LPO concert programme: 9 Apr 2022 - Mitsuko Uchida plays Beethoven (Vladimir Jurowski, conductor)

2021/22 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 9 April 2022 | 7.30pm

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Mitsuko Uchida plays Beethoven Helmut Lachenmann Marche fatale (UK premiere) (8’) Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major, Op. 58 (34’) Interval (20’) Bruckner Symphony No. 6 (54’)

Vladimir Jurowski conductor Mitsuko Uchida piano This concert is dedicated to the memory of Christina Lang Assael.

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 2022/23 season In memory of Christina Lang Assael On stage tonight London Philharmonic Orchestra Leader: Pieter Schoeman Vladimir Jurowski Mitsuko Uchida Programme notes LPO Offstage podcast Recommended recordings Bruckner on the LPO Label Next concerts LPO Annual Appeal 2022 Sound Futures donors Thank you LPO administration

London Philharmonic Orchestra • 9 April 2022 • Mitsuko Uchida plays Beethoven

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Celebrating the Orchestra’s 90th season, we will perform some now-indispensable music written especially for the LPO, including Vaughan Williams’s Serenade to Music and Tippett’s A Child of Our Time. A focus on British composers sees performances of both symphonies by Elgar, music by Tippett and Thomas Adès, as well as four major works by Vaughan Williams in celebration of his 150th anniversary.

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The Orchestra’s commitment to everything new and creative includes world premieres of Mark Simpson’s Piano Concerto and Composer-in- Residence Brett Dean’s In spe contra spem, as well as the UK premiere of Heiner Goebbels’s immersive spectacle A House of Call.

We have also commissioned new works from a diverse range of composers from around the world including Agata Zubel, Elena Langer and Vijay Iyer.

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We are joined in these explorations by our Principal Conductor Edward Gardner, Principal Guest Conductor Karina Canellakis and Conductor Emeritus Vladimir Jurowski, plus, as always, world-renowned guest artists including Víkingur Ólafsson, Danielle de Niese, Miloš Karadaglić, Beatrice Rana, Randall Goosby, Gil Shaham, Leif Ove Andsnes and many others.

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2022/23 concert season at the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall

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London Philharmonic Orchestra • 9 April 2022 • Mitsuko Uchida plays Beethoven

In memory of Christina Lang Assael

Tonight’s performance is dedicated to the memory of Christina Lang Assael.

was truly extraordinary; her spontaneous generosity at this most challenging of times allowed us to keep the LPO together and face the difficulties of the last two years head on. We will always be grateful to Christina for this.

Alongside many important causes, including animal welfare and the environment, music and the arts held a special place in Christina’s heart . The Orchestra is grateful to have been a longstanding recipient not only of her exceptional generosity, but also the warmth of her friendship and her admiration for our musicians.

Between 2007 and 2010 Christina chaired the Board of the American Friends of the London Philharmonic Orchestra (AFLPO) and she continued to be actively involved in the AFLPO’s activities over the next decade.

She kindly hosted many special events for our friends and supporters in the USA and was a familiar and genial presence at our annual New York fundraising Galas.

In 2017 she established the LPO/Juilliard Conducting Fellowship to provide opportunities for talented conductors to work with the LPO, assisting the Principal Conductor. Our current Principal Guest Conductor, Karina Canellakis, was the first recipient of this Fellowship. More recently, Christina’s leadership support of the Orchestra at the outset of the pandemic

Christina Lang Assael was born and educated in Sweden. She lived briefly in London and Paris before moving to New York, where she enjoyed successful careers in modelling, television, and as a dealer and broker in fine arts and antiques. From 2011 until her untimely passing last December, she continued the work of her beloved late husband, Salvador Assael, running the pearl company that bears his name.

Christina was a great admirer of the performances of Vladimir Jurowski, whom she saw conduct many times in New York, in London and when joining us on tour around Europe. We, along with her family, have chosen tonight’s concert to remember Christina and celebrate her love of music and of the London Philharmonic Orchestra.

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On stage tonight First Violins

Pieter Schoeman* Leader

Chair supported by Neil Westreich

Vesselin Gellev Sub-Leader Kate Oswin

Chair supported by Friends of the Orchestra

Lasma Taimina

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

Minn Majoe Yang Zhang

Chair supported by Eric Tomsett

Thomas Eisner Sophie Phillips Katalin Varnagy

Chair supported by Sonja Drexler

Morane Cohen-Lamberger Martin Höhmann Chair supported by Chris Aldren

Amanda Smith Alice Apreda Howell Ricky Gore Catherine Craig Ronald Long

Second Violins

Tania Mazzetti Principal

Chair supported by Countess Dominique Loredan

Emma Oldfield Marie-Anne Mairesse Ashley Stevens Nynke Hijlkema Fiona Higham Chair supported by David & Yi Buckley

Nancy Elan Charlie MacClure Claudia Tarrant-Matthews Jessica Coleman Kate Birchall Jamie Hutchinson Harry Kerr Alison Strange Sioni Williams Nicole Stokes

Violas

David Quiggle Principal Richard Waters Co-Principal

Flutes

Trumpets

Piccolo

Trombones

Fiona Kelly Guest Principal Stewart McIlwham* Hannah Grayson Camilla Marchant

Chair supported by Caroline, Jamie & Zander Sharp

Ting-Ru Lai Benedetto Pollani Laura Vallejo Stanislav Popov Julia Kornig Martin Fenn Joseph Fisher Alistair Scahill Katharine Leek Elitsa Bogdanova

Stewart McIlwham* Principal

Oboes

Cellos

Kristina Blaumane Principal Chair supported by Bianca & Stuart Roden

Lee Tsarmaklis* Principal

Chair supported by Roger Greenwood

Paul Richards* Lewis Graham

Simon Carrington* Principal Chair supported by Victoria Robey OBE

Percussion

Karen Hutt Feargus Brennan Laura Bradford

Luke Whitehead

Horns

John Ryan* Principal Martin Hobbs Mark Vines Co-Principal Gareth Mollison Kristina Yumerska

Colin Paris Charlotte Kerbegian Sam Rice Cathy Colwell

Timpani

Chair supported by Sir Simon Robey

Contrabassoon

Chair supported by William & Alex de Winton

Tuba

Andrew Barclay* Principal

Gareth Newman Emma Harding Luke Whitehead

Sebastian Pennar Principal Hugh Kluger George Peniston Laura Murphy Tom Walley

Lyndon Meredith Principal

Bassoons

Jonathan Davies Principal

Double Basses

David Whitehouse

Clarinets Principal

Francis Bucknall David Lale Gregory Walmsley Susanna Riddell Helen Thomas Sibylle Hentschel Iain Ward Tamaki Sugimoto Ben Rogerson

Chair supported by William & Alex de Winton

Bass Trombone

Thomas Watmough

Chair supported by The Candide Trust

Mark Templeton* Principal

Ian Hardwick* Principal Alice Munday Katherine Bryer Eleanor Sullivan

Benjamin Mellefont

Pei-Jee Ng Co-Principal

Paul Beniston* Principal Anne McAneney* Kaitlin Wild Chris Evans

Chair supported by Gill & Garf Collins

Piano/Celeste

Catherine Edwards

Assistant Conductor Michael Coleby

* Holds a professorial appointment in London

The LPO also acknowledges the following chair supporter whose player is not present at this concert: Dr Barry Grimaldi

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London Philharmonic Orchestra

One of the finest orchestras on the international stage, the London Philharmonic Orchestra balances a long and distinguished history with its reputation as one of the UK’s most forward-looking ensembles. As well as its concert performances, the Orchestra also records film soundtracks, releases CDs and downloads on its own label, and reaches thousands of people every year through activities for families, schools and local communities.

the Orchestra takes up its annual residency at 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. In 1956 it became the first British orchestra to appear in Soviet Russia and in 1973 made the first ever visit to China by a Western orchestra.

The London Philharmonic Orchestra has recorded many blockbuster film scores, from The Lord of the Rings trilogy to Lawrence of Arabia, East is East, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey and Thor: The Dark World.

It also broadcasts regularly on television and radio, and in 2005 established its own record label. There are now over 100 releases available on CD and to download.

Recent highlights include Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 11 and Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 under Vladimir Jurowski; a commemorative box set of historic recordings with former Principal Conductor Sir Adrian Boult; and works by Richard Strauss under Klaus Tennstedt, featuring soprano Jessye Norman.

The 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.

Karina Canellakis is the Orchestra’s current Principal Guest Conductor and Brett Dean is the Orchestra’s current Composer-in-Residence.

In summer 2012 the London Philharmonic Orchestra performed as part of The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Pageant on the River Thames, and was also chosen to record all the world’s national anthems for the London 2012 Olympics. In 2013 it was the winner of the RPS Music Award for Ensemble.

The Orchestra is resident at the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall in London, where it gives around 40 concerts each season. It also enjoys flourishing residencies in Brighton, Eastbourne and Saffron Walden, and performs regularly around the UK. Each summer

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Pieter Schoeman

The London Philharmonic Orchestra is committed to inspiring the next generation of musicians, and recently celebrated the 30th anniversary of its Education and Community department, whose work over three decades has introduced so many people of all ages to orchestral music and created opportunities for people of all backgrounds to fulfil their creative potential.

Its dynamic and wide-ranging programme provides first musical experiences for 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 Orchestra’s work at the forefront of digital technology has enabled it to reach millions of people worldwide. 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.

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Leader

Pieter Schoeman was appointed Leader of the London Philharmonic Orchestra in 2008, having previously been Co-Leader since 2002. He is also a Professor of Violin at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music & Dance.

Pieter has performed worldwide as a soloist and recitalist in such famous halls as the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Moscow’s Rachmaninov Hall, Capella Hall in St Petersburg, Staatsbibliothek in Berlin, Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles and London’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, JeanGuihen Queyras, Yannick Nézet-Séguin and Martin Helmchen.

September 2021 saw the opening of a new live concert season at the Royal Festival Hall, featuring many of the world’s leading musicians including Sheku KannehMason, Klaus Mäkelä, Renée Fleming, Bryn Terfel and this season’s Artist-in-Residence, Julia Fischer.

The Orchestra is delighted to be continuing to offer digital streams to selected concerts throughout the season through its ongoing partnership with Intersection and Marquee TV.

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.

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Pieter has appeared as Guest Leader with the BBC, Barcelona, Bordeaux, Lyon and Baltimore symphony orchestras, and the Rotterdam and BBC Philharmonic orchestras.

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

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Vladimir Jurowski Conductor Emeritus, London Philharmonic Orchestra

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A committed operatic conductor, Vladimir’s recent highlights include semi-staged performances of Wagner’s Das Rheingold, Die Walküre and Siegfried with the London Philharmonic Orchestra at the Royal Festival Hall; Strauss’s Die Frau ohne Schatten in Berlin and Bucharest with the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra; Wozzeck, Der Rosenkavalier and Prokofiev’s The Fiery Angel at the Bavarian State Opera; Henze’s The Bassarids and Schoenberg’s Moses und Aron at the Komische Oper Berlin; his acclaimed debut at the Salzburg Festival with Wozzeck; and his first return to Glyndebourne as a guest conductor, in the world premiere production of Brett Dean’s Hamlet with the LPO. He has conducted Parsifal at Welsh National Opera, War and Peace at the Opera National de Paris, Eugene Onegin at the Teatro alla Scala Milan, Ruslan and Ludmila at the Bolshoi Theatre, and Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta and Penderecki’s Der Teufel von Loudon at the Semperoper Dresden, as well as Die Zauberflöte, La Cenerentola, Otello, Macbeth, Falstaff, Tristan und Isolde, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Don Giovanni, The Rake’s Progress, The Cunning Little Vixen, Ariadne auf Naxos and Peter Eötvös’s Love and Other Demons at Glyndebourne Festival Opera.

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

In the 2021/22 season Jurowski returns to the Staatskapelle Dresden; conducts new productions of Shostakovich’s The Nose and Penderecki’s Die Teufel von Loudun at the Bavarian State Opera; and showcases a wealth of symphonic repertoire from Mozart, Liszt, Enescu and Elgar to Suk, Britten, Marko Nikodijevic and Elena Firsova, with particular focuses on Stravinsky, Prokofiev and Bruckner with the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, and Shostakovich and Mahler with the Bavarian State Orchestra.

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

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

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

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Mitsuko Uchida piano

Cleveland Orchestra won the Gramophone Award for Best Concerto.

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A founding member of the Borletti-Buitoni Trust and Director of Marlboro Music Festival, Mitsuko Uchida is a recipient of the Golden Mozart Medal from the Salzburg Mozarteum, and the Praemium Imperiale from the Japan Art Association. She has also been awarded the Gold Medal of the Royal Philharmonic Society and the Wigmore Hall Medal, and holds Honorary Degrees from the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge. In 2009 she was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire.

One of the most revered artists of our time, Mitsuko Uchida is known as a peerless interpreter of the works of Mozart, Schubert, Schumann and Beethoven, as well for being a devotee of the piano music of Alban Berg, Arnold Schoenberg, Anton Webern and György Kurtág.

She has enjoyed close relationships over many years with the world’s most renowned orchestras, including the London Philharmonic Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Berlin Philharmonic, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Bavarian Radio Symphony, and – in the US – the Chicago Symphony and the Cleveland Orchestra, with whom she recently celebrated her 100th performance at Severance Hall. Conductors with whom she has worked closely have included Bernard Haitink, Sir Simon Rattle, Riccardo Muti, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Vladimir Jurowski, Andris Nelsons, Gustavo Dudamel and Mariss Jansons.

Since 2016 Mitsuko Uchida has been an Artistic Partner of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, with whom she is currently engaged on a multi-season touring project in Europe, Japan and North America. She also appears regularly in recital in Vienna, Berlin, Paris, Amsterdam, London, New York and Tokyo, and is a frequent guest at the Salzburg Mozartwoche and Salzburg Festival.

Mitsuko Uchida records exclusively for Decca, and her multi-award-winning discography includes the complete Mozart and Schubert piano sonatas. She is the recipient of two Grammy Awards – for Mozart Concertos with the Cleveland Orchestra, and for an album of Lieder with Dorothea Röschmann – and her recording of the Schoenberg Piano Concerto with Pierre Boulez and the

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Programme notes Helmut Lachenmann born 1935

Marche fatale 2018 (UK premiere)

beauty and transcendence in extraordinary and unconventional ways. ‘You hear the conditions under which a sound- or noise-action is carried out’, he explains; ‘You hear what materials and energies are involved and what resistance is encountered.’

When first encountering the opening bars of Marche fatale, with all of the above in mind, you could be forgiven for thinking you are hearing another composer altogether. This is not small, intricate, unconventional music. On the contrary, it is just about as conventional as one can get. It is cartoon music: an overly joyful march full of whizzes and slides, whistles and bells, snorting brass and cymbal crashes. Lachenmann tears into one over-stylised trope after another. Were it not designed to be performed ever-so-slightly off-kilter, ever-so-slightly unhinged, you might think you had landed in the middle of an animated film score from the 1940s.

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But it is precisely those barely-there moments of disturbance, that slight frisson of disorder, that gives the game away, reassuring us that this is satire. ‘The key term is “banality”,’ Lachenmann writes. ‘As creators we despise it, we try to avoid it – though we are not safe from the cheap banal even within new aesthetic achievements.’ When the work closes with an excessively long, sustained crash on the tam-tam, it is as though the rest of the piece comes zooming back into focus, as though the spell has been broken. Suddenly we can see afresh how trivial it all really is. Where is the march taking us, after all? Are we marching towards some sunny horizon? Or down into a darkening gloom?

Marche fatale is, in Lachenmann’s words, ‘a recourse to those empty phrases to which modern civilisation still clings in its daily “utility” music … Eventually I resolved to take the “absurd” seriously – perhaps bitterly seriously – as a debunking emblem of our civilisation that is standing on the brink.’

For those unfamiliar with Helmut Lachenmann’s music, it is difficult to convey just how much Marche fatale sees him composing against type. Lachenmann is the grandfather of serious music and the self-appointed advocate of musique concrète instrumentale – music that revels in found sounds, incidental sounds, pitch-free, accidental sounds. His scores delve into the moments that we typically gloss over: the brush of bow-hair on a string, the strike of a fingernail on a soundboard, the intake of breath before a note is blown.

These are the intricate, minute details that make up the vast majority of Lachenmann’s scores, works which find

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Programme notes Ludwig van Beethoven 1770–1827

Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major, Op. 58 1805–06 Mitsuko Uchida piano 1 Allegro moderato 2 Andante con moto 3 Rondo (Vivace)

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Rather than a gradually diminishing ability to perceive sound, Beethoven was plagued by an intense form of tinnitus, in which a loud ringing in his ears obscured all external sounds. The affliction began as early as his mid-twenties, and over time began to manifest itself as deafness. Although the effects were erratic and varied from day to day, by 1816 Beethoven was left with almost no hearing at all. While he continued to compose prolifically throughout these years, his hearing problems had other implications for performances of his works.

Although he himself had given the premieres of his first three piano concertos, by the time the fourth concerto came to be premiered his hearing had worsened to such an extent that he was forced to seek out an alternative soloist. Despite asking a number of renowned pianists to perform the work, each of them refused and, left with little choice, Beethoven was forced to give the work’s premiere himself: first in a private concert to his patron Prince Lobkowitz in March 1807, and later in its public premiere in Vienna in December 1808.

In fact, the 1808 concert proved to be one of the most memorable of Beethoven’s life: not only was it Beethoven’s last appearance as a soloist in public, the four-hour long concert also saw the premieres of his Symphonies Nos. 5 and 6, the Fantasia in C minor for piano, orchestra and chorus, the aria Ah! Perfido, the Fantasia in G minor for solo piano, and two sections of the Mass in C minor. Despite the promising programme, however, it was not a particularly happy occasion: the

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Programme notes music was greatly under-rehearsed, the hall itself cold and uncomfortable, and Beethoven’s own performance was, according to reports, close to a shambles. This undoubtedly did little to endear the audience to Beethoven’s grand new works.

sets the tone for the Concerto which, although at times vibrant and dramatic, is governed by a sense of calm and tranquillity. The pervading dolce tones of the first movement are broken at the opening of the slow movement, however, by gruff, accented outbursts from the strings, who begin to initiate a musical argument.

Yet these interruptions are met by a calm response from the soloist, who, through a dramatic dialogue over the course of the movement, gradually pacifies the strings and hushes them into submission. Their compliance is rewarded in the finale, with a huge release of energy and a sparkling duet for soloist and orchestra that brings the work to a witty conclusion.

Indeed, although today it is celebrated as a turning-point in Beethoven’s concerto writing, listeners at the premiere of the Fourth Piano Concerto found its innovative structure and radical departure from traditional techniques somewhat alienating. In an unusual structural twist, the Concerto breaks with the tradition of orchestral introductions and opens with a pulsating melody for solo piano. This lyrical opening

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Programme notes Anton Bruckner 1824–96

Symphony No. 6 in A major 1881

1 Majestoso 2 Adagio: Sehr feierlich 3 Scherzo: Nicht schnell — Trio: Langsam 4 Finale: Bewegt, doch nicht zu schnell For this performance Vladimir Jurowski has chosen to use the Benjamin-Gunnar Cohrs Urtext edition of the score.

Bruckner’s Sixth Symphony is the odd one out. It is the one that does not meet our expectations, the one that is defined in terms of what it is not. It is not as long as any of the others, nor as grand and spacious, and it is not a ‘symphonic boa constrictor’, as Brahms so unflatteringly called the rest of Bruckner’s symphonic output. On the contrary, it is light, lithe and fleet of foot, richly orchestrated and exquisitely detailed, a work packed with contrasts that flies in the face of those who would castigate Bruckner for composing turgid, excessive monoliths. So it is all the more surprising that the Sixth appears to have become, by default, the least popular of all his nine numbered symphonies.

Bruckner had a point to prove with the Sixth. In 1877, four years after he completed his first version of the score, Bruckner’s Third Symphony was finally given its Viennese premiere. It was a disaster. The conductor, Johann von Herbeck, died just a few weeks before the performance, leaving an ill-equipped Bruckner to step in and make a hash of conducting his new symphony.

The hall, which had been packed, gradually emptied until only a handful of Bruckner’s die-hard supporters remained. It was an embarrassment from which it would take him a full year to recover.

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Programme notes Recommended recordings of tonight’s works

But a year later (and with his Fourth and Fifth Symphonies already written, though still unperformed), Bruckner summoned up the courage to begin work on his Sixth. The main complaint of the Third, as Eduard Hanslick had written in his scathing review, was ‘that we have not understood his gigantic symphony’, so Bruckner went small. The Sixth is still close to an hour long but its symphonic structures are expedited and compressed, nothing is extraneous, nothing sags.

by Laurie Watt Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4 Mitsuko Uchida | Berlin Philharmonic Simon Rattle (Berlin Philharmonic Label) Bruckner: Symphony No. 6 London Philharmonic Orchestra | Christoph Eschenbach (LPO Label LPO-0049: see opposite)

Instead of a slow, shimmering introduction, building his architecture brick by brick to create a vast cavern or ‘cathedral of sound’ (as Bruckner’s symphonies are so often characterised), the Sixth simply starts. Bristling violins give rise to the first fragments of a dark cello theme, then a bright horn-call and, before you know it, we are off – with trumpets blazing and the full orchestra in unison. It is highly charged and full of dynamism: this is to be a battle between darkness and light, and Brucker knows exactly where he wants to go.

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The searing Adagio that follows has the same pressing sense of conviction. This is not a space for contemplation and pause, but an impassioned journey through dark hollows and bright vistas, each climax more radiant than the last. It is the Scherzo, though, that crystallises the theme of this Symphony, and its determination to shed the dark clouds that threaten to blot out its sunny demeanour. (Is it too far-fetched to think that Bruckner was trying to outrun his critics?)

The Scherzo is fragmented and restless; for every melodic idea he gives us in a major key, Bruckner gives us another in the minor, almost too many to count.

A triumphant brass fanfare seems to claim victory but the eerie Trio that follows, with its bizarre alternation of pizzicato strings and horn-calls, leaves us none the wiser. Ultimately, the Finale becomes a battle of wills, of darkness against light, and who can really say for sure who is the victor? Perhaps this is why Bruckner’s Sixth has remained so unloved, for Bruckner leaves the answer ambiguous. This heroic, dynamic Symphony does not lead us to the conclusion we all expect; there is no Beethovenian moment of apotheosis. The conclusion is more nuanced, more subtle, it rewards attentive and repeated listening, and that may be Bruckner’s greatest achievement of all.

Programme notes © Jo Kirkbride

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Bruckner’s Symphony No. 6 on the LPO Label Bruckner: Symphony No. 6 Christoph Eschenbach conductor London Philharmonic Orchestra £9.99 | LPO-0049 Recorded live at Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall on 4 November 2009

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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 QC Diana & Allan Morgenthau Charitable Trust Dr Karen Morton Mr Roger Phillimore Ruth Rattenbury The Reed Foundation The Rind Foundation Sir Bernard Rix

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David Ross & Line Forestier (Canada) 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 Mrs Christina Lang Assael In memory of Mrs Rita Reay Sir Simon & Lady Robey OBE

Orchestra Circle

The Candide Trust William & Alex de Winton Aud Jebsen Mr & Mrs Philip Kan Neil Westreich The American Friends of the London Philharmonic Orchestra

Principal Associates An anonymous donor Richard Buxton Gill & Garf Collins In memory of Brenda Lyndoe Casbon In memory of Ann Marguerite Collins Hamish & Sophie Forsyth The Tsukanov Family

Associates

Anonymous donors Mrs Irina Andreeva In memory of Len & Edna Beech Steven M. Berzin Ms Veronika BorovikKhilchevskaya Irina Gofman & Mr Rodrik V. G. Cave The Lambert Family Charitable Trust Countess Dominique Loredan Mr & Mrs Makharinsky George Ramishvili Stuart & Bianca Roden Julian & Gill Simmonds In memory of Hazel Amy Smith Deanie & Jay Stein

Gold Patrons

An anonymous donor Chris Aldren David & Yi Buckley David Burke & Valerie Graham David & Elizabeth Challen

In memory of Allner Mavis Channing Sonja Drexler The Vernon Ellis Foundation Peter & Fiona Espenhahn Marie-Laure Favre-Gilly de Varennes de Beuill Mr Roger Greenwood Malcolm Herring John & Angela Kessler Dame Theresa Sackler Scott & Kathleen Simpson Eric Tomsett Andrew & Rosemary Tusa The Viney Family Guy & Utti Whittaker

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

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 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 Joe Topley Tony & Hilary Vines Mr & Mrs John C Tucker Mr & Mrs John & Susi Underwood Marina Vaizey Jenny Watson CBE Mr John Weekes Christopher Williams

Principal Supporters

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

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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 Miss Yousun Chae 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 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 Mari Payne Mr David Peters Nadya Powell Ms Caroline Priday Mr Richard Rolls Mr Richard Rowland Mr & Mrs Alan Senior Tom Sharpe Mr Kenneth Shaw

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Thank you

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

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Thomas Beecham Group Members 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

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

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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 Scops Arts 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.

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Board of the American Friends of the LPO 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 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 Co-Chair Martin Höhmann Co-Chair Mrs Irina Andreeva (Russia) 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)

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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 Elena Dubinets 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 Martin Southgate Chris Viney Laurence Watt Elizabeth Winter

Finance

General Administration

Jean-Paul Ramotar Finance and IT Officer

Frances Slack Finance Director Dayse Guilherme Finance Manager

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

Hannah Foakes Tilly Gugenheim Education and Community Project Co-ordinators

Graham Wood Concerts and Recordings Manager Fabio Sarlo Glyndebourne and Projects Manager

Development Laura Willis Development Director

Grace Ko Tours Manager

Scott Tucker Development Events Manager

Alison Jones Concerts and Recordings Co-ordinator Matthew Freeman Recordings Consultant Andrew Chenery Orchestra Personnel Manager

Felix Lo Orchestra and Auditions Manager

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

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

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Sophie Harvey Digital and Residencies Marketing Manager

Rosie Morden Individual Giving Manager

Nick Jackman Campaigns and Projects Director

Freddie Jackson Assistant Stage Manager

Ruth Haines (née 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

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