LPO programme: 9 Feb 2024 - Oksana Lyniv conducts Dvořák

2023/24 concert season at the Southbank Centre

Free concert programme

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

Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall Friday 9 February 2024 | 7.30pm

Oksana Lyniv conducts Dvořák Janáček Suite, The Cunning Little Vixen (22’) Victoria Vita Polevá The Bell – Symphony No. 4 for cello and orchestra* (UK premiere) (23’) Interval (20’) Dvořák Symphony No. 8 (36’) Oksana Lyniv conductor Inbal Segev cello *Co-commissioned by the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Dallas Symphony Orchestra.

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

Concert presented by the London Philharmonic Orchestra

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Welcome LPO news 3 On stage tonight 4 London Philharmonic Orchestra 6 Oksana Lyniv 7 Inbal Segev 8 LPO Player Appeal 2023/24 9 Programme notes 14 Recommended recordings 15 Next concerts 16 The Music in You: 2–16 March 2024 17 Sound Futures donors 18 Thank you 20 LPO administration

London Philharmonic Orchestra • 9 February 2024 • Oksana Lyniv conducts Dvořák

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London Philharmonic Orchestra • 9 February 2024 • Oksana Lyniv conducts Dvořák

On stage tonight First Violins

Alice Ivy-Pemberton Leader Vesselin Gellev Sub-Leader Kate Oswin Chair supported by Eric Tomsett

Minn Majoe Thomas Eisner Katalin Varnagy

Chair supported by Sonja Drexler

Yang Zhang Elizaveta Tyun Jamie Hutchinson Rasa Zukauskaite Nilufar Alimaksumova Chu-Yu Yang Eleanor Bartlett Caroline Heard Alice Hall Alison Strange

Second Violins

Tania Mazzetti Principal Emma Oldfield Co-Principal Kate Birchall Nancy Elan Fiona Higham Chair supported by David & Yi Buckley

Nynke Hijlkema Joseph Maher Marie-Anne Mairesse Ashley Stevens Sioni Williams Lyrit Milgram Jessica Coleman José Nuno Cabrita Matias Rebecca Dinning

Violas

Fiona Winning

Guest Principal

Martin Wray Benedetto Pollani Laura Vallejo Lucia Ortiz Sauco James Heron Shiry Rashkovsky Daniel Cornford Alistair Scahill Linda Kidwell Julia Doukakis Anita Kurowska

E-flat Clarinet

Cellos

Thomas Watmough

Benjamin Hughes

Principal

Guest Principal

David Lale Sue Sutherley Helen Thomas Sibylle Hentschel Hee Yeon Cho Colin Alexander George Hoult Pedro Silva

Bass Clarinet

Percussion

Jonathan Davies* Principal Chair supported by Sir Simon Robey

Kevin Rundell* Principal Sebastian Pennar

Emma Harding Simon Estell*

Hugh Kluger George Peniston Tom Walley

Contrabassoon

Simon Estell* Principal

Chair supported by William & Alex de Winton

Horns

Laura Murphy Charlotte Kerbegian Sam Rice

Juliette Bausor Principal Clare Childs Stewart McIlwham* Katherine Bicknell

Andrew Barclay* Principal

Chair supported by Gill & Garf Collins

Karen Hutt

Chair supported by Mr B C Fairhall

Feargus Brennan Emmanuel Joste

Harp

Rachel Masters Principal

Piano

Catherine Edwards

John Ryan* Principal Annemarie Federle

Celeste

Martin Hobbs Mark Vines Co-Principal Gareth Mollison

*Professor at a London conservatoire

Principal

Flutes

Principal

Chair supported by Victoria Robey CBE

Bassoons

Co-Principal

Simon Carrington*

Chair supported by Roger Greenwood

Paul Richards* Principal

Double Basses

Timpani

Fionnuala Ward

Trumpets

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

Piccolos

Stewart McIlwham*

Piccolo Trumpet

Principal

Katherine Bicknell

Paul Beniston*

Oboes

Trombones

Ian Hardwick* Principal Alice Munday

Mark Templeton* Principal Chair supported by William & Alex de Winton

David Whitehouse

Cor Anglais

Sue Böhling* Principal

Bass Trombone

Chair supported by Dr Barry Grimaldi

Lyndon Meredith Principal

Clarinets

Tuba

Benjamin Mellefont*

Lee Tsarmaklis* Principal

Principal

Thomas Watmough

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The LPO also acknowledges the following chair supporters whose players are not present at this concert: Friends of the Orchestra Irina Gofman & Mr Rodrik V. G. Cave Bianca & Stuart Roden Caroline, Jamie & Zander Sharp Neil Westreich

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London Philharmonic Orchestra • 9 February 2024 • Oksana Lyniv conducts Dvořák

Alice Ivy-Pemberton Leader

Next generations There’s nothing we love more than seeing the joy of children and families enjoying their first musical moments, and we’re passionate about equipping schools and teachers through schools’ concerts, resources and training. Reflecting our values of collaboration and inclusivity, our OrchLab and Open Sound Ensemble projects offer music-making opportunities for adults and young people with special educational needs and disabilities.

Our LPO Junior Artists programme is leading the way in creating pathways into the profession for young artists from under-represented communities, and our LPO Young Composers and Foyle Future Firsts schemes support the next generation of professional musicians, bridging the transition from education to professional careers. We also recently launched the LPO Conducting Fellowship, supporting the development of outstanding early-career conductors from backgrounds currently under-represented in the profession.

Alice Ivy-Pemberton joined the London Philharmonic Orchestra as Co-Leader in February 2023.

Praised by The New York Times for her ‘sweet-toned playing’, Alice has performed as a soloist, chamber and orchestral musician to international acclaim. While growing up in New York City and studying with Nurit Pacht, Alice made a nationally televised Carnegie Hall debut aged ten, and was a finalist at the Menuhin International Competition at the age of 12.

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

Alice earned her Bachelors and Masters degrees at The Juilliard School under the tutelage of Itzhak Perlman and Catherine Cho as a fully-funded recipient of the Kovner Fellowship. During her studies she won Juilliard’s Violin Concerto Competition, performed extensively with the New York Philharmonic and The Philadelphia Orchestra, and led orchestras under the baton of Barbara Hannigan, Xian Zhang and Matthias Pintscher.

Upon graduating in 2022 she was awarded the Polisi Prize and a Benzaquen Career Advancement Grant in recognition of ‘tremendous talent, promise, creativity, and potential to make a significant impact in the performing arts’.

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

An avid chamber musician, Alice has collaborated with Itzhak Perlman, Anthony Marwood, Gil Shaham and members of the Belcea, Doric, Juilliard and Brentano string quartets, and performed with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. Festival appearances include Music@Menlo, Moritzburg and Yellow Barn. Also a passionate advocate for new music and its social relevance, Alice created Drowning Monuments, a noted multimedia project on climate change that brought together five world premieres for solo violin.

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London Philharmonic Orchestra • 9 February 2024 • Oksana Lyniv conducts Dvořák

Oksana Lyniv conductor

SWR Symphony Orchestra, Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra, Bruckner Orchestra Linz, Düsseldorf Symphony Orchestra, Graz Philharmonic, and Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano.

Oksana Lyniv first gained international attention as a finalist in the 2004 Gustav Mahler International Conducting Competition, winning third prize. In the following years she continued her studies at the Dresden University of Music, and from 2008–13 served as deputy chief conductor at the National Opera in Odesa, Ukraine. From 2013–17 she was assistant to General Music Director Kirill Petrenko at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, and from 2017–20 she served as chief conductor of the Graz Opera and the Graz Philharmonic.

In 2014 Oksana made her debut on the European stage at the Bavarian State Opera with Mozart’s La clemenza di Tito. Following this success, she conducted further revivals of works such as Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor, Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos and Shostakovich’s Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, as well as new productions including Britten’s Albert Herring and Boris Blacher’s The Deluge.

Oksana Lyniv has been Music Director of the Teatro Comunale di Bologna since 2022, making her the first female chief conductor of an Italian opera house.

She also made history as the first female conductor in the history of the Bayreuth Festival, opening the 2021 Festival with Wagner’s The Flying Dutchman. Other significant achievements include performances at the Bavarian State Opera, Berlin State Opera, Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Opéra National de Paris, Oper Frankfurt, Gran Teatre del Liceu Barcelona, Theater an der Wien, and Stuttgart State Opera.

Parallel to her conducting career, Oksana is passionately committed to the promotion of classical music in Ukraine, playing a significant role as one of the outstanding personalities in the cultural landscape of her homeland. She is also dedicated to nurturing young musical talent, and is the founder and chief conductor of the Youth Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine/YsOU. In 2022, after the outbreak of the war in Ukraine, she co-initiated the ‘Music for the Future’ project: an evacuation music camp for young Ukrainian musicians in Ljubljana, Slovenia. She continues to passionately advocate for the performance of Ukrainian composers’ music on the international stage.

Tonight’s concert is Oksana Lyniv’s debut with the London Philharmonic Orchestra. Other highlights this season include her debut at the Metropolitan Opera with Puccini’s Turandot; her symphonic debut in Seoul with the Korean National Orchestra; and her Canadian debut with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. This season she also makes debuts with the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg and Israel Philharmonic Orchestra.

Oksana Lyniv has been awarded several international titles and prizes, including the Festival Prize of the Bavarian State Opera in 2015, and a prestigious TREBBIA International Award (Czech Republic) in 2019.

In 2020 she received the Opera Award for Conductor of the Year. In 2021, she was honoured with the Ukrainian Order of Princess Olga, and in 2023 she received the special Opera Award for Outstanding Commitment.

In November 2023 Oksana returned to the Boulez Ensemble in Berlin, and led a successful Japanese tour of Tosca with the Teatro Comunale di Bologna.

In August 2024 she will return for her fourth season of The Flying Dutchman at the Bayreuth Festival.

As a guest conductor, Oksana collaborates with numerous world-leading orchestras, including the Philharmonia Orchestra, Munich Philharmonic, Vienna Symphony, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, DSO Berlin, Staatskapelle Berlin, Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra,

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Inbal Segev cello

opening movement was named among NPR Music’s ‘Favourite Songs of 2020’, receiving more than five million listens on Spotify.

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Inbal Segev has also brought to life a host of other new works. It was she who gave the world premiere of Timo Andres’s concerto Upstate Obscura in 2018; premiered Dan Visconti’s Cello Concerto with the California Symphony in 2017; commissioned and premiered Gity Razaz’s Legend of Sigh in 2015; premiered and recorded Lucas Richman’s Declaration with the Pittsburgh Symphony (2015); co-commissioned and premiered Avner Dorman’s Cello Concerto with the Anchorage Symphony (2012); and commissioned and premiered Paola Prestini’s Oceano in 2002. She also gave the overdue US premiere of Sir Arthur Sullivan’s long-lost, posthumously reconstructed Cello Concerto, and joined the Albany Symphony for the first performance of Christopher Rouse’s Violoncello Concerto since its premiere 24 years earlier by Yo-Yo Ma.

Inbal Segev is ‘a cellist with something to say’ (Gramophone). Combining ‘thrillingly projected, vibrato-rich playing’ (Washington Post) with ‘complete dedication and high intelligence’ (San Francisco Classical Voice), she makes solo appearances at leading international venues and with preeminent orchestras and conductors worldwide. Celebrated for her fresh insights into music’s great masterworks, the Israeli American cellist is equally committed to reinvigorating the cello repertoire, and has commissioned and premiered major new works from an international ‘Who’s Who’ of today’s foremost composers.

A prodigy who first played for the Israeli president at just eight years old, Inbal Segev came to international attention ten years later when she made concerto debuts with both the Berlin Philharmonic and Israel Philharmonic under the baton of Zubin Mehta. Since then she has appeared as soloist with such leading orchestras as the Orchestre National de Lyon, Dortmund Philharmonic, Pittsburgh Symphony, Baltimore Symphony and St Louis Symphony, collaborating with conductors including Marin Alsop, Stéphane Denève, Lorin Maazel, Cristian Măcelaru and Zubin Mehta. She co-curated the Baltimore Symphony’s New Music Festival from its inception in 2017.

Inbal made her London Philharmonic Orchestra debut in October 2022, when she gave the world premiere of Vijay Iyer’s cello concerto Human Archipelago at the Royal Festival Hall under Edward Gardner, which was followed by a late-night post-concert performance on the Clore Ballroom with Iyer and LPO musicians.

As well as holding regular live-streamed masterclasses and Q&A sessions on the CelloBello online resource centre, Inbal features in a dedicated episode of ‘The Musical Life’ podcast. Available on her YouTube channel, the cellist’s popular masterclass series, ‘Musings with Inbal Segev’, has thousands of subscribers and almost two million views to date.

Inbal Segev is personally responsible for commissioning, premiering, recording and championing new works by important composers from the US, Israel and beyond.

In 2020 she launched the ‘20 for 2020’ project, commissioning new chamber works from 20 composers including John Luther Adams, Viet Cuong and Angélica Negrón, for a music video series and four-volume Avie Records set. Other recent projects include Anna Clyne’s concerto DANCE, which Inbal co-commissioned and premiered under Cristian Măcelaru at the 2019 Cabrillo Festival, before recording the work alongside Elgar’s iconic concerto with Marin Alsop and the London Philharmonic Orchestra. Released by Avie, the album was an instant success, topping the Amazon Classical Concertos chart and inspiring glowing praise from The Guardian, BBC Radio 3 and other outlets; DANCE’s

A native of Israel, Inbal Segev began playing the cello aged five. At 16 she was invited by Isaac Stern to the US, where she continued her cello studies with Aldo Parisot, Joel Krosnick, Harvey Shapiro and Bernard Greenhouse, earning degrees from Yale University and The Juilliard School. Today she lives in New York City with her husband, their three teenage children and her cellos, made by Francesco Ruggieri (1673) and Carl Becker & Son (1958).

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Programme notes Leoš Janáček 1854–1928

Suite, The Cunning Little Vixen (ed. Mackerras) 1924/2006

1 Andante 2 Andante As musical nationalism swept through Europe in the 18th and 19th centuries, a number of composers emerged in what is now the Czech Republic who sought to reflect the accent of their homeland in music.

Leoš Janáček was among them, but he was different.

He was a realist. While the likes of Dvořák and Suk were city sophisticates, Janáček – like that other great realist Béla Bartók – was born into a rural peasant family.

Introduction to this edition

by Sir Charles Mackerras The Suite is based entirely on music from Act One. This Act is largely balletic, in which one can almost see all the animals and insects, as well as the capture of the Vixen by the Forester and her escape.

That, in part, holds the key to unlocking Janáček’s very individual music. While most nationalist composers sought to ennoble the tradition of folk music by placing it in classical forms, Janáček turned the process on its head by taking vernacular music as his starting point.

He explored a style of writing that matched the rhythms of Czech speech and captured the raw, unclean nature of peasant life and art. And it wasn’t just human voices that Janáček sought to imitate. Later in life the composer owned a large stretch of forest in his native village near the Carpathian mountains. There, he’d listen to and ‘transcribe’ the songs and protestations of the animals. This raw inspiration found a home in his 1924 opera telling of a vixen possessed of human attributes; a tale of nature’s endless cycle of life and death as seen by three human protagonists.

Up until now the Suite has always been played in an orchestration by Václav Talich, who, as much as I revered him, did rather odd things with it. During his Directorship of the National Theatre in Prague, he had said that he could not possibly perform Vixen there unless it was entirely re-orchestrated.

He engaged two people to do so, which today seems incredible because the orchestration of the opera is one of Janácek’s most colourful and original. Talich’s re-orchestration of the Suite has become standard and, beautiful as it sounds, it rather emasculates the very acid sounds produced for the insects and the contrasts that Janácek achieves with his orchestration, which is strange but certainly not amateurish. I think that everybody has to agree that Janácek’s original orchestration of these passages sounds more characteristic.

In this Suite, music from the opera’s first act is seamlessly woven together: most of the overture, the ensuing passage in which Bystrouška (the Vixen) is caught (a picture of a bright, sunlit forest afternoon), the orchestral introduction to the second scene, and the whole of the act’s closing scene (in which the Vixen slaughters the hens one-by-one, wringing their necks).

Talich’s and my Suite contains the same music, simply being Act One played from beginning to end with certain small cuts. The difference is that I adhere to Janácek’s original orchestration.

Sir Charles Mackerras, 2006 Reprinted by permission of Universal Edition A.G. Wien

Programme note © Andrew Mellor

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London Philharmonic Orchestra • 9 February 2024 • Oksana Lyniv conducts Dvořák

Programme notes Victoria Vita Polevá born 1962

The Bell: Symphony No. 4 for cello and orchestra 2023 (UK premiere) Inbal Segev cello

secular. Since the late 1990s, her compositions have been loosely associated with the so-called ‘holy minimalism’ style, whose most famous proponents include the Estonian composer Arvo Pärt and the Polish composer Henryk Górecki. Although the genre tag is too hotly contested to be called a school, and most artists (understandably) resist being pigeonholed, ‘holy minimalism’ is helpful shorthand for music that references medieval and Renaissance modes and forms, especially the liturgical melodies of the Eastern Orthodox Church, which are often sung a cappella.

Indeed, much of Polevá’s output reflects a deep and scholarly passion for divine texts and their multivalent interpretations.

But her work is too wide-ranging and topical for any single concept or category. In 2009 her Ode to Joy (for soloists, mixed choir and orchestra) was featured at an international concert marking the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Her 1994 ballet Gagaku was performed in 2012 by the Japanese butoh dancer Tadashi Endo. She has collaborated with the Latvian violinist and artistic director Gidon Kremer, as well as chamber music mainstays the Kronos Quartet. Along with devotional texts, she has found inspiration in folk songs and John Donne poems, in William Blake and William Shakespeare. But as she reveals in The Bell, her new Symphony No. 4 for cello and orchestra, Polevá is also moved to create by the urgency of the present moment. The Bell was co-commissioned by the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Dallas Symphony Orchestra, and was given its world premiere on 9 November 2023 by Inbal Segev and the Dallas Symphony Orchestra under Kirill Karabits, at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas, Texas, USA.

The daughter of composer Valery Polevoy (1927–1986), Victoria Vita Polevá was born in Kyiv, Ukraine. She studied composition with Ivan Karabits at the Kyiv Conservatory; after graduating in 1989, she remained at the conservatory another six years to complete her postgraduate degrees under the direction of Levko Kolodub. She taught composition at her alma mater from 1995–05. Her work has been performed all over the world, and she has received many major awards and prizes in her native Ukraine and internationally.

On 18 March 2022, the London Philharmonic Orchestra under Andrey Boreyko gave the UK premiere of her work Nova at the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall.

From the beginning of her career, Polevá has remained firmly committed to radically inclusive forms of avantgarde expression. Her voluminous catalogue covers most, if not all, of the major musical categories – symphonic, choral, chamber, opera, ballet, sacred,

Programme note © René Spencer Saller. This note was originally published by the Dallas Symphony Orchestra.

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London Philharmonic Orchestra • 9 February 2024 • Oksana Lyniv conducts Dvořák

Programme notes Victoria Vita Polevá on ‘The Bell’ For me, the idea of this music comes from the Latin bellum, which means ‘war’.

A work written during the war and by the war. A bell announcing war, a funeral bell, a victory bell … It is also associated with the name of the cellist who will be the first performer (the name Inbal Segev means ‘tongue of the bell’).

But the most important thing I wanted was to reflect what happens in space after the most powerful bell chime. This is the phenomenon of the subtlest echo, an angelic choir that sounds either in the air or in the subconscious when the bell sound ends. The sound space that I wanted to recreate was the area of operation of Bat-Kol (Hebrew Bath-Kol, which literally means ‘daughter of the voice’). ‘Some argue that the bat-kol is an echo, others that it is a hum echoing in the air from the movement of the universe. Bat-kol absorbs human voices and all other sounds of the world, even those that our ears are not able to hear...’ This most tender sound carries meanings that everyone needs in the most difficult times. The only thing a person can do is trust them.

The symphony is dedicated to [LPO Artistic Director] Elena Dubinets, thanks to whom I felt real creative support over the last terrible year.

Victoria Vita Polevá, November 2023

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

Watch ‘The Bell’ on YouTube

in support of Direct Relief’s mission to deliver medical supplies to Ukraine The Dallas Symphony Orchestra recently released a recording of their November 2023 performance of Victoria Vita Polevá’s ‘The Bell’ with soloist Inbal Segev.

While the recording is free to view, the DSO hopes that able listeners will donate to the charity Direct Relief, which is supporting several humanitarian efforts in Ukraine – including the supply of lifesaving medical assistance.

Scan the QR code to watch, or visit donate.directrelief.org/thebell to donate now.

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Programme notes Antonín Dvořák 1841–1904

Symphony No. 8 in G major, Op. 88 1889

1 Allegro con brio 2 Adagio 3 Allegretto grazioso 4 Allegro ma non troppo – Molto vivace

Photo courtesy of the Royal College of Music, London

Dvořák’s music has often slipped into an undeserved category of the repertoire: too tuneful, too folksy, too popular. But beneath the veneer of this melodious folk style, Dvořák’s works display a cyclical coherence not seen since Beethoven, and his rigorous approach to form signals his clear allusions to Brahms and the symphonic tradition. Over time, he developed and honed these influences to create a far more rounded – but still distinctly Czech – musical style that synthesised the developments of his predecessors with a freshness and variety that won him plaudits across the world.

As Alfred Einstein wrote in his survey of the Romantic era: ‘Dvořák took over the heritage of absolute music quite naively, and filled its forms with an elemental music of the freshest invention, the liveliest rhythms, the finest sense of sonority – it is the most full-blooded, most direct music conceivable, without its becoming vulgar.’

Dvořák’s ascent to fame was a swift one, helped in no small part by a stipend he received from the Austrian Government in 1874. The young Dvořák, at that time working as an orchestral violist and church organist, submitted a number of his works to a judging committee that included both Johannes Brahms and the critic Eduard Hanslick. He was successful – winning a significant stipend not just that year, but also in 1876 and 1877, and with the help of Brahms and Hanslick he also found a publisher for his music. Plaudit after plaudit followed, and Dvořák soon developed a reputation to

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Programme notes rival Brahms’s own. But when his mother died in 1882, Dvořák sank into a deep depression and his sombre Seventh Symphony of 1885 still bears the scars of his loss – Dvořák added a footnote to the score: ‘From the sad years’.

Recommended recordings of tonight’s works

by Laurie Watt

His Eighth Symphony, then, came as a complete volteface. It is one of Dvořák’s most joyous and carefree works, composed at his summer resort in Bohemia, on the occasion of his election to the Bohemian Academy of Science, Literature and Art and dedicated to Emperor Franz Joseph by way of gratitude. It is a work infused with warmth and contentment, composed with a seemingly spontaneous flow of ideas, casting aside the traditional rigours of sonata form in favour of a more unstructured approach that is almost improvisatory in nature. The opening Allegro has not one, nor two, but a whole raft of themes that flow effortlessly from one to the next, their evocations of birdsong calling to mind the blissful countryside retreat where the work was written.

The ebullient finale too, echoes this chirruping theme, which Dvořák now expands into a magnificent series of variations, resplendent with the call of the trumpets, who invite the whole orchestra to join them in a joyful, unbridled dance. Where there is darkness – such as in the gently melancholic, reverie-like Adagio – it is only a temporary moment of reflection, soon cast aside by the elegant Allegretto that follows, a traditional waltz that Dvořák recasts and revives with his own distinctive Slavic elegance.

Janáček: Suite, The Cunning Little Vixen Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra | Edward Gardner (Chandos) or Vienna Philharmonic | Charles Mackerras (Decca) Victoria Vita Polevá: The Bell Inbal Segev | Dallas Symphony Orchestra | Kirill Karabits (YouTube: see page 11) Dvořák: Symphony No. 8 London Philharmonic Orchestra | Charles Mackerras (LPO Label LPO-0055: see below)

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Dvořák’s Symphony No. 8 on the LPO Label Dvořák Symphony No. 8 Dvořák Symphonic Variations Charles Mackerras conductor London Philharmonic Orchestra LPO-0055 Recorded live at the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall on 24 April 1992

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Next LPO concerts at the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall COLOUR AND FANTASY Friday 16 February 2024 | 7.30pm

Stravinsky Scherzo fantastique Francisco Coll Ciudad sin Sueño (Fantasia for piano and orchestra)* (world premiere) de Falla Nights in the Gardens of Spain Stravinsky The Firebird Suite (1919 version) Gustavo Gimeno conductor Javier Perianes piano *Co-commissioned by the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Sinfonieorchester Basel and Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía

CANELLAKIS CONDUCTS BRAHMS Wednesday 21 February 2024 | 7.30pm

Mussorgsky (orch. Shostakovich) Dawn on the Moscow River (Prelude to Khovanshchina) Shostakovich Cello Concerto No. 1 Brahms Symphony No. 4 Karina Canellakis conductor Pablo Ferrández cello

HAYDN’S CREATION Saturday 2 March 2024 | 7.30pm Haydn The Creation (sung in English) Edward Gardner conductor Louise Alder soprano Allan Clayton tenor Michael Mofidian bass-baritone London Philharmonic Choir Concert generously supported by Victoria Robey CBE

Part of the LPO’s The Music in You Festival

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THE MUSIC IN YOU 2–16 MARCH 2024

This March we’re celebrating the creativity in everyone during our cross-artform festival. Reflecting our adventurous spirit, the festival embraces all kinds of expression – from dance, to music theatre and even audience participation!

Join us and discover The Music in You.

lpo.org.uk/themusicinyou Haydn’s Creation

Dance Re-imagined

Seven Deadly Sins

Haydn The Creation

Tania León Raíces (Roots) (world premiere)* Ravel La valse Szymanowski Harnasie**

Luís Tinoco Accordion Concerto (UK premiere) Weill The Seven Deadly Sins

Saturday 2 March | 7.30pm Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall Sung in English

Edward Gardner conductor Louise Alder soprano Allan Clayton tenor Michael Mofidian bass-baritone London Philharmonic Choir Concert generously supported by Victoria Robey CBE.

FUNharmonics Family Concert: Goal!

Sunday 3 March | 12 noon Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall Charlotte Politi conductor Clarice Assad presenter Join the LPO for the European premiere of É Gol! by Brazilian-American composer Clarice Assad, imagining a day in the life of legendary Brazilian footballer Marta Vieira da Silva as she gets ready for the big game.

Created for orchestra and audience, this piece offers the whole family a chance to perform with the LPO throughout, using your voices, breath and body percussion.

So grab your favourite football shirt and join us for this fun, participatory concert, culminating in a football match soundtrack finale!

Join in the free pre-concert foyer activities from 10am–12 noon (concert ticket-holders only).

Wednesday 6 March | 7.30pm Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall

Edward Gardner conductor Robert Murray tenor Flemish Radio Choir * Co-commissioned by the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Concertgebouw Brugge. ** Harnasie is an original co-production of NOSPR The Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra in Katowice (initiator), London Philharmonic Orchestra (with support from the Adam Mickiewicz Institute), conceived and produced by Studio Wayne McGregor.

Wednesday 13 March 6.30pm & 8.15pm Battersea Arts Centre

Edward Gardner conductor João Barradas accordion Danielle de Niese Anna Ross Ramgobin Brother Callum Thorpe Mother Zwakele Tshabalala Father Amar Muchhala Brother * These performances are funded in part by the Kurt Weill Foundation for Music, Inc., New York, NY.

Project partner: Concertgebouw Brugge.

The Gift of Youth

Concert generously supported by Victoria Robey CBE.

6.15–6.45pm | Free pre-concert event Royal Festival Hall LPO Artistic Director Elena Dubinets discusses the evening’s programme with Tania León.

An Imagination Shared Tuesday 12 March | 6.30pm St John’s Church Waterloo

Alex Ho Breathe and Draw (for sinfonietta, two conductors and audience participation) Ryan Carter Concerto Molto Grosso (for audience and orchestra) (UK premiere) Ligeti Poème symphonique for 100 metronomes Charlotte Politi conductor* Luis Castillo-Briceño conductor* *Inaugural participants in the LPO Conducting Fellowship programme. This programme is generously supported by Patricia Haitink with additional support from Gini and Richard Gabbertas.

Saturday 16 March | 7.30pm Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall Mozart Overture, The Magic Flute Daniel Kidane Aloud, for violin and orchestra (world premiere)* Mozart Mass in C minor Edward Gardner conductor Julia Fischer violin Hera Hyesang Park soprano Elizabeth Watts soprano Pavel Kolgatin tenor Ashley Riches bass-baritone London Philharmonic Choir * Commissioned by the London Philharmonic Orchestra.

Concert generously supported by Aline Foriel-Destezet.

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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 CBE 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

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

Orchestra Circle

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

Principal Associates

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

Associates

Mrs Irina Andreeva In memory of Len & Edna Beech Steven M. Berzin The Candide Trust John & Sam Dawson HSH Dr Donatus, Prince of Hohenzollern Stuart & Bianca Roden In memory of Hazel Amy Smith

Gold Patrons

David & Yi Buckley In memory of Allner Mavis Channing Sonja Drexler Peter & Fiona Espenhahn Mr B C Fairhall Hamish & Sophie Forsyth Virginia Gabbertas MBE Jenny & Duncan Goldie-Scot Mr Roger Greenwood Malcolm Herring Julian & Gill Simmonds

Drs Frank & Gek Lim Mr & Mrs Makharinsky Mr Gordon McNair Andrew T Mills Denis & Yulia Nagy Andrew Neill Jamie Njoku-Goodwin Peter & Lucy Noble Oliver & Josie Ogg Mr Stephen Olton Simon & Lucy Owen-Johnstone Andrew & Cindy Peck Mr Roger Phillimore Mr Michael Posen Saskia Roberts John Romeo Priscylla Shaw Mr & Mrs John C Tucker Mr & Mrs John & Susi Underwood Karina Varivoda Grenville & Krysia Williams Joanna Williams

Eric Tomsett The Viney Family Guy & Utti Whittaker

Silver Patrons

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

Principal Supporters

Anonymous donors Ralph & Elizabeth Aldwinckle Mr John D Barnard Roger & Clare Barron Dr Anthony Buckland Dr Simona Cicero & Mr Mario Altieri Mr Alistair Corbett Guy Davies David Devons Igor & Lyuba Galkin Prof. Erol & Mrs Deniz Gelenbe In memory of Enid Gofton Alexander Greaves Prof. Emeritus John Gruzelier Michael & Christine Henry Mrs Maureen Hooft-Graafland Per Jonsson Mr Ian Kapur Ms Elena Lojevsky Dr Peter Mace Pippa Mistry-Norman Miss Rebecca Murray Mrs Terry Neale John Nickson & Simon Rew Mr James Pickford Filippo Poli Mr Robert Ross Martin & Cheryl Southgate Mr & Mrs G Stein Mr Rodney Whittaker Christopher Williams

Bronze Patrons

Anonymous donors Chris Aldren Michael Allen Mrs A Beare Mr Anthony Blaiklock Lorna & Christopher Bown Mr Bernard Bradbury Simon Burke & Rupert King Desmond & Ruth Cecil Mr John H Cook Deborah Dolce Ms Elena Dubinets David Ellen Cristina & Malcolm Fallen Christopher Fraser OBE Mr Daniel Goldstein David & Jane Gosman Mr Gavin Graham Lord & Lady Hall Mrs Dorothy Hambleton Iain & Alicia Hasnip Eugene & Allison Hayes J Douglas Home Molly Jackson Mrs Farrah Jamal Mr & Mrs Jan Mr & Mrs Ralph Kanza Mr Peter King Jamie & Julia Korner Rose & Dudley Leigh Wg. Cdr. & Mrs M T Liddiard OBE JP RAF

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Supporters

Anonymous donors Mr Francesco Andronio Julian & Annette Armstrong Mr Philip Bathard-Smith Emily Benn Mr Julien Chilcott-Monk Alison Clarke & Leo Pilkington Mr Peter Coe Mr Joshua Coger Miss Tessa Cowie Caroline Cox-Johnson Mr Simon Edelsten Will Gold Mr Stephen Goldring Mr & Mrs Graham & Jean Pugh Mr Geordie Greig Mr Peter Imhof The Jackman Family Mr David MacFarlane Paul & Suzanne McKeown Nick Merrifield Simon & Fiona Mortimore Dame Jane Newell DBE Mr David Peters Nicky Small Mr Brian Smith Mr Michael Timinis Mr & Mrs Anthony Trahar Tony & Hilary Vines Dr June Wakefield Mr John Weekes Mr Roger Woodhouse Mr C D Yates

Hon. Benefactor Elliott Bernerd

Hon. Life Members Alfonso Aijón Kenneth Goode Carol Colburn Grigor CBE Pehr G Gyllenhammar Robert Hill Keith Millar Victoria Robey CBE 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 Mr B C Fairhall The Friends of the LPO Roger Greenwood Dr Barry Grimaldi Mr & Mrs Philip Kan John & Angela Kessler Sir Simon Robey Victoria Robey CBE 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 Solicitors French Chamber of Commerce

Tutti

German-British Chamber of Industry & Commerce Lazard Natixis Corporate Investment Banking Walpole

Preferred Partners Jeroboams Lindt & Sprüngli Ltd Neal’s Yard OneWelbeck Sipsmith Steinway

Trusts and Foundations

Board of the American Friends of the LPO

ABO Trust The Barbara Whatmore Charitable Trust BlueSpark Foundation The Boltini Trust Borrows Charitable Trust Cockayne – Grants for the Arts The London Community Foundation Dunard Fund Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation Foyle Foundation Garrick Charitable Trust The Golsoncott Foundation Idlewild Trust Institute Adam Mickiewicz John Coates Charitable Trust John Horniman’s Children’s Trust John Thaw Foundation Kirby Laing Foundation The Kurt Weill Foundation for Music The Lennox Hannay Charitable Trust Lord and Lady Lurgan Trust Lucille Graham Trust The Marchus Trust PRS Foundation The R K Charitable Trust The Radcliffe Trust Rivers Foundation Rothschild Foundation Scops Arts Trust TIOC Foundation The Thriplow Charitable Trust Vaughan Williams Foundation The Victoria Wood Foundation The Viney Family

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

and all others who wish to remain anonymous.

In-kind Sponsor Google Inc

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London Philharmonic Orchestra Administration Board of Directors

General Administration

Dr Catherine C. Høgel Chair Martin Höhmann* President Mark Vines* Vice-President Emily Benn Kate Birchall* David Burke Deborah Dolce Elena Dubinets Tanya Joseph Hugh Kluger* Katherine Leek* Minn Majoe* Tania Mazzetti* Jamie Njoku-Goodwin Andrew Tusa Neil Westreich Simon Freakley (Ex officio – Chairman of the American Friends of the London Philharmonic Orchestra) *Player-Director

Elena Dubinets Artistic Director

Advisory Council Roger Barron Chairman Christopher Aldren Richard Brass Helen Brocklebank YolanDa Brown OBE David Buckley Simon Burke Simon Callow CBE Desmond Cecil CMG Sir Alan Collins KCVO CMG Andrew Davenport Guillaume Descottes Cameron Doley Christopher Fraser OBE Jenny Goldie-Scot Jonathan Harris CBE FRICS Marianna Hay MBE Nicholas Hely-Hutchinson DL Amanda Hill Dr Catherine C. Høgel Martin Höhmann Rehmet Kassim-Lakha Jamie Korner Geoff Mann Andrew Neill Nadya Powell Sir Bernard Rix Victoria Robey CBE Baroness Shackleton Thomas Sharpe KC Julian Simmonds Barry Smith Martin Southgate Chris Viney Laurence Watt Elizabeth Winter

Education and Community Talia Lash Education and Community Director

David Burke Chief Executive Chantelle Vircavs PA to the Executive and Employee Relations Manager

Lowri Davies Education and Community Project Manager Hannah Smith Education and Community Co-ordinator

Concert Management Roanna Gibson Concerts and Planning Director

Claudia Clarkson Regional Partnerships Manager

Graham Wood Concerts and Recordings Manager Maddy Clarke Tours Manager Madeleine Ridout Glyndebourne and Projects Manager Alison Jones Concerts and Recordings Co-ordinator Robert Winup Concerts and Tours Assistant

Andrew Chenery Orchestra Personnel Manager

Siân Jenkins Corporate Relations Manager

Mr Chris Aldren Honorary ENT Surgeon

Anna Quillin Trusts and Foundations Manager

Mr Simon Owen-Johnstone Hon. Orthopaedic Surgeon

Sophie Harvey Marketing Manager

Finance

Rachel Williams Publications Manager

Frances Slack Finance Director

Gavin Miller Sales and Ticketing Manager

Dayse Guilherme Finance Manager

Ruth Haines Press and PR Manager

Jean-Paul Ramotar Finance and IT Officer

Hayley Kim Residencies and Projects Marketing Manager

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Professional Services

Dr Barry Grimaldi Honorary Doctor

Kath Trout Marketing and Communications Director

Felix Lo Orchestra and Auditions Manager

Gillian Pole Recordings Archive

Rosie Morden Individual Giving Manager

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Benjamin Wakley Assistant Stage Manager

Philip Stuart Discographer

Crowe Clark Whitehill LLP Auditors

Kirstin Peltonen Development Associate

Stephen O’Flaherty Deputy Operations Manager

Archives

Laura Willis Development Director

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Alicia Hartley Digital and Marketing Co-ordinator

Development

Katurah Morrish Development Events Manager

Matthew Freeman Recordings Consultant

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