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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Welcome LPO news 3 On stage tonight 4 London Philharmonic Orchestra 5 Leader: Pieter Schoeman 6 Edward Gardner 7 Tonight’s soloists 8 London Philharmonic Choir 9 BBC Symphony Chorus 10 Programme notes 13 Text & translation 16 Next concerts 17 Sound Futures donors 18 Thank you 20 LPO administration

London Philharmonic Orchestra • 23 September 2023 • Mahler’s ‘Resurrection’

Welcome

LPO news Welcome to our 2023/24 season

Welcome to the Southbank Centre

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.

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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

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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!

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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On stage tonight 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

Cellos

Bass Clarinet

Tim Hugh Guest Principal Richard Birchall David Lale Francis Bucknall Sue Sutherley Tom Roff Helen Thomas George Hoult Sibylle Hentschel Auriol Evans

Paul Richards* Principal

E-flat Clarinets

Tuba

Elliot Gresty

Timpani

Chair supported by Roger Greenwood

Lee Tsarmaklis* Principal

Bassoons

Simon Carrington* Principal

Chair supported by Sir Simon Robey

Jonathan Phillips

Hunter Gordon Simon Estell* Patrick Bolton

Kevin Rundell Principal Sebastian Pennar Co-Principal Hugh Kluger George Peniston Tom Walley

Contrabassoon

Simon Estell* Principal

Chair supported by William & Alex de Winton

Horns

Laura Murphy Charlotte Kerbegian Elen Roberts

John Ryan* Principal Annemarie Federle Principal Martin Hobbs Gareth Mollison Joel Ashford Elise Campbell Duncan Fuller

Flutes

Juliette Bausor Principal Eilidh Gillespie Stewart McIlwham* Marta Santamaria

Offstage Horns

Mark Vines Co-Principal Jonathan Farey Olivia Gandee Kristina Yumerska

Piccolos

Stewart McIlwham* Principal Marta Santamaria Juliette Bausor Eilidh Gillespie

Trumpets

Paul Beniston* Principal Tom Nielsen Co-Principal Anne McAneney* David Hilton Tony Cross Katie Smith Joseph Skypala

Oboes

Ian Hardwick* Principal Alice Munday Sue Böhling* Emily Cockbill

Cor Anglais

Offstage Trumpets

Sue Böhling* Principal

Jason Evans Niall Keatley James Nash Kaitlin Wild

Chair supported by Dr Barry Grimaldi

Emily Cockbill

Clarinets

Trombones

Benjamin Mellefont Principal Thomas Watmough James Maltby Paul Richards* Elliot Gresty

Mark Templeton* Principal

Chair supported by William & Alex de Winton

David Whitehouse Gemma Riley

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Lyndon Meredith Principal Simon Minshall

Thomas Watmough Principal

Jonathan Davies Principal

Double Basses

Bass Trombones

Chair supported by Victoria Robey OBE

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 • 23 September 2023 • Mahler’s ‘Resurrection’

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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 Tania León our Composer-in-Residence.

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 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.

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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London Philharmonic Orchestra • 23 September 2023 • Mahler’s ‘Resurrection’

Pieter Schoeman Leader

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.

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Next generations

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.

Looking forward

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.

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.

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.

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

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London Philharmonic Orchestra • 23 September 2023 • Mahler’s ‘Resurrection’

Edward Gardner Principal Conductor, London Philharmonic Orchestra

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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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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Beth Taylor

soprano

mezzo-soprano

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Sally Matthews

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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

Sopranos

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.

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 Lorna Wills Sze Ying Chan

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.

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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 Patrick Maxwell* Simon Pickup

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

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

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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.

Sopranos

Tenors

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

Justin Althaus Phiroz Dalal Jamie Foye Simon Lowe Tony Madgwick Philip Rayner Charlie Rome Greg Satchell Tobias Schneider David Willcock

Altos Alice Aveson Helen Brice Rosie Hopkins Charlotte Senior Jayne Swindin

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

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Basses David Allenby Richard Green Kevin Hollands Alan Jones Edgar Marquez Andrew Money Amos Paran Andrew Parkin Robin Wicks

London Philharmonic Orchestra • 23 September 2023 • Mahler’s ‘Resurrection’

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 The text and translation begin on page 13.

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.

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.

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

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)

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Programme notes ‘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

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

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.

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.

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:

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

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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’.

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.’

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

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Mahler: Symphony No. 2 Text & translation 4 Urlicht

Primordial Light

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!

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!

5 Finale Aufersteh’n

Resurrection

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

Rise again, yes you will rise again, my dust, after a short rest!

Immortal life He who called you will grant you.

Wieder aufzublüh’n wirst du gesät!

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

To bloom again you are sown!

The Lord of the Harvest goes and gathers like sheaves each of us who died!

O Glaube, mein Herz

O believe, my heart

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!

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!

Soprano O glaube, du warst nicht umsonst geboren!

Hast nicht umsonst gelebt, gelitten!

O believe, you were not born in vain!

Have not in vain lived, suffered!

Chorus and mezzo-soprano Was entstanden ist das muss vergehen!

Was vergangen, auferstehen!

Hör’ auf zu beben!

Bereite dich zu leben!

What has come into being must pass away!

What passed away, rise again!

Stop trembling!

Prepare yourself to live!

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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!

O pain! You that pierce all things!

From you I have been wrested!

O death! You all-conqueror!

Now you have been conquered!

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!

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!

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

English translation © Eric Mason

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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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Sound Futures donors We are grateful to the following donors for their generous contributions to our Sound Futures campaign.

Thanks to their support, we successfully raised £1 million by 30 April 2015 which has now been matched pound for pound by Arts Council England through a Catalyst Endowment grant. This has enabled us to create a £2 million endowment fund supporting special artistic projects, creative programming and education work with key venue partners including our Southbank Centre home. Supporters listed below donated £500 or over.

For a full list of those who have given to this campaign please visit lpo.org.uk/soundfutures.

Masur Circle Arts Council England Dunard Fund Victoria Robey OBE Emmanuel & Barrie Roman The Underwood Trust

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Tennstedt Circle Valentina & Dmitry Aksenov Richard Buxton The Candide Trust Michael & Elena Kroupeev Kirby Laing Foundation Mr & Mrs Makharinsky Alexey & Anastasia Reznikovich Sir Simon Robey Bianca & Stuart Roden Simon & Vero Turner The late Mr K Twyman

Solti Patrons Ageas John & Manon Antoniazzi Gabor Beyer, through BTO Management Consulting AG Jon Claydon Mrs Mina Goodman & Miss Suzanne Goodman Roddy & April Gow The Jeniffer & Jonathan Harris Charitable Trust Mr James R.D. Korner Christoph Ladanyi & Dr Sophia Ladanyi-Czernin Robert Markwick & Kasia Robinski The Maurice Marks Charitable Trust

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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

The American Friends of the London Philharmonic Orchestra Anonymous donors Mrs Aline Foriel-Destezet Aud Jebsen In memory of Mrs Rita Reay Sir Simon & Lady Robey OBE

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William & Alex de Winton Edward Gardner & Sara Övinge Patricia Haitink Catherine Høgel & Ben Mardle Mr & Mrs Philip Kan Neil Westreich

Principal Associates

Richard Buxton Gill & Garf Collins In memory of Brenda Lyndoe Casbon In memory of Ann Marguerite Collins Irina Gofman & Mr Rodrik V. G. Cave George Ramishvili The Tsukanov Family Mr Florian Wunderlich

Associates

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Dame Colette Bowe David Burke & Valerie Graham Cameron & Kathryn Doley Ulrike & Benno Engelmann Dmitry & Ekaterina Gursky The Jeniffer & Jonathan Harris Charitable Trust John & Angela Kessler Mrs Elena & Mr Oleg Kolobov Mrs Elizabeth Meshkvicheva Mikhail Noskov & Vasilina Bindley Tom & Phillis Sharpe Mr Joe Topley & Ms Tracey Countryman Andrew & Rosemary Tusa Laurence Watt

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Anonymous donors Ralph & Elizabeth Aldwinckle Mr John D Barnard Roger & Clare Barron Dr Simona Cicero & Mr Mario Altieri Mr Alistair Corbett Guy Davies David Devons Igor & Lyuba Galkin Alexander Greaves Prof Emeritus John Gruzelier Michael & Christine Henry Mrs Maureen Hooft-Graafland Per Jonsson Mr Ian Kapur Ms Elena Lojevsky Pippa Mistry-Norman Mrs Terry Neale John Nickson & Simon Rew Mr James Pickford Filippo Poli

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David & Yi Buckley Gill & Garf Collins William & Alex de Winton Sonja Drexler Mr B C Fairhall The Friends of the LPO 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

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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 HSH Dr Donatus, Prince of Hohenzollern Aline Foriel-Destezet Irina Gofman Olivia Ma George Ramishvili Sophie Schÿler-Thierry Florian Wunderlich

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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 Emily Benn Kate Birchall* David Burke Deborah Dolce Elena Dubinets Tanya Joseph Hugh Kluger* Katherine Leek* 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 Roger Barron Chairman Christopher Aldren Richard Brass Helen Brocklebank YolanDa Brown OBE David Buckley 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 Dr Catherine C. Høgel Martin Höhmann Rehmet Kassim-Lakha Jamie Korner Geoff Mann Andrew Neill Nadya Powell Sir Bernard Rix Victoria Robey OBE Baroness Shackleton Thomas Sharpe KC Julian Simmonds Barry Smith Martin Southgate

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Chris Viney Laurence Watt Elizabeth Winter

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