LPO concert programme: 19 Jan 2022 - Raw Emotion, Endless Peace (Canellakis/Tetzlaff)

2021/22 concert season at the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall

Concert programme

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 Wednesday 19 January 2022 | 7.30pm

Raw Emotion, Endless Peace Victoria Borisova-Ollas The Kingdom of Silence (15’) Shostakovich Violin Concerto No. 2, Op. 129 (30’) Interval (20’) Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4 in F minor, Op. 36 (44’) Karina Canellakis conductor Christian Tetzlaff violin With the support of

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

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Contents 2 Welcome

LPO news 3 On stage tonight 4 London Philharmonic Orchestra 5 Leader: Pieter Schoeman 6 Karina Canellakis 7 Christian Tetzlaff 8 Programme notes 12 Recommended recordings 13 Tchaikovsky on the LPO Label 14 LPO Annual Appeal 2022 16 Julia Fischer plays Mozart:

Artist-in-Residence Spring 2022 17 Sound Futures donors 18 Thank you 20 LPO administration

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This summer’s Glyndebourne Festival will run from 21 May–28 August. Opening the Festival in May is The Wreckers by the pioneering feminist English composer Ethel Smyth (1858–1944). A powerful psychodrama set on the Cornish coast, The Wreckers will be the first Festival performance of an opera by a female composer, and will be conducted by Glyndebourne Music Director Robin Ticciati with the LPO.

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On stage tonight 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 Catherine Craig Yang Zhang

Chair supported by Eric Tomsett

Morane Cohen-Lamberger Katalin Varnagy

Violas

Piccolo

David Quiggle Principal Richard Waters Co-Principal

Stewart McIlwham* Principal

Chair supported by Caroline, Jamie & Zander Sharp

Alto Flute

Laura Vallejo Katharine Leek Benedetto Pollani Alistair Scahill Martin Wray Linda Kidwell Stanislav Popov Elitsa Bogdanova Shiry Rashkovsky Mark Gibbs

Cassi Hamilton Martin Höhmann

Chair supported by Chris Aldren

Greta Mutlu Thomas Eisner Will Hillman Deborah Gruman Rasa Zukauskaite

Second Violins

Tania Mazzetti Principal Chair supported by Countess Dominique Loredan

Emma Oldfield Helena Smart Nynke Hijlkema Joseph Maher Nancy Elan Marie-Anne Mairesse Eleonora Consta Ashley Stevens Kate Cole Fiona Higham

Chair supported by David & Yi Buckley

Sheila Law Kate Birchall Claudia Tarrant-Matthews

Trombones

Oboes

Chair supported by William & Alex de Winton

Cor Anglais

Sue Böhling* Principal Chair supported by Dr Barry Grimaldi

Cellos

Kristina Blaumane Principal

Clarinets

Chair supported by Bianca & Stuart Roden

Benjamin Mellefont Principal Thomas Watmough

Francis Bucknall Laura Donoghue David Lale Gregory Walmsley Susanna Riddell Helen Rathbone Sibylle Hentschel David Bucknall Leo Melvin

Chair supported by Roger Greenwood

James Maltby

Bass Clarinet

Paul Richards* Principal

Bassoons

Jonathan Davies Principal

Double Basses

Chair supported by Sir Simon Robey

Kevin Rundell* Principal Sebastian Pennar

Gareth Newman Antonia Lazenby

George Peniston Tom Walley

Contrabassoon

Laura Murphy Charlotte Kerbegian Lowri Morgan Adam Wynter

Horns

Co-Principal

Simon Estell* Principal

Chair supported by William & Alex de Winton

John Ryan* Principal Nicholas Mooney Guest Principal

Martin Hobbs Mark Vines Co-Principal Gareth Mollison

Flutes

Katie Bedford Guest Principal Hannah Grayson Stewart McIlwham*

Paul Beniston* Principal Anne McAneney David Hilton

Stewart McIlwham*

Ian Hardwick* Principal Alice Munday Sue Böhling*

Chair supported by Sonja Drexler

Trumpets

Mark Templeton* Principal 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 Chair supported by Gill & Garf Collins

Tom Edwards Karen Hutt

Harp

Rachel Masters Principal

Piano/Celeste

Catherine Edwards * Holds a professorial appointment in London The London Philharmonic Orchestra also acknowledges the following chair supporter whose player is not present at this concert: The Candide Trust

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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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Karina Canellakis Principal Guest Conductor, London Philharmonic Orchestra

Symphony at the Bregenzer Festspiele in the third act of Wagner’s Siegfried. In the past few seasons she has conducted critically acclaimed productions of Mozart’s Don Giovanni, Die Zauberflöte and Le nozze di Figaro, David Lang’s the loser and Peter Maxwell Davies’s The Hogboon.

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Since winning the Sir Georg Solti Conducting Award in 2016, Karina has become a guest conductor with leading orchestras around the world including the London Symphony Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, and the symphony orchestras of Melbourne, Sydney, Toronto, Cincinnati, Minnesota and Detroit. She made an immediate impact on the players of the LPO when she made her debut with them in October 2018 in a concert of Sibelius, Dvořák and Bartók at the Royal Festival Hall. Karina was the first woman to conduct the First Night of the BBC Proms in 2019, with the BBC Symphony Orchestra. She was also the first woman to ever conduct the Nobel Prize Concert with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic in 2018.

Karina Canellakis became the London Philharmonic Orchestra’s Principal Guest Conductor in September 2020. Internationally acclaimed for her emotionally charged performances, technical command and interpretive depth, Karina has become one of the most in-demand conductors of her generation. She is also Chief Conductor of the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra and Principal Guest Conductor of the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin (RSB).

Already known to many in the classical music world for her virtuoso violin playing, Karina was initially encouraged to pursue conducting by Sir Simon Rattle while she was playing regularly in the Berlin Philharmonic for two years as a member of its Orchester-Akademie. She performed for many years as a soloist, guest leader and chamber musician, spending her summers at the Marlboro Music Festival, until conducting eventually became her focus. Karina was born and raised in New York City.

The 2021/22 season includes concerts with some of the finest European and US orchestras, including her debuts with the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the hr-Sinfonieorchester (Frankfurt Radio), and returns to the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony and Orchestre de Paris. During summer 2021 she made debuts with the Boston Symphony at Tanglewood, the Cleveland Orchestra at the Blossom Festival and the Orchestre National de France at the St Denis Festival, and performed Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with the Vienna Symphony as the culminating performance of ‘Nine Beethoven Symphonies from nine European cities’ live on the TV channel ARTE.

Karina conducted the LPO in her first concert as Principal Guest Conductor on 27 November 2021, in a programme of John Adams, Sibelius and Gershwin with pianist Inon Barnatan. In December she conducted Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 10 and Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3 with soloist Stephen Hough, in a concert dedicated to the memory of former LPO Principal Conductor Bernard Haitink. Both concerts received rave reviews from press and audience alike. On 22 January she returns to the Royal Festival Hall to conduct the Orchestra in a programme of Wagner, Ravel, Scriabin and Lili Boulanger.

On the operatic stage this season, Karina conducts a new production of Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées with the Orchestre National de France. She enjoys conducting opera-inconcert and will lead the Netherlands Radio Orchestra at the Concertgebouw in Janáček’s Kát’a Kabanová, the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic in the second act of Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde, and the Vienna

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Christian Tetzlaff violin

Further engagements in the 2021/22 season include tours across Europe and to the US, as well as a tour with the Konzerthausorchester Berlin and invitations from the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France and the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra.

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Christian Tetzlaff’s recordings have received numerous awards, such as the 2018 Gramophone Classical Music Award for his album of Bartók’s Violin Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 with Hannu Lintu and the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra. His most recent recording for the Ondine label, of Beethoven and Sibelius concertos with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin and Robin Ticciati, was released in 2019 and immediately received a mention as Album of the Month in Gramophone Magazine. Other awards include a Diapason d’Or and a German Radio Critics’ Award in 2018, a MIDEM Classical Award in 2017, an Edison Award, and several Grammy nominations. His discography also includes violin concertos by Dvořák, Mozart, Lalo, Sibelius, Tchaikovsky, Beethoven and Jörg Widmann; violin sonatas by Mozart, Bartók, Schumann and Brahms; and of special significance, Bach’s complete solo Sonatas and Partitas, which he has recorded three times over the years, the latest released in 2017.

Christian Tetzlaff has been one of the most sought-after violinists and exciting musicians on the classical music scene for many years. Equally at home in classical, romantic and contemporary repertoire, he sets new standards with his interpretations of concertos by Beethoven, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Berg and Ligeti, and is renowned for his innovative chamber music projects and his performances of Bach’s solo repertoire.

He frequently turns his attention to forgotten masterpieces such as Joachim’s Violin Concerto, which he successfully championed, while also attempting to bring new works to the mainstream repertoire, such as Jörg Widmann’s Violin Concerto, which he premiered in 2013. In 2008 he gave the world premiere of Mambo, Blues and Tarantella by then-LPO Composer-inResidence Mark-Anthony Turnage with the Orchestra under Vladimir Jurowski, later released on the LPO Label (LPO-0066). In 2015 he performed the Violin Concerto No. 1 by then-Composer-in-Residence Magnus Lindberg with the Orchestra under Robin Ticciati. Christian Tetzlaff’s last appearance with the London Philharmonic Orchestra was in February 2019, when he performed Sibelius’s Violin Concerto, again under Robin Ticciati, at the Royal Festival Hall.

Chamber music is as much an important facet of Christian’s musical life as his work as a soloist. He founded the Tetzlaff Quartet in 1994, which received the Diapason d’Or in 2015, while his trio with his sister Tanja Tetzlaff and pianist Lars Vogt was nominated for a Grammy Award.

Born in Hamburg in 1966, Christian Tetzlaff studied at the Lübeck Conservatory with Uwe-Martin Haiberg and in Cincinnati with Walter Levin. He plays a violin by German maker Peter Greiner and teaches regularly at the Kronberg Academy, near Frankfurt.

A former Artist-in-Residence with Carnegie Hall, the Berlin Philharmonic, the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich and the hr-Sinfonieorchester Frankfurt, during the 2021/22 season Christian Tetzlaff shares his artistic ideas as Artist-in-Residence with the Wigmore Hall.

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Programme notes Victoria Borisova-Ollas born 1969

The Kingdom of Silence 2003

Victoria Borisova-Ollas was born in Russia in 1969 but has lived in Sweden since 1993. She first achieved international recognition when her work Wings of the Wind won second prize in the British Masterprize International Competition in 1998. She uses an original and innovative vocabulary of sounds to create acoustic spaces of great beauty and intensity, capable of captivating both sophisticated ears and those of less experienced but curious. After graduating from the Moscow Central School of Music and the famous Tchaikovsky Conservatory, Victoria continued her composition studies at the Malmö Academy of Music in Sweden and at the Royal College of Music in London.

The mysterious country where we will all go to after our lifetime has many different names. ‘The Kingdom of Silence’ is one of them.

The composition starts as a lullaby where glockenspiel and celeste play a rather simple melody, wrapped in the ‘echo’ of string instruments. Gradually we sink into a dream. Different scenes appear in succession, sometimes linked to each other by the same tempo or separated by a sudden change of mood. With the return of the ‘lullaby’, a long chain of events is finished. But the dream itself – does it ever end?

The Kingdom of Silence is written in memory of Nikolai Korndorf (1947–2001), an extraordinary personality among his generation of Russian composers. It was commissioned by the Gothenburg Art Sounds (GAS) Festival 2003 and Rikskonserter, Sweden.

Her music is performed worldwide by orchestras such as the London Symphony, BBC Symphony, Vienna Radio Symphony, Pittsburgh Symphony, Baltimore Symphony, NHK Symphony, Swedish Radio Symphony, Finnish Radio Symphony and Munich Philharmonic orchestras.

Performances of her works have been broadcast by BBC Radio 3, Swedish Television, Swedish Radio P2, and by companies in Finland, Russia, the USA, Slovenia, Germany and Canada. In 2017 her opera Dracula had a successful premiere at the Royal Swedish Opera and enjoyed sold-out performances for two seasons.

Programme note © Victoria Borisova-Ollas

Victoria Borisova-Ollas has received numerous prestigious awards including the Christ Johnson Prize from the Royal Swedish Academy of Music (for the clarinet concerto Golden Dances of the Pharaohs), the Hilding Rosenberg Prize from the Swedish Society of Composers, and the Swedish Music Publishers Association’s annual Award for the music drama The Ground Beneath Her Feet. In 2016 she was named Musician of the Year by the Swedish newspaper Expressen. Victoria Borisova-Ollas is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music. © Martina Holmberg

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Programme notes Dmitri Shostakovich 1906–75

Violin Concerto No. 2, Op. 129 1967 Christian Tetzlaff violin 1 Moderato 2 Adagio – 3 Adagio – Allegro

Shostakovich composed the second of his two violin concertos in April and May 1967. Like the First, written some two decades earlier, it was designed for the great Soviet virtuoso David Oistrakh. Oistrakh claimed that the piece was intended as a 60th birthday present to him, but delivered a year early; however, the composer’s biographer Laurel E. Fay thinks that may have been the result of a misunderstanding, as ‘this was not the kind of error the punctilious Shostakovich was prone to’. The first performance took place in Moscow in September 1967, with Kirill Kondrashin conducting. Shostakovich was unable to be present, as he was in hospital after breaking his right leg earlier that month. But he heard a broadcast of the British premiere in November, and sent Oistrakh a telegram of gratitude.

The Concerto was written in the wake of Shostakovich’s heart attack in May 1966, and in some respects anticipates the spare, sombre ‘late style’ of his final years. It is in C sharp minor, with the finale in D flat major: this is an unusual and potentially awkward choice of key for a violin concerto, but Fay quotes Oistrakh’s observation that after becoming acquainted with the work ‘he appreciated it as the ingenious stroke of a composer who genuinely understood the expressive capabilities of the instrument.’ The orchestral scoring is for double woodwind, with an additional contrabassoon, four horns, timpani, tom-tom and strings. The horns, as the only representatives of the brass section, frequently

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Programme notes The second movement is an intense Adagio, in which the solo violin plays virtually without pause through a first section presenting a sequence of melodies and counter-melodies, a generally calmer second section, a declamatory episode accompanied first by timpani rolls and then by fierce string tremolos, and a varied reprise of the first section; only in the coda does the first horn take over the lead. The finale follows without a break: after a short slow introduction, it is a rondo on a brittle main theme. At the heart of the movement is an extended cadenza, beginning with an allusion to the introduction and later harking back to the accompaniment figure at the start of the whole work.

After the last return of the rondo theme, the soloist’s virtuosity drives the movement to an emphatic conclusion.

come to the fore, with the first horn in particular sometimes taking on a concertante role, as it does more consistently in the First Cello Concerto of 1959. But the centre of attention nevertheless remains the soloist: Shostakovich was quoted in a preview article in Pravda as saying that ‘in the new concerto virtually everything is set out by the solo violin, everything is concentrated in its part and the orchestra accompanies, as it were’.

The work has a traditional outline of three movements.

The first, and longest, begins with an extended paragraph growing out of the soloist’s expressive initial melody and its insistent accompaniment in the cellos and basses. At a faster tempo, the woodwind introduce a spiky second theme, with a rhythmic countermelody for the soloist; and this spins off further ideas, notably close canons between solo violin and woodwind and a fanfare for the horn. The development begins with a switch from 4/4 time to 3/4, and soon reaches and sustains a new level of urgency and vehemence.

The recapitulation begins with a cadenza for the soloist presenting the first theme in two-part counterpoint, later brings back the second theme in a new, smoothed-out violin version, and ends quietly and drily with a recurring rhythmic figure for the soloist, by now muted, and the tom-tom.

Programme note © Anthony Burton

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

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Programme notes Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840–93

Symphony No. 4 in F minor, Op. 36 1884–85 1 Andante sostenuto – Moderato con anima 2 Andantino in modo di canzona 3 Scherzo (Pizzicato ostinato): Allegro 4 Finale: Allegro con fuoco The years 1876 and 1877 were traumatic ones for Tchaikovsky. He was suffering increasingly from feelings of guilt over his homosexuality, and considerable mental torment from the fear of its discovery. As a result he underwent a personal crisis that eventually drove him not just to an ill-advised marriage to a young student (a disastrous affair which lasted only a few weeks in the summer of 1877), but also to near-madness and a pitiable suicide attempt.

Two orchestral works of this time clearly reflect Tchaikovsky’s disturbed state of mind. The first was the tone-poem Francesca da Rimini, composed in the autumn of 1876 and depicting the eternal damnation of Francesca and her lover Paolo, condemned in Dante’s Inferno to the second circle of Hell for their helpless but illicit passion. The second was the Fourth Symphony, composed the following year, which confronted another spectre that had been haunting Tchaikovsky: the destructive nature of Fate. The seeds may well have been sown by a performance of Carmen that the composer saw in Paris in early 1875, but they were undoubtedly brought to fruition by the harrowing events of the following two years. From these Tchaikovsky emerged with a stronger-than-ever conviction of the power of ‘the fateful force that prevents the impulse to happiness from achieving its goal ... which hangs over your head like the sword of Damocles’.

Tchaikovsky wrote these words in a letter to his patroness, Nadezhda von Meck, to describe the stark motto theme that opens the Symphony. The letter goes

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Programme notes on to outline for von Meck the feelings underlying the rest of the work, a useful guide to its comprehension even now, though only after it has been borne in mind that it was written after the music had been completed. Thus we learn that the oppressive waltz-tune that opens the fast section of the first movement signifies resignation in the face of Fate’s supremacy, and the lilting second theme (announced on clarinet) the desire to ‘turn away from reality and submerge oneself in daydreams’.

But though the music strives for happiness, it is Fate that gains the upper hand, with the motto theme returning to dominate the later stages of the movement.

Recommended recordings of tonight’s works

by Laurie Watt Victoria Borisova-Ollas: The Kingdom of Silence Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra | Martyn Brabbins (BIS) Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 2 Alina Ibragimova | State Academic Symphony Orchestra of Russia | Vladimir Jurowski (Hyperion)

For Tchaikovsky the slow movement – with its haunting oboe melody – evoked ‘the melancholy feeling which comes in the evening when, weary from your labour, you are sitting alone. You take a book, but it falls from your hand. A whole host of memories comes ... It’s both sad, yet somehow sweet to immerse yourself in the past.’

The ensuing Scherzo depicts less clearly defined emotions: Tchaikovsky refers vaguely to ‘capricious arabesques’, ‘drunken peasants’ and ‘a military procession’, but in truth a programme is irrelevant in this orchestral tour-de-force in which three themes – for pizzicato strings, woodwind and brass respectively – are first alternated, then wittily combined.

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 London Philharmonic Orchestra | Vladimir Jurowski (LPO Label LPO-0064: see right)

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The Finale opens in a brilliant whirl of sounds which the sober Russian folk-tune ‘In the fields there stood a birch’ can only temporarily assuage. ‘If you find no reason for joy within yourself’, wrote Tchaikovsky, ‘go among the people. Observe how they can enjoy themselves, surrendering themselves wholeheartedly to joyful feelings.’ In the midst of the celebrations, however, the Fate theme from the first movement breaks in with an effect so devastating that the movement is brought to a standstill. But this time it cannot win. ‘You have only yourself to blame; do not say that everything in the world is sad. There are simple but strong joys’. The Symphony concludes in a blaze of glory, and the composer, for the time being at least, turns his back on Fate.

Programme note © Lindsay Kemp

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JULIA FISCHER P L AY S M O Z A R T February 2022 at the Southbank Centre

STRAIGHT OUT OF SALZBURG

Wednesday 2 February 2022 | Royal Festival Hall R Strauss Don Juan Mozart Violin Concerto No. 3 Mozart Violin Concerto No. 4 R Strauss Tod und Verklärung

Thomas Søndergård conductor Julia Fischer violin

SINFONIA CONCERTANTE

Friday 4 February 2022 | Royal Festival Hall Mozart Overture: Die Entführung aus dem Serail Mozart Violin Concerto No. 5 Mozart Sinfonia Concertante R Strauss Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche Thomas Søndergård conductor Julia Fischer violin Nils Mönkemeyer viola

JULIA FISCHER PLAYS CHAMBER MUSIC Sunday 6 February 2022 | Queen Elizabeth Hall Shostakovich Two Pieces for String Octet Bruch Octet for Strings Dvořák Piano Quintet No. 2

Julia Fischer violin & piano Soloists of the London Philharmonic Orchestra

ADVENTURES AND HOMAGES

Saturday 12 Feb 2022 | Royal Festival Hall Mozart Violin Concerto No. 1 Mozart Violin Concerto No. 2 Tchaikovsky Serenade for Strings Julia Fischer violin/director With the support of

London Philharmonic Orchestra • 19 January 2022 • Raw Emotion, Endless Peace

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 QC Diana & Allan Morgenthau Charitable Trust Dr Karen Morton Mr Roger Phillimore Ruth Rattenbury The Reed Foundation The Rind Foundation Sir Bernard Rix

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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

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 Mrs Christina Lang Assael In memory of Mrs Rita Reay Sir Simon & Lady Robey OBE

Orchestra Circle

The Candide Trust William & Alex de Winton Aud Jebsen Mr & Mrs Philip Kan Neil Westreich The American Friends of the London Philharmonic Orchestra

Principal Associates

An anonymous donor Richard Buxton Gill & Garf Collins In memory of Brenda Lyndoe Casbon In memory of Ann Marguerite Collins Hamish & Sophie Forsyth The Tsukanov Family

Associates

Anonymous donors Steven M. Berzin Ms Veronika BorovikKhilchevskaya Irina Gofman & Mr Rodrik V. G. Cave The Lambert Family Charitable Trust 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 Chris Aldren David & Yi Buckley David Burke & Valerie Graham David & Elizabeth Challen In memory of Allner Mavis Channing Sonja Drexler The Vernon Ellis Foundation Peter & Fiona Espenhahn Marie-Laure Favre-Gilly de Varennes de Beuill Mr Roger Greenwood Malcolm Herring John & Angela Kessler Dame Theresa Sackler

Dr Wiebke Pekrull Mr Gerald Pettit Mr Roger Phillimore Gillian Pole Mr Michael Posen Mr Christopher Querée Sir Bernard Rix Mr Robert Ross Priscylla Shaw Patrick & Belinda Snowball Charlotte Stevenson Mr Robert Swannell Tony & Hilary Vines Mr & Mrs John C Tucker Mr & Mrs John & Susi Underwood Marina Vaizey Jenny Watson CBE Mr John Weekes Christopher Williams

Scott & Kathleen Simpson Eric Tomsett Andrew & Rosemary Tusa The Viney Family Guy & Utti Whittaker

Silver Patrons

Mrs A Beare The Rt Hon. The Lord Burns GCB Bruno De Kegel Jan & Leni Du Plessis Ulrike & Benno Engelmann Simon & Meg Freakley Pehr G Gyllenhammar The Jeniffer & Jonathan Harris Charitable Trust Catherine Høgel & Ben Mardle Wg. Cdr. & Mrs M T Liddiard OBE JP RAF Sofiya Machulskaya Mrs Elizabeth Meshkvicheva The Metherell Family Andrew Neill Peter & Lucy Noble Marianne Parsons Tom & Phillis Sharpe Laurence Watt Grenville & Krysia Williams

Principal Supporters

Anonymous donors Dr R M Aickin Mr Mark Astaire Sir John Baker Tessa Bartley Mr Geoffrey Bateman Mrs Julia Beine Mr Anthony Boswood Dr Anthony Buckland Dr Carlos Carreno Mr Julien Chilcott-Monk Mr & Mrs Stewart Cohen David & Liz Conway Mr Alistair Corbett Andrew Davenport Mr Simon Douglas Mr B C Fairhall Mr Richard Fernyhough Mrs Janet Flynn Mrs Ash Frisby Jason George Mr Stephen Goldring Mr Daniel Goldstein Mr Milton Grundy Prof. Emeritus John Gruzelier Nerissa Guest & David Foreman Michael & Christine Henry Mark & Sarah Holford Ivan Hurry Per Jonsson Alexandra Jupin & John Bean Richard & Briony Linsell Paul & Brigitta Lock Mr Peter Mace Nicholas & Lindsay Merriman Andrew T Mills Simon & Fiona Mortimore Mrs Terry Neale John Nickson & Simon Rew Mr James Pickford Michael & Carolyn Portillo

Bronze Patrons

Anonymous donors Michael Allen Dr Manon Antoniazzi Julian & Annette Armstrong Roger & Clare Barron Mr Philip Bathard-Smith Sir Peter Bazalgette Mikhail Noskov & Vasilina Bindley Mr Bernard Bradbury Sally Bridgeland In memory of Julie Bromley Desmond & Ruth Cecil Mr John H Cook Howard & Veronika Covington John & Sam Dawson Cameron & Kathryn Doley David Ellen Christopher Fraser OBE Virginia Gabbertas MBE David & Jane Gosman Mr Gavin Graham Mrs Dorothy Hambleton J Douglas Home The Jackman Family Mr & Mrs Ralph Kanza Jamie & Julia Korner Rose & Dudley Leigh Drs Frank & Gek Lim Nicholas & Felicity Lyons Geoff & Meg Mann Harriet & Michael Maunsell Marianne Parsons

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Mr David Russell Colin Senneck & the Hartley and District LPO Group Mr John Shinton Nigel Silby Mr Brian Smith Martin & Cheryl Southgate Mr & Mrs G Stein Dr Peter Stephenson Mr Ian Tegner Dr June Wakefield Howard & Sheelagh Watson Joanna Williams Roger Woodhouse Mr John Wright

Supporters

Anonymous donors Ralph & Elizabeth Aldwinckle Alexander & Rachel Antelme Julian & Annette Armstrong Lindsay Badenoch Mr Mark Bagshaw & Mr Ian Walker Mr John Barnard Mr John D Barnard Damaris, Richard & Friends Mr David Barrett Diana Barrett Mr Simon Baynham Harvey Bengen Nick & Rebecca Beresford Mr Paul Bland Mr Keith Bolderson Mr Andrew Botterill Julian & Margaret Bowden & Mr Paul Michel Richard & Jo Brass Mr & Mrs Shaun Brown Mr Alan C Butler Lady Cecilia Cadbury Mrs Marilyn Casford Alison Clarke & Leo Pilkington J Clay Mr Joshua Coger Mr Martin Compton Mr Martin Connelly Mr Stephen Connock Miss Tessa Cowie Mr David Davies Mr Roderick Davies Mr David Devons Anthony & Jo Diamond Miss Sylvia Dowle Mr Andrew Dyke Mr Declan Eardly Mrs Maureen Erskine Mr Peter Faulk Mr Joe Field Ms Chrisine Louise Fluker Mr Kevin Fogarty Mr Richard France

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Thank you

Mr Bernard Freudenthal Mrs Adele Friedland & Friends Will Gold Mrs Alison Goulter Mr Andrew Gunn Mr K Haines Mr Martin Hale Roger Hampson Mr Graham Hart Mr & Mrs Nevile Henderson The Jackman Family Mr Ian Kapur Martin Kettle Mr Justin Kitson Ms Yvonne Lock Mrs Sally Manning Belinda Miles Dr Joe Mooney Christopher & Diane Morcom Dame Jane Newell DBE Oliver & Josie Ogg Mr Stephen Olton Mr David Peters Nadya Powell Ms Caroline Priday Mr Richard Rolls Mr Richard Rowland Mr & Mrs Alan Senior Tom Sharpe Mr Kenneth Shaw Ruth Silvestre Barry & Gillian Smith Mr David Southern Ms Mary Stacey Mr Simon Starr Mrs Margaret Thompson Philip & Katie Thonemann Mr Owen Toller Mrs Rose Tremain Ms Mary Stacey Ms Caroline Tate Mr Peter Thierfeldt Dr Ann Turrall Michael & Katie Urmston Dr June Wakefield Mr Dominic Wallis Mrs C Willaims Joanna Williams Mr Kevin Willmering Mr David Woodhead

Hon. Benefactor Elliott Bernerd

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

LPO International Board of Governors

Corporate Donors

Barclays CHANEL Fund for Women in the Arts and Culture Pictet Bank

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)

LPO Corporate Circle Leader freuds Sunshine

Principal Berenberg Bloomberg Carter-Ruck French Chamber of Commerce

Thomas Beecham Group Members

Tutti Lazard Russo-British Chamber of Commerce Walpole

Chris Aldren 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 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

Trialist Allianz Musical Insurance

Preferred Partners Gusbourne Estate Lidl Lindt & Sprüngli Ltd OneWelbeck Steinway

In-kind Sponsor Google Inc

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:

Trusts and Foundations The Boltini Trust Borrows Charitable Trust Boshier-Hinton Foundation The Candide 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 Lucille Graham Trust John Horniman’s Children’s Trust John Thaw Foundation The Idlewild Trust Kirby Laing Foundation The Marchus Trust Adam Mickiewicz Institute PRS Foundation The Radcliffe Trust Rivers Foundation The R K Charitable Trust Romanian Cultural Institute Rothschild Foundation RVW Trust Schroder Charity Trust Serge Rachmaninoff Foundation Sir William Boreman’s Foundation Souter Charitable Trust The Stanley Picker Trust The Thomas Deane Trust The Thriplow Charitable Trust The Vaughan Williams Charitable Trust The Victoria Wood Foundation The Viney Family The Barbara Whatmore Charitable Trust The William Alwyn Foundation

and all others who wish to remain anonymous.

Simon Freakley Chairman Jay Goffman Alexandra Jupin William A. Kerr Kristina McPhee Natalie Pray Damien Vanderwilt Elizabeth Winter Victoria Robey OBE Hon. Director Jenifer L. Keiser, CPA, EisnerAmper LLP

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 COVID-19 pandemic.

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London Philharmonic Orchestra • 19 January 2022 • Raw Emotion, Endless Peace

London Philharmonic Orchestra Administration Board of Directors Victoria Robey OBE Chairman Martin Höhmann* President Dr Catherine C. Høgel Vice-Chairman 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) *Player-Director

Advisory Council Martin Höhmann Chairman Christopher Aldren Dr Manon Antoniazzi Roger Barron Richard Brass Helen Brocklebank YolanDa Brown 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 Barry Smith

Finance

Martin Southgate Chris Viney Laurence Watt Elizabeth Winter

Frances Slack Finance Director Dayse Guilherme Finance Manager

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 Graham Wood Concerts and Recordings Manager

Hannah Foakes Tilly Gugenheim Education and Community Project Co-ordinators

Fabio Sarlo Glyndebourne and Projects Manager

Development

Grace Ko Tours Manager

Laura Willis Development Director

Alison Jones Concerts and Recordings Co-ordinator

Scott Tucker Development Events Manager

Christina Perrin Concerts and Tours Assistant Matthew Freeman Recordings Consultant Andrew Chenery Orchestra Personnel Manager

Marketing Kath Trout Marketing and Communications Director Mairi Warren Marketing Manager Rachel Williams Publications Manager

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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 Simon Owen-Johnstone Hon. Orthopaedic Surgeon

Kirstin Peltonen Development Associate

Felix Lo Orchestra and Auditions Manager

Sophie Harvey Digital and Residencies Marketing Manager

Rosie Morden Individual Giving Manager

Nick Jackman Campaigns and Projects Director

Freddie Jackson Assistant Stage Manager

Ruth Knight Press and PR Manager

Mr Chris Aldren Honorary ENT Surgeon

Priya Radhakrishnan Georgia Wiltshire Development Assistants

Laura Kitson Stephen O’Flaherty Stage Managers

Gavin Miller Sales and Ticketing Manager

Stef Woodford Corporate Relations Manager

Anna Quillin Trusts and Foundations Manager

Sarah Thomas Martin Sargeson Librarians

Harrie Mayhew Website Manager

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 Printer John Good Ltd