LPO programme: 22 Apr 2023 - Don Quixote Rides Again (Vladimir Jurowski, conductor)

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 Saturday 22 April 2023 | 7.30pm

Don Quixote Rides Again Mozart Symphony No. 40 in G minor, K550* (28’) Interval (20’) R Strauss Don Quixote, Op. 35 (40’) Vladimir Jurowski conductor Kristina Blaumane cello

Chair supported by Bianca and Stuart Roden

Richard Waters viola

Chair supported by Caroline, Jamie & Zander Sharp * Please note change from originally advertised programme.

This concert is dedicated to the memory of Alexander Cameron.

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 3 On stage tonight 4 London Philharmonic Orchestra 5 Leader: Pieter Schoeman 6 Vladimir Jurowski 7 Tonight’s soloists 8 Programme notes 9 LPO Label: Jurowski conducts Stravinsky Vol. 2 12 Next concerts 13 Sound Futures donors 14 Thank you 16 LPO administration

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Welcome

LPO news

Welcome to the Southbank Centre

Our new 2023/24 season: announced this Monday

We’re the largest arts centre in the UK and one of the nation’s top visitor attractions, showcasing the world’s most exciting artists at our venues in the heart of London. We’re here to present great cultural experiences that bring people together, and open up the arts to everyone.

Keep an eye out for details of our 2023/24 concert season, which we’ll be announcing this Monday, 24 April!

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The Southbank Centre is made up of the Royal Festival Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Purcell Room, Hayward Gallery, National Poetry Library and Arts Council Collection. We’re one of London’s favourite meeting spots, with lots of free events and places to relax, eat and shop next to the Thames.

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Pre-order now: Jurowski conducts Stravinsky Vol. 2 Following rave reviews for the first volume of Vladimir Jurowski’s Stravinsky series on the LPO Label last year, we’re thrilled to release the next volume this Friday.

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‘Jurowski conducts Stravinsky Vol. 2’ (LPO-0026) is available to pre-order now, and will be in stores and on streaming services from Friday 28 April. It features Stravinsky’s ballet music for The Fairy’s Kiss, alongside the movements he orchestrated from Tchaikovsky’s The Sleeping Beauty.

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.

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Alexander Cameron

Enjoyed tonight’s concert?

We were saddened to hear of the death of Alexander Cameron on 23 March, two days before his 101st birthday. Alexander was the LPO’s Principal Cellist from 1967–83 and he continued to play with us until 1988. Our thoughts are with his loved ones at this sad time. Tonight’s concert is dedicated to his memory.

Help us to share the wonder of the LPO by making a donation today. Use the QR code to donate via the LPO website, or visit lpo.org.uk/donate. Thank you.

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On stage tonight First Violins

Kate Oswin

Shiry Rashkovsky Michelle Bruil Naomi Holt Pamela Ferriman Kate De Campos Toby Warr

Lasma Taimina

Cellos

Pieter Schoeman* Leader

Chair supported by Neil Westreich

Alice Ivy-Pemberton Co-Leader

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

Minn Majoe Yang Zhang Katalin Varnagy

Chair supported by Sonja Drexler

Thomas Eisner Catherine Craig Sophie Phillips Nilufar Alimaksumova Alice Apreda Howell Eleanor Bartlett Ronald Long Chu-Yu Yang Katherine Waller

Second Violins

Tania Mazzetti Principal Emma Oldfield Co-Principal Ray Liu Kate Birchall Nancy Elan Fiona Higham Chair supported by David & Yi Buckley

Nynke Hijlkema Claudia Tarrant-Matthews Joseph Maher Sheila Law Lyrit Milgram Georgina Leo Sioni Williams Jamie Hutchinson Eleonora Consta Charlie MacClure

Violas

Richard Waters Principal

Chair supported by Caroline, Jamie & Zander Sharp

Martin Wray Laura Vallejo Katharine Leek Benedetto Pollani Lucia Ortiz Sauco

Clarinets

Thomas Watmough Principal

Chair supported by Roger Greenwood

Harry Cameron-Penny Paul Richards*

Bass Clarinet

Bozidar Vukotic

Paul Richards* Principal

Guest Principal

Francis Bucknall David Lale Susanna Riddell Helen Thomas George Hoult Sibylle Hentschel Jane Lindsay Leo Melvin Tamaki Sugimoto

E-flat Clarinet

Harry Cameron-Penny

Bassoons

Jonathan Davies Principal Chair supported by Sir Simon Robey

Guylaine Eckersley Joanna Baillie Stark

Double Basses

Contrabassoon

Sebastian Pennar Principal Hugh Kluger George Peniston Laura Murphy Charlotte Kerbegian Lowri Morgan David Johnson Adam Wynter

Simon Estell* Principal

Tuba

Lee Tsarmaklis* Principal

Chair supported by Friends of the Orchestra

Timpani

Simon Carrington* Principal

Chair supported by Victoria Robey OBE

Percussion

Andrew Barclay* Principal

Chair supported by Gill & Garf Collins

Feargus Brennan

Harp

Rachel Masters Principal

Assistant Conductor Tim Murray

* Holds a professorial appointment in London

Horns

John Ryan* Principal Annemarie Federle Principal

Juliette Bausor Principal Anna Kondrashina

Martin Hobbs Mark Vines Co-Principal Gareth Mollison Duncan Fuller Neil Mitchell

Piccolo

Trumpets

Flutes

Stewart McIlwham*

Paul Beniston* Principal Tom Nielsen Co-Principal Anne McAneney*

Principal

Oboes

Trombones

Ian Hardwick* Principal Alice Munday

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

Cor Anglais

Stephen Turton

Sue Böhling* Principal Chair supported by Dr Barry Grimaldi

Bass Trombone

Lyndon Meredith Principal

Tenor Tuba

David Whitehouse

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A warm welcome to Lucia Ortiz Sauco, who joined our Viola section earlier this month. Lucia was born in Spain and, after graduating from the Royal College of Music in London, completed Master’s studies at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin.

Since then, she has worked with many orchestras across Europe and the UK.

London Philharmonic Orchestra • 22 April 2023 • Don Quixote Rides Again

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London Philharmonic Orchestra

Our conductors

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, to be succeeded by Tania León in September 2023.

Our home is here at the Southbank Centre’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 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’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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Vladimir Jurowski Conductor Emeritus, London Philharmonic Orchestra

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A committed operatic conductor, Vladimir’s recent highlights include semi-staged performances of Wagner’s Das Rheingold, Die Walküre and Siegfried with the London Philharmonic Orchestra at the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall; new productions of Der Rosenkavalier, Shostakovich’s The Nose and Penderecki’s Die Teufel von Loudun at the Bavarian State Opera; Die Frau ohne Schatten in Berlin and Bucharest with the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra; Prokofiev’s The Fiery Angel at the Bavarian State Opera; Henze’s The Bassarids and Schoenberg’s Moses und Aron at the Komische Oper Berlin; his acclaimed debut at the Salzburg Festival with Wozzeck; and his first return to Glyndebourne as a guest conductor, for the world premiere production of Brett Dean’s Hamlet with the LPO. Previous seasons at Glyndebourne – many with the LPO – have included Die Zauberflöte, La Cenerentola, Otello, Macbeth, Falstaff, Tristan und Isolde, Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg, Don Giovanni, The Rake’s Progress, The Cunning Little Vixen, Ariadne auf Naxos and Péter Eötvös’s Love and Other Demons.

Vladimir Jurowski became the London Philharmonic Orchestra’s Conductor Emeritus in September 2021, following 14 years as Principal Conductor, during which his creative energy and artistic rigour were central to the Orchestra’s success. At the BBC Proms concert with the LPO on 12 August 2021 – his final official concert as Principal Conductor – he received the Royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medal, one of the highest international honours in music.

This season Vladimir returns to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, conducts new productions of Così fan tutte and Prokofiev’s War and Peace and a revival of Dean’s Hamlet at the Bavarian State Opera, and showcases a wealth of concert repertoire with the Berlin Radio Symphony and Bavarian State orchestras.

In September 2021 Vladimir became Music Director at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich. Since 2017 he has been Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra. He is also Principal Artist of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, and in 2021 stepped down from his decade as Artistic Director of the Russian State Academic Symphony Orchestra to become its Honorary Conductor. He has previously held the positions of First Kapellmeister of the Komische Oper, Berlin (1997–2001), Principal Guest Conductor of the Teatro Comunale di Bologna (2000–03), Principal Guest Conductor of the Russian National Orchestra (2005–09), and Music Director of Glyndebourne Festival Opera (2001–13).

The LPO has released a wide selection of Vladimir Jurowski’s live recordings with the Orchestra on its own label, including the complete symphonies of Brahms and Tchaikovsky; Mahler’s Symphonies Nos. 1, 2, 4 & 8; and works by Shostakovich, Stravinsky, Beethoven, Rachmaninoff, Strauss, Mozart, Vaughan Williams, Julian Anderson and Vladimir Martynov. In 2017 the Orchestra released a 7-CD box set of Jurowski’s LPO recordings in celebration of his 10th anniversary as Principal Conductor.

2022 saw the first of a three-volume Stravinsky series featuring The Rite of Spring and The Firebird (LPO0123). The second volume, including The Fairy’s Kiss and movements orchestrated by Stravinsky from Tchaikovsky’s The Sleeping Beauty, is released at the end of this month (LPO-0126): see page 9.

Vladimir enjoys close relationships with the world’s most distinguished artistic institutions, collaborating with many of the world’s leading orchestras including the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, the Staatskapelle Dresden, the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, the Cleveland and Philadelphia orchestras, the New York Philharmonic and the Chicago and Boston symphony orchestras.

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Richard Waters

cello

viola

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Kristina Blaumane

Co-Principal Viola of the London Philharmonic Orchestra since 2019, Richard Waters has also appeared as Principal Viola with the London Sinfonietta, Philharmonia Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, performing in many of the world’s most prestigious venues.

Kristina Blaumane was born in Riga and graduated from the Latvian Academy of Music and the Guildhall School of Music & Drama. She has been the London Philharmonic Orchestra’s Principal Cello since 2007, and has been invited to play as a soloist, recitalist and chamber musician around the world. She has performed as soloist with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Amsterdam Sinfonietta, Chicago Civic Orchestra, Kremerata Baltica, Britten Sinfonia, Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra, Sofia Soloists, Netherlands Wind Ensemble, Dalarna Sinfonietta, MDR Symphony Orchestra Leipzig, Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra and Ensemble Ubertini, as well as all the main orchestras in Latvia.

An active chamber musician, Richard has given concerts in Europe, Asia and South America. As a founder member of the prize-winning Bernadel Quartet, he performed at Wigmore Hall, Kings Place and numerous festivals including West Cork.

Richard has also presented his own festival in Devon and Cornwall, where he grew up. As the first Cavatina Chamber Music Fellows at the Royal Academy of Music, the Bernadel Quartet were also selected as the first participants in the ChamberStudio scheme and the Belcea Quartet’s inaugural coaching scheme, with whom they later collaborated to perform Mendelssohn’s Octet.

As a chamber musician Kristina has worked in partnership with such renowned artists as Isaac Stern, Gidon Kremer, Yo-Yo Ma, Yuri Bashmet, Leif Ove Andsnes, Janine Jansen, Julian Rachlin, Dmitry Sitkovetsky, Bruno Giuranna, Misha Maisky, Nikolaj Znaider, Tatyana Grindenko, Oleg Maisenberg, Michael Collins, Isabelle van Keulen and Alina Ibragimova, and has performed at festivals such as Gstaad, Lockenhaus, Salzburg, Verbier, Basel, Jerusalem, Utrecht, Spitalfields, Cheltenham, Aldeburgh, Homecoming, Crescendo and Amsterdam Cello Biennale. She is a member of Trio Palladio and the Wigmore Soloists ensemble.

Studying at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama under Mark Knight and as a postgraduate at the Royal Academy of Music with Paul Silverthorne, Richard achieved the highest honours for his final examinations, the Concert Recital Diploma (GSMD) and the DipRAM from the Royal Academy. In 2018 he was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music.

Kristina is a winner of many awards including the Latvian Philharmonic Young Musician of the Year, the Latvian television competition ‘Alternativa’, Carmel International Competition, Musicians Benevolent Fund and Lord Mayor’s Prize. She is a two-time laureate of the Great Music Award, the highest prize given by the Latvian State in the field of music (2005 & 2007).

Richard is a keen advocate for contemporary music, working with many leading composers such as George Benjamin, whose virtuoso work Viola, Viola he has performed on numerous occasions.

Chair supported by Caroline, Jamie & Zander Sharp

Chair supported by Bianca & Stuart Roden

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Programme notes Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756–91

Symphony No. 40 in G minor, K550 1788

1 Molto allegro 2 Andante 3 Menuetto 4 Allegro assai Attempting to reconcile the measured perfection of Mozart’s music with the squalid turbulence of his life can have the mind doing somersaults. The composer teetered perennially on the edge – of chaos, of employability, of success and even of rationalism.

But peering into the abyss thrust a wondrous immeasurability into Mozart’s art. In his darkest days, he had a tendency to deliver the most sublime, intense and even joyous music.

a way of providing four contrasting musical experiences; each movement would now echo its predecessor while sowing seeds that would come to fruition later on.

The final movement became not the sweet compositional dessert, but the conclusive apex of the symphonic mountain. A narrative struggle emerges in these pieces that would be taken forward by the likes of Beethoven and Mahler.

What sets this Symphony immediately apart is the urgency of its opening – one reason, perhaps, its main theme was so ubiquitously used as a mobile phone ringtone back in the 2000s. Initially, the Symphony is all texture – the music’s slickness of orchestration and distribution of material all the more apparent given its translucence.

Not much was going well for Mozart in the summer of 1788. The composer was experiencing bouts of depression, facing severe financial pressures and was probably on the brink of marital breakdown. He and his wife would later be forced to endure the death of their infant daughter Teresa – a tragedy that occurred midway through a strange and remarkable project: a ‘trilogy’ of final symphonies.

Harmonies are relatively simple, until they aren’t.

The ‘development’ section sees the same material confronted and discussed with wrenching, grinding harmonic distortions and the demonic spiral of a fullblown fugue (the braiding of a specified tune into an elaborate conversation by different instruments or melodic voices, with the tune introduced at staggered intervals). The music eventually plunges into the unrelated key of F sharp minor, a diversion that would have surprised even Beethoven.

The precise genesis of the symphonies we know as those numbered 39–41 is elusive. No commission exists, and details of first performances are sketchy. There is good reason to believe Mozart wrote this music out of personal need and impulse, rather than to satisfy the terms of a commission – the general way of things in the 18th century. A little less than a year after this middle symphony was completed, Mozart returned to the score, adapting it to include parts for two clarinets and making other tweaks too.

The second-movement Andante – a speed indication suggesting moderation – would appear tranquil were it not stalked by throbbing dissonances and unsettled by an eerie violin melody. There follows a Minuet – a gallant dance by definition, but more like a stomp here, in which

Musically, all three symphonies used ostensibly standard formal footprints but broke new ground within them. The four-movement structure was not simply

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Programme notes Mozart carves through bar-lines with disorientating syncopations and finds ever-more ominous colours from his instruments.

The more heated the conversation becomes, the more it twists and turns in on itself and the more inevitable the music’s onward momentum seems. This Symphony, combining grief and sensuality, has posed mysteries and asked questions, but in its final movement Mozart appears to want out – to close the circle, to shut the conversation down, to stop the noise. Perhaps that’s one reason the music itself appears to teeter on the edge of its own structural integrity.

The pathos of the third movement ferments the explosive tendencies of the fourth. At the start, a perfectly polite and orderly theme tries to stand its ground, but is lashed down time and again by rushing, dismissive strings. More lyrical, soothing music then emerges, and it becomes clear Mozart will force these two contrasting moods to argue it out with extreme stress.

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Programme notes Richard Strauss 1864–1949

Don Quixote, Op. 35 1897

Kristina Blaumane cello Richard Waters viola

The string of symphonic poems Strauss produced before turning to opera initially focused on figures from literature and philosophy. In 1897, the composer was drawn to Miguel de Cervantes’s novel Don Quixote, which tells of a chivalrous but deluded knight errant setting out to put the world to rights – even inventing a woman, whose hand he will win, to make the enterprise worthwhile.

Though Strauss had the epic philosophical tone-poem Also sprach Zarathustra under his belt already, his Spanish tale introduced multiple complications, notably the new level of detail required in recounting handpicked scenarios from a sprawling novel that enters the domain of magical realism.

One of Strauss’s solutions was to place the story – his selected segments of it, at least – in the service of what is effectively an extended character-portrait. Strauss subtitled his work ‘Fantastical Variations on a Theme of a Knightly Character’. It is a tone-poem, a theme with ten variations and more. With an extensive solo role for cello and supporting roles for solo viola, violin and bass clarinet, it could even be described as a solo concerto or a sort of ‘concerto grosso’ (a concerto with soloists drawn from within the ensemble).

We can associate the instruments with particular characters: the cello with Don Quixote, the long viola solo with Sancho Panza – here seen as a prattling sidekick – and the oboe with the Don’s imaginary bride Dulcinea (though the characters aren’t confined to those instruments, and vice versa). The themes presented for variation are, principally, the Don’s ascending flourish and slow climb-down (probably metaphorical) and Dulcinea’s warm, loving theme first heard on an oboe. After the initial statement of both,

No orchestral composer of the late 19th century could define a character in a few concise gestures, or conjure a place and mood with apparently cinematic detail, quite like Richard Strauss could. The genius of Strauss, not unlike his hero Mozart, was that he could incorporate elements of formal ‘classical’ design into all that, knowing that the ingredients of sonata form – a clear differentiation of keys and themes – could bolster the expressive effects of his stories in music.

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Programme notes in the imitation of bleating), ambushes a group of marching pilgrims, experiences a grand vision of Dulcinea and sees himself flying on a magic horse to win her. One moment of clarity clears the decks before the Don accepts death. This moment resonated particularly with Strauss, long fascinated by the notion of mortality and its final acceptance by humans.

Strauss weaves a complex contrapuntal web that could be a picture of the Don’s mind struggling with its own fantasies.

What follows is a set of free variations as Quixote’s misadventures begin with Sancho Panza by his side.

They discuss knight errantry, with the Don grandstanding in the face of his companion’s doubts to levels of comic self-righteousness (cello and viola duet).

Don Quixote was first performed on 8 March 1898 in Cologne, conducted by Franz Wüllner with Friedrich Grützmacher as the soloist. It may not be the loudest or grandest of Strauss’s tone-poems, but it’s undeniably one of the most ambitious.

The Don later mistakes windmills for fierce giants (Strauss has them crush the Don’s ascending theme mercilessly, ending with a timpani thump), takes a flock of sheep for an attacking army (Strauss seizes the opportunity to indulge in some more literal tonepainting, asking the brass players to flutter their tongues

Programme notes © Andrew Mellor

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

Wednesday 26 April 2023 | 7.30pm Brett Dean In spe contra spem (world premiere)* Mahler Symphony No. 5 Edward Gardner conductor Emma Bell soprano Elsa Dreisig soprano * Commissioned by the London Philharmonic Orchestra with the generous support of The Boltini Trust.

Supported by Cockayne - Grants for the Arts, a donor advised fund held at The London Community Foundation.

MUSIC FROM THE SHADOWS Saturday 29 April 2023 | 7.30pm

Shostakovich Violin Concerto No. 1 Thomas Larcher Symphony No. 2 (Kenotaph) Mahler Adagio from Symphony No. 10 Klaus Mäkelä conductor Julian Rachlin violin

HYMN OF THE FORESTS Saturday 6 May 2023 | 7.30pm

Tippett Suite for the Birthday of Prince Charles* Mendelssohn Violin Concerto* Janáček Glagolitic Mass Edward Gardner conductor Alina Ibragimova violin Sara Jakubiak soprano Madeleine Shaw mezzo-soprano Toby Spence tenor Matthew Rose bass Catherine Edwards organ London Philharmonic Choir * Please note change of programme from originally advertised.

Generously supported by the LPO International Board of Governors.

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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 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 TIOC Foundation 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 John & Sam Dawson 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

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 Mr Joe Topley & Ms Tracey Countryman Mr & Mrs John C Tucker Timothy Walker CBE AM Jenny Watson CBE Grenville & Krysia Williams

Malcolm Herring 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 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

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 Iain & Alicia Hasnip Martin & Katherine Hattrell Michael & Christine Henry Mr Steve Holliday J Douglas Home

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Priscylla Shaw 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 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

Preferred Partners

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 Coates Charitable Trust John Horniman’s Children’s Trust John Thaw Foundation Institute Adam Mickiewicz Kirby Laing Foundation Lord and Lady Lurgan Trust Lucille Graham Trust The Marchus Trust PRS Foundation The Radcliffe Trust Rivers Foundation Rothschild Foundation Scops Arts Trust Sir William Boremans’ Foundation The John S Cohen Foundation The R K Charitable Trust 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 Wassermann 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 Florian Wunderlich

and all others who wish to remain anonymous.

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

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

Finance

General Administration

Education and Community

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

Elena Dubinets Artistic Director

Talia Lash Education and Community Director

David Burke Chief Executive Chantelle Vircavs PA to the Executive

Harrie Mayhew Website Manager Gavin Miller Sales and Ticketing Manager Ruth Haines Press and PR Manager Greg Felton Digital Creative Hayley Kim Marketing Co-ordinator Alicia Hartley Digital Co-ordinator

Lowri Davies Hannah Foakes Education and Community Project Managers

Archives

Roanna Gibson Concerts and Planning Director

Hannah Smith Education and Community Co-ordinator

Gillian Pole Recordings Archive

Graham Wood Concerts and Recordings Manager

Development

Concert Management

Laura Willis Development Director

Maddy Clarke Tours Manager

Rosie Morden Individual Giving Manager

Madeleine Ridout Glyndebourne and Projects Manager

Siân Jenkins Corporate Relations Manager

Alison Jones Concerts and Recordings Co-ordinator

Anna Quillin Trusts and Foundations Manager

Robert Winup Concerts and Tours Assistant

Katurah Morrish Development Events Manager

Matthew Freeman Recordings Consultant

Eleanor Conroy Al Levin Development Assistants

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

Stephen O’Flaherty Deputy Operations Manager

Kath Trout Marketing and Communications Director

Felix Lo Orchestra and Auditions Manager

Sophie Harvey Marketing Manager Rachel Williams Publications Manager

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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