Issuu

SPRING 2021 CONCERT SEASON

THE STREAM OF LIFE PROGRAMME NOTES WEDNESDAY 31 MARCH 2021 8PM

TOWARDS FREEDOM Missy Mazzoli These Worlds In Us Sibelius Finlandia Sibelius Symphony No. 1 Enrique Mazzola conductor Supported by the

LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA • TOWARDS FREEDOM • 31 MARCH 2021

CONTENTS CLICK ON THE HEADINGS TO JUMP TO A SECTION

3 PROGRAMME NOTES: MAZZOLI 4 COMPOSER PROFILE: MISSY MAZZOLI 5 PROGRAMME NOTES: SIBELIUS FINLANDIA 6 PROGRAMME NOTES: SIBELIUS SYMPHONY NO. 1 8 ENRIQUE MAZZOLA 9 LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA 10 ON STAGE TONIGHT 11 NEXT CONCERTS 12 ANNUAL APPEAL 2021: MUSIC WITH MEANING 13 SOUND FUTURES DONORS 14 THANK YOU 17 MEMBERSHIPS & DONATIONS 18 CORPORATE PARTNERSHIPS 19 LPO ADMINISTRATION

Concert performed at the Southbank Centre’s Queen Elizabeth Hall on 4 March 2021 and filmed by Intersection. The safety of our musicians and staff is paramount, and filming sessions adhere strictly to safety measures in line with UK Government guidance. The London Philharmonic Orchestra is grateful to all those whose who are generously supporting the Orchestra during the 2020/21 season. This performance has been made possible through a grant from the Cultural Recovery Fund from the Department of Digital, Culture, Media and Sport. #HereForCulture

–2–

LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA • TOWARDS FREEDOM • 31 MARCH 2021

PROGRAMME NOTES MISSY MAZZOLI BORN 1980

THESE WORLDS IN US 2006 – APPROX 9 MINS –

The title These Worlds In Us comes from James Tate’s poem The Lost Pilot, a meditation on his father’s death in World War II: (excerpt) My head cocked towards the sky, I cannot get off the ground, and you, passing over again, fast, perfect and unwilling to tell me that you are doing well, or that it was a mistake

to the bookends of the work. The rhythmic structures and cyclical nature of the piece are inspired by the unique tension and logic of Balinese music, and the march-like figures in the percussion bring to mind the militaristic inspiration for the work as well as the relentless energy of electronica drum beats. Missy Mazzoli (Composer Profile on next page) These Worlds In Us was the winner of the 2007 ASCAP Young Composer Award and the Woods Chandler Prize for best orchestral composition for the Yale Philharmonia. Its first performance was on 1 March 2006 by the Yale Philharmonia; the first professional performance was on 1 December 2006 by the Minnesota Orchestra under Osmo Vänskä.

that placed you in that world, and me in this; or that misfortune placed these worlds in us. This piece is dedicated to my father, who was a soldier during the Vietnam War. In talking to him it occurred to me that, as we grow older, we accumulate worlds of intense memory within us, and that grief is often not far from joy. I like the idea that music can reflect painful and blissful sentiments in a single note or gesture, and sought to create a sound palette that I hope is at once completely new and strangely familiar to the listener.

‘A DELICATE AND DIZZYING BALANCE OF MILITARISTIC RHYTHM AND SOARING PERSONAL LINES, AT ONCE ECSTATIC AND DESPONDENT AND WHOLLY SUBMERGED IN AN ACHING NOSTALGIA.’

The theme of this work, a mournful line first played by the violins, collapses into glissandos almost immediately after it appears, giving the impression that the piece has been submerged under water or played on a turntable that is grinding to a halt. The melodicas (mouth organs) played by the percussionists in the opening and final gestures mimic the wheeze of a broken accordion, lending a particular vulnerability

WQXR – NEW YORK’S CLASSICAL MUSIC RADIO STATION

–3–

LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA • TOWARDS FREEDOM • 31 MARCH 2021

COMPOSER PROFILE MISSY MAZZOLI BORN 1980

‘ONE OF THE MORE CONSISTENTLY INVENTIVE, SURPRISING COMPOSERS NOW WORKING IN NEW YORK’

THE NEW YORK TIMES

Recently deemed ‘Brooklyn’s post-millennial Mozart’ (Time Out New York), and praised for her ‘apocalyptic imagination’ (Alex Ross, The New Yorker), Missy Mazzoli’s talent draws audiences equally into concert halls, opera houses and rock clubs. She inhabits an exquisite and mysterious sound-world that melds indie-rock sensibilities with formal training. Her music has been performed by the Kronos Quartet, LA Opera, eighth blackbird, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Minnesota Orchestra, Scottish Opera and many others. In 2018 she became, along with Jeanine Tesori, one of the first women to receive a main-stage commission from the Metropolitan Opera, and was nominated for a Grammy award in the ‘Best Classical Composition’ category for her work Vespers for Violin. Missy Mazzoli is currently Mead Composer-inResidence at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and from 2012–15 was Composer-in-Residence with Opera Philadelphia. Her 2018 opera Proving Up, created with longtime collaborator librettist Royce Vavrek and based on a short story by Karen Russell, is a surreal commentary on the American dream. It was commissioned and premiered by Washington National Opera, Opera Omaha and Miller Theatre, and was deemed ‘harrowing … a true opera for its time’ by the Washington Post. Her 2016 opera Breaking the Waves, commissioned by Opera

Philadelphia and Beth Morrison Projects, was hailed ‘one of the best 21st-century American operas yet’ by Opera News. Breaking the Waves received its European premiere at the 2019 Edinburgh Festival; future performances are planned at LA Opera, Houston Grand Opera and the Adelaide Festival. Missy Mazzoli is an active pianist and keyboardist, and often performs with Victoire, a band she founded in 2008 dedicated to her own compositions. Their debut full-length CD, Cathedral City, was named one of 2010′s best classical albums by Time Out New York, NPR, The New Yorker and The New York Times, In 2016, Missy and composer Ellen Reid founded Luna Lab, a mentorship programme for young female composers created in partnership with the Kaufman Music Center. Her works are published by G. Schirmer.

–4–

LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA • TOWARDS FREEDOM • 31 MARCH 2021

PROGRAMME NOTES JEAN SIBELIUS 1865–1957

FINLANDIA, OP. 26 1898–99 – APPROX 40 MINS –

Before declaring itself independent in 1917, Finland was ruled by Sweden and thereafter by Russia. Resentment of the latter occupation reached a peak among Finns in 1899, when the Russian GovernorGeneral Nikolay Bobrikov started to clamp down on Finnish autonomy and closed a number of Finnishlanguage newspapers. In November 1899, a three-day benefit event was organised to aid journalists in difficulty following the closures. For the occasion, the fast-rising composer Jean Sibelius wrote a series of seven musical portraits evoking Finland’s history culminating in a rousing finale: Finland Awakes. Few could have missed the political implications of that not-so-subtle title, nor the nationalistic elements in the actual music. It was another month before Finland Awakes found its feet and its resonance. Robert Kajanus, conductor of the Helsinki Philharmonic, organised a concert in which four of Sibelius’s portraits were revived, Finland Awakes included. Sibelius rearranged the piece and it took the form and title we know today. It opens with angry brass, snarling defensively before giving way to a hymn of hope and resolve, filled with the rhythmic inflections of the Finnish language and the bowed head of Lutheran obedience.

‘WE FOUGHT 600 YEARS FOR OUR FREEDOM AND I AM PART OF THE GENERATION THAT ACHIEVED IT. FREEDOM! MY FINLANDIA IS THE STORY OF THIS FIGHT. IT IS THE SONG OF OUR BATTLE, OUR HYMN OF VICTORY.’ JEAN SIBELIUS

Programme note © Andrew Mellor

–5–

LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA • TOWARDS FREEDOM • 31 MARCH 2021

PROGRAMME NOTES JEAN SIBELIUS 1865–1957

SYMPHONY NO. 1 IN E MINOR, OP. 39 1898–99 – APPROX 40 MINS –

1 ANDANTE MA NON TROPPO – ALLEGRO ENERGICO 2 ANDANTE MA NON TROPPO LENTO 3 SCHERZO. ALLEGRO 4 FINALE (QUASI UNA FANTASIA). ANDANTE – ALLEGRO MOLTO Before Finlandia, there had been Sibelius’s First Symphony. Plenty of disgruntled Finns heard the first performance of the Symphony in April 1899 as a rallying cry against Russian occupation. But is that really how the composer conceived the piece?

numerous fragments and melodies right up to the Symphony’s final notes. The last movement launches with a transfigured version of it on thrusting strings.

Yes and no. Initially, it was planned as a ‘storytelling’ symphony, focusing on Finland’s history and geology. But seven years after the success of Sibelius’s Kullervo, based on Finnish folklore, friends were urging the composer to think more symphonically. What Finland needed, they said, was a symphony that stood its ground without recourse to storytelling. In his student days in Vienna and Berlin, Sibelius had learned how to continuously shape and sand his musical themes, like a sculptor might, until they were fit for purpose. In the First Symphony, we begin to hear Sibelius handling his material in that distinctive way. The First Symphony’s misty opening on a lonesome clarinet, for example, doesn’t just prepare us for the energetic shock of the movement’s fast Allegro that follows; it infiltrates the work’s musical ideas fully. The shape of that clarinet theme can be traced in

In that gesture is another key to what made Sibelius’s symphonic conception so different – his response to the capabilities of the orchestra. The Germanic approach to developing a symphony’s conversation was largely about the notes; it could be mapped-out on a piano before being literally distributed to orchestral instruments on paper. Sibelius, meanwhile, allowed the character of his instruments to dictate the form and progress of his music. He let orchestral conversations and colours move the music forward, not just harmonic and melodic building blocks. That might have led the critic Ernest Newman to write that ‘every page of [the First Symphony] breathes of another manner of thought, another way of living, another landscape and seascape.’ Newman wasn’t alone. The Finnish musicologist James Hepokoski has described the First Symphony as a work in a ‘stubbornly separatist, regionally resonant musical idiom’.

–6–

LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA • TOWARDS FREEDOM • 31 MARCH 2021

PROGRAMME NOTES Our new LPO podcast

Have you checked out our LPO podcast, LPO Offstage, yet? Throughout the series, presenter YolanDa Brown chats with members of the Orchestra about their lives off the concert stage. Tune in to hear about brutal conductor takedowns, why you might want to pour water over your double bass, where to get a great post-concert beer, and lots more. We hear that best in Sibelius’s finale. The organic treatment of themes continues, but in the end, the tension created by Sibelius’s strange combination of energy against stasis throws up a rousing, hymn-like tune. It has the distinct character and shape of the rune songs through which Finnish folklore was recounted.

• Highly commended in the 2020 Digital Classical Music Awards

• The Sunday Times ‘Pick of the Best Podcasts’

‘Thank you for a truly wonderful insight into the various aspects of the working and ‘social’ life in the LPO. It has been a true pleasure hearing all the wonderful stories and musical matters you have to negotiate before a single note is played!’

Programme note © Andrew Mellor

‘MUSIC IS, FOR ME, LIKE A BEAUTIFUL MOSAIC THAT GOD HAS PUT TOGETHER. HE TAKES ALL THE PIECES IN HIS HAND, THROWS THEM INTO THE WORLD, AND WE HAVE TO RECREATE THE PICTURE FROM THE PIECES.’

– Listener, via email

Find LPO Offstage on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Acast, or wherever you listen. lpo.org.uk/podcast YolanDa Brown

JEAN SIBELIUS –7–

LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA • TOWARDS FREEDOM • 31 MARCH 2021

TONIGHT'S ARTISTS ENRIQUE MAZZOLA CONDUCTOR

Capitole de Toulouse, Philharmonia Orchestra, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Oslo Philharmonic, Royal Northern Sinfonia, New Japan Philharmonic, Taipei Symphony, Luxembourg Philharmonic, Brussels Philharmonic, Staatsphilharmonie Nurnberg and Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra.

Renowned as an expert interpreter and champion of bel canto opera and a specialist in French repertoire and early Verdi, Italian conductor Enrique Mazzola is in demand worldwide as both an operatic and symphonic conductor. He is Music Director Designate of the Lyric Opera of Chicago from the 2019/20 season, commencing as Music Director in September 2021; Principal Guest Conductor at Deutsche Oper Berlin from the 2018/19 season; and he served as Artistic & Music Director of the Orchestre National d’Île de France from 2012–19. In 2018 he was made a Chevalier de l’ordre des Arts et des Lettres, in recognition of his significant contribution to musical life in France. Mazzola’s 2020/21 season includes debuts with the Detroit Symphony, Youth Orchestra Flanders and Dutch National Opera (Anna Bolena), and a return to Glyndebourne Festival Opera to conduct Luisa Miller with the London Philharmonic Orchestra). Appearances with the Lyric Opera of Chicago and Houston Symphony sadly fell victim to the Covid-19 pandemic. Recent seasons include notable debuts with the Salzburg Festspiele (Orphée aux Enfers), Wiener Staatsoper (Don Pasquale), Orchestre National du

This is the second online concert that Mazzola has conducted with the LPO this spring: the first, ‘The New World’, featuring Dvořák’s Symphony No. 9, opened the season on 24 March. His previous appearance with the Orchestra was in October 2018, when he conducted a programme of Berlioz, Canteloube, Bizet and Gershwin at the Royal Festival Hall. He has also conducted the Orchestra in several operas at Glyndebourne including Don Pasquale, Poliuto, L’elisir d’amore and Il barbiere di Siviglia, the last of which was also performed in concert at the 2016 BBC Proms. Other return engagements have included the Metropolitan Opera, Opernhaus Zurich, Bregenzer Festspiele, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Norske Opera, Wiener Symphoniker, Orchestre Symphonique de Quebec and São Paulo State Symphony. His final season with the Orchestre National d’Île de France included recordings and performances of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3 with Cédric Tiberghien and works by Respighi, of whose work he is an acclaimed interpreter. An accomplished interpreter of contemporary music, Mazzola has commissioned and conducted several premieres with ONDIF. He conducted the world premiere of Colla’s Il processo at La Scala, Il re nudo by Luca Lombardi at Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Medusa by Arnaldo de Felice at the Bayerische Staatsoper, Isabella by Azio Corghi at the Rossini Opera Festival, and many other premieres with major European orchestras.

–8–

LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA • TOWARDS FREEDOM • 31 MARCH 2021

LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA

PRINCIPAL CONDUCTOR AND ARTISTIC ADVISOR VLADIMIR JUROWSKI PRINCIPAL CONDUCTOR DESIGNATE EDWARD GARDNER SUPPORTED BY MRS CHRISTINA LANG ASSAEL PRINCIPAL GUEST CONDUCTOR KARINA CANELLAKIS • LEADER PIETER SCHOEMAN SUPPORTED BY NEIL WESTREICH ARTISTIC DIRECTOR CRISTINA ROCCA • CHIEF EXECUTIVE DAVID BURKE • PATRON HRH THE DUKE OF KENT KG

One of the finest orchestras on the international stage, the London Philharmonic Orchestra was founded in 1932 by Sir Thomas Beecham. Since then, its Principal Conductors have included Sir Adrian Boult, Bernard Haitink, Sir Georg Solti, Klaus Tennstedt and Kurt Masur. In 2007 Vladimir Jurowski became the Orchestra’s current Principal Conductor. Edward Gardner is Principal Conductor Designate, and will take up the position from 2021. Karina Canellakis is the Orchestra’s current Principal Guest Conductor. The London Philharmonic Orchestra has performed at Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall since it opened in 1951, becoming Resident Orchestra in 1992. It also has residencies at Glyndebourne and in Brighton, Eastbourne and Saffron Walden, and performs regularly around the UK. The Orchestra also tours internationally, performing to audiences worldwide. The Orchestra broadcasts regularly on television and radio, and has recorded soundtracks for numerous films including The Lord of the Rings. In 2005 it began releasing live, studio and archive recordings on its own

CD label, which now numbers over 100 releases. The Orchestra’s work at the forefront of digital technology has enabled it to reach millions of people worldwide: all its own-label recordings are available to download and stream and, as well as a YouTube channel and ‘LPO Offstage’ podcast series, the Orchestra has a lively presence on social media. Over the pandemic period the LPO has further developed its relationship with UK and international audiences through its ‘LPOnline’ digital content: over 100 videos of performances, insights, and introductions to playlists, which have so far collectively received over 3 million views worldwide and led to the LPO being named runner-up in the Digital Classical Music Awards 2020. During Autumn 2020 and once again from March 2021, the Orchestra is delighted to be able to return to its Southbank Centre home to perform a season of concerts filmed live and streamed for audiences to enjoy at home free of charge via Marquee TV. lpo.org.uk

–9–

LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA • TOWARDS FREEDOM • 31 MARCH 2021

ON STAGE TONIGHT FIRST VIOLINS Pieter Schoeman* LEADER Chair supported by Neil Westreich

Vesselin Gellev SUB-LEADER Kate Oswin Lasma Taimina

Chair supported by Irina Gofman & Mr Rodrik V. G. Cave

Minn Majoe Thomas Eisner Martin Höhmann Catherine Craig Katalin Varnagy

Chair supported by Sonja Drexler

DOUBLE BASSES Kevin Rundell* PRINCIPAL Sebastian Pennar CO-PRINCIPAL Hugh Kluger George Peniston Tom Walley Laura Murphy Chair supported by Friends of the Orchestra

FLUTES Juliette Bausor PRINCIPAL

Chair supported by Caroline, Jamie & Zander Sharp

Stewart McIlwham*

Yang Zhang

Chair supported by Eric Tomsett

SECOND VIOLINS Tania Mazzetti PRINCIPAL

Chair supported by Countess Dominique Loredan

Emma Oldfield Helena Smart Joseph Maher Marie-Anne Mairesse Nancy Elan Ashley Stevens Kate Birchall

PICCOLOS Stewart McIlwham* PRINCIPAL Juliette Bausor OBOES Ian Hardwick* PRINCIPAL Alice Munday CLARINETS Benjamin Mellefont PRINCIPAL Thomas Watmough Chair supported by Roger Greenwood

Paul Richards* VIOLAS Richard Waters PRINCIPAL Ting-Ru Lai Benedetto Pollani Katharine Leek Laura Vallejo Stanislav Popov CELLOS Kristina Blaumane PRINCIPAL

Chair supported by Bianca & Stuart Roden

Pei-Jee Ng CO-PRINCIPAL Francis Bucknall Laura Donoghue David Lale

BASSOONS Jonathan Davies PRINCIPAL Chair supported by Sir Simon Robey

Gareth Newman Simon Estell*

HORNS Mark Vines PRINCIPAL Martin Hobbs Duncan Fuller Gareth Mollison Elise Campbell

TRUMPETS Paul Beniston* PRINCIPAL James Fountain* PRINCIPAL Anne McAneney* TROMBONES Mark Templeton* PRINCIPAL

Chair supported by William & Alex de Winton

David Whitehouse

BASS TROMBONE Lyndon Meredith PRINCIPAL TUBA Lee Tsarmaklis* PRINCIPAL TIMPANI Simon Carrington* PRINCIPAL Chair supported by Victoria Robey OBE

PERCUSSION Andrew Barclay* PRINCIPAL Henry Baldwin CO-PRINCIPAL Jeremy Cornes HARP Rachel Masters PRINCIPAL * Holds a professorial appointment in London

The London Philharmonic Orchestra also acknowledges the following chair supporters whose players are not present at this concert: David & Yi Buckley Dr Barry Grimaldi

– 10 –

NEXT CONCERTS SPRING 2021 CONCERT SEASON WITH MARQUEE TV

LONDON CALLING WEDNESDAY 7 APRIL 2021 8PM

THE EMPEROR CONCERTO WEDNESDAY 21 APRIL 2021 8PM

Haydn Symphony No. 30 (Alleluia) Coleridge-Taylor Ballade for Orchestra Mendelssohn Symphony No. 1

Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 5 (Emperor) Sibelius Symphony No. 7

Ben Gernon conductor

Robin Ticciati conductor Denis Kozhukhin piano

BOHEMIAN RHAPSODIES WEDNESDAY 14 APRIL 2021 8PM

LA VIE PARISIENNE WEDNESDAY 28 APRIL 2021 8PM

Janáček Jealousy Dvořák The Wild Dove Dvořák Cello Concerto

Ravel Mother Goose: Suite Ravel Piano Concerto in G Offenbach Gaîté Parisienne: Ballet Suite

Mark Elder conductor Steven Isserlis cello

Fabien Gabel conductor Alexandra Dariescu piano

Steven Isserlis

Alexandra Dariescu

FURTHER ARTISTS AND PROGRAMMES TO BE ANNOUNCED LATER IN THE SPRING. Each concert will be available via marquee.tv for 7 days for free, no registration required. To access the full season please subscribe to Marquee TV and enjoy the LPO collection together with the world’s best opera, dance, theatre and ideas. Details of how to subscribe and start your free trial at marquee.tv/freetrial

ANN UAL APPE AL 20 21

MUSIC WITH MEANING S U P PO RT U S A S W E C R E ATE A N D C ELEB R ATE Music is powerful. It can move, excite and inspire us, creating moments fixed in time and memories to last a lifetime. Until we can enjoy live performances together again, we want to celebrate past musical moments that have a special meaning to you, in the knowledge that these times will come again.

Tell us about a moment of joy or a memory of being moved or transported by music. Whether your moment is an LPO performance from years ago, a recording which has a special place in your heart or a more recent experience with any orchestra, we want to hear from you, the LPO family.

We need your support now to ensure that we can continue to create new musical moments and memories. A gift from you will help sustain the LPO, securing the future of the Orchestra and allowing us to make more moments that matter.

‘The moment

ss d connectedne of pure joy an heimer’s, listened

20/21 who ha s Alz my Grandma,.’ Inês, LPO Foyle Future First 20 to et to Rigol

‘I wa sb at O ewitched It wa xford’s She by Yehud s a lif e-chaldonian Thei Menuhin ’s v nging atre o mome n 12 Ma iolin playin y nt fo r me. 1959. g ’ De s mond

g Anna Clyne’s ‘ The LPO playin ds. The otherworldliness Prince of Clou le!’ Peter & Lucy

of it made us ting

o I feel Concertuinsually I n li io V ’s – Portnofnfd can be heardArtist 2020/21 ‘Playing voice a O Junior I have a shy.’ Danya, LP y am ver

PLEASE DONATE IF YOU CAN AND SHARE A MOMENT THAT HAS BEEN SPECIAL TO YOU. A GIFT OF ANY SIZE WILL HELP US WEATHER THIS STORM.

Visit lpo.org.uk/musicwithmeaning to donate, to share your moment and to read more.

LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA • TOWARDS FREEDOM • 31 MARCH 2021

SOUND FUTURES DONORS We are grateful to the following donors for their generous contributions to our Sound Futures campaign. Thanks to their support, we successfully raised £1 million by 30 April 2015 which has now been matched pound for pound by Arts Council England through a Catalyst Endowment grant. This has enabled us to create a £2 million endowment fund supporting special artistic projects, creative programming and education work with key venue partners including our Southbank Centre home. Supporters listed below donated £500 or over. For a full list of those who have given to this campaign please visit lpo.org.uk/soundfutures.

Masur Circle Arts Council England Dunard Fund Victoria Robey OBE Emmanuel & Barrie Roman The Underwood Trust Welser-Möst Circle William & Alex de Winton John Ireland Charitable Trust The Tsukanov Family Foundation Neil Westreich Tennstedt Circle Valentina & Dmitry Aksenov Richard Buxton The Candide Trust Michael & Elena Kroupeev Kirby Laing Foundation Mr & Mrs Makharinsky Alexey & Anastasia Reznikovich Sir Simon Robey Bianca & Stuart Roden Simon & Vero Turner The late Mr K Twyman Solti Patrons Ageas John & Manon Antoniazzi Gabor Beyer, through BTO Management Consulting AG Jon Claydon Mrs Mina Goodman & Miss Suzanne Goodman Roddy & April Gow The Jeniffer & Jonathan Harris Charitable Trust Mr James R.D. Korner Christoph Ladanyi & Dr Sophia LadanyiCzernin Robert Markwick & Kasia Robinski The Maurice Marks Charitable Trust Mr Paris Natar The Rothschild Foundation Tom & Phillis Sharpe The Viney Family

Haitink Patrons Mark & Elizabeth Adams Dr Christopher Aldren Mrs Pauline Baumgartner Lady Jane Berrill Mr Frederick Brittenden David & Yi Yao Buckley Mr Clive Butler Gill & Garf Collins Mr John H Cook Mr Alistair Corbett Bruno De Kegel Georgy Djaparidze David Ellen Christopher Fraser OBE David & Victoria Graham Fuller Goldman Sachs International Mr Gavin Graham Moya Greene Mrs Dorothy Hambleton Tony & Susie Hayes Malcolm Herring Catherine Høgel & Ben Mardle Mrs Philip Kan Rehmet Kassim-Lakha de Morixe Rose & Dudley Leigh Lady Roslyn Marion Lyons Miss Jeanette Martin Duncan Matthews QC Diana & Allan Morgenthau Charitable Trust Dr Karen Morton Mr Roger Phillimore Ruth Rattenbury The Reed Foundation The Rind Foundation Sir Bernard Rix David Ross & Line Forestier (Canada) Carolina & Martin Schwab 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

– 13 –

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 CBE AM Christopher Williams Peter Wilson Smith Mr Anthony Yolland and all other donors who wish to remain anonymous

LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA • TOWARDS FREEDOM • 31 MARCH 2021

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 Anonymous donors Mrs Aline Foriel-Destezet Mrs Christina Lang Assael Sir Simon & Lady Robey OBE Orchestra Circle The Candide Trust William & Alex de Winton Mr & Mrs Philip Kan Neil Westreich Principal Associates An anonymous donor Richard Buxton In memory of Brenda Lyndoe Casbon In memory of Ann Marguerite Collins Hamish & Sophie Forsyth The Tsukanov Family Associates Steven M. Berzin Ms Veronika BorovikKhilchevskaya Irina Gofman & Mr Rodrik V. G. Cave Gill & Garf Collins Countess Dominique Loredan Mr & Mrs Makharinsky George Ramishvili Stuart & Bianca Roden Julian & Gill Simmonds In memory of Hazel Amy Smith Deanie & Jay Stein Gold Patrons An anonymous donor David & Yi Buckley David Burke & Valerie Graham David & Elizabeth Challen In memory of Allner Mavis Channing Sonja Drexler Peter & Fiona Espenhahn Marie-Laure Favre Gilly de Varennes de Bueil Virginia Gabbertas MBE Mr Roger Greenwood Robert Markwick & Kasia Robinski Francis & Marie-France Minkoff Dame Theresa Sackler Eric Tomsett Andrew & Rosemary Tusa The Viney Family Jenny Watson CBE

Silver Patrons Dr Christopher Aldren The Rt Hon. The Lord Burns GCB Bruno De Kegel Ulrike & Benno Engelmann Simon & Meg Freakley Pehr G Gyllenhammar John & Angela Kessler The Metherell Family Andrew Neill Mikhail Noskov & Vasilina Bindley Laurence Watt Guy & Utti Whittaker Grenville & Krysia Williams Bronze Patrons Anonymous donors Michael Allen Dr Manon Antoniazzi Mr Philip Bathard-Smith Sir Peter Bazalgette Mrs A Beare Mr Bernard Bradbury Hon. Group Captain Sally Bridgeland The Earl & Countess of Chichester Mr John H Cook Howard & Veronika Covington Jan & Leni Du Plessis David Ellen David & Jane Gosman Mrs Dorothy Hambleton The Jackman Family Jamie & Julia Korner Rose & Dudley Leigh Drs Frank & Gek Lim Ian Frost & Laetitia Malan Geoff & Meg Mann Mr Fraser Mathews Mrs Elizabeth Meshkvicheva Mr & Mrs Andrew Neill Mr Michael Parloff Marianne Parsons Dr Wiebke Pekrull Jacopo Pessina Mr Gerald Pettit Mr Roger Phillimore Mrs Gillian Pole Mr Michael Posen Sir Bernard Rix Tom & Phillis Sharpe Charlotte Stevenson Robert & Patricia Swannell Mr & Mrs John C Tucker Mr & Mrs John & Susi Underwood Marina Vaizey Tony & Hilary Vines Mr John Weekes Christopher Williams

Principal Supporters Anonymous donors Julian & Annette Armstrong Mr Mark Astaire Mr Anthony Boswood Mr Nick Breckenfield Mr Dennis Bruns Mr Brian Carol Desmond & Ruth Cecil Mr Julien Chilcott-Monk Mr & Mrs Stewart Cohen Professor Susan Cooper Miss Tessa Cowie Mrs Sam Dawson Mr Simon Douglas Mr Charles Draper Miss AM Drew Mr Richard England Mr Richard Fernyhough Nerissa Guest & David Foreman Mrs Ash Frisby Mr Gavin Graham Ms Rosalind Hallifax Mr Charles Henderson Michael & Christine Henry Ms Patricia Hewitt J Douglas Home Martin Hudson Per Jonsson Alexandra Jupin & John Bean Jan Leigh & Jan Rynkiewicz Richard & Briony Linsell Paul & Brigitta Lock Nicholas & Lindsay Merriman Andrew T Mills Simon & Fiona Mortimore Mr James Pickford Michael & Carolyn Portillo Mr Ian Rickworth Mr Robert Ross Mr David Russell Mr Hugh Seeley Colin Senneck & the Hartley & District LPO Group Priscylla Shaw Mr John Shinton Mr Nigel Silby Mr Brian Smith Martin & Cheryl Southgate Mr & Mrs G Stein Dr Peter Stephenson Mr Robert Swift Mr & Mrs Ian Tegner Dr Ann Turrall The Viney Family Jenny Watson CBE Mr Richard Webb Joanna Williams Mr John Wright

– 14 –

Supporters Anonymous donors Mr Ben Adler Ralph & Elizabeth Aldwinckle Mr John Allen Lindsay Badenoch Diana Barrett Mr Simon Baynham Mr Andrew Botterill Julian & Margaret Bowden & Mr Paul Michel Mr Lawrence Alfred Bradley Richard & Jo Brass Mr Philip Broadway Mr & Mrs Shaun Browne Mr Alan C Butler Marilyn Casford Alison Clarke & Leo Pilkington Mr Joshua Coger Mr Martin Compton Mr Martin Connelly Mr Stephen Connock Damaris, Richard & Friends Mr David Davies Mr Roderick Davies Mr Bob Deffee Anthony & Jo Diamond QC Mr Andrew Dyke Mr Declan Eardly Maureen Erskine Mr Peter Falk Mr Joe Field Christine Louise Fluker Mrs Janet Flynn Mr Kevin Fogarty Mr Richard France Christopher Fraser OBE Mrs Adele Friedland & Friends Mr David Gladwell Mr Daniel Goldstein Mr Andrew Gunn Mr Martin Hale Mr Roger Hampson The Jeniffer & Jonathan Harris Charitable Trust Mr Graham Hart Mr & Mrs Nevile Henderson Mr David Hodgson The Jackman Family Mr Ian Kapur Martin Kettle My Justin Kitson Ms Yvonne Lock Mr David MacFarlane Mrs Sally Manning Christopher & Diane Morcom Mr Terry Muzzell Mr John Neilson Dame Jane Newell DBE

LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA • TOWARDS FREEDOM • 31 MARCH 2021

THANK YOU – CONTINUED –

Mr Stephen Olton Mr David Peters Caroline Priday Mr & Mrs Graham & Jean Pugh Ms Susan Rivers Mr John Rogers Mr Richard Rowland Barry & Gillian Smith Mr David Southern Mary Stacey Janette Storey Ms Caroline Tate Mr Peter Thierfeldt Mrs Margaret Thompson Mr Owen Toller Michael & Katie Urmston Mr Dominic Wallis Mrs C Williams Mr Kenin Willmering Mr David Woodhead Mr Roger Woodhouse Mr Anthony Yolland

Thomas Beecham Group Members David & Yi Buckley The Candide Trust Gill & Garf Collins William & Alex de Winton Sonja Drexler The Friends of the LPO Irina Gofman Roger Greenwood Dr Barry Grimaldi Mr & Mrs Philip Kan John & Angela Kessler Countess Dominique Loredan Sir Simon Robey Victoria Robey OBE Bianca & Stuart Roden Caroline, Jamie & Zander Sharp Julian & Gill Simmonds Eric Tomsett Neil Westreich Guy & Utti Whittaker

Hon. Benefactor Elliott Bernerd

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 Jill Dyal Jay Goffman Alexandra Jupin William A. Kerr Kristina McPhee Natalie Pray Damien Vanderwilt Antony Phillipson Hon. Chairman Victoria Robey OBE Hon. Director Richard Gee, Esq Of Counsel Jenifer L. Keiser, CPA, EisnerAmper LLP

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) Veronika Borovik-Khilchevskaya (Cyprus) Marie-Laure Favre Gilly de Varennes de Bueil (France) Aline Foriel-Destezet (France) Irina Gofman (Russia) Countess Dominique Loredan (Italy) Olivia Ma (Greater China Area) Olga Makharinsky (Russia) George Ramishvili (Georgia) Victoria Robey OBE (USA) Jay Stein (USA)

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 AT&T Barclays L Catterton CHANEL Fund for Women in the Arts and Culture Paul Hastings LLP Payne Hicks Beach Pictet Bank Velocity Black 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 Lidl Lindt & Sprüngli Ltd London Orthopaedic Clinic Steinway In-kind Sponsor Google Inc Trusts and Foundations The Bernarr Rainbow Trust The Boltini Trust Borletti-Buitoni Trust Boshier-Hinton Foundation The Candide Trust The Chalk Cliff Trust Cockayne – Grants for the Arts The London Community Foundation The David Solomons Charitable Trust The D’Oyly Carte Charitable Trust Dunard Fund Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation The Fidelio Charitable Trust Foyle Foundation Garrick Charitable Trust The Leche Trust

– 15 –

Lucille Graham Trust John Horniman’s Children’s Trust John Thaw Foundation The Idlewild Trust Kirby Laing Foundation The Lawson Trust Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation Lord & Lady Lurgan Trust Adam Mickiewicz Institute PRS Foundation The Radcliffe Trust Rivers Foundation The R K Charitable Trust Romanian Cultural Institute RVW Trust Schroder Charity Trust Serge Rachmaninoff Foundation Souter Charitable Trust The Steel Charitable Trust The Thomas Deane Trust The Thriplow Charitable Trust The Victoria Wood Foundation The Viney Family Garfield Weston Foundation The Barbara Whatmore Charitable Trust The William Alwyn Foundation and all others who wish to remain anonymous. The LPO would also like to acknowledge all those who have made donations to the Play On Appeal and who have supported the Orchestra during the current pandemic.

WONDER AT THE WORLD OF THE LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA

– 16 –

MEMBERSHIPS AND DONATIONS There are many ways in which you can support the LPO at this time: by making a donation, joining as a member, or buying a gift membership for someone else. With your help we can ensure that this Orchestra will not only survive, but thrive. However you choose to give at this time, we remain committed to our supporters and will continue to deliver a range of benefits and exclusive opportunities.

Friends

Benefactors

Support the orchestra that you love. Get priority booking for our Southbank Centre concerts plus access to final rehearsals.

Join a circle of dedicated supporters and get access to the Beecham Bar, special events and Glyndebourne.

From £60

From £600

Gifts in wills

Thomas Beecham Group

Help others to experience the wonder of music by remembering the Orchestra in your will.

Give a major supporting gift and build significant relationships within the Orchestra. Donors can choose to have their gift associated with a player’s chair. From £5,000

lpo.org.uk/support/individuals 020 7840 4212

CORPORATE PARTNERSHIPS Partner with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and enjoy the opportunity to align your business with a world-class orchestra who are committed to delivering music throughout the pandemic. Whether streaming from the concert stage to a global audience, or delivering as much Education and Community work as possible to children, talented young musicians and people with disabilities, the LPO’s activity is varied, engaging, and delivers meaningful benefits to its audiences, participants and partners. A partnership with the LPO offers companies significant brand exposure and an opportunity to meet CSR needs at a time when charitable community work is facing severe disruption.

Principal Partner

OrchLab Project Partner

Principal Supporters

lpo.org.uk/corporate 020 7840 4210

The Victoria Wood Foundation The Victoria Wood Foundation

The Victoria Wood Foundation

LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA • TOWARDS FREEDOM • 31 MARCH 2021

LPO ADMINISTRATION BOARD OF DIRECTORS Victoria Robey OBE Chairman Martin Höhmann* President Dr Catherine C. Høgel Vice-Chairman Henry Baldwin* Vice-President Roger Barron David Buckley David Burke Bruno De Kegel Tanya Joseph Al MacCuish Tania Mazzetti* Stewart McIlwham* Pei-Jee Ng* Cristina Rocca Andrew Tusa Mark Vines* David Whitehouse* * Player-Director ADVISORY COUNCIL Martin Höhmann Chairman Robert Adediran Christopher Aldren Dr Manon Antoniazzi Richard Brass Helen Brocklebank Simon Callow CBE Desmond Cecil CMG Sir Alan Collins KCVO CMG Andrew Davenport William de Winton Guillaume Descottes Cameron Doley Christopher Fraser OBE Lord Hall of Birkenhead CBE Jonathan Harris CBE FRICS Marianna Hay MBE 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 Chris Viney Laurence Watt Elizabeth Winter

GENERAL ADMINISTRATION

DEVELOPMENT Laura Willis Development Director

Cristina Rocca Artistic Director David Burke Chief Executive CONCERT MANAGEMENT Roanna Gibson Concerts Director

Christina McNeill Corporate Relations Manager