Spring Programme 2022
Kerem Hasan
Conductor
Jess Gillam
Saxophone
Friday 15 April, 7.30pm
Usher Hall, Edinburgh
Saturday 16 April, 7.30pm
Glasgow Royal Concert Hall
symphony
3 symphony Programme John Harle Briggflatts Page 12 Respighi Fountains of Rome Page 11 Shostakovich Symphony No.10 in E minor, Op.93 Page 16 INTERVAL
In deciding on a programme, my first thought was to include a variety of musical styles so that these talented young musicians can absorb as much diverse repertoire as possible. I believe the programme that we have chosen does exactly that. In the first half, Fountains of Rome presents a wonderful opportunity to explore the uniquely romantic composition of Ottorino Respighi. A challenging, beautiful and indulgent work, Fountains of Rome allows the entire orchestra to shine through the numerous solo voices and melodies.
It is a pleasure to be able to invite the inspirational Jess Gillam, and John Harle’s composition Briggflatts is the perfect work to show her talent and enable the orchestra to tackle some exciting contemporary music.
Finally, Shostakovich’s Tenth Symphony is as antithetical to the first half repertoire as possible. This harsh and bleak work showcases a soundworld that requires a certain style of playing, while challenging every player in the orchestra with Shostakovich’s virtuosic writing. This symphony offers these young musicians the exploration of a musical culture and idiom that is very different to the Western European classical tradition and I am delighted we can share these works to our audience!
Kerem Hasan Conductor
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Welcome
Kerem Hasan
Conductor
Kerem Hasan commences his third season as chief conductor of the Tiroler Symphonieorchester Innsbruck, after starting this position in September 2019. In summer 2017, the young British conductor laid the foundations for a very promising international career by winning the Nestlé and Salzburg Young Conductors Award. Prior to this, he had already attracted attention as a finalist in the Donatella Flick Conducting Competition in London and as Associate Conductor of Welsh National Opera.
Apart from his concerts with the Tiroler Symphonieorchester, Kerem also returns to the Tiroler Landestheater in Innsbruck to conduct Rossini’s L'italiana in Alger and Mozart's Die Zauberflöte. Further highlights of his 2021/22 season include opera productions at English National Opera (Così fan tutte) and Glyndebourne (The Rake’s Progress) as well as concerts with the Tonkünstlerorchester Niederösterreich, Borusan Philharmonic Orchestra and Antwerp Symphony Orchestra. Furthermore, Hasan debuts with the BBC Philharmonic, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia and returns to the ORF Radio Symphonieorchester Wien, Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Noord Nederlands Orkest. June 2022 sees him making his US debut with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra followed by concerts with the Minnesota Orchestra and at the Aspen Music Festival.
In the summer of 2016, Kerem Hasan first attended the Conducting Academy of the Aspen Music Festival, where he worked with Robert Spano. In 2017, he returned to the festival as Conducting Fellow and was subsequently awarded the Aspen Conductor Prize. As Assistant Conductor, he was in Aspen again in summer 2018.
Kerem Hasan, born in London in 1992, studied piano and conducting at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Later, he continued his education at the Zurich University of the Arts with Johannes Schlaefli.
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Jess Gillam
Saxophone
Hailing from Ulverston in Cumbria, Jess Gillam is animating the music world with her outstanding talent and infectious personality. She has been forging her own adventurous path since she shot to fame, becoming the first saxophonist to reach the finals of BBC Young Musician and the youngest ever soloist to perform at the Last Night of the Proms.
As well as performing around the world, Jess is a presenter on TV and radio. She became the youngest ever presenter for BBC Radio 3 with the launch of her own weekly show, This Classical Life. The show is in its third year now and in 2020 won the prestigious ARIA Award for Best Specialist Music Show. TV presenting includes the BBC Proms and BBC Young Musician.
Jess is the first ever saxophonist to be signed exclusively to Decca Classics and both of her albums reached No.1 in the UK Classical Music Charts. Her debut album was listed in The Times Top 100 albums of 2019. She has been the recipient of a Classic BRIT Award, has been nominated for The Times Breakthrough Award and was awarded an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list 2021 for Services to Music.
Her infectious enthusiasm and passion for classical and non-classical music lights up every stage and she has performed in prestigious concert halls and with world-class orchestras around the globe including the NDR Hannover, Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Iceland Symphony Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, Munich Philharmonic, Lahti Symphony Orchestra and the UK’s leading orchestras.
Jess is currently Artist in Residence at the Wigmore Hall, a European Concert Hall Organisation (ECHO) Rising Star which sees her performing at many of the top concert halls across Europe, and continues to promote her own concert series, bringing international talent to her home town of Ulverston.
Jess is a Vandoren UK Artist and became the youngest ever endorsee for Yanagisawa Saxophones aged just 13.
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Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936) Fountains of Rome
DURATION 17 minutes
YEAR OF COMPOSITION 1916
THE WORLD IN 1916...
The Easter Rising takes place as Irish Republicans launch an armed insurrection against the ruling British government with the aim of establishing an independent Irish state.
Emma Goldman is arrested for publicly advocating for birth control in the United States.
FURTHER LISTENING
Lutosławski – Concerto for Orchestra
A tour de force of elaborate orchestral textures, which illuminate the Polish folk melodies the composer uses throughout.
Ottorino Respighi was an Italian composer writing in the first half of the twentieth century. His most celebrated works are vivid depictions of the Italian capital and the surrounding countryside. Fountains of Rome portrays 'four of Rome’s fountains contemplated at the hour in which their character is most in harmony with the surrounding landscape'. Following studies with Rimsky-Korsakov, who himself was an expert in orchestration, Respighi crafted works that manipulate vast symphonic forces to create evocative, and in the case of this work, highly descriptive soundworlds.
The work opens at daybreak by the Fountain of Valle Giulia, painting a pastoral scene amidst the clearing mists of a Roman dawn. The lively second movement celebrates the eponymous figure from Greek mythology who is immortalised by the Triton Fountain. The French Horns portray Triton blowing on a conch shell as depicted by the fountain. The majestic third section conjures the Trevi Fountain at noon, building to a triumphant climax depicting not only the splendour of the fountain but a grand procession led by Neptune’s chariot followed by a train of sirens and tritons. The final section captures a nostalgic sunset over the Fountain at the Villa Medici; bells toll, birds twitter, leaves rustle as the music quietly retreats into the silence of the night.
By Jack Johnson (© NYOS, 2022)
KEY OF TERMINOLOGY
Tritons – a group of fish-tailed sea gods of Greek mythology.
Sirens – dangerous creatures from Greek mythology who lured sailors with their enchanting singing voices to shipwreck on their island.
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John
Harle
(b.1956) Briggflatts
Briggflatts is the title of an epic autobiographical poem by Basil Bunting (1900-1985) and is the inspiration for this work for Jess Gillam. The title comes from the name of the Brigflatts Quaker meeting house near Sedbergh in Cumbria, which Bunting attended regularly. Bunting believed that the essential element of poetry is the sound, and that if the sound is right, the listener will hear, enjoy and be moved, and that there may be no need for further explanation:
DURATION 21 minutes
YEAR OF COMPOSITION 2019
THE WORLD IN 2019...
Over 1 million people in Hong Kong protest against proposed legislation regarding extradition to mainland China.
Sanna Marin, at the age of 34, becomes the world’s youngest serving prime minister after being selected to lead Finland’s Social Democratic Party.
Poetry, like music, is to be heard. It deals in sound – long sounds and short sounds, heavy beats and light beats, the tone relations of vowels, the relations of consonants to one another which are like instrumental colour in music. Poetry lies dead on the page until some voice brings it to life, just as music on the stave, is no more than instructions to the player. A skilled musician can imagine the sound, more or less, and a skilled reader can try to hear, mentally, what his eyes see in print; but nothing will satisfy either of them till his ears hear it as real sound in the air. Poetry must be read aloud. (Basil Bunting, 1966, The Poet's Point of View)
Bunting had to wait over thirty years before he was properly recognised in Britain – in 1966, with the publication of Briggflatts, which Cyril Connolly called "the finest long poem to have been published in England since T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets". Briggflatts was first read at Morden Tower, Newcastle, in 1965, in a poetry group organised by Tom and Connie Pickard.
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It was famous for attracting modernist poets such as Allen Ginsberg, Ted Hughes, Seamus Heaney and Basil Bunting.
Above all, the effect of Briggflatts is accessibility and vocal colour, and on rereading the poem I was attracted to the idea of a ‘suite’ for Jess Gillam as it allows for independent movements to parallel the episodic, disparate and seasonal sections of the poetry. I wrote 'Flare' and "Garsdale" after long sessions of piano improvisation in direct response to the poetry, whereas "Rant!' was written as a fantasy on Cumbrian folk music directly. (The trumpet tune that introduces the final section is The Ulverston Volunteers – Jess herself is from Ulverston.)
I owe a debt of gratitude to Ed Heslam for his compilation of Cumbrian folk music, Music of Cumberland and Westmorland, without which much Cumbrian music would be lost.
Above all, my hope is that Briggflatts as music is as accessible and colourful as the poetry, and like the poem, can be appreciated on first listening.
From Basil Bunting’s Briggflatts: Great strings next the post of the harp clang, the horn has majesty flutes flicker in the draft and flare. Part 5, lines 78-80
In Garsdale, dawn: Part 1, line 57
Briggflatts is, of course, dedicated to Jess Gillam, the young virtuoso saxophonist with huge energy, a soaring sound, and an unforgettable presence, and Briggflatts takes its inspiration from Cumbria, her own part of England.
© John Harle, 2019
FURTHER LISTENING
Jess Gillam – Time
A brilliant and eclectic album from tonight’s soloist, which paints the hubbub of a single day in London through the prism of works by Philip Glass and Björk, among others.
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First Violin
Scott Bryant, Kilwinning (Leader)
Thomasina Adamson, Glasgow
Eleanor Allen, Edinburgh
Alberto Brunelli-Bonet, Edinburgh
Helena Downie, Glasgow
Sophie Hamilton, Glasgow
Fraser Hannah, Castle Douglas
Lucy Hanson, Huddersfield
Chun-Yi Kang, Glasgow
Meredith Kennedy, Dunoon
Naomi Priestnall, Prestwick
Martha Spence, Edinburgh
Annabel Stevens, Glasgow
Rosie Stewart, Dunblane
Jack Sweet, Edinburgh
Second Violin
Jonathan Assur, Ayr
Isobel Barber, Haddington
Alasdair Campbell, Glasgow
Fiona Cantlay, Callander
Matthew Davis, Ayr
Daniel Higgins, Newport-on-Tay
Naomi Kurt-Elli, Le Mont-sur-Lausanne
Matthew Madeley, Edinburgh
Paul Mandujano Ersfeld, Glasgow
Sagnick Mukherjee, Glasgow
Dodie Simmers, Keith
Matthew Smith, Glasgow
Ola Stanton, Kinross
Claire Tootill, Edinburgh
Viola
Gordon Cervoni, Linlithgow
Sarah Hanniffy, Glasgow
Mairi McKellar, Aberdeen
Gordon McLaren, Kilwinning
Elena Muscat, Malta
Katie Potts, Glasgow
Daisy Richards, Dunblane
Orla Smyth, Oxford
Cello
Tess Anderson, Glasgow
Roshni Bhaumik, Glasgow
Charlotte Hay, Laurencekirk
Kirstin Petrie, Aberdeen
Gemma Ramsay, Aberdeen
Chloe Randall, Glasgow
Andrew Rogers, Manchester
Freya Ruuskanen, Glasgow
Beau Taneus-Miller, Edinburgh
Ruaraidh Williams, Newmachar
Double Bass
Emily Addis, Edinburgh
Euan Coyle, Glasgow
Emily McDougall, Glasgow
Joseph McLaren, Glasgow
Megan Warnock, Glasgow
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Flute
Tilly Coulton, Glasgow
Molly Gribbon, Glasgow
Criseyde Holman, Glasgow
Lucy Walsh, Isle of Arran
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Caterina Lue, Glasgow
Annabelle Pizzey, Glasgow
Laura Ritchie, Stonehaven
Ross Williams, Glasgow
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Louisa Buchan, Glasgow
Adam Lee, Irvine
Anthony McKenna, Motherwell
Amelia Neilson, Dumbarton
Cara Smith, Greenock
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Cameron Deverill, Glasgow
Freya Edington, Glasgow
William Gold, Glasgow
Callum Hendry, Johnstone
Kaylyn McKeown, Glasgow
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Freya Campbell, Lamlash
Isabella Diaz Gonzalez, Glasgow
Esmé MacBride-Stewart, Edinburgh
LikWang Ng, Glasgow
Kirstin Spence, Anstruther
Rachel Wood, Hamilton
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Calum Kerr, Glasgow
Maciej Meszka, Lossiemouth
Callum Robb, Innerleithen
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Anthony Connolly, Glasgow
MinKhai Khoo, Glasgow
Aaron Singh, Glasgow
Euan Wilson, Glasgow
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Jack Archibald, Glasgow
Sophie Smart, Mosstodloch
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Linzi Brain, Greenock
Madeleine Coxshott, Wemyss Bay
Ewan Millar, Glasgow
Zach Mitchell, Kilwinning
Callum Speirs, Blantyre
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Beatrice Cheng, Glasgow
Clara Harrigan Lees, Edinburgh
Hannah Middleton, Glasgow
Piano
Esther Ersfeld Mandujano, Glasgow
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Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) Symphony No.10 in E minor, Op.93
i. Moderato
ii. Allegro
iii. Allegretto – Largo – PiÙ mosso
iv. Andante – Allegro – L’istesso tempo
…I did depict Stalin in my next Symphony, the Tenth. I wrote it right after Stalin’s death, and no one has yet guessed what the Symphony is about. It’s about Stalin…
James Watson and Francis Crick announce their discovery of the structure of the DNA molecule.
Ian Fleming publishes his first James Bond novel.
Rationing of sugar ends in the UK.
The above quote is taken from Shostakovich’s memoir Testimony. Although the book’s authenticity is widely questioned, it is difficult not to sense that the terror of the Stalin years is imprinted in Shostakovich’s work. The wide-ranging cultural restrictions, and the sometimes life or death implications of following them, made composing music in the Soviet Union an inherently political act. Shostakovich, like all prominent Soviet artists, had to contend with the dizzyingly dichotomous official reaction to his works, and cycled through periods of acclaim (Symphony No.5) and denouncement (Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk).
As with many Shostakovich symphonies, the long opening movement begins ominously with the lower strings, the initial thematic material gradually unravelling until a haunting melody emerges from the clarinet. Soon the orchestral texture grows as the music builds in intensity before retreating into a solemn brass chorale following which the clarinet, at first playing entirely on its own, reiterates its opening motif. While hardly deviating from the Moderato pace, the central
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THE WORLD IN 1953... YEAR OF COMPOSITION 1953
DURATION 50 minutes
section builds to a number of sustained climaxes, with shrieking woodwinds, stalked by the presence of a side drum, before a quiet, and desolate, return to the music of the introduction.
The short, fast and furious second movement is regarded to be the most explicit allusion to Stalin in the symphony. Whether it is true that Shostakovich intended it to be a direct musical portrait is contested, but this frenetic scherzo is undoubtedly imbued with a sense of terror and violence, the side drum once more an unrelenting presence.
The third movement introduces Shostakovich’s musical signature: D-E flatC-B. Using the German transliteration of his name (Schostakowitsch), and the German spellings of those notes (D-EsC-H), Shostakovich can spell the initial of his first name (Dmitri) and the first three letters of his last, in what is otherwise known as the D-S-C-H motif. Another theme in this movement is thought to represent one of his pupils, Elmira Nazirova (E-A-E-D-A, or E-La-Mi-Re-A). The interplay between these two musical signatures played on the horn, piccolo and flute at the movement’s end, are thought to signify Shostakovich’s unrequited longing for his pupil, and offers a more personal reading of the symphony, aside from the more overt political content.
The final movement could be seen as a microcosm of the entire symphony, with stark changes in tempo and abrupt
atmospheric shifts, until a jaunty, possibly sardonic, bassoon solo, soon taken up by the clarinet, begins to hint at a more optimistic ending. As the symphony reaches its climax, the D-S-C-H motif is repeatedly asserted by the horns and trumpets, accompanied by a whirlwind of unison scales in the woodwind and strings before reaching a hysterical and, seemingly, joyous conclusion.
By Jack Johnson (© NYOS, 2022)
FURTHER LISTENING
Sofia Gubaidulina – Concerto for Two Orchestras
While Shostakovich’s works are often scrutinised for hidden political content, Gubaidulina viewed music as an escape from the realities of Soviet Russia.
Shostakovich – Symphony No.5
A fascinating work that appears to celebrate and parody Stalin all at the same time.
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