, whenever that happens to happen. Mark Parker, LSO Marketing and Audience Development Co-ordinator

Bringing Great Passions CREATIVE GENIUSES A collaboration between two of the boldest creative minds in theatre and music, Sir Simon Rattle and Peter Sellars, forms the backbone of this series of concerts exploring works of true creative genius.

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years of music history ART IS NOT JUST ANOTHER DAY AT THE MALL. IT’S REALLY ASKING THE BIGGEST QUESTIONS AND DEMANDING VERY REAL ANSWERS. Peter Sellars

Music belongs to everybody … Lang Lang (11 & 12 July) … … and Sir Simon Rattle made their first recording together only three years ago in 2013 – Bartók’s Piano Concerto No 2.

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‘Culture is everyone’s right – it can’t be a matter of privilege or chance; it should be something everyone can have in their life.’ Sir Simon Rattle

Sat 14 & Sun 15 Jan 2017 7pm

LE GRAND MACABRE Ligeti Le grand macabre (semi-staged performance)

SIR SIMON RATTLE IN 2016/17 On the face of it, Sir Simon Rattle’s four programmes for the 2016/17 season don’t have a huge amount in common. Spanning 260 years of musical history, there’s a wide range of styles and different genres that he’ll be tackling. But look a little closer and you’ll see that what he’s doing is bringing his great passions to London to share with us. Take Haydn, for example. A composer who’s long been close to his heart, Sir Simon has taken what he considers to be his ‘greatest hits’ and worked them into a musical journey through all that is quirky and extraordinary, humorous and profound. ‘Hopefully this pasticcio will give a picture of the composer who most summed up all the ideals of the Enlightenment, of intelligence, respect, humour, wit and profound thought’, he says. And then there’s Mark-Anthony Turnage. The relationship between these two artists goes back to the late 1980s when Turnage was Composer-in-Association during Rattle’s time as Music Director of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, and continued in headline-grabbing style when Rattle chose Blood on the Floor to open his first concert as Music Director at the Berlin Philharmonic. Turnage’s work is already familiar to LSO audiences from performances of Speranza and From the Wreckage in 2013, and it’s a great joy to be adding another world premiere of his, Remembering, to the repertoire. Another long-standing artistic partnership, with the director Peter Sellars, bears more fruit in January 2017. After their acclaimed semi-staged production of Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande in early 2016, Rattle brings Sellars back to direct Ligeti’s gloriously absurd opera Le grand macabre. The two men first worked together in their 30s, and Rattle describes him as an ‘astonishing force of nature … extraordinarily eloquent … the amount of knowledge and his musical understanding staggered all of us’. Finally, in July, Rattle’s passionate advocacy of music education is brought to the fore. Andrew Norman’s new children’s opera, Incredible Things, is written for forces with a very wide range of musical experience – singers from the LSO’s local community and youth choirs, students from the Guildhall School and LSO musicians – creating an environment in which everyone can learn from each other, amateurs and professionals alike. ‘Music belongs to everybody’, is Rattle’s mantra, and he believes that it can change people’s lives. What’s clear from these programmes is that, in the season before Sir Simon Rattle officially takes up the position of LSO Music Director, we are being given a glimpse of the kind of inventive and imaginative music-making to which we can look forward to in future seasons. Jo Johnson, LSO Senior Marketing Manager, Digital Communications

Sir Simon Rattle conductor Peter Sellars director Peter Hoare Piet the Pot Ronnita Miller Amando Elizabeth Watts Amanda Pavlo Hunka Nekrotzar Frode Olsen Astradamors Heidi Melton Mescalina Audrey Luna Venus, Gepopo Anthony Roth Costanzo Prince Gogo Peter Tantsits White Minister Joshua Bloom Black Minister London Symphony Chorus † Simon Halsey chorus director Produced by the LSO and Barbican Part of LSO 2016/17 Season and Barbican Presents Multi-buy and group discounts do not apply to these concerts

Thu 19 Jan 2017 7.30pm Mark-Anthony Turnage Remembering: In memoriam Evan Scofield (world premiere, LSO co-commission) Mahler Symphony No 6 Sir Simon Rattle conductor LSO commission generously supported by Susie Thomson

Sun 9 Jul 2017 7pm Andrew Norman Incredible Things (world premiere of a children’s opera, LSO commission) Sibelius Symphony No 2 Sir Simon Rattle conductor Guildhall School Musicians LSO Discovery Choirs † LSO Community Choir † Simon Halsey chorus director

Tue 11 & Wed 12 Jul 2017 7.30pm Wagner Prelude and Liebestod from ‘Tristan and Isolde’ Bartók Piano Concerto No 2 Haydn An imaginary orchestral journey Sir Simon Rattle conductor Lang Lang piano

Sir Simon Rattle

Mark-Anthony Turnage

Wed 12 Jul supported by LSO Music Director Donors

Born 19 January 1955, Liverpool Instruments Piano, Violin, Percussion Studied Royal Academy of Music; St Anne’s College, Oxford First job Assistant Conductor, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra Football team Liverpool Current honours Knight Batchelor (1994); Order of Merit (2014)

Born 10 June 1960, Corringham Essex Instrument Piano Studied Royal College of Music Breakthrough work Greek (1988) Football team Arsenal Current honours CBE (2015)

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Grand Choral Works ‘An outstanding concert … conductor Gianandrea Noseda whipped up a demonic storm.’ The Independent

THE LENGTH AND BREADTH OF THE CHORAL REPERTOIRE In the 2016/17 season LSO Sing becomes an ever more integral facet of the LSO’s work both on and off the stage, presenting a series of concerts and linked Singing Days that explore the length and breadth of the choral repertoire – from established masterworks to relative rarities. The season and series launches with two performances (18 & 20 Sep) of Verdi’s monumental Requiem under the commanding baton of Gianandrea Noseda, a conductor who has made his name as one of the leading interpreters of the emotionally charged, hyper-Romantic music of Verdi. The Requiem is one of Verdi’s most recognised works, setting the traditional liturgical Requiem texts to music of unprecedented emotional scope. The work rapidly became an iconic piece of the choral repertoire finding favour with audiences the world over. Noseda has his own idea as to why the work has resonated so clearly across the generations: ‘It has an integrity and honesty which is much needed nowadays … there is also an important element of warning, telling us not to waste time. The Verdi Requiem is addressed to the living, it’s not intended to mourn the dead’. The series then continues (16 and 20 Oct) with Sir John Eliot Gardiner, who completes his Mendelssohn symphony cycle with a revival performance of Mendelssohn’s unjustly neglected choral gem, Lobegesang (‘Hymn of Praise’). Lobgesang is a consummately crafted symphony-cantata of truly grand proportions – three purely symphonic movements preface ten movements featuring chorus and soloists that set an astounding range of biblical texts – from the grandiose and bombastic to the tender and intimate. Elsewhere in the series the Orchestra and London Symphony Chorus under conductor Fabio Luisi perform Brahms’ transcendent humanist masterpiece, the German Requiem (19 Mar), a work that is truly a staple of the choral repertoire. America’s pre-eminent composer/conductor John Adams will conduct a performance of his sparkling oratorio, El Niño (4 Dec), a bold re-imagining of the traditional Nativity story told from different perspectives. The series comes to a thrilling close with a performance of Bruckner’s blazing Te Deum (28 May) with Bernard Haitink. The Te Deum is a compact tour-de-force of orchestral and choral virtuosity that the composer himself considered one of the crowning achievements of his career. Throughout 2016/17 LSO Sing continues to offer opportunities to get closer to the music and sing many of the works featured throughout the season. LSO Choral Singing Days are a fabulous opportunity to get to grips with seminal choral works under the guidance of award-winning LSO Choral Director Simon Halsey, with members of the London Symphony Chorus on hand to help you find your notes. The 2016/17 season will feature Choral Singing Days focusing on Verdi’s Requiem (17 Sep), Brahms’ German Requiem (5 Mar) and finally a day discovering the choral works of Bruckner including the magnificent Te Deum (9 Apr) – read more overleaf. Benjamin Picard, LSO Assistant Librarian

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GRAND CHORAL WORKS Sun 18 Sep 2016 7pm, Tue 20 Sep 2016 7.30pm Verdi Requiem Gianandrea Noseda conductor Erika Grimaldi soprano Daniela Barcellona mezzo-soprano Francesco Meli tenor Michele Pertusi baritone London Symphony Chorus † Simon Halsey chorus director Sun 16 Oct 2016 7pm, Thu 20 Oct 2016 7.30pm Mendelssohn Violin Concerto Mendelssohn Symphony No 2 (‘Lobgesang’) Sir John Eliot Gardiner conductor Alina Ibragimova violin Lucy Crowe soprano Jurgita Adamonyté soprano Michael Spyres tenor Monteverdi Choir Sun 4 Dec 2016 7pm John Adams El Niño John Adams conductor Joelle Harvey soprano Jennifer Johnson Cano mezzo-soprano Daniel Bubeck, Brian Cummings, Nathan Medley counter-tenors Davone Tines bass London Symphony Chorus † Simon Halsey chorus director Sun 19 Mar 2017 7pm Schubert Symphony No 8 (‘Unfinished’) Brahms German Requiem Fabio Luisi conductor London Symphony Chorus † Simon Halsey chorus director Sun 28 May 2017 7pm Bruckner Te Deum Bruckner Symphony No 9 Bernard Haitink conductor Sally Matthews soprano Karen Cargill mezzo-soprano Eric Cutler tenor Allesandro Spina bass London Symphony Chorus † Simon Halsey chorus director † LSO Sing is supported by Sir Siegmund Warburg’s Voluntary Settlement

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Get London Singing ‘It’s been a fantastic opportunity for me, I haven’t sung since I was at school. We all get tremendously excited and enthusiastic about singing in the Barbican Hall with the LSO; it’s such a privilege and really helps us to be the very best we can be – it’s just so important when there’s a full audience out there.’ Karen Wheeler, LSO Community Choir Member

JOIN IN London Symphony Chorus The LSC is on the look out for new members, particularly tenors and basses. You can attend a rehearsal to see if you think it’s for you, and then if you apply you will be asked to audition. To find out more, visit lsc.org.uk or email auditions@lsc.org.uk LSO Community Choir LSO Discovery Choirs The LSO’s Community and Discovery Choirs rehearse most weeks at LSO St Luke’s during term time. Applications for the Discovery Choirs open once every academic year. For information on both, visit lso.co.uk/lsosing or email andra.east@lso.co.uk

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‘We do classical, pop, folk, jazz – having the opportunity to sing so many different genres of music is so exhilarating.’ Nevo Burrell, LSO Community Choir Member

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FROM SINGING DAYS TO PERFORMING ON THE BARBICAN STAGE The LSO’s choral and singing programme has rapidly gained momentum over the last few years and with the arrival of Sir Simon Rattle working closely with LSO Choral Director Simon Halsey, the singing trend doesn’t look set to change. Karen Cardy speaks with Halsey about the year ahead.

JUST GIVE IT A GO!

I am very much looking forward to the season ahead – with singing days at LSO St Luke’s; choral concerts conducted by Sir Simon Rattle, Gianandrea Noseda and Bernard Haitink among others; and another world premiere of a children’s opera – there’s a lot to fit in across all our singing activities. The LSO’s Community and Discovery Choirs and the London Symphony Chorus have been terribly excited about the arrival of Sir Simon Rattle – it means our choral singers from all backgrounds get an opportunity to work with a music director to whom choral music is very important, no matter of ability. He has that fantastic common touch of being able to demand the highest professional standards, and at the same time understanding different people; he always pitches it just right – it’s an instinct for drawing out the very best in people which I know these wonderful singers will thrive upon. Last summer, we were all thrilled with the world premiere performance of Jonathan Dove’s The Monster in the Maze for community and youth singers, and how hard they all worked for it; more recently their performance of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies’ The Hogboon was so memorable for both the audience and performers alike. It means these singers gain so much confidence and are able to do things now they would not have attempted some years ago – they believe more in themselves, and for young singers that feeling manifests itself way beyond the concert hall or rehearsal room. And it’s a true privilege, both for myself and the singers, to be working with a team that not only commissions some of the best and most revered composers in this field, but to also work closely with Rattle and performs to an audience of 2,000 people. Our choirs are on the Barbican stage regularly and they have that great ability to draw people in from the local area who identify with being part of the LSO, so our roots go deeper into the community, and they are part of the LSO through singing with us. Some of the most touching stories from our local singers occur at LSO Singing Days – just recently someone who lives in the area came up to me and said, ‘I have brought my father for his 80th birthday, he’s been looking forward to this for six months’. We see many singers who haven’t sung in a choir for a while tasting and refreshing their choral skills, and people who want to just give it a go. And there’s always a surprising number of people from much further afield – Switzerland, Germany and France to name a few – on a regular basis because it’s an opportunity to have a weekend away in London and to come and sing with us. Our choral projects next season are incredibly broad with a lot of new works. John Adams is conducting his own El Niño, Peter Sellars is directing us once again in Le grand macabre in January, and then later on we have the new Andrew Norman children’s opera – all of which is a wonderful nod to the future, to what it is going to be like here in seasons to come; and singers should be joining us now because it’s going to be a very exciting ride!

SINGING DAYS & COMMUNITY OPERA Sat 17 Sep 2016 11am–4.30pm, LSO St Luke’s LSO CHORAL SINGING DAY

VERDI REQUIEM

Verdi Requiem accompanied by piano Simon Halsey conductor Wed 21 Dec 2016 7.30pm LONDON SYMPHONY CHORUS

A CHORAL CHRISTMAS Simon Halsey conductor LSO String Ensemble London Symphony Chorus LSO Community Choir LSO Discovery Choirs Join Simon Halsey and all of the LSO’s singing ensembles in this festive choral celebration of Christmas.

Sun 5 Mar 2017 11am–4.30pm, LSO St Luke’s LSO CHORAL SINGING DAY

BRAHMS REQUIEM Brahms Requiem accompanied by piano Simon Halsey conductor Sun 9 Apr 2017 11am–4.30pm, LSO St Luke’s LSO CHORAL SINGING DAY

BRUCKNER FAVOURITES Bruckner Te Deum; Locus Iste; Ave Maria accompanied by piano Simon Halsey conductor Sun 9 Jul 2017 7pm Andrew Norman Incredible Things (world premiere of a children’s opera, LSO commission) Sibelius Symphony No 2 Sir Simon Rattle conductor London Symphony Orchestra Guildhall School Musicians LSO Discovery Choirs LSO Community Choir Simon Halsey chorus director

LSO Sing is supported by the John S Cohen Foundation, LSO Friends, Rothschild Charities Committee, Barnett & Sylvia Shine No 2 Charitable Trust, Slaughter and May and Sir Siegmund Warburg’s Voluntary Settlement.

Simon Halsey has been LSO Choral Director since September 2012 and was interviewed by Karen Cardy, LSO Marketing and Communications Director & LSO St Luke’s Centre Director.

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LSO Live

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‘When Colin Davis and the LSO launched their own record label with recordings of Dvorˇák’s last two symphonies, they won instant acclaim.’

CELEBRATING LSO LIVE AND ITS BEST-SELLING DISC OF ALL TIME: HOLST’S THE PLANETS When Sir Mark Elder conducts the LSO in Holst’s The Planets on 18 May 2017, it will only be the Orchestra’s second performance of the work at the Barbican since Sir Colin Davis committed that decisive recording to disc in 2002, which would become LSO Live’s best-selling release of all time.

A BRAND NEW LABEL LSO Live releases its very first albums – Dvorˇák symphonies conducted by Sir Colin Davis. Initially only available to order direct from the LSO, initial success leads to them being sold in shops worldwide.

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iTUNES MUSIC STORE LAUNCHES A revolution in how people buy, play and listen to music comes in Spring 2003 and the idea behind being able to buy a single track rather than a whole album makes it immediately popular. LSO Live’s catalogue is available from the very beginning and now gets around 6.5 million downloads every year.

FIRST SACD ALBUMS The LSO moves to providing all its albums in SACD format – a technology which enables the discs to work both in ordinary players and also provide HD surround sound for those with SACD players. The first album available was Sir Colin Davis’ Verdi Falstaff, which won the 2004 Grammy for Best Opera Recording.

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THE MOST AWARDED DISC ON LSO LIVE Part of Sir Colin’s landmark Berlioz series, Les Troyens becomes the most awarded album in LSO Live’s catalogue, receiving Grammys for Best Opera Recording and Best Classical Album, Gramophone’s Best Opera and a Classical Brit Critics’ Choice.

‘Colin Davis’ recording of Berlioz’s epic opera Les Troyens is going to shake up the classical music industry as nothing else has in some time ... the performance is superb.’

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August 2002 SLAVA’S SHOSTAKOVICH The last in a series of three Shostakovich symphony recordings with Mstislav Rostropovich is released, the only recordings by the great conductor and cellist on the label.

THE BEST-SELLING ALBUM ON LSO LIVE: HOLST THE PLANETS With over 48,000 CDs sold, 90,000 albums downloaded and 4,152,090 streams and counting, this landmark recording is the most successful release on LSO Live to date. The album is a regular fixture in the charts and has been in iTunes’ top 100 classical pieces and top 100 classical album list for the best part of a decade, regularly appearing in the top 10.

‘Atmosphere, stillness and energy from the virtuoso LSO.’ The Daily Telegraph

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October 2008 SPOTIFY LAUNCHES Changing the way people interact with music, Spotify introduces its streaming service. LSO Live’s recordings featured early on, and the LSO is now the most streamed orchestra in the world.

November 2005 HAITINK’S COMPLETE BEETHOVEN Late 2005 marked the start of Haitink’s journey through Beethoven’s symphonies. Described as a ‘towering achievement’ by The Times and as a ‘benchmark cycle’ by BBC Music Magazine, these recordings are now considered by some to be among the best Beethoven cycles available.

November 2008 PROKOFIEV ROMEO & JULIET Winner of the BBC Music Magazine Disc of the Year 2011, Gergiev’s passionate performance of Prokofiev’s celebrated ballet regularly appears in lists of the best classical recordings.

JANUARY

BERLIOZ REQUIEM Shortly before Sir Colin Davis died his Berlioz Grande Messe des morts, recorded at St Paul’s Cathedral, was released. Sir Colin had conducted this work at St Paul’s on numerous occasions as part of the City of London Festival – this particular performance was his last appearance with the LSO. It also completed Sir Colin’s complete edition of Berlioz’s large scale choral works, which began in 2001.

April 2013

James Mallinson’s LSO Live Highlights

Sir Colin Davis’ Berlioz cycle was probably his finest achievement and Les Troyens is undoubtedly the highlight of the series; winning the Grammy Opera award and explaining to bemused American journalists how this had come to pass was not unlike trying to explain to sports writers how Leicester City won the Premier League. Choosing one recording from Valery Gergiev’s extraordinarily creative period is almost impossible, but it would probably be 2008’s Romeo and Juliet by Prokofiev. This is music Gergiev lives and breathes and a recording I return to frequently. My final choice is Britten’s War Requiem recorded in 2011 with Gianandrea Noseda; special for many reasons. It was to have been conducted by Sir Colin Davis (who made many fine recordings of Britten’s music) but he was unwell and Noseda stepped in. The result is extraordinary and a great tribute to the Orchestra, Noseda and Sir Colin who gave the LSO a great foundation in Britten’s music. There could have been many more but it’s not the end. Sir Simon Rattle has already started recording with the Orchestra; in January 2016 we recorded Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande during a spine-tingling ten-day period in the Barbican. It’s not out yet, but watch out for it when it comes. James Mallinson is a classical music recording producer who has worked with LSO Live since its launch. Main Season Concert

GARDINER’S MENDELSSOHN Starting with the ‘Scottish’, Sir John Eliot Gardiner begins a new cycle of the complete Mendelssohn symphonies, infusing the LSO’s sound with his authentic performance expertise. The award-winning series continues this September with Symphonies Nos 1 & 4.

LSO LIVE iPAD APP The only app of its kind, it links up any recordings the user has already bought on iTunes with programme notes, films, interviews, articles and more and is currently used by over 12,000 users.

PANUFNIK LEGACIES First LSO Discovery release in a series of albums showcasing today’s brightest young composers.

Choosing highlights is almost impossible, as the LSO’s commitment means that every new release is a highlight. Since the release of Dvorˇák’s Ninth Symphony at the turn of the millennium the label has gone from strength to strength.

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March 2013

JANUARY

2015 SIR SIMON RATTLE FIRST ALBUM For his first release on LSO Live, Rattle explores a work he calls ’the greatest masterpiece you’ve never heard’, Schumann’s rarely recorded oratorio Das Paradies und die Peri.

June 2015 APPLE MUSIC LAUNCHES Confirming the rise of streaming, Apple launch their new service. Follow the Orchestra on the platform for exclusive new music, videos, interviews and more.

CELEBTATING HOLST THE PLANETS Thu 18 May 2017 7.30pm Vaughan Williams Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus Brahms Double Concerto Holst The Planets – Suite Sir Mark Elder conductor Roman Simovic violin Tim Hugh cello Ladies of the London Symphony Chorus Simon Halsey chorus director

Supported by Baker & McKenzie LLP

LSO Sing is supported by Sir Siegmund Warburg’s Voluntary Settlement

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Taking Centre Stage LSO PRINCIPALS: RECOMMENDED BY CLASSIC FM With some of the finest orchestral players among its ranks, the LSO has established a tradition of featuring its Principal players as soloists. In anticipation of our LSO Principals series, we talk to LSO Principal Trumpet Philip Cobb, who will be performing Haydn’s Trumpet Concerto in September. Philip Cobb is no stranger to taking centre stage, both as LSO Principal Trumpet, and as a member of the ten-piece LSO Brass Ensemble. Reminiscing about the Brass Ensemble’s tours over recent years, he remembers, ‘the trips to Japan have been fantastic. I think the first night a couple of years ago when we went, there were about 2,500 people in the audience. It can seem a little bit strange when you do a show like that, and at the end you’ve got a couple of hundred people queueing up for autographs. It’s very flattering, I suppose!’. Before joining the LSO as Principal Trumpet in 2009, Philip had performed with brass and wind ensembles all his life. ‘The Brass Band tradition in the UK is huge. I came up through the fantastic tradition that is the Salvation Army, and I joined a youth band when I was about six and a half,’ he says. ‘Later on I graduated to the senior band, and was also involved in the National Youth Brass Band and the local borough wind band.’ The tradition of brass playing also runs in the family: ‘I started playing when I was three and a half. My grandfather was a player, my father is a player, my brother had just started; he’s three and a half years older than me. When I was that sort of age, there were trumpets and cornets everywhere!’. Appearing as the soloist in the Haydn Trumpet Concerto this season is something Philip has always aspired to. ‘I’m very excited about it. Just to stand at the front of an Orchestra such as the LSO … it’s something I dreamt of as a kid, really.’ Haydn’s Concerto is a work that Philip, like many other trumpeters, has known and performed for

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a long time. ‘It’s the most famous trumpet concerto, and it’s an extremely complete work. It’s very much a piece that you know even before you go to college as an audition piece, so even just to play it with the Orchestra will be fantastic.’ The LSO Principals series this season sees Principal players from across the Orchestra step into the spotlight. As well as Philip’s performance of the Haydn Trumpet Concerto, LSO Leader Roman Simovic plays the Bruch Violin Concerto and Brahms’ Double Concerto for Violin and Cello, joined by LSO Principal Cello Tim Hugh. Tim and Co-Principal Cello Rebecca Gilliver will also appear at LSO St Luke’s in our BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert Series, Voice of the Cello. Rebecca Sharp, LSO Marketing and Communications Co-ordinator

Classic FM and the LSO Classic FM is the biggest classical music radio station in the world, broadcasting to 5.6 million listeners every week. It is the only UK radio station dedicated to playing 100 per-cent classical music, 24 hours a day, with the aim of sharing it with the widest possible audience, no matter who they are or where they are.

Classic FM works with ensembles around the UK to achieve this aim by supporting live music, and the LSO is proud to have been the station’s Orchestra in the City of London for over 13 years. In 2016/17, Classic FM supports the LSO’s activities for families, concerts introducing London audiences to young conductors, and performances that see LSO Principals take the solo role.

CONCERTS WITH LSO PRINCIPALS Thu 22 Sep 2016 7.30pm Debussy La mer Haydn Trumpet Concerto Shostakovich Symphony No 5 Gianandrea Noseda conductor Philip Cobb trumpet

Thu 24 Nov 2016 7.30pm Rossini Overture: William Tell Bruch Violin Concerto Strauss An Alpine Symphony Sir Antonio Pappano conductor Roman Simovic violin

Wed 21 Dec 2016 7.30pm LONDON SYMPHONY CHORUS

A CHORAL CHRISTMAS Simon Halsey conductor LSO String Ensemble London Symphony Chorus † LSO Community Choir † LSO Discovery Choirs † Join Simon Halsey and all of the LSO’s singing ensembles in this festive choral celebration of Christmas.

Thu 13 Apr 2017 1pm, LSO St Luke’s BBC RADIO 3 LUNCHTIME CONCERT

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Barrière Sonata No 10 in G major Thomas Demenga Duo? o, Du... Ravel arr Nigel Broadbent Sonata for violin and cello Paganini Introduction and Variations on Rossini’s ‘Dal tuo stellato’ Rebecca Gilliver cello Tim Hugh cello Thu 18 May 2017 7.30pm Vaughan Williams Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus Brahms Double Concerto Holst The Planets – Suite

I GREW UP LISTENING TO THIS ORCHESTRA. Philip Cobb LSO Principal Trumpet Main Season Concert

Sir Mark Elder conductor Roman Simovic violin Tim Hugh cello Ladies of the London Symphony Chorus † Simon Halsey chorus director

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Musical Gods MOZART AND TCHAIKOVSKY WITH NIKOLAJ ZNAIDER AND BBC RADIO 3 ‘I love Mozart like a musical Christ.’ To say that Tchaikovsky revered Mozart would certainly be an understatement. While Tchaikovsky respected Beethoven but only sometimes warmed to him, considered Bach and Handel restricted by their times, and found Haydn ‘slight and superficial’, it was Mozart among the great figures of musical history who overwhelmed him. ‘Mozart was a being so angelic’, he wrote, ‘of such child-like purity, his music is so full of unapproachable, divine beauty, that if anyone may be named alongside Christ, then it is he.’ Mozart was a constant reference point in Tchaikovsky’s life, right from the time when as a boy, he had been captivated by arias from Don Giovanni played on a barrel organ. ‘It is my profound conviction that Mozart is the highest, the supreme point attained by beauty in the sphere of music’, he later declared. ‘No one other than he has made me weep, tremble with joy from recognition of the closeness to something which we call the ideal.’ The clue to what Tchaikovsky admired so deeply lies in those words ‘child-like purity’, for it was the sheer clarity and beauty of Mozart’s music that touched him above all, and which he saw as representing a golden age of elegance and simplicity. Mozart, of course, found plenty of room for deep and complex expressivity within his own style, but for all Tchaikovsky’s passionate Romanticism – heard most obviously in the fate-haunted symphonies, but also in his turbulent Piano Trio and melancholically soulful songs – it was the kind of sweet melodic refinement Mozart showed in works such as the violin concertos and string quartets that prompted the clearest response. Attempts to recreate and pay homage to it can be seen in works such as his own First String Quartet (with its famous ‘Andante cantabile’ slow movement) and Fourth Orchestral Suite (subtitled ‘Mozartiana’ and wittily made up from arrangements of Mozart piano pieces). Tchaikovsky will always sound like Tchaikovsky of course, but Mozart’s example as a musical god and inspiration was always with him. And as he once said, it was through Mozart ‘that I penetrated into that world of artistic beauty in which soar only the greatest geniuses. I am indebted to Mozart for the fact that I have dedicated my life to music’. Lindsay Kemp is a BBC Radio 3 Senior Producer and writes regularly on Baroque and classical music

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Mozart was a being so angelic of such child-like purity, his music is so full of unapproachable, divine beauty, that if anyone may be named alongside Christ, then it is he. Tchaikovsky

‘There’s something that unites Mozart’s and Tchaikovsky’s music; there’s a lightness of motion and a feeling of drama … or a story unfolding.’ Nikolaj Znaider

NIKOLAJ ZNAIDER IN 2016/17 Sun 18 Dec 2016 7pm Mozart Violin Concerto No 1 Mozart Violin Concerto No 4 Tchaikovsky Symphony No 4 Nikolaj Znaider conductor/violin Sun 14 May 2017 7pm Mozart Violin Concerto No 5 Tchaikovsky Symphony No 5 Nikolaj Znaider conductor/violin

NIKOLAJ ZNAIDER IN 2017/18 (on sale January 2017) Thu 7 Dec 2017 Mozart Violin Concerto No 2 Mozart Violin Concerto No 3 Tchaikovsky Symphony No 6 (‘Pathétique’) Nikolaj Znaider conductor/violin

AT TIMES I THOUGHT I WAS LIVING IN THE 18TH CENTURY, AND THAT THERE WAS NOTHING BEYOND MOZART.

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Tchaikovsky, writing in his diary at the time he was composing his opera The Queen of Spades, set in the time of Catherine the Great.

Sun 4 Jun 2017 10am–5pm, Barbican and LSO St Luke’s

Thu 6, 13, 20 Oct & 24 Nov 2016 1pm, LSO St Luke’s BBC RADIO 3 LUNCHTIME CONCERTS

MOZART & TCHAIKOVSKY Pavel Kolesnikov piano Iain Burnside piano Robin Tritschler tenor Sitkovetsky Piano Trio Ehnes String Quartet

LSO DISCOVERY DAY

TCHAIKOVSKY Hear Tchaikovsky’s final symphony – the ‘Pathétique’ – in rehearsal with Michael Tilson Thomas, followed by an afternoon exploring this great composer through music and talks.

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After Romanticism Franรงois-Xavier Roth has a history with the LSO that goes right back to the beginning of his career. He was named the winner of the Donatella Flick Conducting Competition in 2000, and the rapport that he now enjoys with the Orchestra was built up from his prize: a year as our Assistant Conductor. He has returned almost every year since, while rising through the international ranks on the back of his exceptional skill in handling an orchestra. But his success also owes itself to an incredible knowledge of music past and present that allows him to build ambitious programmes, where important artistic connections can be articulated, and even well-known works emerge afresh in the light of a new historical context. This was the case last season when he began to explore music written as the ideals of the 19th century were giving way to the pursuit of progress that characterised the 20th. And it is to this period that he returns in 2016/17, as After Romanticism continues with a focus on Bartรณk and Debussy, heard in the wake of their predecessors Bruckner and Mahler. Here in his own words Roth talks about the After Romanticism series. Mark Parker, LSO Marketing and Audience Development Co-ordinator

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in the spirit of exploration from that time, all in the same evening. François-Xavier Roth

Thu 30 Mar 2017 7.30pm Debussy Jeux Bartók Piano Concerto No 3 Mahler Symphony No 1 (‘Titan’) François-Xavier Roth conductor Simon Trpcˇeski piano Sun 23 Apr 2017 7pm Debussy Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune Bartók Viola Concerto Bruckner Symphony No 4 François-Xavier Roth conductor Antoine Tamestit viola

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THE PANUFNIK SCHEME

Composers & Conductors: Breaking New Ground

In 2016 the LSO celebrated the tenth anniversary of its unrivalled orchestral composition initiative, the Panufnik Composers Scheme. THE SCHEME The opportunity to write for full orchestra is a vitally important step for composers in the early stages of their careers and in 2006 the LSO, in association with Lady Panufnik, Lady Hamlyn and The Helen Hamlyn Trust, launched the Panufnik Composers Scheme. Intended to bridge the gap between formal study and professional composing careers, the scheme invites six of the most promising emerging UK composers to work closely with the LSO on developing a short work for full orchestra, leading to a public workshop performance with conductor François-Xavier Roth. For a year, participants are mentored by leading UK composer Colin Matthews, who himself was Associate Composer with the LSO for seven years between 1992 and 1999. For Colin there are several factors that set the Panufnik Scheme apart. ‘Unlike other schemes which have a limited time scale, composers on the Panufnik Scheme develop a genuine relationship with the Orchestra over the course of a year … that relationship goes beyond the composers’ time on the scheme. We think of the composers as entering an LSO ‘family’.’

ON THE PANUFNIK SCHEME THE COMPOSERS DEVELOP GENUINE RELATIONSHIPS WITH THE ORCHESTRA. Colin Matthews, leading UK Composer

PANUFNIK SUCCESSES Since 2006, 69 composers have participated in the scheme. Lady Panufnik – after whose late husband, the composer Andrzej Panufnik, the scheme is named – has been delighted by the international success of Panufnik graduates. ‘There are successes like the two fine BBC Proms performances last year and jazz musicians who have learnt to compose to a high standard for orchestra and have been delightfully successful. We have experienced successes in our graduates’ subsequent commissions across the world; successes in passing on their knowledge to teenagers in tough inner-city areas; successes teaching in music colleges; successes in local communities. They have learnt to work together, support each other, and to gain confidence in a very difficult and competitive area of work. Organisations who want to commission new works now know that, with LSO Panufnik graduates, they will get talented and professionally experienced results ... ‘The LSO Panufnik Scheme is in itself a true success story, superbly supported by the LSO, with its great dedication to all levels of music education. Our young composers not only help to lift standards in the composition of classical music: they learn both about excellence and humanity, with the confidence to respond to the need for the thrill and stimulus for music-making in the lives of almost everyone in every sort of situation.’ Benjamin Picard, LSO Assistant Librarian Visit lso.co.uk/composing to find out more or apply ELIM CHAN, WINNER OF THE 2014 DONATELLA FLICK LSO CONDUCTING COMPETITION

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THE DONATELLA FLICK LSO CONDUCTING COMPETITION The biennial Donatella Flick LSO Conducting Competition was created by Mrs Donatella Flick and inaugurated in 1990 under the patronage of HRH The Prince of Wales.

conductors have performed with the LSO as part of the Competition since its launch in 1990. Thu 17 Nov 2016 7pm THE DONATELLA FLICK LSO CONDUCTING COMPETITION

COMPETITION FINAL

Verdi Overture: The Force of Destiny Elgar Variations on an Original Theme (‘Enigma’) Rachmaninov Symphonic Dances

Sat 11 Feb 2017 7pm LSO DISCOVERY

SOUNDHUB SHOWCASE: PHASE II See page 10 for details

composers have participated in the Panufnik scheme over the last decade. Main Season Concert

Thu 20 Apr 2017 10am–1.30pm & 2.30–6pm, LSO St Luke’s LSO DISCOVERY

PANUFNIK COMPOSERS WORKSHOP

THE COMPETITION Now established as one of the major international competitions for young conductors in Europe, its aim is to help young conductors establish international conducting careers. In 1996, the Competition forged a unique and successful partnership with the London Symphony Orchestra. The Competition is open to young conductors under the age of 35 who are citizens of the European Union and offers the winner the opportunity to spend a year as LSO Assistant Conductor – a prize beyond price – plus financial support. In that year he or she assists the family of artists in the preparation of concerts, analysing scores, taking part in LSO Discovery activity, accompanying the Orchestra on tour and, from time to time, conducting the LSO in concert. The Final (17 Nov) is the climax of a competition held over three days. 20 young conductors are shortlisted from over 200 applicants by a panel which looks carefully and critically at hours of video footage and mountains of documentation. Then, over two days, the chosen candidates conduct the Guildhall Symphony Orchestra in a challenging programme in front of our distinguished Jury, and three selected finalists go on to conduct the LSO at the Barbican, following which a winner is announced. COMPETITION SUCCESSES Several conductors who have reached the coveted Final have gone on to continue their work with the LSO following tenures as Assistant Conductors. François-Xavier Roth was joint winner of the Competition in 2000 – read more about him on page 34. David Afkham gained first place in the 2008 Competition and built a close relationship with Bernard Haitink, becoming the first recipient of a Bernard Haitink Fund for Young Talent scholarship; he was appointed Principal Conductor with the Spanish National Orchestra last season. Since taking the prize in 2010, Clemens Schuldt has been working with orchestras across Europe and venturing as far east as Japan with the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra. Alexandre Bloch won the Competition in 2012, and was announced Music Director with l’Orchestre National de Lille in April 2016. And finally, 29-year-old Elim Chan won the Competition in 2014 to become the LSO’s first female Assistant Conductor. She has worked regularly with the Orchestra and has received engagements with the Hong Kong Philharmonic, Orchestre National de Lille and Mariinsky Orchestra – both in St Petersburg and on tour – among others. Most recently she was appointed Chief Conductor of the NorrrlandsOperan from 2017/18.

François-Xavier Roth conductor

Edward Appleyard, Editor

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1913

THE WORLD’S MOST LISTENED TO ORCHESTRA

1924

The LSO enters the studio for the first time recording Beethoven, Weber and Liszt with Arthur Nikisch for HMV.

The LSO’s audience reaches far beyond the realm of the concert hall. With well over 2,500 recording sessions to its name – in addition to its concert broadcasts – the history, breadth and sheer scale of the projects the Orchestra has been part of have delivered the unique LSO sound to more listeners in more countries than perhaps any other orchestra. Here are just some of the key moments that have taken the London Symphony Orchestra from stage … to studio … to screen … and beyond.

The Orchestra’s first BBC radio broadcast features Vaughan Williams conducting his own ‘Pastoral’ Symphony from Southwark Cathedral.

1932 A Pathétone Weekly, The Master Of The King’s Musick, shows Sir Edward Elgar and the LSO recording Land of Hope and Glory at the inauguration of the HMV Studio – later to become Abbey Road Studios and a second home for the Orchestra. Search ‘Master of the King’s Musick’ on YouTube

Arthur Nikisch, Principal Conductor 1912–14

1996

1978

An animated LSO makes an appearance in an episode of The Simpsons when they mistakenly get booked to back a hip-hop group at a music festival ...

The first Classic Rock albums, setting pop songs to symphonic rock arrangements, become hugely popular. The Orchestra goes on to record a total of ten albums over 18 years and they continue to be one of the most enquired about set of discs it’s been involved with.

‘WE MOSTLY KNOW CLASSICAL, BUT WE COULD GIVE IT A SHOT!’

2012

2002

A global audience of 900 million watch the London Symphony Orchestra perform at the Opening Ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games helped, or rather hindered, by Mr Bean.

The LSO becomes part of yet another multi-billion dollar film franchise recording the soundtrack to Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, as well as three later instalments.

1988 The LSO tops the charts in the UK and scores a world-wide hit backing Whitney Houston on the single One Moment in Time.

1993 The LSO records an Emmy Award-winning TV series for Channel 4, Concerto!, with Michael Tilson Thomas and Dudley Moore.

2012 In a new relationship, European TV channel Mezzo films its first LSO Barbican concert to broadcast around Europe, featuring Valery Gergiev conducting Brahms and Szymanowski.

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LSO PLAY

2013 The website LSO Play is launched, using high-definition concert footage to allow users to interact with the performance from within the different sections of the Orchestra. play.lso.co.uk LSO Play is generously supported by Reignwood

2013 Visitors taking the lifts in London’s newest skyscraper The Shard are treated to a higher level of elevator music, recorded by the LSO.

1935

1946 The educational film Instruments of the Orchestra is released by the Crown Film Unit featuring a special commission from Benjamin Britten – The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra. It also gave the LSO its first television appearance via a 1948 BBC broadcast.

The world’s first ever specially-written symphonic film score, Arthur Bliss’ music for Things to Come, is recorded by the LSO.

1940 The LSO performs in the first of its 465 Proms concerts ...

1952 The LSO’s first performance specifically for television features music by Holst conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent for the series The Conductor Speaks. In the 1950s the Orchestra also regularly appears in series including Music For You, Concert Hour and in a number of opera broadcasts.

... although the BBC was not actually able to sponsor nor broadcast any of the 1940–41 seasons due to the war.

1971 BBC TV PRESENTS THE FIRST ANDRÉ PREVIN’S MUSIC NIGHT ...

1977 A long time ago in a studio far, far away …

a programme that ran for eight years and brought classical music and the LSO to a huge new audience.

... the LSO recorded the soundtrack to a low-budget sci-fi film called Star Wars. It leads to an enduring relationship between the Orchestra and composer John Williams and they become an essential part of one of the biggest film franchises of all time.

2016

2014 The 112 million viewers of Superbowl XLVIII hear the LSO on the soundtrack for Jaguar cars’ ‘British Villans’ TV advert, which was also extensively aired on UK television.

2014 Over 100 million mobile gamers get their frustration soothed by the sounds of the LSO when the Orchestra records the soundtrack to Candy Crush Soda Saga.

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1.3m

2015 Plays of LSO recordings on streaming service Spotify exceed 1.3m listeners a month.

2015 The LSO broadens its Star Wars links, recording the music for several video games as well as new rides at Disney’s theme parks.

Videos on the LSO’s YouTube channel top

12.8m

views.

1963 The Orchestra is the subject of the documentary Orchestra to the Orient chronicling the first tour of Japan ever made by a British orchestra, directed by David Attenborough.

Thu 6 Oct 2016 8pm Symphonic Fantasies Symphonic arrangements from some of Square Enix’s most cherished role-playing franchises, including Final Fantasy, Kingdom Hearts, Secret of Mana and Chrono Trigger/ Chrono Cross. Eckehard Stier conductor Slava Sidorenko piano Rony Barrak darbouka London Symphony Orchestra London Symphony Chorus LSO Sing is supported by Sir Siegmund Warburg’s Voluntary Settlement.

Sat 26 Nov 7.30pm The Best of John Williams The LSO’s close connection with John Williams goes back nearly 40 years to the first notes of Star Wars in 1977. In this unique celebration of Williams’ extraordinary career, hear the LSO play his greatest film hits with each score introduced by John Williams himself, in an exclusive interview to be screened in the hall on the evening.

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BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concerts CHAMBER MUSIC AT LSO ST LUKE’S LSO St Luke’s – the Orchestra’s own venue and music education centre – can be found on Old Street, just minutes from the bustling market stalls of Whitecross Street, and on the edge of the thriving Tech City that has sprung up by the Old Street Roundabout. Yet, stepping into the venue’s Jerwood Hall on Thursday lunchtimes, you can feel a million miles away from life on the busy streets outside. Every season for the past 14 years, BBC Radio 3 has welcomed some of the world’s best and brightest chamber music stars to perform in LSO St Luke’s, bringing the sounds of string quartets, counter-tenors, solo pianists, choirs and more to the venue. Audiences can enjoy lunch in the LSO St Luke’s Café before or after the concert, immerse themselves in an hour of music, then enjoy the performance once more when it’s broadcast at a later date on BBC Radio 3. In 2016/17, you won’t be short of choice. Twenty concerts across the season explore a wealth of themes and connections, with spotlights on artists, ensembles, composers, instruments and even a pivotal moment in history. Tchaikovsky revered Mozart for the clarity, elegance and beauty of his music. In October and November’s Mozart and Tchaikovsky series, ten musicians investigate this obsession, pairing music by both composers, including three Mozart piano pieces that the later composer orchestrated. Momentous events in Russian history – the two revolutions of 1917 – are the starting-point for Russian Revolutionaries, as four pianists survey music written both before and after life in the country changed irrevocably a century ago. We uncover buried but compelling links between another pair of composers, the eminently tuneful Bruch and Vaughan Williams, in the Nash Ensemble’s March residency. And there’s a focus on string instruments over the course of the season, as the charismatic viola soloist Lawrence Power invites a group of his closest musical friends to collaborate on stage in autumn, and the rich, singing Voice of the Cello is placed centre-stage in spring. Emma Bloxham, Editor, Live Music BBC Radio 3

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WHEN I HEAR HIS MUSIC IT IS AS THOUGH I AM DOING A GOOD DEED, AND THE LONGER I LIVE, THE MORE I LOVE HIM Tchaikovsky on Mozart (6, 13 & 20 Oct; 24 Nov); he revered his predecessor for the clarity, elegance and beauty of his music.

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BBC RADIO 3 IN NUMBERS Twenty BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concerts from LSO St Luke’s each season, six broadcasts of LSO concerts from the Barbican, reach of 2,000,000 each week, celebrating BBC Radio 3 at 70 in 2016.

Thu 6, 13, 20 Oct & 24 Nov 2016 1pm, LSO St Luke’s BBC RADIO 3 LUNCHTIME CONCERTS

In the LSO’s Barbican Season … Nikolaj Znaider and the Orchestra also explore Tchaikovsky and Mozart side-by-side (see page 32), pairing symphonies and violin concertos, while LSO Leader Roman Simovic takes the solo role in Bruch’s soaring Violin Concerto on 24 November.

MOZART & TCHAIKOVSKY

Broadcast Partner BBC Radio 3’s long-standing partnership with the LSO plays a vital role in delivering audiences world-class musical experiences. Alongside 20 Lunchtime Concerts each season, introduced live at the venue by the station’s presenters, BBC Radio 3 broadcasts at least six of the London Symphony Orchestra’s Barbican concerts every year, and you can hear soloists and conductors who work with the Orchestra interviewed on programmes like In Tune. BBC Radio 3 invests in high-quality, distinctive classical music and cultural programming, presented by experts. The station is the biggest commissioner of classical music in the UK and broadcasts over 600 full concerts a year; over half are live. BBC Radio 3 is the only radio station to broadcast live classical music concerts every day of the week, 90 full-length operas a year and over 25 original drama commissions, alongside regular jazz, world, arts and ideas programming. 2016 marks the 70th anniversary of the BBC’s Third Programme, the predecessor to BBC Radio 3, a landmark the network will celebrate by commissioning 70 new works.

Ten talented musicians explore Tchaikovsky’s love of Mozart, through songs, piano trios, string quartets and solo piano music. Thu 27 Oct; 3, 10 & 17 Nov 2016 1pm, LSO St Luke’s BBC RADIO 3 LUNCHTIME CONCERTS

LAWRENCE POWER AND FRIENDS

The celebrated violist is joined by some of his closest musical collaborators, including cellist Paul Watkins, violinist Vilde Frang and cellist Nicolas Altstaedt. Thu 2, 9, 16 & 23 Feb 2017 1pm, LSO St Luke’s BBC RADIO 3 LUNCHTIME CONCERTS

RUSSIAN REVOLUTIONARIES Four pianists delve into the riches of the Russian piano repertoire before and after the momentous events that took place 100 years ago in 1917. Thu 2, 9, 16 & 30 Mar 2017 1pm, LSO St Luke’s BBC RADIO 3 LUNCHTIME CONCERTS

NASH ENSEMBLE MOST-FEATURED ARTIST The Nash Ensemble are the most-featured artist in the history of BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concerts at LSO St Luke’s, having made ten appearances at the venue since 2007 including two residencies and a special performance in the LSO St Luke’s Tenth Birthday Festival. Its exploration of Bruch and Vaughan Williams will be its third residency.

NASH ENSEMBLE RESIDENCY: BRUCH AND VAUGHAN WILLIAMS A four-concert residency from the inimitable Nash Ensemble, focusing on the lyrical, tuneful gifts of Bruch and his one-time student, Vaughan Williams. Thu 6, 13, 27 Apr & 4 May 2017 1pm, LSO St Luke’s BBC RADIO 3 LUNCHTIME CONCERTS

VOICE OF THE CELLO

A series devoted to music written for the smooth singing tones and rich, dark sound of the cello.

BBC New Generation Artists… The 2016/17 season of BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concerts features seven current or former BBC New Generation Artists including Pavel Kolesnikov (left). The scheme supports talented young musicians at the start of their international careers. The season also features five performers who have previously appeared as soloists with the LSO, and two LSO Principals (Tim Hugh and Rebecca Gilliver).

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For Everyone Whether you’re a seasoned concert-goer or a fresh-faced enthusiast, LSO Discovery’s Free Friday Lunchtime Concerts offer something for everyone ... Each one is a 45-minute taster session that combines intimate performances in the beautiful surroundings of the Jerwood Hall at LSO St Luke’s, with context and insight about the music provided by presenter Rachel Leach, and you’ll get the chance to ask questions too. Each term offers a new theme and our themes this year plot a journey round the globe: from the sounds of the New World (The Americas) to the heartland of the continent (Romantic Europe) and up towards the Northern Lights, each one designed to complement the programmes of the LSO’s main season at the Barbican. And don’t worry if you’re not in London, we also live-stream some of these concerts online via YouTube and Facebook so everyone around the globe can share.

Possibly the best ‘live’ event I’ve taken my seven-year-old to! AWESOME in his words. The workshops were incredible! Loved every second and we will be back.

LSO SING FOR EVERYONE ~ LSO.CO.UK ~ LSO.CO.UK

Over

1,500 families are involved every year.

THE MUSIC WAS TRANSFIXING – TO SEE THE CHILDREN UTTERLY ABSORBED BY WATCHING THE MUSICIANS WAS AMAZING.

This one was the perfect mix between great music, interesting topic, visual stimulation, cool miming and fun.

AT LSO ST LUKE’S

AT THE BARBICAN

Fri 16 Sep, 21 Oct, 4 & 25 Nov 2016 12.30–1.15pm, LSO St Luke’s

Sat 3 Dec 2016 2.30pm

THE AMERICAS

FAMILY CONCERT: ROALD DAHL CELEBRATION

Pioneering music from the New World Free entry, no ticket required

LSO DISCOVERY

Timothy Redmond conductor LSO Discovery Choirs †

Fri 7 Oct 2016, 10 Mar, 16 Jun 2017 12.30–1.15pm, LSO St Luke’s LSO DISCOVERY

CONCERTS FOR UNDER-5S Interactive concerts for mini music-makers!

SUITABLE FOR ALL AGES Through its array of programming for all ages, the LSO remains committed to nourishing a love of music across the generations. And that starts with under-5s, who get to see their favourite tales come alive throughout the year at one of our Storytelling Concerts at LSO St Luke’s, where Vanessa King enlists the help of LSO musicians to get young children excited about music and literature. We also offer blossoming music-makers the chance to get involved at Shake, Rattle and Roll!, our series of early years weekly workshops where adults and children are invited to move and groove, explore new sounds and songs, and get up close to the instruments of the orchestra. Then for those a little older, our termly Family Concerts at the Barbican provide a great opportunity for 7- to 12-year-olds to experience the full Orchestra at its home in the Barbican Hall. They’re each an hour long, packed with as much music as we can muster, and to get you in the spirit we always offer interactive workshops in the foyers beforehand. Families are always welcome at our main season concerts, especially those with older children or those with budding instrumentalists in their midst. So if you’re looking for a more involved experience, why not come along at Christmas to hear John Adams’ nativity oratorio El Niño with the full London Symphony Chorus? Or hear a brand new children’s opera by fellow American Andrew Norman, conducted by our Music Director Designate Sir Simon Rattle? These two in particular are the perfect opportunities to introduce your children to the LSO’s full range of programming. We know that family means the whole family – not just the children but parents and uncles and grandmas and cousins, too. So that’s why we strive to make all of our family programming as engaging for adults as it is for the kids. That way everyone can enjoy spending time together at one of our many family events. And our promise to keep all of these events available at £10 or less, with tickets for under-18s available for £5 for most events, means that nobody has to break the bank to experience world-class music-making from the LSO.

Wed 21 Dec 2016 7.30pm LONDON SYMPHONY CHORUS

A CHORAL CHRISTMAS

ROMANTIC EUROPE

Simon Halsey conductor LSO String Ensemble London Symphony Chorus † LSO Community Choir † LSO Discovery Choirs †

Music from the heart of Europe

Sun 26 Mar 2017 2.30pm

Free entry, no ticket required

LSO DISCOVERY

Fri 10 & 24 Feb, 17 Mar, 7 Apr 2017 12.30–1.15pm, LSO St Luke’s

FAMILY CONCERT

Fri 5 May, 9 & 23 Jun, 7 Jul 2017 12.30–1.15pm, LSO St Luke’s

NORTHERN LIGHTS Illuminating music from the northern countries of the world Free entry, no ticket required Mondays in term-time

Sat 3 Jun 2017 2.30pm LSO DISCOVERY

FAMILY CONCERT: THE FIREBIRD Rachel Leach presenter

LSO DISCOVERY

SHAKE, RATTLE & ROLL Fun morning music sessions for 1- to 5-year-olds. To find out more email earlyyears@lso.co.uk

Thu 22 Jun 2017 7.30pm LSO DISCOVERY

ANNUAL LSO DISCOVERY SHOWCASE Sun 9 Jul 2017 7pm Andrew Norman Incredible Things (world premiere of a children’s opera, LSO commission) Sibelius Symphony No 2 Sir Simon Rattle conductor London Symphony Orchestra Guildhall School Musicians LSO Discovery Choirs † LSO Community Choir † Simon Halsey chorus director LSO family concerts are supported by LSO Friends. † LSO Sing is supported by the John S Cohen Foundation, LSO Friends, Rothschild Charities. ommittee, Barnett & Sylvia Shine No 2 Charitable Trust, Slaughter and May and Sir Siegmund Warburg’s Voluntary Settlement.

Mark Parker, LSO Marketing and Audience Development Co-ordinator

Main Season Concert

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The Next Generation ‘It is all about the joy of music-making. It is not about being the best, but about artistic collaboration and being part of a collective. LSO Discovery embraces just that, making musicians of everyone – whatever their circumstance, age or ability – and creating the ultimate performance … together.’ Belinda McFarlane, LSO Second Violin

LSO ON TRACK AT THE OPENING CEREMONY OF THE LONDON 2012 OLYMPIC GAMES 81 YOUNG MUSICIANS, 19 LSO PLAYERS, 1 CONDUCTOR, 1 NEW ARRANGEMENT, 101 PAIRS OF BRIGHT TRAINERS AND AN AUDIENCE OF ALMOST 1 BILLION.

‘LSO Discovery provides a valuable opportunity for young and old, able-bodied and the less able, to participate in a huge array of projects. These projects may include a performance, in which all the participants will have made a huge contribution. The sense of achievement gained from this is wonderful to see. For us, LSO players, to have been able to help them achieve this is heartwarmingly satisfying, and for me is an important part of my contribution to the LSO.’ Hilary Jones, LSO Cello

THE NEXT GENERATION ~ LSO.CO.UK

WORKING WITH LSO MEMBERS WAS UNBELIEVABLE AND WHEN WE FINISHED THE AIR WAS BUZZING – A SPECIAL MOMENT I WILL NEVER FORGET. Bethany Grogan LSO On Track viola (aged 15)

Sun 9 Apr 2017 7pm

NATIONAL YOUTH ORCHESTRA OF GREAT BRITAIN Shostakovich Cello concerto no 1 Revueltas Night of the Mayas Shostakovich Symphony No 5 Carlos Miguel Prieto conductor Sheku Kanneh-Mason cello Sat 22 Apr 2017 7.30pm

NATIONAL YOUTH BRASS BAND OF GREAT BRITAIN Bramwell Tovey conductor

TOMORROW’S MUSIC, TODAY PLATFORMS FOR FUTURE LEADERS IN MUSIC Belinda McFarlane and Hilary Jones, like many Members of the LSO, have a long-standing commitment to working with young musicians. The LSO’s passion for providing the next generation of musicians with mentoring and inspiration drives us all forwards. Giving young musicians a taste of professional musicianship and a platform to show their great talent – and knowing that in years to come this country will continue to be a major player in providing the world’s best-trained orchestral musicians – is a true privilege. The Orchestra is proud to play host every year to the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain (NYO) and in season 2016/17 the National Youth Brass Band of Great Britain (NYBBGB) also takes to the Barbican Hall stage in the same month. Many of the LSO’s Members have a national youth ensemble in their past, no matter which part of the world they have come from – for Belinda McFarlane that meant being in the Australian Youth Orchestra for four years, including becoming its Leader, culminating in her leading a BBC Prom performance as part of a major European tour. The Members all recognise the importance of what these ensembles provide and the part they played in their own careers, and want to pass that on. Providing opportunities to perform in world-class venues to young musicians from across East London is just one of the many reasons that LSO On Track came into existence. Its whole ethos is devised from the mantra behind the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games – Inspire a Generation. When LSO On Track began in 2007, projects provided a chance for young musicians of varying abilities to play side-by-side with LSO Members. Performing Elgar’s Nimrod in the Opening Ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games was the pinnacle of the original project, but the legacy of that memorable night has continued to be part of the Orchestra’s core work. Today, you can see LSO On Track taking centre stage in BMW LSO Open Air Classics in Trafalgar Square every May, playing side-by-side with the LSO, and at the Barbican in LSO Discovery’s annual Showcase Performance (22 June). The LSO’s ambition to engage the next generation of orchestral musicians carries on right through to post-graduate qualification. The longest running of these schemes (it will celebrate its 25th anniversary in 2017) is the LSO String Experience scheme, which cellist Hilary Jones has been a part of since 2004; as a Player Mentor. The LSO has 15 Members among its ranks who have come into the Orchestra directly through the scheme. Additionally, since 2013 the LSO has worked in partnership with the Guildhall School on a joint Orchestral Artistry specialism (see page 51) in pioneering graduate training opportunities. There’s much more to our portfolio of projects involving young musicians at all levels. You can find out more and apply to take part at lso.co.uk/lsodiscovery.

A celebration of English composers by Britain’s finest young brass musicians, including works by Harrison Birtwistle, Elgar Howarth, John Ireland, Lucy Pankhurst and the ensemble’s conductor Bramwell Tovey. Thu 22 Jun 2017 7.30pm LSO DISCOVERY

ANNUAL LSO DISCOVERY SHOWCASE Elim Chan conductor LSO On Track Next Generation London Symphony Orchestra Witness the electrifying results when an orchestra founded at the beginning of the 20th century meets young musicians born at the beginning of the 21st. This concert showcases the talent of Londoners of all ages alongside one of the world’s finest orchestras. 6.30pm LSO On Track: Foyer Takeover Talented young musicians from East London come together to present an unforgettable performance in the Barbican Centre’s unique foyer spaces, produced with the LSO On Track Music Education Hub partnership. LSO On Track Next Generation is supported by Mizuho and the Hedley Foundation.

Sun 9 Jul 2017 7pm Andrew Norman Incredible Things (world premiere of a children’s opera, LSO commission) Sibelius Symphony No 2 Sir Simon Rattle conductor London Symphony Orchestra Guildhall School Musicians LSO Discovery Choirs LSO Community Choir Simon Halsey chorus director LSO Sing is supported by the John S Cohen Foundation, LSO Friends, Rothschild Charities Committee, Barnett & Sylvia Shine No 2 Charitable Trust, Slaughter and May and Sir Siegmund Warburg’s Voluntary Settlement. The LSO String Experience Scheme is supported by Help Musicians UK, the Fidelio Charitable Trust, N Smith Charitable Settlement and LSO Patrons.

Edward Appleyard, Editor

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Iwona Muszynska Second Violin

William Melvin Second Violin

String Experience Scheme

Naoko Keatley Second Violin

Jani Pensola Double Bass

String Experience Scheme, LSO Strings Academy 2006

String Experience Scheme

Angela Barnes Horn LSO Brass Academy 2004

Londonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Symphony Orchestra Celebrating Members who began life in the LSO through LSO Discovery For a list of all current LSO Members and those who joined the Orchestra through LSO Discovery programmes see page 58

Maxine Kwok-Adams First Violin

Rhys Watkins First Violin

String Experience Scheme

Joe Melvin Double Bass String Experience Scheme

Antoine Bedewi Co-Principal Timpani

Sarah Quinn Sub-Principal Second Violin

LSO Percussion Academy 2005

String Experience Scheme

In the Heart of the City

THE CITY OF LONDON Founder and Principal Funder of the Barbican Centre. The London Symphony Orchestra is proud to be one of five core partners including the City of London Corporation who are working together to transform the area from Farringdon to Moorgate in the north west ‘Square Mile’. With the arrival of Crossrail in 2018, 1.5 million additional visitors are expected in the area and together we aim to create an unrivalled place for the arts, heritage, learning and entertainment.

MILTON COURT London’s newest concert hall. The Guildhall School’s Milton Court includes a state-of-the-art concert hall and two theatres alongside rehearsal rooms and studio spaces. In addition to the School’s own programme of public events, the Barbican programmes 40 classical and contemporary music concerts in the venue each season, including regular performances from two Barbican associate ensembles – the Academy of Ancient Music and Britten Sinfonia – plus concerts in the ECHO Rising Stars series.

IN THE HEART OF THE CITY ~ LSO.CO.UK

CITY FAMILY ARTS NETWORK For all the family across the Square Mile. The City Family Arts Network brings together partners from across the Square Mile to make the area into one of the top cultural destinations for all ages, with support from the Family Arts Campaign – a national initiative from Arts Council England to promote intergenerational programming which culminates with the nationwide Family Arts Festival every October.

HIGHLIGHTS LE GRAND MACABRE Sat 14 & Sun 15 Jan 2017

THE BARBICAN Our London home since 1982. The London Symphony Orchestra is the permanent Resident Orchestra at the Barbican, in a partnership that delivers enduring value to the Orchestra, the venue, London and the UK. The partnership brings together two internationally recognised symbols of artistic excellence. The Barbican hosts around 70 concerts by the LSO every year as part of a wider artistic offer, presenting some of the best music in the world as part of an international, cross-arts programme. The Barbican and LSO are committed to presenting a world-class programme of quality and innovation. Both organisations share the ambition of making the arts accessible to all and are committed to creating an outstanding cultural destination that attracts audiences from across the globe.

The London Symphony Orchestra, the Barbican, Sir Simon Rattle and Peter Sellars join creative forces to immerse you in Ligeti’s world of the weird and wonderful.

REICH, GLASS AND ADAMS: THE SOUNDS THAT CHANGED AMERICA November 2016 to April 2017 See pages 18 to 19

THE KAUFMANN RESIDENCY February 2017 Tenor Jonas Kaufmann takes residency at the Barbican. He’ll be joined by the London Symphony Orchestra and BBC Symphony Orchestra; plus an artist conversation.

SOUND UNBOUND April 2017 Sound Unbound is a weekend festival that presents the fresh new face of classical music. The Barbican and its family of ensembles pack the Barbican Centre with a range of short, informal taster performances. If you’re curious about classical, this is the chance to connect to it in a fresh and stimulating way: no prior knowledge required …

Working in Partnership across London TRAFALGAR SQUARE BMW LSO Open Air Classics reaches its sixth year in Season 2016/17. The LSO’s annual free outdoor concert in Trafalgar Square has become a highlight of the iconic venue’s calendar since the Orchestra’s first performance there in May 2012. Under the watchful gaze of Admiral Nelson, the LSO has enabled over 50,000 people to experience classical music. It’s also given a platform to nearly 500 young musicians aged 11 to 18 from across London’s Olympic host and gateway boroughs to perform side-by-side with the musicians of the LSO, young musicians from the Guildhall School and former Principal Conductor Valery Gergiev. The Orchestra is particularly grateful to the event’s sponsor BMW for their full and generous participation and support, and to the Mayor of London and Greater London Authority for allowing us access to this wonderful space. This visionary support endorses the Orchestra’s mission to bring the greatest music to the greatest number of people.

WORKING IN PARTNERSHIP ~ LSO.CO.UK

GUILDHALL SCHOOL Working together for tomorrow’s orchestral musicians. Orchestral Artistry is an exciting postgraduate specialism for instrumentalists seeking a career in orchestral playing, offered by the Guildhall School with the London Symphony Orchestra. Part of the Guildhall Artists Masters programme, this highly distinctive and groundbreaking course enables students to work alongside the LSO and its roster of visiting artists in a context akin to a professional environment. The aim is to produce fully rounded, excellent professional musicians who have assimilated the ‘LSO characteristics’ of craft, brilliance, speed, curiosity and flexibility. Guildhall students also have the opportunity to perform in some Friday Lunchtime Concerts, LSO Platforms: Guildhall Artists (recitals that precede LSO evening concerts at the Barbican), and in an annual concert conducted by Sir Simon Rattle playing side-by-side with LSO musicians, this season’s being Sibelius’ Second Symphony on 9 July 2017.

MUSIC EDUCATION HUBS Working together in a joined-up approach to music education. In 2011, the National Plan for Music Education in England set out a blueprint for the creation of Music Education Hubs, building on the foundation of local authority Music Service provision. Championed by the former Managing Director of Classic FM and now Chief Executive of Arts Council England, Darren Henley, the purpose of the Hub in each area is to ensure that every child aged 5- to 18-years-old in that locality has the opportunity to sing, learn a musical instrument and benefit from rewarding music experiences. Under the umbrella of LSO On Track, LSO Discovery and its partner Music Education Hub lead organisations develop projects to support these aims for young people living in the ten former host and gateway boroughs of the London 2012 Olympic Games, in east London. The programme aims to catalyse young people’s musical progression at a range of levels without compromising artistic excellence, from first access projects in mainstream and special school to large-scale instrumental performance opportunities such as at BMW LSO Open Air Classics in Trafalgar Square. LSO On Track simultaneously draws on and develops the skills of instrumental and classroom teachers through its projects, supporting a creative and empowered workforce. Find out more at lso.co.uk/lsodiscovery.

And in the Local Community LSO CREATE These interactive workshops for adults with learning disabilites and their supporters introduce participants to creative music-making, developing their skills in an informal, relaxed environment. To find out more email lydia.nickalls@lso.co.uk

ENGAGING EVERYONE IN MUSIC LSO St Luke’s offers many opportunities to get involved in musicmaking, and since the building opened in 2003 it has hosted its own Community Choir, Community Gamelan Group, a Digital Technology Group for budding composers aged 12 to 20, baby and toddler music workshops, a specially curated series of Free Friday Lunchtime Concerts for those who are making their first steps into classical music – or those who want an opportunity to dig a bit deeper and question our musicians! – and much more.

LSO SING With a choral activity to suit all levels of singer, you could be singing in a jazz-inspired singing day or on stage at the Barbican. Visit lso.co.uk/lsosing for full details.

COMMUNITY AMBASSADORS Meeting the residents around LSO St Luke’s The Community Ambassadors are a group of volunteers who kindly give up their free time to help promote the work of the Orchestra in the community local to LSO St Luke’s. They meet regularly to discuss their activity with the LSO and offer feedback on our programme. If you’re interested in becoming a Community Ambassador for LSO St Luke’s, email lsostlukes@lso.co.uk

WORKING IN THE LOCAL COMMUNITY ~ LSO.CO.UK

HOSPITAL VISITS LSO players and workshop leaders engage in one-to-one bedside visits and small group sessions, as well as working in pre-existing hospital units in partnership with Vital Arts. One of these projects is aimed particularly at older people and those who have dementia, giving patients the opportunity to sing along to musical classics, discuss their favourite music and get to know their bedside neighbours.

LSO COMMUNITY GAMELAN GROUP No experience necessary! You need not already play an instrument to try something new at LSO St Luke’s. Indeed you may have Grade 8 on Piano, Clarinet and Viola but want to give something different a go. LSO St Luke’s is home to one of the finest Gamelans (the collective term for a group of Indonesian instruments consisting of Gongs, Bells, Metallophones and more) in London, and whatever your musical knowledge, everyone is welcome in the LSO Community Gamelan Group. The ensemble is made up of adults from varying backgrounds who want to make music in their spare time and get to know the other members too. And the only prerequisite here is a commitment to rehearsals and encouraging the best out of each other. Whether you work in a demanding City job, or are retired and looking for a new challenge, this might be perfect for you! If you’re interested in joining the LSO Community Gamelan Group or if would like to find out more, email gamelan@lso.co.uk

DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY GROUP

AND MUCH MORE

For producers, songwriters or performers aged 12 to 20

To find out more about what LSO Discovery has to offer visit lso.co.uk/lsodiscovery

The Digital Technology Group based at LSO St Luke’s gives young performers, songwriters and producers the chance to make music and get heard. Working to develop their original sound and style, participants gain access to cutting-edge studio equipment, rehearsal spaces, industry professionals and performance opportunities too. If you’re interested in joining the LSO Digital Technology Group or would like to find out more, email chris.rogers@lso.co.uk

TRUSTS & FOUNDATIONS The enlightened support from charitable trusts and foundations, statutory funders and community partners enables LSO Discovery to reach more than 60,000 people in diverse communities each year. The LSO is at the forefront of community engagement. In tandem with our frust and foundation partners we are able to encourage all ages and abilities to engage with and participate in transformative music programmes.

Securing the Future Together PATRONS & FRIENDS With a love of great music, our Patrons and Friends share each new step in the LSOâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s history. We bring our supporters closer to the music through special invitations and events, connecting them with the Orchestra and its celebrated family of artists. Patrons and Friends enjoy rewarding friendships and unique insights, forming a thriving community at the centre of the LSO.

SECURING THE FUTURE ~ LSO.CO.UK

Now more than ever, our supporters play an integral role in the LSO’s work and success. Together we share a mutual commitment to bring the joy of music to millions. As we look ahead to an exciting future, the LSO invites you to join our family of supporters. There has never been a better time to be involved. THANK YOU Our supporters share their passions with the LSO and enrich our culture through their thoughtful generosity. Thanks to them, the Orchestra’s work extends from the Barbican concerts into local communities and classrooms, and wider afield through international tours and pioneering digital platforms and recordings. We thank and celebrate our supporters for the critical difference they make. Their confidence in the LSO underpins everything we do and helps us to secure the brightest possible future.

YOU MAKE IT POSSIBLE To learn more about ways to support and share the work of the LSO, please contact: lso.co.uk/supportus 020 7588 1116

CORPORATE PARTNERS

development@lso.co.uk

Sponsorship of the LSO makes a measurable difference to business success. Sponsors enjoy memorable experiences for guests and valuable links with the LSO’s award-winning community programmes. The LSO is a truly global orchestra, connecting its partners in key international locations with a range of initiatives. Alignment with the LSO is one of the most effective investments a company can make.

Thank You LSO SUPPORTERS We thank all our supporters whose generosity underpins everything we do.

CORPORATE SPONSORS

PRINCIPAL PARTNERS

Baker & McKenzie LLP BAT Bowers & Wilkins Linklaters LLP Mishcon de Reya Mizuho Toshiba

CORPORATE MEMBERS PUBLIC FUNDING PARTNERS

LSO Premier Baker & McKenzie LLP Bank of America Merrill Lynch BMW HSBC Lippincott Mishcon de Reya Mizuho Moore Group Oliver Wyman PwC

MEDIA PARTNERS

ARTS COUNCIL ENGLAND Arts Council England works to get great art to everyone by championing, developing and investing in artistic experiences that enrich people’s lives. It supports a range of artistic activities from theatre to music, literature to dance, photography to digital art, and carnival to crafts. Great art inspires us, brings us together and teaches us about ourselves and the world around us. In short, it makes life better. Between 2011 and 2015, the Arts Council invested £1.4 billion of public money from government and a further £0.85 billion from the National Lottery to create these experiences for as many people as possible across the country.

SUPPORT US ~ LSO.CO.UK

LSO Debut ANA – All Nippon Airways Associated Foreign Exchange Ltd (AFEX) Baker & McKenzie LLP Finch Insurance GH Cityprint London Chamber of Commerce and Industry Marsh Toshiba Veale Wasbrough Vizards Official Drinks Partner Chapel Down AMERICAN LSO FOUNDATION Anonymous Jane Attias Mercedes T Bass Francesca & Christopher Beale David Chavolla Mr Neil and Dr Kira Flanzraich Barbara G Fleischman The Philip and Irene Toll Gage Foundation Bruce & Suzie Kovner Sir Michael Moritz KBE & Harriet Heyman The Reidler Foundation Elena Sardarova Daniel Schwartz Mrs Ernest H Seelhorst

TRUSTS, FOUNDATIONS & CHARITABLE PARTNERS The Andor Charitable Trust Angus Allnatt Charitable Foundation Barbara Whatmore Charitable Trust BBC Children in Need Britten-Pears Foundation City Bridge Trust Clore Duffield Foundation John S Cohen Foundation Esmée Fairbairn Foundation Fidelio Charitable Trust Google Hedley Foundation Helen Hamlyn Trust Help Musicians UK Hinrichsen Foundation Idlewild Trust Islington Council Local Initiatives Fund Lambert Charitable Trust Lord and Lady Lurgan Trust Marsh Christian Trust National Trust Polonsky Foundation PRS for Music Foundation Richard Reeves Foundation Rothschild Charities Committee Barnett & Sylvia Shine No 2 Charitable Trust N Smith Charitable Trust Sir Siegmund Warburg’s Voluntary Settlement Slaughter and May UBS Youth Music

LSO PATRONS

MOVING MUSIC DONORS

Our Patrons share our vision for the future.

Taking the joy of music to millions.

Music Director Donors Jonathan Moulds CBE Elizabeth Desmond & Alan Davison Hamish Parker Susie Thomson

Principal Donors Jonathan Moulds CBE Yoko Ceschina Sir Colin & Lady Davis

Orchestra Donors Celia & Edward Atkin CBE Tony & Gisela Bloom Charles & Pascale Clark Donatella Flick David HS Hobbs David Powell & Michelle Pretorius Mrs Edmond Safra Artists’ Circle Sumita Kumar Ivan Piercy Sir David Tang Diamond Patrons Anonymous x 1 The Hon Sir Rocco & Lady Forte Alexander & Elena Gerko Mr Nick Nops & Miss Sarah Nops Gold Patrons Anonymous x 1 Alan & Sally Bell Donald & Corrine Brydon Christopher & Margaret Coombe Sir Alan & Lady Cox Mrs Pauline E Davey Brian & Susan Dickie Christopher Follett Mr & Mrs John Hatton Alisha & David Hirsch Mr & Mrs Raj Khatri Tamaki Klaus Mr & Mrs William Stockler Tim & Nadine Waddell Peter & Corinne Young

Silver Patrons Anonymous x 2 Chris & Lynette Braithwaite Matthias Brandl & Fabienne van den Avenne Ian Christie Brendan & Alexa Connolly Mr Jonathan & The Hon Mrs Diamond David Gerow Richard & Jenny Hardie Douglas Kennedy Donald Main Professor Richard Portes CBE FBA David & Alexandra Scholey John & Tita Shakeshaft Mr O J Shiell Mrs Jane Spack Mr Philip Stear Diane Stephen Bronze Patrons Anonymous x 5 Maria Bentley Bernadette de Malherbe & Jacques Boissonnas Gwen & Stanley Burnton Gill & Garf Collins Julian & Fiona Cusack Peter & Monica Gossage Mrs Moira Gray Barbara & Michael Gwinnell Alfred & Liselotte Gysi Mr David Hansom John & Susan Heywood R K Jeha Mr Ralph Kanza Bobby & Mittali Kapur Steven Larcombe Dr Robert Lefever Lady Lever Mark & Sophie Lewisohn Robin & Joanna Linnecar Dame Mary Marsh Simon Polbennikov & Yoko Misumi Mr C J Moore Simon Payne Nicholas Selman Rahul Stanchina Sir Angus Stirling Peter Tausig Dr Clare Thompson Fernando Vicario Laura Whyte

Major Donors Tony & Gisela Bloom Dr Richard Chenley Charles & Pascale Clark Sir Robert & Lady Finch The Hon Sir Rocco & Lady Forte David HS Hobbs Hamish Parker The Rothermere Foundation Susie Thomson Michael Tilson Thomas & Joshua Robison Benefactors Alexander & Elena Gerko Ivan Piercy David & Alexandra Scholey Lead Supporters Anonymous x 2 Mr Michael & The Hon Mrs Giancarla Alen-Buckley TSH The Prince and Princess d’Arenberg The Cayo Foundation Mr Michael Chandris Dr Genevieve & Mr Peter Davies Elizabeth Desmond & Alan Davison Brian & Susan Dickie Count & Countess Giovanni Emo Capodilista Mr & Mrs John Hatton Roy King Memorial Trust Melisa Lawton Lady Roslyn Lyons Irina & Marcel van Poecke David Powell & Michelle Pretorius The David Ross Foundation The Rothschild Foundation Lady Linda Wong Davies for the KT Wong Foundation

Pioneers Claire & Nick Anstee Graham & Joanna Barker Maria Bentley George Bull Kay Brock Diane Cote Julian & Fiona Cusack Susan Dean Mr Jonathan & The Hon Mrs Diamond Professor David Gann CBE & Ms Anne Asha Stephanie Hughes Stephen Jones Robin & Joanna Linnecar Mr Pierre & Mrs Estera Lussato Dame Mary Marsh Kathryn McDowell James & Jacqueline Richards Rahul Stanchina Janis Susskind Michael Tian & Sharon Zhu Cathy Wearing Laura Whyte

LSO FRIENDS Together, our Friends form a community at the heart of the LSO. We thank all our Friends for their generous support.

TOUR HIGHLIGHTS

LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

EUROPE Thu 1 Sep to Wed 14 Sep 2016 Featuring music by Debussy, Dvorˇák, Rachmaninov, Shostakovich, Verdi and Wagner Gianandrea Noseda conductor Italy Locarno, Merano, Milan, Stresa, Turin, Verona Czech Republic Prague Spain Barcelona, Madrid Sun 9 Oct to Mon 24 Oct 2016 Featuring music by Beethoven and Mendelssohn Sir John Eliot Gardiner conductor Germany Bonn, Düsseldorf, Essen, Mannheim Fri 9 to Sun 11 Dec 2016 Featuring music by John Adams, Bártok and Stravinsky John Adams conductor | Leila Josefowicz violin France Dijon, Paris Fri 20 & Sat 21 Jan 2017 Mahler Symphony No 6 Sir Simon Rattle conductor France Paris Luxembourg Luxembourg Mon 24 to Wed 26 Apr 2017 Featuring music by Bártok, Bruckner and Debussy François-Xavier Roth conductor Austria Vienna, Innsbruck, Bregenz Sat 10 to Tue 13 Jun 2017 Michael Tilson Thomas conductor | Yuja Wang piano Sweden Malmö Denmark Aalborg, Copenhagen Finland Tampere

AMERICA Fri 28 Oct to Sun 30 Oct 2016 Featuring music by Ravel, Shostakovich, Verdi and Wagner Gianandrea Noseda conductor | Yuja Wang piano United States Newark, New York

FAR EAST Sat 19 Feb to Tue 28 Feb 2017 Featuring music by Mahler, Rachmaninov and Sibelius Daniel Harding conductor South Korea Seoul China Beijing, Shanghai Macau Macau

TOURS / LSO MEMBERS ~ LSO.CO.UK

PATRON Her Majesty The Queen MUSIC DIRECTOR DESIGNATE Sir Simon Rattle OM CBE PRINCIPAL GUEST CONDUCTORS Daniel Harding Gianandrea Noseda CONDUCTOR LAUREATE Michael Tilson Thomas CONDUCTOR EMERITUS André Previn KBE CHORAL DIRECTOR Simon Halsey CBE HONORARY MEMBERS OF THE LSO Alfonso Aijon OBE Alderman Nick Anstee Sir Clive Gillinson CBE Dvora Lewis Jane Moss Jonathan Moulds CBE Ian Stoutzker CBE LSO BOARD OF DIRECTORS Gareth Davies Chairman Belinda McFarlane Vice-Chairman Laurent Quénelle Vice-Chairman Kathryn McDowell CBE DL Managing Director David Alberman Tony Bloom Joost Bosdijk Clare Duckworth Matthew Gardner Richard Hardie Christopher Moran Jonathan Moulds CBE Rikesh Shah Company Secretary ORCHESTRA COMMITTEE David Alberman Joost Bosdijk Eve-Marie Caravassilis Gareth Davies Ginette Decuyper Clare Duckworth Matthew Gardner Sue Mallet Kathryn McDowell CBE DL Belinda McFarlane Laurent Quénelle

FIRST VIOLINS Gordan Nikolitch $ Leader Chair endowed by The Hon Sir Rocco & Lady Forte and Mr & Mrs lan Stoutzker

Roman Simovic Leader Playing a Stradivari violin kindly loaned by Jonathan Moulds

Carmine Lauri Co-Leader Chair endowed in loving memory of the conductor Yuri Ahronovitch by his wife Tami

Lennox Mackenzie Sub-Leader Chair endowed in memory of Manja Leigh

Clare Duckworth Sub-Principal Chair endowed by LSO Friends

Nigel Broadbent Ginette Decuyper Gerald Gregory Jörg Hammann Maxine Kwok-Adams Claire Parfitt Elizabeth Pigram Laurent Quénelle Harriet Rayfield Colin Renwick lan Rhodes Sylvain Vasseur Rhys Watkins David Worswick SECOND VIOLINS David Alberman Principal Chair endowed by Linklaters LLP

Thomas Norris Co-Principal Sarah Quinn Sub-Principal Miya Väisänen David Ballesteros Richard Blayden Matthew Gardner Julian Gil Rodriguez Naoko Keatley Belinda McFarlane William Melvin Iwona Muszynska Andrew Pollock Paul Robson Louise Shackelton VIOLAS Edward Vanderspar Principal Gillianne Haddow Co-Principal Malcolm Johnston Sub-Principal Anna Bastow Regina Beukes German Clavijo ‡ Lander Echevarria Julia O’Riordan Robert Turner Heather Wallington Jonathan Welch

CELLOS Rebecca Gilliver Principal Chair endowed by Baker & McKenzie LLP

Timothy Hugh Principal Minat Lyons Co-Principal Alastair Blayden Sub-Principal + Jennifer Brown Noël Bradshaw Eve-Marie Caravassilis Daniel Gardner Hilary Jones Amanda Truelove + DOUBLE BASSES Rinat Ibragimov Principal ‡ Colin Paris Co-Principal ‡ Patrick Laurence Matthew Gibson Thomas Goodman Joe Melvin Jani Pensola FLUTES Gareth Davies Principal ‡ Chair endowed by Mizuho

Adam Walker Principal Alex Jakeman PICCOLO Sharon Williams Principal OBOES Olivier Stankiewicz Principal + Chair endowed by LSO Patrons

Rosie Jenkins COR ANGLAIS Christine Pendrill Principal + Chair endowed in memory of Alan Benjamin

CLARINETS Andrew Marriner Principal † Chair endowed by Jonathan Moulds

Chris Richards Principal Chi-Yu Mo † E-FLAT CLARINET Chi-Yu Mo Principal † BASS CLARINET Lorenzo Iosco Principal † BASSOONS Rachel Gough Principal Chair endowed by Brian & Susan Dickie

Daniel Jemison Principal Joost Bosdijk + CONTRA-BASSOON Dominic Morgan Principal

HORNS Timothy Jones Principal Chair endowed by Sir Jack Lyons Charitable Trust

Angela Barnes Alexander Edmundson Co-Principal Jonathan Lipton ‡ TRUMPETS Philip Cobb Principal Chair endowed by Mishcon de Reya

Gerald Ruddock Daniel Newell TROMBONES Dudley Bright Principal † Peter Moore Co-Principal James Maynard † BASS TROMBONE Paul Milner Principal TUBA Patrick Harrild Principal † ‡ TIMPANI Nigel Thomas Principal Antoine Bedewi Co-Principal PERCUSSION Neil Percy Principal † David Jackson Sam Walton Co-Principal HARP Bryn Lewis Principal ‡ Chair endowed in memory of Kathleen Mary Dowsing

KEY † Professor at the Royal Academy of Music + Professor at the Royal College of Music ‡ Professor at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama $ Prince Consort Professor of Violin at the Royal College of Music LSO String Experience Scheme Graduate LSO Academy Graduate 20+ Years’ Service All members of the London Symphony Orchestra have made a donation this season to the LSO Endowment Trust A list of Players Emeritus can be found on the LSO website lso.co.uk/players

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BARBICAN CENTRE Silk Street, EC2Y 8DS LSO ST LUKE’S UBS and LSO Music Education Centre 161 Old Street, EC1V 9NG The Barbican is in the heart of the City of London with LSO St Luke’s just a short walk away. Underground/Train stations The Barbican is closest to Moorgate and Barbican, with Liverpool Street, Bank and Farringdon nearby. For LSO St Luke’s use Old Street. Bus routes 4, 56, 153 Barbican; 21, 43, 76, 141, 214 Moorgate/City Road; 55, 243 Old Street. Parking The Barbican’s on-site car parks, also convenient for LSO St Luke’s, cost £9 from 5pm on weekdays and £9 per day at weekends.

BARBICAN CONCERT TICKETS £10 £18 £24 £30 £42 + booking fee per transaction of £3 online or £4 by phone

LSO SINGING DAYS Full day tickets £20 Includes music hire (£15 concessions) + booking fee per transaction of £0.60 online or £0.70 by phone

EXTRAS

A Choral Christmas (Wed 21 Dec) Rattle – Norman/Sibelius (Sun 9 Jul) £10 £18 £24 £30 + fees as above

LSO DISCOVERY DAYS Full day tickets £20 (£15 concessions) £14 afternoon only (from 2.30pm) + fees as LSO Singing Days

RELAXING WITH FOOD, DRINK AND FRIENDS The ideal place to meet and catch up.

LSO Chamber Orchestra (Fri 13 Jan) £10 £20 £30 + fees as above Conducting Competition Final (Thu 17 Nov) National Youth Brass Band of Great Britain (Sat 22 Apr) LSO Discovery Showcase (Thu 22 Jun) £10 £18 £24 + fees as above National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain (Sun 9 Apr) £10 £16 £22 £27 + fees as above Multibuy Discounts Book 3+ concerts save 15% Book 5+ concerts save 20%, plus 20% on any later bookings (initial 5+ booking must be made by 31 Aug 2016) SPECIAL BARBICAN CONCERTS Multibuy, group and under-18s discounts do not apply

Symphonic Fantasies London (Thu 6 Oct) £30 £40 £50 £65 + fees as above Ligeti Le grand macabre (Sat 14 & Sun 15 Jan) £25 £35 £55 £75 + fees as above Jonas Kaufman (Wed 8 Feb) £25 £40 £55 £70 £85 + fees as above LSO DISCOVERY FAMILY CONCERTS £5 under-18s, £10 adults + fees as above

BBC RADIO 3 LUNCHTIME CONCERTS £12 (£10 concessions) + fees as LSO Singing Days Multibuy discount – book any four concerts for £9 each

SPECIAL LSO ST LUKE’S EVENTS Storytelling for under-5s £3 children, £5 adults + fees as LSO Singing Days Soundhub Showcase (Sat 11 Feb) £7 (£5 concessions) + fees as LSO Singing Days UNDER-18s & STUDENTS OVER 18 All concerts £5 for under-18s Student discounts available on selected concerts via Student Pulse – visit lso.co.uk/students GROUPS OF 10 OR MORE Receive a 20% discount Call 020 7382 7211 (10am–5pm Mon-Fri) or visit lso.co.uk/groups DISABLED VISITORS Join the Barbican Access Membership scheme to inform us of your access requirements. Members may be eligible for reductions on tickets, limited in number and subject to availability. Full details are available online at barbican.org.uk/access and at the Box Office.

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Barbican Martini Bar (Level 1) Choose from classic and modern martinis, or a glass of bubbly. Barbican Kitchen (Level G) Offering hot dishes and salads from a counter-top service as well as sandwiches, cakes, teas and coffees. Bonfire (Level 1) Juicy burgers, rotisserie chicken and milkshakes in a relaxed atmosphere overlooking the lake. Reservations 020 7382 6180. Osteria (Level 2) A new restaurant specialising in Italian cooking in the bistronomy style by chef Anthony Demetre. Reservations 020 7588 3008. KEEPING YOU UP-TO-DATE We’ll send you an email a day before your selected concert with the latest travel details and links to other useful information.

Tickets can be exchanged for another LSO concert or credit vouchers valid for six months, provided that you return them to the Box Office at least 24 hours before the performance (two weeks for group bookings). Administration fee applies. Calls may be monitored or recorded for quality assurance or training purposes. All discounts are subject to availability and may not be combined. Information correct at time of going to print. The LSO reserves the right to change artists or programmes if necessary. Refunds will only be given in the event of a concert being cancelled.

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You can get this guide in large print, audio and electronic formats. Contact 020 7588 1116 or email access@lso.co.uk

THE MEMBERS AND ADMINISTRATION STAFF OF THE LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, 2016 Judith Ackrill, David Alberman, Sarah Anstead, Edward Appleyard, Kate Ashford, David Ballesteros, Angela Barnes, Anne Basley, Anna Bastow, Antoine Bedewi, Regina Beukes, Jessica Blackstone, Alastair Blayden, Richard Blayden, Jemma Bogan, Hannah Bone, Joost Bosdijk, Quentin Bradley, Noël Bradshaw, Dudley Bright, Nigel Broadbent, Jennifer Brown, Nathan Budden, Eve-Marie Caravassilis, Karen Cardy, Chris Cashman, Daysi Casalliglla, Philip Chandler, Natalie Chivers, German Clavijo, Charlotte Clemson, Philip Cobb, Stuart Connery, Gareth Davies, Tim Davy, Ginette Decuyper, Fiona Dinsdale, Claire Duckworth, Andra East, Lander Echevarria, Alexander Edmundson, Daniel Gardner, Matthew Gardner, Jeremy Garside, Matthew Gibson, Julian Gil Rodriguez, Rebecca Gilliver, Alan Goode, Iryna Goode, Thomas Goodman, Rachel Gough, Gerald Gregory, Emma Grimsey, Gillianne Haddow, Jörg Hammann, Alix Harper, Patrick Harrild, Robert Harston, Yasmin Hemmings, Liam Hennebry, Sarah Hickling, Felicity Hindle, Michelle Hines, Elspeth Holmes, Timothy Hugh, Frankie Hutchinson, Rinat Ibragimov, Helen Innes, Lorenzo Iosco, David Jackson, Alex Jakeman, Daniel Jemison, Rosie Jenkins, Jo Johnson, Malcolm Johnston, Guy Jones, Hilary Jones, Kate Jones, Timothy Jones, Naoko Keatley, Natasha Krichefski, Maxine Kwok-Adams, Patrick Laurence, Carmine Lauri, Wallis Leahy, Becky Lees, Bryn Lewis, Jonathan Lipton, Miriam Loeben, Minat Lyons, Steve Mace, Lennox Mackenzie, Sue Mallet, Andrew Marriner, Claire Mattison, James Maynard, Cara McAleese, Carina McCourt, Kathryn McDowell, Belinda McFarlane, Joe Melvin, William Melvin, David Millinger, Paul Milner, Chi-Yu Mo, Peter Moore, Vicky Moran, Dominic Morgan, Neil Morris, Kenny Morrison, Iwona Muszynska, Daniel Newell, Lydia Nickalls, Gordan Nikolitch, Thomas Norris, David Nunn, Gráinne O’Hogan, Julia O’Riordan, Tim Oldershaw, Claire Parfitt, Colin Paris, Mark Parker, Christine Pendrill, Jani Pensola, Neil Percy, Benjamin Picard, Elizabeth Pigram, Andrew Pollock, Esther Poole, Hannah Preston, Chris Powell, Laurent Quénelle, Daniele Quilleri, Sarah Quinn, Steph Ramplin, Steve Ramsden, Harriet Rayfield, Joshua Reichental, Colin Renwick, Ian Rhodes, Libby Rice, Chris Richards, Liana Richards, Paul Robson, Chris Rogers, Thomas Rozwadowski, Gerald Ruddock, Emily Rutherford, Mario de Sa, Diana Salthouse, Nicholas Selman, Louise Shackelton, Rikesh Shah, Rebecca Sharp, Charlotte Silver, Roman Simovic, Andrew Softley, Olivier Stankiewicz, Philip Stuart, Nigel Thomas, Alison Thompson, Michael Tivey, Amanda Truelove, James Turner, Robert Turner, Miya Väisänen, Edward Vanderspar, Sylvain Vasseur, Adam Walker, Heather Wallington, Sam Walton, Rhys Watkins, Jonathan Welch, Sarah Whitaker, Jane Williams, Sharon Williams and David Worswick.

The LSO is funded by Arts Council England in partnership with the City of London Corporation, which also provides the Orchestra’s permanent home at the Barbican. LSO is a Registered Charity in England No 232391 London Symphony Orchestra Barbican, Silk Street, London, EC2Y 8DS lso.co.uk

Feature photography Ranald Mackechnie Le grand macabre illustration Aaron Groves Other photographs Uwe Arens, Marco Borggreve, Cité de la musique / Philharmonie de Paris, Benjamin Ealovega, Igor Emmerich, Simon Fowler, Hugo Glendinning, Lars Gundersen, Gregor Hohenberg, Richard Ion, Tristram Kenton, Eric Larrayadieu, Chris Lee, Kevin Leighton, Roger Mastroianni, Matthu Placek, Bill Robinson, Gisela Schenket, Hannah J Taylor

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