Preston Series 2013/14 Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra Season Brochure

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra Preston Concerts 2013/2014 Vasily Petrenko Chief Conductor – Box Office 0845 344 2026 www.prestonguildhall.com

Welcome

Critical Acclaim

From Vasily Petrenko, Chief Conductor

For the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra’s Concerts and Recordings

It’s a great pleasure for me to have the opportunity to stay in with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra as part of the Liverpool Philharmonic family. I am looking forward very much to continuing my relationship with our great Orchestra, and with our wonderful audiences across the North West.

We are continuing our contribution to the national celebrations marking the centenary in 2013 of the birth of Benjamin Britten. Our concert on 8 December, Britten and Mozart with Liverpool Artist in Residence Andrew Manze showcase some of Britten’s favourite composers, Schubert and Mozart. We will also perform music by Beethoven and Tchaikovsky (Beethoven’s Fifth, 6 October), Brahms, Hindemith (Concert Music, 17 January) and much, much more.

I hope you will join us to enjoy more great music in Preston.

Hugh Canning reviews Shostakovich Symphony No.10 at the BBC Proms, August 2012

★★★★★ Tim Ashley reviews

‘This was a world-class performance of one of Shostakovich’s most personal and disturbing symphonies ... a cry of rage and pain against totalitarianism, and Petrenko and his players left us in no doubt of this, the strings tearing into their lower strings, the woodwinds squealing, the brass blaring in anguish. I have rarely been more moved … The inexorable allegro of the finale crowned a sensational performance that brought the seated audience to their feet.’

‘Petrenko’s performance of Shostakovich's most controversial symphony, meanwhile, ranks among his finest and most uncompromising achievements. Refusing to find so much as a hint of consolation in the work, his brutal interpretation, less overtly Mahlerian than most, swivelled between unspeakable violence and sullen despair. The RLPO played as if their lives depended on it, and the sheer sonic weight of it all was at times overwhelming. Outstanding.’

Shostakovich Symphony No.4 February 2013

Classic FM ★★★★★ reviews Rachmaninov Symphonic Dances, The Rock et al; Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko conductor (AVIE) ‘A richly intelligent performance of Rachmaninov works in an emotional, intense and fantastic recording. Put on the headphones, shut out the world and reward yourself with an hour of terrific musical intensity.’

Beethoven’s Fifth Sunday 6 October 2.30pm

Wagner Prelude to ‘Die Meistersinger’ Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No.1 Verdi Overture, Sicilian Vespers Beethoven Symphony No.5 – Andrew Gourlay conductor Kiryl Keduk piano

200 years ago, two musical giants were born. Giuseppe Verdi made Italian opera blaze with an unquenchable fire, and Richard Wagner created whole new universes of sound. Tonight the young British conductor Andrew Gourlay toasts them both – and then unleashes the daddy of them all: Ludwig van Beethoven. Two centuries on, no four notes still sound more electrifying than the opening hammerblows of Beethoven’s stupendous Fifth Symphony – but the rest of the symphony is even more powerful! Hear every note tonight, and listen to the award-winning young pianist Kiryl Keduk, as he explores Tchaikovsky’s most famous Piano Concerto.

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Tickets £19, £26

Kiryl Keduk

Britten and Mozart Sunday 8 December 2.30pm

Schubert Symphony No.3 Schumann Piano Concerto Purcell orchestrated/ edited Britten and Manze Two pieces: Funeral March for Queen Mary, Chacony Mozart Symphony No.40 – Andrew Manze conductor Ronald Brautigam piano

Concert Music Friday 17 January 7.30pm

The whole musical world is toasting Benjamin Britten’s 100th birthday – so trust Andrew Manze to come up with a completely original tribute! As part of his Residency, he’s taken his cue from Britten’s own favourite composers.

Schubert’s delicious little Third Symphony raises the curtain, and Mozart’s heartbreaking 40th brings it down; music that’s as vibrant now as on the day it was written. And in between, he shares two very different moments of pure poetry: Schumann’s tender Piano Concerto, played by Ronald Brautigam, and a joint tribute to the genius of Purcell, brought up to date by both Britten and Manze himself. A truly personal celebration from a master-musician.

Hindemith Concert music for Strings and Brass Op.50 Beethoven Piano Concerto No.5, ‘The Emperor’ Brahms Symphony No.3 – Vasily Petrenko conductor Federico Colli piano

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Tickets £19, £26

Andrew Manze Photography © Felix Broede

‘Free but happy’ is the motto of Johannes Brahms’s Third Symphony, and it begins with all the exhilaration of a summer downpour. What comes next is one of the loveliest journeys in Romantic music, a world of rolling clouds, tender lullabies, and a radiant sunset. Vasily Petrenko adores this music and the Orchestra has been playing it since Brahms’ own lifetime.

Let them weave its spell again, and enjoy a real Petrenko rediscovery: Hindemith’s bold ‘n’ brassy Concert Music, a real showstopper from the Art Deco era. A real showstopper from the Art Deco era. Completing the programme is Beethoven’s majestic final Piano Concerto, performed by the spirited winner of the 2013 Leeds Piano Competition, Federico Colli.

Tickets £19, £26

Vasily Petrenko Photography © Mark McNulty

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Petrenko’s Elgar Sunday 9 March 2.30pm

Mahler Blumine Strauss Horn Concerto No.2 Elgar Symphony No.2 – Vasily Petrenko conductor Timothy Jackson horn

Classical Music Goes to the Movies!

Tuesday 29 April 7.30pm ‘Rarely, rarely, comest thou, Spirit of Delight!’ Edward Elgar headed his Second Symphony with a line from Shelley – and then launched it in a mighty surge of golden sound. So begins one of the richest, darkest, and most heartbreakingly beautiful journeys in all romantic music. Is this the greatest symphony ever written by an Englishman? Vasily Petrenko and the Orchestra will make a passionate case, and they set the mood with rarely-heard gems by two of Elgar’s greatest European admirers – the lovely little interlude that Mahler dropped from his own First Symphony, and Richard Strauss’ bubbly mockMozart tongue-twister of a Second Horn Concerto. It’s a fabulous showcase for the Orchestra’s very own Preston based, principal horn player Timothy Jackson.

Strauss’ the opening of Also Sprach Zarathustra (2001: A Space Odyssey), Mozart’s Concerto for Clarinet in A Major K622, second movement (Out of Africa), excerpts from Bizet’s Carmen (Babe, Flashdance, Meet the Parents), Hanson’s Symphony No.2, second movement (Alien), Tchaikovsky’s Waltz from Sleeping Beauty (Sleeping Beauty, A.I.), and Elgar’s Pomp and Circumstance No.1, Op.39 (Austin Powers, A Clockwork Orange) – Richard Kaufman conductor

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Tickets £19, £26

Timothy Jackson Photography © Guy Wigmore/Philharmonia

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra

Richard Kaufman

You know the moment at the cinema when you realise that you’ve heard that tune before – but you can’t quite put your finger on it? Well, tonight, legendary Hollywood maestro Richard Kaufman reveals all, in the sensational sound of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. You might think of the music of Elgar, Mozart, Strauss and Howard Hanson as the soundtracks to Austin Powers, Out of Africa, 2001: A Space Odyssey and Alien – but it all sounds just as fabulous when you hear it for real!

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Tickets £19, £26

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