International Concert Series 2019-2020

Anvil Arts, Basingstoke

International

Concert Series G R E AT P E R F O R M A N C E L I V E 2 019 – 2 0 2 0

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Welcome Eleven pieces never heard at The Anvil before, orchestras from Russia, Iceland and the Czech Republic, outstanding artists coming here for the first time as well as favourites returning, all feature in the 2019-2020 concert series. We mark the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth in spectacular style and have a concert as part of Tasmin Little’s farewell to the concert stage – all in arguably the best acoustics in the country, live in Basingstoke.

As ever, take advantage of our subscription deals in order to enjoy more great music. Please see the booking form at the back of the brochure for full details of the packages available.

We look forward to welcoming you.

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Tuesday 8 October Thursday 31 October Thursday 7 November Friday 29 November Thursday 6 February Friday 14 February Thursday 20 February Sunday 5 April Thursday 14 April Thursday 30 April Thursday 14 May Tuesday 19 May Wednesday 24 June

Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra Prague Symphony Orchestra Philharmonia Orchestra Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment Iceland Symphony Orchestra Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra Philharmonia Orchestra Siberian Symphony Orchestra Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment Philharmonia Orchestra Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

EXTRA CONCERTS Tuesday 24 September Wednesday 20 November Wednesday 4 December Saturday 14 March

Britten-Shostakovich Festival Orchestra Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra The Sixteen at Christmas Philharmonia Orchestra Beethoven Day

CONCERTS START AT 7.45PM UNLESS OTHERWISE STATED £42, £38, £31, £24, £16 UNDER 25s, F/T STUDENTS £11 (includes £3 booking fee) Group rate available Many concerts have pre-concert talks – please ask the box office for details anvilarts.org.uk 01256 844244 box.office@anvilarts.org.uk Group booking 01256 366935 group.booking@anvilarts.org.uk

Tuesday 24 September

Britten-Shostakovich Festival Orchestra Britten

Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes Vaughan Williams

The Lark Ascending Shostakovich

music from Suite for Variety Stage Orchestra Film Suite: Hamlet Op. 116a Jennifer Pike violin

Talented young musicians from the UK and Russia come together in this orchestra inspired by the deep friendship between the two composers for whom it is named. The Four Sea Interludes, titled Dawn, Sunday Morning, Moonlight and Storm are wonderful impressions of the Suffolk coast Britten loved, while The Lark Ascending is an evocation of the English countryside. The Jazz Suites (more Kurt Weill than New Orleans) represent the lighter side of Shostakovich’s music, while his score for the magnificent 1964 film version of Hamlet, including spoken text from the play, is stunningly effective and atmospheric.

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Jan Latham-Koenig Jan Latham-Koenig

“She has the gift of making time stand still” The Strad on Jennifer Pike

Jennifer Pike

Natalia Lomeiko

Tuesday 8 October

Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra Tchaikovsky

Fantasy Overture: Romeo and Juliet Prokofiev

Violin Concerto no. 1 Shostakovich

Symphony no. 10 Natalia Lomeiko violin

Tchaikovsky’s passionate romantic fantasy makes a full-blooded opening to this concert. Prokofiev’s violin concerto has the atmosphere of a fairy tale or dream, with the two rhapsodic outer movements divided by a quirky scherzo. The Tenth is perhaps Shostakovich’s finest symphony – an epic journey, powerful and dramatic, yet with moments of touching simplicity.

The first three movements, filled with a sense of struggle and including a menacing, whirlwind scherzo, are balanced by a more optimistic finale completed after the death of Stalin.

Yuri Simonov

“Superb playing ranging from warm horn vibrato to grainy double basses to a sensational clarinet.”

Bachtrack on the Moscow PO’s last visit to The Anvil

Thursday 31 October

Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra Sibelius

Symphony no. 7 Violin Concerto Adams

City Noir Valeriy Sokolov violin

Kirill Karabits

Sibelius’ last symphony is one of the twentieth century’s true masterpieces. In form it absorbs the traditional four movement symphony into a single span of music. Each section grows out of the previous one, developing its material to make a truly organic whole, with a huge emotional impact.

Sibelius, a violinist himself, exploited all his knowledge of the instrument in his dramatic and atmospheric concerto, which ends with a thrilling finale. City Noir is a glittering evocation of the energy of late forties Los Angeles, and the dark swooning passions of film noir, in the form of a three movement symphony.

“A powerful, highly original piece” Classics Today on City Noir

Valeriy Sokolov

Kirill Karabits

“He knows how to draw a sensuous, surging sound from the orchestra, his balances were superb, and there was an indefinable energy to it all.�

Classical Voice North America on Pietari Inkinen

Pietari Inkinen

Thursday 7 November

Prague Symphony Orchestra Mahler

Symphony no. 3 Ester Pavlů mezzo-soprano

Pietari Inkinen

It was while working on the Third Symphony that Mahler met Sibelius and made his celebrated pronouncement that “a symphony should contain the world”. True to his opinion, this piece moves through the whole cosmos, beginning with the trumpet calls that usher in the huge first movement, subtitled ‘spring marches in’. Mahler takes the listener on a journey which embraces all of creation, including animal and bird life in the second and third movements, and man, beset by doubts and fears, in the mysterious fourth. By the time the music rises to paradise with the ethereal sound of women’s and boys’ voices in the final ecstatic adagio, an immense musical and emotional journey is complete.

Please note there will be no interval in this performance.

“One of the dream sopranos of our time” Globe and Mail, Canada

Wednesday 20 November

Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra Love and Betrayal Handel

Concerto grosso Op. 3 no. 2 Giulio Cesare: V’adoro pupille Vivaldi

Music from Ottone in villa, Farnace and Ercole su’l Termodonte Concerto for 2 oboes and 2 violins in D Handel

Music from Ariodante

We welcome this outstanding Canadian orchestra as part of a special European tour to mark its fortieth year. Passionate emotion is at the heart of its programme, expressed in concertos and music from operas by Handel and Vivaldi, ranging from the plaintive to the spectacular. Some of each composer’s finest music is found in their operas, so don’t miss this rare chance to enjoy it. £35, £28, £20 Karina Gauvin

Locatelli

Concerto grosso in E-flat (Il Pianto d’Arianna)

Elisa Citterio

Handel

Music from Agrippina, Alcina, Rinaldo and Lotario Karina Gauvin soprano

Elisa Citterio violin/director

“Music director Elisa Citterio set a musical tone of joyful liveliness.”

Sydney Morning Herald

Esther Yoo

“Her dialogue with the orchestra really showcased her command of the music.”

Glasgow Herald on Esther Yoo

Friday 29 November

Philharmonia Orchestra Grieg

Holberg Suite Mendelssohn

Violin Concerto Dvořák

Symphony no. 9 Esther Yoo violin

Vladimir Ashkenazy

Grieg’s Holberg Suite harks back to earlier times and musical styles, in an affectionate and successful way.

Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto sounds as fresh as if written in one burst of inspiration, but in fact cost the composer a great deal of time revising it after early performances and advice from his violinist friends. The quicksilver finale is unadulterated enjoyment. Dvorák’s most famous symphony, written in America while filled with longing for his Czech homeland, has an apparently inexhaustible flow of melodies, with a justly celebrated slow movement at its heart.

The Philharmonia Orchestra is Anvil Arts Orchestra in Partnership

Wednesday 4 December

The Sixteen at Christmas

Frances Kelly

A Ceremony of Carols Frances Kelly harp

Harry Christophers

One of the world’s great choral ensembles, The Sixteen continues to thrill and delight audiences around the world. This special Christmas programme includes a feast of carols and seasonal choral music, including Britten’s beautiful Ceremony of Carols. Favourite traditional versions, stunningly beautiful Tudor and Renaissance works and modern settings are combined in a ravishing and satisfying evening of music.

The perfect way to start your Christmas celebrations. £37, £29

“A tiny soundbite of heaven” The Times

The Sixteeen

Ivan Fischer

Thursday 6 February

Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment Mozart

Symphony no. 39 Symphony no. 40 Symphony no. 41 (Jupiter) Ivan Fischer

Mozart’s last three symphonies were written in a few weeks in summer 1788, unusually without performances already arranged. They make a satisfying triptych, with the relatively serene no. 39 contrasting with the more agitated and unsettled no. 40. The final symphony sums up Mozart’s achievement in the form, with a spacious opening movement, an expressive and chromatic slow movement, and one of his most famous minuets. The finale combines fugue and sonata form in a five-part tour de force.

The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment is Anvil Arts Orchestra in Association

“One of a vanishingly small number of world-class conductors who make the music, not themselves, the centre of attention.”

National Review

Yeol Eum Son

Yan Pascal Tortelier

Friday 14 February

Iceland Symphony Orchestra Bizet

Suite: L’Arlesienne no. 2 Ravel

Piano concerto for the left hand Thorvaldsdóttir

Aireality Prokofiev

Bizet’s incidental music to L’Arlesienne was not successful at the time but has become one of his most popular works. Ravel’s concerto shows the composer responding to the constraints of using only one hand on the piano with imaginative orchestral colouring and rhythmic subtlety. After a short but striking piece from one of Iceland’s foremost composers, the concert ends with an extended selection from Prokofiev’s vividly characterised music for Romeo and Juliet.

Romeo and Juliet Yeol Eum Son piano

Yan Pascal Tortelier

“Yeol Eum Son… played with a dazzling range of dynamics, patiently giving each musical idea a semi-improvisatory spontaneity” Washington Post

Thursday 20 February

Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra Haydn

Symphony no. 102 Mendelssohn

Piano Concerto no. 1 Schumann

Introduction and Concert Allegro Schubert

Symphony no. 5 Jeremy Denk piano

Symphony no. 102, written for Haydn’s second visit to London, is one of the finest of all his symphonies.

Its four movements include a deeply felt adagio and a high-spirited finale based on a Croatian folk tune.

Mendelssohn’s piano concerto shows many of his strengths, as a dramatic first movement gives way to a lyrical and tender slow section. The finale is a tour de force of elegant, fleet-fingered virtuosity. Schumann’s dramatic piece for piano and orchestra has all the virtues of his more famous Piano Concerto. Schubert’s symphony is one of the most melodic and genial pieces that he ever wrote. The four movements are perfectly proportioned and full of delightful music.

Kirill Karabits

“An artist you want to hear no matter what he performs” New York Times on Jeremy Denk

Jeremy Denk

Andreas Haefliger

Esa-Pekka Salonen

Saturday 14 March 3pm

Philharmonia Orchestra Beethoven 250 Beethoven

Symphony no. 6 (Pastoral) Piano Concerto no. 4 Symphony no. 5 Choral Fantasia

In December 1808, Beethoven gave a mammoth concert in Vienna at which all the pieces in tonight’s programme were first performed, plus parts of his Mass in C, making “arguably the most momentous concert in history” The Guardian. We mark the 250th anniversary of his birth with this special recreation.

Andreas Haefliger piano

Rodolfus Choir Esa-Pekka Salonen

Beethoven Day As well as the concert, enjoy a programme of chamber music, talks and screenings, curated and presented by Professor John Deathridge (King’s College London), taking place around The Anvil building, from 11am. £10 The Philharmonia Orchestra is Anvil Arts Orchestra in Partnership Please note earlier start time

“Belongs to that elite group of interpreters…a complete Beethovenian” Daily Telegraph on Andreas Haefliger

Sunday 5 April

Philharmonia Orchestra Boulanger

D’un soir triste Tchaikovsky

Piano Concerto no. 1 Mussorgsky/ arr. Ravel

Pictures at an Exhibition Daniel Kharitonov piano

Lili Boulanger’s short orchestral piece, the last she wrote, uses shifting, ambiguous harmonies and subtle orchestration to create an intriguing impression.

Tchaikovsky’s piano concerto set the pattern for many future pieces with its dramatic confrontation between heroic soloist and eloquent orchestra.

Mussorgsky’s suite of musical pictures includes castles, chicks and catacombs, culminating in the unforgettable grandeur of the great Gate of Kiev.

The Philharmonia Orchestra is Anvil Arts Orchestra in Partnership

Pablo Heras-Casado

“Mr. Heras-Casado drew authoritative and exciting performances from the orchestra” New York Times

Pablo Heras-Casado

“Alert playing of vitality and substantial expressive character.”

MusicWeb International

Dmitry Vasiliev

Chloë Hanslip

Tuesday 14 April

Siberian Symphony Orchestra Rachmaninov

The Rock Glazunov

Violin Concerto Tchaikovsky

Symphony no. 4 Chloë Hanslip violin

Dmitry Vasiliev

The twenty-year-old Rachmaninov’s expressive tone poem The Rock won the enthusiastic admiration of Tchaikovsky and already shows many of his qualities as a composer. Glazunov’s passionately lyrical and undeservedly overlooked Violin Concerto dates from 1904, a period when the composer was at the height of his creative powers. Tchaikovsky’s powerful Fourth Symphony is one of his most successful large-scale works. The opening fanfare, said to represent the power of fate, is followed by a lyrical slow movement and pizzicato scherzo. In the finale, the fanfare returns to striking effect as the work drives to its headlong conclusion.

“Full-blooded lyricism meets virtuoso delirious high spirits” BBC Music magazine on Chloë Hanslip’s playing of the Glazunov Violin Concerto

Thursday 30 April

Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra Martucci

Notturno Brahms

Violin Concerto Prokofiev

Symphony no. 1 (Classical) Rimsky-Korsakov

Capriccio espagnol Tasmin Little violin

Valentina Peleggi

We welcome Tasmin Little back to The Anvil as part of her farewell to the concert stage. The concert begins with Martucci’s beautiful nocturne. Brahms’ violin concerto is built on a symphonic scale. He replaced the original middle two movements with one of his most beautiful adagios, and the finale is a vigorous Hungarian dance.

Prokofiev’s lively Classical Symphony takes Haydn’s symphonies as its affectionate model, successfully updating the form to the early twentieth century.

Rimsky-Korsakov was captivated by the dash and glitter of popular Spanish musical themes, and worked several of them into the striking and piquantly orchestrated piece that closes this concert.

“Little’s execution was flawless, her tone pure and penetrating” The Times

Valentina Peleggi

Tasmin Little

“Utterly compelling�

The Australian on Alina Ibragimova

Alina Ibragimova

Thursday 14 May

Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment Mozart

Overture: The Marriage of Figaro Michael Haydn

Violin Concerto in A Mozart

Serenade in D K320 (Posthorn) Alina Ibragimova violin/director

The sparkling overture to Mozart’s most popular opera opens this concert. Haydn’s younger brother Michael was also a prolific and inventive composer, who spent his career in Salzburg and was friends with the Mozart family. The A major is the last and most ambitious of his three violin concertos, dating from about 1776.

The Posthorn Serenade was possibly written for the end of year ceremony of Salzburg University. Its seven movements are contrasted in tempo and orchestration, ending with a presto finale which includes suitably celebratory flourishes from the posthorn.

The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment is Anvil Arts Orchestra in Association

Tuesday 19 May

Philharmonia Orchestra Kodàly

Suite: Hàry Jànos Khachaturian

Violin Concerto Sibelius

Symphony no. 5 Nemanja Radulovic violin

Santtu-Matias Rouvali

We’re delighted to welcome back Santtu-Matias Rouvali after his superb concert last season. Kodàly’s popular suite begins with an orchestral ‘sneeze’ and goes on to recount tall tales of the hero’s exploits against Napoleon. Khachaturian’s Violin Concerto is possibly his finest work. Lively and memorable melodies in the outer movements contrast with a slow movement which rises to a heartfelt climax. The flavour of folk music from the composer’s native Armenia is often evident.

Sibelius’ fifth and most well-known symphony grows from the seed of its tiny opening figure to the most outwardly heroic of his seven works in the form. The final majestic brass theme was inspired by a flight of swans the awe-struck composer saw wheeling over his house in the countryside.

The Philharmonia Orchestra is Anvil Arts Orchestra in Partnership

Nemanja Radulovic

“Exceptional talent, real charisma and serious youth appeal” Daily Mail on Nemanja Radulovic

“Every second was thrilling”

Stephen Hough

The Guardian on Sir Mark Elder

Sir Mark Elder

Wednesday 24 June

Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment Wagner

Tristan and Isolde: Prelude and Liebestod Liszt

Piano Concerto no. 1 Piano Concerto no. 2 Wagner

Overture: Tannhäuser Stephen Hough

Liszt and Wagner were the driving inspiration for so much that was new in nineteenth-century music.

Wagner’s endlessly unresolved harmonies in Tristan and Isolde influenced composers for decades. Liszt’s two piano concertos compressed the traditional form into a single ever-changing sequence, transformed by breathtaking virtuosity and romantic eloquence. The groundbreaking orchestration of both composers will sound at its most revelatory on instruments of the time.

The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment is Anvil Arts Orchestra in Association

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Sir Mark Elder

“What gripped the attention from start to finish… was the high seriousness of the playing and the imaginative intelligence that Hough brought.”

The Guardian

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Coach drop off points are in Churchill Way. By train: Basingstoke station is just a short walk away. Journey time for London Waterloo 45-60 mins; Southampton Central 30-35 mins.

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TICKET PRICES Not all seats may be available at all performances.

Details in this brochure were correct at the time of going to press, but changes may be unavoidable.

Area 1 (Red) £42 Area 2 (Blue) £38 Area 3 (Green) £31 Area 4 (Yellow) £24 Area 5 (Purple) £16

PICTURE CREDITS

Ticket prices include £3 booking fee

Elisa Citterio – Monica-Cordiviola Sir Mark Elder – Benjamin Ealovega Alina Ibragimova – Eva Vermandel Andreas Haefliger – Marco Borggreve Chloë Hanslip – Kaupo Kikkas Stephen Hough – Sim Canetty-Clarke Pietari Inkinen – Yamaguchi Atsushi Frances Kelly – Arnaud Stephenson Tasmin Little – B Ealovega Natalia Lomeiko – Sasha Gusov and Jane Blundell Esa-Pekka Salonen – Katja Tähjä Sayaka Shoji – Marco Borggreve The Sixteen Group – Molina Visuals Yeol Eum Son – Jaehyong Park Esther Yoo – Marco Borggreve

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