London Philharmonic Orchestra 13 October 2019 Eastbourne concert programme

2018/19 CONCERT SEASON

AT SOUTHBANK CENTRE’S ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL

CONCERT PROGRAMME 2019/20 Concert season at Eastbourne’s Congress Theatre

Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor VLADIMIR JUROWSKI Principal Conductor Designate EDWARD GARDNER Leader PIETER SCHOEMAN supported by Neil Westreich Patron HRH THE DUKE OF KENT KG Chief Executive and Artistic Director TIMOTHY WALKER AM

Congress Theatre, Eastbourne Sunday 13 October 2019 | 3.00pm

Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18 (32’) Interval (20’) Rimsky-Korsakov Scheherazade, Op. 35 (47’)

Andrew Gourlay conductor Reinis Zariņš piano

The Steinway concert piano chosen and hired by the London Philharmonic Orchestra for this performance is supplied and maintained by Steinway & Sons, London.

The timings shown are not precise and are given only as a guide.

CONCERT PRESENTED BY THE LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA IN ASSOCIATION WITH EASTBOURNE BOROUGH COUNCIL

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Welcome Orchestra news On stage today About the Orchestra Leader: Kevin Lin Andrew Gourlay Reinis Zariņš Programme notes Rachmaninoff on the LPO Label Programme notes continued Next concerts Recent LPO Label releases Sound Futures donors Supporters LPO administration

Welcome

Orchestra news

Welcome to the Congress Theatre, Eastbourne

Edward Gardner: Our new Principal Conductor

Artistic Director Chris Jordan General Manager Gavin Davis Welcome to this afternoon’s performance. We are pleased to welcome back the London Philharmonic Orchestra and its patrons to the Congress Theatre.

The London Philharmonic gave the first ever performance at this Grade II listed building when it originally opened in 1963. This historic building was purpose-built as a theatre and conference venue designed by Bryan and Norman Westwood Architects.

What makes the theatre unique is that it is conceived to be a perfect cube. It has fantastic acoustics to enhance your experience of live music, and so it is thrilling to see the Orchestra back in its Eastbourne home. We thank you for continuing to support the concert series.

Please sit back in your seats and enjoy the concert and your visit here. As a courtesy to others, please ensure mobile phones are switched off during the performance. Thank you.

In July we were delighted to announce the appointment of Edward Gardner as the London Philharmonic Orchestra’s next Principal Conductor: the first British holder of the position since John Pritchard in the late 1960s.

Gardner will succeed current Principal Conductor Vladimir Jurowski when the latter’s tenure concludes at the end of the 2020/21 season, with Jurowski subsequently becoming Conductor Emeritus.

Currently Chief Conductor of the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra in Norway, Gardner first conducted the London Philharmonic Orchestra in 2003 and has since returned for concerts at Royal Festival Hall and Snape Maltings and opera performances at Glyndebourne, and conducted the Orchestra on tour in the USA.

New LPO Residency at Saffron Hall Complementing our longstanding residencies here in Eastbourne and at Brighton Dome, this autumn the London Philharmonic Orchestra takes up a brand new residency at Saffron Hall in Saffron Walden, Essex, enabling the Orchestra to share its work with audiences in the East of England regularly for the first time. Saffron Hall is an award-winning 740-seat performance space built in the grounds of Saffron Walden County High School. The LPO will be a significant addition to the cultural life of the region, providing top-quality symphonic music and becoming increasingly involved in Saffron Hall’s groundbreaking model of world-class performing arts and educational provision.

Ring the Bells to help end homelessness this Christmas We are delighted to announce a new festive single from the London Philharmonic Choir, out on the LPO Label from 29 November. Ring the Bells is a brand new Christmas carol written by award-winning composer Paul Fincham, who is himself a member of the Choir.

The carol has been officially adopted by the UK charity Crisis, and proceeds from the single will be donated towards its plan to end homelessness. Listen online or download from all major music providers. For more information visit lpc.org.uk/ringthebells

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On stage today

First Violins Kevin Lin Leader Chair supported by The Candide Trust

Lasma Taimina Catherine Craig Martin Hรถhmann Georgina Leo Non Peters Jeff Moore Gabriela Opacka Maeve Jenkinson Katherine Waller Cassi Hamilton Eunsley Park John Dickinson Alice Hall Second Violins Tania Mazzetti Principal Chair supported by Countess Dominique Loredan

Eriko Nagayama Kate Birchall Nancy Elan Fiona Higham Chair supported by David & Yi Buckley

Joseph Maher Ashley Stevens Sioni Williams Sheila Law Ioana Forna Alison Strange Emma Crossley

Oboes Amy Roberts Guest Principal Katherine Bryer

Tuba Lee Tsarmaklis* Principal

Benedetto Pollani Stanislav Popov Sarah Malcolm Julia Kornig Mark Gibbs Charles Cross Jill Valentine

Cor Anglais Helen Vigurs

Chair supported by Victoria Robey OBE

Cellos Kristina Blaumane Principal

Elliot Gresty

Violas David Quiggle Principal Katharine Leek Susanne Martens Chair supported by Gill & Garf Collins

Chair supported by Bianca & Stuart Roden

Ilia Laporev Francis Bucknall Elisabeth Wiklander Helen Rathbone David Bucknall Iain Ward Daniel Benn Double Basses Kevin Rundell* Principal Sebastian Pennar Co-Principal Hugh Kluger Tom Walley Joseph Cowie Charlotte Kerbegian Flutes Sue Thomas* Principal Chair supported by Caroline, Jamie & Zander Sharp

Clarinets Thomas Watmough Principal Chair supported by Roger Greenwood

Bassoons Catriona McDermid Guest Principal Laura Vincent Horns John Ryan* Principal Elise Campbell James Pillai Gareth Mollison Oliver Johnson Trumpets Paul Beniston* Principal Chair supported by Donors to the 2019 Gala Player Appeal

Anne McAneney* Chair supported by Geoff & Meg Mann

Trombones Mark Templeton* Principal Chair supported by William & Alex de Winton

Jane Spiers

Andrew Connington

Piccolos Katherine Bicknell Jane Spiers

Bass Trombone Lyndon Meredith Principal

Timpani Simon Carrington* Principal

Percussion Oliver Yates Guest Principal Keith Millar Jeremy Cornes James Bower Feargus Brennan Harp Lucy Haslar * Holds a professorial appointment in London Meet our members: lpo.org.uk/players

The London Philharmonic Orchestra also acknowledges the following chair supporters whose players are not present at this concert: The Chiltern Friends of the LPO Andrew Davenport Sonja Drexler Friends of the Orchestra Dr Barry Grimaldi Sir Simon Robey Eric Tomsett Neil Westreich

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The performance was as good as could be … the LPO was beautifully poised and utterly perfect.

Alan Sanders, Seen and Heard International (LPO at Royal Festival Hall, 6 October 2018: Beethoven and Stravinsky)

One of the finest orchestras on the international stage, the London Philharmonic Orchestra balances a long and distinguished history with its reputation as one of the UK’s most forward-looking ensembles. As well as its concert performances, the Orchestra also records film soundtracks, releases CDs and downloads on its own label, and reaches thousands of people every year through activities for families, schools and local communities.

The Orchestra was founded by Sir Thomas Beecham in 1932, and has since been headed by many great conductors including Sir Adrian Boult, Bernard Haitink, Sir Georg Solti, Klaus Tennstedt and Kurt Masur. In 2017 Vladimir Jurowski celebrated his tenth anniversary as the Orchestra’s Principal Conductor. Edward Gardner is currently Principal Conductor Designate, and will take up the position when Jurowski’s tenure concludes in September 2021.

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The Orchestra is resident at Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall in London, where it gives around 40 concerts each season. Throughout the rest of 2019 we celebrate the music of Britain in our festival Isle of Noises, exploring music from and inspired by the British Isles, from Purcell to the present day. 2020 will see a new series entitled 2020 Vision, which features some of the most exciting works written since 2000, each combined in concert with pieces composed exactly 100 and 200 years earlier.

The London Philharmonic Orchestra enjoys flourishing residencies in Brighton, Eastbourne and Saffron Walden, and performs regularly around the UK. Every summer, the Orchestra takes up its annual residency at Glyndebourne Festival Opera, where it has been Resident Symphony Orchestra for over 50 years. The Orchestra also tours internationally, performing to sellout audiences worldwide.

Kevin Lin leader

The London Philharmonic Orchestra has recorded many blockbuster film scores, from The Lord of the Rings trilogy to Lawrence of Arabia, East is East, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey and Thor: The Dark World. It also broadcasts regularly on television and radio, and in 2005 established its own record label.

There are now over 100 releases available on CD and to download. Recent additions include Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 conducted by Vladimir Jurowski, Beethoven’s Symphonies Nos. 3 & 5 under the late Kurt Masur, and a film music disc under Dirk Brossé.

In summer 2012 the London Philharmonic Orchestra performed as part of The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Pageant on the River Thames, and was also chosen to record all the world’s national anthems for the London 2012 Olympics. In 2013 it was the winner of the RPS Music Award for Ensemble.

The London Philharmonic Orchestra is committed to inspiring the next generation of musicians. We recently celebrated the 30th anniversary of our Education and Community department, whose work over three decades has introduced so many people of all ages to orchestral music and created opportunities for people of all backgrounds to fulfil their creative potential.

Our dynamic and wide-ranging programme provides first musical experiences for children and families; offers creative projects and professional development opportunities for schools and teachers; inspires talented teenage instrumentalists to progress their skills; and develops the next generation of professional musicians.

The Orchestra’s work at the forefront of digital technology has enabled it to reach millions of people worldwide: all its recordings are available to download and stream and, as well as a YouTube channel and podcast series, the Orchestra has a lively presence on social media. lpo.org.uk facebook.com/londonphilharmonicorchestra twitter.com/LPOrchestra

Kevin Lin joined the London Philharmonic Orchestra as Co-Leader in August 2017.

Originally from New York, Kevin has received international recognition for his musicianship and ‘soulful’ playing (The Arts Desk). He has performed as a soloist and recitalist in the UK, Taiwan, South Korea and Canada, in addition to numerous performances in the USA. He was previously Guest Concertmaster of the Pittsburgh Symphony and Houston Symphony, and in 2015 was invited to lead the Aspen Philharmonic Orchestra at the Aspen Music Festival and School. He has also served as Concertmaster at The Colburn School and The Curtis Institute of Music.

An avid chamber musician, Kevin’s recent collaborations include performances with the Tokyo and Ebène quartets, Edgar Meyer, Cho-Liang Lin, Orion Weiss and Andrew Bain.

In recent years he has received prizes from the Irving M. Klein International Competition and the Schmidbauer International Competition, and competed in the George Enescu International Violin Competition and the Menuhin International Violin Competition.

Kevin spent his early years studying with Patinka Kopec in New York, before going on to study with Robert Lipsett at The Colburn School in Los Angeles, where he received his Bachelor of Music degree.

He then continued his studies at The Curtis Institute in Philadelphia as a Mark E. Rubenstein Fellowship recipient, under the pedagogy of Aaron Rosand.

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Kevin’s chair in the London Philharmonic Orchestra is generously supported by The Candide Trust.

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Andrew Gourlay conductor

He alternates sweetness and tension; ebbing and flowing whilst maintaining a beautiful precision ... what an amazing rollercoaster ride! © OSCyL – CCMD Photogenic

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Born in Jamaica, with Russian ancestry, Andrew Gourlay grew up in the Bahamas, the Philippines, Japan and England. A trombonist by training, he studied conducting at London's Royal College of Music, where he prepared Bruckner symphonies for Bernard Haitink and Mozart symphonies for Sir Roger Norrington. He was selected by Gramophone magazine as its ‘One to Watch’, and by BBC Music Magazine as a ‘Rising Star: Great Artists of Tomorrow’.

Andrew Gourlay won First Prize at the 2010 Cadaques International Conducting Competition, securing concerts with 29 orchestras around the world. For the next two years he was Assistant Conductor to Sir Mark Elder and the Hallé Orchestra. In January 2016 he took up the position of Music Director of the Orquesta Sinfónica de Castilla y León (OSCyL) in Spain, having been its Principal Guest Conductor since the 2014/15 season, and he celebrated the orchestra’s 25th anniversary in 2016/17.

Recent guest engagements include conducting the the BBC orchestras; the Philharmonia, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, City of Birmingham Symphony and Hallé orchestras; the Orchestra of Opera North; the RTÉ Symphony, Ulster, Melbourne Symphony, Auckland Philharmonia, Rotterdam Philharmonic, Antwerp Symphony, Bremen Philharmonic, Stavanger Symphony, Norrköpping Symphony and Tampere Philharmonic orchestras; the Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine; the Orquesta Sinfónica de Chile; the Australian Youth Orchestra; orchestras throughout Spain; and the London Sinfonietta at the BBC Proms. He made his US debut in 2016/17 with the San Diego Symphony Orchestra and returned to the USA in 2018 to conduct the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra. He returned to the Proms in

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2018 to conduct a special concert in celebration of the 40th anniversary of BBC Young Musician. This season’s engagements include a visit to the Enescu Festival with the Britten Sinfonia, and concerts with BBC NOW, Belgian National and Tampere Philharmonic orchestras.

Today's concert is a welcome return to the London Philharmonic Orchestra for Andrew, who last conducted the Orchestra in Eastbourne in 2011, in a programme that included Beethoven's Symphony No. 2 and Bruch's Violin Concerto No. 1 with soloist Jack Liebeck.

Andrew's operatic engagements have included the UK premiere of Luca Francesconi’s Quartett at the Royal Opera House. He has conducted Rusalka and La Tragédie de Carmen for English Touring Opera, and The Marriage of Figaro at the Benjamin Britten International Opera School. He has worked as Assistant Conductor for Glyndebourne Festival Opera. In 2015 he conducted Tippett’s The Ice Break to great critical acclaim, in a new production by Graham Vick for Birmingham Opera Company and the CBSO. Andrew Gourlay has conducted recordings with the London Symphony Orchestra, Irish Chamber Orchestra, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Britten Sinfonia and BBC National Orchestra of Wales. The first ownlabel OSCyL disc, of Rachmaninoff’s Symphony No. 2 and The Isle of the Dead, was released in spring 2019 to critical acclaim.

A professional trombonist until his mid-twenties, Andrew played with the Philharmonia, Hallé and BBC Philharmonic orchestras, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, London Sinfonietta and Opera North, and toured South America and Europe as a member of the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester under Claudio Abbado.

Reinis Zariņš piano

Particularly impressive was Zariņš’s complete tonal range and his splendid voicing throughout. This was consistent pianism of a high order.

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James Palmer, MusicalOpinion.com

Ever since his concerto debut at the age of ten, Latvian pianist Reinis Zariņš has performed as a recitalist, chamber musician and concerto soloist throughout Europe and North America. Equally at home in classical and contemporary repertoire, his passion lies in the creation of programmes and interpretations that explore the deeper reasons and purposes behind music.

Today's concert is Reinis’s debut with the London Philharmonic Orchestra. Other highlights of his 2019 calendar include a new collaboration with Bang on a Can cellist Ashley Bathgate, and Beethoven’s Triple Concerto with his Trio Palladio partners (violinist Eva Bindere and LPO Principal Cellist Kristina Blaumane) and the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra.

Currently resident in London, Reinis Zariņš regularly performs in his native Latvia and has won the country’s Grand Music Award three times in the ‘Outstanding Interpretation’ category. He also champions the work of Latvian composers: in 2017 he premiered a new piano concerto and a substantial piano cycle, both written by leading Latvian composers and dedicated to Reinis.

Both works were also released on CD in 2019. Previously, Reinis has released three critically acclaimed albums of classical Latvian piano concertos and solo works.

Laureate of 11 international competitions, Reinis Zariņš has performed at prestigious music festivals including the Lucerne Festival, Bath International Music Festival and the Scotia Festival of Music. His thoughtful virtuosity has delighted audiences at London's Wigmore Hall, Amsterdam's Concertgebouw, New York’s Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, and the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall in Moscow. Reinis has collaborated with leading orchestras including the Moscow Chamber Orchestra, Kremerata Baltica and the Ostrobothnian

Chamber Orchestra (Finland), and with conductors Pierre Boulez, Peter Eötvös, Pablo Heras-Casado and Diego Masson, among others. His performances have been broadcast live by BBC Radio 3, Polish National Radio and King FM, and in 2018 he was Artist in Residence both with Latvian Radio 3 and in the Cēsis Concert Hall with his Trio Palladio.

Reinis’s passion for seeking exchanges of beauty in all artforms has resulted in various multimedia projects including the show Seasons in collaboration with choreographer Kirill Burlov, and a project entitled musicpaintingLIVE with artist Maryleen Schiltkamp.

Following his foundation studies in Latvia, Reinis won several scholarships to refine his talent at the Yale School of Music in the USA and the Royal Academy of Music in London. His distinguished teachers have included Boris Berman, Raffi Kharajanyan, Christopher Elton and Renē Salaks.

Away from the piano, Reinis enjoys playing chess with his children and getting lost in the woods.

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Programme notes

Two Russian masterpieces Serge Rachmaninoff was one of the most completely equipped of musicians: a formidable concert pianist, a notable conductor, and a composer who graduated from the Moscow Conservatoire with a rare Great Gold Medal, and who was championed

by Tchaikovsky. But the confidence with which he must have set out on his career was shattered by the disastrous first performance of his First Symphony in 1897. With the help of a hypnotist, it was gradually rebuilt over the next few years. And one of the first fruits of this recovery was his Second Piano Concerto of 1900/01. This has become one of the most popular of all Romantic piano concertos (thanks in part to its use in the film Brief Encounter). It owes its success to the purposeful shaping of its three movements, its brilliant piano writing and darkly atmospheric orchestral colouring, and above all its abundance of warmly expressive melodies.

Serge Rachmaninoff 1873–1943

The second, and most popular, of Rachmaninoff’s four piano concertos is the work in which he overcame a long period of creative sterility following the disastrous failure of his First Symphony at its premiere in March 1897 – a failure which it seems was largely due to Alexander Glazunov’s unsympathetic and incompetent conducting. The Concerto is dedicated to Nikolai Dahl, a hypnotist who helped the composer regain (in the words of a cousin) ‘cheerfulness of spirit, energy, a desire to work, and confidence in his abilities’.

Rachmaninoff began writing it during a stay in Italy in June and July 1900, completed the second and third

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Unlike Rachmaninoff, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov began his career as an amateur, having put aside his youthful enthusiasm for music to embark on the life of an officer in the Russian navy. While still serving at sea, he came under the influence of Mily Balakirev, becoming one of the group of composers around Balakirev (known as ‘the mighty handful’) who set out to forge a distinctively Russian musical language.

But, while the other composers in the group abhorred the Western-influenced orthodoxy taught at the conservatoires, Rimsky-Korsakov put himself through a strict regime of study of musical theory, and eventually became a professor of the St Petersburg Conservatoire, at the heart of the Russian musical establishment. One of Rimsky-Korsakov’s best-known concert works is his symphonic suite Scheherazade of 1888: a piece of musical story-telling inspired by The Arabian Nights, and a richly coloured product of his painstakingly acquired expertise in orchestration.

Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18 Reinis Zariņš piano 1 Moderato 2 Adagio sostenuto – Più animato – Tempo I 3 Allegro scherzando

movements later in the year, and played them at a concert in Moscow in December. The success of this event encouraged him to add the first movement; and the complete work was first performed, with the composer again the soloist, in Moscow in the autumn of 1901.

After the portentous crescendo of the opening piano chords, the first movement establishes its prevailing mood of passionate lyricism with the long, darkcoloured first theme. The soloist comes to the fore in the memorable second subject, with its expressive curves

of melody, supported by yielding chromatic harmonies.

The development section is a masterpiece of subtle control of pace and purposeful handling of material, above all in the way a tiny figure from the end of the introduction gradually gains in prominence, eventually emerging as a heroic piano counterpoint to the return of the first subject. In general, the recapitulation is a much altered version of the exposition, with the second subject heard only at half speed on solo horn, accompanied by tremolo strings. Writing this movement last, Rachmaninoff must have made a deliberate decision to leave the listener wanting more in the way of a lyrical culmination – knowing that his finale would supply that need.

The E major Adagio sostenuto is based on a gentle melody shared by flute and clarinet, in a mixture of 4/4 and 3/2 time, and accompanied by the piano in ingenious triplet cross-rhythms. In the central development section, several increases in tempo

lead the way towards successive climaxes, and then to a short piano cadenza which winds down to the restatement of the first idea, now re-scored for all the violins.

Although the three movements of the Concerto are separate, Rachmaninoff obviously conceived them as a continuous whole, prefacing the slow movement with a four-bar introduction modulating from C minor to E major, and similarly introducing the finale with a little orchestral march which begins in E minor and ushers in a piano cadenza leading towards C minor.

The first subject of the movement is introduced as a brilliant piano solo; the second subject sets oboe and violas swaying languorously over a syncopated accompaniment. After an accelerating development section, the recapitulation of the first subject is disguised as a short fugato, throwing greater emphasis on the return of the second theme – though the last triumphant return of that idea is reserved for the coda.

Interval – 20 minutes An announcement will be made five minutes before the end of the interval.

Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2 on the LPO Label Mozart Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor, K466 Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18 Aldo Ciccolini piano Yannick Nézet-Séguin conductor London Philharmonic Orchestra LPO-0102 | £9.99 Recorded live at Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall, London, on 12 October 2011 (Mozart) and 27 May 2009 (Rachmaninoff).

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Programme notes continued

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov 1844–1908

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade, composed in the summer of 1888, was inspired by the anthology of stories known as The Arabian Nights or The Thousand and One Nights, collected over centuries from the folk tales of India and the Middle East. In his autobiography My Musical Life, the composer described the piece as ‘an orchestral suite in four movements, closely knit by the community of its themes and motives, yet presenting, as it were, a kaleidoscope of fairy-tale images and designs of Oriental character’. Its melodies, recalling the Asiatic vein of Borodin (who had died in 1887), are clothed in brilliant and varied orchestration, a craft of which Rimsky-Korsakov was a celebrated master: in fact, his treatise on the subject includes many examples drawn from Scheherazade.

The Arabian Nights is presented in the sources as a series of stories told by the seductive Scheherazade to her husband the Sultan Shakriar. The Sultan, convinced of the unfaithfulness of all women, has had all his previous wives put to death after one night.

But Scheherazade begins telling him stories, ending each night’s tale at dawn on a cliff-hanger, and so keeping him interested and herself alive. Finally, after a thousand and one nights, he gives up his intention to execute her. Rimsky-Korsakov represents the couple at the start of the first movement: the stern, impatient Sultan by a strident theme in octaves; his bride by an ingratiating cadenza for solo violin, supported by harp.

This, though, is almost the full extent of the work’s direct story-telling. Rimsky-Korsakov’s aim was to create a piece of ‘symphonic music’, with recurring themes – the first two and a handful of others – ‘depicting each time different traits, and expressing different moods’.

To further his intention of evoking atmosphere rather than reproducing narratives, he even removed the titles that he had originally given the movements from the

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Scheherazade, Op. 35 1 2 3 4

The Sea and Sinbad’s Ship The Tale of the Kalender Prince The Young Prince and the Young Princess Festival in Baghdad; The Sea; The Ship goes to pieces on a rock surmounted by a Bronze Warrior; Conclusion

second edition of the score. But they have remained in circulation, and they are usually printed in programmes, as they are above, as a clue to his sources of inspiration.

So we know that the main body of the first movement was suggested by the adventures of Sinbad the sailor on the high seas – an environment well known to RimskyKorsakov, who had toured the world as a young naval officer. But the themes that accompany Sinbad on his travels are those of the Sultan, now over gently rocking wave motion, and Scheherazade, still on solo violin in lithe dance rhythm. These themes alternate, and throw off new ideas, as the seascape becomes stormier and finally calm again.

Scheherazade’s cadenza returns to preface the second movement, originally suggested by the tale of a prince who disguises himself as a travelling beggar. This explains the transformations of the main theme, introduced by solo bassoon and then oboe, into a graceful dance for the violins followed by the woodwind, and in the later stages of the movement into versions which are in turn more purposeful and more ethereal. In the middle section, a threatening fanfare is similarly transformed, after the intervention of a Mendelssohnian fairy scherzo, into a strutting march.

The third movement was conceived as a love scene between a Prince, represented by an extended paragraph of ardent string melody, and a Princess, whose theme is a swaying dance. Scheherazade’s violin intervenes early in the reprise of the Prince’s melody, before the two ideas are reconciled towards the end of the movement.

The finale, prefaced by the themes of the Sultan and Scheherazade, presents the increasingly frenetic scene

of a carnival in Baghdad. The themes of the Prince and Princess and the Sultan, as well as an echo of the Kalender Prince, are all hurled into the fray. At the height of the merry-making, the sea music from the first movement returns, building up towards a climax which, as we know from the original title, was intended

to depict a shipwreck. In the calm aftermath, the final appearances of the linking themes make it clear that the Sultan has been tamed by Scheherazade’s storytelling.

Programme notes © Anthony Burton

Still to come this season at Eastbourne’s Congress Theatre Sunday 3 November 2019 | 3.00pm A Celebration of British Cinema

Sunday 22 March 2020 | 3.00pm

including music from Lawrence of Arabia, Brief Encounter, Murder on the Orient Express and many other classic British films.

Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1 Tchaikovsky Suite, Sleeping Beauty Tchaikovsky Fantasy Overture, Romeo and Juliet

Anthony Weeden conductor Piers Lane piano

Matthew Wood conductor Igor Tchetuev piano

Sunday 19 January 2020 | 3.00pm Mendelssohn Overture, The Hebrides Haydn Cello Concerto in C Brahms Symphony No. 4 Thomas Blunt conductor Laura van der Heijden cello

Sunday 19 April 2020 | 3.00pm Beethoven Overture, Fidelio Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 4 Beethoven Symphony No. 6 (Pastoral) Matthew Coorey conductor Joanna MacGregor piano

Sunday 23 February 2020 | 3.00pm Mozart Overture, The Magic Flute Sibelius Violin Concerto Dvořák Symphony No. 8 Ben Glassberg conductor Fanny Clamagirand violin

Book online at eastbournetheatres.co.uk or call 01323 412000 Season discounts of up to 20% available

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Recent releases on the LPO Label THE GENIUS OF FILM MUSIC 1980s–2000s Dirk Brossé conductor £10.99 (2 CDs) LPO-0110 Released October 2018

RACHMANINOFF

The Isle of the Dead Symphony No. 1 Vladimir Jurowski conductor £9.99 LPO-0111 Released March 2019

BEETHOVEN Symphonies Nos. 3 & 5 Kurt Masur conductor £9.99 LPO-0112 Released March 2019

MAHLER Symphony No. 4 Vladimir Jurowski conductor Sofia Fomina soprano £9.99 LPO-0113 Released July 2019

'The man in charge is one of the go-to guys in the film world, Dirk Brossé – hugely impressive movie credentials ... The London Philharmonic Orchestra has certainly delivered a terrific disc.'

Album of the Week, BBC Radio Scotland

'Jurowski [allows] the emotional depth of the symphony to emerge without overwhelming the composer's youthful passion and impetuosity ... Exciting playing.'

Andrew MacGregor, BBC Radio 3 Record Review

‘In these dignified and at times grittily intense performances, it’s clear that Kurt Masur sees both these symphonies whole ...

To be in the audience must have been a treat.’

Stephen Johnson, BBC Music Magazine

‘Sofia Fomina guides us gently through the finale’s heavenly delights and terrors; the last couple of minutes are sheer paradise ... You’ll learn a lot from Jurowski’s characterfully thoughtful investigation.’

David Nice, BBC Music Magazine

Recordings available from lpo.org.uk/recordings, the LPO Ticket Office (020 7840 4242), all good CD outlets and the Royal Festival Hall shop.

Download or stream online via Spotify, Apple Music and others.

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Tom & Phillis Sharpe The Viney Family

Haitink Patrons Mark & Elizabeth Adams Dr Christopher Aldren Mrs Pauline Baumgartner Lady Jane Berrill Welser-Möst Circle Mr Frederick Brittenden William & Alex de Winton David & Yi Yao Buckley John Ireland Charitable Trust Mr Clive Butler The Tsukanov Family Foundation Gill & Garf Collins Neil Westreich Mr John H Cook Tennstedt Circle Mr Alistair Corbett Valentina & Dmitry Aksenov Bruno De Kegel Richard Buxton Georgy Djaparidze The Candide Trust David Ellen Michael & Elena Kroupeev Christopher Fraser OBE & Lisa Fraser Kirby Laing Foundation David & Victoria Graham Fuller Mr & Mrs Makharinsky Goldman Sachs International Alexey & Anastasia Reznikovich Mr Gavin Graham Sir Simon Robey Moya Greene Bianca & Stuart Roden Mrs Dorothy Hambleton Simon & Vero Turner Tony & Susie Hayes The late Mr K Twyman Malcolm Herring Solti Patrons Catherine Høgel & Ben Mardle Ageas Mrs Philip Kan John & Manon Antoniazzi Rehmet Kassim-Lakha de Morixe Gabor Beyer, through BTO Rose & Dudley Leigh Management Consulting AG Lady Roslyn Marion Lyons Jon Claydon Miss Jeanette Martin Mrs Mina Goodman & Miss Duncan Matthews QC Suzanne Goodman Diana & Allan Morgenthau Roddy & April Gow Charitable Trust The Jeniffer & Jonathan Harris Dr Karen Morton Charitable Trust Mr Roger Phillimore Mr James R.D. Korner Ruth Rattenbury Christoph Ladanyi & Dr Sophia The Reed Foundation Ladanyi-Czernin The Rind Foundation Robert Markwick & Kasia Robinski Sir Bernard Rix The Maurice Marks Charitable Trust David Ross & Line Forestier (Canada) Mr Paris Natar Carolina & Martin Schwab The Rothschild Foundation

Dr Brian Smith Lady Valerie Solti Mr & Mrs G Stein Dr Peter Stephenson Miss Anne Stoddart TFS Loans Limited Marina Vaizey Jenny Watson Guy & Utti Whittaker Pritchard Donors Ralph & Elizabeth Aldwinckle Mrs Arlene Beare Mr Patrick & Mrs Joan Benner Mr Conrad Blakey Dr Anthony Buckland Paul Collins Alastair Crawford Mr Derek B. Gray Mr Roger Greenwood The HA.SH Foundation Darren & Jennifer Holmes Honeymead Arts Trust Mr Geoffrey Kirkham Drs Frank & Gek Lim Peter Mace Mr & Mrs David Malpas Dr David McGibney Michael & Patricia McLaren-Turner Mr & Mrs Andrew Neill Mr Christopher Querée The Rosalyn & Nicholas Springer Charitable Trust Timothy Walker AM Christopher Williams Peter Wilson Smith Mr Anthony Yolland and all other donors who wish to remain anonymous

Thank you

We are extremely grateful to all donors who have given generously to the LPO over the past year.

Your generosity helps maintain the breadth and depth of the LPO’s activities, as well as supporting the Orchestra both on and off the concert platform.

Artistic Director’s Circle An anonymous donor Sir Simon & Lady Robey OBE Orchestra Circle The Candide Trust Mr & Mrs Philip Kan Neil Westreich Principal Associates Richard Buxton In memory of Brenda Lyndoe Casbon In memory of Ann Marguerite Collins Associates Steven M. Berzin Kay Bryan William & Alex de Winton Mrs Irina Gofman Countess Dominique Loredan Mr & Mrs Makharinsky George Ramishvili Stuart & Bianca Roden In memory of Hazel Amy Smith Gold Patrons An anonymous donor David & Yi Buckley In memory of Allner Mavis Channing The Chiltern Friends of the LPO Gill & Garf Collins Andrew Davenport Sonja Drexler Mrs Gillian Fane Marie-Laure Favre-Gilly de Varennes de Beuill Hamish & Sophie Forsyth Virginia Gabbertas MBE Mr Roger Greenwood The Jeniffer and Jonathan Harris Charitable Trust Geoff & Meg Mann Julian & Gill Simmonds Eric Tomsett The Viney Family Laurence Watt

Silver Patrons Ms Terri Borain Andrea d’Avack Georgy Djaparidze Ulrike & Benno Engelmann Peter & Fiona Espenhahn Rehmet Kassim-Lakha de Morixe John & Angela Kessler Jamie & Julia Korner The Metherell Family Denis & Yulia Nagy Mikhail Noskov & Vasilina Bindley Tom & Phillis Sharpe Andrew & Rosemary Tusa Guy & Utti Whittaker Grenville & Krysia Williams Bronze Patrons Anonymous donors Michael Allen Mr Mark Astaire Margot Astrachan Mr Geoffrey Bateman Mrs A Beare Dr Anthony Buckland Mr Alan C Butler Desmond & Ruth Cecil The Earl & Countess of Chichester Mr Michael Cole-Fontayn Mr John H Cook Howard & Veronika Covington Mrs Maria Danilova Guy Davies Bruno De Kegel Cameron & Kathryn Doley Jill Dyal David Ellen Ignor & Lyuba Galkin Mr Daniel Goldstein David & Jane Gosman Mr Gavin Graham Lord & Lady Hall Mrs Dorothy Hambleton Wim & Jackie Hautekiet-Clare Eugene & Allison Hayes

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Ms Elena Heinz Malcolm Herring Catherine Høgel & Ben Mardle J Douglas Home Rose & Dudley Leigh Elena Lileeva & Adrian Pabst Drs Frank & Gek Lim Mrs Elizabeth Meshkvicheva Maxim & Natalia Moskalev Mr & Mrs Andrew Neill Peter & Lucy Noble Linda & Tim O’Neill Jacopo Pessina Mr Alex Petrov Mr Roger Phillimore Mr Michael Posen Mr Alex Smedley Ms Nadia Stasyuk Ms Sharon Thomas Mr & Mrs John C Tucker Mr & Mrs John & Susi Underwood Marina Vaizey Ms Jenny Watson CBE Christopher Williams Mr Anthony Yolland Principal Supporters Anonymous donors Ralph & Elizabeth Aldwinckle Helen Brocklebank Mr Philip Bathard-Smith Ms Phyllia Chen Mr & Mrs Stewart Cohen David & Liz Conway Mr Alistair Corbett In honour of Bea Crumbine Mr Jonathan Davies Mr Richard Fernyhough Mr Michael Fox Mr Stephen Goldring Mr Milton Grundy Mr Ian Haslegrave Michael & Christine Henry Lady Hill Mrs Maureen Hooft-Graafland Jamilya Jakisheva Per Jonsson

Vadim Levin Lady Leonora, Countess of Lichfield Wg. Cdr. & Mrs M T Liddiard OBE JP RAF Paul & Brigitta Lock Mr Peter Mace Michael & Patricia MclarenTurner Alice P. Melly Mr John Meloy Andrew T Mills Dr Karen Morton Maxim & Natalia Moskalev Mrs Jannifer Oxley Mr James Pickford Natalie Pray Mr Christopher Querée Sir Bernard Rix Mr Robert Ross Barry & Gillian Smith Mr Bill Smith Martin & Cheryl Southgate Mr & Mrs G Stein Dr Peter Stephenson Matthew Stephenson & Roman Aristarkhov Marina Vaizey Howard & Sheelagh Watson Supporters Anonymous donors Mr John D Barnard Mr Bernard Bradbury Mr Richard Brooman Mrs Alan Carrington Mr Julien Chilcott-Monk Alison Clarke & Leo Pilkington Mr Joshua Coger Mr Geoffrey A Collens Miss Tessa Cowie Lady Jane Cuckney OBE Mr David Devons Samuel Edge Manuel Fajardo & Clémence Humeau Mrs Janet Flynn Scott & Icy Frantz Christopher Fraser OBE

Will Gold Mr Peter Gray The Jackman Family Mr & Mrs Bon Jasperson Mr David MacFarlane Peter & Isabel Malkin Mr Frederic Marguerre Mr Mark Mishon Trevor Mulineaux Bill & Jane Nickerson Mr Stephen Olton Anju & Radhika Patel Mr David Peters Candace Procaccini Mr & Mrs Graham & Jean Pugh Mr David Russell Deb & Jay Shaw Ms Elizabeth Shaw Mr Kenneth Shaw Ms Natalie Spraggon & Mr David Thomson Mrs John E Stauffer Ronald & Davidde Strackbein Mr John Weekes Joanna Williams Hon. Benefactor Elliott Bernerd Hon. Life Members Alfonso Aijón Kenneth Goode Carol Colburn Grigor CBE Pehr G Gyllenhammar Robert Hill Mrs Jackie Rosenfeld OBE Laurence Watt

LPO International Board of Governors Natasha Tsukanova Chair Steven M. Berzin (USA) Kay Bryan (Australia) Marie-Laure Favre Gilly de Varennes de Bueil (France) Irina Gofman (Russia) Joyce Kan (China/Hong Kong) Countess Dominique Loredan (Italy) Olivia Ma (Greater China Area) Olga Makharinsky (Russia) George Ramishvili (Georgia) Victoria Robey OBE (USA) We are grateful to the Board of the American Friends of the London Philharmonic Orchestra, who assist with fundraising for our activities in the United States of America: Simon Freakley Chairman Alexandra Jupin William A. Kerr Kristina McPhee Natalie Pray Stephanie Yoshida Antony Phillipson Hon. Chairman Victoria Robey OBE Hon. Director Richard Gee, Esq Of Counsel Jenifer L. Keiser, CPA, EisnerAmper LLP Connecticut Gala Committee Bea Crumbine & Jill Dyal Co-Chairmen Rodica Brune Mandy DeFilippo Rachel Franco Nick Gutfreund Mary Hull Steve Magnuson Natalie Pray Victoria Robey OBE Lisa & Scot Weicker

Corporate Donors Barclays L Catterton Paul Hastings LLP Payne Hicks Beach Pictet Bank White & Case LLP LPO Corporate Circle Leader freuds Sunshine Principal Berenberg Carter-Ruck French Chamber of Commerce Tutti Ageas Lazard Russo-British Chamber of Commerce Walpole Preferred Partners After Digital Heineken Lindt & Sprüngli Ltd London Orthopaedic Clinic Steinway Villa Maria In-kind Sponsor Google Inc Trusts and Foundations The Bernarr Rainbow Trust The Boltini Trust Sir William Boreman’s Foundation Borletti-Buitoni Trust Boshier-Hinton Foundation The Candide Trust The Chalk Cliff Trust Cockayne – Grants for the Arts The D’Oyly Carte Charitable Trust Dunard Fund

Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation The Fidelio Charitable Trust Foyle Foundation Lucille Graham Trust John Horniman’s Children’s Trust John Thaw Foundation The Idlewild Trust Kirby Laing Foundation The Lawson Trust The Leverhulme Trust Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation The London Community Foundation Lord & Lady Lurgan Trust Marsh Christian Trust Adam Mickiewicz Institute PRS For Music Foundation The Radcliffe Trust Rivers Foundation Romanian Cultural Institute RVW Trust The Sampimon Trust Schroder Charity Trust Serge Rachmaninoff Foundation The Steel Charitable Trust Spears-Stutz Charitable Trust The Thomas Deane Trust The Viney Family The Clarence Westbury Foundation Garfield Weston Foundation The Barbara Whatmore Charitable Trust The William Alwyn Foundation and all others who wish to remain anonymous.

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Administration

Board of Directors Victoria Robey OBE Chairman Stewart McIlwham* President Gareth Newman* Vice-President Dr Catherine C. Høgel Vice-Chairman Henry Baldwin* Roger Barron David Buckley Bruno De Kegel Martin Höhmann* Al MacCuish Susanne Martens* Pei-Jee Ng* Andrew Tusa Timothy Walker AM Neil Westreich David Whitehouse* * Player-Director Advisory Council Martin Höhmann Chairman Rob Adediran Christopher Aldren Dr Manon Antoniazzi Richard Brass Helen Brocklebank Desmond Cecil CMG Sir Alan Collins KCVO CMG Andrew Davenport William de Winton Cameron Doley Edward Dolman Christopher Fraser OBE Lord Hall of Birkenhead CBE Jonathan Harris CBE FRICS Amanda Hill Rehmet Kassim-Lakha Jamie Korner Geoff Mann Clive Marks OBE FCA Stewart McIlwham Andrew Neill Jamie Njoku-Goodwin Nadya Powell Sir Bernard Rix Victoria Robey OBE Baroness Shackleton Thomas Sharpe QC Julian Simmonds Barry Smith Martin Southgate Andrew Swarbrick Sir John Tooley Chris Viney Timothy Walker AM Laurence Watt Elizabeth Winter

General Administration Timothy Walker AM Chief Executive and Artistic Director

Education and Community Isabella Kernot Education and Community Director

David Burke General Manager and Finance Director

Talia Lash Education and Community Manager

Sarah Gee PA to the Chief Executive/ Office Administrator

Emily Moss Education and Community Project Manager

Finance Frances Slack Finance and Operations Manager

Hannah Tripp Education and Community Project Co-ordinator

Dayse Guilherme Finance Officer

Development Laura Willis Development Director

Concert Management Roanna Gibson Concerts Director

Vicky Moran Development Events Manager

Graham Wood Concerts and Recordings Manager Sophie Richardson Glyndebourne and Projects Manager (maternity leave) Fabio Sarlo Glyndebourne and Projects Manager (maternity cover) Grace Ko Tours Manager

Christina McNeill Corporate Relations Manager Rosie Morden Individual Giving Manager Anna Quillin Trusts and Foundations Manager Izzy Keig Development Assistant Lewis Hammond Development Assistant

Alison Jones Concerts and Recordings Co-ordinator

~ Nick Jackman Campaigns and Projects Director

Christina Perrin Concerts and Tours Assistant

Kirstin Peltonen Development Associate

Matthew Freeman Recordings Consultant Andrew Chenery Orchestra Personnel Manager Sarah Holmes Sarah Thomas Librarians Christopher Alderton Stage Manager Damian Davis Transport Manager Hannah Verkerk Orchestra Co-ordinator and Auditions Administrator Laura Kitson Assistant Transport & Stage Manager

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Marketing Kath Trout Marketing Director Mairi Warren Marketing Manager Megan Macarte Box Office Manager (Tel: 020 7840 4242) Rachel Williams Publications Manager Rachel Smith Website Manager Greg Felton Digital Creative Alexandra Lloyd Projects and Residencies Manager Georgie Gulliver Marketing Assistant

Public Relations Premier classical@premiercomms.com Tel: 020 7292 7355/ 020 7292 7335 Archives Philip Stuart Discographer Gillian Pole Recordings Archive Professional Services Charles Russell Speechlys Solicitors Crowe Clark Whitehill LLP Auditors Dr Barry Grimaldi Honorary Doctor Mr Chris Aldren Honorary ENT Surgeon Mr Brian Cohen Mr Simon Owen-Johnstone Honorary Orthopaedic Surgeons London Philharmonic Orchestra 89 Albert Embankment London SE1 7TP Tel: 020 7840 4200 Box Office: 020 7840 4242 Email: admin@lpo.org.uk lpo.org.uk The London Philharmonic Orchestra Limited is a registered charity No. 238045.

Composer photographs courtesy of the Royal College of Music, London.

Cover artwork Design: Ross Shaw @JMG Studio Illustration: Brett Ryder/Heart Agency Printer Cantate