LPO at Brighton Dome - 2014/15 season

London Philharmonic Orchestra 2014/15 Concert Season Brighton Dome Concert Hall 01273 709709 brightondome.org

‘ The performance had a real edge-of-your-seat excitement.’

The Guardian, Sep 2012

Welcome to our 2014/15 season at Brighton Dome We are delighted to open the season with our Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor Vladimir Jurowski in a programme which celebrates one of Russia's most treasured composers – Serge Rachmaninoff. As part of our London season, our year-long festival Rachmaninoff: Inside Out will explore the composer's major and lesser-known masterpieces, and we are pleased to bring a taste of this colourful and dramatic repertoire to Brighton.

Acclaimed conductors joining us this season include Jaime MartĂ­n, former Principal Flute of the LPO and a natural conducting talent, who has since directed many of the major orchestras in Europe; one of the brightest stars of the younger generation of British conductors Rory Macdonald; and 'wild card' of the pack Aziz Shokhakimov, an artist who exhibits a rare sensitivity to music-making at just 22 years of age.

We are also pleased to introduce four exceptionally talented soloists Elena Tanski, Dmitri Berlinsky, Lambis Vassiliadis and Andreas Brantelid who will between them perform some of the best-loved pieces in the concerto repertoire.

We hope you will join us for another fine season of concerts at Brighton Dome.

Timothy Walker AM Chief Executive and Artistic Director

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September

Saturday 27 September 2014 | 7.30pm Brighton Dome Concert Hall Rachmaninoff The Isle of the Dead Prokofiev Violin Concerto No. 1 Rachmaninoff Symphonic Dances Vladimir Jurowski conductor Elena Tanski violin As Sergei Prokofiev’s first violin concerto began to take shape in the summer of 1915, the composer wrote of ‘a beautiful, tender theme that gives me much pleasure’. When the piece was eventually finished over four years later it was precisely those themes – the Concerto’s tender, dreamy nonchalance – that surprised those who thought its creator a noisy enfant terrible.

Forced out of Russia into exile in the USA, Serge Rachmaninoff wrote his last orchestral work in 1940, the Symphonic Dances. A strange sense of foreboding pervades these compelling orchestral choreographies, but there’s optimism in the piece, too, as the composer moves from the dark world of his own The Isle of the Dead to quote the striving ‘Alleluia’ from his All-Night Vigil.

In co-operation with the Serge Rachmaninoff Foundation.

The music of Rachmaninoff is available on the Orchestra’s own label as CDs or downloads.

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Vladimir Jurowski Principal Conductor & Artistic Advisor

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Beethoven Violin Concerto Brahms Symphony No. 1

November

Saturday 29 November 2014 | 7.30pm Brighton Dome Concert Hall

Aziz Shokhakimov conductor Dmitri Berlinsky violin

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Did Brahms love Clara Schumann, the widow of his mentor? He certainly tried to. After a seemingly irreconcilable argument in September 1868, Brahms wrote to Clara from the Swiss Alps, scribbling a tune he’d heard played by a shepherd boy. ‘High on the mountain, deep in the valley, I greet you’, wrote Brahms, and the shepherd’s tune became the radiant horn-call that soars over the strings in the finale of his First Symphony like sunlight breaking through clouds. Clara inhabits the whole work, in a special musical ‘motto’ woven by Brahms and in the anguished love that seeps into every bar – a total contrast to the trouble-free radiance and joy of Beethoven’s only violin concerto.

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Dmitri Berlinsky

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January

Saturday 17 January 2015 | 7.30pm Brighton Dome Concert Hall Humperdinck Prelude, Hansel and Gretel Chopin Piano Concerto No. 2 Dvorˇák Symphony No. 8 Rory Macdonald conductor Lambis Vassiliadis piano After the ominous dark clouds of his Seventh Symphony, in his Eighth Antonín Dvorˇák articulated his pleasure of life and enchantment with human existence in what may be the most blissful symphony he wrote – a work overflowing with joyous fanfares and capturing so vividly the beauty of the natural world. Dvorˇák was soon snapped up by a music college in New York, a long way from his Czech homeland. There was a similar intention behind Chopin’s Second Piano Concerto. With its easy elegance and pruned sophistication, Chopin hoped to endear himself to the opinion-forming concertgoers of Paris, 850 miles from his home in Warsaw. Rory Macdonald opens this concert with the unmatched musical magic of Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel Prelude.

The music of Dvorˇák is available on the Orchestra’s own label as CDs or downloads.

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Rory Macdonald

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© Ruth Crafter

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March

Saturday 28 March 2015 | 7.30pm Brighton Dome Concert Hall Tchaikovsky Romeo and Juliet (Fantasy Overture) Elgar Cello Concerto Rimsky-Korsakov Scheherazade Jaime Martín conductor Andreas Brantelid cello When his older brother started sending letters back home from his naval adventures in the Far East, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov fell in love with the faraway land he’d never see. The composer eventually made it as far as Istanbul on a family holiday, but his spellbinding orchestral adventure after The Arabian Nights was as great a tribute to his beloved land of the Orient as anyone could hope to make, and the greatest piece of musical storytelling ever crafted. Hear RimskyKorsakov’s sultry, dramatic and captivating portrayal of the young Sultana Scheherazade’s stories here, alongside Tchaikovsky’s own slice of orchestral fantasy and Elgar’s noble but fierce Cello Concerto.

© Sussie Ahlburg

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The music of Tchaikovsky, Elgar and Rimsky-Korsakov is available on the Orchestra’s own label as CDs or downloads.

Andreas Brantelid

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Booking information

Book more, pay less: series discounts 10% discount for 2 concerts 15% discount for 3 concerts 20% discount for 4 concerts Book all 4 concerts and receive a voucher for you and your guests to enjoy a free glass of house wine at Brighton Dome. Redeemable on Saturday 27 September only.

Group Discounts: Bring friends – save money!

Groups of 10 or more will receive a 20% discount on ticket prices Groups of 20 or more will receive a 20% discount as well as an extra

complimentary ticket for the group organiser.

Please call the Ticket Office for details. Please note that offers cannot be combined.

Students and under-26s If you are a full-time student or under 26 you can get discounted tickets to selected London Philharmonic Orchestra concerts throughout the year. Students receive £4 best available tickets and under 26 year olds receive £8 best available tickets (excluding premium seats). Valid ID required.

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Access Brighton Dome is committed to making your visit easy and enjoyable. Where possible, we operate family friendly and accessible venues but may ask customers who cause unreasonable disturbance during events to leave the auditoria. Concessionary priced tickets, where available, are offered to registered disabled people, and where possible a range of prices is available for disabled customers. Each disabled customer can apply for one complimentary ticket per booking, in order to bring an access assistant or companion with them. For detailed access information contact the Visitor Services Department on 01273 261 525 / 541 or access@brightondome.org

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Brighton Dome Ticket Office 01273 709709 29 New Road, Brighton BN1 1UG Monday to Saturday 10am – 6pm (£2.25 telephone transaction fee; no fee for cash bookings in person)

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Tickets £10 – £27.50 Premium seats £32.50 Support Us The London Philharmonic Orchestra is a registered charity that relies increasingly on its audience support to continue its work both on the concert platform and in the community. There are a number of different ways through which you can support the Orchestra.

For more information or to make a donation please contact: 020 7840 4225 development@lpo.org.uk lpo.org.uk/support

Wheelchair users

Brighton Dome is situated on Church Street in the heart of historic Brighton, on the Royal Pavilion Estate. It comprises three spaces – the Concert Hall, Corn Exchange and Studio Theatre.

The Concert Hall has several specially designed seat positions as well as lift access and accessible toilets (RADAR keys in operation). A companion sitting in a neighbouring seat may be admitted free of charge, subject to availability.

Hearing impaired customers

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There is a Sennheiser radio frequency system in the Concert Hall which can be used with or without a hearing aid. Please collect the unit and a headset from the Ticket Office upon arrival at the venue. Please allow 15 minutes before the start of the performance to pick up your headset, and note that a £20 returnable cash deposit will be required.

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Brighton Station is a ten-minute walk away with fast, regular services to Brighton from London (under an hour from Victoria and London Bridge) and elsewhere.

To book tickets and for travel updates visit southernrailway.com or call National Rail Enquiries on 08457 484950.

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Guide dogs are welcome in all Brighton Dome venues. Printed materials are available in large print on request from the Marketing Department on 01273 260825.

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General information

How to find us

For information on frequent local bus services go to buses.co.uk. Visit visitbrighton.com for information on car parking and accommodation in Brighton. journeyon.co.uk has information on public transport and walking routes around the city.

Parking The nearest car park to Brighton Dome is the NCP Theatre Car Park on Church Street.

You can take advantage of their special £5 evening rate for parking from 5.30pm – midnight. The car park is a two-minute walk from Brighton Dome. Brighton Dome and Festival members receive a 30% discount on standard parking charges.

The Lanes car park on Black Lion Street, accessed from Grand Junction Road on the seafront, is a five-minute walk to the venue and charges £4.50 to park from 6.00pm to midnight. *Car park charges correct at time of going to press.

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Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde with Nézet-Séguin LPO-0073 ‘Yannick Nézet-Séguin perfectly captures the yearning for lost youth and resigned acceptance of mortality that pervades Mahler’s masterpiece’ The Sunday Times, September 2013

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@LPOrchestra @brightdome My first ever live orchestra event tonight! Fantastic evening.

Thank you. Great musicians and a superb conductor :) Nov 2013 Superlative War Requiem from @LPOrchestra.

Towering, wonderful music, superbly played and sung. So moving – thank you Oct 2013

Thanks @LPOrchestra for a night of great European tunes, come back to #Brighton @brightdome soon!

Nov 2013 Still coming down from 'planet Poulenc' after a mesmerising performance with @nezetseguin & @LPOrchestra Oct 2013

It was an unforgettable experience. Such overwhelming music, superbly played and sung. Thank you (and thank you, Britten!)

Oct 2013

The London Philharmonic Orchestra gratefully acknowledges the financial support of Arts Council England.

Brighton Dome & Festival is grateful for the support of:

Front cover image: Lee Tsarmaklis Tuba Concert texts Andrew Mellor Design & Art Direction Chaos Design Photography Julian Calverley Printer Tradewinds (this brochure is produced on paper from a sustainable source)Information in this brochure was correct at the time of going to press. The right is reserved to substitute artists and to vary programmes if necessary.

The London Philharmonic Orchestra is a registered charity No. 238045.

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