LPO programme notes 19nov11

Principal Conductor VLADIMIR JUROWSKI* Principal Guest Conductor YANNICK NÉZET-SÉGUIN Leader pieter schoeman Composer in Residence JULIAN ANDERSON Patron HRH THE DUKE OF KENT KG Chief Executive and Artistic Director TIMOTHY WALKER AM†

CONCERT HALL, BRIGHTON DOME Saturday 19 November 2011 | 7.30pm

EDUARDO PORTAL conductor JAVIER PERIANES piano

Antonio José Suite, The Muleteer (9’)

PROGRAMME £2.50 CONTENTS 2 Welcome 3 List of players 4 About the Orchestra 5 Eduardo Portal 6 Javier Perianes 7 Programme notes 11 Supporters 12 LPO administration The timings shown are not precise and are given only as a guide.

FALLA Nights in the Gardens of Spain (23’) Falla Suites Nos. 1 and 2 from ‘The Three-Cornered Hat’ (25’) Interval Mussorgsky (orch. Ravel) Pictures at an Exhibition (30’)

* supported by the Tsukanov Family † supported by Macquarie Group CONCERT PRESENTED BY THE LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA WITH ASSISTANCE FROM BRIGHTON DOME

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Saturday 18 February 2012 | 7.30pm Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2 Kreisler (arr. Rachmaninoff/orch. Leytush) Liebesleid Rachmaninoff Symphony No. 2 Neeme Järvi conductor Boris Giltburg piano In co-operation with the Serge Rachmaninoff Foundation

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Saturday 17 March 2012 | 7.30pm Weber Overture, Oberon Mendelssohn Violin Concerto Vaughan Williams The Lark Ascending Sibelius Symphony No. 5 Fabien Gabel conductor Fanny Clamagirand violin

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LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA

Chair supported by John and Angela Kessler

Grace Lee Catherine Craig Tina Gruenberg Martin Höhmann Chair supported by Richard Karl Goeltz

Geoffrey Lynn Robert Pool Yang Zhang Rebecca Shorrock Peter Nall Galina Tanney Joanne Chen Alina Petrenko Caroline Frenkel Second Violins Clare Duckworth Principal Chair supported by the Sharp Family

Jeongmin Kim Joseph Maher Kate Birchall

Cellos Timothy Walden Guest Principal Francis Bucknall Laura Donoghue Jonathan Ayling Chair supported by Caroline, Jamie and Zander Sharp

Susanna Riddell Tae-Mi Song William Routledge Philip Taylor Double Basses Tim Gibbs Principal Laurence Lovelle George Peniston Helen Rowlands Tom Walley Lowri Morgan Flutes Daniel Pailthorpe Guest Principal Joanna Marsh

Horns John Ryan Adrian Uren Guest Principal Martin Hobbs Nicolas Wolmark Gareth Mollison Trumpets Paul Beniston* Principal Anne McAneney*

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First Violins Vesselin Gellev Leader

Chair supported by Geoff and Meg Mann

Nicholas Betts Co-Principal Daniel Newell Trombones Mark Templeton* Principal David Whitehouse Becky Smith Bass Trombone Lewis Edney Euphonium David Whitehouse

Piccolo Stewart McIlwham* Principal

Tuba Lee Tsarmaklis* Principal

Fiona Higham Andrew Thurgood Ashley Stevens Marie-Anne Mairesse Nynke Hijlkema Imogen Williamson Sioni Williams Stephen Stewart

Oboes Ian Hardwick Principal Angela Tennick

Timpani Simon Carrington* Principal

Violas Helen Kaminga Guest Principal Robert Duncan Katharine Leek Benedetto Pollani Laura Vallejo Susanne Martens Daniel Cornford Michelle Bruil Anthony Byrne Matthias Wiesner

Clarinets Nicholas Carpenter* Principal Katie Lockhart

Chair supported by David and Victoria Graham Fuller

Cor Anglais Sue Bohling Principal Chair supported by Julian and Gill Simmonds

Bass Clarinet Paul Richards Principal

Percussion Andrew Barclay* Principal Chair supported by Andrew Davenport

Keith Millar Sacha Johnson Eddy Hackett Sarah Cresswell Harps Rachel Masters* Principal Emma Ramsdale

Bassoons Paul Boyes Guest Principal Susanna Dias

Piano / Celeste Catherine Edwards

Contra-bassoon Simon Estell Principal

* Holds a professorial appointment in London

Vesselin Gellev (Leader) Bulgarian violinist Vesselin Gellev has been a featured soloist with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Spoleto Festival Orchestra, New Haven Symphony Orchestra and Juilliard Orchestra, among others.

He won First Prize at the Concert Artists Guild Competition in New York as a member of the Antares Quartet, and has recorded several albums and toured worldwide as Concertmaster of Kristjan Järvi’s Grammy-nominated Absolute Ensemble.

He has performed as Guest Leader with orchestras including the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Mahler Chamber Orchestra and the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia. Vesselin studied at The Juilliard School, and joined the London Philharmonic Orchestra as Sub-Leader in 2007. His chair is supported by John and Angela Kessler.

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LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA

The London Philharmonic Orchestra is one of the world’s finest orchestras, balancing a long and distinguished history with a reputation as one of the UK’s most adventurous and forward-looking orchestras.

As well as performing classical concerts, the Orchestra also records film and computer game soundtracks, has its own record label, and reaches thousands of Londoners every year through activities for schools and local communities.

The Orchestra was founded by Sir Thomas Beecham in 1932, and since then has been headed by many of the great names in the conducting world, including Sir Adrian Boult, Bernard Haitink, Sir Georg Solti, Klaus Tennstedt and Kurt Masur. The current Principal Conductor is Russian Vladimir Jurowski, appointed in 2007, with French-Canadian Yannick Nézet-Séguin as Principal Guest Conductor.

You may well have heard the London Philharmonic Orchestra on film soundtrack recordings: it has recorded many blockbuster scores, from The Lord of the Rings trilogy to Lawrence of Arabia, The Mission, Philadelphia and East is East. The Orchestra also broadcasts regularly on television and radio, and in 2005 established its own record label. There are now over 50 releases on the label, which are available on CD and to download. Recent additions include Dvořák’s Symphonic Variations and Symphony No. 8 conducted by Sir Charles Mackerras; Holst’s The Planets conducted by Vladimir Jurowski; Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 under Klaus Tennstedt; and Shostakovich Piano Concertos with Martin Helmchen under Vladimir Jurowski. The Orchestra was also recently honoured with the commission to record all 205 of the world’s national anthems for the London 2012 Olympics Team Welcome Ceremonies and Medal Ceremonies.

The Orchestra is based at Royal Festival Hall in London’s Southbank Centre, where it has performed since it opened in 1951 and been Resident Orchestra since 1992. It gives around 40 concerts there each season with many of the world’s top conductors and soloists. Concert highlights in 2011/12 include a three-week festival celebrating the music of Prokofiev, concerts with artists including Sir Mark Elder, Marin Alsop, Renée Fleming, Stephen Hough and Joshua Bell, and several premières of works by living composers including the Orchestra’s Composer in Residence, Julian Anderson. In addition to its London concerts, the Orchestra has flourishing residencies in Brighton and Eastbourne, and performs regularly around the UK. Every summer, the Orchestra leaves London for four months and takes up its annual residency accompanying the famous Glyndebourne Festival Opera in the Sussex countryside, where it has been Resident Symphony Orchestra since 1964.

To help maintain its high standards and diverse workload, the Orchestra is committed to the welfare of its musicians and in December 2007 received the Association of British Orchestras/Musicians Benevolent Fund Healthy Orchestra Bronze Charter Mark.

The London Philharmonic Orchestra tours internationally, performing to sell-out audiences worldwide. In 1956 it became the first British orchestra to appear in Soviet Russia and in 1973 made the first-ever visit to China by a Western orchestra. Touring remains a big part of the Orchestra’s life: tours in the 2011/12 season include visits to Belgium, Switzerland, Germany, the US, Spain, China, Russia, Oman, Brazil and France.

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The London Philharmonic Orchestra maintains an energetic programme of activities for young people and local communities. Highlights include the ever-popular family and schools concerts, fusion ensemble The Band, the Leverhulme Young Composers project and the Foyle Future Firsts orchestral training scheme for outstanding young players. Over the last few years, developments in technology and social networks have enabled the Orchestra to reach even more people worldwide: all its recordings are available to download from iTunes and, as well as a YouTube channel, news blog, iPhone app and regular podcasts, the Orchestra has a thriving presence on Facebook and Twitter.

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EDUARDO PORTAL

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CONDUCTOR

During the 2011/12 season, young Spanish conductor Eduardo Portal will make his débuts with the Philharmonia Orchestra; the Lausanne Chamber and Vienna Chamber orchestras; the Tenerife, São Paulo and Madrid symphony orchestras (including performances with the latter at the Auditorio Nacional de Música de Madrid and the Teatro Real); and the Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia. Last season he made his débuts with the Hallé, Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt, Northern Sinfonia, Manchester Camerata, Euskadi Symphony Orchestra, Orquesta de la Comunidad de Madrid and Orquesta del Vallés.

masterclass with Sir Colin Davis, and he also took part in several masterclasses with Bernard Haitink and Peter Eötvös, amongst others.

Eduardo is particularly committed to contemporary repertoire and is founder of the Antares Ensemble in Spain, whose focus is on the performance of new music and research into its links with historical and rarely performed masterpieces.

Recent seasons have seen Eduardo conduct the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Orchestre Philharmonique de Luxembourg, Berlin Symphony Orchestra, Orquesta Sinfónica de Castilla y León, Orquesta Sinfónica de la Región de Murcia and National Youth Orchestra of Spain. His operatic experience includes performances of Offenbach’s La Belle Hélène, Janáček’s Katya Kabanová, Bernstein’s Candide, Rossini’s The Barber of Seville and Handel’s Imeneo. In summer 2011 he assisted on Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore at Glyndebourne Festival Opera.

Since graduating from the University of the Arts in Berlin and the Royal Academy of Music in London, Eduardo has held the position of Assistant Conductor at the London Philharmonic Orchestra (during the 2010/11 season), the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and the National Youth Orchestra of Spain.

Sir Mark Elder headed the jury that in 2008 unanimously voted Eduardo winner of the Junior Fellowship in Conducting at the Royal Northern College of Music, a position he held for two years.

In 2008 Eduardo was chosen to conduct at the Interaction Workshops in Germany with musicians from the Berlin Philharmonic, the Staatskapelle Dresden and baritone Thomas Quasthoff; he was later invited to conduct the London Symphony Orchestra in a public London Philharmonic Orchestra | 5

JAVIER PERIANES

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PIANO

The acclaim accorded to the pianist Javier Perianes by audiences and critics alike confirms his status as one of Spain’s most exciting emerging artists. Hugely popular with Spanish audiences, he also has a growing international reputation.

A familiar and sought-after participant at many renowned festivals in Spain, he will be Artist in Residence at the Granada Festival in 2012. He has also performed in distinguished concert series throughout the world, having made notable appearances at New York’s Carnegie Hall; the Amsterdam Concertgebouw; London’s Wigmore Hall; the Tchaikovsky Conservatory, Moscow; the Shanghai Conservatory; Madrid’s Auditorio Nacional de Música; and recitals at the Ravinia and Gilmore International Festivals in Chicago, the Roque-d’Anthéron Festival, France, and the Konzerthaus, Berlin.

Javier Perianes has worked with leading conductors including Lorin Maazel, Daniel Barenboim, Zubin Mehta, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Jesús López Cobos, Antoni Wit, Daniel Harding and Vassily Petrenko. Recent and forthcoming highlights include appearances with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra under Zubin Mehta including a performance at the Lucerne Festival; the New World Symphony Orchestra in Florida conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas; the London Philharmonic and São Paulo Symphony orchestras with Eduardo Portal; the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra with Hiroshi Kodama; Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Claus Peter Flor; as well as recitals in Tokyo, Madrid’s ‘Scherzo’ series, the Zurich Tonhalle and at the Moscow December Nights Festival.

Javier Perianes has received critical acclaim for his recordings on Harmonia Mundi of Schubert’s Impromptus and Klavierstücke, Manuel Blasco de Nebra’s keyboard sonatas and Federico Mompou’s Música Callada. In September 2011 he released a disc devoted to Manuel de Falla’s piano music, including a live recording of Nights in the Gardens of Spain with the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Josep Pons.

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PROGRAMME NOTES

Speedread ‘A magical art that evokes feelings, people and places’.

Manuel de Falla’s 1916 description of ‘the new music’ defines a whole philosophy of composition: the belief that music should conjure up visual imagery, evoke past times, and tell stories. For Spanish composers, this meant music rooted in the soil of Spain herself.

Antonio José’s unperformed opera The Muleteer is based on an episode from Don Quixote, and is flavoured with folksongs from his native Burgos.

Falla’s Nights in the Gardens of Spain describes real places in the south of Spain – impressions received not from personal experience, but through the prism of postcards, travel literature and paintings. Folksong also features in Falla’s ballet The Three-Cornered Hat:

Antonio JOSÉ

a farcical tale of lust, envy and fidelity, suffused with the musical mannerisms of its early 19th-century setting.

When Falla tried to trace the origins of this ‘magical art’, it was to Russia that he turned, and especially to Modest Mussorgsky, whose works all have a vivid extramusical dimension. This is especially true of Pictures at an Exhibition, which takes its inspiration from works by the Russian architect and painter Victor Hartmann. Mussorgsky does not merely recreate these images; rather, he transcends them, liberating human characters and physical movement from the static canvases.

Suite from ‘The Muleteer’ Prelude Popular Dance

1902–1936

When Antonio José Martínez Palacios was shot during the first days of the Spanish Civil War, aged just 33, the pianist Arthur Rubinstein mourned the loss of ‘a new Falla’. Antonio José’s music was lost to view for many years, but its current rediscovery reveals a composer of originality and talent. Like Falla, he was rooted in his native territory – in his case the imposing northern city of Burgos. In his 20s he made a study of the traditional music of the province, publishing a collection of folksongs that won the Premio Nacional de Música in 1932.

Around the same time, he was working on his only opera, El mozo de mulas (‘The Muleteer’), based on an incidental episode from Don Quixote: the story of Don Luis, a nobleman’s son, who disguises himself as a muleteer so that he may follow his sweetheart Clara and her father, a judge, on their travels – an expedition

that brings all three into the company of the demented knight and his squire. The two movements to be heard this evening were premièred by the Orquesta Sinfónica de Madrid in November 1934; the full opera, alas, remains unperformed.

The Prelude presents four principal themes from the work. An unaccompanied oboe melody (associated with Clara) leads to a Tristan-like chromatic motif on the strings, representing hopeful love; these two themes recur at the end of the movement. The central portion of the Prelude combines Clara’s love theme (on the flute) with the more thickly-scored love theme of Don Luis. The Popular Dance, taken from the second act of the opera, is based on a genuine round dance from the province of Burgos: it is distinguished by irregular metres and spectacular orchestration.

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PROGRAMME NOTES

Manuel de FALLA 1876–1946

Although most of Manuel de Falla’s best-known music is bathed in the scents of his native Andalusia, it was in Madrid and Paris that he discovered his own distinctive voice. Nights in the Gardens of Spain was the fruit of a seven-year stay in Paris before the First World War, and its subtitle betrays its French origins: ‘Symphonic Impressions for Piano and Orchestra’.

The work began life as a set of four pieces, each one evoking a different city in the south of Spain (Granada, Cordova, Seville and Cádiz), and originally intended for solo piano. This ancestry is apparent in the finished work: the pianist is given a part that is practically that of a concerto soloist, frequently entering into dialogue with the orchestra, and demanding high levels of virtuosity. But Nights in the Gardens of Spain is not a concerto in one important respect: it is explicitly programmatic. Falla’s compositional sketches clearly reveal his intention in this regard, for specific passages are labelled as representations of real things: pianistic flourishes are associated with fountains, while the low notes of the instrument evoke stiller water. In a programme note for the first performance in April 1916, the composer also acknowledged that the instrumental writing sought to stylize the traditional sounds of Andalusian music.

As Falla expanded the work’s orchestral canvas, he contracted its scope from four movements to three, and brought its contents into closer focus.

Two extra-musical sources of inspiration led Falla to develop a horticultural theme for the three pieces: the impressionist paintings of Spanish gardens by the Catalan painter Santiago Rusiñol (1861–1931), and Falla’s own growing fascination with the city of Granada and its atmospheric Moorish water gardens, the Generalife. Falla visited the place for the first time

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NIGHTS IN THE GARDENS OF SPAIN JAVIER PERIANES piano In the Generalife Distant Dance In the Gardens of the Sierra de Córdoba

only when he was putting the finishing touches to the work – but he knew it well through literary descriptions and picture postcards. The Generalife gardens, then, are the subject of the first piece: an intense sonataform movement with a single theme based on two alternating notes, heard initially on the violas and harp, then transferred in inversion to the piano. The second movement has no geographical designation, but may also have been inspired by Granada: its melodies are suitably arabesque, and the piano and orchestra seem to mimic the roles of the flamenco singer and guitarist respectively. This leads directly into the finale, set in the mountains around Cordova. It begins as a lively rondo, but concludes in the more contemplative mood of the first movement.

Manuel de FALLA

Suites Nos. 1 and 2 from ‘The Three-Cornered Hat’

1876–1946

Suite No. 1: Scenes and Dances Introduction Afternoon Dance of the Miller’s Wife: Fandango The Corregidor The Grapes Suite No. 2: Three Dances The Neighbours’ Dance: Seguidillas The Miller’s Dance: Farruca Final Dance: Jota After his apprenticeship in Paris, Manuel de Falla returned to Spain in 1914 and embarked on the most prolific stage of his career. The culmination of this period of intense work was the première in London of his ballet The Three-Cornered Hat, given in July 1919 by the Ballets Russes of Serge Diaghilev, who had commissioned the work when the troupe was based in neutral Spain during the war. The ballet was rapturously received, and was to become a keystone of Diaghilev’s post-war repertoire.

The two suites that Falla extracted from the ballet preserve the vast majority of the music: the only omissions are the first few pages of the first act, and a single dance and some connecting material from the second. The ballet is based on a novella by the Granadine author Pedro Antonio de Alarcón (1833–91), set in the early years of the 19th century. It tells of a miller and his beautiful wife, who is coveted by an elderly local magistrate (whose symbol of office gives the work its title). The magistrate’s various attempts to

bring about an assignation with the miller’s wife have farcical results, and the ballet ends with a spectacular ensemble dance (a jota) in which the villagers ridicule the magistrate by tossing him in a blanket. The music narrates the story in intricate bar-by-bar detail, complete with leitmotifs and onomatopoeic orchestral effects.

Though there are traces (in the ‘Miller’s Dance’, for instance) of the arabesque and highly rhythmical Andalusian style recognised as Spanish the world over, The Three-Cornered Hat marks the first step in Falla’s adoption of a more neoclassical style: the language is unremittingly tonal, and the rhythms often evoke the formal dances of the early 19th century. In this respect he was ahead of his time. Diaghilev, much impressed by the work, proposed a new project to Falla: a ballet based on themes of Pergolesi. We can only speculate how different the history of music might have been had he accepted; as it is, he had other fish to fry, and the commission for Pulcinella went to Stravinsky.

INTERVAL – 20 minutes A bell will be rung 3, 2 and 1 minute before the end of the interval.

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PROGRAMME NOTES

Modest MUSSORGSKY

pictures at an exhibition

1839–1881 orchestrated by maurice ravel (1875–1937)

Promenade Gnomus Promenade The Old Castle Promenade Tuileries Bydło Promenade – Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks Samuel Goldenberg and Schmuyle The Market Place at Limoges Catacombæ (Sepulcrum Romanum) – Cum mortuis in lingua mortua The Hut on Hen’s Legs The Great Gate of Kiev Modest Mussorgsky had much in common with the architect and painter Victor Hartmann (1834–73): both sought to incorporate strongly Russian themes and motifs into their works; both also brought together in close harmony the curiously complementary worlds of realism and fantasy. Mussorgsky wrote his piano suite Pictures at an Exhibition in a matter of days in 1874, after attending a memorial exhibition of 400 of his friend’s designs. Eleven such paintings are represented in the suite; sadly, five of these designs are now lost.

Pictures at an Exhibition is Mussorgsky’s only major instrumental work, but in its own way it is almost as theatrical as Boris Godunov or Khovanshchina. Each movement injects life into Hartmann’s paintings; thus, a costume design for an unhatched chick – essentially a dancer wearing an egg – becomes in Mussorgsky’s hands a real-life bird that waddles, pecks and clucks.

Similarly, the two Jews, Samuel Goldenberg and Schmuyle – whom Hartmann painted in separate pictures – are brought together and made to converse.

Even Mussorgsky himself gets involved in the action,

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for the recurring ‘Promenade’ theme (which initially depicts his contemplative strolling from one exhibit to another) gradually insinuates itself into the pictures themselves: thus it seems to be Mussorgsky himself who ascends from the Paris Catacombs at the end of the eighth picture, rather than Hartmann and two companions as in the original painting.

The present popularity of the work owes much to Maurice Ravel’s extraordinarily effective orchestration, commissioned by Sergei Koussevitzky in 1920. In fact, Mussorgsky’s writing for the piano is at times so unnatural that it is easy to forget which version came first: the Catacombs movement, for instance, has hairpin crescendi written under held chords!

Mussorgsky had been one of Ravel’s favourite composers since the early 1900s, when the Frenchman and his friends used to meet at one another’s homes to play through Russian music. The imagery of Pictures would have been extremely attractive to this most childlike of French composers, in whose home a clock in the shape of a witch’s hut on a chicken’s legs would not have been out of place.

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