2021/22 concert season Filmed live at the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall
Digital concert programme Landscapes and Love Songs Broadcast Saturday 11 December 2021 Grieg Lyric Suite Sibelius Symphony No. 2 Edward Gardner conductor
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Contents Click on the headings to jump to a section
3 On stage 4 London Philharmonic Orchestra 5 Leader: Pieter Schoeman 6 Edward Gardner 7 Programme notes: Grieg 8 Programme notes: Sibelius 9 Recommended recordings 11 Sound Futures donors 12 Thank you 14 LPO administration
Concert performed at the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall on 10 November 2021 and filmed by Intersection. This concert was generously supported by Victoria Robey OBE. The safety of our musicians and staff is paramount, and all performances and activities adhere strictly to safety measures in line with UK Government guidance. The LPO would like to acknowledge the generosity of all of its members, supporters and donors. Thank you for your support. This performance has been made possible through a grant from the Cultural Recovery Fund from the Department of Digital, Culture, Media and Sport. #HereForCulture
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On stage First Violins
Pieter Schoeman* Leader Chair supported by Neil Westreich
Vesselin Gellev Sub-Leader Kate Oswin Chair supported by Friends of the Orchestra
Lasma Taimina
Chair supported by Irina Gofman & Mr Rodrik V. G. Cave
Minn Majoe Yang Zhang
Chair supported by Eric Tomsett
Katalin Varnagy
Chair supported by Sonja Drexler
Rasa Zukauskaite Martin Höhmann
Chair supported by Chris Aldren
Eleanor Bartlett Thomas Eisner Gabriela Opacka Catherine Craig Amanda Smith Morane Cohen-Lamberger Georgina Leo
Second Violins
Tania Mazzetti Principal Chair supported by Countess Dominique Loredan
Emma Oldfield Helena Smart Fiona Higham
Chair supported by David & Yi Buckley
Kate Birchall Nynke Hijlkema Ashley Stevens Sioni Williams Nancy Elan Sarah Thornett Joseph Maher Lyrit Milgram Marie-Anne Mairesse Anna Croad
Violas
David Quiggle Principal Richard Waters Co-Principal Ting-Ru Lai Benedetto Pollani Katharine Leek Alistair Scahill Martin Wray Richard Cookson
Stanislav Popov Lucia Ortiz Sauco Charles Cross Rachel Benjamin
Cellos
Kristina Blaumane Principal Chair supported by Bianca & Stuart Roden
Pei-Jee Ng Co-Principal David Lale Francis Bucknall Gregory Walmsley Elisabeth Wiklander Laura Donoghue Tom Roff Helen Rathbone George Hoult
Double Basses
Kevin Rundell* Principal Sebastian Pennar Co-Principal Hugh Kluger George Peniston Laura Murphy Tom Walley Charlotte Kerbegian Lowri Morgan
Horns
James Pillai Guest Principal Martin Hobbs Mark Vines Co-Principal Gareth Mollison Duncan Fuller
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
Grady Hassan Guest Principal
Timpani
Simon Carrington* Principal Chair supported by Victoria Robey OBE
Percussion
Flutes
Juliette Bausor Principal Chair supported by Caroline, Jamie & Zander Sharp
Hannah Grayson Stewart McIlwham*
Piccolo
Stewart McIlwham* Principal
Oboes
Ian Hardwick* Principal Alice Munday
Henry Baldwin Principal Keith Millar
Harp
Bryn Lewis
Assistant Conductor Edmund Whitehead
* Holds a professorial appointment in London
Clarinets
Benjamin Mellefont Principal Thomas Watmough Chair supported by Roger Greenwood
Bassoons
Jonathan Davies Principal Chair supported by Sir Simon Robey
Gareth Newman
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The London Philharmonic Orchestra also acknowledges the following chair supporters whose players are not present at this concert: Gill & Garf Collins Dr Barry Grimaldi
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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 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.
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 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 highlights include Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 11 and Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 under Vladimir Jurowski, and a commemorative box set of historic recordings with former Principal Conductor Sir Adrian Boult.
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 September 2021 Edward Gardner became the Orchestra’s Principal Conductor, succeeding Vladimir Jurowski, who became Conductor Emeritus in recognition of his transformative impact on the Orchestra as Principal Conductor from 2007–21. Karina Canellakis is the Orchestra’s current Principal Guest Conductor and Brett Dean is the Orchestra’s current Composer-in-Residence.
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 Orchestra is resident at the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall in London, where it gives around 40 concerts each season. It also enjoys flourishing residencies in Brighton, Eastbourne and Saffron Walden, and performs regularly around the UK. Each summer
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Pieter Schoeman
The London Philharmonic Orchestra is committed to inspiring the next generation of musicians, and recently celebrated the 30th anniversary of its 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. Its 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. Over the pandemic period the LPO 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 collectively received over 3 million views worldwide and led to the LPO being named runner-up in the Digital Classical Music Awards 2020. From Autumn 2020 the Orchestra was delighted to be able to return to its Southbank Centre home to perform a season of concerts filmed live and streamed free of charge via Marquee TV.
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Leader
Pieter Schoeman was appointed Leader of the London Philharmonic Orchestra in 2008, having previously been Co-Leader since 2002. He is also a Professor of Violin at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music & Dance. 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 London’s Royal Festival Hall. As a chamber musician he regularly appears at London’s prestigious Wigmore Hall. His chamber music partners have included Anne-Sophie Mutter, Veronika Eberle, Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Boris Garlitsky, JeanGuihen Queyras, Yannick Nézet-Séguin and Martin Helmchen.
September 2021 saw the opening of a new live concert season at the Royal Festival Hall, featuring many of the world’s leading musicians including Sheku KannehMason, Klaus Mäkelä, Renée Fleming, Bryn Terfel and this season’s Artist-in-Residence, Julia Fischer. The Orchestra is delighted to be continuing to offer digital streams to selected concerts throughout the season through its ongoing partnership with Intersection and Marquee TV.
Pieter has performed numerous times as a soloist with the London Philharmonic Orchestra. Highlights have included an appearance as both conductor and soloist in Vivaldi’s Four Seasons at the Royal Festival Hall, the Brahms Double Concerto with Kristina Blaumane, and the Britten Double Concerto with Alexander Zemtsov, which was recorded and released on the LPO Label to great critical acclaim.
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Pieter has appeared as Guest Leader with the BBC, Barcelona, Bordeaux, Lyon and Baltimore symphony orchestras, and the Rotterdam and BBC Philharmonic orchestras. Pieter’s chair in the LPO is generously supported by Neil Westreich.
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Edward Gardner Principal Conductor, London Philharmonic Orchestra
the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, where he was Principal Guest Conductor from 2010–16, and the BBC Symphony Orchestra, whom he has conducted at both the First and Last Night of the BBC Proms.
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Music Director of English National Opera for ten years (2006–15), Edward has an ongoing relationship with New York’s Metropolitan Opera, where he has conducted productions of La damnation de Faust, Carmen, Don Giovanni, Der Rosenkavalier and Werther. In London he has future plans with the Royal Opera House, where he made his debut in 2019 in a new production of Káťa Kabanová and returned for Werther the following season. The 2021/22 season will see Edward make his debut with the Bayerische Staatsoper in a new production of Peter Grimes. Elsewhere, he has conducted at La Scala, Chicago Lyric Opera, Den Norske Opera and Ballet, Glyndebourne Festival Opera and Opéra National de Paris.
Edward Gardner began his tenure as Principal Conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra in September 2021; he is also Chief Conductor of the Bergen Philharmonic, a position he has held since October 2015.
A passionate supporter of young talent, Edward founded the Hallé Youth Orchestra in 2002 and regularly conducts the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain. He has a close relationship with The Juilliard School of Music and with the Royal Academy of Music, who appointed him their inaugural Sir Charles Mackerras Conducting Chair in 2014.
During the 2021/22 season Edward conducts the London Philharmonic Orchestra in eleven concerts at the Royal Festival Hall, including five UK premieres. In September 2021 he and the LPO appeared at the Enescu Festival in Bucharest, and in November 2021 they undertook an extensive tour of Germany.
Born in Gloucester in 1974, Edward was educated at the University of Cambridge and the Royal Academy of Music. He went on to become Assistant Conductor of the Hallé and Music Director of Glyndebourne Touring Opera. His many accolades include being named Royal Philharmonic Society Award Conductor of the Year (2008), an Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Opera (2009) and receiving an OBE for Services to Music in the Queen’s Birthday Honours (2012).
Edward opened the Bergen Philharmonic season in September 2021 with a performance of John Adams’s Harmonium. Further highlights include an all-Stravinsky programme and new commissions by Thomas Larcher, Ryan Wigglesworth and Rebecka Ahvenniemi. Following recent tours to Berlin, Munich, Amsterdam and at the BBC Proms and Edinburgh International Festival, the orchestra will perform in Barcelona and Paris this season.
Edward Gardner’s position at the LPO is supported by Aud Jebsen.
In demand as a guest conductor, the previous two seasons saw Edward debut with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic and Wiener Symphoniker; while returns included engagements with the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Montreal Symphony, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Philharmonia Orchestra and Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano. He also continued his longstanding collaborations with
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Programme notes Edvard Grieg 1843–1907
Lyric Suite 1891, orch. by Anton Seidl 1894
1 Bell-Ringing 2 Norwegian March 3 Notturno 4 March of the Dwarfs In an age when colossal conceptions triumphed, when Wagner’s operatic Ring Cycle was hailed and imitated everywhere, Edvard Grieg made his name largely as a miniaturist. Apart from the justly famous Piano Concerto, his most significant works are intimate or small-scale: chamber music, songs, and above all his wonderful solo piano pieces, many of them miniature romantic masterpieces. His Lyric Pieces for piano, published in eight volumes over three decades, became as popular as Mendelssohn’s much-loved Songs Without Words, and for a similar reason: they are vivid, atmospheric, melodically glorious, and playable by any decently accomplished amateur.
more 20th- than 19th-century (one can imagine Debussy or Ravel loving it), and Grieg’s orchestration subtly enhances its impressionistic freshness and originality. After this comes the confident, swinging triple-time energy of the ‘Norwegian March’ – the Norwegian title ‘Gangar’ makes it clear that this is a march for farmworkers rather than soldiers (military marches don’t usually feature loose-limbed syncopations!). ‘Notturno’ is a wonderful romantic mood-picture, its yearning lyricism and ecstatic climax punctuated by touching evocations of nocturnal birdsong. Finally, ‘March of the Dwarfs’ (in Norwegian ‘Trolls’) is a spooky Nordic romp, with a main theme that instantly suggests impish mocking laughter. The sweetly songful middle section is a reminder that in Nordic mythology trolls can either appear as hideous or beguilingly, dangerously beautiful; but the ugly truth will always out in the end, as this delicious little tone-poem makes quite clear.
In 1894 Anton Seidl, conductor of the New York Philharmonic, made orchestrations of four movements from Book Five of the Lyric Pieces – he chose the four movements listed above, though not in that order. Grieg, however, wasn’t entirely convinced by the sound. Seidl was a devotee of Wagner, and his orchestrations had a typically Wagnerian opulence and plush depth of sound; Grieg preferred something lighter, more transparent. After Seidl’s death in 1898 Grieg got hold of the score and revised it to make his own Lyric Suite. He also changed Seidl’s selection, substituting the tenderly melancholic ‘Shepherd Boy’ for ‘Bell-Ringing’; but he did also orchestrate ‘BellRinging’, and for tonight’s performance Edward Gardner has included it as the first movement in place of ‘Shepherd Boy’. It’s a remarkable movement, juxtaposing bell-like fifth chords in a way that sounds
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Programme notes Jean Sibelius 1865–1957
Symphony No. 2 in D, Op. 43 1902
1 Allegretto 2 Tempo Andante, ma rubato 3 Vivacissimo – Lento e suave – Tempo primo – Lento e suave – 4 Finale: Allegro moderato
outline a three-note rising figure, moving upwards in simple steps. This is the seed from which almost everything in this music grows. But at first the growth is hesitant, broken by pauses and expectant silences. Eventually the pace and excitement mount, but this too seems to run out of steam, and a nervous oboe figure, with murmuring string accompaniment initiates a long, striving build up. At the height of this long crescendo, triumphant brass fanfares burst through, culminating in a grand restatement of the opening material, now without its earlier hesitancy. A brief recapitulation leads to a calmer coda, the opening rising string figures now falling to rest.
Sibelius once told his fellow composer Gustav Mahler that, for him, writing symphonies was about finding ‘the profound logic that establishes a connection between all the motifs’. True, no 20th-century composer is more profoundly logical than Sibelius at his best: following the development of a whole movement from a tiny thematic ‘germ’ can be like watching a speeded-up film of a plant growing from a seed to full flower. But it’s also clear that there is much more to a work like the Second Symphony than abstract development. In fact the slow second movement began life as a tone-poem about the final struggle between Don Juan and Death – it’s still possible to trace the outlines of the story in the music – while the triumphant emergence of the majestic Finale theme from the stormy ending of the third movement is much more than a clever piece of musical engineering. For many of Sibelius’s fellow Finns, listening to the Symphony’s first performance in 1902, this passage in particular expressed the nation’s growing hope of independence after a century of Russian domination. In fact the Second Symphony soon came to be known as the ‘Symphony of Liberation’. For his part, Sibelius never completely confirmed or denied this interpretation, but it’s hard to believe that the fate of his oppressed but heroically defiant native country didn’t leave a deep imprint on this music – and especially on its blazingly positive conclusion.
Eerie pizzicato (plucked) figures for basses and cellos, followed by a lugubrious bassoon solo, set a more sombre tone for the slow movement. In his sketches for the original Don Juan tone-poem, Sibelius drafted out a programme for this first section: ‘Sitting in the twilight in my castle. A stranger comes in. I ask him more than once who he is. Finally he strikes up a song. Then Don Juan sees who it is – Death.’ It’s not hard to match this closely to the music. The sense of struggle grows darker, more painful, but a warmer, major-key theme for full strings (labelled ‘Christus’ in the sketches) brings welcome contrast. In this movement it is the darker music – ‘Death’ according to Sibelius’s abandoned programme – that wins.
In the first movement, profound logic and mounting optimism work hand in hand. The opening string chords
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Programme notes However that only makes the rushing vitality of the following Vivacissimo third movement all the more exhilarating. Twice this music is interrupted by a chantlike theme (led by oboe) in a slower tempo, but the second time this leads into a stormy transition, with scraps of a new theme heard first on bass instruments – Sibelius’s model here is clearly the thrilling Scherzo–Finale transition in Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony.
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Eventually the clouds part, and the scraps fuse into the superbly confident Finale theme, striding forward in three beats to the bar. This movement too has its darker episodes – Sibelius’s widow revealed that the plaintive oboe theme (above murmuring low strings) was composed in memory of her sister, who committed suicide – Death in another guise. But eventually the Finale theme returns with renewed vigour. Finally the tempo broadens and trumpets extend the theme into a radiant song of victory.
Sibelius Symphonies Nos. 2 & 7 Paavo Berglund conductor London Philharmonic Orchestra £9.99 | LPO–0005
Programme notes © Stephen Johnson Jean Sibelius, Symphony No. 2 in D major Op. 43 used by permission of Breitkopf & Haertel, Wiesbaden, Germany.
Recorded live at the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall on 16 February 2005 (No. 2) & 6 December 2003 (No. 7)
Recommended recordings of tonight’s works
‘A performance of overwhelming intensity … very special’
Grieg: Lyric Suite Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra | Neeme Järvi (Deutsche Grammophon)
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Sibelius: Symphony No. 2 London Philharmonic Orchestra | Paavo Berglund (LPO Label LPO-0005: see right)
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London Philharmonic Orchestra on Marquee TV • 11 December 2021 • Landscapes and Love Songs
London Philharmonic Orchestra Administration Board of Directors Victoria Robey OBE Chairman Martin Höhmann* President Dr Catherine C. Høgel Vice-Chairman Henry Baldwin* Vice-President Kate Birchall* David Buckley David Burke Bruno De Kegel Deborah Dolce Tanya Joseph Hugh Kluger* Al MacCuish Tania Mazzetti* Stewart McIlwham* Jamie Njoku-Goodwin Andrew Tusa Mark Vines* Neil Westreich Simon Freakley (Ex officio – Chairman of the American Friends of the London Philharmonic Orchestra)
Barry Smith Martin Southgate Chris Viney Laurence Watt Elizabeth Winter
Finance
Marketing
Frances Slack Finance Director
Kath Trout Marketing and Communications Director
General Administration
Jean-Paul Ramotar Finance and IT Officer
Elena Dubinets Artistic Director David Burke Chief Executive Chantelle Vircavs PA to the Executive
Education and Community Talia Lash Interim Education and Community Director
Concert Management
Rebecca Parslow Education and Community Project Manager
Roanna Gibson Concerts Director
Hannah Foakes Tilly Gugenheim Education and Community Project Co-ordinators
Graham Wood Concerts and Recordings Manager Fabio Sarlo Glyndebourne and Projects Manager
*Player-Director
Grace Ko Tours Manager
Advisory Council
Alison Jones Concerts and Recordings Co-ordinator
Martin Höhmann Chairman Christopher Aldren Dr Manon Antoniazzi Roger Barron Richard Brass Helen Brocklebank Simon Callow CBE Desmond Cecil CMG Sir Alan Collins KCVO CMG Andrew Davenport 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 Nadya Powell Sir Bernard Rix Victoria Robey OBE Baroness Shackleton Thomas Sharpe QC Julian Simmonds
Dayse Guilherme Finance Manager
Development Laura Willis Development Director Scott Tucker Development Events Manager Stef Woodford Corporate Relations Manager
Christina Perrin Concerts and Tours Assistant
Rosie Morden Individual Giving Manager
Matthew Freeman Recordings Consultant
Anna Quillin Trusts and Foundations Manager
Andrew Chenery Orchestra Personnel Manager Sarah Thomas Martin Sargeson Librarians
Priya Radhakrishnan Georgia Wiltshire Development Assistants
Laura Kitson Stephen O’Flaherty Stage Managers
Nick Jackman Campaigns and Projects Director
Damian Davis Transport Manager
Kirstin Peltonen Development Associate
Felix Lo Orchestra and Auditions Manager
Mairi Warren Marketing Manager Rachel Williams Publications Manager Harrie Mayhew Website Manager Gavin Miller Box Office Manager Ruth Knight Press and PR Manager Sophie Harvey Digital and Residencies Marketing Manager Greg Felton Digital Creative Kiera Lockard Marketing Assistant
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 Simon Owen-Johnstone Hon. Orthopaedic 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 Cover photo James Wicks 2021/22 season identity JMG Studio
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