LPO concert programme: 1 Oct 2022 - Grand Passions, High Ideals (Edward Gardner/Inbal Segev)

Concert programme

A place to call home 2022/23 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 Saturday 1 October 2022 | 7.30pm A place to call home

Grand Passions, High Ideals Wagner Overture, Tannhäuser (14’) Vijay Iyer Human Archipelago (world premiere) (25’) Interval (20’) Mendelssohn Symphony No. 5 in D major, Op. 107 (Reformation) (33’) Edward Gardner conductor

Generously supported by Aud Jebsen

Inbal Segev cello

Free post-concert performance: Vijay Iyer & Inbal Segev 10.00pm | The Clore Ballroom, Level 2, Royal Festival Hall Pianist/composer Vijay Iyer gives a free performance of his music featuring cellist Inbal Segev and LPO musicians Kate Oswin and Richard Waters.

All welcome, no ticket required.

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 Edward Gardner Inbal Segev Next concerts Programme notes Recommended recordings Sound Futures donors Thank you LPO administration

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Join us tonight: Free late-night chamber concert

We hope you enjoy your visit. We have a Duty Manager available at all times. If you need any information or help, please ask a member of staff.

Tonight marks the first of three late-night chamber events with artists from our main season showcasing their creative talents in an up-close and personal setting. Tonight at 10pm, pianist and composer Vijay Iyer gives a free post-concert performance of his own music with cellist Inbal Segev and LPO musicians Kate Oswin and Richard Waters. It will take place on The Clore Ballroom (Level 2, Royal Festival Hall) and is free of charge with no ticket required. Please do stay and join us!

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The next event is on 9 November, when, following the evening’s Royal Festival Hall concert featuring the world premiere of her Piano Concerto No. 2, Polish composer and singer Agata Zubel will perform her own music alongside Berio’s Folk Songs with members of the LPO. On 18 January, following the UK premiere of his Clarinet Concerto, Syrian clarinettist and composer Kinan Azmeh performs his own music alongside LPO musicians. 9 November and 18 January are ticketed events in the Purcell Room at the Queen Elizabeth Hall: for full details or to book, please visit lpo.org.uk/202223season

We look forward to seeing you again soon.

A few points to note for your comfort and enjoyment: Photography is not allowed in the auditorium.

Latecomers will only be admitted to the auditorium if there is a suitable break in the performance.

New on the LPO Label

Recording is not permitted in the auditorium without the prior consent of the Southbank Centre.

The Southbank Centre reserves the right to confiscate video or sound equipment and hold it in safekeeping until the performance has ended.

Last month saw our release of Tippett’s The Midsummer Marriage on the LPO Label – the first commercial recording of the opera in over 50 years.

It was recorded live at the Royal Festival Hall on the opening night of the LPO’s 2021/22 season, which also marked Edward Gardner’s first concert as Principal Conductor. The cast includes Robert Murray, Rachel Nicholls, Ashley Riches, Jennifer France, Toby Spence, the London Philharmonic Choir and the English National Opera Chorus. As well as being available to stream or download on all the major platforms, the release is also available from all good retailers as a premium three-CD box set including a 52-page booklet with full libretto and articles by Oliver Soden and Edward Gardner.

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Supported by the Michael Tippett Musical Foundation in memory of Dennis Marks

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On stage tonight First Violins

Pieter Schoeman* Leader

Chair supported by Neil Westreich

Ania Safonova Kate Oswin Lasma Taimina

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

Sophie Phillips Minn Majoe Fanny Fheodoroff Yang Zhang

Chair supported by Eric Tomsett

Elizaveta Tyun Katalin Varnagy

Chair supported by Sonja Drexler

Catherine Craig Thomas Eisner Martin Hohmann Laura Ayoub Eleanor Bartlett Rasa Zukauskaite

Second Violins

Tania Mazzetti Principal Chair supported by Countess Dominique Loredan

Emma Oldfield Co-Principal Nancy Elan Nynke Hijlkema Joseph Maher Kate Birchall Ashley Stevens Sioni Williams Jessica Coleman Alison Strange Kate Cole Lyrit Milgram Matthew Bain Anna Croad

Violas

Richard Waters Principal

Chair supported by Caroline, Jamie & Zander Sharp

Martin Wray Katharine Leek Lucia Ortiz Sauco Benedetto Pollani Kate de Campos Laura Vallejo Jisu Song

Linda Kidwell Daniel Cornford Julia Doukakis Rachel Robson

Cor Anglais

Cellos

Benjamin Mellefont

Peter Facer

Clarinets Principal

Pei-Jee Ng Principal

Thomas Watmough

Chair supported by The Candide Trust

Chair supported by Roger Greenwood

Francis Bucknall Sue Sutherley Susanna Riddell Helen Thomas Hee Yeon Cho Sibylle Hentschel Auriol Evans Tamaki Suguimoto Iain Ward

Antoine Bedewi Guest Principal

Percussion

Andrew Barclay* Principal Chair supported by Garf & Gill Collins

Paul Richards*

Karen Hutt James Bower

Bass Clarinet

Harp

Bassoons

Assistant Conductor

Paul Richards* Principal

Paul Boyes Guest Principal Shelly Organ Simon Estell*

Double Basses

Timpani

Rachel Masters Principal

James Ham

* Holds a professorial appointment in London

Kevin Rundell* Principal Sebastian Pennar

Contrabassoon

George Peniston Tom Walley

Horns

The LPO also acknowledges the following chair supporters whose players are not present at this concert:

Flutes

Trumpets

Juliette Bausor Principal Clare Childs

Paul Beniston* Principal Jack Wilson Guest Principal Anne McAneney*

David & Yi Buckley Dr Barry Grimaldi Sir Simon Robey Victoria Robey OBE Bianca & Stuart Roden

Piccolos

Trombones

Simon Estell* Principal

Co-Principal

Chair supported by William & Alex de Winton

John Ryan* Principal James Pillai Guest Principal Martin Hobbs Mark Vines Co-Principal Gareth Mollison

Laura Murphy Lowri Morgan Charlotte Kerbegian Gabriel Rodrigues

Maja Persson Clare Childs

Mark Templeton* Principal Chair supported by William & Alex de Winton

David Whitehouse

Alto Flute Clare Childs

Bass Trombone

Lyndon Meredith Principal

Oboes

Ian Hardwick* Principal Alice Munday Peter Facer

Tuba

Lee Tsarmaklis* Principal

Chair supported by Friends of the Orchestra

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Uniquely groundbreaking and exhilarating to watch and hear, the London Philharmonic Orchestra has been celebrated as one of the world’s great orchestras since Sir Thomas Beecham founded it in 1932. With every performance we aim to bring wonder to the modern world and cement our position as a leading orchestra for the 21st century.

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.

Our home is here at the Southbank’s Royal Festival Hall, where we’re at the beating heart of London’s cultural life.

You’ll also find us at our resident venues in Brighton, Eastbourne and Saffron Walden, and on tour throughout the UK and internationally, performing to sell-out audiences worldwide. Each summer we’re resident at Glyndebourne Festival Opera, combining the magic of opera with Glyndebourne’s glorious setting in the Sussex countryside.

Soundtrack to key moments Everyone will have heard the London Philharmonic Orchestra, whether it’s playing the world’s National Anthems at every medal ceremony of the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics, our iconic recording with Pavarotti that made Nessun Dorma a global football anthem, or closing the flotilla at The Queen’s Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant. And you’ll almost certainly have heard us on the soundtracks for major films including The Lord of the Rings.

Sharing the wonder We’re always at the forefront of technology, finding new ways to share our music globally. You’ll find us online, on streaming platforms, on social media and through our broadcast partnership with Marquee TV. During the pandemic period we launched ‘LPOnline’: over 100 videos of performances, insights and introductions to playlists, which led to us being named runner-up in the Digital Classical Music Awards 2020. During 2022/23 we’ll be working once again 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 music by Richard Strauss under Klaus Tennstedt with legendary soprano Jessye Norman; the first volume of a Stravinsky series with Vladimir Jurowski including The Rite of Spring

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Pieter Schoeman Leader

and The Firebird; and Tippett’s complete opera The Midsummer Marriage under Edward Gardner, captured in his first concert as LPO Principal Conductor in September 2021 (see page 2).

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’re committed to offering them opportunities to progress. 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.

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, 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, Mark Simpson 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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Edward Gardner Principal Conductor, London Philharmonic Orchestra

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symphonic highlights include works by Stravinsky, Brahms and Nielsen. Choral projects include Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 (Resurrection) and a staged performance of Wagner’s Parsifal. Following recent tours to Berlin, Munich and Amsterdam, and appearances at the BBC Proms and Edinburgh International Festival, the orchestra looks forward to touring projects in Germany and Belgium. In demand as a guest conductor, Edward will also return to the Cleveland and Chicago symphony orchestras, and conduct the Staatskapelle Berlin in its Sommerkonzert.

Following the announcement of Edward’s appointment at the Norwegian Opera and Ballet, the 2022/23 season will see him conduct a new production of Verdi’s Un ballo in maschera alongside two concert performances of Berlioz’s Damnation of Faust. He will also conduct the Norwegian National Opera Orchestra in a programme of Dvořák and Rachmaninoff.

Edward Gardner became Principal Conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra in September 2021.

He is also Chief Conductor of the Bergen Philharmonic, a position he will relinquish at the end of the 2023/24 season. From August 2024 he will undertake the Music Directorship of the Norwegian Opera and Ballet (DNO&B), having commenced the role of Artistic Advisor in February 2022.

Music Director of English National Opera for eight years (2007–15), Edward has an ongoing relationship with New York’s Metropolitan Opera, where he has conducted productions of The Damnation of 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. During the 2021/22 season Edward made his debut with Bayerische Staatsoper in a new production of Peter Grimes. Elsewhere, he has conducted at La Scala, Chicago Lyric Opera, Glyndebourne Festival Opera and Opéra National de Paris.

This season Edward will lead the London Philharmonic Orchestra in celebrating its 90th anniversary with music originally written for the LPO, including Vaughan Williams’s Serenade to Music and Tippett’s A Child of Our Time. He opened the Orchestra’s season last weekend with Schoenberg’s Gurrelieder, bringing the Orchestra and soloists together with the London Philharmonic Choir and London Symphony Chorus.

Future highlights this season include Lutosławski’s Fourth Symphony, Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring, Mahler’s Fifth Symphony, an Elgar symphony cycle, Janáček’s Glagolitic Mass and Berlioz’s Damnation of Faust. He will premiere works by Mark Simpson, LPO Composer-in-Residence Brett Dean, Vijay Iyer and Agata Zubel, and will tour with the Orchestra throughout the UK and Benelux as well as undertaking an extensive tour of Germany.

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.

Edward opened the LPO’s 2021/22 season with an acclaimed performance of Tippett’s The Midsummer Marriage, which has just been released on the LPO Label (see page 2). In August 2022 he conducted the Orchestra in Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius at the BBC Proms with the LPC and the Hallé Choir.

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 an OBE for Services to Music in The Queen’s Birthday Honours (2012).

Edward opened the Bergen Philharmonic season with Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3 (Eroica); further

Edward Gardner’s position at the LPO is generously supported by Aud Jebsen.

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Inbal Segev cello

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a companion film by Nick Davis Productions was screened at Lincoln Center and in Maine and Bogotá.

Her other recordings include a Romantic programme of Schumann, Chopin and Grieg with pianist Juho Pohjonen (Avie, 2018); Dohnányi Serenades with the Amerigo Trio (Navona, 2011); and cello sonatas by Beethoven and Boccherini with pianist Richard Bishop (Opus One, 2000). Inbal can also be heard playing music

by Peter Nashe on the soundtrack of Bee Season, a 2005 feature film starring Richard Gere and Juliette Binoche.

A native of Israel, at 16 Inbal Segev was invited by Isaac Stern to continue her cello studies in the US, where she earned degrees from Yale University and The Juilliard School, before co-founding the Amerigo Trio with former New York Philharmonic concertmaster Glenn Dicterow and violist Karen Dreyfus.

Inbal Segev is ‘a cellist with something to say’ (Gramophone). Combining a rich tone and technical mastery with rare dedication and intelligence, she has appeared with orchestras including the Israel Philharmonic, Berlin Philharmonic, Baltimore Symphony, St Louis Symphony and Pittsburgh Symphony, collaborating with such prominent conductors as Marin Alsop, Stéphane Denève, Lorin Maazel, Cristian Măcelaru and Zubin Mehta. Tonight is her concert debut with the London Philharmonic Orchestra.

Inbal Segev’s cello was made by Francesco Ruggieri in 1673.

Committed to reinvigorating the cello repertoire, Inbal has commissioned concertos from today’s leading composers including Timo Andres, Anna Clyne, Avner Dorman, Vijay Iyer and Dan Visconti. Recorded with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Marin Alsop for Avie Records, her 2020 premiere recording of Clyne’s cello concerto, DANCE, was an instant success, topping the Amazon Classical Concertos chart and inspiring glowing praise from The Guardian, BBC Radio 3 and other outlets; its opening movement was chosen as one of NPR Music’s ‘Favourite Songs of 2020’, receiving eight million listens on Spotify, and Inbal has continued to tour extensively with the piece. At the start of the pandemic she launched ‘20 for 2020’, a commissioning, recording and video project featuring 20 cutting-edge composers including John Luther Adams, Viet Cuong and Molly Joyce.

Inbal Segev’s premiere recordings crown a rich and wide-ranging discography. Having studied Bach’s solo cello suites for many years, she recorded the complete cycle over a six-month period with Grammy-winning producer Da-Hong Seetoo at New York City’s Academy of Arts and Letters for release by Vox Classics in 2015; documenting this process behind the scenes,

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Next LPO concerts at the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall

CANELLAKIS CONDUCTS BRAHMS Wednesday 19 October 2022, 7.30pm Dvořák The Wild Dove Brett Dean Three Memorials Brahms Piano Concerto No. 1 Karina Canellakis conductor Emanuel Ax piano Generously supported by Cockayne – Grants for the Arts and The London Community Foundation

VISIONS OF ENGLAND

Wednesday 26 October 2022, 7.30pm Vaughan Williams Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis Tom Coult Violin Concerto: ‘Pleasure Garden’ (London premiere) Vaughan Williams The Lark Ascending Vaughan Williams Symphony No. 9 Andrew Manze conductor Daniel Pioro violin

CANELLAKIS CONDUCTS BEETHOVEN Friday 21 October 2022, 7.30pm Sibelius Violin Concerto Beethoven Symphony No. 3 (Eroica) Karina Canellakis conductor Augustin Hadelich violin

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Programme notes Richard Wagner 1813–83

Overture, Tannhäuser 1845

Tannhäuser und der Sängerkrieg auf Wartburg (‘Tannhäuser and the Singing Contest on the Wartburg’) was Wagner’s fifth opera, first produced at the Dresden Court Theatre in October 1845. Its plot combines two German medieval subjects – the legendary crusader knight and minstrel Tannhäuser, and a singing contest – to fashion a story of the pull between sacred and earthly love. After discovering Venus’s underground realm (the Venusberg) and enjoying its excesses, Tannhäuser tears himself away, but when he takes part in a song competition at the Wartburg (where he hopes to win the hand of the Landgrave’s daughter Elisabeth) he sacrilegiously offers a hymn to Venus. He is sent on a pilgrimage to Rome to seek forgiveness, but in the end it is only the death of the heartbroken, ever-loving Elisabeth that brings redemption.

The Overture to Tannhäuser has long been one of the most popular Wagnerian extracts in the concert hall, and presents a strongly characterised opposition of the story’s main strands using music from the opera itself, in the manner Wagner learned from Gluck, Beethoven and Weber. The opening is a solemn march for the pilgrims, intoned quietly at first before swelling to a majestic restatement with a string accompaniment fluttering like pennants. As this subsides, however, a quicker tempo suggests the first stirrings of sensual love, before leading to the bold and forthright melody that is Tannhäuser’s hymn to Venus. A tranquil central passage then shows Tannhäuser languishing in the Venusberg, but after things have hotted up even more, it is the pilgrims’ march that finally re-emerges to end the overture in noble triumph.

Programme note © Lindsay Kemp

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Programme notes Vijay Iyer born 1971

Human Archipelago

Concerto for cello and orchestra, 2022 (world premiere) Inbal Segev cello 1 Scenes in Free Fall 2 Xenia 3 To be one of many I am grateful to Inbal Segev for initiating this project and believing in my work; to Teju Cole and Peter Sellars, who helped me feel my way through the ideas; and to all of the performers for embodying the music with virtuosity and grace.

Co-commissioned by the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Oregon Symphony, Fresno Philharmonic, Las Vegas Philharmonic, Boise Philharmonic, Illinois Philharmonic and Inbal Segev.

Human Archipelago draws its inspiration from the 2019 book of the same name by author Teju Cole and photographer Fazal Shaikh, which addresses two urgent, entangled global phenomena: climate change and mass migration. Through its series of loving portraits and mini-essays, we are led to reconsider our ethical responsibilities to our fellow human beings in the present and future – indeed to rethink our very notion of ‘us’. (Or, as my father used to say, ‘The guest is God.’) The piece uses the concerto format to stage a series of precarious encounters among the soloist, the orchestra, and the ‘travellers’, a group of performers who play only by ear. The first movement, ‘Scenes in Free Fall’, sets a single melody in a series of unstable environments; the next, ‘Xenia’, imagines a blessed visit from strangers; and the last, ‘To be one of many’, builds a fugue-like collective polyphony before giving way to a coda where the soloist and travellers unite.

Programme note © Vijay Iyer, 2022

‘Human Archipelago addresses the entangled processes of climate change and migration, and the societal imbalances that are both their cause and their result.’

Vijay Iyer

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

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Programme notes Recommended recordings of tonight’s works

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Composer profile: Vijay Iyer Described by The New York Times as a ‘social conscience, multimedia collaborator, system builder, rhapsodist, historical thinker and multicultural gateway’, Vijay Iyer has carved out a unique path as an influential, shape-shifting presence in 21st-century music. A composer and pianist active across multiple musical communities, he has created a consistently innovative, emotionally resonant body of work over the last 25 years. He has received a MacArthur Fellowship, a Doris Duke Performing Artist Award, a United States Artist Fellowship, a Grammy nomination, the Alpert Award in the Arts and two German Echo Awards.

by Laurie Watt Wagner: Overture, Tannhäuser London Philharmonic Orchestra | Klaus Tennstedt (LPO Label LPO-0003) Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 5 (Reformation) City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra | Edward Gardner (Chandos)

Tune In: new issue out now Hot off the press is the Autumn/ Winter edition of our twiceyearly LPO magazine, Tune In. Scan the QR code or visit issuu.com/londonphilharmonic to read it online, or call 020 7840 4200 to request a copy in the post.

Vijay Iyer’s musical language is grounded in the rhythmic traditions of South Asia and West Africa, the African American creative music movement of the 60s and 70s, and the lineage of composerpianists from Duke Ellington and Thelonious Monk to Alice Coltrane and Geri Allen. He has released 24 albums of his music, most recently Uneasy with drummer Tyshawn Sorey and bassist Linda May Han Oh (ECM Records, 2021).

Iyer is an active composer for classical ensembles and soloists. His works have been premiered by the Brentano Quartet, Imani Winds, Parker Quartet, Bang on a Can All-Stars, The Silk Road Ensemble, Sō Percussion, International Contemporary Ensemble, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, the LA Philharmonic, the American Composers Orchestra, and virtuosi Matt Haimowitz, Mishka Rushdie Momen, Claire Chase, Shai Wosner and Jennifer Koh. He has served as Composer-in-Residence at London’s Wigmore Hall, Music Director of the Ojai Music Festival, and Artist-in-Residence at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. A longtime New Yorker, Iyer lives in central Harlem with his wife and daughter. He is a professor at Harvard University, with a joint appointment in the Department of Music and the Department of African and African American Studies. He is a Steinway Artist.

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Programme notes Felix Mendelssohn 1809–47

Symphony No. 5 in D major, Op. 107 (Reformation) 1832

1 Andante – Allegro con fuoco 2 Allegro vivace 3 Andante 4 Andante con moto – Allegro maestoso Despite its numbering and opus number, Mendelssohn’s ‘Reformation’ Symphony was actually his second for full orchestra, predating both the ‘Scottish’ and ‘Italian’.

He began it in December 1829, just after returning to Berlin from his first visit to the British Isles, his intention being to use it to mark the following year’s 300th anniversary of the Augsburg Confession, the assembly that had defined the core beliefs of Lutheran Protestantism. A number of factors conspired to prevent it from fulfilling this purpose, however, and the Symphony was eventually premiered in Berlin in 1832.

The first movement opens with a slow introduction in which slowly curling counterpoint and increasingly urgent fanfares lead to two ethereal renditions on high strings of a rising six-note figure known as the ‘Dresden Amen’. It has been suggested that this reference to the Catholic liturgy was meant to denote the old church beset by controversy, and certainly when the music plunges straightaway into the main body of the movement – now in the minor – it is with a sense of struggle and upheaval. At the end of the central development section the ‘Amen’ figure reappears, this time ushering in a recapitulation which is muted in tone, but which builds again to a stormy climax.

It may seem odd that a Jewish-born composer should have chosen the Protestant Reformation as a subject, but religious tolerance had been strong in the Mendelssohn family at least since his grandfather, the philosopher Moses Mendelssohn, had helped Prussian Jews obtain social equality; what is more, Felix and his siblings were baptised into the Christian faith in 1816, and grew up in an atmosphere of considerable spiritual enlightenment. But there may have been a musical impulse for the work too: since his midteens Mendelssohn had studied and enjoyed Bach, including some of the vocal works that at the time were considered impractical to perform, and in March 1829 he had conducted the first performance since Bach’s day of the St Matthew Passion; furthermore, he had himself composed a number of works based on Lutheran hymn-tunes (or chorales). In this context, a symphony with a finale based on one of the bestknown of all chorales – ‘Ein’ feste Burg ist unser Gott’ – must have seemed a natural enough progression.

The second movement is graceful and lighthearted, but though seemingly set apart from the general mood of the Symphony – it is more bucolic than reverent – it retains thematic links with the falling woodwind motifs of the very opening. The solemn third movement is short, the feeling that it is at least half-conceived as an introduction to the finale reinforced by its recitativelike violin line. That finale opens with a warmly harmonised statement of ‘Ein’ feste Burg’, the prelude to a sonata movement with themes of its own interlaced with occasional guest appearances from the chorale, the last of which brings the work nobly to a finish.

Programme note © Lindsay Kemp

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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 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 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 Patricia Haitink The Lambert Family Charitable Trust Countess Dominique Loredan 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

Mr & Mrs Ralph Kanza 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

John & Angela Kessler 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 Grenville & Krysia Williams

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

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 Mr B C 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

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Martin & Cheryl Southgate 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 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 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

Corporate Donor Barclays

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

Tutti Lazard 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 The Marchus Trust The Radcliffe Trust Rivers Foundation Rothschild Foundation RVW Trust Scops Arts Trust Sir William Boremans' Foundation The John S Cohen Foundation The Stanley Picker Trust The Thriplow Charitable Trust The Vaughan Williams Charitable Trust 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 Jon Carter Jay Goffman Alexandra Jupin Natalie Pray Damien Vanderwilt 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 (Russia) 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) George Ramishvili (Georgia) Jay Stein (USA)

and all others who wish to remain anonymous.

Trialist Sciteb

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 Simon Burke Simon Callow CBE Desmond Cecil CMG Sir Alan Collins KCVO CMG Andrew Davenport Guillaume Descottes Cameron Doley Christopher Fraser OBE 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 Baroness Shackleton

Finance

Thomas Sharpe QC Julian Simmonds Barry Smith Martin Southgate Chris Viney Laurence Watt Elizabeth Winter

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

General Administration

Education and Community

Elena Dubinets Artistic Director

Talia Lash Education and Community Director

David Burke Chief Executive Chantelle Vircavs PA to the Executive

Hannah Foakes Rebecca Parslow Education and Community Project Managers

Concert Management Roanna Gibson Concerts and Planning Director

Lowri Davies Education and Community Co-ordinator

Graham Wood Concerts and Recordings Manager Fabio Sarlo Glyndebourne and Projects Manager Maddy Clarke Tours Manager Alison Jones Concerts and Recordings Co-ordinator

Sarah Thomas Martin Sargeson Librarians

Gillian Pole Recordings Archive

Dr Barry Grimaldi Honorary Doctor

Mairi Warren Marketing Manager Rachel Williams Publications Manager

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Philip Stuart Discographer

Siân Jenkins Corporate Relations Manager

Kath Trout Marketing and Communications Director

Felix Lo Orchestra and Auditions Manager

Archives

Crowe Clark Whitehill LLP Auditors

Marketing

Freddie Jackson Deputy Stage Manager

Alicia Hartley Marketing Assistant

Rosie Morden Individual Giving Manager

Kirstin Peltonen Development Associate

Stephen O’Flaherty Deputy Operations Manager

Greg Felton Digital Creative

Charles Russell Speechlys Solicitors

Nick Jackman Campaigns and Projects Director

Laura Kitson Stage and Operations Manager

Sophie Harvey Digital and Residencies Marketing Manager

Professional Services

Eleanor Conroy Al Levin Development Assistants

Andrew Chenery Orchestra Personnel Manager

Ruth Haines Press and PR Manager

Laura Willis Development Director

Katurah Morrish Development Events Manager

Matthew Freeman Recordings Consultant

Gavin Miller Sales and Ticketing Manager

Development

Anna Quillin Trusts and Foundations Manager

Robert Winup Concerts and Tours Assistant

Harrie Mayhew Website Manager

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