Welcome to Leeds International Concert Season’s 2014/15 Orchestral Season.
We open the 2014/15 season with an all-Russian programme given by the Russian State Philharmonic Orchestra featuring Tchaikovsky’s great Fifth Symphony. From abroad we are also delighted to welcome the St Petersburg Philharmonic conducted by Yuri Temirkanov, the Trondheim Soloists, St Petersburg Symphony Orchestra, Czech Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Jirˇí Be˘lohlávek and the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra. Leeds Town Hall continues to host visits from some of the finest British orchestras and their Music Directors, including The Hallé and Sir Mark Elder with Viktoria Mullova performing Shostakovich’s First Violin Concerto, the BBC Philharmonic and Juanjo Mena, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Andris Nelsons and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra with Vasily Petrenko. We welcome both the first and second prize winners of the 2012 Leeds International Piano Competition. First Prize winner Federico Colli performs Shostakovich’s First Piano Concerto with the Orchestra of Opera North in April and Louis Schwizgebel, Second Prize winner, presents Ravel’s Concerto in G with the BBC Philharmonic in May. The City’s two great choral societies continue to play an important role in the season. Leeds Festival Chorus performs a programme of French choral music in November including Fauré’s Requiem and Leeds Philharmonic Chorus presents Orff’s Carmina Burana in March. Both choirs join forces for Beethoven’s Choral Symphony with the Warsaw Philharmonic on 9 May and for a performance of Walton’s Belshazzar’s Feast with the BBC Philharmonic to bring the season to a close on 30 May 2015. Leeds’ International Orchestral Season continues to be one of the finest orchestral programmes in the country. We look forward to welcoming you to Leeds Town hall during the 2014/15 season. 2
All concerts start at 7.30pm (except 29 November which starts at 7pm)
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Saturday 4 October 2014
Russian State Philharmonic Orchestra
Free pre-concert talk by Steve Muir at 6.45pm
Saturday 11 October 2014
Free pre-concert talk by Mark Pallant at 6.45pm
Valery Polyansky
Sir Mark Elder
Natalia Lomeiko
Viktoria Mullova
Tchaikovsky
Wagner
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violin
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Overture: Romeo and Juliet
Prokofiev
VALERY POLYANSKY
Violin Concerto No 1
Overture: The Flying Dutchman SIR MARK ELDER
© SIMON DODD
Tchaikovsky
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To regret the past, to hope in the future, and never to be satisfied with the present: that is what I spend my whole life doing.
© HENRY FAIR
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Tchaikovsky
Violin Concerto No 1 Symphony No 5
VIKTORIA MULLOVA
© JANE BLUNDELL
Shostakovich Sibelius
Symphony No 5
NATALIA LOMEIKO
The Hallé
If I could express the same thing with words as with music, I would, of course, use a verbal expression. Music is something autonomous and much richer. Music begins where the possibilities of language end. That is why I write music. Sibelius 5
Saturday 18 October 2014
Manchester Camerata
Free pre-concert talk by Catherine Tackley at 6.45pm
Saturday 1 November 2014
Free pre-concert talk by Steve Muir at 6.45pm
Gábor Takács-Nagy
Yuri Temirkanov
Fiona Cross
Nikolai Lugansky
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clarinet
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Tracey Redfern
Liadov
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Ligeti (arr Howarth)
GÁBOR TAKÁCS-NAGY
St Petersburg Philharmonic
Mysteries of the Macabre
Kikimora
Grieg
YURI TEMIRKANOV
Piano Concerto
Shostakovich
Mozart
Symphony No 10
Clarinet Concerto
Beethoven
Symphony No 4
FIONA CROSS
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NIKOLAI LUGANSKY
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Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken. Beethoven
© MARCO BORGGREVE
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Music is a means capable of expressing dark dramatism and pure rapture, suffering and ecstasy, fiery and cold fury, melancholy and wild merriment. Shostakovich
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Saturday 22 November 2014
BBC Philharmonic Leeds Festival Chorus
Free pre-concert talk by Judy Blezzard at 6.45pm
Saturday 29 November 2014 please note this concert starts at 7pm
Free pre-concert talk by Clive McClelland at 6.15pm
Simon Wright
Garry Walker
Ailish Tynan
Aristo Sham
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Marcus Farnsworth
Mendelssohn
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Gounod
SIMON WRIGHT
English Chamber Orchestra
Ballet Music: Faust
Overture: The Hebrides
Chopin
GARRY WALKER
Piano Concerto No 1
Poulenc
Chopin
Poulenc
Mendelssohn
Andante Spianato and Grande Polonaise
Salve Regina
Symphony No 4 (Italian)
Four Christmas Motets
Canteloube
Songs of the Auvergne AILISH TYNAN
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Requiem My Requiem wasn’t written for anything – for pleasure, if I may call it that!
ARISTO SHAM
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Few instances can be found in history of a man so amply gifted with every good quality of mind and heart. George Grove on Mendelssohn
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Saturday 6 December 2014
Orchestra of Opera North
Free pre-concert talk by David Fligg at 6.45pm
Saturday 3 January 2015
Free pre-concert talk by Simon Lindley at 6.45pm
Richard Farnes
John Wilson
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Jack Liebeck violin
Bach (arr Elgar)
Brahms
Respighi
Fantasia & Fugue Pines of Rome
Violin Concerto RICHARD FARNES
© BILL COOPER
National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain
Debussy La Mer
JOHN WILSON
© SIM CANETTY-CLARKE
Elgar
Symphony No 1
Ravel
La Valse
JACK LIEBECK
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© CHRIS DUNLOP
The only love affair I have ever had was with music.
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A great work of art, which is lofty in conception and sincere in expression, and which must stand as a landmark in the development of the younger school of English music. The Times on Elgar’s First Symphony
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Saturday 17 January 2015
Britten Sinfonia
Free pre-concert talk by George Kennaway at 6.45pm
Saturday 24 January 2015
Free pre-concert talk by Clive McClelland at 6.45pm
Jacqueline Shave
Juanjo Mena
Sarah Connolly
Javier Perianes
Carter
Beethoven
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Elegy for Strings
Rodney Bennett
JACQUELINE SHAVE
BBC Philharmonic
A History of the Thé Dansant
Overture: Fidelio JUANJO MENA
© SUSSIE AHLBURG
Copland
Mozart
Piano Concerto No 23
Bruckner
Appalachian Spring
Symphony No 4
Barber
Adagio for Strings
Copland
Eight Poems of Emily Dickinson SARAH CONNOLLY
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JAVIER PERIANES
© PETER WARREN
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Most people use music as a couch; they want to be pillowed on it, relaxed and consoled for the stress of daily living. But serious music was never meant to be soporific. Copland
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Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. Beethoven
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Saturday 31 January 2015
The Hallé
Free pre-concert talk by Julian Rushton at 6.45pm
Saturday 14 February 2015
Free pre-concert talk by Peter Whitfield at 6.45pm
Stanisław Skrowaczewski
Øyvind Gimse
Nicholas Trygstad
Christian Ihle Hadland
Weber
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Overture: Der Freischütz SKROWACZEWSKI
© TOSHIYUKI URANO
The Trondheim Soloists
Schumann
Cello Concerto
Divertimento for Strings
Bach
ØYVIND GIMSE
Piano Concerto No 4
Brahms
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Symphony No 4
Piano Concerto No 4
Britten
Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge
NICHOLAS TRYGSTAD
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CHRISTIAN IHLE HADLAND
To send light into the darkness of men’s hearts – such is the duty of the artist.
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Schumann
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I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well. JS Bach
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Saturday 21 February 2015
St Petersburg Symphony Orchestra
Free pre-concert talk by George Kennaway at 6.45pm
Saturday 7 March 2015
Free pre-concert talk by Peter Whitfield at 6.45pm
Alexander Dmitriev
Vasily Petrenko
Alexander Sitkovetsky
Nikolai Lugansky
Sibelius
Tchaikovsky
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Suite: Karelia ALEXANDER DMITRIEV
© MARIIA SLEPKOVA
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto
Piano Concerto No 2 VASILY PETRENKO
© MARK MCNULTY
Tchaikovsky Symphony No 4
Shostakovich Symphony No 9
ALEXANDER SITKOVETSKY
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NIKOLAI LUGANSKY
Music is for me like a beautiful mosaic which God has put together. He takes all the pieces in his hand, throws them into the world, and we have to recreate the picture from the pieces. Sibelius
© MARCO BORGGREVE
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Inspiration is a guest that does not willingly visit the lazy. Tchaikovsky
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Saturday 14 March 2015
BBC Philharmonic
Saturday 21 March 2015
Leeds Philharmonic Chorus
Free pre-concert talk by Mark Pallant at 6.45pm
Free pre-concert talk by Catherine Tackley at 6.45pm
David Hill
Andris Nelsons
Sarah Tynan
Stephen Hough
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Beethoven
tenor
Piano Concerto No 3
William Dazeley DAVID HILL
© JOHN WOOD
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
baritone
ANDRIS NELSONS
© MARCO BORGGREVE
STEPHEN HOUGH
© SIM CANETTY-CLARKE
Rachmaninov Symphony No 2
Dukas
Sorcerer’s Apprentice
Britten
The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra
Orff
Carmina Burana DANIEL NORMAN
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© RUPERT JEFFERSON
Everything I have written to date, and which you have, unfortunately, printed, can be destroyed. With Carmina Burana, my collected works begin.
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Orff in a letter to his publisher
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Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music. Rachmaninov
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Saturday 11 April 2015
Orchestra of Opera North
Free pre-concert talk by Catherine Tackley at 6.45pm
Saturday 18 April 2015
Free pre-concert talk by Brian Newbould at 6.45pm
Kees Bakels
Jiří Bĕlohlávek
Federico Colli
Josef Spacek
Gershwin
Dvořák
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An American in Paris KEES BAKELS
© SIMON VAN BOXTEL
Shostakovich
Piano Concerto No 1
Two Slavonic Dances
Bruch
JIRˇÍ BE˘LOHLÁVEK
Violin Concerto
Ravel
Vaughan Williams
Stravinsky
Dvořák
Suite: Mother Goose
The Lark Ascending
Suite: Firebird
FEDERICO COLLI
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Symphony No 7
JOSEF SPACEK
© SARAH FERRARA
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Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
The phenomenon of music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the co-ordination between man [sic] and time. Stravinsky
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What is in my mind is Love, God, and my Fatherland. Dvorˇák on the writing of the Seventh Symphony
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Saturday 9 May 2015
Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra
Saturday 30 May 2015
Leeds Festival Chorus Leeds Philharmonic Chorus Free pre-concert talk by Judy Blezzard at 6.45pm
Leeds Festival Chorus Leeds Philharmonic Chorus
Free pre-concert talk by Julian Rushton at 6.45pm
Jacek Kaspszyk
Simon Wright
Claire Meghnagi
Louis Schwizgebel
Hannah Pedley
David Wilson-Johnson
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Andrew Rees tenor
JACEK KASPSZYK
BBC Philharmonic
Ravel
SIMON WRIGHT
Boléro
Paul Carey Jones baritone
Ravel
Schubert
Walton
Piano Concerto in G Belshazzar’s Feast
Symphony No 3
Beethoven
Symphony No 9 (Choral) CLAIRE MEGHNAGI
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LOUIS SCHWIZGEBEL
Truly, the spark of divine genius resides in this Schubert!
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Those who experienced the tremendous impact of its first performance had full justification for feeling that a great composer had arisen in our land, a composer to whose potentialities it was impossible to set any limits. Hussey on the premiere of Belshazzar’s Feast 23
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The venue is equipped with a closed loop system for the hard of hearing.
A number of free parking spaces are reserved at the front of the Town Hall for blue badge-holders.
This brochure and our concert programmes are available in For booking information please contact alternative formats – please ring us on 0113 247 8336 for the Box Office on 0113 224 3801 or boxoffice@leeds.gov.uk. Please note, more details, or visit seats are only guaranteed if reserved by www.leedsconcertseason.com. the Wednesday before the concert.
* Please note there is no service for choral concerts on 22 Nov, 14 Mar, 9 and 30 May.
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Leeds International Concert Season Leeds Town Hall, The Headrow, Leeds, LS1 3AD Tel: 0113 247 8336 Email: music@leeds.gov.uk
Box Office: 0113 224 3801 Book online, explore and learn at
www.leedsconcertseason.com @LeedsConcerts LeedsInternationalConcertSeason Whilst every effort is made to avoid programme changes, we reserve the right to change artists and programmes without notice if unavoidable.
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