London Philharmonic Orchestra Season Brochure 2012/13 by Rhinegold

London Philharmonic Orchestra 2012/13 Concert Season at Southbank Centreâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Royal Festival Hall

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january february

Renowned soloists Allison Bell and Anna Larsson join the Orchestra to perform sublime songs by Grisey and Wagner.

march

Principal Guest Conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin contrasts works by Haydn and Richard Strauss.

Marin Alsop surveys the American 20th-century musical landscape with seminal works by Ives, Gershwin, Copland and Joplin.

Vladimir Jurowski conducts an all-star cast in a milestone of 20th-century musical theatre – Kurt Weill’s The Threepenny Opera, with cabaret artist Meow Meow.

april

october

Piers Lane plays the UK première of Australian composer Carl Vine’s Piano Concerto No. 2.

Marking the very beginning of The Rest Is Noise journey, the Orchestra performs early 20th-century landmark works by Richard Strauss, with soprano Karita Mattila.

The Orchestra performs two choral tours de force – Stravinsky’s Symphony of Psalms and Orff’s scenic cantata Carmina Burana.

may

September

Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor Vladimir Jurowski delves into 20th-century masterpieces by his Russian compatriots Denisov, Miaskovsky, Shchedrin and Rachmaninoff.

november

2013 – The Rest Is Noise Highlights

december

2012 Highlights

Ryan Wigglesworth focuses on the great English repertoire of the 20th century – Vaughan Williams’s Fourth Symphony alongside Tippet’s oratorio A Child of our Time.

Celebrating 80 years of the London Philharmonic Orchestra

Welcome to the 2012/13 season

In 2012/13 the Orchestra is proud to celebrate its 80th anniversary season. Throughout 2013 we are collaborating with the Southbank Centre on an exciting festival based on Alex Ross’s book, The Rest Is Noise, charting the 20th-century’s key works in music and their relationship to the political turmoil of the century (see pages 28 – 29 for details). Season highlights include thought-provoking programmes from Principal Conductor & Artistic Advisor Vladimir Jurowski, who conducts rarely heard treasures by Zemlinsky, Schoenberg, Shchedrin and musical theatre master, Kurt Weill, as well as three concerts based around the theme of War and Peace, one each with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Russian National Orchestra and one concert of the two orchestras together. Principal Guest Conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts Haydn and Richard Strauss; Marin Alsop concentrates on the 20th-century American musical landscape and we welcome back much-loved regular artists including Sir Mark Elder, Christoph Eschenbach, Osmo Vänskä, Christian Tetzlaff and Lawrence Power. We also continue to champion new music, giving the UK première of Carl Vine’s Second Piano Concerto with Piers Lane. I do hope you’ll join us for another vibrant and diverse season of concerts.

Timothy Walker AM Chief Executive and Artistic Director

september

Wednesday 26 September 2012 | 7.30pm Royal Festival Hall R Strauss Die Frau ohne Schatten (excerpts) Zemlinsky A Florentine Tragedy (One-act opera) Sung in German with English surtitles

Entranced and inspired by Oscar Wilde’s dark, death-ridden play, Alexander Zemlinsky conjured up his most colourful orchestral canvas in the one-act opera A Florentine Tragedy. Puccini claimed Zemlinsky’s most overtly Straussian score was ‘a rival to Salome but more human – more real.’ The narrative of infidelity and rapprochement wasn’t lost on Zemlinsky’s former lover Alma Schindler, who was outraged when she saw the Vienna première. Zemlinsky might not have found that ever-elusive fame and fortune with his opera, but he poured his all into it, revealing more about the troublesome Alma than any of her former lovers would dare.

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6.15pm – 6.45pm Free Royal Festival Hall A discussion on the music of Zemlinsky with David Trendell, College Organist and Senior Lecturer in Music, King’s College London.

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Vladimir Jurowski Principal Conductor & Artistic Advisor

Vladimir Jurowski conductor Heike Wessels Bianca Sergei Skorokhodov Guido Bardi Albert Dohmen Simone

Denisov Bells in the Fog Miaskovsky Silentium RODION Shchedrin Concerto for Orchestra No. 2 (The Chimes) Rachmaninoff The Bells (Choral Symphony)

Vladimir Jurowski conductor Tatiana Monogarova soprano Sergei Skorokhodov tenor Vladimir Chernov baritone London Philharmonic Choir London Symphony Chorus

Like a seductive mist, the sound of bells casts a long, beautiful spell over orchestra and voices in this concert. After resounding, bell-themed works by Denisov, Miaskovsky and Shchedrin comes Rachmaninoff’s creative response to his own fascination with the sound of bells. He believed they directly conveyed emotional human truths, depicting the silvery brightness of birth, the golden browns of marriage, the dark stillness of death and the serenity of peace. Passionate and rapturous music is tenderly woven through by the soloists and charged by full-throttle chorus in Rachmaninoff’s bellstrewn vision of human life.

Tatiana Monogarova

SEptember

Saturday 29 September 2012 | 7.30pm Royal Festival Hall

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Barlines – post concert event Free Level 2 The Clore Ballroom at Royal Festival Hall Artists involved in the performance will discuss the evening’s programme.

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WAR & PEACE

British and Russian music traditions share much, yet their performing styles are often worlds apart. It takes an artist of the quality and imagination of Vladimir Jurowski to bring them together in such a powerful manner as he has in these three concerts, pairing two of the world’s greatest orchestras, in music by British and Russian composers based on a loose but deeply thought theme of war. These concerts bring together the London Philharmonic Orchestra’s London season and Southbank Centre’s Shell Classic International series for the first time.

Wednesday 3 October 2012 London Philharmonic Orchestra Thursday 4 October 2012 Russian National Orchestra Friday 5 October 2012 London Philharmonic Orchestra & Russian National Orchestra

Jude Kelly OBE Southbank Centre’s Artistic Director

Above London Philharmonic Orchestra Below Russian National Orchestra

WAR & PEACE promises to be one of the musical highlights in the UK this year.

WAR & PEACE

october

Wednesday 3 October 2012 | 7.30pm Royal Festival Hall Britten Sinfonia da Requiem Walton Viola Concerto Prokofiev War and Peace (excerpts)

Vladimir Jurowski conductor Lawrence Power viola London Philharmonic Orchestra

In June 1941 Germany invaded the Soviet Union. Composers were expected to help with morale, and Prokofiev’s response was a setting of Tolstoy’s epic War and Peace that would prove his most probing exploration of rejuvenation through love. The excerpts taken from the opera maintain the grandeur and optimism of Prokofiev’s magnum opus, in stark contrast to Britten’s Sinfonia da Requiem. This profound and moving ‘plea for peace’, written a year before Prokofiev’s score, contains some of the most affecting and effective orchestral writing, induced by the terror of war as Walton’s Viola Concerto was by the melancholy beauty of his chosen instrument.

Lawrence Power

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6.15pm – 6.45pm Free Royal Festival Hall Tolstoy biographer Dr Rosamund Bartlett explores musical adaptations of Tolstoy’s works including the challenges faced by Prokofiev in his epic opera War and Peace.

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october

Thursday 4 October 2012 | 7.30pm Royal Festival Hall

WAR & PEACE

Vaughan Williams Symphony No. 6 Prokofiev Symphony No. 5

Vladimir Jurowski conductor Russian National Orchestra In England and in Russia, Ralph Vaughan Williams and Sergei Prokofiev looked on as the world was ravaged by war – a war that arrived at the doorsteps of both composers. Vaughan Williams responded with his Sixth Symphony, a work that belies its composer’s pastoral tendencies with music that cries out in violence and desperation. Prokofiev went further, creating his most compelling orchestral canvas, a piece whose machine-like insistence and propulsive emotional momentum speaks louder even than the bombs and guns it was designed to confront. Vladimir Jurowski conducts the Russian National Orchestra in an historic celebration of British and Russian musical traditions.

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WAR & PEACE

october

Friday 5 October 2012 | 7.30pm Royal Festival Hall

Tchaikovsky 1812 Overture Britten Lachrymae for viola and orchestra, Op. 48a Shostakovich Symphony No. 7 (Leningrad)

Vladimir Jurowski conductor Lawrence Power viola London Philharmonic Orchestra Russian National Orchestra

An immense evening for music as members of the Russian National Orchestra and London Philharmonic Orchestra combine to perform works by both British and Russian composers, the latter marking seminal events in the history of one of the world’s great nations. Vladimir Jurowski marshals the inexorable percussive crescendo of Shostakovich’s Seventh Symphony, a musical picture of Leningrad under siege, preceded by the blazing triumph of Tchaikovsky’s celebration of human victory, the 1812 Overture, and a solemn, mournful lamentation from the pen of Benjamin Britten.

Vladimir Jurowski Principal Conductor & Artistic Advisor

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october

Friday 12 October 2012 | 7.30pm Royal Festival Hall Prokofiev Symphony No. 1 (Classical) Elgar Cello Concerto Sibelius Symphony No. 2

Vassily Sinaisky conductor Sol Gabetta cello

Darkness and light, optimism and despair, anger and contentedness – each seems so close to the other in three masterworks that aren’t always as they seem. The glistening brilliance of Prokofiev’s Classical Symphony was actually created under political circumstances far more attuned to the angry and often bitter elegies that haunt Elgar’s still beautiful Cello Concerto. Few of Sibelius’s symphonies are as consistently thick and embracing as his Second, but even in the huge hymn-like yearning the composer conjures at the music’s apex, he appears to be striving for something he knows is unattainable.

Sol Gabetta

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october

Wednesday 17 October 2012 | 7.30pm Royal Festival Hall Beethoven Overture, Leonore No. 3 Carl Vine Piano Concerto No. 2 (UK première)* Shostakovich Symphony No. 10

Vassily Sinaisky conductor Piers Lane piano In July 1953, shortly after the death of Joseph Stalin, Shostakovich started his Tenth Symphony. Years of psychological torture at Stalin’s hand found their way into the symphony’s compelling obsession and relentless drive. Gone, Shostakovich believed for a moment, was the censorship that had curtailed him for decades. In the most powerful symphony he wrote, we glimpse a liberated composer unleashing his all. With Beethoven’s own manifesto for musical freedom and the first UK performance of Australian composer Carl Vine’s Second Piano Concerto, here’s a concert that promises to take a powerful hold of the emotions.

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6.15pm – 6.45pm Free Royal Festival Hall Pianist Piers Lane discusses the UK première of Carl Vine’s Piano Concerto No. 2.

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Vassily Sinaisky

*Commissioned by the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, and London Philharmonic Orchestra with support from Garf and Gill Collins.

October

Saturday 20 October 2012 | 7.30pm Royal Festival Hall mendelssohn Overture, Ruy Blas Schumann Cello Concerto Beethoven Symphony No. 7

Kurt Masur conductor Alban Gerhardt cello

Schumann’s Cello Concerto is among his most inspired creations – an isle of bliss in an otherwise troubled life. And how you hear it in the music: through the touching song of the cello it marries sweeping greatness with technical brilliance, radiating content through its very human beauty. It’s a fitting prelude here to the furious energy of Beethoven’s most impulsive symphony – itself a journey through steady, poignant contemplation to one of the most momentum-filled musical fireballs in history. Kurt Masur returns to his former orchestra for this concert of life-affirming masterworks from his homeland.

Kurt Masur

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October

Wednesday 24 October 2012 | 7.30pm Royal Festival Hall Mozart Violin Concerto No. 5 Bruckner Symphony No. 7

Composers known for the utmost purity and serenity here give expression to far more human, earthy feelings – all the more refreshing for it. Bruckner’s Seventh Symphony is his most agile and delicately etched, containing in its beautiful Adagio a heartfelt eulogy for Richard Wagner but thrusting with full-blown, changeable and excitingly brash music elsewhere. In his Fifth Violin Concerto, Mozart used sounds and techniques from the highly fashionable and exotic music of the Turkish Ottoman empire to create one of his most earthy and vivid pieces.

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Hilary Hahn

StanisŁaw Skrowaczewski conductor Hilary Hahn violin

October

Friday 26 October 2012 | 7.30pm Royal Festival Hall Brahms Piano Concerto No. 1 Bruckner (arr. Skrowaczewski) Adagio from String Quintet in F Shostakovich Symphony No. 1

StanisŁaw Skrowaczewski conductor Garrick Ohlsson piano

When his guiding light Robert Schumann attempted suicide and was admitted to an asylum in 1853, Brahms finally decided to act on his senior’s advice and attempt a multi-movement orchestral work. Partly a commemoration of Schumann’s demise, partly a wild fight against it, Brahms’s First Piano Concerto is frank, tender and impulsive. Shostakovich, too, felt the pressure of handling a large orchestra when he wrote his First Symphony as a St Petersburg student. But he created a piece of brilliant tragicomedy, so clearly suggestive of things to come, including the darkness that would infest his life just as it did Brahms’s.

Stanisław Skrowaczewski

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October

Wednesday 31 October 2012 | 7.30pm Royal Festival Hall Sibelius Symphony No. 3 Mozart Violin Concerto No. 3 Nielsen Symphony No. 6, Sinfonia semplice

Osmo Vänskä conductor Christian Tetzlaff violin

Carl Nielsen’s symphonic journey ends with a truly fascinating and enchanting creation, one of the strangest orchestral works ever born and a piece whose piquant flourishes and mischievous parps enshroud the composer’s strong-held musical beliefs. Nielsen’s tapestry of folly and despair could well be his own Mahlerian glimpse of mortality. Then again, it could simply be a beguiling slice of musical entertainment. Osmo Vänskä decides, and brings with him a thrilling concerto by Mozart and an ever-refreshing symphony by Sibelius – who once leant over to Nielsen and whispered the words, ‘I don’t even reach your ankles.’

Osmo Vänskä

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Nielsen Pan and Syrinx DvoRˇ ák Violin Concerto Rachmaninoff Symphony No. 3

Osmo Vänskä conductor Christian Tetzlaff violin One night in 2007, conductor Osmo Vänskä took the London Philharmonic Orchestra through the thrilling orchestral showpiece that is Rachmaninoff’s Third Symphony. The performance – of rare involvement, energy and beauty – became a critically acclaimed recording. Now Vänskä, whose concerts with the Orchestra invariably combine sparks of energy with startling levels of finesse, returns for a second look at this most irrepressible symphony of yearning and longing, with Dvorˇák’s treacle-toned Violin Concerto and music of plaintive rhapsody from Carl Nielsen to begin.

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Christian Tetzlaff

november

Friday 2 November 2012 | 7.30pm Royal Festival Hall

November

Wednesday 14 November 2012 | 7.30pm Royal Festival Hall Schumann Overture, The Bride of Messina Beethoven Triple Concerto Schumann Symphony No. 2

Christoph Eschenbach conductor Baiba Skride violin Daniel Müller-Schott cello Lars Vogt piano

Surrounding Beethoven’s most delicate, luminous concerto are two works by Schumann born of tragedy and despair. The dark course of fate shaped his Overture to Schiller’s tragedy The Bride of Messina. But it was Schumann’s own demons that surrounded his Second Symphony. ‘I have tried to prevail against my physical condition’, wrote Schumann of the piece, and the music’s ultimate triumph suggests he succeeded. Fighting from the very start, the symphony burns towards moments of thrilling invention and ultimately to uplifting renewal and optimism.

Baiba Skride

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Haydn Symphony No.44 (Trauer) Haydn Cello Concerto No.2 R strauss Don Quixote

Yannick Nézet-Séguin conductor Lawrence Power viola Truls Mørk cello Inspired by Cervantes’s touchstone novel, Richard Strauss set about capturing the legendary Don Quixote in a set of wild variations that he hoped would surpass even his most colourful orchestral tapestries. The resulting piece contains all of Strauss’s virtues and none of his faults: a blend of jollity and pathos that also carries poignant tenderness and pain through its sonic portraits of a knight’s fantastic adventures. Truls Mørk transforms himself into the Don for the quixotic cello solo after playing Haydn’s most delicate and cheerful cello concerto.

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Yannick Nézet-Séguin Principal Guest Conductor

November

Wednesday 21 November 2012 | 7.30pm Royal Festival Hall

Haydn Nelson Mass R strauss Ein Heldenleben

Yannick Nézet-Séguin conductor Sarah-Jane Brandon soprano Sarah Connolly mezzo soprano Andrew Kennedy tenor Hanno Müller-Brachmann bass-baritone London Philharmonic Choir When Haydn’s uplifting Mass in D minor was performed for the visit of Admiral Nelson to the small estate where the composer worked, it became synonymous with the great leader who shared so many of the music’s qualities. For his orchestral rollercoaster Ein Heldenleben (A Hero’s Life), Richard Strauss cast around for a heroic figure to animate and settled on someone rather close to home – himself. This excitable piece scatters its adversaries with Nelson-like panache, but it matures to a place of noble reflection, a humbling glimpse of life’s spiritual journey.

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6.15pm – 6.45pm Free Royal Festival Hall Yannick Nézet-Séguin looks in detail at Strauss’s epic work Ein Heldenleben.

Hanno Müller-Brachmann

November

Saturday 24 November 2012 | 7.30pm Royal Festival Hall

November

Wednesday 28 November 2012 | 7.30pm Royal Festival Hall Beethoven Overture, Fidelio Nono Julius Fuˇ cík Schoenberg Ode to Napoleon Bonaparte Schoenberg Survivor from Warsaw Beethoven Symphony No. 5

Vladimir Jurowski conductor Sir Thomas Allen narrator Annabel Arden director Gentlemen of the London Philharmonic Choir Few composers have done more to overthrow tyrannies both real and creative than Schoenberg and Beethoven. Images of the misuse of power pervade Schoenberg’s outspoken Ode to Napoleon Bonaparte, a cutting, visceral creation after Byron that was created in political circumstances but more functionally designed to mark 20 years of the League of Composers. Most members of that organisation had been freed to some extent by the theoretical upheavals of Beethoven, whose mighty Fifth Symphony changed the way music was conceived – in the head and on the stage. Freedom reigns in this evening of powerful musical gestures.

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6.15pm – 6.45pm Free Royal Festival Hall Composer and academic Silvina Milstein looks at the works of Nono and Schoenberg.

Barlines – post concert event Free Level 2 The Clore Ballroom at Royal Festival Hall Artists involved in the performance will discuss the evening’s programme.

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Vladimir Jurowski Principal Conductor & Artistic Advisor

Zimmermann Ecclesiastical Action, for two speakers, bass and orchestra (semi-staged) Brahms A German Requiem

Vladimir Jurowski conductor Miah Persson soprano Dietrich Henschel bass-baritone Annabel Arden director London Philharmonic Choir

Five days after completing his ‘ecclesiastical action’ And Turning Then, I Saw There Great Injustice That is Done Under the Heavens, Bernd Alois Zimmermann took his own life. His oratorio on passages from Ecclesiastes and Dostoevsky is a grim, hard-hitting prophecy of loss and emptiness; a stark piece of performance art inextricably connected to the Fluxus school of late 1960s Germany. It stands in utter contrast to the hopeful humanity of Brahms’s German Requiem. Brahms’s glowing messages of brotherhood and consolation will feel renewed by Zimmermann’s urgent challenge to them.

Miah Persson

december

Saturday 1 December 2012 | 7.30pm Royal Festival Hall

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Barlines – post concert event Free Level 2 The Clore Ballroom at Royal Festival Hall Artists involved in the performance will discuss the evening’s programme.

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Grisey Quatre chants pour franchir le seuil Mahler Symphony No. 5

Vladimir Jurowski conductor Allison Bell soprano As he arrived at his Fifth Symphony, something was changing inside Gustav Mahler. Gone was the gentle, singing enchantment that had influenced his first four symphonic works. Suddenly Mahler’s orchestra was fighting for life, punching out with declamatory force and declaring a love that was so strong it hurt. Few works have the impact and beauty of the Fifth Symphony, but Gérard Grisey’s songs are also quite special. These meditations on death through poetry from four distinct cultural traditions use techniques to extend the expressive range of conventional harmonies, creating an extraordinary and luminous canvas of sounds that has proved unfailingly alluring.

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6.15pm – 6.45pm Free Royal Festival Hall The London Philharmonic Orchestra’s Composer in Residence Julian Anderson takes a look at the music of Gérard Grisey.

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Allison Bell

DECember

Wednesday 12 December 2012 | 7.30pm Royal Festival Hall

DECEMBER

Friday 14 December 2012 | 7.30pm Royal Festival Hall Brahms Tragic Overture Wagner (arr. Henze) Wesendonck Lieder Bruckner Symphony No. 1 (1877 Linz edition)

Vladimir Jurowski conductor Anna Larsson contralto

Already in Bruckner’s First Symphony the influence of ‘the master’, Richard Wagner, was making itself felt. In 1863 Bruckner heard Wagner’s opera Tannhäuser in Linz, capturing its desolate yearning in his first movement’s third theme. Two years later Bruckner met Wagner for the first time at a performance of Tristan und Isolde in Munich; the opera’s romantic soul seeped into Bruckner’s Adagio, as disarming a vision of love as Wagner’s own Wesendonck Lieder. As he slipped into hopeless adoration for the German poet Mathilde Wesendonck, Wagner wrote her these songs, moments of heartfelt stillness in a whirlwind musical career.

Anna Larsson

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‘London concert-goers are lucky to have concerts as creative as this’ Financial Times on the London Philharmonic Orchestra, April 2011

Clockwise from top left Leonard Bernstein © CSU Archives-Everett Collection-Rex Features, Rosa Parks © Corbis, Joseph Stalin © Getty Images and Gustav Mahler © DEA-A.DAGLI ORTI

The soundtrack of the 20th century

In 2007 Alex Ross wrote the seminal book “The Rest Is Noise – listening to the Twentieth Century”. Throughout 2013 we create a live version of the book, looking at history and art through performances, films, talks and debates. When I read the book I was instantly excited by the potential it offered to audiences less versed in classical music to discover the great works of the 20th century through understanding their historical context. I also realised how enriching it would be for committed music lovers to delve more deeply into the external influences bearing down on both individual composers and art movements of the century, producing some of the most defining, glorious and unexpected outpourings of creative work. Southbank Centre January – December 2013 The London Philharmonic Orchestra’s Royal Festival Hall concerts during 2013 are all part of The Rest Is Noise. Join us for this year-long multi-artform festival as we chronologically chart the defining musical works of the 20th century.

The 20th century and beyond was fraught with debate and schism about the worth of different music. There was virtually no consensus from the 1920s onwards as to what ‘music of merit’ means. Concertgoers have often been uninterested – even hostile towards many 20th-century works. The Rest Is Noise festival is an attempt to recalibrate this argument by viewing this music through the prism of 20th-century history with its revolutions and counter-revolutions, its major moral and philosophical upheavals around race, gender, faith, political credo and pacifism – and its new relationship to technology and artistic democracy. Tim Walker and the London Philharmonic Orchestra have programmed a powerful series of concerts that create the symphonic spine of the festival.

Southbank Centre’s The Rest Is Noise, inspired by Alex Ross’ book The Rest Is Noise Presented by Southbank Centre in partnership with the London Philharmonic Orchestra. southbankcentre.co.uk/therestisnoise

Jude Kelly OBE Southbank Centre’s Artistic Director

January

Saturday 19 January 2013 | 7.30pm Royal Festival Hall R Strauss Also sprach Zarathustra R Strauss Four Early Songs, Op. 33 R Strauss Notturno, Op. 44 No. 1 R Strauss Salome (Final scene)

Vladimir Jurowski conductor Karita Mattila soprano Thomas Hampson baritone This evening we hear ten years in the life of Richard Strauss, creator of some of the most sumptuous, luxurious music of the late Romantic period. First we travel from the surging brilliance of the infamous Also sprach Zarathustra to four tender and rarely heard songs from the same year. After the gentle glow of the evening-themed Notturno comes darkness of a very different sort: the most provocative, dramatically charged chunk of music Strauss wrote – the dying minutes of his opera-shocker Salome. Karita Mattila sings the deranged princess and Vladimir Jurowski marshals the huge orchestra.

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6.15pm – 6.45pm Free Royal Festival Hall An introductory look at the LPO’s focus on The Rest Is Noise.

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Karita Mattila

Generously supported by the Sharp Family.

January

Wednesday 23 January 2013 | 7.30pm Royal Festival Hall Webern Im Sommerwind Schoenberg Five Orchestral Pieces, Op. 16 Mahler Das Lied von der Erde

Sir Mark Elder conductor Ekaterina Gubanova mezzo soprano Paul Groves tenor Surrounding Schoenberg’s demonstrations of condensed orchestral effect, his Five Orchestral Pieces, come two examples of musical Romanticism in its last throes in the first decade of the 20th-century: the gentle, undulating beauty of Webern’s Im Sommerwind and Gustav Mahler’s culminating synthesis of song and symphony, Das Lied von der Erde. Here is Mahler’s most profound musical exploration of what life means – a piece whose concurrent darkness and radiance changed the parameters of vocal and orchestral expression forever and placed a full stop on the most remarkable compositional career of the age.

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Generously supported by Barrie and Emmanuel Roman.

Ekaterina Gubanova

January

Saturday 26 January 2013 | 7.30pm Royal Festival Hall Elgar The Dream of Gerontius Please note there will be no interval

Something very meaningful and profound took hold of Elgar as he began work on his magnum opus, The Dream of Gerontius. In setting Cardinal Newman’s poem tracing a man’s journey from faithful life to redemptive death, Elgar pulled together everything he could, combining technique, brilliant virtuosity, heartfelt passion and inspiring humanity. ‘These trees are singing my music,’ he wrote above the music for his thrilling hymn Praise to the Holiest, ‘or have I sung theirs?’ A charged Elgar went on to deliver a work of total conviction, for his wife Alice ‘a real message of consolation to the world.’

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Sir Mark Elder

Sir Mark Elder conductor Sarah Connolly mezzo soprano Paul Groves tenor Brindley Sherratt bass London Philharmonic Choir Choir of clare college, cambridge

February

Friday 1 February 2013 | 7.30pm Royal Festival Hall Debussy Ibéria (from Images pour orchestre) Sibelius Violin Concerto Sibelius Symphony No. 4

Jukka-Pekka Saraste conductor Henning Kraggerud violin At his heights of frustration, Jean Sibelius created his most enduring and moving music. The composer’s dream of becoming a virtuoso violinist was dashed when he failed an audition for the Vienna Philharmonic, but that only added to the thrust and inspiration behind his resplendent Violin Concerto, a testament in music to the virtuoso Sibelius never was. At his deepest depths of despair, diagnosed with cancer and fighting off debts, Sibelius created his Fourth Symphony, perhaps his most stark, evocative, chilling and moving. Its sinister, craggy outcrops and shadows are separated from the sultry heat of Debussy’s Ibéria by a geographical and musical gulf.

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6.00pm – 6.45pm Free Royal Festival Hall Musicians from the LPO join students from London Music Masters’ innovative music education programme, the Bridge Project, for a musical celebration. See londonmusicmasters.org for more details of this partnership.

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Henning Kraggerud

February

Saturday 9 February 2013 | 7.30pm Royal Festival Hall Respighi Fountains of Rome Falla Nights in the Gardens of Spain Respighi Il tramonto Ravel Pavane pour une infante défunte Ravel Rapsodie espagnole

Enrique Mazzola brings his flair to a concert influenced by the sultry heat of Iberia. A shimmer of Andalusian light shines over the movements of Manuel de Falla’s Nights in the Gardens of Spain – an exotic slice of delicate, glistening orchestral writing that together with Ottorino Respighi’s blazing picture of the city of Rome is about as evocative of a place as is possible in music. Unsurprisingly, perhaps, it was a foreigner who seemed to get most excited by the prospect of evoking Spain in music. A foreigner, and arguably the greatest orchestrator who ever lived – Maurice Ravel – whose firecracker Rapsodie espagnole rounds off this concert with infectious panache and bite.

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Enrique Mazzola

Enrique Mazzola conductor Javier Perianes piano Maria Luigia Borsi soprano

February

Friday 15 February 2013 | 7.30pm Royal Festival Hall Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 3 Rachmaninoff Symphony No. 2

Yannick Nézet-Séguin conductor Simon TrpCˇeski piano Rachmaninoff’s finest piano concerto meets his most enduringly popular symphony. The undulating melody of the Third Piano Concerto weaves its way into one of the most heartstopping musical narratives of the 20th-century – a lone virtuoso thundering and eulogising against a surging, soaring orchestra. The Second Symphony contains the very best of Rachmaninoff: powered by melody, richly orchestrated, moving from momentary infernal whirlwinds to passionate declarations of love and still reflections of peace and tranquility, it was the piece that gave its composer his symphonic credentials. Heart-on-sleeve music brought to life by the matchless talent of Yannick Nézet-Séguin.

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6.00pm – 6.45pm Free Royal Festival Hall Pianist Dimitri Mayboroda performs Rachmaninoff’s Piano Sonata No. 1.

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In co-operation with the Serge Rachmaninoff Foundation.

Yannick Nézet-Séguin Principal Guest Conductor

FebruARY

Saturday 16 February 2013 | 7.30pm Royal Festival Hall Ravel Mother Goose Prokofiev Violin Concerto No. 1 Stravinsky The Rite of Spring

Paris had seen revolution and turmoil, yet it didn’t quite know what to think of Stravinsky’s epochmaking ballet The Rite of Spring and the curious footing of Prokofiev’s First Violin Concerto, both of which were premièred in the city. The Rite went down rather badly, its language based in deranged rhythm rather than civilised harmony, its choreography changing the point of expression from the ankle to the pelvis. Ten years later one of the few to take a shine to Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto at its première was Stravinsky, who escaped in its childlike beauty and innocence.

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Leila Josefowicz

Yannick Nézet-Séguin conductor Leila Josefowicz violin

February

Wednesday 20 February 2013 | 7.30pm Royal Festival Hall Anon Spirituals – a cappella DvoRˇ ák Symphony No. 9 (From the New World) Milhaud La Création du monde Varèse Amériques

Marin Alsop conductor London adventist chorale Just as Antonín Dvorˇák lived the American dream through his touching symphonic hymn to the slave songs and spirituals of America, so another immigrant, Edgar Varèse, discovered New Worlds in his epic Amériques. His piece was hailed as the most important piece ‘for grand orchestra’ created on American soil since the turn of the 19th century – a bittersweet, wordless rhapsody that envelops like a dream and includes among its sonic armoury the sounds of sirens, duck-calls, whips and even a steamboat whistle. Amériques promises a concert experience not to be missed in this exploration of American musical discovery.

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6.00pm – 6.45pm Free Royal Festival Hall Foyle Future Firsts present Les Six (orch. Constant) Les Maries de la Tour Eiffel – a rare revival of the score to Cocteau’s nonsensical ballet.

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Marin Alsop

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February

Friday 22 February 2013 | 7.30pm Royal Festival Hall Ives Three Places in New England Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue Copland Piano Concerto Joplin (arr. Schuller) Treemonisha Suite

Marin Alsop conductor Garrick Ohlsson piano Exactly 80 years before this concert, American visionary Charles Ives witnessed the first performance of his orchestral triptych Three Places in New England. Inside Ives was stirring a unique brand of American impressionism: the piece recounted feelings floated to him from the rugged and humble beauty of New England landscapes as he walked through them, his wife by his side. A strange, prudent, masterpiece Ives’s work remains – a fascinating contrast to Joplin’s rhythmic Treemonisha Suite and the touching, playful simplicity of Copland’s beautiful Piano Concerto.

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6.15pm – 6.45pm Free Royal Festival Hall Pianist Garrick Ohlsson shares his views on performing works by Gershwin and Copland.

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Garrick Ohlsson

March

Saturday 2 March 2013 | 7.30pm Royal Festival Hall Weill The Threepenny Opera Sung in German with English surtitles

Vladimir Jurowski conductor Mark Padmore Macheath Sir John Tomlinson J J Peachum dame Felicity Palmer Mrs Peachum Allison Bell Polly Peachum Nicholas Folwell Tiger Brown Gabriela Istoc Lucy Brown Meow Meow Jenny Otto Sander narrator Ted Huffman director

Kurt Weill never set out to write a masterpiece – instead to provoke and entertain normal people with ready, urgent music that made a relevant political point. The Threepenny Opera, though, has proved a longstanding touchstone. A surrealistic and riotous juxtaposition of 18th-century ballad texts, European swing and dance music and American jazz all conceived on an operatic scale proved as nourishing as it did provocative. Weill’s is one of those rare seminal creations that remains ever-relevant, seen here in a performance taking place on the anniversary of Weill’s birth, and featuring ‘post-modern cabaret diva’ Meow Meow – herself a phenomenon in human form who has to be seen to believed.

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6.00pm – 6.45pm 9.45pm – 10.15pm Free The Clore Ballroom at Royal Festival Hall Foyle Future Firsts present Weill’s Mahagonny Songspiel – a chance to hear Weill and Brecht’s first collaboration.

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Meow Meow

March

‘ A cabaret diva of the highest order’

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April

Saturday 6 April 2013 | 7.30pm Royal Festival Hall Stravinsky Symphony of Psalms Orff Carmina Burana

In 1935 Carl Orff encountered a vivid set of poems charting the outlandish pursuits of hedonistic students and monks, the medieval ‘golliards’. The texts, by the golliards themselves, captivated the composer. They found a home in the ritualistic, Stravinsky-influenced style Orff had been honing: full of motoric patterns, driving energy, percussive sprinklings and distinct orchestral colours, much of which can be traced directly to Stravinsky’s Symphony of Psalms. But alongside its imposing shapes and furious rhythms, Carmina Burana has haunting tenderness and biting humour, too. This concert presents a rare opportunity to hear it alongside its most fertile and inspiring influence.

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6.15pm – 6.45pm Free Royal Festival Hall Hans Graf looks at the Symphony of Psalms and the lasting appeal of Carmina Burana.

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Sally Matthews

Hans Graf conductor Sally Matthews soprano Andrew Kennedy tenor Rodion Pogossov baritone London Philharmonic Choir trinity boys choir

April

Saturday 27 April 2013 | 7.30pm Royal Festival Hall WEBERN Variations Op. 30 BERG Lulu Suite MARTINu° Double Concerto for Two String Orchestras, Piano and Timpani BARTÓK Music for Strings, Percussion and Celeste

Intense darkness pervades these three works from the 1930s. Berg’s operatic masterpiece of human self-destruction Lulu lends its most surging themes to its namesake Suite for soprano and orchestra, which perfectly exposes the composer’s marrying of Serialist technique to unfailing melodic gift. Bartók’s mysteriously scored creation has the feeling of music from another world – at once utterly foreign and beguilingly beautiful. As Martinu° saw his native Czechoslovakia threatened in 1938, he created a near-violent expression of courage – in his own words, ‘a current of notes that never ceases for an instant, and by a melody that passionately claims the right to freedom.’

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Barbara Hannigan

Vladimir Jurowski conductor Barbara Hannigan soprano

MAY

Wednesday 1 May 2013 | 7.30pm Royal Festival Hall Vaughan Williams Symphony No. 4 Tippett A Child of our Time

Ryan Wigglesworth conductor Rebecca Evans soprano Pamela Helen Stephen mezzo soprano Ben Johnson tenor Matthew Rose bass London Philharmonic Choir

As Europe slipped towards fascism, Michael Tippett felt the urge to protest in music – to show solidarity with those downtrodden by poverty and prejudice. Then, in 1938, a young Polish Jew oppressed by the rise of Nazism shot a German diplomat dead in Paris. Tippett had the central figure for his ‘oratorio of contemplation’, A Child of our Time. Taking Bach’s Passions and Handel’s Messiah as his models, Tippett ended each of his sections with his own arrangements of AfricanAmerican spirituals. ‘The world turns on its dark side’, proclaims the opening movement of Tippett’s masterpiece, but it remains a work of stringent hope and optimism.

Ryan Wigglesworth

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6.15pm – 6.45pm Free Royal Festival Hall Writer and broadcaster Daniel Snowman takes a look at Tippett's A Child of our Time.

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May

Friday 17 May 2013 | 7.30pm Royal Festival Hall Stravinsky Jeu de Cartes Prokofiev Violin Concerto No. 2 Shostakovich Symphony No. 6

Prokofiev’s second Violin Concerto is said to represent the composer’s focus on a ‘new simplicity’, but it’s a warm, heartfelt piece nonetheless as the composer’s long-breathed melodies mingle with moments of haunting stillness and thought. Shostakovich, too, had to alter course with his Sixth Symphony. After the Soviet authorities accepted the masked rebellion of his Fifth, Shostakovich felt compelled to be more honest and open; under the surface of the Sixth – first brooding and then bustling – emerges a grotesque picture of persecution ending in a gallop that portrayed, for one commentator, ‘a brazen display of vulgarity.’

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Vladimir Jurowski conductor Patricia Kopatchinskaja violin

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FUNharmonics – Concerts for all the family Royal Festival Hall Hear the supersonic London Philharmonic Orchestra in full flight playing selections of its favourite pieces – some you would expect and some you would not! So many composers from Brahms to Britten have been fascinated by folk music – come and hear some of the best in October. In February you might risk having your socks blown off by ranks of massed brass players as part of the Roaring Twenties. In May you can join Bird, Duck, Cat and, of course, plucky little Peter, as they outwit the snarling Wolf in Prokofiev’s timeless classic Peter and the Wolf.

Sunday 21 October 2012 12.00 noon – 1.00pm THAT’S ALL FOLK! Sunday 10 February 2013 12.00 noon – 1.00pm THE ROARING TWENTIES

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Musical stories for Children Available on the Orchestra’s own label as a CD or download. Visit lpo.org.uk/shop or order the CD on 020 7840 4242 or through all good retailers

Saturday 11 May 2013 12.00 noon – 1.00pm BE AFRAID, BE VERY AFRAID To include Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf Come and join the party! Throughout the day there are free musical events around the building. 10.00am – 2.30pm: Have-a-go at an orchestral instrument of choice under expert instruction; join our music-making workshops in The Clore Ballroom, a fun and interactive way-in to the concert; explore the site with our activity sheet.

FUNharmonics foyer activities are generously supported by The Jeniffer and Jonathan Harris Charitable Trust, Stentor Music Co Ltd, Yamaha Music Europe GmbH (UK) and Bell Percussion Limited.

All images on these pages © Graeme Findlay

1.15pm: The music continues in The Clore Ballroom – a guest ensemble of young musicians entertain with a selection of great tunes.

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LPO Contemporaries (from £150) LPO Contemporaries are dynamic Londoners in their 20s and 30s with a desire to become immersed in London’s cultural life. This tailor-made programme is the perfect package for professionals with busy diaries seeking to enjoy music and the arts as part of an exclusive social group. Events include designated concert evenings, Champagne Open Rehearsals, and parties at glamorous London venues. LPO Contemporaries Subscription Series 2012/13 Friday 12 October 2012 – see page 9 Wednesday 20 February 2013 – see page 38 Saturday 6 April 2013 – see page 42

Leaving a legacy to the London Philharmonic Orchestra This year the London Philharmonic Orchestra celebrates its 80th anniversary. Since 1932 the Orchestra has undertaken its wide range of work due to the generosity of its philanthropic patrons. Sir Thomas Beecham left the London Philharmonic Orchestra as a legacy to future generations of music lovers, and now at this milestone in our history we want to ensure that we can continue the Orchestra’s work for the next eight decades and beyond. A charitable bequest may represent the culmination of a long-term relationship with the Orchestra, or it could be your first gift. Either way, our team will be happy to discuss with you the options that exist to ensure that your donation works hard to make a difference. Unrestricted gifts are the most valuable to the Orchestra, ensuring that we can continue to present concerts of the highest quality, engaging world-renowned artists, commissioning new music, and taking our performances around the world. However if you wish to support a particular area of work you can, for example, endow the chair of a principal musician, support education projects with disadvantaged children, or have a concert dedicated in your memory. Finally, a donation to the endowment fund would make a long-term contribution to ensuring that Beecham’s own legacy is preserved and that the London Philharmonic Orchestra continues to enthral audiences with music of the highest quality. 53

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2012

Wednesday 3 October Britten Walton Prokofiev Vladimir Jurowski conductor Lawrence Power viola London Philharmonic Orchestra Thursday 4 October Vaughan Williams Prokofiev Vladimir Jurowski conductor Russian National Orchestra Friday 5 October Tchaikovsky Britten Shostakovich Vladimir Jurowski conductor Lawrence Power viola London Philharmonic Orchestra Russian National Orchestra

Wednesday 17 October Beethoven Carl Vine Shostakovich Vassily Sinaisky conductor Piers Lane piano Saturday 20 October mendelssohn Schumann Beethoven Kurt Masur conductor Alban Gerhardt cello Wednesday 24 October Mozart Bruckner Stanisław Skrowaczewski conductor Hilary Hahn violin Friday 26 October Brahms Bruckner Shostakovich Stanisław Skrowaczewski conductor Garrick Ohlsson piano Wednesday 31 October Sibelius Mozart Nielsen Osmo Vänskä conductor Christian Tetzlaff violin

Wednesday 14 November Schumann Beethoven Schumann Christoph Eschenbach conductor Baiba Skride violin Daniel Müller-Schott cello Lars Vogt piano Wednesday 21 November Haydn r Strauss Yannick Nézet-Séguin conductor Lawrence Power viola Truls Mørk cello Saturday 24 November Haydn r Strauss Yannick Nézet-Séguin conductor Sarah-Jane Brandon soprano Sarah Connolly mezzo soprano Andrew Kennedy tenor Hanno Müller-Brachmann bass-baritone London Philharmonic Choir Wednesday 28 November Nono Schoenberg Beethoven Vladimir Jurowski conductor Sir Thomas Allen narrator Annabel Arden director Gentlemen of the London Philharmonic Choir

DECEMBER

Friday 2 November Nielsen ˇ ák DvoR Rachmaninoff Osmo Vänskä conductor Christian Tetzlaff violin

Saturday 1 December Zimmermann Brahms Vladimir Jurowski conductor Miah Persson soprano Dietrich Henschel bass-baritone Annabel Arden director London Philharmonic Choir Wednesday 12 December Grisey Mahler Vladimir Jurowski conductor Allison Bell soprano Friday 14 December Brahms Wagner Bruckner Vladimir Jurowski conductor Anna Larsson contralto

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October

Saturday 29 September Denisov Miaskovsky rodion Shchedrin Rachmaninoff Vladimir Jurowski conductor Tatiana Monogarova soprano Sergei Skorokhodov tenor Vladimir Chernov baritone London Philharmonic Choir London Symphony Chorus

Friday 12 October Prokofiev Elgar Sibelius Vassily Sinaisky conductor Sol Gabetta cello

NOVEMBER

Wednesday 26 September R Strauss Zemlinsky Vladimir Jurowski conductor Heike Wessels Bianca Sergei Skorokhodov Guido Bardi Albert Dohmen Simone

October

September

All concerts are at Royal Festival Hall and start at 7.30pm unless otherwise stated

Wednesday 23 January Webern Schoenberg Mahler Sir Mark Elder conductor Ekaterina Gubanova mezzo soprano Paul Groves tenor

Friday 1 February Debussy Sibelius Jukka-Pekka Saraste conductor Henning Kraggerud violin Saturday 9 February Respighi Falla Ravel Enrique Mazzola conductor Javier Perianes piano Maria Luigia Borsi soprano

April

Saturday 16 February Ravel Prokofiev Stravinsky Yannick Nézet-Séguin conductor Leila Josefowicz violin Wednesday 20 February Anon ˇ ák DvoR Milhaud varÈse Marin Alsop conductor London Adventist Chorale Friday 22 February Ives Gershwin Copland Joplin Marin Alsop conductor Garrick Ohlsson piano

March

February

Saturday 26 January Elgar Sir Mark Elder conductor Sarah Connolly mezzo soprano Paul Groves tenor Brindley Sherratt bass London Philharmonic Choir Choir of Clare College, Cambridge

Friday 15 February Rachmaninoff Yannick Nézet-Séguin conductor Simon Trpcˇeski piano

Saturday 2 March Weill Vladimir Jurowski conductor Mark Padmore Macheath Sir John Tomlinson J J Peachum Dame Felicity Palmer Mrs Peachum Allison Bell Polly Peachum Nicholas Folwell Tiger Brown Gabriela Istoc Lucy Brown Meow Meow Jenny Otto Sander narrator Ted Huffman director

Saturday 6 April Stravinsky Orff Hans Graf conductor Sally Matthews soprano Andrew Kennedy tenor Rodion Pogossov baritone London Philharmonic Choir Trinity Boys Choir Saturday 27 April webern berg MartinU˚ Bartók Vladimir Jurowski conductor Barbara Hannigan soprano

MAY

Saturday 19 January R Strauss Vladimir Jurowski conductor Karita Mattila soprano Thomas Hampson baritone

FUNharmonics Family Concerts February

January

2013 The Rest Is Noise

Wednesday 1 May Vaughan Williams Tippett Ryan Wigglesworth conductor Rebecca Evans soprano Pamela Helen Stephen mezzo soprano Ben Johnson tenor Matthew Rose bass London Philharmonic Choir

Sunday 21 October 12 noon that’s all folk! So many composers from Brahms to Britten have been fascinated by folk music – come and hear some of the best Sunday 10 February 12 noon THE ROARING TWENTIES You might risk having your socks blown off by ranks of massed brass players as part of the Roaring Twenties Saturday 11 May 12 noon BE AFRAID, BE VERY AFRAID Join Bird, Duck, Cat and, of course, plucky little Peter, as they outwit the snarling Wolf in Prokofiev’s timeless classic Peter and the Wolf

Friday 17 May stravinsky Prokofiev Shostakovich Vladimir Jurowski conductor Patricia Kopatchinskaja violin The London Philharmonic Orchestra gratefully acknowledges the financial support of Arts Council England and Southbank Centre.

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