LPO programme: 29 Apr 2023 - Music from the Shadows (Klaus Mäkelä/Julian Rachlin)

Concert programme

A place to call home 2022/23 concert season at the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall

Concert programme

Principal Conductor Edward Gardner supported by Aud Jebsen Principal Guest Conductor Karina Canellakis Conductor Emeritus Vladimir Jurowski Patron HRH The Duke of Kent KG Artistic Director Elena Dubinets Chief Executive David Burke Leader Pieter Schoeman supported by Neil Westreich

Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall Saturday 29 April 2023 | 7.30pm A place to call home

Music from the Shadows Shostakovich Violin Concerto No. 1 in A minor (36) Interval (20’) Thomas Larcher Symphony No. 2 (Kenotaph) (37’) Mahler Adagio from Symphony No. 10 (22’)

Klaus Mäkelä conductor Julian Rachlin violin

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 New 2023/24 season 4 London Philharmonic Orchestra 5 Leader: Pieter Schoeman 6 Klaus Mäkelä 7 Julian Rachlin 8 On stage tonight 9 Programme notes 15 Next concert New on the LPO Label 16 LPO 90th Birthday Appeal 17 Sound Futures donors 18 Thank you 20 LPO administration

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Welcome

LPO news LPO 2023/24 season

Welcome to the Southbank Centre

Our new season is now announced! Edward Gardner opens the 2023/24 season on 23 September with Mahler’s monumental ‘Resurrection’ Symphony, and returns for eleven more concerts including Holst’s The Planets, Haydn’s The Creation and Stravinsky’s Petrushka. Meanwhile, Principal Guest Conductor Karina Canellakis takes us on an emotional journey with major works including Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 8, Strauss’s Death and Transfiguration and Brahms’s Fourth Symphony.

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.

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.

The centrepiece of the new season is our spring 2024 festival The Music in You. Reflecting our adventurous spirit, the festival embraces all kinds of expression – dance, music theatre, audience participation – and strives to inspire the creativity in everyone, from a child’s body percussion at a football-themed FUNharmonics concert to the world’s greatest artists showcasing their mastery on the concert stage.

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We’ll also collaborate with artists from across the creative spectrum, including jazz pianist and composer Julian Joseph with his unique take on Gershwin, and choreographer Wayne McGregor in a boundary-defying ballet project.

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Next season will also see the long-awaited conclusion of Conductor Emeritus Vladimir Jurowski’s Wagner Ring Cycle, Götterdämmerung, on 27 April 2024.

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Priority booking for LPO Friends is open now, and public booking opens on Tuesday 2 May online and by phone. Pick up a season brochure in the foyer this evening, or browse the full season now at lpo.org.uk

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.

Thank you.

LPO at the BBC Proms This summer we’ve been invited to give two concerts at the Royal Albert Hall as part of the BBC Proms.

On Monday 7 August Robin Ticciati will conduct the LPO in a concert performance of Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmélites, with the cast from this summer’s Glyndebourne Festival production of the opera.

Later that week, on Friday 11 August, Edward Gardner will take to the podium for a concert with the LPO featuring Ligeti’s Requiem and Lux Aeterna with the Edvard Grieg Choir, and Strauss’s Also sprach Zarathustra.

Julian Rachlin CDs on sale tonight CDs of violinist Julian Rachlin’s recordings will be on sale before tonight's concert, during the interval and for a short time after the concert.

Visit the Decca merchandise stall in the Level 2 foyer, Royal Festival Hall.

Tickets for this year’s Proms go on general sale on Saturday 13 May: visit bbc.co.uk/proms

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Share the wonder 2023/24 season On sale Tuesday 2 May

Featuring world-class artists including Edward Gardner, Karina Canellakis, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Renée Fleming, Anna Lapwood, Vladimir Jurowski, Randall Goosby and Danielle de Niese.

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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 and 2023/24 we’ll 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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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.

This season we’ve been exploring themes of belonging and displacement in our series ‘A place to call home’.

As we celebrate our 90th anniversary we’ve performed works premiered by the Orchestra during its illustrious history. Our commitment to everything new and creative has included premieres by Brett Dean and Heiner Goebbels, as well as new commissions from composers from around the world.

The centrepiece of next 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 longawaited 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, Renée Fleming, 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.

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

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Klaus Mäkelä conductor

Alexander Raskatov and Sally Beamish. On tour, they performed in the opening concert of the Musikfest Berlin and at the Kölner Philharmonie.

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As a guest conductor in the 2022/23 season, Klaus Mäkelä makes his first appearances with the New York Philharmonic, Berlin Philharmonic, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and Vienna Symphony, and returns to the USA to conduct The Cleveland Orchestra and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

Klaus Mäkelä made his debut with the London Philharmonic Orchestra in November 2021, conducting a programme of Saint-Saëns, Messiaen and Debussy with cellist Truls Mørk at the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall.

Klaus studied conducting at the Sibelius Academy with Jorma Panula and cello with Marko Ylönen, Timo Hanhinen and Hannu Kiiski. As a soloist, he has performed with several Finnish orchestras and as a chamber musician at the Verbier Festival, as well as with members of the Oslo Philharmonic, Orchestre de Paris, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France.

Klaus Mäkelä is Chief Conductor of the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Music Director of the Orchestre de Paris, and Artistic Partner of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. An exclusive Decca Classics artist, he has recorded Stravinsky’s The Firebird and The Rite of Spring with the Orchestre de Paris, and the complete Sibelius symphony cycle with the Oslo Philharmonic.

Klaus’s third season as Chief Conductor of the Oslo Philharmonic features 11 contrasting programmes, with repertoire ranging from Lully and Locatelli, to Berg and Mahler, to Anna Thorvaldsdottir and Julia Perry.

In autumn 2022 he and the Oslo Philharmonic embarked on their second European tour, with performances in Germany, Belgium and Austria with cellist Sol Gabetta.

For his second season as Music Director of the Orchestre de Paris, Klaus Mäkelä has chosen to spotlight composers Pascal Dusapin, Betsy Jolas, Jimmy López Bellido, Magnus Lindberg and Kaija Saariaho, the latter featured with three different works.

There is also a focus on the Ballets Russes, with two key Diaghilev scores: Stravinsky’s The Firebird and The Rite of Spring. Last month, Klaus and the Orchestre de Paris toured throughout Europe with violinist Janine Jansen as soloist.

With the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Klaus Mäkelä embarks on a long-term collaboration, joining the orchestra as Artistic Partner with effect from the 2022 /23 season and as its next Chief Conductor in 2027. For their first season together, they perform six programmes including Mahler’s Symphony No. 6, Mozart’s Requiem and Strauss’s Alpine Symphony, as well as premieres by López Bellido, Sauli Zinovjev,

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Julian Rachlin violin

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Committed to expanding the relevance of classical music within today’s cultural framework, Julian creates projects with living composers and collaborators that bring together artists from a variety of disciplines, backgrounds and genres. He has worked closely with, and given premieres of works by, Krzysztof Penderecki, Giya Kancheli, Vangelis and Lera Auerbach. In 2000 he joined Mstislav Rostropovich in the premiere of Penderecki’s Sextet. Penderecki later wrote and dedicated the Concerto Doppio for violin, viola and orchestra and the Ciaccona for violins and viola to Julian.

Julian Rachlin’s celebrated music festivals reflect his joie de vivre and passion for bringing audiences together.

He frequently collaborates with musical partners Martha Argerich, Evgeny Kissin, Janine Jansen and Vilde Frang. His dedication to Julian Rachlin & Friends, a festival in Dubrovnik, Croatia that ran for over a decade, received worldwide recognition. Since 2021 he has also been artistic director of the Herbstgold Festival at the legendary Esterházy Palace in Eisenstadt, Austria.

A major presence in the music world since the age of 13, Julian Rachlin has cemented his reputation as one of the most renowned artists of his time. Over the course of his career he has taken his multifaceted interests across the globe as a conductor, soloist, recording artist, chamber musician, teacher and artistic director.

As a violinist he has shared the stage with the most prestigious orchestras and conductors. Also a frequent presence on the podium, he thrills audiences with compelling interpretations – at once electrifying and sensitive, elegant and dynamic – establishing himself as a leading conductor of his generation.

Dedicated to educating and supporting young talent, Julian founded the Julian Rachlin & Friends Foundation to help nurture the careers of extraordinary young musicians. Since 1999 he has served as a faculty member and professor at the Music and Arts Private University of Vienna.

Julian Rachlin is the recipient of numerous honours including the Accademia Musicale Siena Prize laureate, Economic Forum Young Global Leader, and UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Children’s Fund. In 2013 he performed alongside Zubin Mehta and the Bavarian State Orchestra at the historic Peace for Kashmir concert in Srinagar, Kashmir, the first ever performance by a Western orchestra in that region.

Recent highlights as a soloist include appearances with the Oslo Philharmonic and Klaus Mäkelä, the Philharmonia Orchestra with Santtu-Matias Rouvali, the National Symphony Orchestra and Gianandrea Noseda, the Los Angeles Philharmonic with Zubin Mehta, the St Petersburg Philharmonic with Yuri Temirkanov, the Boston Symphony with Juanjo Mena, the Filarmonica della Scala and RAI National Symphony with Andrés Orozco-Estrada; and the Bavarian Radio Symphony, Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal and Pittsburgh Symphony with Manfred Honeck.

Born in Lithuania, Julian emigrated to Vienna with his family at the age of three, where he studied violin with Boris Kuschnir at the Music and Arts Private University of Vienna, and he received private lessons from Pinchas Zukerman in New York City. He also completed conducting studies with Mariss Jansons and Sophie Rachlin, and was mentored by Daniele Gatti.

Known for his meticulous rehearsal methods and deep musicianship, Julian has conducted the Chicago Symphony, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Israel Philharmonic, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Vienna Symphony, Oslo Philharmonic, Konzerthausorchester Berlin, Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Helsinki Philharmonic, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and China Philharmonic Orchestra, as well as the festival orchestras of Grand Teton and Verbier.

Julian plays the 1704 ‘ex Liebig’ Stradivari and a 1785 Lorenzo Storioni viola, on loan to him courtesy of the Dkfm. Angelika Prokopp Privatstiftung. His strings are kindly sponsored by Thomastik-Infeld.

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On stage tonight First Violins

Violas

Chair supported by Neil Westreich

Chair supported by Caroline, Jamie & Zander Sharp

Pieter Schoeman* Leader 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 Thomas Eisner Katalin Varnagy

Chair supported by Sonja Drexler

Catherine Craig Yang Zhang Quentin Capozzoli Nilufar Alimaksumova Alice Apreda Howell Katherine Waller Alice Hall Chu-Yu Yang

Second Violins

Tania Mazzetti Principal Emma Oldfield Co-Principal Ricky Gore Ashley Stevens Nynke Hijlkema Joseph Maher Claudia Tarrant-Matthews Jessica Coleman Fiona Higham Chair supported by David & Yi Buckley

Lyrit Milgram Kate Birchall Kate Cole Nancy Elan Sioni Williams

Alto Flute

Eilidh Gillespie

Richard Waters Principal

Oboes

Laura Vallejo Martin Wray Benedetto Pollani Lucia Ortiz Sauco James Heron Michelle Bruil Kate De Campos Kim Becker Jisu Song Pamela Ferriman Daniel Cornford

Trombones

Cor Anglais

David Whitehouse

Chair supported by Dr Barry Grimaldi

Clarinets

Thomas Watmough Principal

Chair supported by Roger Greenwood

Kristina Blaumane Principal

Chair supported by Bianca & Stuart Roden

Emma Burgess Paul Richards*

Nina Kiva Francis Bucknall David Lale Helen Thomas George Hoult Sibylle Hentschel Iain Ward Susanna Riddell Jane Lindsay

Bass Clarinet

Paul Richards* Principal

E-flat Clarinet

Hugh Kluger George Peniston Tom Walley

Simon Estell* Principal

Horns

Laura Murphy Lowri Morgan Charlotte Kerbegian

John Ryan* Principal Martin Hobbs Mark Vines Co-Principal Gareth Mollison Duncan Fuller

Flutes

Juliette Bausor Principal Eilidh Gillespie Stewart McIlwham*

Trumpets

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

Piccolo

Stewart McIlwham* Principal

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Lyndon Meredith Principal

Tuba

Lee Tsarmaklis* Principal

Chair supported by Friends of the Orchestra

Timpani

Simon Carrington* Principal

Chair supported by Victoria Robey OBE

Percussion

Oliver Yates Feargus Brennan Sarah Mason James Crook

Contrabassoon

Chair supported by William & Alex de Winton

Bass Trombone

Bassoons

Helen Simons Simon Estell*

Co-Principal

Chair supported by William & Alex de Winton

Andrew Barclay* Principal

Chair supported by Sir Simon Robey

Kevin Rundell* Principal Sebastian Pennar

Mark Templeton* Principal

Emma Burgess

Jonathan Davies Principal

Double Basses

Tom Nielsen Neil Brough

Ian Hardwick* Principal Alice Munday Sue Böhling*

Sue Böhling* Principal

Cellos

Piccolo Trumpets

Chair supported by Gill & Garf Collins

Harp

Rachel Masters Principal

Celeste

Catherine Edwards

Piano

Elizabeth Burley

Accordion Ian Watson

* Holds a professorial appointment in London

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Programme notes Speedread Each of the works on tonight’s programme represents a struggle: of having to create in the face of censure; of asking questions in the wake of humanitarian disaster; and of composing during a personal crisis.

Shostakovich’s First Violin Concerto was written for the Ukrainian violinist David Oistrakh in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War. A symphony in all but name, it was doubtless too bold for the time. The Party set out its policies in the Zhdanov decree of 1948, which accused Shostakovich of ‘formalism’, prompting him to consign the Concerto to his desk drawer.

Thomas Larcher’s Second Symphony bears its genre proudly, asking how old forms can speak now. Written in 2016 and first performed by the Vienna Philharmonic – Mahler’s orchestra – the work may reveal kinship with Larcher’s forerunner, yet it was written to commemorate ‘the thousands of people who have drowned in the Mediterranean’ during the ongoing refugee crisis.

Finally, we turn to Mahler himself, at the very end of his life, and the first movement of his Tenth Symphony.

Full of bruised beauty, this is music that also delivers a searing cry of pain, as well as looking into a musical future that would include both Shostakovich and Larcher.

Dmitri Shostakovich 1906–75

Violin Concerto No. 1 in A minor, Op. 77 1947–48

Julian Rachlin violin

1 Nocturne: Moderato 2 Scherzo: Allegro 3 Passacaglia: Andante – Cadenza 4 Burlesque: Allegro con brio – Presto Composing in Soviet Russia was never an easy task, with Shostakovich all too aware of the gagging powers of the regime, as when his 1934 opera Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District failed to impress. Sadly, matters were only going to worsen, with Shostakovich and other leading composers becoming the target of Stalin’s chief propogandist Andrey Zhdanov in February 1948. The entire group, including Prokofiev and Khachaturian, saw their works banned due to ‘formalism’ – a term the authorities were never keen

to define. It was a grave time, which also saw Shostakovich removed from his post at the Moscow Conservatory. While he knew that any attempt to mount serious new works in such an environment was futile, he continued to compose for his desk drawer, in the hope that a thaw would follow. Chief among these works was the First Violin Concerto in A minor. Begun in July 1947, work was continuing when Zhdanov issued his decree.

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Programme notes Inspiration had come came from the Odessa-born violinist David Oistrakh, to whom the Concerto was dedicated and who gave the premiere. That first performance in Leningrad had to wait until 1955, however, after the deaths of both Zhdanov and Stalin, though the Concerto was soon performed elsewhere, including in New York, where Oistrakh made a crucial recording with The Philadelphia Orchestra and Dimtri Mitropoulos.

The work begins with a sense of dread, though the opening Nocturne is intensely lyrical too. While its principal theme’s dotted rhythms hint at Baroque detachment, the long-spun nature of the soloist’s outpouring indicates there is much to be said. The presence of the Dies irae hints that judgement is on its way, but that is only realised in the Scherzo. This is a wild danse macabre, looking to the apparent portrait of Stalin in Shostakovich’s Tenth Symphony. The dance here employs the composer’s musical cipher DSch – D, E flat, C, B natural – as well as Jewish folk material, all at a time of rising anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union.

The imposing Passacaglia returns us to the formalities of the Moderato, with the woodwind and low brass suggesting the religiosity of an organ. When the soloist finally enters, the music speaks more of private grief amid this public mourning. Yet as much as the soloist tries to bend the orchestra to its will, the Passacaglia’s ominous tread continues, until, finally, the violinist seizes control and hurtles into a staggering cadenza.

This in turn provides the springboard to the finale, its unbridled glee delivered with a devilish glint in the eye.

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

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Programme notes Thomas Larcher born 1963

Symphony No. 2 (Kenotaph) 2015–16

1 Allegro 2 Adagio 3 Scherzo – Molto allegro 4 Introduzione – Molto allegro Thomas Larcher’s Second Symphony was commissioned by the Austrian National Bank to mark the 200th anniversary of its foundation. The first performance, given by the Vienna Philharmonic and Semyon Bychkov, took place in the Austrian capital on 3 June 2016.

But despite the celebratory impetus for the Symphony, originally conceived as a Concerto for Orchestra, it bears a sombre subtitle: ‘Kenotaph’, a monument honouring a person or persons buried elsewhere. According to the composer, it commemorates ‘the thousands of people who have drowned in the Mediterranean’ during the refugee crisis. ‘It is a piece that concerns a man-made disaster, expressing grief over those who have died and outrage at the misanthropy at home in Austria and elsewhere.’ But Larcher insists that this is ‘not programmatic music or ‘music as protest’. ‘I do not believe that art conveys messages’, he says, ‘but asks questions’.

© Richard Haughton

Larcher is also surveying the history of the symphony itself. ‘I want to explore the forms of our musical past under the light of the (musical and human) developments we have been part of during our lifetime’, he says. ‘How can we find tonality that speaks in our time? And how can the old forms speak to us?’

Consequently, there is a state of flux across all four movements, with ‘different forms of energy: bundled, scattered, smooth, kinetic or furious’. Employing batteries of percussion, including oil barrels, biscuit tins and mixing bowls, Larcher paints with a vivid brush.

But expression is his goal rather than colour, as evinced by his instruction in the final movement that ‘pitchprecision is less important than rhythm and a rough

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Programme notes sound conveying an atmosphere of “playing on the edge”’.

theme in the depths. This prompts another watershed, complete with thunder sheets and evocations of wind.

Balm may come in a return to the original Adagio, though recent horrors linger.

The Symphony begins with a series of dizzying tumbles, which rise towards cadences in A minor (a tonal anchor for the work). These thuds contrast with more introverted music, which, although slower, is described as ‘flowing’. Such contradictions engender tension within this movement, as it pushes towards various points of crisis. Each is followed by a bruised response: quiet, with accordion clusters, ‘prepared’ piano whisperings and an aching viola song; or brooding, as in the distorted but immense B flat minor Largamente that recalls a similar outcry in Mahler’s Tenth Symphony. The chorale then gathers momentum, scrabbling higher in the register, before it is punctured by a tam tam. The movement ends with another broken utterance from the piano.

The Scherzo is more fantastical, with comic sliding whistles. But violence manifests too, not least in the 140 accelerating iterations of the same dissonant chord, as if banging its head against a brick wall. Having ‘forgotten’ the expected Trio section, this virtuoso movement concludes with a brief, dislocated Ländler, heedless of the world beyond.

The finale returns to the mood of the Adagio, albeit without warmth, before a muted trumpet leads a threnody. Compassion proves premature, however, and motor rhythms again take hold, rousing a savage music.

As before, there are numerous interruptions, but the feeling of forward motion is inexorable. A coda (Poco più lento) provides a eulogy, complete with tolling bells, yet its displacement of the Symphony’s shadowy home key of A minor and a last uneasy tritone indicate that the drama is far from over.

Initially, the Adagio also recalls Mahler in its search for light. Aquatic glitter, created by piano, harp, celeste and vibraphone, with spooling violins and string harmonics, provides a dose of magic in the movement’s central section. But its murmuring conceals a more glowering

Composer profile: Thomas Larcher Composer and pianist Thomas Larcher stands out as one of the most imaginative voices in classical music today. Born in Innsbruck in 1963, he grew up in Austrian Tyrol and studied composition and piano in Vienna. His music is inventive and captivating, combining contemplative harmonies with extended performance techniques – at once experimental and responsive to tradition.

premiered at the BBC Proms. His Symphony No. 3, A Line above the Sky, received its world premiere in February 2021 in Brno.

Larcher has been Composer-in-Residence at the Vienna Konzerthaus, the Mozarteum Orchester, Wigmore Hall, and festivals worldwide. He was a featured composer with the BBC Symphony Orchestra in 2018/19, and Composer-in-Residence at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam in 2019/20.

Larcher’s early works are characterised by his preoccupation with the piano and its tonal qualities.

He later began using the timbres of the orchestra, starting with his solo concertos Still (2002) for viola and orchestra, Böse Zellen for piano and chamber orchestra (2006), the Violin Concerto (2008), written for Isabelle Faust, and the cello concerto Ouroboros (2016), written for Jean-Guihen Queyras.

Larcher’s first opera Das Jagdgewehr (The Hunting Gun) was commissioned by the Bregenz Festival and premiered there in 2018. The opera was co-produced by the Aldeburgh Festival, where it received its UK premiere in 2019 with Ryan Wigglesworth conducting the Knussen Chamber Orchestra.

Thomas Larcher’s works have been recorded on ECM and Harmonia Mundi. His recordings have been awarded several international prizes, including the Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik, the Choc de la musique and the Diapason d’Or.

His first large orchestral score, written for the San Francisco Symphony in 2011, was Red and Green, a pair of movements with contrasting tonal colouring. Later that year, the Double Concerto for violin and cello (2011) was commissioned and

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Programme notes Gustav Mahler 1860–1911

Symphony No. 10 in F sharp major 1910 (uncompleted: ed. Erwin Ratz)

Adagio Mahler was a systematic musician. Every year, between September and June, he was a conductor, including for a ten-year stint at the Court Opera House in Vienna. But once the summer came, he returned to his composing huts in the Austrian countryside. Such a rigid system was violently interrupted in 1907, however, when his eldest daughter died of scarlet fever and Mahler was himself diagnosed with a potentially fatal heart condition. But as well as personal concerns, there were serious professional misgivings at the time, which prompted Mahler to resign his post in Vienna and plan for a move to New York.

This created significant challenges, but the composer sought to maintain his previous scheme and found a new retreat in Toblach, surrounded by mountains.

Sadly, there could be no way of Mahler and his wife Alma returning to the sight of the family’s tragedy.

But the composer found it almost impossible to settle down and write a new symphony. Reading poetry, going on long hikes – forbidden by his doctors – he eventually began to compose a series of songs. By September 1908, they had become Das Lied von der Erde. With the hiatus lifted, he then managed to complete the Ninth Symphony during the summer of 1909, revealing an extraordinary statement of grief and faith.

Work on the Tenth Symphony would follow in 1910, though it would never be finished by the time Mahler died. While he went off to his hut to compose, Alma decided to visit Tobelbad, a fashionable spa just outside Graz. There, she embarked on a torrid affair with the 27-year-old architect Walter Gropius, with whom she continued corresponding after her return home. Gropius was under strict instructions to write care of the local post office. But on 29 July, he disobeyed orders and, either deliberately or due to an appalling slip, addressed his letter not to Alma but to Herr Direktor Mahler.

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Programme notes It is likely Mahler had already completed the first two movements of his Tenth Symphony when the missive arrived. But the realisation doubtless prompted him to add a series of annotations, including an anguished ‘Oh God! Oh God! why hast thou forsaken me?’.

Even without these programmatic clues, the music says so much, either when performed in one of a series of completions – including Deryck Cooke’s masterpiece – or when the opening Adagio is played on its own, offering a 25-minute tone-poem of beauty and angst.

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A searching theme in the violas – with echoes of Wagner’s adulterous opera Tristan und Isolde – leads to a balmy string elegy. This will give way to a lighter (even mocking) version of the same, as the opposing strands intensify over a series of variations. Yet however assured the music becomes, it soon slumps back to the original yearning theme. Eventually, the juxtapositions trigger a bruised orchestral chorale in A flat minor.

Any sense of haven is firmly out of reach as Mahler unleashes a terrifying dissonance. While the coda slowly ekes its way back to F sharp major, there can be no doubt that such an assault has cast its shadow.

Mahler’s ‘Resurrection’ Saturday 23 September 2023 7.00pm Royal Festival Hall Mahler Symphony No. 2 (Resurrection)

Programme notes © Gavin Plumley

Edward Gardner conductor* Sally Matthews soprano Beth Taylor mezzo-soprano London Philharmonic Choir

Recommended recordings of tonight’s works

*Position generously supported by Aud Jebsen Please note start time

by Laurie Watt Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 1 Alina Ibragimova | State Academic Symphony Orchestra of Russia | Vladimir Jurowski (Hyperion) Thomas Larcher: Symphony No. 2 (Kenotaph) Frankurt Radio Symphony Orchestra | Hannu Lintu (Ondine) Mahler: Adagio from Symphony No. 10 London Philharmonic Orchestra | Klaus Tennstedt (Warner: part of a set)

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Final LPO concert this season at the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall 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.

Concert generously supported by the LPO International Board of Governors.

New on the LPO Label: Vladimir Jurowski conducts Stravinsky Vol. 2 Tchaikovsky (arr. Stravinsky) The Sleeping Beauty (excerpts) Stravinsky The Fairy’s Kiss Vladimir Jurowski conductor London Philharmonic Orchestra LPO-0126 Recorded live at the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall on 17 March 2018

‘The early evolution of Stravinsky from fledgling to Firebird feels like the most natural thing in the world ... It helps, of course, that the instinct and intellect of this most inquisitive and searching of conductors makes all the right connections.’

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Annual Appeal 2023

Celebrating 90 years & counting Formed with a bold purpose: to rival the greatest orchestras in the world, this year the London Philharmonic Orchestra celebrates its 90th birthday.

In 1961 we were the first British orchestra to tour to Australia.

We were the first orchestra to perform at Glyndebourne Festival Opera in 1964.

“ My first ever LPO concert was in July 1953: The opening Ruslan & Ludmilla overture thrilled me! A fan for life.”

LPO supporter

In 1987, with a commitment to sharing orchestral music with as wide and diverse an audience as possible, we established our Education and Community programme.

In September 2021, Edward Gardner took to the podium for his first concert as Principal Conductor.

“ I fell in love with my husband, 38 years ago, at an LPO concert featuring Tchaikovsky’s 5th Symphony in White Rock, Hastings.”

LPO audience member

In 2021, thrilled to be reunited with live audiences, we gave London’s first performance of Tippett’s The Midsummer Marriage in 17 years.

“ The first time I ever picked up a horn I was 5 years old, attending an LPO Have a Go Session. It’s now my instrument and I’m an LPO Junior Artist.”

LPO Junior Artist 2022/23

2011 saw us record the national anthems for the London 2012 Olympic Games!

In 2016 LPO Junior Artists was launched, a programme offering young musicians from under-represented backgrounds a pathway into the music profession.

We cherish our heritage and are committed to keeping the next 90 years exciting, dynamic and inclusive. Donate now, as we continue to make history in the present by offering life-enriching musical experiences for everyone, investing in the next generation of talent, commissioning masterworks of the future and reaching more communities around the UK, especially in Brighton and Eastbourne.

Show your support by making a donation.

Donate online, or call the Individual Giving Team on 020 7840 4212 or 020 7840 4225 to make a donation by credit or debit card.

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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

Welser-Möst Circle William & Alex de Winton John Ireland Charitable Trust The Tsukanov Family Foundation Neil Westreich

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

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

Mr Paris Natar The Rothschild Foundation Tom & Phillis Sharpe The Viney Family

Haitink Patrons Mark & Elizabeth Adams Dr Christopher Aldren Mrs Pauline Baumgartner Lady Jane Berrill Mr Frederick Brittenden David & Yi Yao Buckley Mr Clive Butler Gill & Garf Collins Mr John H Cook Mr Alistair Corbett Bruno De Kegel Georgy Djaparidze David Ellen Christopher Fraser OBE David & Victoria Graham Fuller Goldman Sachs International Mr Gavin Graham Moya Greene Mrs Dorothy Hambleton Tony & Susie Hayes Malcolm Herring Catherine Høgel & Ben Mardle Mrs Philip Kan Rehmet Kassim-Lakha de Morixe Rose & Dudley Leigh Lady Roslyn Marion Lyons Miss Jeanette Martin Duncan Matthews 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 Simon & Lucy Owen-Johnstone 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