LPO programme: 23 Sep 2023 - Mahler's Resurrection (Edward Gardner - conductor)

2023/24 concert season at the Southbank Centre

Free 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 23 September 2023 | 7.00pm

Mahler’s ‘Resurrection’

Mahler

Symphony No. 2 (Resurrection) (80’)

Edward Gardner conductor

Generously supported by Aud Jebsen

Sally Matthews soprano

Beth Taylor

mezzo-soprano

London Philharmonic Choir

Artistic Director: Neville Creed

Members of the BBC Symphony Chorus

Chorus Director: Neil Ferris

There will be no interval in this evening’s performance.

Concert generously supported by a group of individual donors

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

Concert presented by the London Philharmonic Orchestra

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It’s great to have you with us for this this evening for the opening concert of our 2023/24 season. Tonight, our Principal Conductor Edward Gardner takes on Mahler’s epic Second Symphony. Employing a huge orchestra – along with offstage band, supersized choir and two solo singers – it contemplates life and death on a cosmic scale, opening with an inexorable funeral march and culminating in an ecstatic hymn of resurrection. We’re thrilled to welcome our fantastic soloists Sally Matthews and Beth Taylor, and our friends from the London Philharmonic Choir, as well as members of the BBC Symphony Chorus who join them to create the huge choral forces the work demands.

We hope you enjoy this evening’s concert and can join us again soon. Next week, Edward Gardner is back to conduct a programme of Mendelssohn, Brahms, and Sibelius’s Violin Concerto with soloist Johan Dalene (Wednesday 27 September); and Beethoven, Tchaikovsky and Bartók’s Violin Concerto with violinist Christian Tetzlaff (Saturday 30 September). Later this season he returns for more highlights including Haydn’s The Creation, Holst’s The Planets, Mozart’s Mass in C minor and Weill’s The Seven Deadly Sins. Pick up a season brochure in the foyer this evening, or browse the full season and book now at lpo.org.uk

Sky Arts

During the last few weeks, Sky Arts have been filming a documentary taking a look behind the scenes of the Orchestra as they prepared for tonight's performance of Mahler’s Symphony No. 2. Keep an eye on our social media for news on broadcast dates!

Tune In: new issue out now

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First Violins

Pieter Schoeman* Leader

Chair supported by Neil Westreich

Alice Ivy-Pemberton Co-Leader

Kate Oswin

Chair supported by Eric Tomsett

Lasma Taimina

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

Minn Majoe

Martin Höhmann

Cassandra Hamilton

Elizaveta Tyun

Thomas Eisner

Katalin Varnagy

Chair supported by Sonja Drexler

Quentin Capozzoli

Nilufar Alimaksumova

Amanda Smith

Ronald Long

Alice Hall

Rasa Zukauskaite

Second Violins

Tania Mazzetti Principal

Emma Oldfield Co-Principal

Vera Beumer

Helena Smart

Nancy Elan

Kate Birchall

Nynke Hijlkema

Fiona Higham

Chair supported by David & Yi Buckley

Joseph Maher

Sioni Williams

Marie-Anne Mairesse

Sarah Thornett

Ashley Stevens

Jessica Coleman

Violas

Tom Dunn Guest Principal

Lucia Ortiz Sauco

Laura Vallejo

Martin Wray

Toby Warr

Jisu Song

Daniel Cornford

Alistair Scahill

Kate De Campos

Julia Doukakis

Anita Kurowska

Jill Valentine

On stage tonight

Cellos

Tim Hugh Guest Principal

Richard Birchall

David Lale

Francis Bucknall

Sue Sutherley

Tom Roff

Helen Thomas

George Hoult

Sibylle Hentschel

Auriol Evans

Double Basses

Kevin Rundell Principal

Sebastian Pennar Co-Principal

Hugh Kluger

George Peniston

Tom Walley

Chair supported by William & Alex

de Winton

Laura Murphy

Charlotte Kerbegian

Elen Roberts

Flutes

Juliette Bausor Principal

Eilidh Gillespie

Stewart McIlwham*

Marta Santamaria

Piccolos

Stewart McIlwham* Principal

Marta Santamaria

Juliette Bausor

Eilidh Gillespie

Oboes

Ian Hardwick* Principal

Alice Munday

Sue Böhling*

Emily Cockbill

Cor Anglais

Sue Böhling* Principal

Chair supported by Dr Barry

Grimaldi

Emily Cockbill

Clarinets

Benjamin Mellefont Principal

Thomas Watmough

James Maltby

Paul Richards*

Elliot Gresty

Bass Clarinet

Paul Richards* Principal

E-flat Clarinets

Thomas Watmough Principal

Chair supported by Roger

Greenwood

Elliot Gresty

Bassoons

Jonathan Davies Principal

Chair supported by Sir Simon

Robey

Hunter Gordon

Simon Estell*

Patrick Bolton

Contrabassoon

Simon Estell* Principal

Horns

John Ryan* Principal

Annemarie Federle Principal

Martin Hobbs

Gareth Mollison

Joel Ashford

Elise Campbell

Duncan Fuller

Offstage Horns

Mark Vines Co-Principal

Jonathan Farey

Olivia Gandee

Kristina Yumerska

Trumpets

Paul Beniston* Principal

Tom Nielsen Co-Principal

Anne McAneney*

David Hilton

Tony Cross

Katie Smith

Joseph Skypala

Offstage Trumpets

Jason Evans

Niall Keatley

James Nash

Kaitlin Wild

Trombones

Mark Templeton* Principal

Chair supported by William & Alex

de Winton

David Whitehouse

Gemma Riley

Bass Trombones

Lyndon Meredith Principal

Simon Minshall

Tuba

Lee Tsarmaklis* Principal

Timpani

Simon Carrington* Principal

Chair supported by Victoria

Robey OBE

Jonathan Phillips

Percussion

Andrew Barclay* Principal

Chair supported by Gill & Garf Collins

Karen Hutt

Chair supported by Mr B C Fairhall

Emmanuel Joste

Keith Millar

Feargus Brennan

Offstage Percussion

Richard Horne

Barnaby Archer

Oliver Butterworth

Harps

Rachel Masters Principal

Tomos Xerri

Organ

Catherine Edwards

Assistant Conductor

Luis Castillo-Briceño

* Holds a professorial appointment in London

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

Friends of the Orchestra

Bianca & Stuart Roden

Caroline, Jamie & Zander

Sharp

London Philharmonic Orchestra

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 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.

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 2023/24 we’re once again be working with Marquee TV to broadcast selected live concerts, so you can share or relive the wonder from your own living room.

Our conductors

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 Tania León our Composer-in-Residence.

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

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.

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Pieter Schoeman Leader

Next generations

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.

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

Looking forward

The centrepiece of our 2023/24 season is our spring 2024 festival The Music in You. Reflecting our adventurous spirit, the festival embraces all kinds of expression – dance, music theatre, and audience participation. We’ll collaborate with artists from across the creative spectrum, and give premieres by composers including Tania León, Julian Joseph, Daniel Kidane, Victoria Vita Polevá, Luís Tinoco and John Williams.

Rising stars making their debuts with us in 2023/24 include conductors Tianyi Lu, Oksana Lyniv, Jonathon Heyward and Natalia Ponomarchuk, accordionist João Barradas and organist Anna Lapwood. We also present the long-awaited conclusion of Conductor Emeritus Vladimir Jurowski’s Wagner Ring Cycle, Götterdämmerung, and, as well as our titled conductors Edward Gardner and Karina Canellakis, we welcome back classical stars including Anne-Sophie Mutter, Robin Ticciati, Christian Tetzlaff and Danielle de Niese. lpo.org.uk

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.

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

In demand as a guest conductor, recent seasons have seen Edward make debuts with the Cleveland Symphony, Staatskapelle Berlin, Bavarian Radio Symphony, New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia, San Francisco Symphony, Berlin Radio Symphony and Vienna Symphony orchestras; while returns have included engagements with the Chicago Symphony, Montreal Symphony and Philharmonia orchestras, the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, and the Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano. He also continued his longstanding collaboration with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, where he was Principal Guest Conductor from 2010–16, and with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, whom he has conducted at both the First and Last Nights of the BBC Proms.

Edward Gardner has been Principal Conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra since 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, having been their Artistic Advisor since February 2022.

During the 2023/24 season Edward will conduct the LPO in ten concerts at the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall, and tour with the Orchestra to South Korea, Taiwan, and major European cities including Paris, Munich, Frankfurt, Hamburg and Bruges. As part of the LPO's cross-arts festival ‘The Music in You’ in spring 2024, Edward will conduct concerts including Haydn’s The Creation; a reinvention of Szymanowski’s ballet Harnasie in collaboration with choreographer Wayne McGregor; Weill’s Seven Deadly Sins; and Mozart’s Mass in C minor. Other highlights with the Orchestra this season include Holst’s The Planets and Stravinsky’s Petrushka

Edward opened the Bergen Philharmonic season earlier this month with Mahler’s Symphony No. 1. He completes his tenure as Chief Conductor at the closing of next summer's Bergen International Festival, conducting Mahler’s Symphony No. 8. The orchestra will be joined by several choirs, including the Edvard Grieg Kor, of which Edward is the Principal Conductor.

As Artistic Advisor of the Norwegian National Opera and Ballet, this season Edward will conduct a triple-bill of Schumann’s Frauen-Liebe und Leben, Bartók’s Bluebeard’s Castle and Zemlinsky’s A Florentine Tragedy. Future plans with the company include a Wagner Ring Cycle commencing in spring 2026.

Music Director of English National Opera for eight years (2007–15), Edward has also built a strong 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 made his Royal Opera House debut in 2019 in a new production of Káťa Kabanová, followed by Werther a season later. Elsewhere, he has conducted at the Bavarian State Opera, La Scala, Chicago Lyric Opera, Glyndebourne Festival Opera and Opéra National de Paris, and this season he will conduct a double-bill of Bartók’s Bluebeard’s Castle and Poulenc's La voix humaine at Teatro di San Carlo.

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, which appointed him its inaugural Sir Charles Mackerras Conducting Chair in 2014.

Born in Gloucester in 1974, Edward was educated at 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 Gardner’s position at the LPO is generously supported by Aud Jebsen.

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Sally Matthews soprano

Beth Taylor

mezzo-soprano

Sally Matthews is one of the foremost lyric sopranos of her generation, her international career encompassing the opera, concert and recital stages, collaborating with many of the world’s foremost artists and conductors.

Sally’s appearances in the 2023/24 season include her role debut as Leonore in Fidelio at the Berlin State Opera; Sieglinde in Die Walküre and the Governess in The Turn of the Screw – both for La Monnaie, Brussels –and Emilia Marty in a concert performance of The Makropulos Case conducted by Karina Canellakis at the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam. On the concert platform she will appear with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Dutch Radio Orchestra, Spanish National Orchestra and Deutsches Sinfonie-Orchester Berlin.

In summer 2023 Sally returned to the Glyndebourne Festival and the BBC Proms, giving a ‘career-defining’ performance as Blanche in Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmélites with the LPO under Robin Ticciati; last season she also returned to La Monnaie as Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier and Tatyana in Eugene Onegin, a role she also sang at Norwegian National Opera. In concert she appeared with the Dresden Philharmonic in a Mozart and Mahler programme; with L’Orchestra Symphonique de la Monnaie in Strauss’s Four Last Songs; and with the Orchestra of Opéra de Rouen in Wagner’s Wesendonck Lieder

Sally’s previous appearances with the London Philharmonic Orchestra include Ravel’s Trois poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé under Joshua Weilerstein in October 2020; Fauré’s Requiem under Yannick NézetSéguin in 2011, and Britten’s Les Illuminations under Vladimir Jurowski in 2008, which was later released on the LPO Label (LPO-0037).

One of today’s most electrifying young mezzosopranos, Beth Taylor’s 2023/24 season includes singing the role of Anna (Les Troyens) with the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique at the 2023 BBC Proms and the Berlioz, Berlin and Salzburg festivals; Mozart’s Requiem with Ensemble Pygmalion and Raphaël Pichon at the 2023 BBC Proms, the Paris Philharmonie, and in Barcelona, Valencia, Dortmund, Versailles and Bordeaux; Berlioz’s Roméo et Juliette in Lisbon; Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius in Dublin; Bach’s B minor Mass in Aix-en-Provence, Versailles and at the Thüringer Bachwochen Festival; Handel’s Ariana in Creta at the London Handel Festival; and a new staged production of Mendelssohn’s Elias at the Opéra de Lyon. Tonight’s concert is Beth’s debut with the London Philharmonic Orchestra.

In the past few years, Beth made her debut as Arsace (Semiramide) at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, where she also sang La Cieca (La Gioconda), Erda (Das Rheingold), Erste Norn (Götterdämmerung) and Schwertleite (Die Walküre). She made her debuts at the Opernhaus Zürich in a new production of Eliogabalo, at the Berlioz Festival as Ursule (Béatrice et Bénédict), at the Glyndebourne Festival as Bradamante (a new production of Alcina) and performed Falliero (a new staging of Bianca e Falliero) and Dardano (a new production of Amadigi di Gaula) at the Oper Frankfurt, as well as Argia in Giacomelli’s La Merope at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam.

Beth Taylor is a graduate of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and the Open University, and winner of the 2018 Gianni Bergamo Classical Music Award. She was awarded Third Prize at the 2019 Wigmore Hall Competition.

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London Philharmonic Choir

Patron HRH Princess Alexandra President Sir Mark Elder Artistic Director Neville Creed Chairman Tessa Bartley Choir Manager Bethea Hanson-Jones Accompanist Jonathan Beatty

Founded in 1947 as the chorus for the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the London Philharmonic Choir is widely regarded as one of Britain’s finest choirs. For the last seven decades the Choir has performed under leading conductors, consistently meeting with critical acclaim and recording regularly for television and radio.

Enjoying a close relationship with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Choir frequently joins it for concerts in the UK and abroad. Recent highlights have included Tippett’s A Midsummer Marriage and A Child of Our Time, Janáček’s Glagolitic Mass, Schoenberg’s Gurrelieder and Berlioz’s Damnation of Faust under LPO Principal Conductor Edward Gardner; the UK premieres of James MacMillan’s Christmas Oratorio with the Choir’s President, Sir Mark Elder, and Tan Dun’s Buddha Passion; Walton’s Belshazzar’s Feast with Marin Alsop; Mahler’s Symphonies Nos. 2 & 8 and Tallis’s Spem in alium with Vladimir Jurowski; Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis with Sir Mark Elder; and Haydn’s The Creation with Sir Roger Norrington.

The Choir appears annually at the BBC Proms, and performances have included the UK premieres of Mark-Anthony Turnage’s A Relic of Memory and Goldie’s Sine Tempore in the Evolution! Prom. In recent years the Choir has also given performances of works by Beethoven, Elgar, Howells, Liszt, Orff, Vaughan Williams, Verdi and Walton.

A well-travelled choir, it has visited numerous European countries and performed in Kuala Lumpur, Hong Kong and Australia. The Choir has appeared twice at the Touquet International Music Masters Festival and was delighted to travel to the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Paris, in December 2017 to perform Bach’s Christmas Oratorio with the London Philharmonic Orchestra.

The Choir prides itself on its inclusive culture, achieving first-class performances from its members, who are volunteers from all walks of life.

Sopranos

Pippa Alderson

Ruby Alexander*

Annette Argent

Chris Banks

Sofia Baqulho*

Tessa Bartley

Sarah Bindon

Amy Brewster

Carole Cameron

Charlotte Cantrell

Eve Chandler*

Jenni Cresswell

Megan Cunnington

Martha Dowland*

Ferdia Fitzsimons

Lisa Fordham

Jemima Gazzard*

Rachel Gibbon

Hannah Grigg

Jane Hanson

Charlotte

Hetherington

Vicki Holdway

Sasha Holland

Cloe Hotham

Camellia Johnson

Ashley Jordan

Joy Lee

Clare Lovett

Maddie Lovett

Janey Maxwell

Meg McClure

Hannah Morse

Harriet Murray

Grace Oliver*

Ellii Olivia

Elizabeth Ortiz

Linda Park

Rebekah Patterson

Courtney Reed

Danielle Roman

Holly Shannon

Rachael Simone*

Victoria Smith

Katie Stuffelbeam

Varvara Tarasova*

Susan Thomas

Rachel Topham

Jenny Torniainen

Altos

Deirdre Ashton

Alison Biedron

Sally Brien

Jenny Burdett

Andrei Caracoti

Lara Carim

Emily Cassidy*

Noel Chow

Evangeline

Cullingworth

Pat Dixon

Holly Gowen*

Iolla Grace

Bethea HansonJones

Joanna James

Judy Jones

Niamh Kearney*

Lisa MacDonald

Laetitia Malan

Ian Maxwell

Morgen Michel*

Rebecca Morgan*

Anna Mulroney

Rachel Murray

Beth O’Brien

Angela Schmitz

Natasha Sofla

Muriel Swijghuisen

Reigersberg

Erica Tomlinson

Jocelyn Tsang

Susi Underwood

Jenny Watson

Tenors

Giulio Beltramo

Kevin Cheng

Gary Cupido

James David

Alan Glover

Josh Haley

Iain Handyside

Stephen Hodges

James Hopper

Patrick Hughes

Kasper Lootens*

Jorge Carlo Mariani

Matthew Pinto*

Christopher Stuart

Don Tallon

Claudio Tonini

Tony Valsamidis

Mikolaj Walczak

Basses

John Bandy

Peter Blamire

Marcus Daniels

Myrddin Edwards

Matthew Fesmer*

Paul Fincham

Dominic Foord

Gary Freer

Ian Frost

Robin Geddes

John Graham

Luke Hagerty

Alan Hardwick

Christopher Harvey

Mark Hillier

David Hodgson

Nick Jackman

Michael Jenkins

David Kent

Nigel Ledgerwood

Christopher Mackay

Maurice MacSweeney

Maximilian Marston

Thomas Mawson

Paul J Medlicott

John D Morris

John G Morris

Oskar Osterling*

Will Parsons

Johannes Pieters

Simon Potter

John Salmon

Edwin Smith

Charles Temmink*

James Torniainen

Roderick Williams

Jim Wilson

Guangda Yang

Supported by

Lorna Wills

Sze Ying Chan

Patrick Maxwell*

Simon Pickup

* We are delighted to be joined tonight by guest singers from the Rodolfus Foundation.

Members of the BBC Symphony Chorus

President Sir Andrew Davis Chorus Director Neil Ferris Chorus Deputy Director Grace Rossiter

Accompanist Paul Webster Chorus Manager Wesley John Vocal Coach Katie Thomas

Founded in 1928, the BBC Symphony Chorus is one of the UK’s leading choirs. It performs, records and broadcasts a distinctive range of large-scale choral music with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and internationally acclaimed conductors and soloists. A much-loved feature of the BBC Proms, the Chorus is directed by Neil Ferris and most of its performances are broadcast on BBC Radio 3.

The BBC Symphony Chorus’s early performances included Mahler’s Symphony No. 8, Stravinsky’s Persephone and Walton’s Belshazzar’s Feast, and this active commitment to contemporary music and championing contemporary composers remains at the heart of its performances today.

Appearances at the 2023 BBC Proms included the First Night concert conducted by Dalia Stasevska and the Last Night concert with Marin Alsop. Notable Proms concerts this summer included Mahler’s Symphony No. 3 and Walton’s Belshazzar’s Feast with the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sakari Oramo and Klaus Mäkelä respectively. Other performances included Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Ryan Wigglesworth, and Rachmaninoff’s The Bells with the Hallé conducted by Sir Mark Elder.

The first part of the BBC Symphony Orchestra’s 2023/24 season at the Barbican sees them give the London premiere of Ryan Wigglesworth’s Magnificat, conducted by the composer, with soprano Sophie Bevan and the BBC Symphony Chorus.

In addition to featuring in studio recordings for BBC Radio 3, the Chorus has also made a number of commercial recordings, including a Grammy-nominated release of Holst’s First Choral Symphony and a Gramophone Award-winning disc of Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius conducted by Sir Andrew Davis. Forthcoming releases include premiere recordings of Vaughan Williams’s The Future and The Steersman conducted by Martin Yates and Tippett's A Child of Our Time, conducted by Davis.

bbc.co.uk/symphonychorus

Sopranos

Katharine Allenby

Kate Chudakova

Erin Cowburn

Anna Crookes

Josceline Dunne

Rebecca Eckley

Isobel Hammond

Emily Jacks

Pippa James

Helen Jeffries

Rei Kozaki

Sue Lowe

Katie Masters

Olivia Middleton

Ellie Parker

Madelon Shaw

Rachel Wilson

Altos

Alice Aveson

Helen Brice

Rosie Hopkins

Charlotte Senior

Jayne Swindin

Tenors

Justin Althaus

Phiroz Dalal

Jamie Foye

Simon Lowe

Tony Madgwick

Philip Rayner

Charlie Rome

Greg Satchell

Tobias Schneider

David Willcock

Basses

David Allenby

Richard Green

Kevin Hollands

Alan Jones

Edgar Marquez

Andrew Money

Amos Paran

Andrew Parkin

Robin Wicks

Programme notes

Gustav Mahler

1860–1911

Symphony No. 2 (Resurrection)

1887–94

Sally Matthews soprano

Beth Taylor mezzo-soprano

London Philharmonic Choir

Members of the BBC Symphony Chorus

1 Allegro maestoso

There will be a short pause after the first movement (please remain seated).

2 Andante Moderato

3 Scherzo

4 Urlicht

5 Finale

Gustav Mahler was Jewish by birth, but struggled to achieve a religious faith. He feared death, and his spiritual conflicts found expression in his music. Asked what prompted this huge symphony, he replied: ‘My need to express myself musically begins at the point where the dark feelings hold sway.’ He composed the Symphony between 1887 and 1894. In the latter year, at the funeral of the conductor Hans von Bülow, he recognised Friedrich Klopstock’s Resurrection Ode as being what he needed for the Symphony’s finale. Between the Scherzo and Finale he set the folk poem ‘Urlicht’ (‘Primordial Light’) as a mezzo-soprano solo. The complete Symphony received its first performance in 1895 in Berlin.

Conveying Mahler’s ideas entailed an outsize orchestra; including an offstage band in the finale there are ten horns, eight trumpets, extra woodwind and percussion and an organ, together with soprano and mezzosoprano soloists and a large choir. Reluctantly, Mahler

set down a ‘superficial indication’ of what he had in mind. Quotations below are from his wife Alma Mahler’s book, Gustav Mahler: Memories and Letters (John Murray). The first movement asks: ‘What is life and what is death? Have we any continuing existence? Is it all an empty dream, or has this life of ours, and our death, a meaning?’ Without this guidance it would still be evident that anger, hope, fear and longing vie for expression. The music is dominated by the funeral march that grows out of the initial onslaught from cellos and double basses. An idyllic rising theme foreshadows the finale’s faith theme. The march resumes and bears the exposition to its close, a mournful passage for horns and woodwind.

In the development further consideration of the idyllic theme leads to a sorrowful one on cor anglais and bass clarinet. After more development of the two main subjects this is heard again, followed now by a transformation of the Dies Irae (Day of Wrath)

The text and translation begin on page 13.

Programme notes

plainchant into a hopeful horn chorale. This is permitted a short triumph, but the funeral march seemingly extinguishes hope.

Mahler described the second movement as ‘a blissful moment in the hero’s life and a mournful memory of youth and lost innocence’. Its principal theme is a long thread of melody in minuet rhythm. After a restless trio section the minuet returns with a countermelody on cellos. The trio music reappears and recalls the first movement’s fierceness, but a second reprise of the minuet restores peace.

In the Scherzo ‘the world and life become a witch’s brew’. The main theme comes from Mahler’s Wunderhorn song about St Anthony of Padua’s unavailing sermon to the fishes. Here the theme represents the futile ‘dance of life’. The trio section reflects life’s trivialities. The scherzo repeat prompts ‘a cry of disgust’. A peaceful vision follows, but the

scherzo music has the last word. Without a break the mezzo-soprano soloist enters with ‘the morning voice of ingenuous belief’, expressing the conviction that God will light our way to eternal life.

The ‘cry of disgust’ breaks in to launch the finale. ‘We are confronted once more by terrifying questions’, says Mahler, ‘the Last Judgement is at hand.’ The first part draws upon themes from earlier movements. After the initial tumult a horn theme, eventually to become the declaration ‘I shall die so as to live’, is heard in the distance. Then from afar comes a horn-call Mahler described as ‘a voice in the wilderness’. After a recall of triplets from the Symphony’s introduction, the Dies Irae chorale returns, followed by a new horn theme, the first outlining of the resurrection chorale. A flute and cor anglais motif, later associated with ‘O believe’, rises to a hysterical climax. A tremendous percussion crescendo launches a tumultuous march based on the Dies Irae and counterpointed by the resurrection theme:

‘The whole thing sounds as though it came to us from some other world. I think there is no-one who can resist it. One is battered to the ground and then raised on angel’s wings to the highest heights.’

Gustav Mahler on his Second Symphony

Mahler’s ‘Resurrection’

Programme notes

‘The dead arise and stream on in endless procession.’ Eventually the tumult yields to the rising theme of faith. A far trumpet and four nearer ones – the Last Trump –second the horn call from the wilderness. Birdsong is ‘a last tremulous echo of earthly life’.

Out of the silence steal voices, singing: ‘Rise again, yes you will rise again’. The solo soprano voice soars out of the choral texture in the last line of each stanza. Here

is the answer to the first movement’s questions, and Mahler adds solo stanzas of his own: ‘O believe, you were not born in vain’. The music gathers strength as it moves towards the proclamation of Christian faith that crowns the Symphony. In Mahler’s words: ‘An overwhelming love lightens our being. We know, and are.’

Programme note © Eric Mason

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Mahler: Symphony No. 2

Text & translation

4 Urlicht

Mezzo-soprano

O Röschen rot!

Der Mensch liegt in grösster Not!

Der Mensch liegt in grösster Pein!

Je lieber möcht’ich im Himmel sein!

Da kam ich auf einen breiten Weg; da kam ein Engelein und wollt’mich abweisen. Ach nein! Ich liess mich nicht abweisen!

Ich bin von Gott und will wieder zu Gott!

Der liebe Gott wird mir ein Lichtchen geben, wird leuchten mir bis in das ewig selig Leben!

5 Finale Aufersteh’n

Chorus and soprano

Aufersteh’n, ja aufersteh’n wirst du, mein Staub, nach kurzer Ruh! Unsterblich Leben wird der dich rief dir geben.

Wieder aufzublüh’n wirst du gesät!

Der Herr der Ernte geht und sammelt Garben uns ein, die starben!

O Glaube, mein Herz

Mezzo-soprano

O glaube, mein Herz, o glaube, es geht dir nichts verloren! Dein ist, was du gesehnt, dein was du geliebt, was du gestritten!

Soprano

O glaube, du warst nicht umsonst geboren! Hast nicht umsonst gelebt, gelitten!

Chorus and mezzo-soprano

Was entstanden ist das muss vergehen! Was vergangen, auferstehen! Hör’ auf zu beben!

Bereite dich zu leben!

Primordial Light

O red rose! Mankind lies in greatest need! Mankind lies in greatest pain! Far rather would I be in Heaven! I came upon a broad pathway; a little angel came and wanted to turn me aside. Ah no! I would not be turned aside! I am from God and would return to God! Dear God will give me a little light, will light me to the eternal blessed life!

Resurrection

Rise again, yes you will rise again, my dust, after a short rest! Immortal life He who called you will grant you.

To bloom again you are sown! The Lord of the Harvest goes and gathers like sheaves each of us who died!

O believe, my heart

O believe, my heart, o believe, nothing is lost to you! Yours is what you longed for, yours what you loved, what you fought over!

O believe, you were not born in vain! Have not in vain lived, suffered!

What has come into being must pass away! What passed away, rise again! Stop trembling! Prepare yourself to live!

Mahler: Symphony No. 2

Text & translation cont.

Soprano, mezzo-soprano and chorus

O Schmerz! Du Alldurchdringer!

Dir bin ich entrungen!

O Tod! Du Allbezwinger! Nun bist du bezwungen!

Mit Flügeln, die ich mir errungen in heissem Liebesstreben, werd’ ich entschweben zum Licht, zu dem kein Aug’ gedrungen! Sterben werd’ ich, um zu leben! Aufersteh’n, ja aufersteh’n wirst du, mein Herz, in einem Nu! Was du geschlagen zu Gott wird es dich tragen!

Text taken from Resurrection Ode by Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock (1724–1803)

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O pain! You that pierce all things! From you I have been wrested!

O death! You all-conqueror! Now you have been conquered!

With wings, which I gained for myself in love’s hot strife, I shall soar away to the light, whither no eye has penetrated! I shall die so as to live! Rise again, yes you will rise again, my heart, in an instant! What you have beaten will bear you to God!

English translation © Eric Mason

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THE DAMNATION OF FAUST

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Wednesday 27 September 2023 | 7.30pm

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Edward Gardner conductor

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Saturday 30 September 2023 | 7.30pm

Beethoven Overture, Egmont

Bartók Violin Concerto No. 2

Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4

Edward Gardner conductor

Christian Tetzlaff violin

DEATH AND TRANSFIGURATION

Wednesday 25 October 2023 | 7.30pm

R Strauss Don Juan

Ravel Piano Concerto for the Left Hand

Tania León Horizons (UK premiere)

R Strauss Death and Transfiguration

Karina Canellakis conductor

Cédric Tiberghien piano

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