LPO programme: 17 Feb 2023 - Ehnes plays Brahms (Kevin John Edusei/James Ehnes, violin)

2022/23 concert season at the Southbank Centre

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Principal Conductor Edward Gardner supported by Aud Jebsen Principal Guest Conductor Karina Canellakis Conductor Emeritus Vladimir Jurowski Patron HRH The Duke of Kent KG Artistic Director Elena Dubinets Chief Executive David Burke Leader Pieter Schoeman supported by Neil Westreich

Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall Friday 17 February 2023 | 7.30pm

Contents

Ehnes plays Brahms

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Missy Mazzoli Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres) (9’) Brahms Violin Concerto in D major (36’) Interval (20’) Dvořák Symphony No. 9 in E minor (From the New World) (40’) Kevin John Edusei conductor James Ehnes violin

Free pre-concert performance: LPO Junior Artists Royal Festival Hall | 6.00pm The LPO Junior Artists perform works by Stravinsky, Elgar, Bartók and Conrad Asman alongside LPO musicians, Junior Artist alumni and Foyle Future Firsts, under conductor Gabriella Teychenné.

Free and unticketed – all welcome.

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

Concert presented by the London Philharmonic Orchestra

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Welcome LPO news On stage tonight London Philharmonic Orchestra Leader: Pieter Schoeman Kevin John Edusei James Ehnes Programme notes Recommended recordings Next concerts LPO 90th Birthday Appeal The Chevalier: March 2023 Sound Futures donors Thank you LPO administration

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Welcome

LPO news LPO Junior Artists

Welcome to the Southbank Centre

This evening we welcome our LPO Junior Artists, who give a free pre-concert performance at 6pm on the Royal Festival Hall stage. Conducted by Gabriella Teychenné, this performance showcases the talent of current and past LPO Junior Artists, alongside LPO musicians and members of our Foyle Future Firsts programme. Please do come along and hear them!

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Drinks You are welcome to bring drinks from the venue’s bars and cafés into the Royal Festival Hall to enjoy during tonight’s concert. Please be considerate to fellow audience members by keeping noise during the concert to a minimum, and please take your glasses with you for recycling afterwards.

Thank you.

Congratulations Karina!

Congratulations to our Principal Guest Conductor Karina Canellakis, who has been shortlisted in the Conductor category of the 2023 Royal Philharmonic Society (RPS) Awards. Billed by BBC Radio 3 as ‘the BAFTAs of classical music’, the RPS Awards celebrate classical musicians nationwide, shining a light on brilliant individuals, groups and initiatives and reflecting the far-reaching impact that classical music has nationally. The 2023 winners will be announced in a ceremony at the Southbank Centre’s Queen Elizabeth Hall on 1 March.

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On stage tonight First Violins

Pieter Schoeman* Leader

Chair supported by Neil Westreich

Kate Oswin Minn Majoe Thomas Eisner Alfredo Reyes Logounova Martin Höhmann Elizaveta Tyun Alice Apreda Howell Ricky Gore Eleanor Bartlett Gabriela Opacka Kay Chappell Ronald Long Maria Fiore Mazzarini Yang Zhang Chair supported by Eric Tomsett

Catherine Craig

Second Violins

Tania Mazzetti Principal Emma Oldfield Co-Principal Claudia Tarrant-Matthews Kate Birchall Ashley Stevens Lyrit Milgram Kate Cole Jessica Coleman Harry Kerr Charlie MacClure Rebeccca Dinning Nicole Stokes Sioni Williams Anna Croad

Violas

Richard Waters Principal

Chair supported by Caroline, Jamie & Zander Sharp

Martin Wray Katharine Leek Lucia Ortiz Sauco Laura Vallejo Shiry Rashkovsky James Heron Julia Doukakis Raquel López Bolívar Kim Becker Daniel Cornford Joseph Fisher

Cellos

Morwenna Del Mar Guest Principal Francis Bucknall Sue Sutherley George Hoult Leo Melvin Iain Ward Jessica Hayes Hee Yeon Cho Susanna Riddell Helen Thomas

Double Basses

Kevin Rundell* Principal Hugh Kluger Tom Walley

Chair supported by William & Alex de Winton

Laura Murphy Lowri Morgan Charlotte Kerbegian Adam Wynter Elen Roberts

Horns

Annemarie Federle Principal John Ryan* Principal Martin Hobbs Mark Vines Co-Principal Gareth Mollison

Trumpets

Paul Beniston* Principal Erika Curbelo Guest Principal Anne McAneney*

Trombones

Mark Templeton* Principal

Chair supported by William & Alex de Winton

David Whitehouse

Bass Trombone

Lyndon Meredith Principal

Tuba

David Kendall Guest Principal

Flutes

Juliette Bausor Principal Stewart McIlwham*

Timpani

Piccolo

Percussion

Stewart McIlwham* Principal

Oboes

Marney O’Sullivan Guest Principal

Ignacio Molins Guest Principal Karen Hutt

Rainer Gibbons Guest Principal Alice Munday

Piano/Synthesizer

Cor Anglais

* Holds a professorial appointment in London

Sue Böhling* Principal

Chair supported by Dr Barry Grimaldi

Clarinets

Benjamin Mellefont Principal Thomas Watmough

Chair supported by Roger Greenwood

Bassoons

Jonathan Davies Principal

Chair supported by Sir Simon Robey

Helen Simons

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Clíodna Shanahan

The LPO also acknowledges the following chair supporters whose players are not present at this concert: David & Yi Buckley Gill & Garf Collins Sonja Drexler Friends of the Orchestra Irina Gofman & Mr Rodrik V. G. Cave Victoria Robey OBE Bianca & Stuart Roden

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Our Principal Conductors have included some of the greatest historic names like Sir Adrian Boult, Bernard Haitink, Sir Georg Solti, Klaus Tennstedt and Kurt Masur.

In 2021 Edward Gardner became our 13th Principal Conductor, taking the Orchestra into its tenth decade.

Vladimir Jurowski became Conductor Emeritus in recognition of his impact as Principal Conductor from 2007–21. Karina Canellakis is our current Principal Guest Conductor and Brett Dean our Composer-in-Residence, to be succeeded by Tania León in September 2023.

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During 2022/23 we’re once again working with Marquee TV to broadcast selected live concerts, so you can share or relive the wonder from your own living room.

We also release live, studio and archive recordings on our own label, and are the world’s most-streamed orchestra, with over 15 million plays of our content each month. Recent releases include the first volume of a Stravinsky series with Vladimir Jurowski; Tippett’s complete opera The Midsummer Marriage under

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Pieter Schoeman Leader

Edward Gardner, captured in his first concert as LPO Principal Conductor in September 2021; and James MacMillan’s Christmas Oratorio, recorded at the work’s UK premiere performance in December 2021.

We’re committed to inspiring the next generation of musicians and music-lovers: there’s nothing we love more than seeing the joy of children and families enjoying their first musical moments, and we’re passionate about equipping schools and teachers through schools’ concerts, resources and training.

Reflecting our values of collaboration and inclusivity, our OrchLab and Open Sound Ensemble projects offer music-making opportunities for adults and young people with special educational needs and disabilities.

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Next generations

Today’s young instrumentalists are the orchestral members of the future, so we have a number of opportunities to support their progression. Our LPO Junior Artists programme is leading the way in creating pathways into the profession for young artists from under-represented communities, and our LPO Young Composers and Foyle Future Firsts schemes support the next generation of professional musicians, bridging the transition from education to professional careers.

We have also recently launched the LPO Conducting Fellowship, supporting the development of two outstanding early-career conductors from backgrounds currently under-represented in the profession.

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 the Southbank Centre’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, Jean-Guihen Queyras, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Martin Helmchen and Julia Fischer.

2022/23 and beyond We believe in the relevance of our music, and that our programmes must reflect the narratives of modern times. This season we’re exploring themes of belonging and displacement in our series ‘A place to call home’, delving into music by composers including Austrians Erich Korngold and Paul Hindemith, Hungarian Béla Bartók, Cuban Tania León, Ukrainian Victoria Vita Polevá and Syrian Kinan Azmeh. As we celebrate our 90th anniversary we perform works premiered by the Orchestra during its illustrious history. This season also marks Vaughan Williams’s 150th anniversary and we’ll be celebrating with four of his works, as well as both symphonies by Elgar and music by Tippett and Thomas Adès. Our commitment to everything new and creative includes premieres by Brett Dean and Heiner Goebbels, as well as new commissions from composers from around the world including Agata Zubel, Elena Langer and Vijay Iyer.

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.

Pieter has appeared as Guest Leader with the BBC, Barcelona, Bordeaux, Lyon and Baltimore symphony orchestras; the Rotterdam and BBC Philharmonic orchestras; and the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra.

Pieter’s chair in the LPO is generously supported by Neil Westreich.

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Kevin John Edusei conductor

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In autumn 2022 Kevin made his debut at the Royal Opera House conducting La bohème, and he will return in the 2023/24 season. Previously he has conducted at English National Opera, the Semperoper Dresden, Hamburg State Opera, Vienna Volksoper and Komische Oper Berlin. During his time as Chief Conductor of Bern Opera House he led many new productions including Peter Grimes, Salome, Bluebeard’s Castle, Tannhäuser, Tristan und Isolde, Kátya Kábanová, and a cycle of the Mozart-Da Ponte operas.

German conductor Kevin John Edusei is sought-after the world over. He is praised repeatedly for the drama and tension that he brings to his music-making, for his attention to detail, sense of architecture, and the fluidity, warmth and insight that he brings to his performances. He is deeply committed to the creative elements of performance, presenting classical music in new formats, cultivating audiences, introducing music by under-represented composers, and conducting an eclectic range of repertoire from the Baroque to the contemporary. He is former Chief Conductor of the Munich Symphony Orchestra, and is now Principal Guest Conductor of the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra.

As well as this evening’s debut with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, which will be followed by a second performance with the Orchestra and James Ehnes tomorrow evening at Nottingham’s Royal Concert Hall, Kevin’s 2022/23 season includes debuts with the Munich Philharmonic, BBC Symphony, Hallé, Utah Symphony, Cincinnati Symphony and National Symphony (Washington DC) orchestras, amongst others. He also returns to the London Symphony Orchestra, marking his Barbican Centre debut, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra.

In recent seasons he has conducted many of the major orchestras across the UK, the Netherlands, Germany and the US, and in summer 2022 appeared with Chineke! Orchestra on a festival tour which included Snape, Hamburg, Helsinki, the closing concert of the Lucerne Festival, and a televised performance of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 at the BBC Proms.

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James Ehnes violin

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to the recording industry, including the launch of an online recital series entitled ‘Recitals from Home’, which was released in June 2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent closure of concert halls.

James recorded Bach’s six Sonatas and Partitas and Ysaÿe’s six Sonatas from his home with state-of-the-art equipment, and released six episodes over a period of two months. These recordings were met with great critical acclaim by audiences worldwide, and the violinist was described by Le Devoir as being ‘at the absolute forefront of the streaming evolution’.

James Ehnes began violin studies at the age of five, became a protégé of the noted Canadian violinist Francis Chaplin aged nine, and made his orchestral debut with the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal aged 13. He continued his studies with Sally Thomas at the Meadowmount School of Music and The Juilliard School, winning the Peter Mennin Prize for Outstanding Achievement and Leadership in Music upon his graduation in 1997.

James Ehnes has established himself as one of the most sought-after musicians on the international stage.

Gifted with a rare combination of stunning virtuosity, serene lyricism and an unfaltering musicality, he is a favourite guest at the world’s most celebrated concert halls. James last appeared with the London Philharmonic Orchestra in October 2019, when he performed Walton’s Violin Concerto under Edward Gardner here at the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall.

James is a Member of the Order of Canada and the Order of Manitoba, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and an honorary fellow of the Royal Academy of Music, where he is a Visiting Professor. He plays the ‘Marsick’ Stradivarius of 1715.

Recent orchestral highlights include performances with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, and with the Leipzig Gewandhaus, San Francisco Symphony, London Symphony, NHK Symphony and Munich Philharmonic orchestras. Throughout the 2022/23 season, James continues as Artist-inResidence with the National Arts Centre of Canada.

Alongside his concerto performances, James maintains a busy recital schedule. He performs regularly at London’s Wigmore Hall (including a complete cycle of Beethoven Sonatas in 2019/20, and the complete violin/viola works of Brahms and Schumann in 2021/22), Carnegie Hall, Symphony Center Chicago, the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Ravinia, Montreux, Verbier Festival, Dresden Music Festival and Festival de Pâques in Aix-en-Provence. A devoted chamber musician, he is leader of the Ehnes Quartet and Artistic Director of the Seattle Chamber Music Society.

James Ehnes has an extensive discography and has won many awards for his recordings, including two Grammys, three Gramophone Awards and eleven Juno Awards. In 2021 he was announced as recipient of the coveted ‘Artist of the Year’ title at the Gramophone Awards. This award celebrated his recent contributions

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Programme notes Missy Mazzoli born 1980

Composer profile Recently deemed ‘Brooklyn’s post-millennial Mozart’ (Time Out New York), and praised for her ‘apocalyptic imagination’ (Alex Ross), Missy Mazzoli’s talent draws audiences equally into concert halls, opera houses and rock clubs. She inhabits an exquisite and mysterious soundworld that melds indie-rock sensibilities with formal training. Her music has been performed by the Kronos Quartet, LA Opera, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Minnesota Orchestra, Scottish Opera and many others. In March 2022 the LPO under Edward Gardner gave the UK premiere of Mazzoli’s River Rouge Transformation at the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall, and in March 2021, under Enrique Mazzola, they performed her work These Worlds in Us in a concert streamed online via Marquee TV. In 2018 Mazzoli became, along with Jeanine Tesori, one of the first women to receive a main-stage commission from New York’s Metropolitan Opera, and was nominated for a Grammy award in the ‘Best Classical Composition’ category for her Vespers for Violin. From 2018–21 she was Composer-in-Residence at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and from 2012–15 Composer-in-Residence with Opera Philadelphia.

In 2016 she co-founded Luna Composition Lab, a mentorship programme for young female, non-binary and gender non-conforming composers.

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Missy Mazzoli’s third opera, Proving Up, written with her longterm collaborator Royce Vavrek, was premiered to critical acclaim at Washington DC’s Kennedy Center in 2018. Her second opera, Breaking the Waves, was described as ‘among the best 21st-century operas yet’ by Opera News, and ‘savage, heartbreaking and thoroughly original’ by the Wall Street Journal. Earlier projects include her critically acclaimed first opera, Song from the Uproar, in 2012.

Missy Mazzoli is also 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 album, 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.

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Programme notes CONTEMPORARY HIGHLIGHTS THIS SPRING

Missy Mazzoli Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres)

WEDNESDAY 22 FEBRUARY THOMAS ADÈS

2014, rev. 2016

The Tempest Symphony UK premiere Inferno Suite

SATURDAY 4 MARCH

GEORGE BENJAMIN Sudden Time

Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres) was commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic. The piece began life in 2013 in a version for chamber orchestra, premiered by the LA Phil New Music Group and John Adams, before the composer later expanded it for full orchestra. The BBC Symphony Orchestra gave the European premiere of the work at the 2017 BBC Proms, conducted by Karina Canellakis.

SATURDAY 18 MARCH VICTORIA VITA POLEVÁ Nova UK premiere

ELENA LANGER

The Dong with a Luminous Nose world premiere

SATURDAY 25 MARCH

The composer writes: ‘Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres) is music in the shape of a solar system, a collection of rococo loops that twist around each other within a larger orbit. The word “sinfonia” refers to Baroque works for chamber orchestra but also to the old Italian term for the hurdy-gurdy, a medieval stringed instrument with constant, wheezing drones that are cranked out under melodies played on an attached keyboard. It’s a piece that churns and roils, that inches close to the listener only to leap away at breakneck speed, in the process transforming the ensemble into a makeshift hurdygurdy, flung recklessly into space.’

HEINER GOEBBELS

A House of Call UK premiere

FRIDAY 31 MARCH

TANIA LEÓN Stride UK premiere

WEDNESDAY 26 APRIL BRETT DEAN

In spe contra spem world premiere

SATURDAY 29 APRIL THOMAS LARCHER

‘Missy Mazzoli is the 21st century’s gatecrasher of new classical music.’

Symphony No. 2 (Kenotaph)

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– NPR’s ‘Turning the Tables’

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Programme notes Johannes Brahms 1833–97

Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 77 1878

James Ehnes violin

1 Allegro non troppo 2 Adagio 3 Allegro giocoso, ma non troppo vivace Brahms’s summer ‘holidays’ were the times when he was most able to get down to sustained work on composition, and numerous of his works were conceived and created in the idyllic surroundings of various European mountain, lakeside and island locations. In August 1878 he was in the village of Pörtschach by the Wörthersee in southern Austria, the same lake by whose shores Mahler would later spend his creative summers. Brahms had discovered the place the previous year, and written the Second Symphony there, but on this occasion he only intended to stay for one day on his way back from his main holiday in Italy.

Fine weather and the vivid blues, greens and whites of the alpine summer, however, caused him to linger, and before long he was composing a Violin Concerto.

The work was intended for his friend Joseph Joachim, one of the great violinists of the age, but also a composer himself and a musician who saw virtuosity as an expressive tool, not a vehicle for gratuitous showing off. Brahms consulted him on violinistic matters throughout the composition period and even beyond the premiere in Leipzig on 1 January 1879, and early criticism of the work as a ‘concerto against the violin’ (presumably rather than being for and led by it) failed to recognise that its symphonic integration of a nevertheless demanding solo part within the broader orchestral texture was clearly the result of composer and executant being of like mind.

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Programme notes Perhaps it was natural that the first movement should recall the subtly unfolding lyrical warmth and relaxed triple-time metre that had characterised its counterpart in that first Wörthersee piece, the Second Symphony – though it is certainly not without assertive moments too.

As often with Brahms, however, Romantic atmosphere goes together with a Classical approach to form.

The movement opens with the orchestra presenting a succession of themes for discussion just as a Mozart concerto would, and the soloist later offers one of its own, a beautiful ‘leaning’ melody that is the nearest thing Brahms comes here to conceding to the gentle waltz rhythm that lies behind the notes. Equally ‘classical’ is the fact that instead of writing out the cadenza, as by his time had become the norm, Brahms left it to be improvised (or at least composed) by his soloist. Tonight’s performance, as most do, uses the cadenza Joachim himself provided.

Joachim’s Hungarian heritage is honoured in the finale, which references the ‘gypsy’ style Brahms loved so much to indulge. It was perhaps also a repayment of the friendly tribute Joachim had made by dedicating to Brahms his own Concerto ‘in Hungarian style’ in 1861.

The movement is a rondo with a somewhat Beethovenian demeanour in its gruff humour and the resourceful and often unpredictable way it sets about the returns of its main theme, adding playful spirit to the ending to this finely crafted concerto.

The second movement is a serene exercise in sustained invention, starting from a heavenly melody presented by winds alone, led by solo oboe. The solo violin then expands on it both lyrically and decoratively, passes through a more impassioned (but melodically related) central section and emerges on the other side with a blissful reprise of the opening melody, now with enriched orchestral accompaniment.

– Johannes Brahms in a letter to the critic Eduard Hanslick in summer 1878, while at work on his Violin Concerto

‘The melodies fly so thick here that you have to be careful not to step on one.’

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

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Programme notes Antonín Dvořák 1841–1904

Symphony No. 9 in E minor (From the New World) 1893

1 Adagio – Allegro molto 2 Largo 3 Scherzo: Molto vivace – Poco sostenuto 4 Allegro con fuoco

Courtesy of the Royal College of Music, London

‘Apparently I am to show them the path to the promised land and the kingdom of a new, independent art; in short, to create a national music!’ Having been appointed Director of the National Conservatory of Music in New York, Dvořák knew that great things were expected of him, as his letters home show. American music in the second half of the 19th century was strongly dominated by German-trained composers who aligned it firmly with the central European classical tradition, and it must have been with a view to breaking free from this somewhat stifling influence that the wealthy Jeanette Thurber founded her new conservatory in 1892 and invited Dvořák, one of Europe’s most prominent nationalist composers, for a three-year term as its first Director. By her own account, it was Mrs Thurber who also suggested to Dvořák the idea of composing a symphony that would reflect his impressions of America. He began it in January 1893 and completed it the following May. It was premiered amid huge public interest and acclaim on 16 December.

The ideal identity of an American national music was at this time the subject of considerable debate, one desirable element recognised by many being the influence of black and native American music.

Dvořák espoused the cause straight away. Having heard spirituals sung to him by a black student (and no doubt encountered the ‘plantation songs’ of the popular white composer Stephen Foster), he declared in an interview in the New York Herald in May 1893: ‘I am now convinced that the future music of this country must be

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Programme notes built on the foundations of the songs which are called Negro melodies. They must become the basis of a serious and original school of composition which should be established in the USA.’ His recently completed symphony – which by the time of its premiere had acquired the title ‘From the New World’ – undoubtedly embodied this ambition.

Longfellow’s poem The Song of Hiawatha. Its form is unusual, containing in addition to its lightly skipping central Trio a song-like second theme within its main repeated section.

The finale introduces a striking new theme, but while this rightly dominates the movement, Dvořák makes much play of bringing back melodic fragments from earlier movements. The music works to an almost Wagnerian climax before the Symphony ends in a final surprise gesture of longing.

But although few would deny the American feel of the ‘New World’ Symphony, or the audibility of its influence on later American composers (not least those who wrote for Hollywood), Dvořák was clear that he did not use existing folk melodies, and sought only to reproduce ‘the spirit of Negro and Indian music’ with ‘characteristic themes’. In this sense he was doing much the same as in his ‘Slavonic’ music, and indeed, given that such features as syncopations and pentatonic melodies are common to many of the world’s folk-musics (Czech among them), there is much to be said for considering this a work of truly dual nationality. Though he loved America, Dvořák was often homesick while there, and with a different set of ears it is not hard to hear the Symphony as an expression of longing for his Bohemian homeland, displaying (as the 20th-century conductor Václav Talich once put it) ‘the rhythm and melody of his surroundings ... remoulded by Dvořák’s Czechness’.

Brahms & Dvořák programme notes © Lindsay Kemp

Recommended recordings of tonight’s works

by Laurie Watt Missy Mazzoli: Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres) On the composer’s website: missymazzoli.com/works

The Symphony opens with a pensive introduction containing a slow melody whose syncopations gradually draw it towards the athletic main theme of the Allegro that follows (and which will make several strategic returns later in the Symphony). This first movement also features two contrasting themes, both introduced by winds and both with a syncopated nature that would seem to qualify them as ‘characteristically’ American.

There is a stormy central development section, and after the main themes have been reprised, a driving finish.

Brahms: Violin Concerto Nigel Kennedy | London Philharmonic Orchestra Klaus Tennstedt (Warner) or Jack Liebeck | BBC Symphony Orchestra Andrew Gourlay (Orchid Classics) Dvořák: Symphony No. 9 London Philharmonic Orchestra | Charles Mackerras (Classics for Pleasure) or Marin Alsop | Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (Naxos)

The slow movement is a gem whose celebrity is richly deserved. After a sequence of solemn chords has helped to establish its new and unusual key (D flat major), a solo cor anglais intones the simple, spirituallike theme that is surely one of the most glorious melodies in all music. The warm sense of pastoral nostalgia is briefly broken by some forest stirrings and a fleeting glimpse of the first movement’s wider vistas, but at the end there is a return to the opening’s mood of wistfulness.

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The stamping dance of the Scherzo seems to inhabit the world of the native American – indeed, Dvořák later said that, like the Largo, it was inspired by a scene in

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“ I fell in love with my husband, 38 years ago, at an LPO concert featuring Tchaikovsky’s 5th Symphony in White Rock, Hastings.”

LPO audience member

In 2021, thrilled to be reunited with live audiences, we gave London’s first performance of Tippett’s The Midsummer Marriage in 17 years.

“ The first time I ever picked up a horn I was 5 years old, attending an LPO Have a Go Session. It’s now my instrument and I’m an LPO Junior Artist.”

LPO Junior Artist 2022/23

2011 saw us record the national anthems for the London 2012 Olympic Games!

In 2016 LPO Junior Artists was launched, a programme offering young musicians from under-represented backgrounds a pathway into the music profession.

We cherish our heritage and are committed to keeping the next 90 years exciting, dynamic and inclusive. Donate now, as we continue to make history in the present by offering life-enriching musical experiences for everyone, investing in the next generation of talent, commissioning masterworks of the future and reaching more communities around the UK, especially in Brighton and Eastbourne.

Show your support by making a donation.

Donate online, or call the Individual Giving Team on 020 7840 4212 or 020 7840 4225 to make a donation by credit or debit card.

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Programme notes

Written and directed by Bill Barclay

Tuesday 21 March 2023 7.30pm St Martin-in-the-Fields The Chevalier tells the fascinating life of Joseph Bologne – an 18th-century Black composer, virtuoso violinist and friend of Mozart and Marie Antoinette – more commonly known as the Chevalier de Saint-Georges.

Generously supported by Victoria Robey OBE Matthew Kofi Waldren conductor Braimah Kanneh-Mason violin Chukwudi Iwuji Joseph Bologne Merritt Janson Marie Antoinette David Joseph Mozart Bill Barclay Choderlos de Laclos London Philharmonic Orchestra and friends Tickets: £10–£35 (Booking fee: £2.75) St Martin in the Fields Box Office 020 7766 1100 (Mon–Sat 10.00am–5.00pm) smitf.org

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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 Ladanyi-Czernin 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 KC 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)

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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 Marina Vaizey Jenny Watson Guy & Utti Whittaker

Pritchard Donors Ralph & Elizabeth Aldwinckle Mrs Arlene Beare Mr Patrick & Mrs Joan Benner Mr Conrad Blakey Dr Anthony Buckland Paul Collins Alastair Crawford Mr Derek B. Gray Mr Roger Greenwood The HA.SH Foundation Darren & Jennifer Holmes Honeymead Arts Trust Mr Geoffrey Kirkham Drs Frank & Gek Lim Peter Mace Mr & Mrs David Malpas Dr David McGibney Michael & Patricia McLaren-Turner Mr & Mrs Andrew Neill Mr Christopher Querée The Rosalyn & Nicholas Springer Charitable Trust Timothy Walker CBE AM Christopher Williams Peter Wilson Smith Mr Anthony Yolland and all other donors who wish to remain anonymous

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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 Aud Jebsen In memory of Mrs Rita Reay Sir Simon & Lady Robey OBE

Orchestra Circle

William & Alex de Winton Patricia Haitink Mr & Mrs Philip Kan Neil Westreich The American Friends of the London Philharmonic Orchestra

Principal Associates

Richard Buxton Gill & Garf Collins In memory of Brenda Lyndoe Casbon In memory of Ann Marguerite Collins Sally Groves MBE George Ramishvili

Associates

Mrs Irina Andreeva In memory of Len & Edna Beech Steven M. Berzin Ms Veronika BorovikKhilchevskaya The Candide Trust Irina Gofman & Mr Rodrik V. G. Cave The Lambert Family Charitable Trust Stuart & Bianca Roden In memory of Hazel Amy Smith The Tsukanov Family The Viney Family

Gold Patrons

An anonymous donor Chris Aldren David & Yi Buckley In memory of Allner Mavis Channing Sonja Drexler Jan & Leni Du Plessis The Vernon Ellis Foundation Peter & Fiona Espenhahn Hamish & Sophie Forsyth Mr Roger Greenwood Malcolm Herring John & Angela Kessler

Mrs Elena & Mr Oleg Kolobov Rose & Dudley Leigh Wg. Cdr. & Mrs M T Liddiard OBE JP RAF Drs Frank & Gek Lim Mr Nicholas Little Geoff & Meg Mann Mrs Elizabeth Meshkvicheva Andrew T Mills Peter & Lucy Noble Mr Roger Phillimore Mr Michael Posen Mr Anthony Salz Ms Nadia Stasyuk Charlotte Stevenson Joe Topley Mr & Mrs John C Tucker Timothy Walker CBE AM Jenny Watson CBE Grenville & Krysia Williams

Julian & Gill Simmonds Eric Tomsett Andrew & Rosemary Tusa Guy & Utti Whittaker Mr Florian Wunderlich

Silver Patrons

Dame Colette Bowe David Burke & Valerie Graham John & Sam Dawson Bruno De Kegel Ulrike & Benno Engelmann Virginia Gabbertas MBE Dmitry & Ekaterina Gursky The Jeniffer & Jonathan Harris Charitable Trust Catherine Høgel & Ben Mardle Sir George Iacobescu Jamie & Julia Korner Mr & Mrs Makharinsky Mr Nikita Mishin Andrew Neill Tom & Phillis Sharpe Mr & Mrs John & Susi Underwood Laurence Watt

Principal Supporters

Anonymous donors Dr Manon Antoniazzi Julian & Annette Armstrong Mr John D Barnard Mr Geoffrey Bateman Mr Philip Bathard-Smith Mrs A Beare Dr Anthony Buckland Dr Simona Cicero & Mr Mario Altieri Mr Peter Coe Mrs Pearl Cohen David & Liz Conway Mr Alistair Corbett Ms Mary Anne Cordeiro Ms Elena Dubinets Mr Richard Fernyhough Jason George Mr Christian Grobel Prof Emeritus John Gruzelier Mark & Sarah Holford Mrs Maureen Hooft-Graafland Per Jonsson Mr Ian Kapur Ms Kim J Koch Ms Elena Lojevsky Mrs Terry Neale John Nickson & Simon Rew Oliver & Josie Ogg Ms Olga Ovenden Mr James Pickford Filippo Poli Sir Bernard Rix Mr Robert Ross Priscylla Shaw Martin & Cheryl Southgate

Bronze Patrons

Anonymous donors Michael Allen Mr Mark Astaire Nicholas & Christine Beale Mikhail Noskov & Vasilina Bindley Mr Anthony Blaiklock Lorna & Christopher Bown Mr Bernard Bradbury Simon Burke & Rupert King Desmond & Ruth Cecil Mr Evgeny Chichvarkin Mr John H Cook Georgy Djaparidze Deborah Dolce Cameron & Kathryn Doley Mariana Eidelkind & Gene Moldavsky David Ellen Ben Fairhall Mr Richard & Helen Gillingwater Mr Daniel Goldstein David & Jane Gosman Mr Gavin Graham Lord & Lady Hall Mrs Dorothy Hambleton Martin & Katherine Hattrell Michael & Christine Henry Mr Steve Holliday J Douglas Home Mr & Mrs Ralph Kanza

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Mr & Mrs G Stein Dr Peter Stephenson Joanna Williams Christopher Williams Ms Elena Ziskind

Supporters

Anonymous donors Ralph & Elizabeth Aldwinckle Mr & Mrs Robert Auerbach Mrs Julia Beine Harvey Bengen Miss YolanDa Brown OBE Miss Yousun Chae Mr Julien Chilcott-Monk Alison Clarke & Leo Pilkington Mr Joshua Coger Miss Tessa Cowie Mr David Devons Patricia Dreyfus Mr Martin Fodder Christopher Fraser OBE Will Gold Ray Harsant Mr Peter Imhof The Jackman Family Mr David MacFarlane Dame Jane Newell DBE Mr Stephen Olton Mari Payne Mr David Peters Ms Edwina Pitman Mr & Mrs Graham & Jean Pugh Mr Giles Quarme Mr Kenneth Shaw Mr Brian Smith Ms Rika Suzuki Tony & Hilary Vines Dr June Wakefield Mr John Weekes Mr C D Yates

Hon. Benefactor Elliott Bernerd

Hon. Life Members Alfonso Aijón Kenneth Goode Carol Colburn Grigor CBE Pehr G Gyllenhammar Robert Hill Victoria Robey OBE Mrs Jackie Rosenfeld OBE Timothy Walker CBE AM Laurence Watt

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Thank you

Thomas Beecham Group Members

David & Yi Buckley 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 Sir Simon Robey Victoria Robey OBE Bianca & Stuart Roden Caroline, Jamie & Zander Sharp Julian & Gill Simmonds Eric Tomsett Neil Westreich Guy & Utti Whittaker

Corporate Donor Barclays

LPO Corporate Circle Principal Bloomberg Carter-Ruck French Chamber of Commerce

Tutti Lazard Natixis Corporate Investment Banking Sciteb Ltd Walpole

Trusts and Foundations

Board of the American Friends of the LPO

ABO Trust BlueSpark Foundation The Boltini Trust Borrows Charitable Trust The Candide Trust Cockayne – Grants for the Arts The London Community Foundation The D’Oyly Carte Charitable Trust Dunard Fund Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation Foyle Foundation Garrick Charitable Trust John Horniman’s Children’s Trust John Thaw Foundation Institute Adam Mickiewicz Kirby Laing Foundation Lord and Lady Lurgan Trust The Marchus Trust The Radcliffe Trust Rivers Foundation Rothschild Foundation Scops Arts Trust Sir William Boremans’ Foundation The John S Cohen Foundation The Stanley Picker Trust The Thriplow Charitable Trust TIOC Foundation Vaughan Williams Foundation The Victoria Wood Foundation The Viney Family The Barbara Whatmore Charitable Trust

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 Kara Boyle Jon Carter Jay Goffman Alexandra Jupin Natalie Pray Damien Vanderwilt Marc Wasserman Elizabeth Winter Catherine Høgel Hon. Director Jenifer L. Keiser, CPA, EisnerAmper LLP

LPO International Board of Governors Natasha Tsukanova Co-Chair Martin Höhmann Co-Chair Mrs Irina Andreeva Steven M. Berzin Shashank Bhagat Veronika Borovik-Khilchevskaya Marie-Laure Favre Gilly de Varennes de Bueil Aline Foriel-Destezet Irina Gofman Countess Dominique Loredan Olivia Ma George Ramishvili Sophie Schÿler-Thierry Jay Stein

and all others who wish to remain anonymous.

Preferred Partners Gusbourne Estate Jeroboams Lindt & Sprüngli Ltd OneWelbeck Steinway

In-kind Sponsor Google Inc

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London Philharmonic Orchestra Administration Board of Directors

Dr Catherine C. Høgel Chair Lord Hall of Birkenhead CBE Vice-Chair Martin Höhmann* President Mark Vines* Vice-President Kate Birchall* David Buckley David Burke Bruno De Kegel Deborah Dolce Elena Dubinets Tanya Joseph Hugh Kluger* Katherine Leek* Al MacCuish Minn Majoe* Tania Mazzetti* Jamie Njoku-Goodwin Andrew Tusa Neil Westreich Simon Freakley (Ex officio – Chairman of the American Friends of the London Philharmonic Orchestra) *Player-Director

Advisory Council

Martin Höhmann Chairman Christopher Aldren Dr Manon Antoniazzi Roger Barron Richard Brass Helen Brocklebank YolanDa Brown OBE Simon Burke Simon Callow CBE Desmond Cecil CMG Sir Alan Collins KCVO CMG Andrew Davenport Guillaume Descottes Cameron Doley Christopher Fraser OBE Jenny Goldie-Scot Jonathan Harris CBE FRICS Marianna Hay MBE Nicholas Hely-Hutchinson DL 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

Finance

Baroness Shackleton Thomas Sharpe KC Julian Simmonds Barry Smith Nicholas Snowman OBE Martin Southgate Chris Viney Laurence Watt Elizabeth Winter

Frances Slack Finance Director Dayse Guilherme Finance Manager Jean-Paul Ramotar Finance and IT Officer

Education and Community

General Administration

Talia Lash Education and Community Director

Elena Dubinets Artistic Director David Burke Chief Executive Chantelle Vircavs PA to the Executive

Concert Management Roanna Gibson Concerts and Planning Director

Anna Quillin Trusts and Foundations Manager Katurah Morrish Development Events Manager

Robert Winup Concerts and Tours Assistant

Eleanor Conroy Al Levin Development Assistants

Matthew Freeman Recordings Consultant Andrew Chenery Orchestra Personnel Manager

Nick Jackman Campaigns and Projects Director

Sarah Thomas Martin Sargeson Librarians

Kirstin Peltonen Development Associate

Laura Kitson Stage and Operations Manager

Marketing Kath Trout Marketing and Communications Director

Stephen O’Flaherty Deputy Operations Manager Felix Lo Orchestra and Auditions Manager

Sophie Harvey Marketing Manager Rachel Williams Publications Manager

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Hayley Kim Marketing Co-ordinator Alicia Hartley Marketing Assistant

Gillian Pole Recordings Archive

Siân Jenkins Corporate Relations Manager

Alison Jones Concerts and Recordings Co-ordinator

Greg Felton Digital Creative

Hannah Smith Education and Community Co-ordinator

Rosie Morden Individual Giving Manager

Madeleine Ridout Glyndebourne and Projects Manager

Ruth Haines Press and PR Manager

Archives

Laura Willis Development Director

Maddy Clarke Tours Manager

Gavin Miller Sales and Ticketing Manager

Lowri Davies Hannah Foakes Education and Community Project Managers

Development

Graham Wood Concerts and Recordings Manager

Harrie Mayhew Website Manager

Philip Stuart Discographer

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 illustration Simon Pemberton/Heart 2022/23 season identity JMG Studio Printer John Good Ltd