LPO concert programme: 6 Feb 2022 - Julia Fischer plays chamber music

JULIA FISCHER P L AY S M O Z A R T LPO Artist-in-Residence Spring 2022

CONCERT PROGR AMME

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 Queen Elizabeth Hall Sunday 6 February 2022 | 7.30pm

Julia Fischer plays chamber music Shostakovich Two Pieces for String Octet, Op. 11 (11’) Bruch String Octet in B flat major (22’) Interval (20’) Dvořák Piano Quintet No. 2 in A major, Op. 81 (41’) Julia Fischer violin & piano Soloists of the London Philharmonic Orchestra

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The London Philharmonic Orchestra broadcasts regularly on television and radio. It also works with the Hollywood and UK film industries, recording soundtracks for blockbusters including the Oscarwinning score for The Lord of the Rings trilogy. In 2005 it established its own record label.

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The London Philharmonic Orchestra’s dynamic Education & Community programme provides first musical experiences to children and families; offers creative projects and professional development opportunities for schools and teachers; inspires talented teenage instrumentalists to progress their skills; and develops the next generation of professional musicians.

The London Philharmonic Orchestra was founded by Sir Thomas Beecham in 1932, and has since been headed by many great conductors including Sir Adrian Boult, Bernard Haitink, Sir Georg Solti, Klaus Tennstedt and Kurt Masur. In September 2021 Edward Gardner became the Orchestra’s Principal Conductor, succeeding Vladimir Jurowski, who became Conductor Emeritus in recognition of his transformative impact on the Orchestra as Principal Conductor from 2007–21.

Over the pandemic period the LPO further developed its relationship with UK and international audiences through its ‘LPOnline’ digital content: over 100 videos of performances, insights, and introductions to playlists, which collectively received over 3 million views worldwide and led to the LPO being named runner-up in the Digital Classical Music Awards 2020. From Autumn 2020 the Orchestra was delighted to be able to return to its Southbank Centre home to perform a season of concerts filmed live and streamed free of charge via Marquee TV. September 2021 saw the opening of a new concert season with live audiences at the Southbank Centre.

The London Philharmonic Orchestra has performed at Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall since it opened in 1951, becoming Resident Orchestra in 1992. As well as its London home, it also has flourishing residencies in Brighton, Eastbourne and Saffron Walden, and each summer plays for Glyndebourne Festival Opera, where it has been Resident Symphony Orchestra for over 50 years. The Orchestra also tours internationally, performing to sell-out audiences worldwide.

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Julia Fischer violin & piano LPO Artist-in-Residence Spring 2022

During the 2020/21 season Julia Fischer appeared in concert with the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg and Alan Gilbert, the Svetlanov Symphony Orchestra and Vladimir Jurowski and the Bamberg Symphony under Jakub Hrůša, and premiered a new piece by Pascal Zavaro with the Orchestre national de France under Cristian Măcelaru.

In 2011 Julia Fischer founded her own Quartet with Alexander Sitkovetsky, Nils Mönkemeyer and Benjamin Nyffenegger, and continues to tour extensively in this formation. Her concert at the Alte Oper Frankfurt in 2010 marked her debut as a pianist: she performed Grieg’s Piano Concerto in the second half of the concert, having played Saint-Saëns’s Violin Concerto No. 3 in the first half. The performance is available on a Decca-released DVD. Teaching is another integral part of Julia’s musical life, as she continues to nurture and guide young talent including performances alongside her students. She regularly gives masterclasses at Musikferien at Lake Starnberg (Starnberger See). In 2019 she founded a children’s orchestra, the Kindersinfoniker, teaming up with conductor Johannes X. Schachtner and pianist Henri Bonamy in her hometown of Munich.

One of the world’s leading violinists, Julia Fischer is a versatile musician also known for her extraordinary abilities as a concert pianist, chamber musician and violin teacher.

Born in Munich to German-Slovakian parents, she received her first violin lessons at the age of three and her first piano lessons shortly after from her mother, Viera Fischer. At the age of nine she started studying with renowned violin professor Ana Chumachenco, later becoming her successor. Winning First Prize at the Yehudi Menuhin International Competition in 1995 was one of the milestones in her early career and she has since performed with top orchestras worldwide.

Over the course of her artistic career Julia Fischer has released numerous critically acclaimed and awarded CD and DVD recordings, first under the Pentatone label and later under Decca. Breaking new ground in the classical music market, in 2017 she launched her own music platform, the JF CLUB, which offers exclusive audio and video footage and previews of her new recordings as well as personal insights into music and her work. Franck’s Sonata in A major, Szymanowski’s Sonata in D minor and Beethoven’s String Trio in C minor are all available exclusively on JF CLUB. In August 2021 Julia Fischer released a limited vinyl recording of Ysaÿe’s Sonatas as an exclusive JF CLUB edition in collaboration with Hänssler Classic.

In March 2019 Julia embarked on a major tour of China, Taiwan and South Korea with the London Philharmonic Orchestra under Vladimir Jurowski, and in September 2019 performed Britten’s Violin Concerto with the Orchestra, again under Jurowski, at the Royal Festival Hall and Saffron Hall. This spring she is Artist-in-Residence with the Orchestra, performing Mozart’s Concertos with Thomas Søndergård, as well as play-directing a Mozart programme and joining LPO Principal players in a chamber music concert – see opposite page for details.

Julia Fischer holds numerous awards including the Federal Cross of Merit, a Gramophone Award and the German Culture Prize. She plays a violin by Giovanni Battista Guadagnini (1742) as well as an instrument made by Phillipp Augustin (2018).

She also embarks on an extensive tour with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, an ensemble with whom she has enjoyed a long-standing relationship. Other tours include with the Royal Philharmonic and Vasily Petrenko, and the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra with Vladimir Jurowski.

Julia also collaborates with the Lucerne Symphony under its new Chief Conductor Thomas Sanderling, and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra under Michael Tilson Thomas.

She embarks on a recital tour of major European venues with pianist Yulianna Avdeeva, as well as with her own Julia Fischer Quartet.

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JULIA FISCHER

ART I ST- I N- R E S I D E N C E Spring 2022 at the Southbank Centre

‘Here was a total consonance rare in concerto partnerships between Julia Fischer and her LPO colleagues.’

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ADVENTURES AND HOMAGES Saturday 12 February 2022 | 7.30pm Royal Festival Hall Mozart Violin Concerto No. 1 Mozart Violin Concerto No. 2 Tchaikovsky Serenade for Strings Julia Fischer violin/director With the support of

ELGAR’S VIOLIN CONCERTO Wednesday 13 April 2022 | 7.30pm Royal Festival Hall

Elgar Violin Concerto Enescu Symphony No. 2

Vladimir Jurowski conductor Julia Fischer violin

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Soloists of the London Philharmonic Orchestra Pieter Schoeman Leader Pieter Schoeman was appointed Leader of the London Philharmonic Orchestra in 2008, having previously been Co-Leader since 2002. Born in South Africa, 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 Queen Elizabeth Hall. He has also recorded numerous solos for film and television, and led the LPO in its soundtrack recordings for The Lord of the Rings trilogy.

Chair supported by Neil Westreich

Vesselin Gellev Sub-Leader Bulgarian violinist Vesselin Gellev has been a featured soloist with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Spoleto Festival Orchestra, New Haven Symphony Orchestra and Juilliard Orchestra, among others. He won First Prize at the Concert Artists Guild Competition in New York as a member of the Antares Quartet, and has recorded several albums and toured worldwide as Concertmaster of Kristjan Järvi’s Grammy-nominated Absolute Ensemble.

Prior to joining the LPO as Sub-Leader in 2007, Vesselin was Leader of the New Haven Symphony Orchestra in the USA and the Spoleto Festival Orchestra in Italy. He performs regularly as Guest Leader with numerous orchestras in the UK and abroad.

Tania Mazzetti Principal Second Violin Tania Mazzetti joined the London Philharmonic Orchestra in 2016 as Co-Principal Second Violin, and was appointed Principal in 2018. She grew up in Italy and began her orchestral career with the Orchestra Symphonica Toscanini under Lorin Maazel. She has also played in the Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala, the Filarmonica della Scala, the Orchestra del Teatro La Fenice di Venezia and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, and was a regular guest of the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia. From 2014–16 she was Concertmaster of the Orchestra del Teatro Lirico di Cagliari in Sardinia.

Chair supported by Countess Dominique Loredan

David Quiggle Principal Viola David Quiggle joined the London Philharmonic Orchestra as Principal Viola in 2017. Born in the USA, he has been a leading violist, chamber musician and teacher for more than 20 years. As a member of the Casals Quartet he toured Europe and South America and won prizes including the Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition. Solo performances include the Bartók Viola Concerto with the Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela, and Hindemith’s Der Schwanendreher with the Medellín Philharmonic. David has been a frequent guest principal with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, the Malaysian Philharmonic and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe.

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Soloists of the London Philharmonic Orchestra Richard Waters Co-Principal Viola Co-Principal Viola of the London Philharmonic Orchestra since 2019, Richard Waters has also appeared as Principal Viola with the London Sinfonietta, Philharmonia, Royal Philharmonic and Royal Liverpool Philharmonic orchestras. As a former founding member of the Bernadel Quartet, he has played in some of the UK’s major chamber music venues including Wigmore Hall and Kings Place. A keen exponent of contemporary music, Richard has worked with leading composers such as John Adams and George Benjamin, whose virtuoso work Viola, Viola he has performed on numerous occasions.

Chair supported by Caroline, Jamie & Zander Sharp

Kristina Blaumane Principal Cello Kristina Blaumane has been Principal Cello of the London Philharmonic Orchestra since 2007, and has performed as soloist with the LPO, Amsterdam Sinfonietta, Chicago Civic Orchestra, Kremerata Baltica, Britten Sinfonia, Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra, Sofia Soloists, Netherlands Wind Ensemble and Dalarna Sinfonietta, as well as all the main orchestras in Latvia. Kristina is a keen promoter of new music: she has given a number of world premieres, and several composers have dedicated works to her. Kristina is a member of Trio Palladio and the Wigmore Soloists ensemble.

Chair supported by Bianca & Stuart Roden

Pei-Jee Ng Co-Principal Cello Australian cellist Pei-Jee Ng has been the London Philharmonic Orchestra’s Co-Principal Cello since 2015. In addition to the six major Australian symphony orchestras, he has performed concertos with the Philharmonia, Hong Kong Philharmonic, Malaysian Philharmonic, Singapore Symphony, Oulu Symphony, Sinfonia ViVA and Estonian National Symphony orchestras. A committed chamber musician, Pei-Jee is cellist of the Fournier Trio, winners of the 2013 Parkhouse Award and 2nd Prize at the 2011 Trondheim International Chamber Music Competition.

Chair supported by The Candide Trust

Kevin Rundell Principal Double Bass Kevin Rundell has been Principal Double Bass of the London Philharmonic Orchestra since 1991. His first teacher was his grandfather, Jack Silvester (a former LPO Principal), and he later studied under Thomas Martin. Kevin’s first Principal position was with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra in 1976. In 1980 he joined English National Opera as Principal, where he remained for ten years. Kevin joined the London Symphony Orchestra as Principal in 1990 and moved to the LPO the following year. He was appointed Professor at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in 1975, a position he still holds.

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Programme notes Dmitri Shostakovich 1906–75

Two Pieces for String Octet, Op. 11 1924–25 Violins Julia Fischer, Pieter Schoeman, Vesselin Gellev, Tania Mazzetti Violas David Quiggle, Richard Waters Cellos Kristina Blaumane, Pei-Jee Ng

1 Prelude: Adagio 2 Scherzo: Allegro molto Shostakovich joined the Petrograd Conservatoire in 1919, and pursued his studies in the teeth of considerable hardship. His family was not wealthy, and during the Civil War years he was obliged to support them by working as a cinema pianist.

The Conservatoire’s director Alexander Glazunov did everything within his power to assist a student whose gifts he had recognised from the outset, and Shostakovich’s father returned his kindness by smuggling him black-market vodka – at grave personal risk. In the 1920s, when Soviet officialdom still tolerated bold, modernist art, and when Shostakovich graduated from the Conservatoire in 1926 with his First Symphony, Op. 10, the clarity, verve and thoroughly contemporary sound of his music was widely acclaimed.

Prelude, however (written as an elegy for his friend, the poet Volodya Kurchavov) the dissonances are poignant and expressive – and the sonorous lyricism of the string writing shows the imprint of Glazunov, Russia’s most idiomatic composer for strings up to that time. A very personal voice is emerging here; it’s the first step towards Shostakovich’s life-long engagement with string chamber music, and (in time) his epic cycle of 15 string quartets.

Shostakovich wrote his Prelude for string octet in 1924 and the Scherzo the following year, around the same time as the First Symphony. He also began a Fugue for octet, but omitted this from the final publication, which he numbered Op. 11, and which was premiered on 9 January 1927 at the Mozart Concert Hall, Moscow.

The young composer thought the Scherzo, in particular, was ‘the very best thing I have written’ and every bar suggests a confident young genius revelling in dissonance and mechanistic effects for the sheer mischievous fun of the noise he can make. In the

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Programme notes Max Bruch 1838–1920

String Octet in B flat major, Op. posth 1919–20 Violins Julia Fischer, Pieter Schoeman, Vesselin Gellev, Tania Mazzetti Violas David Quiggle, Richard Waters Cello Kristina Blaumane Double Bass Kevin Rundell

1 Allegro moderato 2 Adagio 3 Allegro molto A world in conflict and chaos; revolution, economic collapse, and the overthrow of a lifetime’s ideals and values … what was the 80-year-old Max Bruch supposed to make of the total military, social and economic collapse of his country in the autumn of 1918? This was a man whose piano teacher Ferdinand Hiller had sat at Beethoven’s deathbed; who’d grown up musically in the world of Schumann and Mendelssohn, and whose first professional appointments had been in sleepy German princely states where musicians still bowed to their royal patrons. Somehow, he had survived into an era of nerve gas, hyperinflation and aerial bombing. Food was unavailable in shops, and the dethroning of Kaiser Wilhelm II in November 1918 drove the patriotic Bruch to despair: ‘I surely believe that Germany is now forever totally destroyed.’

Meanwhile Bruch’s wife Clara was becoming seriously ill. Desperate for money, in April 1920 he sent his only manuscript of his best-known work, the First Violin Concerto, to a pair of American acquaintances, hoping that they could sell it for dollars. They never sent him a pfennig, and he never saw it again. Meanwhile, his remaining consolations - wine and cigars – were

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Programme notes feat in the Germany of 1919 – and, moreover, a wholly desirable goal. The soaring lyricism and tender-hearted inwardness of Bruch’s themes; the surging, ebullient sweep of the two outer movements (the finale in particular), and the transparent, luminous writing for string ensemble are all astonishing, and could be the work of a composer in their twenties – never mind a frightened, ill and depressed 81-year-old.

(thanks to hyperinflation) beyond his budget. Amid this misery, in the first three months of 1919, he turned to a genre that he had barely touched since his youth: chamber music. Working with astonishing energy at his home in Berlin – and with revolutionary mobs rioting in the streets – he completed three string quintets.

Then, 12 months later in early 1920, and shortly before his death, he converted the third of them, in B flat major, into a string octet for four violins, two violas, cello and double bass. It’s unclear how hand-copied scores and parts of these three works made it into the BBC Music Library in London, but it’s a miracle that they did, because the originals have vanished, presumably destroyed during the Second World War. As far as we know, the String Octet in B flat received its world premiere, with little fanfare, in a BBC lunchtime broadcast from Daventry on 16 July 1937.

Bruch’s melancholy permeates the work more subtly: in the drooping shape of his melodies, in the sunset hues of his harmonies, and of course in the central Adagio; where he summons a Classical resolve worthy of his hero and one-time friend Johannes Brahms to guide a faltering lament, in the tempo of a funeral march, towards grandeur and a kind of peace. ‘Music is the language of God’ was the epitaph carved on Bruch’s gravestone after his death on 2 October 1920, but the Octet – his final completed work – reflects the man that his daughter Margarethe remembered in the last months of his life: ‘He lived for all that was blessed and beautiful from a time now gone forever.’

Comparisons with Mendelssohn’s Octet are no discredit to Bruch; in fact, they might be the whole point. An imaginative return to the 1820s can have been no small

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Programme notes Antonín Dvořák 1841–1904

Piano Quintet No. 2 in A major, Op. 81 1887 Piano Julia Fischer Violins Pieter Schoeman, Tania Mazzetti Viola Richard Waters Cello Kristina Blaumane

1 Allegro, ma non tanto 2 Dumka: Andante con moto 3 Scherzo (Furiant): Molto vivace 4 Finale: Allegro the conductor Hans Richter (at this point, Dvořák and his wife Anna had five young children, as well as an aviary full of award-winning pigeons). ‘It is a small village with plenty of woods, where we lead a quiet and happy life.’ By 18 August 1887 new ideas were coming so rapidly that he dropped the revision and began work on a completely new piano quintet in A major, completed in a little over six weeks. The new Piano Quintet was premiered on 6 January 1888 in Prague and has never left the repertoire since.

Antonín Dvořák served a long apprenticeship. Between the ineptly-scored polka that he wrote for his village band before his 12th birthday, and Brahms’s endorsement of his Moravian Duets in December 1877, came more than 20 years of studying, teaching, composing and playing the viola in a Prague theatre orchestra. And so the piano quintet we now know as Op. 81 might easily have been a revised, renumbered edition of Op. 5, an unpublished three-movement piano quintet in A major that Dvořák had written in the summer of 1872. This was a very late apprentice-work for Dvořák, and he’d thought sufficiently highly of it to have it performed at a musical matinée in Prague later that year.

The Quintet’s form is outwardly classical – a sonata-form first movement, a slow movement, a scherzo and lively sonata-rondo finale – but that needn’t worry us unduly.

By now, between his 7th and 8th Symphonies, Dvořák was absolutely capable of shaping Classical forms to suit his own expressive aims. There are a few splashes of the Bohemian colour that had won Dvořák his early celebrity, most notably a dumka as slow movement (a Ukrainian dance-form that features in many of his chamber works, alternately slow then fast, lamenting then dancing). But he might be having a little joke at critics who’d pigeonholed him as a folklorist when, in the

Fifteen years later, as a world-famous composer with commissions from across Europe on his desk (including one from the Birmingham Triennial Festival for an oratorio on Newman’s The Dream of Gerontius), he returned to the Op. 5 Quintet and began an extensive revision. It was summer, and amidst the peace of his country home at Vysoká inspiration came swiftly and in abundance. It always did. ‘I am here with my family where I shall remain till the end of September’, he told

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Programme notes Piano Quintet, he labels his Schumann-like scherzo as a ‘furiant’ (it has none of that Czech dance’s crossrhythms) but gives no Czech title to his finale – whose main theme is a glorious example of the reel-like skočna.

melody, is particularly kaleidoscopic in texture and emotion. Sunny, spontaneous and completely assured, the Piano Quintet Op. 81 is an absolutely characteristic masterpiece from the composer of whom Brahms once wrote: ‘I should be glad if something occurred to me as a main theme that occurs to Dvořák only by the way.’

The composer’s publisher, Fritz Simrock, put it more bluntly: ‘Amazing what an amount of music that man has in his head!’

The real key to Dvořák’s Piano Quintet lies in the way that he exploits the huge range of colours and moods available with this rich medium. The Quintet’s first movement, alone, presents any number of miniature moods; an opening lullaby for cello and piano, a stormy minor-key tutti, strings accompanying piano – and so on throughout the work. The Dumka, with its lilting viola

Programme notes © Richard Bratby

Recommended recordings of tonight’s works

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by Laurie Watt Shostakovich: Two Pieces for String Octet, Op. 11 Academy of St Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble (Chandos) Bruch: String Octet in B flat major Nash Ensemble (Hyperion) Dvořák: Piano Quintet No. 2 in A major, Op. 81 Schubert Ensemble (Chandos)

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Silver Patrons

Mrs A Beare The Rt Hon. The Lord Burns GCB Bruno De Kegel Jan & Leni Du Plessis Ulrike & Benno Engelmann Simon & Meg Freakley Pehr G Gyllenhammar The Jeniffer & Jonathan Harris Charitable Trust Catherine Høgel & Ben Mardle Wg. Cdr. & Mrs M T Liddiard OBE JP RAF Sofiya Machulskaya Mrs Elizabeth Meshkvicheva The Metherell Family Andrew Neill Peter & Lucy Noble Marianne Parsons Tom & Phillis Sharpe Laurence Watt Grenville & Krysia Williams

Marianne Parsons Dr Wiebke Pekrull Mr Gerald Pettit Mr Roger Phillimore Gillian Pole Mr Michael Posen Mr Christopher Querée Sir Bernard Rix Mr Robert Ross Priscylla Shaw Patrick & Belinda Snowball Charlotte Stevenson Mr Robert Swannell Tony & Hilary Vines Mr & Mrs John C Tucker Mr & Mrs John & Susi Underwood Marina Vaizey Jenny Watson CBE Mr John Weekes Christopher Williams

John Nickson & Simon Rew Mr James Pickford Michael & Carolyn Portillo Mr David Russell Colin Senneck & the Hartley and District LPO Group Mr John Shinton Nigel Silby Mr Brian Smith Martin & Cheryl Southgate Mr & Mrs G Stein Dr Peter Stephenson Mr Ian Tegner Dr June Wakefield Howard & Sheelagh Watson Joanna Williams Roger Woodhouse Mr John Wright

Principal Supporters

Anonymous donors Ralph & Elizabeth Aldwinckle Alexander & Rachel Antelme Julian & Annette Armstrong Lindsay Badenoch Mr Mark Bagshaw & Mr Ian Walker Mr John Barnard Mr John D Barnard Damaris, Richard & Friends Mr David Barrett Diana Barrett Mr Simon Baynham Harvey Bengen Nick & Rebecca Beresford Mr Paul Bland Mr Keith Bolderson Mr Andrew Botterill Julian & Margaret Bowden & Mr Paul Michel Richard & Jo Brass Mr & Mrs Shaun Brown Mr Alan C Butler Lady Cecilia Cadbury Mrs Marilyn Casford Alison Clarke & Leo Pilkington J Clay Mr Joshua Coger Mr Martin Compton Mr Martin Connelly Mr Stephen Connock Miss Tessa Cowie Mr David Davies Mr Roderick Davies Mr David Devons Anthony & Jo Diamond Miss Sylvia Dowle Patricia Dreyfus Mr Andrew Dyke Mr Declan Eardly Mrs Maureen Erskine Mr Peter Faulk

Anonymous donors Dr R M Aickin Mr Mark Astaire Sir John Baker Tessa Bartley Mr Geoffrey Bateman Mrs Julia Beine Mr Anthony Boswood Dr Anthony Buckland Dr Carlos Carreno Mr Julien Chilcott-Monk Mr & Mrs Stewart Cohen David & Liz Conway Mr Alistair Corbett Andrew Davenport Mr Simon Douglas Mr B C Fairhall Mr Richard Fernyhough Mrs Janet Flynn Mrs Ash Frisby Jason George Mr Stephen Goldring Mr Daniel Goldstein Mr Milton Grundy Prof. Emeritus John Gruzelier Nerissa Guest & David Foreman Michael & Christine Henry Mark & Sarah Holford Ivan Hurry Per Jonsson Alexandra Jupin & John Bean Mr Ian Kapur Ms Kim J Koch Richard & Briony Linsell Paul & Brigitta Lock Mr Peter Mace Nicholas & Lindsay Merriman Andrew T Mills Simon & Fiona Mortimore Mrs Terry Neale

Bronze Patrons

Anonymous donors Michael Allen Dr Manon Antoniazzi Julian & Annette Armstrong Roger & Clare Barron Mr Philip Bathard-Smith Sir Peter Bazalgette Mikhail Noskov & Vasilina Bindley Mr Bernard Bradbury Sally Bridgeland In memory of Julie Bromley Desmond & Ruth Cecil Mr John H Cook Howard & Veronika Covington John & Sam Dawson Cameron & Kathryn Doley David Ellen Christopher Fraser OBE Virginia Gabbertas MBE David & Jane Gosman Mr Gavin Graham Mrs Dorothy Hambleton J Douglas Home The Jackman Family Mr & Mrs Ralph Kanza Jamie & Julia Korner Rose & Dudley Leigh Drs Frank & Gek Lim Nicholas & Felicity Lyons Geoff & Meg Mann Harriet & Michael Maunsell

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Supporters

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Thank you

Mr Joe Field Ms Chrisine Louise Fluker Mr Kevin Fogarty Mr Richard France Mr Bernard Freudenthal Mrs Adele Friedland & Friends Will Gold Mrs Alison Goulter Mr Andrew Gunn Mr K Haines Mr Martin Hale Roger Hampson Mr Graham Hart Mr & Mrs Nevile Henderson The Jackman Family Martin Kettle Mr Justin Kitson Ms Yvonne Lock Mrs Sally Manning Belinda Miles Dr Joe Mooney Christopher & Diane Morcom Dame Jane Newell DBE Oliver & Josie Ogg Mr Stephen Olton Mr David Peters Nadya Powell Ms Caroline Priday Mr Richard Rolls Mr Richard Rowland Mr & Mrs Alan Senior Tom Sharpe Mr Kenneth Shaw Ruth Silvestre Barry & Gillian Smith Mr David Southern Ms Mary Stacey Mr Simon Starr Mrs Margaret Thompson Philip & Katie Thonemann Mr Owen Toller Mrs Rose Tremain Ms Mary Stacey Ms Caroline Tate Mr Peter Thierfeldt Dr Ann Turrall Michael & Katie Urmston Dr June Wakefield Mr Dominic Wallis Mrs C Willaims Joanna Williams Mr Kevin Willmering Mr David Woodhead

Hon. Life Members

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:

Alfonso Aijón Kenneth Goode Carol Colburn Grigor CBE Pehr G Gyllenhammar Robert Hill Mrs Jackie Rosenfeld OBE Laurence Watt

Simon Freakley Chairman Jay Goffman Alexandra Jupin William A. Kerr Kristina McPhee Natalie Pray Damien Vanderwilt Elizabeth Winter Victoria Robey OBE Hon. Director Jenifer L. Keiser, CPA, EisnerAmper LLP

LPO International Board of Governors

Natasha Tsukanova Chair Steven M. Berzin (USA) Veronika Borovik-Khilchevskaya (Cyprus) Marie-Laure Favre Gilly de Varennes de Bueil (France) Aline Foriel-Destezet (France) Irina Gofman (Russia) Countess Dominique Loredan (Italy) Olivia Ma (Greater China Area) Olga Makharinsky (Russia) George Ramishvili (Georgia) Victoria Robey OBE (USA) Jay Stein (USA)

Corporate Donors

Barclays CHANEL Fund for Women in the Arts and Culture Pictet Bank

LPO Corporate Circle Leader

Thomas Beecham Group Members

freuds Sunshine

Chris Aldren David & Yi Buckley Gill & Garf Collins William & Alex de Winton Sonja Drexler The Friends of the LPO Irina Gofman Roger Greenwood Dr Barry Grimaldi Mr & Mrs Philip Kan John & Angela Kessler Countess Dominique Loredan Sir Simon Robey Victoria Robey OBE Bianca & Stuart Roden Caroline, Jamie & Zander Sharp Julian & Gill Simmonds Eric Tomsett Neil Westreich Guy & Utti Whittaker

Principal Berenberg Bloomberg Carter-Ruck French Chamber of Commerce

Tutti Lazard Russo-British Chamber of Commerce Walpole

Trialist Allianz Musical Insurance Sciteb

Preferred Partners Gusbourne Estate Lidl Lindt & Sprüngli Ltd OneWelbeck Steinway

Hon. Benefactor Elliott Bernerd

In-kind Sponsor Google Inc

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Trusts and Foundations The Boltini Trust Borrows Charitable Trust Boshier-Hinton Foundation The Candide Trust Cockayne – Grants for the Arts The London Community Foundation The David Solomons Charitable Trust The D’Oyly Carte Charitable Trust Dunard Fund Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation The Fidelio Charitable Trust Foyle Foundation Garrick Charitable Trust The Leche Trust Lucille Graham Trust John Horniman’s Children’s Trust John Thaw Foundation The Idlewild Trust Kirby Laing Foundation The Marchus Trust Adam Mickiewicz Institute PRS Foundation The Radcliffe Trust Rivers Foundation The R K Charitable Trust Romanian Cultural Institute Rothschild Foundation RVW Trust Schroder Charity Trust Serge Rachmaninoff Foundation Sir William Boreman’s Foundation Souter Charitable Trust The Stanley Picker Trust The Thomas Deane Trust The Thriplow Charitable Trust The Vaughan Williams Charitable Trust The Victoria Wood Foundation The Viney Family The Barbara Whatmore Charitable Trust The William Alwyn Foundation

and all others who wish to remain anonymous.

The LPO would also like to acknowledge all those who have made donations to the Play On Appeal and who have supported the Orchestra during the COVID-19 pandemic.

London Philharmonic Orchestra • 6 February 2022 • Julia Fischer plays chamber music

London Philharmonic Orchestra Administration Board of Directors Victoria Robey OBE Chairman Martin Höhmann* President Dr Catherine C. Høgel Vice-Chairman Mark Vines* Vice-President Kate Birchall* David Buckley David Burke Bruno De Kegel Deborah Dolce Tanya Joseph Hugh Kluger* Al MacCuish Tania Mazzetti* Stewart McIlwham* Jamie Njoku-Goodwin Andrew Tusa Neil Westreich Simon Freakley (Ex officio – Chairman of the American Friends of the London Philharmonic Orchestra) *Player-Director

Advisory Council Martin Höhmann Chairman Christopher Aldren Dr Manon Antoniazzi Roger Barron Richard Brass Helen Brocklebank YolanDa Brown Simon Callow CBE Desmond Cecil CMG Sir Alan Collins KCVO CMG Andrew Davenport Guillaume Descottes Cameron Doley Christopher Fraser OBE Lord Hall of Birkenhead CBE Jonathan Harris CBE FRICS Marianna Hay MBE 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 QC Julian Simmonds Barry Smith

Finance

Martin Southgate Chris Viney Laurence Watt Elizabeth Winter

Frances Slack Finance Director Dayse Guilherme Finance Manager

General Administration

Jean-Paul Ramotar Finance and IT Officer

Elena Dubinets Artistic Director David Burke Chief Executive Chantelle Vircavs PA to the Executive

Education and Community Talia Lash Interim Education and Community Director

Concert Management

Rebecca Parslow Education and Community Project Manager

Roanna Gibson Concerts Director Graham Wood Concerts and Recordings Manager

Hannah Foakes Tilly Gugenheim Education and Community Project Co-ordinators

Fabio Sarlo Glyndebourne and Projects Manager

Development

Grace Ko Tours Manager

Laura Willis Development Director

Alison Jones Concerts and Recordings Co-ordinator

Scott Tucker Development Events Manager

Christina Perrin Concerts and Tours Assistant Matthew Freeman Recordings Consultant Andrew Chenery Orchestra Personnel Manager

Marketing Kath Trout Marketing and Communications Director Mairi Warren Marketing Manager Rachel Williams Publications Manager

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Greg Felton Digital Creative Kiera Lockard Marketing Assistant

Archives Philip Stuart Discographer Gillian Pole Recordings Archive

Professional Services Charles Russell Speechlys Solicitors Crowe Clark Whitehill LLP Auditors Dr Barry Grimaldi Honorary Doctor

Mr Simon Owen-Johnstone Hon. Orthopaedic Surgeon

Kirstin Peltonen Development Associate

Felix Lo Orchestra and Auditions Manager

Sophie Harvey Digital and Residencies Marketing Manager

Rosie Morden Individual Giving Manager

Nick Jackman Campaigns and Projects Director

Freddie Jackson Assistant Stage Manager

Ruth Knight Press and PR Manager

Mr Chris Aldren Honorary ENT Surgeon

Priya Radhakrishnan Georgia Wiltshire Development Assistants

Laura Kitson Stephen O’Flaherty Stage Managers

Gavin Miller Sales and Ticketing Manager

Stef Woodford Corporate Relations Manager

Anna Quillin Trusts and Foundations Manager

Sarah Thomas Martin Sargeson Librarians

Harrie Mayhew Website Manager

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 photo Felix Broede 2021/22 season identity JMG Studio Printer John Good Ltd