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CONCERT SERIES

2016 / 17 Plus:

Met Opera Live Royal Ballet Live Coull Quartet

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WELCOME I want a concert of classical music to leave me with a passion for being alive. This may not always be about joy in a celebratory sense or even about putting a smile on my face, but simply to feel like a better person than I was before the concert.

For the 2016/2017 Concert Series we have selected a succession of the ‘greats’ of classical music performed by the world’s finest musicians from the UK’s finest orchestras in London, Manchester and Birmingham; and from great international orchestras from Moscow and Prague.

Of course epic symphonies by Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov, Haydn and Mozart are included in our programme; as well as other well-known classics of the orchestral canon, played by some of the world’s finest classical musicians.

LOOKING TO THE FUTURE...

Please join me and my team here at Warwick Arts Centre for a rousing and moving series of concerts in the coming year.

Alan Rivett Director, Warwick Arts Centre

As a passionate patron of the arts, can you help future audiences to enjoy Warwick Arts Centre as much as you have? Your legacy support will help us to remain one of the UK's most distinctive centre for the arts. You will help us bring incredible performances to Warwick; you will support new work and emerging artistic talent, and you will inspire young people through our arts education programmes.

For further information please contact: legacies@warwick.ac.uk or, if subscribing, tick the relevant box on the enclosed subscription form.

Our choices this year provide you, our audience, with an opportunity to experience world-class music. How you absorb and take away that experience is, of course, your choice, but I hope you share my passionate response.

Thanks to the University of Warwick for the continued support of Warwick Arts Centre.

Words: Richard Bratby Cover: Nicola Benedetti © Simon Fowler This page: Stephen Hough Back cover: Philharmonia Orchestra

The Hallé

Benjamin Grosvenor. © Operamania.co.uk

Saturday 8 October 2016 7.30pm Dvorák Liszt interval Beethoven

The Golden Spinning Wheel Op.109 Piano Concerto No.2 in A major

Conductor Piano

Sir Mark Elder Benjamin Grosvenor

Symphony No.6 in F Op.68 Pastoral

The Hallé is a British musical institution – and in recent years, under music director Sir Mark Elder, it’s made a spectacular return to the kind of form it displayed in its 1960s golden age. In fact, Elder and the Hallé are one of the great conductor-orchestra partnerships of our time, with the kind of rapport and spontaneity that comes from years of shared music making.

Expect something very special with this opening concert, as they ease into Beethoven’s radiant Pastoral symphony: surely classical music’s loveliest celebration of the joys of country life. It’s music that makes you glad to be alive – but so, in a different way, is Liszt’s ear-tingling Second Piano Concerto, written for a world-changing virtuoso and performed today by Benjamin Grosvenor, arguably the most dazzling young keyboard poet of his generation.

Dvorák’s enchanted Czech folk-story, meanwhile, is a personal favourite of Sir Mark’s – but watch out, it’s got a sting in its tail!

PRE-CONCERT TALK Sir Mark Elder. Image © Simon Dodd

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Woods-Scawen Room 6.15pm £2.50 Subscribers £1.50

Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra

Jennifer Pike

Wednesday 19 October 2016 7.30pm Vaughan Williams Sibelius interval Tchaikovsky

Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis Violin Concerto

Conductor Violin

Sergey Polyanichko Jennifer Pike

Symphony No.6 in B minor Op.74 Pathétique

There’s Russian tradition – and then there’s the Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra of Moscow. The TSO is one of Russia’s longest-established symphony orchestras, with a history steeped in the Russian way of music making.

Conductor Sergey Polyanichko was born into that same heritage, so there should be a unique authenticity to their performance of Tchaikovsky’s heartbreaking Pathétique Symphony: music of soaring melody and tragic passion. This is Tchaikovsky pouring out his soul, and these performers have got it in their blood. But it’ll also be wonderful to hear these seasoned veterans collaborate with the superb young English violinist Jennifer Pike in the fire and ice of Sibelius’s great Violin Concerto.

Plus, if you love British music, how can you resist the chance to hear what happens when this great Russian ensemble encounters the supremely English sound-world of Vaughan Williams’s Tallis Fantasia?

Expect raw passion, high emotion – and transcendent beauty.

PRE-CONCERT TALK Sergey Polyanichko

Helen Martin Studio 6.15pm £2.50 Subscribers £1.50 05

Czech National Symphony Orchestra

Libor Pesek ˘

Saturday 12 November 2016 7.30pm From Bohemia's Forests and Meadows Piano Concerto

Smetana Grieg interval Philip Glass Dvorák

Adagio from Symphony No.3 Symphony No.8

Conductor Piano

Libor Pesek ˘ Mark Bebbington

Maybe it’s the characterful woodwinds, maybe it’s those glowing horns; maybe it’s just the irresistible Bohemian lilt that they give to every note they play. But there’s just something uniquely magical about hearing a Czech orchestra playing Dvorák and Smetana – and if there’s any maestro alive who understands that, it’s the Czech National Symphony Orchestra’s veteran chief conductor Libor Pešek.

Tonight’s concert begins amidst the rolling Czech countryside of Smetana’s famous tone-poem, and ends amidst the whooping brass and village celebrations of Dvorák’s Eighth and sunniest symphony – the very definition of feel-good music. But Pešek’s never been limited in his musical horizons. He’s setting Dvorák and Smetana against the atmospheric slow movement of Philip Glass’s cult classic of a Third Symphony.

And when he teams up with the British pianist Mark Bebbington in Grieg’s hugely popular piano concerto, you can expect all the right notes in rather more than just the right order!

PRE-CONCERT TALK Woods-Scawen Room 6.15pm £2.50 Subscribers £1.50 In conversation with Mark Bebbington.

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Mark Bebbington

Philharmonia Orchestra

Philharmonia Orchestra

Friday 2 December 2016 7.30pm Tchaikovsky interval Tchaikovsky Tchaikovsky

Eugene Onegin (excerpts)

Conductor Soprano Baritone

Jac Van Steen Veronika Dzhioeva Tommi Hakala

Swan Lake (excerpts) The Nutcracker (excerpts)

On a Russian summer night, a teenage girl pours out her young heart to a handsome stranger. In an enchanted realm, a dashing young prince falls in love with a maiden in the form of a swan. And on the Christmas Eve of everyone’s dreams, a Nutcracker prince hosts a party in the Kingdom of Sweets.

Veronika Dzhioeva

Tchaikovsky may have been one of Russia’s greatest masters of the symphony, but his true home was the theatre, and this evening-long celebration with the Philharmonia – “the UK’s national orchestra” features some of the best-loved highlights of Swan Lake and The Nutcracker, from the Waltz of the Flowers to the Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy.

First, though, Jac van Steen conducts former Cardiff Singer of the World Tommi Hakala and soprano Veronika Dzhioeva in extracts from Eugene Onegin: the heartfelt tale of young love and loss that’s as close as Tchaikovsky ever got to writing an autobiography.

PRE-CONCERT TALK Helen Martin Studio 6.15pm £2.50 Subscribers £1.50 Jac Van Steen

In conversation with Jac Van Steen.

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An Evening of Chamber Music with

Nicola Benedetti with Benedetti Elschenbroich Grynyuk Trio

Friday 27 January 2017 7.30pm

Nicola Benedetti

Ravel Turnage interval Sierra Brahms

Trio for Piano, Violin and Cello in A minor Duo for Cello and Violin Piano Trio Butterflies Remember a Mountain Piano Trio No.1 Op.8 in B major

Violin Cello Piano

Nicola Benedetti Leonard Elschenbroich Sasha Grynyuk

There’s a reason why they call chamber music “the music of friends”. It’s all about musicians coming together as equals, to enjoy and to share the music that the great composers felt was simply too intimate to shout to the world. Like any true artist, Nicola Benedetti loves it – and in her piano trio she teams up with her partner Leonard Elschenbroich and the masterly young Ukrainian pianist Sasha Grynyuk for a whole evening of private passions and quiet magic.

Ravel’s only piano trio is a vision of rapturous poetry and sweet sadness, created in the depths of the Great War, while Brahms’s B major Trio is romance on the grandest of scales: the work of a young composer hopelessly in love.

In between, they play a new mini-masterpiece

by Arlene Sierra, and the virtuosic Duo created for them by Mark Anthony Turnage – bringing a personal touch to a very special evening of music-making.

Leonard Elschenbroich

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Sasha Grynyuk

Peter Donohoe

European Union Chamber Orchestra Thursday 9 February 2017 7.30pm Haydn Beethoven interval Beethoven Mozart

Symphony No.57 Piano Concerto No.2

Director/Violin Piano

Hans-Peter Hofmann Peter Donohoe

Romance for Violin and Orchestra Symphony No.40

“He's a lion of the keyboard but he's also a poet” writes The Herald of pianist Peter Donohoe. “From Donohoe you will experience thunder and steel; but you will also experience exquisite lyricism and sensitivity...

Expect insights galore.”

Warwick Arts Centre's audiences won’t need any introduction to this great British pianist, but even so, a chance to hear him bringing all his lifelong mastery to Beethoven is something not to be missed. Savour Donohoe’s experience in the innocence of Beethoven’s youthful Second Concerto – and enjoy, too, the uniquely fresh and spirited playing of the European Union Chamber Orchestra, a virtuoso orchestra that plays together like a string quartet.

Violinist/director Hans-Peter Hofmann has framed the programme with Mozart’s most personal symphony – the tragic 40th – and a controlled explosion of energy and wit from Joseph Haydn: the rarely-heard Symphony No.57. He’ll also be starring as soloist himself: in one of Beethoven’s lyrical Romances for Violin and Orchestra.

PRE-CONCERT TALK Helen Martin Studio 6.15pm £2.50 Subscribers £1.50 Hans-Peter Hofmann

In conversation with Peter Donohoe.

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City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Stephen Hough

Robert Trevino

Friday 17 March 2017 7.30pm Strauss Rachmaninov interval Shostakovich

Don Juan Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini

Conductor Piano

Robert Trevino Stephen Hough

Symphony No.5

PRE-CONCERT TALK Helen Martin Studio 6.15pm £2.50 Subscribers £1.50 In conversation with Robert Trevino.

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A flurry of strings, a blaze of trumpets: and Richard Strauss’s Don Juan goes off like a rocket. You can almost smell the aftershave in this swashbuckling musical portrait of a great seducer in action.

There couldn’t be a more thrilling way to open this high octane concert from the Midlands’ own world-class symphony orchestra and guest conductor Robert Trevino – the rising American star who took the Bolshoi by storm. He conducts Russian music tonight too: the evening finishes with Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony, the darkness-to-light epic that Shostakovich wrote as a response to Stalin’s criticisms, and on which he gambled his very life.

And the stakes are just as high in Rachmaninov’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini – a glittering dance with the Devil, with a heart of pure romance. You know it, you love it – but until you’ve heard the phenomenal Stephen Hough play it, believe us, you haven’t heard the half of it!

Armonico Consort. © Simon Jay Price

Ian Bostridge

Christopher Monks. © Simon Jay Price

St Matthew Passion Sunday 26 March 2017 3pm Bach

St Matthew Passion

Overcome by emotion, a survivor of great and terrible events tells his tale. As he sings of his friend’s betrayal and killing, the ancient tragedy comes startlingly alive: the chorus becomes the angry crowd, and even the listeners are drawn into the story – adding their own thoughts to a spiritual drama that is now unfolding with overwhelming power.

For many listeners, Bach’s St Matthew Passion has more in common with Greek tragedy than with anything you’ll find in a hymn book, and whatever your own spiritual beliefs it’s quite simply one of the greatest works of art created in any form or on any subject. Everyone should hear it at least once, and there’s no more urgent or immediate way to experience it than in this pared-down Easter performance by Armonico Consort – the Warwickshire-based period instrument ensemble that’s built a worldwide reputation for the freshness and drama of its interpretations.

Armonico Consort & Orchestra Director Evangelist

Christopher Monks Ian Bostridge

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Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Tasmin Little

Wednesday 3 May 2017 7.30pm Wagner

Bruch interval Rachmaninov

Prelude to Die Meistersinger Violin Concerto No.1

Conductor Violin

Christoph Koenig Tasmin Little

Symphony No.2

The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra has been called “the nation’s favourite orchestra” and this concert is certainly filled with favourites!

Wagner’s majestic Prelude to Die Meistersinger raises the curtain on a whole world of sunshine, melody and romance - so it’s a fitting opener for Bruch’s perennially-popular First Violin Concerto. From twilit opening to the gypsy passion of its exuberant finale, Bruch could have written it for the gleaming sound and effortless charm of Tasmin Little – a national treasure who’s conquered the world.

And then conductor Christoph Koenig sweeps us off to the endless Russian landscape of Rachmaninov’s mighty Second Symphony.

Opulent, inmpassioned, swept by thunderous winter storms and filled to bursting with the kind of long, blissful tunes that only Rachmaninov could write, this might just be the ultimate Russian romantic symphony.

Every performance is an adventure, and it’s the perfect climax to a concert with a big heart.

PRE-CONCERT TALK Helen Martin Studio 6.15pm £2.50 Subscribers £1.50 Christoph Koenig

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In conversation with Tasmin Little.

Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra

Yuri Simonov

Wednesday 24 May 2017 7.30pm Shostakovich Festive Overture Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No.3 interval Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition (arr. Ravel)

Conductor Piano

Yuri Simonov Freddy Kempf

When Russian composers celebrate, they really celebrate, and Shostakovich’s Festive Overture is the musical equivalent of a double-shot of vodka, downed in one. It’s a fabulously tuneful way to light the blue touchpaper on a whole evening of Russian fireworks from the Moscow Philharmonic – the great Russian orchestra that premiered several of Shostakovich’s symphonies.

But tonight it’s all about colour: as the Philharmonic’s celebrated music director Yuri Simonov conjures the dancing chickens, glowing skulls and flying witches of Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition.

Russian music simply doesn’t get any more brilliant or more entertaining – unless, of course, you’re lucky enough to witness a top-flight pianist in Rachmaninov’s sweeping Third Piano Concerto.

It’s said that this Everest of romantic piano concertos demands a pianist with hands of steel and a heart of gold: and former BBC Young Musician of the Year Freddy Kempf has both.

PRE-CONCERT TALK Studio 6.15pm £2.50 Subscribers £1.50 Freddy Kempf

In conversation with Freddy Kempf.

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Coull Quartet Concerts 2016/17 Tickets £19.50 (£17.50) Subscribers can save up to 24% on Coull Quartet concerts if they book in advance – see booking form or ask at Box Office Violin Violin Viola Cello

Roger Coull Philip Gallaway Jonathan Barritt Nicholas Roberts

A chorus shouts its message to the heavens.

An orchestra speaks to great crowds. But a string quartet is different. It’s just four musicians - two violins, a viola and a cello.

Yet together, they can create worlds. And for centuries, composers have turned to the string quartet to tell the stories that are just too intimate, too honest and too beautiful to entrust to any other form of music.

For four decades here at Warwick University, the Coull Quartet has been exploring some of the greatest music ever written: inviting generations of music lovers to join them on a journey that deepens and broadens with time – but always feels new.

Schubert, Brahms and Haydn are great landmarks on that journey; the quartets of Schnittke, Prokofiev, Britten and Bridge are refreshingly unfamiliar, but no less fascinating. Beethoven’s late string quartets, meanwhile, continue to reach towards the outer limits of the human imagination. And that - imagination - is all you need to bring with you. Join us.

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Flights of Fancy

Romantic Journey

Thursday 24 November 2016 7.15pm Helen Martin Studio

Thursday 2 February 2017 7.15pm Helen Martin Studio

Haydn Schnittke Beethoven

Schubert Quartet in G minor D173 Mendelssohn Quartet in A minor Op.13 Brahms Quartet in B flat Op.67

Quartet in F minor Op.20 No.5 Quartet No.3 (1983) Quartet in B flat Op.130 with Grosse Fuge finale Op.133

“What do I care for your wretched violin? I’m speaking to my God!” Ludwig van Beethoven could be impatient – but then, he was hearing sounds that no-one had ever heard before. And in his Op.130, he wrestled them into a string quartet that might just be the greatest thing he ever wrote.

It’s a tremendous way to launch the Coull Quartet's new season; first, though, Russian maverick Alfred Schnittke takes a freewheeling waltz through musical history – and we hear the quartet that might have ignited Beethoven’s imagination: a sparky mini-masterpiece by the daddy of them all, Joseph “Papa” Haydn.

Emotion recollected in tranquillity. When the great Romantics distilled their dreams and longings into the concentrated essence of the string quartet, those feelings only got stronger – and sweeter.

Schubert and Mendelssohn wrote exactly the music you’d expect from a pair of teenage geniuses: passionate, impulsive and packed with emotions that they simply couldn’t keep to themselves.

Brahms was older and wiser – but his spirit burned just as brightly. Expect musical jokes, quickfire wit, and - above all - deep, tender wisdom and warmth, as the Coull Quartet plays his gorgeous Third Quartet.

Grand Passions

Master and Pupil

Thursday 2 March 2017 7.15pm Helen Martin Studio

Thursday 11 May 2017 7.15pm Helen Martin Studio

Mozart Prokofiev Brahms

Britten 3 Divertimenti Bridge 3 Idylls Haydn Quartet Op.103 (unfinished) Beethoven Quartet in A minor 132

Quartet K.428 Quartet No.1 in B minor Op.50 Piano Quintet in F minor Op.34 (with Simon Callaghan, piano)

When you add a piano to a string quartet, something extraordinary happens – something that lets composers unleash their wildest imagination. Johannes Brahms poured all his youthful heartbreak into his mighty Piano Quintet – and with the Coull Quartet's old friend Simon Callaghan on piano, it won’t just catch fire: it’ll positively blaze.

It’s a long way from the spiky, sassy, super-dry vodka martini of a string quartet that Prokofiev wrote in jazz-age America. Or the sublime serenity of Mozart’s great Quartet K.428: the best conversation you’ll ever overhear. But passion is passion, and these very different masterpieces will strike brilliant sparks off each other.

Genius doesn’t always love company. When Haydn taught Beethoven, they didn’t really hit it off. But then, we’re talking about the two supreme masters of the string quartet, and Haydn’s unfinished last quartet actually makes a wonderfully poignant counterpart to Beethoven’s heartbreaking Op.132: a suffering genius praying through his music, and finding both strength and profound beauty in response.

Benjamin Britten had a much warmer relationship with his teacher Frank Bridge – and their springfresh miniatures are a gateway into a world that may surprise and delight even British music fans who think they’ve heard it all!

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The Metropolitan Opera’s 2016/17 season marks the 50th anniversary of its home at Lincoln Center and 40 years under the musical leadership of James Levine.

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The Nutcracker

Tristan und Isolde Wagner

Rusalka Dvorák

Thursday 8 December 7.15pm

Saturday 8 October 5pm

Saturday 25 February 5.55pm

Woolf Works

Don Giovanni Mozart

La Traviata Verdi

Wednesday 8 February 7.15pm

Saturday 22 October 5.55pm

Saturday 11 March 5.55pm

The Sleeping Beauty

L’Amour de Loin Saariaho

Idomeneo Mozart

New Production

Saturday 25 March 4.55pm

Encore Screening

Sunday 5 March 2pm

Saturday 10 December 5.55pm

Jewels

Nabucco Verdi

Tuesday 11 April 7.15pm

Saturday 7 January 5.55pm

The Dream/ Symphonic Variations/ Marguerite and Armand

Roméo et Juliette Gounod New Production

Eugene Onegin Tchaikovsky Saturday 22 April 5.55pm

Der Rosenkavalier Strauss New Production

Saturday 13 May 5.30pm

Saturday 21 January 5.55pm

Wednesday 7 June 7.15pm

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2016 The Hallé Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra Czech National Symphony Orchestra Philharmonia Orchestra

Sat 8 October Wed 19 October Sat 12 November Fri 2 December

2017 An Evening of Chamber Music with Nicola Benedetti European Union Chamber Orchestra City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra St Matthew Passion Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra

Fri 27 January Thu 9 February Fri 17 March Sun 26 March Wed 3 May Wed 24 May