London Philharmonic Orchestra 18 March 2016 concert programme: Brief Encounter

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Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor VLADIMIR JUROWSKI supported by the Tsukanov Family Foundation Principal Guest Conductor ANDRÉS OROZCO-ESTRADA Leader pieter schoeman supported by Neil Westreich Composer in Residence magnus lindberg Patron HRH THE DUKE OF KENT KG Chief Executive and Artistic Director TIMOTHY WALKER AM

Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall Friday 18 March 2016 | 7.30pm

Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18 (32’) Interval (20’) Brief Encounter (film with live orchestra) (86’)

David Charles Abell conductor Jayson Gillham piano

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

By arrangement with ITV Studios Global Entertainment & Park Circus Films

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Contents 2 Welcome

Orchestra news 3 On stage tonight 4 About the Orchestra 5 Leader: Pieter Schoeman 6 David Charles Abell 7 Jayson Gillham 8 Programme notes 14 Sound Futures donors 15 Supporters 16 LPO administration

Welcome

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Orchestra news

New season now on sale!

Next season's LPO concerts at Royal Festival Hall are now open for booking. After the huge success of The Rest Is Noise festival in 2013, we are excited to be collaborating once again with Southbank Centre on another large-scale multi-artform festival. Belief and Beyond Belief will interest atheists, agnostics and those of all faiths. We have devoted our 2017 concerts to the festival, beginning with Beethoven's profound statement on the human condition, Fidelio.

LPO Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor Vladimir Jurowski takes a major role throughout as we explore belief as revealed in works ranging from Haydn's The Creation to John Adams's Harmonielehre. See more details on page 12, browse the full 2016/17 season brochure online at lpo.org.uk/newseason or call us on 020 7840 4200 to request a copy in the post.

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Team LPO On Sunday 10 July 2016 a team of LPO musicians, staff and supporters will be taking part in the Vitality British 10k London Run in aid of the Orchestra’s schools concerts, BrightSparks. All money raised will allow over 12,000 young people from our South London communities and further afield to attend one of our live schools concerts, many for the very first time.

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On stage tonight

First Violins Pieter Schoeman* Leader Chair supported by Neil Westreich

Vesselin Gellev Sub-Leader Ilyoung Chae Chair supported by an anonymous donor

Ji-Hyun Lee Chair supported by Eric Tomsett

Katalin Varnagy Chair supported by Sonja Drexler

Catherine Craig Geoffrey Lynn Chair supported by Caroline, Jamie & Zander Sharp

Robert Pool Sarah Streatfeild Yang Zhang Tina Gruenberg Rebecca Shorrock Galina Tanney Jamie Hutchinson Second Violins Andrew Storey Principal Kate Birchall Chair supported by David & Victoria Graham Fuller

Fiona Higham Nynke Hijlkema Ashley Stevens Robin Wilson Helena Nicholls Sioni Williams Elizabeth Baldey Emma Wragg Nilufar Alimaksumova Anna Croad

Violas Cyrille Mercier Principal Gregory Aronovich Katharine Leek Susanne Martens Benedetto Pollani Emmanuella Reiter Naomi Holt Daniel Cornford Martin Fenn Richard Cookson Cellos Pei-Jee Ng Principal Francis Bucknall Laura Donoghue Santiago Carvalho†David Lale Gregory Walmsley Elisabeth Wiklander Chair supported by The Viney Family

Sue Sutherley Double Basses Kevin Rundell* Principal George Peniston Laurence Lovelle Lowri Morgan Charlotte Kerbegian Ben Wolstenholme

Flutes Sue Thomas* Principal

Trombones Mark Templeton* Principal

Chair supported by Victoria Robey OBE

Chair supported by William & Alex de Winton

Stewart McIlwham*

David Whitehouse

Chair supported by Friends of the Orchestra

Bass Trombone Lyndon Meredith Principal

Oboes Alice Munday Principal Rachel Harwood-White

Tuba Lee Tsarmaklis* Principal

Clarinets Robert Hill* Principal Thomas Watmough Sub-Principal

Timpani Simon Carrington* Principal Percussion Andrew Barclay* Principal

Bassoons Simon Estell Principal Emma Harding

Chair supported by Andrew Davenport

Henry Baldwin Co-Principal

Horns Mark Vines Principal Martin Hobbs Stephen Nicholls Gareth Mollison Jonathan Quaintrell-Evans Trumpets Paul Beniston* Principal Anne McAneney* Chair supported by Geoff & Meg Mann

Chair supported by Jon Claydon

* Holds a professorial appointment in London †Chevalier of the Brazilian Order of Rio Branco Meet our members: lpo.org.uk/players

Chair supporters The London Philharmonic Orchestra also acknowledges the following chair supporters whose players are not present at this concert: Dr Barry Grimaldi | The Jeniffer and Jonathan Harris Charitable Trust | Simon Robey | Bianca and Stuart Roden Laurence Watt

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The LPO can stand alongside the top international orchestras with pride.

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Recognised today as one of the finest orchestras on the international stage, the London Philharmonic Orchestra balances a long and distinguished history with a reputation as one of the UK’s most forwardlooking ensembles. As well as its performances in the concert hall, the Orchestra also records film and video game soundtracks, releases CDs on its own record label, and reaches thousands of people every year through activities for families, schools and community groups.

The Orchestra was founded by Sir Thomas Beecham in 1932. It has since been headed by many of the world’s greatest conductors including Sir Adrian Boult, Bernard Haitink, Sir Georg Solti, Klaus Tennstedt and Kurt Masur.

Vladimir Jurowski is currently the Orchestra’s Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor, appointed in 2007.

Andrés Orozco-Estrada took up the position of Principal Guest Conductor in September 2015. Magnus Lindberg is the Orchestra’s current Composer in Residence.

The Orchestra is resident at Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall in London, where it gives over 30 concerts each season. Throughout 2014/15 the Orchestra gave a series of concerts entitled Rachmaninoff: Inside Out, a festival exploring the composer’s major

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orchestral masterpieces. 2015/16 is a strong season for singers, with performances by Toby Spence and Anne Sofie von Otter amongst others; Sibelius enjoys 150th anniversary celebrations; distinguished visiting conductors include Stanisław Skrowaczewski, JukkaPekka Saraste and Vasily Petrenko, with Robin Ticciati returning after his debut in 2015; and in 2016 the LPO joins many of London’s other leading cultural institutions in Shakespeare400, celebrating the Bard’s legacy 400 years since his death. The Orchestra continues its commitment to new music with premieres of commissions including Magnus Lindberg’s Second Violin Concerto and Alexander Raskatov’s Green Mass.

Outside London, the Orchestra has flourishing residencies in Brighton and Eastbourne, and performs regularly around the UK. Each summer the Orchestra takes up its annual residency at Glyndebourne Festival Opera in the Sussex countryside, where it has been Resident Symphony Orchestra for over 50 years. The Orchestra also 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 large part of

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the Orchestra’s life: highlights of the 2015/16 season include visits to Mexico City as part of the UK Mexico Year of Culture, Spain, Germany, the Canary Islands, Belgium, a return to the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam and the Orchestra’s premiere at La Scala, Milan.

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 through an energetic programme of activities for young people.

Highlights include the BrightSparks schools’ concerts and FUNharmonics family concerts; the Young Composers Programme; and the Foyle Future Firsts orchestral training programme for outstanding young players. Its work at the forefront of digital engagement and social media has 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 and regular podcast series, the Orchestra has a lively presence across social media. lpo.org.uk facebook.com/londonphilharmonicorchestra twitter.com/LPOrchestra youtube.com/londonphilharmonic7 instagram.com/londonphilharmonicorchestra

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The London Philharmonic Orchestra has recorded the soundtracks to numerous blockbuster films, 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 90 releases available on CD and to download. Recent additions include Rachmaninoff's Symphony No. 3 and 10 Songs under Vladimir Jurowski, and a second volume of works by the Orchestra's former Composer in Residence, Julian Anderson.

Pieter Schoeman was appointed Leader of the LPO in 2008, having previously been Co-Leader since 2002.

Born in South Africa, he made his solo debut aged 10 with the Cape Town Symphony Orchestra. He studied with Jack de Wet in South Africa, winning numerous competitions including the 1984 World Youth Concerto Competition in the US. In 1987 he was offered the Heifetz Chair of Music scholarship to study with Eduard Schmieder in Los Angeles and in 1991 his talent was spotted by Pinchas Zukerman, who recommended that he move to New York to study with Sylvia Rosenberg. In 1994 he became her teaching assistant at Indiana University, Bloomington.

Pieter has performed worldwide as a soloist and recitalist in such famous halls as the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Moscow's Rachmaninov Hall, Capella Hall in St Petersburg, Staatsbibliothek in Berlin, Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, and Southbank Centre's Queen Elizabeth Hall in London. As a chamber musician he regularly performs at London's prestigious Wigmore Hall.

As a soloist with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Pieter has performed Arvo Pärt's Double Concerto with Boris Garlitsky, Brahms's Double Concerto with Kristina Blaumane, and Britten's Double Concerto with Alexander Zemtsov, which was recorded and released on the Orchestra's own record label to great critical acclaim.

He has recorded numerous violin solos with the London Philharmonic Orchestra for Chandos, Opera Rara, Naxos, X5, the BBC and for American film and television, and led the Orchestra in its soundtrack recordings for The Lord of the Rings trilogy.

In 1995 Pieter became Co-Leader of the Orchestre Philharmonique de Nice. Since then he has appeared frequently as Guest Leader with the Barcelona, Bordeaux, Lyon, Baltimore and BBC symphony orchestras, and the Rotterdam and BBC Philharmonic orchestras. He is a Professor of Violin at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in London. Pieter's chair in the London Philharmonic Orchestra is supported by Neil Westreich.

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David Charles Abell

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conductor

Born in North Carolina, David studied with Leonard Bernstein and Nadia Boulanger, gaining degrees from Yale and The Juilliard School. Intensive study of viola, piano and composition gave way to a focus on conducting from the age of 14.

David has conducted many of the top British orchestras including the London Philharmonic, London Symphony, City of Birmingham Symphony, Bournemouth Symphony, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Royal Scottish National and Hallé orchestras.

His most recent projects include the hugely acclaimed Sweeney Todd at English National Opera (starring Bryn Terfel and Emma Thompson); a new production of Fiddler on the Roof for Grange Park Opera, also starring Terfel; and Kevin Puts’s World War One opera Silent Night in Cincinnati and Kansas City. He has conducted the French premieres of four Sondheim musicals: Sweeney Todd, Sunday in the Park with George and Into the Woods at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, and Follies at the Opéra de Toulon. He conducted the world premiere of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Love Never Dies in London’s West End, as well as the Les Misérables 10th and 25th Anniversary concerts, both telecast worldwide.

His operatic credits include Porgy and Bess for Cincinnati Opera and Cape Town Opera; Rossini’s La gazza ladra for Opera North; Carmen and Madam Butterfly at the Royal Albert Hall; and Menotti’s Maria Golovin at the Spoleto Festival.

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David made his BBC Proms debut conducting the BBC Concert Orchestra in a live TV broadcast of Richard Rodgers’s Oklahoma!, and has conducted at the festival several times, including the Stephen Sondheim 80th birthday celebration and the War Horse Prom. His work with the BBC Symphony Orchestra includes Bliss’s Morning Heroes at the Brighton Festival and a studio concert of music by his mentor, Leonard Bernstein.

David has also worked with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, twice conducting Proms in the Park (broadcast live on BBC television) as well as Copland’s Third Symphony in Swansea. His performance with Peter Donohoe of the Gershwin Concerto in F in Swansea was featured in BBC Music Magazine.

David’s many TV appearances include Rachel Portman’s opera The Little Prince and The Waltz King, a drama/ documentary about the Johann Strausses, father and son (both subsequently released on DVD). Recordings include Something’s Gotta Give (Simon Keenlyside and Scarlett Strallen); Forever (Diana Damrau); Jonathan Dove’s Tobias and the Angel; highlights from La bohème and Madam Butterfly with the RPO; and complete recordings of Miss Saigon, Martin Guerre and Man of La Mancha.

He has recently conducted two new productions of Kiss Me Kate (in the Critical Edition he edited with Seann Alderking) for Opera North and the Théâtre du Châtelet. Later this spring he will return to Lyric Opera of Kansas City for Carmen and Cincinnati Opera for Die Fledermaus.

Jayson Gillham

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piano

London-based Australian pianist Jayson Gillham has emerged as one of the finest musicians of his generation. Since winning both the First Prize and the Audience Prize at the 2014 Montreal International Music Competition, Gillham has seen his career flourish – from the three-album record deal with ABC Classics, performing with the Jerusalem Quartet at the Verbier Festival and multiple recitals at the Louvre Auditorium in Paris, to recognition from conductors including Vladimir Ashkenazy, Sir Mark Elder, Asher Fisch and Jeffrey Tate.

Jayson made his debut with the London Philharmonic Orchestra last month, performing Schumann's Piano Concerto with the Orchestra at Eastbourne's Congress Theatre. Other concerto highlights in 2016 include performances of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4 with the Nashville Symphony (conducted by Asher Fisch) and the Sydney Symphony (under Vladimir Ashkenazy) at the Sydney Opera House, and the Piano Concerto No. 3 with the Adelaide Symphony under Jeffrey Tate. This year will also see the release of Gillham's debut ABC Classics disc: a recital featuring works by Bach, Schubert and Chopin. Forthcoming recital highlights include the Perth International Arts Festival; Medici Concerts at the Queensland Performing Arts Centre; Angel Place in Sydney; and a recital in the Elisabeth Murdoch Hall at the Melbourne Recital Centre.

Jayson performs across the globe, with recent and future highlights including concerto engagements with the Hallé; the English Chamber Orchestra at Royal Festival Hall; the Melbourne, Adelaide and Queensland symphony orchestras; the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal; the Orchestra Filarmonica Marchigiana and the Wuhan Philharmonic. In recital, Jayson performs at

some of the world’s most prestigious venues including London's Wigmore Hall and the Louvre Auditorium, amongst others.

Festival highlights include the Verbier Festival, Edinburgh Fringe, Brighton Festival, Linari Classic Festival (Tuscany), Two Moors Festival, Norfolk and Norwich Festival, Deia International Music Festival (Majorca), and the Bangalow and Tyalgum Music festivals (Australia). Chamber music forms an important part of Jayson’s career, with highlights including performances with the Jerusalem, Carducci, Brentano, Ruysdael and Flinders string quartets.

A graduate of the Queensland Conservatorium of Music, where he studied with Leah Horwitz, Jayson relocated to London in 2007 to pursue a Master’s degree at the Royal Academy of Music (RAM) with Christopher Elton.

He is grateful to the Australian Music Foundation, the Tait Memorial Trust and The Keyboard Trust for their steadfast support over several years. In 2012 Jayson was named Commonwealth Musician of the Year and Gold Medallist of the prestigious Royal Over-Seas League 60th Annual Music Competition. jaysongillham.co.uk facebook.com/jaysongillham twitter.com/jaysongillham

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Programme notes

Rachmaninoff and Brief Encounter If any film can be described as iconic, David Lean’s Brief Encounter of 1945 can – a story charged with passion and atmosphere as two ordinary people discover something deep and lifechanging on the platform of a suburban railway station. Pulsing through the film like an emotional express train is Rachmaninoff’s heart-rending Second Piano

Serge Rachmaninoff 1873–1943

The first performance of Rachmaninoff’s First Symphony in 1897 was one of the most crushing and humiliating ordeals ever endured by a composer of genius. According to some eyewitnesses the conductor, Glazunov, was drunk. Whatever the cause, the performance was a shambles, the 24-year-old Rachmaninoff fled the hall in horror, and the critics were savage. Rachmaninoff now found himself unable to compose anything of significance. Even by the beginning of 1900 he was still in low spirits.

A friend arranged a meeting with Rachmaninoff’s literary idol Tolstoy, but it was a disaster. The great man fobbed him off with platitudes: ‘Do you think I’m pleased with myself? Work. I work every day’ – and so on. Alarmed by Rachmaninoff’s despair, an intimate family friend recommended what we would now call a hypnotherapist: Dr Nikolai Dahl. The fact that Dahl was also musical would have helped, of course, but even then the results were spectacular. That summer Rachmaninoff began work on a long-abandoned project – his Second Piano Concerto. The second and third movements were finished in a couple of months; the first followed at the beginning of 1901.

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Concerto, rapturously proclaiming everything Laura and Alec feel but dare not speak. Tonight's screening of the film with live orchestral soundtrack is preceded by a complete live performance of this most rousing of masterpieces, played by the winner of the 2014 Montreal Piano Competition, Jayson Gillham.

Piano Piano Concerto Concerto No. No. 3 in 2 in DC minor, minor, Op. Op. 3018 Jayson Gillham piano Simon Trpčeski piano 1 1 Moderato Allegro ma non tanto Adagio sostenuto 2 2 Intermezzo: Adagio – Allegro 3 3 Finale: Allascherzando breve

As the date of the first performance approached, Rachmaninoff’s anxiety understandably mounted, and when a friend criticised the first movement, Rachmaninoff responded that the movement was ‘ruined, and from now on it is absolutely repulsive to me’. Fortunately the performance went ahead anyway, with the composer himself as soloist, and it was an immediate and lasting triumph. From now until his final departure from Russia in 1917, Rachmaninoff’s creative fluency was fully restored. In gratitude, Rachmaninoff dedicated the Concerto to Dr Dahl. Rarely, it seems, has a dedication been so thoroughly deserved.

Listening to the Second Piano Concerto one would surely never guess that the slow movement and finale were actually written first. The highly original opening – rock-like solo piano chords rising by step to fortissimo – feels like someone slowly lifting a huge weight, the energy generated being sufficient to set the entire work in motion. From this a magnificent long-breathed tune emerges on strings, with swirling piano figures.

This leads in time to a gentler, more reflective second theme, begun by the piano alone, whose opening phrase ingeniously anticipates ideas in the next two

movements. A dark, turbulent drama develops, to which the opening of the following Adagio sostenuto offers soothing contrast: a few bars of quiet transition from the orchestra yield to melting, liquid piano figures and a long instrumental song from flute and clarinet.

The first movement’s storms are briefly remembered later on, but serenity returns, with a final flowering of the original flute and clarinet melody on strings. The finale plunges us back into the action, but now with a

growing sense of excitement, until the ardent second theme rises majestically on full orchestra with an avalanche of sonorous chords from the piano. As a man Rachmaninoff may have been tormented by self-doubt, but as a composer he knew exactly how to calculate the kind of ending that could raise the roof.

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Programme notes

Brief Encounter film with live orchestra Jayson Gillham piano

2015 was the 70th anniversary of David Lean’s Brief Encounter, starring Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard as the suburban housewife and handsome doctor who embark on a short, passionate but unconsummated affair. The anniversary inspired a flurry of screenings alongside tea dances in the film's honour and documentaries about this uniquely British film of its era, where tiny tragedies and personal loss take place over plentiful cups of tea that quench the thirst and, perhaps, dampen the ardour.

During the anniversary, much was said about how Brief Encounter is still one of the all-time great love stories, impeccably acted and directed, despite the temptation to gently mock the clipped accents and British reserve portrayed on screen. But not much was revealed as to why Rachmaninoff’s heartfelt Second Piano Concerto was chosen as the soundtrack.

During the late 1930s and ’40s, Rachmaninoff’s intensely romantic style had a huge influence on British cinematic music, resulting in what were known as ‘tabloid concertos’: sort of mini-concertos, short works that were repeated throughout a film to match the narrative. The most well-known example

is Richard Addinsell’s concerto written for Dangerous Moonlight in 1941. The style was also adopted in a series of melodramas produced by the British company Gainsborough Pictures throughout the 1940s, such as Love Story (1944), in which Margaret Lockwood plays a concert pianist who falls for Stewart Grainger. Brief Encounter is not the only film to use Rachmaninoff’s Second Piano Concerto; it also appears in The Seventh Veil, coincidentally made in the same year, which is about another young female concert pianist, this time under the powers of a Svengali-like James Mason.

It was the author of Brief Encounter's screenplay, Noël Coward, who decided that the Concerto would suit Laura’s character perfectly: an outlet for the repressed emotions of love and guilt that she cannot reveal because of the social demands of the time. As Stephen Johnson discusses in his note to the Concerto, the work was written while Rachmaninoff was being treated by a hypnotherapist, but while also falling in love with Dahl’s daughter – unrequited love and passion can be heard in every note. You could argue that the music is the third main character in the film, that of Laura’s conscience.

From the start, the narrative of the music aligns with that of the film. There’s no messing about: the opening chords and brooding searching strings are heard immediately after the train’s whistle (train audio sounds – bells, whistles, steam, the rattle of wheels on the track – are also used as a backdrop to emotional moments) over the opening credits. The Concerto's first movement is heard again, this time over the radio, when Laura is back in her domestic setting, and begins her unheard confession to Fred, her darling ‘unemotional’ but dependable husband.

Certain parts of the Concerto are used as leitmotifs.

The second theme of the last movement is used as a

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'love motif', heard at crucial moments: when Laura tells Alec that he is looking younger – the point when they begin to realise that they are falling in love; the drive through the country; and when they finally kiss on the bridge. The slow movement makes an appearance whenever anxiety and guilt are at the forefront of Laura’s thoughts. The minor key looms large when Laura first lies to Fred and stares at her duplicitous, unrecognisable self in the mirror. It’s especially poignant when she runs away from Alec’s friend’s flat – she feels a heightened sense of shame but also regret at the missed opportunity for fulfilling the elicit affair. And once again in the following scene when Alec announces he is taking a job in South Africa.

The more light-hearted moments of the Concerto are also used to effect: the rising bubbles of piano and woodwind reflecting ‘butterflies in the stomach’ as Alec finally turns up on the second Thursday, and skittish passages heard when Laura has girlish romantic ‘silly dreams’ of the life she and Alec might have had together.

It’s interesting to note that the ‘third character’ takes a polite step back at other crucial points, for example when Alec declares his love in a rather unromantic boating shed, and when Laura decides to hastily get off the train and go back to meet Alec in the flat after all.

But there it is, taking a final curtain call, as Fred wraps his wife in his arms and has the last line: ‘You’ve been a long way away. Thank you for coming back to me’.

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2016/17 Concert Season at Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall Highlights include: — Soloists including Anne-Sofie — Belief and Beyond Belief, Mutter, Nicola Benedetti, a year-long festival with Julian Bliss, Steven Isserlis, Southbank Centre exploring Patricia Kopatchinskaja and what makes us human in the Hilary Hahn 21st century, in partnership with Principal Conductor — Great choral works including and Artistic Advisor Haydn’s The Creation, Vladimir Jurowski Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis, — Sibelius expert Osmo Mozart’s Requiem, Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 and Vänskä presents a Symphony Beethoven’s Symphony Cycle pairing Sibelius’s No. 9 (Choral) symphonies with concertos

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Masur Circle Arts Council England Dunard Fund Victoria Robey OBE Emmanuel & Barrie Roman The Underwood Trust

The Rothschild Foundation Tom & Phillis Sharpe The Viney Family

Haitink Patrons Mark & Elizabeth Adams Dr Christopher Aldren Mrs Pauline Baumgartner Welser-Möst Circle Lady Jane Berrill William & Alex de Winton Mr Frederick Brittenden John Ireland Charitable Trust David & Yi Yao Buckley The Tsukanov Family Foundation Mr Clive Butler Neil Westreich Gill & Garf Collins Tennstedt Circle Mr John H Cook Valentina & Dmitry Aksenov Mr Alistair Corbett Richard Buxton Bruno de Kegel The Candide Trust Georgy Djaparidze Michael & Elena Kroupeev David Ellen Kirby Laing Foundation Christopher Fraser OBE & Lisa Fraser Mr & Mrs Makharinsky David & Victoria Graham Fuller Alexey & Anastasia Reznikovich Goldman Sachs International Simon Robey Mr Gavin Graham Bianca & Stuart Roden Moya Greene Simon & Vero Turner Mrs Dorothy Hambleton The late Mr K Twyman Tony & Susie Hayes 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 Robert Markwick & Kasia Robinski The Rind Foundation The Maurice Marks Charitable Trust Sir Bernard Rix David Ross & Line Forestier (Canada) Mr Paris Natar

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Carolina & Martin Schwab Dr Brian Smith Lady Valerie Solti Mr & Mrs G Stein Dr Peter Stephenson Miss Anne Stoddart TFS Loans Limited Lady 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 Queree 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

We would like to acknowledge the generous support of the following Thomas Beecham Group Patrons, Principal Benefactors and Benefactors: Thomas Beecham Group The Tsukanov Family Foundation Neil Westreich William and Alex de Winton Mrs Philip Kan* Simon Robey Victoria Robey OBE Bianca & Stuart Roden Laurence Watt Anonymous Jon Claydon Garf & Gill Collins* Andrew Davenport Mrs Sonja Drexler David & Victoria Graham Fuller Dr Barry Grimaldi The Jeniffer and Jonathan Harris Charitable Trust Mr & Mrs Makharinsky Geoff & Meg Mann Caroline, Jamie & Zander Sharp Julian & Gill Simmonds* Eric Tomsett The Viney Family John & Manon Antoniazzi Jane Attias David Goldstone CBE LLB FRICS John & Angela Kessler Guy & Utti Whittaker * BrightSparks Patrons: instead of supporting a chair in the Orchestra, these donors have chosen to support our series of schools’ concerts.

Principal Benefactors Mark & Elizabeth Adams David & Yi Yao Buckley Desmond & Ruth Cecil Mr John H Cook Mr Bruno de Kegel David Ellen Mr Daniel Goldstein Drs Frank & Gek Lim Peter MacDonald Eggers Dr Eva Lotta & Mr Thierry Sciard Mr & Mrs David Malpas Virginia Slaymaker Mr & Mrs G Stein Mr & Mrs John C Tucker Mr & Mrs John & Susi Underwood Grenville & Krysia Williams Mr Anthony Yolland Benefactors Mr Geoffrey Bateman Mrs A Beare Ms Molly Borthwick David & Patricia Buck Mrs Alan Carrington Mr & Mrs Stewart Cohen Mr Alistair Corbett Mr Timothy Fancourt QC Mr Richard Fernyhough Mr Gavin Graham Wim and Jackie Hautekiet-Clare Tony & Susan Hayes Mr Daniel Heaf and Ms Amanda Hill Michael & Christine Henry Malcolm Herring J. Douglas Home Ivan Hurry

Mr Glenn Hurstfield Per Jonsson Mr Gerald Levin Wg. Cdr. & Mrs M T Liddiard OBE JP RAF Paul & Brigitta Lock Mr Peter Mace Ms Ulrike Mansel Mr Robert Markwick and Ms Kasia Robinski Mr Brian Marsh Andrew T Mills Dr Karen Morton Mr & Mrs Andrew Neill Mr Roger Phillimore Mr James Pickford Andrew and Sarah Poppleton Mr Michael Posen Alexey & Anastasia Reznikovich Mr Konstantin Sorokin Martin and Cheryl Southgate Mr Peter Tausig Lady Marina Vaizey Simon and Charlotte Warshaw Howard & Sheelagh Watson Des & Maggie Whitelock Christopher Williams Bill Yoe and others who wish to remain anonymous Hon. Benefactor Elliott Bernerd Hon. Life Members Kenneth Goode Carol Colburn Grigor CBE Pehr G Gyllenhammar Mrs Jackie Rosenfeld OBE

The generosity of our Sponsors, Corporate Members, supporters and donors is gratefully acknowledged: Corporate Members Silver: Accenture Berenberg Carter-Ruck We are AD Bronze: Appleyard & Trew LLP BTO Management Consulting AG Charles Russell Speechlys Lazard Russo-British Chamber of Commerce Willis Towers Watson Preferred Partners Corinthia Hotel London Heineken Lindt & Sprüngli Ltd Sipsmith Steinway Villa Maria In-kind Sponsor Google Inc

Trusts and Foundations Angus Allnatt Charitable Foundation Axis Foundation The Bernarr Rainbow Trust The Boltini Trust Borletti-Buitoni Trust The Candide Trust Cockayne – Grants for the Arts The D’Oyly Carte Charitable Trust Dunard Fund The Equitable Charitable Trust The Foyle Foundation Lucille Graham Trust The Jeniffer and Jonathan Harris Charitable Trust Help Musicians UK The Idlewild Trust Kirby Laing Foundation The Leverhulme Trust The London Community Foundation London Stock Exchange Group Foundation Lord and Lady Lurgan Trust Marsh Christian Trust Adam Mickiewicz Institute The Peter Minet Trust

The Ann and Frederick O’Brien Charitable Trust Office for Cultural and Scientific Affairs of the Embassy of Spain in London The Austin and Hope Pilkington Trust The Stanley Picker Trust The Radcliffe Trust Rivers Foundation The R K Charitable Trust RVW Trust Schroder Charity Trust Serge Rachmaninoff Foundation The David Solomons Charitable Trust Souter Charitable Trust The John Thaw Foundation The Tillett Trust UK Friends of the Felix-MendelssohnBartholdy-Foundation The Viney Family Garfield Weston Foundation The Barbara Whatmore Charitable Trust 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 Manon Antoniazzi Roger Barron Richard Brass Desmond Cecil CMG Jonathan Harris CBE FRICS Amanda Hill Dr Catherine C. Høgel Rachel Masters* George Peniston* Kevin Rundell* Natasha Tsukanova Mark Vines* Timothy Walker AM Laurence Watt Neil Westreich David Whitehouse* * Player-Director

Chief Executive

Education and Community

Digital Projects

Timothy Walker AM Chief Executive and Artistic Director

Isabella Kernot Education Director (maternity leave)

Alison Atkinson Digital Projects Director

Amy Sugarman PA to the Chief Executive / Administrative Assistant

Clare Lovett Education Director (maternity cover)

Finance

Talia Lash Education and Community Project Manager

Albion Media (Tel: 020 3077 4930)

Lucy Sims Education and Community Project Manager

Philip Stuart Discographer

Advisory Council Victoria Robey OBE Chairman Christopher Aldren Richard Brass David Buckley Sir Alan Collins KCVO CMG Andrew Davenport Jonathan Dawson William de Winton Cameron Doley Edward Dolman Christopher Fraser OBE Lord Hall of Birkenhead CBE Rehmet Kassim-Lakha Jamie Korner Clive Marks OBE FCA Stewart McIlwham Sir Bernard Rix Baroness Shackleton Lord Sharman of Redlynch OBE Thomas Sharpe QC Julian Simmonds Barry Smith Martin Southgate Sir Philip Thomas Sir John Tooley Chris Viney Timothy Walker AM Elizabeth Winter American Friends of the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Inc. Jenny Ireland Co-Chairman William A. Kerr Co-Chairman Kyung-Wha Chung Xenia Hanusiak Alexandra Jupin Jill Fine Mainelli Kristina McPhee David Oxenstierna Harvey M. Spear, Esq. Danny Lopez Hon. Chairman Noel Kilkenny Hon. Director Victoria Robey OBE Hon. Director Richard Gee, Esq Of Counsel Jenifer L. Keiser, CPA, EisnerAmper LLP Stephanie Yoshida

David Burke General Manager and Finance Director David Greenslade Finance and IT Manager Dayse Guilherme Finance Officer

Richard Mallett Education and Community Producer

Concert Management

Development

Roanna Gibson Concerts Director

Nick Jackman Development Director

Graham Wood Concerts and Recordings Manager

Catherine Faulkner Development Events Manager

Jenny Chadwick Tours Manager Tamzin Aitken Glyndebourne and UK Engagements Manager Alison Jones Concerts and Recordings Co-ordinator

Kathryn Hageman Individual Giving Manager Laura Luckhurst Corporate Relations Manager Anna Quillin Trusts and Foundations Manager Rebecca Fogg Development Co-ordinator

Jo Cotter Tours Co-ordinator

Helen Yang Development Assistant

Orchestra Personnel

Kirstin Peltonen Development Associate

Andrew Chenery Orchestra Personnel Manager Sarah Holmes Sarah Thomas Librarians Christopher Alderton Stage Manager Damian Davis Transport Manager Madeleine Ridout Assistant Orchestra Personnel Manager

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Matthew Freeman Recordings Consultant Public Relations

Archives

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 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.

Marketing Kath Trout Marketing Director Libby Northcote-Green Marketing Manager Rachel Williams Publications Manager Samantha Cleverley Box Office Manager (Tel: 020 7840 4242) Anna O’Connor Marketing Co-ordinator Natasha Berg Marketing Intern

Rachmaninoff photograph courtesy of the Royal College of Music, London.

Front cover photograph: Ilyoung Chae, First Violin © Benjamin Ealovega.

Cover design/ art direction: Ross Shaw @ JMG Studio.

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