london philharmonic orchestra 11 march 2015 programme
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Concert programmelpoorguk
Winner of the RPS Music Award for Ensemble
Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor VLADIMIR JUROWSKIsupported by the Tsukanov Family Foundation
Leader PIETER SCHOEMANsupported by Neil Westreich
Composer in Residence MAGNUS LINDBERGPatron HRH THE DUKE OF KENT KG
Chief Executive and Artistic Director TIMOTHY WALKER AM
Contents
2 Welcome Orchestra news3 On stage tonight 4 About the Orchestra5 Leader Vesselin Gellev 6 Andrew Manze7 Piers Lane8 Programme notes14 Supporters15 Sound Futures donors16 LPO administration
The timings shown are not precise and are given only as a guide
CONCERT PRESENTED BY THE LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Southbank Centrersquos Royal Festival HallWednesday 11 March 2015 | 730pm
Elgar Introduction and Allegro for Strings Op 47 (13rsquo)
Ireland Piano Concerto in E flat major (25rsquo)
Interval
Walton Symphony No 1 (43rsquo)
Andrew Manze conductor
Piers Lane piano
Concert generously supported by The John Ireland Charitable Trust
Free pre-concert event 600pmndash645pm | Royal Festival Hall
Andrew Manze directs the LPOrsquos Foyle Future Firsts in more English music ndash a series of jewel-like arrangements realisations and re-creations of Henry Purcellrsquos music by 21st-century masters George Benjamin Oliver Knussen Peter Maxwell Davies and Andrew Manze himself
This concert is being broadcast live by the BBC on Radio 3 Live In Concert ndash live concerts every day of the week Listen online in HD Sound for 30 days at bbccoukradio3
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Welcome
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London Philharmonic Orchestra
201415 season
Latest LPO releaseAt the end of last month Christoph Eschenbach conducted a performance of Beethoven and Mendelssohn with the LPO He takes charge on the latest LPO CD a recording of Messiaenrsquos Des canyons aux eacutetoiles (From the Canyons to the Stars) which evokes the beauty of a magnificent landscape and features the rarely heard xylorimba The two-disc set (LPO-0083) is priced pound1099 and available via the LPO website (as a download or CD) or through the LPO Ticket Office (020 7840 4242) lpoorgukshop
LPO at Glyndebourne recording up for awardWe are delighted to hear that the 2011 Glyndebourne CD recording of Die Meistersinger von Nuumlrnberg with the London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor Vladimir Jurowski has been shortlisted in the category of Best Opera for the BBC Music Magazine Awards 2015 The winner in each category is determined by public vote via the linkclassical-musiccomawards
A little bird told us The Orchestra has recently returned from a tour with conductor Marin Alsop An avid lsquotweeterrsquo we followed Marinrsquos musical adventures via the wonders of social media She also wrote a blog which makes for interesting reading ndash where else would you find out that Martin Hobbs (horn) and Stewart McIlwham (piccolo) cycled halfway between Groningen and Utrecht and planned to cycle between Utrecht and Eindhoven Must be all that lung capacity You can find out if they made it on Marinrsquos blog bitly1Av7lN5
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On stage tonight
First ViolinsVesselin Gellev LeaderIlyoung Chae
Chair supported by an anonymous donor
Ji-Hyun Lee Chair supported by Eric Tomsett
Catherine CraigThomas EisnerMartin HoumlhmannGeoffrey Lynn
Chair supported by Caroline Jamie amp Zander Sharp
Robert PoolSarah StreatfeildYang ZhangRebecca ShorrockAlina PetrenkoGalina TanneyCaroline SharpHelena SmartNilufar Alimaksumova
Second ViolinsCharlotte Potgieter
Guest PrincipalJeongmin Kim
Sub-PrincipalKate Birchall
Chair supported by David amp Victoria Graham Fuller
Nancy ElanLorenzo Gentili-TedeschiFiona HighamNynke HijlkemaJoseph MaherAshley StevensDean Williamson
Sioni WilliamsHarry KerrMila MustakovaSheila Law
ViolasJon Thorne
Guest PrincipalKatharine LeekSusanne MartensBenedetto PollaniEmmanuella ReiterLaura VallejoNaomi HoltIsabel PereiraDaniel CornfordMartin FennMiriam EiseleFay Sweet
CellosHetty Snell Guest PrincipalFrancis BucknallLaura DonoghueSantiago CarvalhodaggerDavid LaleGregory WalmsleyElisabeth WiklanderSue Sutherley Susanna RiddellTom Roff
Double BassesKevin Rundell PrincipalLaurence LovelleGeorge PenistonWilliam ColeLowri MorganCharlotte KerbegianAntonia BakewellRichard Dalling
FlutesJuliette Bausor
Guest PrincipalStewart McIlwham
PiccoloStewart McIlwham
Principal
OboesIan Hardwick PrincipalAlice Munday
ClarinetsRobert Hill PrincipalThomas Watmough
BassoonsGareth Newman PrincipalSimon Estell
HornsDavid Pyatt Principal
Chair supported by Simon Robey
John Ryan PrincipalMartin HobbsMark Vines Co-PrincipalGareth Mollison
TrumpetsPaul Beniston PrincipalAnne McAneney
Chair supported by Geoff amp Meg Mann
Nicholas Betts Co-Principal
TrombonesMark Templeton Principal
Chair supported by William amp Alex de Winton
David Whitehouse
Bass TromboneLyndon Meredith Principal
TubaLee Tsarmaklis Principal
Chair supported by Friends of the Orchestra
TimpaniSimon Carrington PrincipalJames Bower
Percussion Andrew Barclay Principal
Chair supported by Andrew Davenport
Keith Millar
Holds a professorial appointment in London
dagger Chevalier of the Brazilian Order of Rio Branco
Meet our members lpoorgukplayers
Chair Supporters
The London Philharmonic Orchestra also acknowledges the following chair supporters whose players are not present at this concert Neil Westreich Sonja Drexler Victoria Robey OBE
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London Philharmonic Orchestra
The London Philharmonic Orchestra is one of the worldrsquos finest orchestras balancing a long and distinguished history with its present-day position as one of the most dynamic and forward-looking ensembles in the UK As well as its performances in the concert hall the Orchestra also records film and video game soundtracks releases CDs on its own record label and reaches thousands of people every year through activities for families schools and community groups
The Orchestra was founded by Sir Thomas Beecham in 1932 It has since been headed by many of the worldrsquos greatest conductors including Sir Adrian Boult Bernard Haitink Sir Georg Solti Klaus Tennstedt and Kurt Masur Vladimir Jurowski is currently the Orchestrarsquos Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor appointed in 2007 From September 2015 Andreacutes Orozco-Estrada will take up the position of Principal Guest Conductor Magnus Lindberg is the Orchestrarsquos current Composer in Residence
The Orchestra is based at Southbank Centrersquos Royal Festival Hall in London where it has performed since the Hallrsquos opening in 1951 and been Resident Orchestra since 1992 It gives around 30 concerts there each season with many of the worldrsquos top conductors and
soloists Throughout 2013 the Orchestra collaborated with Southbank Centre on the year-long The Rest Is Noise festival charting the influential works of the 20th century 201415 highlights include a season-long festival Rachmaninoff Inside Out exploring the composerrsquos major orchestral masterpieces premieres of works by Harrison Birtwistle Julian Anderson Colin Matthews James Horner and the Orchestrarsquos new Composer in Residence Magnus Lindberg and appearances by many of todayrsquos most sought-after artists including Maria Joatildeo Pires Christoph Eschenbach Yannick Neacutezet-Seacuteguin Osmo Vaumlnskauml Lars Vogt Barbara Hannigan Vasily Petrenko Marin Alsop Katia and Marielle Labegraveque and Robin Ticciati
Outside London the Orchestra has flourishing residencies in Brighton and Eastbourne and performs regularly around the UK Each summer it takes up its annual residency at Glyndebourne Festival Opera in the Sussex countryside 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
Full marks to the London Philharmonic for continuing to offer the most adventurous concerts in LondonThe Financial Times 14 April 2014
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Touring remains a large part of the Orchestrarsquos life highlights of the 201415 season include appearances across Europe (including Iceland) and tours to the USA (West and East Coasts) Canada and China
The London Philharmonic Orchestra has recorded the soundtracks to numerous blockbuster films 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 80 releases available on CD and to download Recent additions include organ works by Poulenc and Saint-Saeumlns with Yannick Neacutezet-Seacuteguin Straussrsquos Don Juan and Ein Heldenleben with Bernard Haitink Shostakovichrsquos Symphonies Nos 6 amp 14 and Zemlinskyrsquos A Florentine Tragedy with Vladimir Jurowski and Orffrsquos Carmina Burana with Hans Graf In summer 2012 the London Philharmonic Orchestra performed as part of The Queenrsquos Diamond Jubilee Pageant on the River Thames and was also chosen to record all the worldrsquos national anthems for the London 2012 Olympics In 2013 it was the winner of the RPS Music Award for Ensemble
The London Philharmonic Orchestra is committed to inspiring the next generation of musicians through an energetic programme of activities for young people Highlights include the BrightSparks schoolsrsquo concerts and FUNharmonics family concerts the Young Composers Programme and the Foyle Future Firsts orchestral training programme for outstanding young players Its work at the forefront of digital engagement and social media has enabled the Orchestra to reach even more people worldwide all its recordings are available to download from iTunes and as well as a YouTube channel and regular podcast series the Orchestra has a lively presence on Facebook and Twitter
Find out more and get involved
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Vesselin Gellev leader
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Bulgarian violinist Vesselin Gellev has been a featured soloist with the London Philharmonic Orchestra Spoleto Festival Orchestra New Haven Symphony Orchestra and Juilliard Orchestra among others
He won First Prize at the Concert Artists Guild
Competition in New York as a member of the Antares Quartet and has recorded several albums and toured worldwide as Concertmaster of Kristjan Jaumlrvirsquos Grammy-nominated Absolute Ensemble
Vesselin has performed as Guest Leader with orchestras including the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Royal Scottish National Orchestra BBC National Orchestra of Wales Mahler Chamber Orchestra and the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
Vesselin studied at The Juilliard School and joined the London Philharmonic Orchestra as Sub-Leader in 2007
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Andrew Manzeconductor
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Andrew Manzersquos extensive and scholarly knowledge of the repertoire together with his skill as a communicator and boundless energy has marked him out amongst his peers In September 2014 he became the Principal Conductor of the NDR Radio Philharmonic Orchestra in Hannover and he regularly performs as a guest conductor with a number of leading international orchestras including the Munich Philharmonic Leipzig Gewandhaus Gothenburg Symphony Oslo Philharmonic City of Birmingham Symphony Halleacute Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Mahler Chamber Orchestra and the Scottish and Swedish Chamber orchestras
He was Principal Conductor and Artistic Director of the Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra Sweden (from 2006ndash14) with which he made a number of recordings including Beethovenrsquos Symphony No 3 lsquoEroicarsquo (Harmonia Mundi) and a cycle of Brahms symphonies (CPO) He was Associate Guest Conductor of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra from 2010ndash14 and Principal Guest Conductor of the Norwegian Radio Symphony Orchestra from 2008ndash11
Orchestral debuts this season and beyond include the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Frankfurt Radio Symphony orchestras and Orquestra Sinfocircnica do Estado de Satildeo Paulo Alongside his regular guesting Manze returns to the Leipzig Gewandhausorchester WDR Sinfonieorchester Koumlln Tonkuumlnstler and Danish National Symphony orchestras and makes his fourth consecutive appearance at the Mostly Mozart Fesival New York this summer
After reading Classics at Cambridge University Andrew Manze studied the violin and rapidly became a leading specialist in the world of historical performance practice
He became Associate Director of The Academy of Ancient Music in 1996 and then Artistic Director of The English Concert from 2003 until 2007 As a violinist Manze has released an astonishing variety of CDs many of them award-winning
He is a fellow of the Royal Academy of Music and a Visiting Professor at the Oslo Academy and has contributed to new editions of sonatas and concertos by Mozart and Bach published by Baumlrenreiter and Breitkopf and Haumlrtel He also teaches edits and writes about music as well as broadcasting regularly on radio and television
Andrew Manze received the prestigious Rolf Schock Prize in Stockholm in 2011 Previous winners include Ligeti Kagel Gidon Kremer and Anne Sofie von Otter
This eveningrsquos performance marks Andrew Manzersquos debut with the London Philharmonic Orchestra
Andrew Manze conducts Vaughan Williams A Pastoral Symphony at the 2014 BBC Proms
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Andrew Manze has developed into one of the most gifted present-day occupants of the podiumGuy Rickards Gramophone September 2014 Recording of Larrson Orchestral Works Vol 1
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Piers Lanepiano
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London-based Australian pianist Piers Lane is in great demand as soloist and collaborative artist Recent highlights include concerto performances of Busoni and Bridge at Carnegie Hall premieres of Carl Vinersquos Second Piano Concerto written for him with the Sydney Symphony and the London Philharmonic orchestras and sold-out solo recitals at Wigmore Hall
Five-times soloist at the BBC Proms Piers Lanersquos concerto repertoire exceeds 90 works and has led to engagements with many of the worldrsquos great orchestras including the American Bournemouth and Gothenburg Symphony orchestras Orchestre National de France City of London Sinfonia and Warsaw Philharmonic Leading conductors with whom he has worked include Andrey Boreyko Sir Andrew Davis Andrew Litton Jerzy Maksymiuk Vassily Sinaisky and Yan Pascal Tortelier
He frequently performs at prestigious festivals such as Aldeburgh Prague Spring and the Chopin festival in Warsaw He is Artistic Director of the Australian Festival of Chamber Music and also directed the annual Myra Hess Day at the National Gallery in London from its inception in 2006 until 2013 From this sprang Admission One Shilling a collaboration with actress Patricia Routledge devised by Nigel Hess for theatre exploring Dame Myrarsquos work during the Second World War it has been performed over 70 times throughout the UK and most recently in Australia and Belgium
Piers Lanersquos discography of over 50 CDs includes much admired recordings of rare Romantic piano concertos the complete Preludes and Etudes by Scriabin and transcriptions of Bach and Strauss Last season Hyperion released his most recent solo recording Piers Lane goes to Town
Piers Lane continues his longstanding partnership with violinist Tasmin Little clarinettist Michael Collins and the Goldner String Quartet He has performed with Anne Sofie von Otter and Bengt Forsberg pianists Marc-Andreacute Hamelin and Kathryn Stott and string quartets the Australian Doric Kodaacutely Medici New Budapest New Zealand Prazak and RTE Vanbrugh
Many composers have written for Piers Lane and he has premiered works by Brett Dean Dave Heath Colin Matthews Richard Mills Carl Vine Benjamin Wallfisch and Malcolm Williamson among others He has made many first recordings including Elgarrsquos Impromptu Irelandrsquos Ballerina and Williamsonrsquos Piano Concerto No 4
Piers Lane has written and presented over 100 programmes for BBC Radio 3 including the popular 54-part series The Piano He was recently presented with the first medal from the Laza Kostic fund for promoting Serbian culture during difficult political times in the late 90s In the Queenrsquos Diamond Jubilee Birthday Honours he was made an Officer in the Order of Australia (AO) for distinguished services to the arts as pianist mentor and organiser
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The recital was notable for Piers Lanersquos sustained interpretative probing as much as for the pianistrsquos technical assurance and attention to musical detail Claire Seymour Seen and Heard International January 2015
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Programme notes
Tonightrsquos programme presents works from the early 20th century by three English composers of successive generations (all of them first performed in the Queenrsquos Hall which was destroyed in the Second World War and replaced by the Royal Festival Hall) Edward Elgar trained as a violinist showed his flair for writing for strings in his sonorous Introduction and Allegro of 1904ndash5 The pianist-composer John Ireland combined his characteristic mood of
rhapsodic keyboard musing with a subtle thematic sub-structure in his 1930 Piano Concerto William Walton no performer but a master of the craft of orchestration established himself as a major figure with his First Symphony begun in 1932ndash3 with a purposeful first movement a lsquomaliciousrsquo scherzo and a lsquomelancholyrsquo slow movement and completed in 1935 with a brilliant finale
Speedread
Elgar studied the violin from an early age had hopes at one stage of making a career as a soloist and earned much of his living for several years as an orchestral musician in the West Midlands So he always wrote for the strings of the orchestra with special understanding and he composed two substantial pieces for strings alone The Serenade of 1892 was a breakthrough work first tried out with a ladiesrsquo orchestra in Worcestershire but accepted for publication by the august firm of Breitkopf and Haumlrtel in Leipzig On the other hand the Introduction and Allegro was written when he was at the height of his fame It was begun in the year of his knighthood 1904 in response to a request from the recently formed London Symphony Orchestra for a new piece to be included in an all-Elgar concert Elgar himself conducted the first performance in March 1905
The scoring contrasts the main string orchestra with a solo quartet of section leaders ndash used sometimes as a concertino group (similar to Handelrsquos string concertos)
Introduction and Allegro for Strings Op 47EdwardElgar
1857ndash1934
Elgar outside his house Craeg Lea in Malvern Wells
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sometimes as individual soloists and sometimes to add subtle touches of colouring to the texture The broad Introduction anticipates the melodic material of the Allegro which is in traditional sonata form but with the usual central development section replaced by a brilliant fugue One of the workrsquos principal melodies first heard near the beginning on solo viola and brought
back in triumph towards the end of the Allegro is based on an idea that Elgar had sketched in 1901 on a holiday in Wales he was reminded of it by a song he heard in the distance in the Wye Valley on the Welsh border And the whole work he once wrote lsquois really a tribute to that sweet borderland where I have made my homersquo
Piano Concerto in E flat major
Piers Lane piano
1 In tempo moderato2 Lento espressivo ndash 3 Allegro ndash Allegretto giocoso
John Ireland was born in Bowdon south of Manchester and studied the piano and composition at the Royal College of Music in London where he later taught for many years his pupils including Benjamin Britten He was trained by Stanford in the tradition of Brahms but was open to the influence of several 20th-century composers including Debussy Ravel and Prokofiev His list of works is dominated by songs and piano pieces (many of which were inspired by places that he loved) but he also wrote effectively for orchestra Ireland wrote his Piano Concerto in 1930 for his piano pupil and proteacutegeacutee Helen Perkin She gave the first performance at the age of 21 in a Promenade Concert conducted by Sir Henry Wood in October 1930 Although conceived for her small hands the solo part is brilliantly virtuosic in places with some figuration echoing the jazz-tinged lsquonovelty numbersrsquo of between-the-wars popular piano music ndash as well as containing a great deal in a vein of poetic introspection
The Concerto is in three thematically linked movements (though Ireland numbered the second and third which are played without a break as a single unit) The first movement begins with a smooth string melody in octaves of which the first four notes ndash a falling fourth
followed by a rising fourth a step higher ndash constitute the unifying motto theme of the movement and to some extent the whole work This motto makes its presence felt in the following lyrical dialogue between the piano and the strings dominates the accelerating transition to the lively second-subject group and returns in full force as the starting-point of a broad orchestral melody After a short central section in which the piano plays continuously the motto returns as part of a fleeting reprise of the first-subject group makes a brief appearance during the extended reprise of the second-subject group and returns at the very end of the movement
The slow movement begins with an expressive string melody incorporating a phrase which hints at the perky rhythms of the first movementrsquos second subject The piano answers with a rhapsodic solo in changing metres which is continued by the strings with telling details in the horns The expressive melody of the opening returns on flute and piano a little later the first movementrsquos motto and the second-subject phrase are run together to form a counter-melody to pearly piano figuration The timpani ndash making their first appearance in the work ndash intervene to lead an
JohnIreland
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Programme notes continued
Symphony No 1
1 Allegro assai2 Presto con malizia3 Andante con malinconia4 Maestoso ndash Allegro brioso ed ardentemente ndash Vivacissimo ndash Maestoso
WilliamWalton
1902ndash83
acceleration to the finale This is a rondo on an ebullient tune introduced by the piano in sparkling high octaves The two contrasting episodes are both at a slower tempo the first opening out from the pianorsquos first phrase in the first movement the second beginning with a rapturous duet for piano and solo violin derived from ideas in the second movement The motto makes a final appearance before the last quick section in which the metre shifts from 24 to 34 and the entry of the rondo theme now transformed into a waltz is delayed until nearly the end
Interval ndash 20 minutesAn announcement will be made five minutes before the end of the interval
John Ireland in his studio 14a Gunter Grove London
During his 20s William Walton burst on to the British musical scene with his avant-garde lsquoentertainmentrsquo Faccedilade consolidated his position in the mainstream with the Portsmouth Point Overture the Sinfonia Concertante for piano and the Viola Concerto and breathed new life into the traditional form of the oratorio with Belshazzarrsquos Feast His obvious next step was a symphony not least as a challenge to his seniors Vaughan Williams and Bax he was duly invited to write one by Sir Hamilton Harty then conductor of the Halleacute Orchestra in Manchester He drafted three movements and began a fourth during 1932 and 1933 but then became stuck Harty was by now conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra and anxious to schedule
the premiere with the LSO Walton orchestrated the first three movements but remained unable to complete the finale and in the end allowed the work to be performed without it in December 1934 The following year refreshed by the ending of a stormy love affair and the start of a calmer new relationship he resumed work on the finale this time successfully The first performance of the complete Symphony with Harty this time conducting the BBC Symphony Orchestra took place in November 1935 It was a triumph immediately gaining the work an honoured place in British music which it has never since lost (and which so far has not been shared by Waltonrsquos Second Symphony of a quarter-century later)
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The lsquovery fastrsquo opening movement in B flat minor conveys a sense of breadth and power that belies the relatively modest size of the orchestra (which includes no more than double woodwind and at this stage no percussion other than timpani) The breadth stems from slow-moving harmonies over Sibelius-like long-held bass notes and timpani rolls the power from urgently repeated ostinato figures blazing dissonances and sonorous scoring The first section of the movement presents a series of subtly inter-related themes in an atmosphere of sustained tension and excitement relaxing only slightly for the broad second subject it ends with a climax of battering repeated notes The central development begins by returning to the opening idea at a subdued dynamic level and gradually builds up intensity again towards a harmonically more stable reprise of the opening section
The two middle movements reflect two contrasting and complementary aspects of Waltonrsquos musical personality The lsquomaliciousrsquo scherzo in E minor is in a very fast one-in-a-bar 34 time disrupted by occasional bars of 54 various rhythmic figures and scraps of melody are rotated but there is no contrasting trio section and no slackening of the movementrsquos biting intensity The lsquomelancholyrsquo Andante in C sharp minor is based on two melodies of characteristically bitter-sweet lyricism which are developed organically in contrapuntal textures the closing section rises to a fervently declamatory climax before falling away to a quiet ending
The B flat major finale (which adds a second timpanist and two percussionists to the orchestra) has a more sectional structure than its predecessors It begins with a lsquomajesticrsquo introduction in the boldly rhetorical manner familiar from Waltonrsquos later marches and film scores Then come two large paragraphs at a lsquofast animated and ardentrsquo tempo the first crackling with energy the second an extended incisive fugue with a smoother central episode The material of these paragraphs is transformed and developed still largely in fugal texture in a new section in lsquovery livelyrsquo triple time To round off the Symphony the tempo of the introduction is restored for a grandiloquent coda
Programme notes copy Anthony Burton
This is the work of a true Master ndash unlike any other English symphony this is in the real line of symphonic tradition It is simply colossal grand original and moving to the emotions to the most extreme degreehellip It has established you as the most vital and original genius in Europe No one but a bloody fool could possibly fail to see thishellipJohn Ireland writing to Walton after hearing the first recording of the Symphony
More Piano Concertos with the LPO at Royal Festival Hall
Saturday 21 March 2015 | 730pmProkofiev Chout (excerpts)Magnus Lindberg Piano Concerto No 2 (UK premiere)Stravinsky Petrushka (1911 version)
Vladimir Jurowski conductor | Yefim Bronfman piano
Wednesday 25 March 2015 | 730pmMozart Symphony No 36 (Linz) Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No 1 (final version) Dvořaacutek Symphony No 8
Ilyich Rivas conductor | Dmitry Mayboroda piano
Part of Rachmaninoff Inside Out
Wednesday 15 April 2015 | 730pmBeethoven Piano Concerto No 4Bruckner Symphony No 4 (Romantic) (Nowak Edition)
Robin Ticciati conductor Menahem Pressler piano
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The Elgar Birthplace Museum Exploring the life and music of Englandrsquos great composer
Set in the beautiful countryside of Worcestershire is the museum
dedicated to the life and times of Englandrsquos great composer
Sir Edward Elgar
1 Free Entry to the Museum with this programme when accompanied by a full paying adult
Lower Broadheath Worcester tel 01905 33224
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Open every day 11am - 5pm
Available from lpoorgukrecordings the LPO Ticket Office (020 7840 4242) and all good CD outlets
Available to download or stream online via iTunes Spotify Amazon and others
Symphony No 4 Ryan Wigglesworth conductor
Symphony No 8 Vladimir Jurowski conductor
London Philharmonic Orchestra
LPO-0082
Available on the LPO Label Vaughan Williams Symphonies Nos 4 amp 8
lsquoFirst-rate playing from the London Philharmonic Orchestra with a fine warm bloom to the soundrsquo Financial Times (Symphony No 4)
Recommended recordings of tonightrsquos worksElgar Introduction and Allegro London Philharmonic Orchestra | Sir Adrian Boult [EMI 5665402]
Ireland Piano Concerto Piers Lane | Ulster Orchestra | David Lloyd-Jones [Hyperion CDA67296]
Eileen Joyce | London Philharmonic Orchestra | Sir Adrian Boult [LPO-0041]
Walton Symphony No 1 London Philharmonic Orchestra | Sir Charles Mackerras [Classics for Pleasure 75569]
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Thomas Beecham Group
The Tsukanov Family Foundation
Neil Westreich
William and Alex de Winton Simon Robey Victoria Robey OBEJulian amp Gill Simmonds
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John amp Manon Antoniazzi John amp Angela Kessler Guy amp Utti Whittaker
BrightSparks patrons Instead of supporting a chair in the Orchestra these donors have chosen to support our series of schoolsrsquo concerts
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Mr Glenn HurstfieldPer JonssonMr Gerald LevinWg Cdr amp Mrs M T Liddiard OBE JP RAFPaul amp Brigitta Lock Mr Peter MaceMs Ulrike Mansel Robert MarkwickMr Brian Marsh Andrew T MillsJohn Montgomery Dr Karen Morton Mr amp Mrs Andrew Neill Tom amp Phillis SharpeMartin and Cheryl Southgate Professor John StuddMr Peter TausigMrs Kazue Turner Simon Turner Howard amp Sheelagh Watson Des amp Maggie WhitelockChristopher WilliamsBill Yoe and others who wish to remain
anonymous
Hon BenefactorElliott Bernerd
Hon Life MembersKenneth Goode Carol Colburn Grigor CBE Pehr G GyllenhammarMrs Jackie Rosenfeld OBE
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MusiciansAdam Mickiewicz Institute The Peter Minet TrustThe Ann and Frederick OrsquoBrien
Charitable Trust
Office for Cultural and Scientific Affairs ofthe Embassy of Spain in London
Palazzetto Bru Zane ndash Centre de musiqueromantique franccedilaise
The Austin and Hope Pilkington Trust Polish Cultural Institute in London PRS for Music FoundationThe Radcliffe TrustRivers Foundation The R K Charitable TrustSerge Rachmaninoff Foundation Romanian Cultural Institute Schroder Charity Trust Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation The David Solomons Charitable Trust The Steel Charitable TrustThe John Thaw FoundationThe Tillett Trust UK Friends of the Felix-Mendelssohn-
Bartholdy-Foundation The Viney FamilyGarfield Weston FoundationThe Barbara Whatmore Charitable TrustYouth Music and others who wish to remain anonymous
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SOUND FUTURES DONORS
We are grateful to the following donors for their generous contributions to Sound Futures which will establish our first ever endowment Donations from those below have already been matched pound for pound by Arts Council England through a Catalyst Endowment grant
By May 2015 we aim to have raised pound1 million which when matched will create a pound2 million fund supporting our Education and Community Programme our creative programming and major artistic projects at Southbank Centre
We thank those who are helping us to realise the vision
Masur CircleArts Council EnglandDunard Fund Victoria Robey OBE Emmanuel amp Barrie RomanThe Underwood Trust
Welser-Moumlst CircleWilliam amp Alex de WintonJohn Ireland Charitable Trust The Tsukanov Family FoundationNeil Westreich
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And all other donors who wish to remain anonymous
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Administration
Board of DirectorsVictoria Robey OBE Chairman Stewart McIlwham President Gareth Newman Vice-PresidentDr Manon Antoniazzi Richard Brass Desmond Cecil CMG Vesselin Gellev Jonathan Harris CBE FRICS Dr Catherine C HoslashgelMartin Houmlhmann George Peniston Kevin Rundell Julian SimmondsMark TempletonNatasha TsukanovaTimothy Walker AM Laurence WattNeil Westreich
Player-Director
Advisory CouncilVictoria Robey OBE Chairman Christopher Aldren Richard Brass David Buckley Sir Alan Collins KCVO CMG Andrew Davenport Jonathan Dawson William de Winton Edward Dolman Christopher Fraser OBE Lord Hall of Birkenhead CBE Jamie Korner Clive Marks OBE FCA Stewart McIlwham Sir Bernard Rix Baroness ShackletonLord Sharman of Redlynch OBE Thomas Sharpe QC Martin SouthgateSir Philip Thomas Sir John TooleyChris VineyTimothy Walker AMElizabeth Winter
American Friends of the London Philharmonic Orchestra IncJenny Ireland Co-ChairmanWilliam A Kerr Co-ChairmanKyung-Wha ChungAlexandra JupinDr Felisa B KaplanJill Fine MainelliKristina McPhee Dr Joseph MulvehillHarvey M Spear EsqDanny Lopez Hon ChairmanNoel Kilkenny Hon DirectorVictoria Robey OBE Hon DirectorRichard Gee Esq Of Counsel Jenifer L Keiser CPA
EisnerAmper LLP
Chief Executive
Timothy Walker AM Chief Executive and Artistic Director
Amy SugarmanPA to the Chief Executive Administrative Assistant
Finance
David BurkeGeneral Manager and Finance Director
David GreensladeFinance and IT Manager
Dayse GuilhermeFinance Officer
Concert Management
Roanna Gibson Concerts Director
Graham WoodConcerts and Recordings Manager
Jenny Chadwick Tours Manager
Tamzin Aitken Glyndebourne and UK Engagements Manager
Alison JonesConcerts and Recordings Co-ordinator
Jo CotterTours Co-ordinator Orchestra Personnel
Andrew CheneryOrchestra Personnel Manager
Sarah Holmes Sarah ThomasLibrarians ( job-share)
Christopher AldertonStage Manager
Damian Davis Transport Manager
Ellie Swithinbank Assistant Orchestra Personnel Manager
Education and Community
Isabella Kernot Education Director
Alexandra ClarkeEducation and Community Project Manager
Lucy DuffyEducation and Community Project Manager
Richard MallettEducation and Community Producer
Development
Nick JackmanDevelopment Director
Catherine Faulkner Development Events Manager
Kathryn HagemanIndividual Giving Manager
Laura Luckhurst Corporate Relations Manager
Anna Quillin Trusts and Foundations Manager
Helen Etheridge Development Assistant
Rebecca FoggDevelopment Assistant
Kirstin PeltonenDevelopment Associate
Marketing
Kath TroutMarketing Director
Mia RobertsMarketing Manager
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Libby Northcote-GreenMarketing Co-ordinator
Digital Projects
Alison Atkinson Digital Projects Director
Matthew Freeman Recordings Consultant Public Relations
Albion Media (Tel 020 3077 4930) Archives
Philip StuartDiscographer
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Charles RussellSolicitors
Crowe Clark Whitehill LLPAuditors
Dr Louise MillerHonorary Doctor
London Philharmonic Orchestra89 Albert Embankment London SE1 7TPTel 020 7840 4200Box Office 020 7840 4242Email adminlpoorguklpoorguk
The London Philharmonic Orchestra Limited is a registered charity No 238045
Composer photographs of Elgar and Walton courtesy of the Royal College of Music London Ireland photographs courtesy of The John Ireland Charitable Trust Front cover photograph Martin Hobbs horn copy Julian Calverley Cover design art direction Chaos Design
Printed by Cantate
Winner of the RPS Music Award for Ensemble
Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor VLADIMIR JUROWSKIsupported by the Tsukanov Family Foundation
Leader PIETER SCHOEMANsupported by Neil Westreich
Composer in Residence MAGNUS LINDBERGPatron HRH THE DUKE OF KENT KG
Chief Executive and Artistic Director TIMOTHY WALKER AM
Contents
2 Welcome Orchestra news3 On stage tonight 4 About the Orchestra5 Leader Vesselin Gellev 6 Andrew Manze7 Piers Lane8 Programme notes14 Supporters15 Sound Futures donors16 LPO administration
The timings shown are not precise and are given only as a guide
CONCERT PRESENTED BY THE LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Southbank Centrersquos Royal Festival HallWednesday 11 March 2015 | 730pm
Elgar Introduction and Allegro for Strings Op 47 (13rsquo)
Ireland Piano Concerto in E flat major (25rsquo)
Interval
Walton Symphony No 1 (43rsquo)
Andrew Manze conductor
Piers Lane piano
Concert generously supported by The John Ireland Charitable Trust
Free pre-concert event 600pmndash645pm | Royal Festival Hall
Andrew Manze directs the LPOrsquos Foyle Future Firsts in more English music ndash a series of jewel-like arrangements realisations and re-creations of Henry Purcellrsquos music by 21st-century masters George Benjamin Oliver Knussen Peter Maxwell Davies and Andrew Manze himself
This concert is being broadcast live by the BBC on Radio 3 Live In Concert ndash live concerts every day of the week Listen online in HD Sound for 30 days at bbccoukradio3
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Welcome
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We look forward to seeing you again soon
A few points to note for your comfort and enjoyment
PHOTOGRAPHY is not allowed in the auditorium
LATECOMERS will only be admitted to the auditorium if there is a suitable break in the performance
RECORDING is not permitted in the auditorium without the prior consent of Southbank Centre Southbank Centre reserves the right to confiscate video or sound equipment and hold it in safekeeping until the performance has ended
MOBILES PAGERS AND WATCHES should be switched off before the performance begins
London Philharmonic Orchestra
201415 season
Latest LPO releaseAt the end of last month Christoph Eschenbach conducted a performance of Beethoven and Mendelssohn with the LPO He takes charge on the latest LPO CD a recording of Messiaenrsquos Des canyons aux eacutetoiles (From the Canyons to the Stars) which evokes the beauty of a magnificent landscape and features the rarely heard xylorimba The two-disc set (LPO-0083) is priced pound1099 and available via the LPO website (as a download or CD) or through the LPO Ticket Office (020 7840 4242) lpoorgukshop
LPO at Glyndebourne recording up for awardWe are delighted to hear that the 2011 Glyndebourne CD recording of Die Meistersinger von Nuumlrnberg with the London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor Vladimir Jurowski has been shortlisted in the category of Best Opera for the BBC Music Magazine Awards 2015 The winner in each category is determined by public vote via the linkclassical-musiccomawards
A little bird told us The Orchestra has recently returned from a tour with conductor Marin Alsop An avid lsquotweeterrsquo we followed Marinrsquos musical adventures via the wonders of social media She also wrote a blog which makes for interesting reading ndash where else would you find out that Martin Hobbs (horn) and Stewart McIlwham (piccolo) cycled halfway between Groningen and Utrecht and planned to cycle between Utrecht and Eindhoven Must be all that lung capacity You can find out if they made it on Marinrsquos blog bitly1Av7lN5
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On stage tonight
First ViolinsVesselin Gellev LeaderIlyoung Chae
Chair supported by an anonymous donor
Ji-Hyun Lee Chair supported by Eric Tomsett
Catherine CraigThomas EisnerMartin HoumlhmannGeoffrey Lynn
Chair supported by Caroline Jamie amp Zander Sharp
Robert PoolSarah StreatfeildYang ZhangRebecca ShorrockAlina PetrenkoGalina TanneyCaroline SharpHelena SmartNilufar Alimaksumova
Second ViolinsCharlotte Potgieter
Guest PrincipalJeongmin Kim
Sub-PrincipalKate Birchall
Chair supported by David amp Victoria Graham Fuller
Nancy ElanLorenzo Gentili-TedeschiFiona HighamNynke HijlkemaJoseph MaherAshley StevensDean Williamson
Sioni WilliamsHarry KerrMila MustakovaSheila Law
ViolasJon Thorne
Guest PrincipalKatharine LeekSusanne MartensBenedetto PollaniEmmanuella ReiterLaura VallejoNaomi HoltIsabel PereiraDaniel CornfordMartin FennMiriam EiseleFay Sweet
CellosHetty Snell Guest PrincipalFrancis BucknallLaura DonoghueSantiago CarvalhodaggerDavid LaleGregory WalmsleyElisabeth WiklanderSue Sutherley Susanna RiddellTom Roff
Double BassesKevin Rundell PrincipalLaurence LovelleGeorge PenistonWilliam ColeLowri MorganCharlotte KerbegianAntonia BakewellRichard Dalling
FlutesJuliette Bausor
Guest PrincipalStewart McIlwham
PiccoloStewart McIlwham
Principal
OboesIan Hardwick PrincipalAlice Munday
ClarinetsRobert Hill PrincipalThomas Watmough
BassoonsGareth Newman PrincipalSimon Estell
HornsDavid Pyatt Principal
Chair supported by Simon Robey
John Ryan PrincipalMartin HobbsMark Vines Co-PrincipalGareth Mollison
TrumpetsPaul Beniston PrincipalAnne McAneney
Chair supported by Geoff amp Meg Mann
Nicholas Betts Co-Principal
TrombonesMark Templeton Principal
Chair supported by William amp Alex de Winton
David Whitehouse
Bass TromboneLyndon Meredith Principal
TubaLee Tsarmaklis Principal
Chair supported by Friends of the Orchestra
TimpaniSimon Carrington PrincipalJames Bower
Percussion Andrew Barclay Principal
Chair supported by Andrew Davenport
Keith Millar
Holds a professorial appointment in London
dagger Chevalier of the Brazilian Order of Rio Branco
Meet our members lpoorgukplayers
Chair Supporters
The London Philharmonic Orchestra also acknowledges the following chair supporters whose players are not present at this concert Neil Westreich Sonja Drexler Victoria Robey OBE
4 | London Philharmonic Orchestra
London Philharmonic Orchestra
The London Philharmonic Orchestra is one of the worldrsquos finest orchestras balancing a long and distinguished history with its present-day position as one of the most dynamic and forward-looking ensembles in the UK As well as its performances in the concert hall the Orchestra also records film and video game soundtracks releases CDs on its own record label and reaches thousands of people every year through activities for families schools and community groups
The Orchestra was founded by Sir Thomas Beecham in 1932 It has since been headed by many of the worldrsquos greatest conductors including Sir Adrian Boult Bernard Haitink Sir Georg Solti Klaus Tennstedt and Kurt Masur Vladimir Jurowski is currently the Orchestrarsquos Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor appointed in 2007 From September 2015 Andreacutes Orozco-Estrada will take up the position of Principal Guest Conductor Magnus Lindberg is the Orchestrarsquos current Composer in Residence
The Orchestra is based at Southbank Centrersquos Royal Festival Hall in London where it has performed since the Hallrsquos opening in 1951 and been Resident Orchestra since 1992 It gives around 30 concerts there each season with many of the worldrsquos top conductors and
soloists Throughout 2013 the Orchestra collaborated with Southbank Centre on the year-long The Rest Is Noise festival charting the influential works of the 20th century 201415 highlights include a season-long festival Rachmaninoff Inside Out exploring the composerrsquos major orchestral masterpieces premieres of works by Harrison Birtwistle Julian Anderson Colin Matthews James Horner and the Orchestrarsquos new Composer in Residence Magnus Lindberg and appearances by many of todayrsquos most sought-after artists including Maria Joatildeo Pires Christoph Eschenbach Yannick Neacutezet-Seacuteguin Osmo Vaumlnskauml Lars Vogt Barbara Hannigan Vasily Petrenko Marin Alsop Katia and Marielle Labegraveque and Robin Ticciati
Outside London the Orchestra has flourishing residencies in Brighton and Eastbourne and performs regularly around the UK Each summer it takes up its annual residency at Glyndebourne Festival Opera in the Sussex countryside 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
Full marks to the London Philharmonic for continuing to offer the most adventurous concerts in LondonThe Financial Times 14 April 2014
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Touring remains a large part of the Orchestrarsquos life highlights of the 201415 season include appearances across Europe (including Iceland) and tours to the USA (West and East Coasts) Canada and China
The London Philharmonic Orchestra has recorded the soundtracks to numerous blockbuster films 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 80 releases available on CD and to download Recent additions include organ works by Poulenc and Saint-Saeumlns with Yannick Neacutezet-Seacuteguin Straussrsquos Don Juan and Ein Heldenleben with Bernard Haitink Shostakovichrsquos Symphonies Nos 6 amp 14 and Zemlinskyrsquos A Florentine Tragedy with Vladimir Jurowski and Orffrsquos Carmina Burana with Hans Graf In summer 2012 the London Philharmonic Orchestra performed as part of The Queenrsquos Diamond Jubilee Pageant on the River Thames and was also chosen to record all the worldrsquos national anthems for the London 2012 Olympics In 2013 it was the winner of the RPS Music Award for Ensemble
The London Philharmonic Orchestra is committed to inspiring the next generation of musicians through an energetic programme of activities for young people Highlights include the BrightSparks schoolsrsquo concerts and FUNharmonics family concerts the Young Composers Programme and the Foyle Future Firsts orchestral training programme for outstanding young players Its work at the forefront of digital engagement and social media has enabled the Orchestra to reach even more people worldwide all its recordings are available to download from iTunes and as well as a YouTube channel and regular podcast series the Orchestra has a lively presence on Facebook and Twitter
Find out more and get involved
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Vesselin Gellev leader
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Bulgarian violinist Vesselin Gellev has been a featured soloist with the London Philharmonic Orchestra Spoleto Festival Orchestra New Haven Symphony Orchestra and Juilliard Orchestra among others
He won First Prize at the Concert Artists Guild
Competition in New York as a member of the Antares Quartet and has recorded several albums and toured worldwide as Concertmaster of Kristjan Jaumlrvirsquos Grammy-nominated Absolute Ensemble
Vesselin has performed as Guest Leader with orchestras including the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Royal Scottish National Orchestra BBC National Orchestra of Wales Mahler Chamber Orchestra and the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
Vesselin studied at The Juilliard School and joined the London Philharmonic Orchestra as Sub-Leader in 2007
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Andrew Manzeconductor
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Andrew Manzersquos extensive and scholarly knowledge of the repertoire together with his skill as a communicator and boundless energy has marked him out amongst his peers In September 2014 he became the Principal Conductor of the NDR Radio Philharmonic Orchestra in Hannover and he regularly performs as a guest conductor with a number of leading international orchestras including the Munich Philharmonic Leipzig Gewandhaus Gothenburg Symphony Oslo Philharmonic City of Birmingham Symphony Halleacute Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Mahler Chamber Orchestra and the Scottish and Swedish Chamber orchestras
He was Principal Conductor and Artistic Director of the Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra Sweden (from 2006ndash14) with which he made a number of recordings including Beethovenrsquos Symphony No 3 lsquoEroicarsquo (Harmonia Mundi) and a cycle of Brahms symphonies (CPO) He was Associate Guest Conductor of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra from 2010ndash14 and Principal Guest Conductor of the Norwegian Radio Symphony Orchestra from 2008ndash11
Orchestral debuts this season and beyond include the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Frankfurt Radio Symphony orchestras and Orquestra Sinfocircnica do Estado de Satildeo Paulo Alongside his regular guesting Manze returns to the Leipzig Gewandhausorchester WDR Sinfonieorchester Koumlln Tonkuumlnstler and Danish National Symphony orchestras and makes his fourth consecutive appearance at the Mostly Mozart Fesival New York this summer
After reading Classics at Cambridge University Andrew Manze studied the violin and rapidly became a leading specialist in the world of historical performance practice
He became Associate Director of The Academy of Ancient Music in 1996 and then Artistic Director of The English Concert from 2003 until 2007 As a violinist Manze has released an astonishing variety of CDs many of them award-winning
He is a fellow of the Royal Academy of Music and a Visiting Professor at the Oslo Academy and has contributed to new editions of sonatas and concertos by Mozart and Bach published by Baumlrenreiter and Breitkopf and Haumlrtel He also teaches edits and writes about music as well as broadcasting regularly on radio and television
Andrew Manze received the prestigious Rolf Schock Prize in Stockholm in 2011 Previous winners include Ligeti Kagel Gidon Kremer and Anne Sofie von Otter
This eveningrsquos performance marks Andrew Manzersquos debut with the London Philharmonic Orchestra
Andrew Manze conducts Vaughan Williams A Pastoral Symphony at the 2014 BBC Proms
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Andrew Manze has developed into one of the most gifted present-day occupants of the podiumGuy Rickards Gramophone September 2014 Recording of Larrson Orchestral Works Vol 1
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Piers Lanepiano
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London-based Australian pianist Piers Lane is in great demand as soloist and collaborative artist Recent highlights include concerto performances of Busoni and Bridge at Carnegie Hall premieres of Carl Vinersquos Second Piano Concerto written for him with the Sydney Symphony and the London Philharmonic orchestras and sold-out solo recitals at Wigmore Hall
Five-times soloist at the BBC Proms Piers Lanersquos concerto repertoire exceeds 90 works and has led to engagements with many of the worldrsquos great orchestras including the American Bournemouth and Gothenburg Symphony orchestras Orchestre National de France City of London Sinfonia and Warsaw Philharmonic Leading conductors with whom he has worked include Andrey Boreyko Sir Andrew Davis Andrew Litton Jerzy Maksymiuk Vassily Sinaisky and Yan Pascal Tortelier
He frequently performs at prestigious festivals such as Aldeburgh Prague Spring and the Chopin festival in Warsaw He is Artistic Director of the Australian Festival of Chamber Music and also directed the annual Myra Hess Day at the National Gallery in London from its inception in 2006 until 2013 From this sprang Admission One Shilling a collaboration with actress Patricia Routledge devised by Nigel Hess for theatre exploring Dame Myrarsquos work during the Second World War it has been performed over 70 times throughout the UK and most recently in Australia and Belgium
Piers Lanersquos discography of over 50 CDs includes much admired recordings of rare Romantic piano concertos the complete Preludes and Etudes by Scriabin and transcriptions of Bach and Strauss Last season Hyperion released his most recent solo recording Piers Lane goes to Town
Piers Lane continues his longstanding partnership with violinist Tasmin Little clarinettist Michael Collins and the Goldner String Quartet He has performed with Anne Sofie von Otter and Bengt Forsberg pianists Marc-Andreacute Hamelin and Kathryn Stott and string quartets the Australian Doric Kodaacutely Medici New Budapest New Zealand Prazak and RTE Vanbrugh
Many composers have written for Piers Lane and he has premiered works by Brett Dean Dave Heath Colin Matthews Richard Mills Carl Vine Benjamin Wallfisch and Malcolm Williamson among others He has made many first recordings including Elgarrsquos Impromptu Irelandrsquos Ballerina and Williamsonrsquos Piano Concerto No 4
Piers Lane has written and presented over 100 programmes for BBC Radio 3 including the popular 54-part series The Piano He was recently presented with the first medal from the Laza Kostic fund for promoting Serbian culture during difficult political times in the late 90s In the Queenrsquos Diamond Jubilee Birthday Honours he was made an Officer in the Order of Australia (AO) for distinguished services to the arts as pianist mentor and organiser
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The recital was notable for Piers Lanersquos sustained interpretative probing as much as for the pianistrsquos technical assurance and attention to musical detail Claire Seymour Seen and Heard International January 2015
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Programme notes
Tonightrsquos programme presents works from the early 20th century by three English composers of successive generations (all of them first performed in the Queenrsquos Hall which was destroyed in the Second World War and replaced by the Royal Festival Hall) Edward Elgar trained as a violinist showed his flair for writing for strings in his sonorous Introduction and Allegro of 1904ndash5 The pianist-composer John Ireland combined his characteristic mood of
rhapsodic keyboard musing with a subtle thematic sub-structure in his 1930 Piano Concerto William Walton no performer but a master of the craft of orchestration established himself as a major figure with his First Symphony begun in 1932ndash3 with a purposeful first movement a lsquomaliciousrsquo scherzo and a lsquomelancholyrsquo slow movement and completed in 1935 with a brilliant finale
Speedread
Elgar studied the violin from an early age had hopes at one stage of making a career as a soloist and earned much of his living for several years as an orchestral musician in the West Midlands So he always wrote for the strings of the orchestra with special understanding and he composed two substantial pieces for strings alone The Serenade of 1892 was a breakthrough work first tried out with a ladiesrsquo orchestra in Worcestershire but accepted for publication by the august firm of Breitkopf and Haumlrtel in Leipzig On the other hand the Introduction and Allegro was written when he was at the height of his fame It was begun in the year of his knighthood 1904 in response to a request from the recently formed London Symphony Orchestra for a new piece to be included in an all-Elgar concert Elgar himself conducted the first performance in March 1905
The scoring contrasts the main string orchestra with a solo quartet of section leaders ndash used sometimes as a concertino group (similar to Handelrsquos string concertos)
Introduction and Allegro for Strings Op 47EdwardElgar
1857ndash1934
Elgar outside his house Craeg Lea in Malvern Wells
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sometimes as individual soloists and sometimes to add subtle touches of colouring to the texture The broad Introduction anticipates the melodic material of the Allegro which is in traditional sonata form but with the usual central development section replaced by a brilliant fugue One of the workrsquos principal melodies first heard near the beginning on solo viola and brought
back in triumph towards the end of the Allegro is based on an idea that Elgar had sketched in 1901 on a holiday in Wales he was reminded of it by a song he heard in the distance in the Wye Valley on the Welsh border And the whole work he once wrote lsquois really a tribute to that sweet borderland where I have made my homersquo
Piano Concerto in E flat major
Piers Lane piano
1 In tempo moderato2 Lento espressivo ndash 3 Allegro ndash Allegretto giocoso
John Ireland was born in Bowdon south of Manchester and studied the piano and composition at the Royal College of Music in London where he later taught for many years his pupils including Benjamin Britten He was trained by Stanford in the tradition of Brahms but was open to the influence of several 20th-century composers including Debussy Ravel and Prokofiev His list of works is dominated by songs and piano pieces (many of which were inspired by places that he loved) but he also wrote effectively for orchestra Ireland wrote his Piano Concerto in 1930 for his piano pupil and proteacutegeacutee Helen Perkin She gave the first performance at the age of 21 in a Promenade Concert conducted by Sir Henry Wood in October 1930 Although conceived for her small hands the solo part is brilliantly virtuosic in places with some figuration echoing the jazz-tinged lsquonovelty numbersrsquo of between-the-wars popular piano music ndash as well as containing a great deal in a vein of poetic introspection
The Concerto is in three thematically linked movements (though Ireland numbered the second and third which are played without a break as a single unit) The first movement begins with a smooth string melody in octaves of which the first four notes ndash a falling fourth
followed by a rising fourth a step higher ndash constitute the unifying motto theme of the movement and to some extent the whole work This motto makes its presence felt in the following lyrical dialogue between the piano and the strings dominates the accelerating transition to the lively second-subject group and returns in full force as the starting-point of a broad orchestral melody After a short central section in which the piano plays continuously the motto returns as part of a fleeting reprise of the first-subject group makes a brief appearance during the extended reprise of the second-subject group and returns at the very end of the movement
The slow movement begins with an expressive string melody incorporating a phrase which hints at the perky rhythms of the first movementrsquos second subject The piano answers with a rhapsodic solo in changing metres which is continued by the strings with telling details in the horns The expressive melody of the opening returns on flute and piano a little later the first movementrsquos motto and the second-subject phrase are run together to form a counter-melody to pearly piano figuration The timpani ndash making their first appearance in the work ndash intervene to lead an
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Programme notes continued
Symphony No 1
1 Allegro assai2 Presto con malizia3 Andante con malinconia4 Maestoso ndash Allegro brioso ed ardentemente ndash Vivacissimo ndash Maestoso
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acceleration to the finale This is a rondo on an ebullient tune introduced by the piano in sparkling high octaves The two contrasting episodes are both at a slower tempo the first opening out from the pianorsquos first phrase in the first movement the second beginning with a rapturous duet for piano and solo violin derived from ideas in the second movement The motto makes a final appearance before the last quick section in which the metre shifts from 24 to 34 and the entry of the rondo theme now transformed into a waltz is delayed until nearly the end
Interval ndash 20 minutesAn announcement will be made five minutes before the end of the interval
John Ireland in his studio 14a Gunter Grove London
During his 20s William Walton burst on to the British musical scene with his avant-garde lsquoentertainmentrsquo Faccedilade consolidated his position in the mainstream with the Portsmouth Point Overture the Sinfonia Concertante for piano and the Viola Concerto and breathed new life into the traditional form of the oratorio with Belshazzarrsquos Feast His obvious next step was a symphony not least as a challenge to his seniors Vaughan Williams and Bax he was duly invited to write one by Sir Hamilton Harty then conductor of the Halleacute Orchestra in Manchester He drafted three movements and began a fourth during 1932 and 1933 but then became stuck Harty was by now conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra and anxious to schedule
the premiere with the LSO Walton orchestrated the first three movements but remained unable to complete the finale and in the end allowed the work to be performed without it in December 1934 The following year refreshed by the ending of a stormy love affair and the start of a calmer new relationship he resumed work on the finale this time successfully The first performance of the complete Symphony with Harty this time conducting the BBC Symphony Orchestra took place in November 1935 It was a triumph immediately gaining the work an honoured place in British music which it has never since lost (and which so far has not been shared by Waltonrsquos Second Symphony of a quarter-century later)
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The lsquovery fastrsquo opening movement in B flat minor conveys a sense of breadth and power that belies the relatively modest size of the orchestra (which includes no more than double woodwind and at this stage no percussion other than timpani) The breadth stems from slow-moving harmonies over Sibelius-like long-held bass notes and timpani rolls the power from urgently repeated ostinato figures blazing dissonances and sonorous scoring The first section of the movement presents a series of subtly inter-related themes in an atmosphere of sustained tension and excitement relaxing only slightly for the broad second subject it ends with a climax of battering repeated notes The central development begins by returning to the opening idea at a subdued dynamic level and gradually builds up intensity again towards a harmonically more stable reprise of the opening section
The two middle movements reflect two contrasting and complementary aspects of Waltonrsquos musical personality The lsquomaliciousrsquo scherzo in E minor is in a very fast one-in-a-bar 34 time disrupted by occasional bars of 54 various rhythmic figures and scraps of melody are rotated but there is no contrasting trio section and no slackening of the movementrsquos biting intensity The lsquomelancholyrsquo Andante in C sharp minor is based on two melodies of characteristically bitter-sweet lyricism which are developed organically in contrapuntal textures the closing section rises to a fervently declamatory climax before falling away to a quiet ending
The B flat major finale (which adds a second timpanist and two percussionists to the orchestra) has a more sectional structure than its predecessors It begins with a lsquomajesticrsquo introduction in the boldly rhetorical manner familiar from Waltonrsquos later marches and film scores Then come two large paragraphs at a lsquofast animated and ardentrsquo tempo the first crackling with energy the second an extended incisive fugue with a smoother central episode The material of these paragraphs is transformed and developed still largely in fugal texture in a new section in lsquovery livelyrsquo triple time To round off the Symphony the tempo of the introduction is restored for a grandiloquent coda
Programme notes copy Anthony Burton
This is the work of a true Master ndash unlike any other English symphony this is in the real line of symphonic tradition It is simply colossal grand original and moving to the emotions to the most extreme degreehellip It has established you as the most vital and original genius in Europe No one but a bloody fool could possibly fail to see thishellipJohn Ireland writing to Walton after hearing the first recording of the Symphony
More Piano Concertos with the LPO at Royal Festival Hall
Saturday 21 March 2015 | 730pmProkofiev Chout (excerpts)Magnus Lindberg Piano Concerto No 2 (UK premiere)Stravinsky Petrushka (1911 version)
Vladimir Jurowski conductor | Yefim Bronfman piano
Wednesday 25 March 2015 | 730pmMozart Symphony No 36 (Linz) Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No 1 (final version) Dvořaacutek Symphony No 8
Ilyich Rivas conductor | Dmitry Mayboroda piano
Part of Rachmaninoff Inside Out
Wednesday 15 April 2015 | 730pmBeethoven Piano Concerto No 4Bruckner Symphony No 4 (Romantic) (Nowak Edition)
Robin Ticciati conductor Menahem Pressler piano
Tickets pound9ndashpound39 (premium seats pound65)
London Philharmonic Orchestra Ticket Office020 7840 4242 MondayndashFriday 1000amndash500pm lpoorguk Transaction fees pound175 online pound275 telephone
12 | London Philharmonic Orchestra
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London Philharmonic Orchestra | 13
The Elgar Birthplace Museum Exploring the life and music of Englandrsquos great composer
Set in the beautiful countryside of Worcestershire is the museum
dedicated to the life and times of Englandrsquos great composer
Sir Edward Elgar
1 Free Entry to the Museum with this programme when accompanied by a full paying adult
Lower Broadheath Worcester tel 01905 33224
birthplaceelgarmuseumorg
Open every day 11am - 5pm
Available from lpoorgukrecordings the LPO Ticket Office (020 7840 4242) and all good CD outlets
Available to download or stream online via iTunes Spotify Amazon and others
Symphony No 4 Ryan Wigglesworth conductor
Symphony No 8 Vladimir Jurowski conductor
London Philharmonic Orchestra
LPO-0082
Available on the LPO Label Vaughan Williams Symphonies Nos 4 amp 8
lsquoFirst-rate playing from the London Philharmonic Orchestra with a fine warm bloom to the soundrsquo Financial Times (Symphony No 4)
Recommended recordings of tonightrsquos worksElgar Introduction and Allegro London Philharmonic Orchestra | Sir Adrian Boult [EMI 5665402]
Ireland Piano Concerto Piers Lane | Ulster Orchestra | David Lloyd-Jones [Hyperion CDA67296]
Eileen Joyce | London Philharmonic Orchestra | Sir Adrian Boult [LPO-0041]
Walton Symphony No 1 London Philharmonic Orchestra | Sir Charles Mackerras [Classics for Pleasure 75569]
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We would like to acknowledge the generous support of the following Thomas Beecham Group Patrons Principal Benefactors and Benefactors
Thomas Beecham Group
The Tsukanov Family Foundation
Neil Westreich
William and Alex de Winton Simon Robey Victoria Robey OBEJulian amp Gill Simmonds
Anonymous Garf amp Gill CollinsAndrew Davenport Mrs Sonja DrexlerDavid amp Victoria Graham Fuller Mrs Philip KanMr amp Mrs MakharinskyGeoff amp Meg MannCaroline Jamie amp Zander SharpEric Tomsett
John amp Manon Antoniazzi John amp Angela Kessler Guy amp Utti Whittaker
BrightSparks patrons Instead of supporting a chair in the Orchestra these donors have chosen to support our series of schoolsrsquo concerts
Principal BenefactorsMark amp Elizabeth AdamsDesmond amp Ruth CecilMr John H CookDavid EllenMr Daniel Goldstein Drs Frank amp Gek LimPeter MacDonald Eggers Dr Eva Lotta amp Mr Thierry Sciard Mr amp Mrs David MalpasMr Michael PosenMr amp Mrs G SteinMr amp Mrs John C TuckerMr amp Mrs John amp Susi Underwood Lady Marina Vaizey Laurence Watt Grenville amp Krysia Williams Mr Anthony Yolland
BenefactorsMrs A Beare David amp Patricia BuckMrs Alan CarringtonMr amp Mrs Stewart CohenMr Alistair Corbett Georgy Djaparidze Mr David Edgecombe Mr Timothy Fancourt QCMr Richard FernyhoughTony amp Susan Hayes Michael amp Christine HenryMalcolm Herring J Douglas HomeIvan Hurry
Mr Glenn HurstfieldPer JonssonMr Gerald LevinWg Cdr amp Mrs M T Liddiard OBE JP RAFPaul amp Brigitta Lock Mr Peter MaceMs Ulrike Mansel Robert MarkwickMr Brian Marsh Andrew T MillsJohn Montgomery Dr Karen Morton Mr amp Mrs Andrew Neill Tom amp Phillis SharpeMartin and Cheryl Southgate Professor John StuddMr Peter TausigMrs Kazue Turner Simon Turner Howard amp Sheelagh Watson Des amp Maggie WhitelockChristopher WilliamsBill Yoe and others who wish to remain
anonymous
Hon BenefactorElliott Bernerd
Hon Life MembersKenneth Goode Carol Colburn Grigor CBE Pehr G GyllenhammarMrs Jackie Rosenfeld OBE
The generosity of our Sponsors Corporate Members supporters and donors is gratefully acknowledgedCorporate Members
Silver AREVA UK BerenbergBritish American BusinessCarter-Ruck
Bronze Appleyard amp Trew LLP BTO Management Consulting AG Charles Russell SpeechlysLeventis Overseas
Preferred Partners Corinthia Hotel London Heineken Lindt amp Spruumlngli LtdSipsmith Steinway Villa Maria In-kind SponsorsGoogle IncSela Tilleyrsquos Sweets
Trusts and Foundations Angus Allnatt Charitable Foundation Ambache Charitable Trust Ruth Berkowitz Charitable Trust The Boltini Trust
Borletti-Buitoni TrustBritten-Pears Foundation The Candide Trust The Peter Carr Charitable Trust in memory
of Peter CarrThe Ernest Cook TrustThe Coutts Charitable TrustThe DrsquoOyly Carte Charitable TrustDunard FundThe Equitable Charitable Trust Fidelio Charitable TrustThe Foyle FoundationLucille Graham TrustThe Jeniffer and Jonathan Harris
Charitable TrustHelp Musicians UK The Hinrichsen Foundation The Hobson Charity The Idlewild Trust Kirby Laing Foundation The Leche Trust London Stock Exchange Group FoundationMarsh Christian TrustThe Mayor of Londonrsquos Fund for Young
MusiciansAdam Mickiewicz Institute The Peter Minet TrustThe Ann and Frederick OrsquoBrien
Charitable Trust
Office for Cultural and Scientific Affairs ofthe Embassy of Spain in London
Palazzetto Bru Zane ndash Centre de musiqueromantique franccedilaise
The Austin and Hope Pilkington Trust Polish Cultural Institute in London PRS for Music FoundationThe Radcliffe TrustRivers Foundation The R K Charitable TrustSerge Rachmaninoff Foundation Romanian Cultural Institute Schroder Charity Trust Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation The David Solomons Charitable Trust The Steel Charitable TrustThe John Thaw FoundationThe Tillett Trust UK Friends of the Felix-Mendelssohn-
Bartholdy-Foundation The Viney FamilyGarfield Weston FoundationThe Barbara Whatmore Charitable TrustYouth Music and others who wish to remain anonymous
London Philharmonic Orchestra | 15
SOUND FUTURES DONORS
We are grateful to the following donors for their generous contributions to Sound Futures which will establish our first ever endowment Donations from those below have already been matched pound for pound by Arts Council England through a Catalyst Endowment grant
By May 2015 we aim to have raised pound1 million which when matched will create a pound2 million fund supporting our Education and Community Programme our creative programming and major artistic projects at Southbank Centre
We thank those who are helping us to realise the vision
Masur CircleArts Council EnglandDunard Fund Victoria Robey OBE Emmanuel amp Barrie RomanThe Underwood Trust
Welser-Moumlst CircleWilliam amp Alex de WintonJohn Ireland Charitable Trust The Tsukanov Family FoundationNeil Westreich
Tennstedt CircleRichard Buxton Simon Robey Simon amp Vero Turner The late Mr K Twyman
Solti PatronsAgeas John amp Manon Antoniazzi Georgy DjaparidzeMrs Mina Goodman and
Miss Suzanne GoodmanMr James R D KornerRobert Markwick amp Kasia RobinskiThe Rothschild Foundation
Haitink PatronsMark amp Elizabeth AdamsMrs Pauline BaumgartnerLady Jane BerrillMr Frederick BrittendenDavid amp Yi Yao BuckleyGill amp Garf CollinsMr John H CookBruno de KegelMr Gavin GrahamMoya GreeneTony and Susie Hayes
Catherine Hoslashgel amp Ben MardleMrs Philip Kan Rose and Dudley LeighLady Roslyn Marion LyonsMiss Jeanette MartinDiana and Allan Morgenthau
Charitable TrustDr Karen MortonRuth RattenburyThe Reed Foundation Sir Bernard RixDavid Ross and Line Forestier (Canada)Carolina amp Martin SchwabTom and Phillis SharpeDr Brian SmithMr amp Mrs G SteinDr Peter Stephenson Miss Anne StoddartTFS Loans LimitedLady Marina VaizeyMs Jenny WatsonGuy amp Utti Whittaker
Pritchard DonorsRalph and Elizabeth AldwinckleMichael and Linda BlackstoneConrad Blakey OBEDr Anthony BucklandBusiness Events SydneyLady June ChichesterJohn Childress amp Christiane WuillamieLindka CierachPaul CollinsMr Alistair CorbettDavid DennisMr David EdgecombeDavid EllenMr Timothy Fancourt QCKarima amp David GMr Daniel Goldstein
Mr Derek B GrayMr Roger GreenwoodRebecca Halford HarrisonMr J Douglas HomeHoneymead Arts TrustMrs Dawn HooperRehmet Kassim-LakhaMr Geoffrey KirkhamPeter LeaverDrs Frank amp Gek LimPeter MaceMr David MacfarlaneGeoff amp Meg MannMarsh Christian TrustDr David McGibneyMichael amp Patricia McLaren-TurnerJohn MontgomeryRosemary MorganGail MutruxParis NatarMr Roger H C PattisonThe late Edmund PirouetMr Michael PosenSarah amp John PriestlandMr Christopher QuereeMr Peter RussellMr Alan SainerTim SlorickLady Valerie SoltiTimothy Walker AMLaurence WattMr R WattsDes amp Maggie WhitelockChristopher WilliamsPeter Wilson SmithVictoria YanakovaMr Anthony Yolland
And all other donors who wish to remain anonymous
16 | London Philharmonic Orchestra
Administration
Board of DirectorsVictoria Robey OBE Chairman Stewart McIlwham President Gareth Newman Vice-PresidentDr Manon Antoniazzi Richard Brass Desmond Cecil CMG Vesselin Gellev Jonathan Harris CBE FRICS Dr Catherine C HoslashgelMartin Houmlhmann George Peniston Kevin Rundell Julian SimmondsMark TempletonNatasha TsukanovaTimothy Walker AM Laurence WattNeil Westreich
Player-Director
Advisory CouncilVictoria Robey OBE Chairman Christopher Aldren Richard Brass David Buckley Sir Alan Collins KCVO CMG Andrew Davenport Jonathan Dawson William de Winton Edward Dolman Christopher Fraser OBE Lord Hall of Birkenhead CBE Jamie Korner Clive Marks OBE FCA Stewart McIlwham Sir Bernard Rix Baroness ShackletonLord Sharman of Redlynch OBE Thomas Sharpe QC Martin SouthgateSir Philip Thomas Sir John TooleyChris VineyTimothy Walker AMElizabeth Winter
American Friends of the London Philharmonic Orchestra IncJenny Ireland Co-ChairmanWilliam A Kerr Co-ChairmanKyung-Wha ChungAlexandra JupinDr Felisa B KaplanJill Fine MainelliKristina McPhee Dr Joseph MulvehillHarvey M Spear EsqDanny Lopez Hon ChairmanNoel Kilkenny Hon DirectorVictoria Robey OBE Hon DirectorRichard Gee Esq Of Counsel Jenifer L Keiser CPA
EisnerAmper LLP
Chief Executive
Timothy Walker AM Chief Executive and Artistic Director
Amy SugarmanPA to the Chief Executive Administrative Assistant
Finance
David BurkeGeneral Manager and Finance Director
David GreensladeFinance and IT Manager
Dayse GuilhermeFinance Officer
Concert Management
Roanna Gibson Concerts Director
Graham WoodConcerts and Recordings Manager
Jenny Chadwick Tours Manager
Tamzin Aitken Glyndebourne and UK Engagements Manager
Alison JonesConcerts and Recordings Co-ordinator
Jo CotterTours Co-ordinator Orchestra Personnel
Andrew CheneryOrchestra Personnel Manager
Sarah Holmes Sarah ThomasLibrarians ( job-share)
Christopher AldertonStage Manager
Damian Davis Transport Manager
Ellie Swithinbank Assistant Orchestra Personnel Manager
Education and Community
Isabella Kernot Education Director
Alexandra ClarkeEducation and Community Project Manager
Lucy DuffyEducation and Community Project Manager
Richard MallettEducation and Community Producer
Development
Nick JackmanDevelopment Director
Catherine Faulkner Development Events Manager
Kathryn HagemanIndividual Giving Manager
Laura Luckhurst Corporate Relations Manager
Anna Quillin Trusts and Foundations Manager
Helen Etheridge Development Assistant
Rebecca FoggDevelopment Assistant
Kirstin PeltonenDevelopment Associate
Marketing
Kath TroutMarketing Director
Mia RobertsMarketing Manager
Rachel WilliamsPublications Manager (maternity leave)
Sarah BreedenPublications Manager (maternity cover)
Samantha CleverleyBox Office Manager(Tel 020 7840 4242)
Libby Northcote-GreenMarketing Co-ordinator
Digital Projects
Alison Atkinson Digital Projects Director
Matthew Freeman Recordings Consultant Public Relations
Albion Media (Tel 020 3077 4930) Archives
Philip StuartDiscographer
Gillian Pole Recordings Archive Professional Services
Charles RussellSolicitors
Crowe Clark Whitehill LLPAuditors
Dr Louise MillerHonorary Doctor
London Philharmonic Orchestra89 Albert Embankment London SE1 7TPTel 020 7840 4200Box Office 020 7840 4242Email adminlpoorguklpoorguk
The London Philharmonic Orchestra Limited is a registered charity No 238045
Composer photographs of Elgar and Walton courtesy of the Royal College of Music London Ireland photographs courtesy of The John Ireland Charitable Trust Front cover photograph Martin Hobbs horn copy Julian Calverley Cover design art direction Chaos Design
Printed by Cantate
2 | London Philharmonic Orchestra
Welcome
Welcome to Southbank Centre
We hope you enjoy your visit We have a Duty Manager available at all times If you have any queries please ask any member of staff for assistance
Eating drinking and shopping Southbank Centre shops and restaurants include Foyles EAT Giraffe Strada YO Sushi wagamama Le Pain Quotidien Las Iguanas ping pong Canteen Caffegrave Vergnano 1882 Skylon Concrete Feng Sushi and Topolski as well as cafes restaurants and shops inside Royal Festival Hall Queen Elizabeth Hall and Hayward Gallery
If you wish to get in touch with us following your visit please contact the Visitor Experience Team at Southbank Centre Belvedere Road London SE1 8XX phone 020 7960 4250 or email customersouthbankcentrecouk
We look forward to seeing you again soon
A few points to note for your comfort and enjoyment
PHOTOGRAPHY is not allowed in the auditorium
LATECOMERS will only be admitted to the auditorium if there is a suitable break in the performance
RECORDING is not permitted in the auditorium without the prior consent of Southbank Centre Southbank Centre reserves the right to confiscate video or sound equipment and hold it in safekeeping until the performance has ended
MOBILES PAGERS AND WATCHES should be switched off before the performance begins
London Philharmonic Orchestra
201415 season
Latest LPO releaseAt the end of last month Christoph Eschenbach conducted a performance of Beethoven and Mendelssohn with the LPO He takes charge on the latest LPO CD a recording of Messiaenrsquos Des canyons aux eacutetoiles (From the Canyons to the Stars) which evokes the beauty of a magnificent landscape and features the rarely heard xylorimba The two-disc set (LPO-0083) is priced pound1099 and available via the LPO website (as a download or CD) or through the LPO Ticket Office (020 7840 4242) lpoorgukshop
LPO at Glyndebourne recording up for awardWe are delighted to hear that the 2011 Glyndebourne CD recording of Die Meistersinger von Nuumlrnberg with the London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor Vladimir Jurowski has been shortlisted in the category of Best Opera for the BBC Music Magazine Awards 2015 The winner in each category is determined by public vote via the linkclassical-musiccomawards
A little bird told us The Orchestra has recently returned from a tour with conductor Marin Alsop An avid lsquotweeterrsquo we followed Marinrsquos musical adventures via the wonders of social media She also wrote a blog which makes for interesting reading ndash where else would you find out that Martin Hobbs (horn) and Stewart McIlwham (piccolo) cycled halfway between Groningen and Utrecht and planned to cycle between Utrecht and Eindhoven Must be all that lung capacity You can find out if they made it on Marinrsquos blog bitly1Av7lN5
London Philharmonic Orchestra | 3
On stage tonight
First ViolinsVesselin Gellev LeaderIlyoung Chae
Chair supported by an anonymous donor
Ji-Hyun Lee Chair supported by Eric Tomsett
Catherine CraigThomas EisnerMartin HoumlhmannGeoffrey Lynn
Chair supported by Caroline Jamie amp Zander Sharp
Robert PoolSarah StreatfeildYang ZhangRebecca ShorrockAlina PetrenkoGalina TanneyCaroline SharpHelena SmartNilufar Alimaksumova
Second ViolinsCharlotte Potgieter
Guest PrincipalJeongmin Kim
Sub-PrincipalKate Birchall
Chair supported by David amp Victoria Graham Fuller
Nancy ElanLorenzo Gentili-TedeschiFiona HighamNynke HijlkemaJoseph MaherAshley StevensDean Williamson
Sioni WilliamsHarry KerrMila MustakovaSheila Law
ViolasJon Thorne
Guest PrincipalKatharine LeekSusanne MartensBenedetto PollaniEmmanuella ReiterLaura VallejoNaomi HoltIsabel PereiraDaniel CornfordMartin FennMiriam EiseleFay Sweet
CellosHetty Snell Guest PrincipalFrancis BucknallLaura DonoghueSantiago CarvalhodaggerDavid LaleGregory WalmsleyElisabeth WiklanderSue Sutherley Susanna RiddellTom Roff
Double BassesKevin Rundell PrincipalLaurence LovelleGeorge PenistonWilliam ColeLowri MorganCharlotte KerbegianAntonia BakewellRichard Dalling
FlutesJuliette Bausor
Guest PrincipalStewart McIlwham
PiccoloStewart McIlwham
Principal
OboesIan Hardwick PrincipalAlice Munday
ClarinetsRobert Hill PrincipalThomas Watmough
BassoonsGareth Newman PrincipalSimon Estell
HornsDavid Pyatt Principal
Chair supported by Simon Robey
John Ryan PrincipalMartin HobbsMark Vines Co-PrincipalGareth Mollison
TrumpetsPaul Beniston PrincipalAnne McAneney
Chair supported by Geoff amp Meg Mann
Nicholas Betts Co-Principal
TrombonesMark Templeton Principal
Chair supported by William amp Alex de Winton
David Whitehouse
Bass TromboneLyndon Meredith Principal
TubaLee Tsarmaklis Principal
Chair supported by Friends of the Orchestra
TimpaniSimon Carrington PrincipalJames Bower
Percussion Andrew Barclay Principal
Chair supported by Andrew Davenport
Keith Millar
Holds a professorial appointment in London
dagger Chevalier of the Brazilian Order of Rio Branco
Meet our members lpoorgukplayers
Chair Supporters
The London Philharmonic Orchestra also acknowledges the following chair supporters whose players are not present at this concert Neil Westreich Sonja Drexler Victoria Robey OBE
4 | London Philharmonic Orchestra
London Philharmonic Orchestra
The London Philharmonic Orchestra is one of the worldrsquos finest orchestras balancing a long and distinguished history with its present-day position as one of the most dynamic and forward-looking ensembles in the UK As well as its performances in the concert hall the Orchestra also records film and video game soundtracks releases CDs on its own record label and reaches thousands of people every year through activities for families schools and community groups
The Orchestra was founded by Sir Thomas Beecham in 1932 It has since been headed by many of the worldrsquos greatest conductors including Sir Adrian Boult Bernard Haitink Sir Georg Solti Klaus Tennstedt and Kurt Masur Vladimir Jurowski is currently the Orchestrarsquos Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor appointed in 2007 From September 2015 Andreacutes Orozco-Estrada will take up the position of Principal Guest Conductor Magnus Lindberg is the Orchestrarsquos current Composer in Residence
The Orchestra is based at Southbank Centrersquos Royal Festival Hall in London where it has performed since the Hallrsquos opening in 1951 and been Resident Orchestra since 1992 It gives around 30 concerts there each season with many of the worldrsquos top conductors and
soloists Throughout 2013 the Orchestra collaborated with Southbank Centre on the year-long The Rest Is Noise festival charting the influential works of the 20th century 201415 highlights include a season-long festival Rachmaninoff Inside Out exploring the composerrsquos major orchestral masterpieces premieres of works by Harrison Birtwistle Julian Anderson Colin Matthews James Horner and the Orchestrarsquos new Composer in Residence Magnus Lindberg and appearances by many of todayrsquos most sought-after artists including Maria Joatildeo Pires Christoph Eschenbach Yannick Neacutezet-Seacuteguin Osmo Vaumlnskauml Lars Vogt Barbara Hannigan Vasily Petrenko Marin Alsop Katia and Marielle Labegraveque and Robin Ticciati
Outside London the Orchestra has flourishing residencies in Brighton and Eastbourne and performs regularly around the UK Each summer it takes up its annual residency at Glyndebourne Festival Opera in the Sussex countryside 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
Full marks to the London Philharmonic for continuing to offer the most adventurous concerts in LondonThe Financial Times 14 April 2014
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Touring remains a large part of the Orchestrarsquos life highlights of the 201415 season include appearances across Europe (including Iceland) and tours to the USA (West and East Coasts) Canada and China
The London Philharmonic Orchestra has recorded the soundtracks to numerous blockbuster films 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 80 releases available on CD and to download Recent additions include organ works by Poulenc and Saint-Saeumlns with Yannick Neacutezet-Seacuteguin Straussrsquos Don Juan and Ein Heldenleben with Bernard Haitink Shostakovichrsquos Symphonies Nos 6 amp 14 and Zemlinskyrsquos A Florentine Tragedy with Vladimir Jurowski and Orffrsquos Carmina Burana with Hans Graf In summer 2012 the London Philharmonic Orchestra performed as part of The Queenrsquos Diamond Jubilee Pageant on the River Thames and was also chosen to record all the worldrsquos national anthems for the London 2012 Olympics In 2013 it was the winner of the RPS Music Award for Ensemble
The London Philharmonic Orchestra is committed to inspiring the next generation of musicians through an energetic programme of activities for young people Highlights include the BrightSparks schoolsrsquo concerts and FUNharmonics family concerts the Young Composers Programme and the Foyle Future Firsts orchestral training programme for outstanding young players Its work at the forefront of digital engagement and social media has enabled the Orchestra to reach even more people worldwide all its recordings are available to download from iTunes and as well as a YouTube channel and regular podcast series the Orchestra has a lively presence on Facebook and Twitter
Find out more and get involved
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Vesselin Gellev leader
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Bulgarian violinist Vesselin Gellev has been a featured soloist with the London Philharmonic Orchestra Spoleto Festival Orchestra New Haven Symphony Orchestra and Juilliard Orchestra among others
He won First Prize at the Concert Artists Guild
Competition in New York as a member of the Antares Quartet and has recorded several albums and toured worldwide as Concertmaster of Kristjan Jaumlrvirsquos Grammy-nominated Absolute Ensemble
Vesselin has performed as Guest Leader with orchestras including the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Royal Scottish National Orchestra BBC National Orchestra of Wales Mahler Chamber Orchestra and the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
Vesselin studied at The Juilliard School and joined the London Philharmonic Orchestra as Sub-Leader in 2007
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Andrew Manzeconductor
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Andrew Manzersquos extensive and scholarly knowledge of the repertoire together with his skill as a communicator and boundless energy has marked him out amongst his peers In September 2014 he became the Principal Conductor of the NDR Radio Philharmonic Orchestra in Hannover and he regularly performs as a guest conductor with a number of leading international orchestras including the Munich Philharmonic Leipzig Gewandhaus Gothenburg Symphony Oslo Philharmonic City of Birmingham Symphony Halleacute Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Mahler Chamber Orchestra and the Scottish and Swedish Chamber orchestras
He was Principal Conductor and Artistic Director of the Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra Sweden (from 2006ndash14) with which he made a number of recordings including Beethovenrsquos Symphony No 3 lsquoEroicarsquo (Harmonia Mundi) and a cycle of Brahms symphonies (CPO) He was Associate Guest Conductor of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra from 2010ndash14 and Principal Guest Conductor of the Norwegian Radio Symphony Orchestra from 2008ndash11
Orchestral debuts this season and beyond include the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Frankfurt Radio Symphony orchestras and Orquestra Sinfocircnica do Estado de Satildeo Paulo Alongside his regular guesting Manze returns to the Leipzig Gewandhausorchester WDR Sinfonieorchester Koumlln Tonkuumlnstler and Danish National Symphony orchestras and makes his fourth consecutive appearance at the Mostly Mozart Fesival New York this summer
After reading Classics at Cambridge University Andrew Manze studied the violin and rapidly became a leading specialist in the world of historical performance practice
He became Associate Director of The Academy of Ancient Music in 1996 and then Artistic Director of The English Concert from 2003 until 2007 As a violinist Manze has released an astonishing variety of CDs many of them award-winning
He is a fellow of the Royal Academy of Music and a Visiting Professor at the Oslo Academy and has contributed to new editions of sonatas and concertos by Mozart and Bach published by Baumlrenreiter and Breitkopf and Haumlrtel He also teaches edits and writes about music as well as broadcasting regularly on radio and television
Andrew Manze received the prestigious Rolf Schock Prize in Stockholm in 2011 Previous winners include Ligeti Kagel Gidon Kremer and Anne Sofie von Otter
This eveningrsquos performance marks Andrew Manzersquos debut with the London Philharmonic Orchestra
Andrew Manze conducts Vaughan Williams A Pastoral Symphony at the 2014 BBC Proms
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Andrew Manze has developed into one of the most gifted present-day occupants of the podiumGuy Rickards Gramophone September 2014 Recording of Larrson Orchestral Works Vol 1
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Piers Lanepiano
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London-based Australian pianist Piers Lane is in great demand as soloist and collaborative artist Recent highlights include concerto performances of Busoni and Bridge at Carnegie Hall premieres of Carl Vinersquos Second Piano Concerto written for him with the Sydney Symphony and the London Philharmonic orchestras and sold-out solo recitals at Wigmore Hall
Five-times soloist at the BBC Proms Piers Lanersquos concerto repertoire exceeds 90 works and has led to engagements with many of the worldrsquos great orchestras including the American Bournemouth and Gothenburg Symphony orchestras Orchestre National de France City of London Sinfonia and Warsaw Philharmonic Leading conductors with whom he has worked include Andrey Boreyko Sir Andrew Davis Andrew Litton Jerzy Maksymiuk Vassily Sinaisky and Yan Pascal Tortelier
He frequently performs at prestigious festivals such as Aldeburgh Prague Spring and the Chopin festival in Warsaw He is Artistic Director of the Australian Festival of Chamber Music and also directed the annual Myra Hess Day at the National Gallery in London from its inception in 2006 until 2013 From this sprang Admission One Shilling a collaboration with actress Patricia Routledge devised by Nigel Hess for theatre exploring Dame Myrarsquos work during the Second World War it has been performed over 70 times throughout the UK and most recently in Australia and Belgium
Piers Lanersquos discography of over 50 CDs includes much admired recordings of rare Romantic piano concertos the complete Preludes and Etudes by Scriabin and transcriptions of Bach and Strauss Last season Hyperion released his most recent solo recording Piers Lane goes to Town
Piers Lane continues his longstanding partnership with violinist Tasmin Little clarinettist Michael Collins and the Goldner String Quartet He has performed with Anne Sofie von Otter and Bengt Forsberg pianists Marc-Andreacute Hamelin and Kathryn Stott and string quartets the Australian Doric Kodaacutely Medici New Budapest New Zealand Prazak and RTE Vanbrugh
Many composers have written for Piers Lane and he has premiered works by Brett Dean Dave Heath Colin Matthews Richard Mills Carl Vine Benjamin Wallfisch and Malcolm Williamson among others He has made many first recordings including Elgarrsquos Impromptu Irelandrsquos Ballerina and Williamsonrsquos Piano Concerto No 4
Piers Lane has written and presented over 100 programmes for BBC Radio 3 including the popular 54-part series The Piano He was recently presented with the first medal from the Laza Kostic fund for promoting Serbian culture during difficult political times in the late 90s In the Queenrsquos Diamond Jubilee Birthday Honours he was made an Officer in the Order of Australia (AO) for distinguished services to the arts as pianist mentor and organiser
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The recital was notable for Piers Lanersquos sustained interpretative probing as much as for the pianistrsquos technical assurance and attention to musical detail Claire Seymour Seen and Heard International January 2015
8 | London Philharmonic Orchestra
Programme notes
Tonightrsquos programme presents works from the early 20th century by three English composers of successive generations (all of them first performed in the Queenrsquos Hall which was destroyed in the Second World War and replaced by the Royal Festival Hall) Edward Elgar trained as a violinist showed his flair for writing for strings in his sonorous Introduction and Allegro of 1904ndash5 The pianist-composer John Ireland combined his characteristic mood of
rhapsodic keyboard musing with a subtle thematic sub-structure in his 1930 Piano Concerto William Walton no performer but a master of the craft of orchestration established himself as a major figure with his First Symphony begun in 1932ndash3 with a purposeful first movement a lsquomaliciousrsquo scherzo and a lsquomelancholyrsquo slow movement and completed in 1935 with a brilliant finale
Speedread
Elgar studied the violin from an early age had hopes at one stage of making a career as a soloist and earned much of his living for several years as an orchestral musician in the West Midlands So he always wrote for the strings of the orchestra with special understanding and he composed two substantial pieces for strings alone The Serenade of 1892 was a breakthrough work first tried out with a ladiesrsquo orchestra in Worcestershire but accepted for publication by the august firm of Breitkopf and Haumlrtel in Leipzig On the other hand the Introduction and Allegro was written when he was at the height of his fame It was begun in the year of his knighthood 1904 in response to a request from the recently formed London Symphony Orchestra for a new piece to be included in an all-Elgar concert Elgar himself conducted the first performance in March 1905
The scoring contrasts the main string orchestra with a solo quartet of section leaders ndash used sometimes as a concertino group (similar to Handelrsquos string concertos)
Introduction and Allegro for Strings Op 47EdwardElgar
1857ndash1934
Elgar outside his house Craeg Lea in Malvern Wells
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sometimes as individual soloists and sometimes to add subtle touches of colouring to the texture The broad Introduction anticipates the melodic material of the Allegro which is in traditional sonata form but with the usual central development section replaced by a brilliant fugue One of the workrsquos principal melodies first heard near the beginning on solo viola and brought
back in triumph towards the end of the Allegro is based on an idea that Elgar had sketched in 1901 on a holiday in Wales he was reminded of it by a song he heard in the distance in the Wye Valley on the Welsh border And the whole work he once wrote lsquois really a tribute to that sweet borderland where I have made my homersquo
Piano Concerto in E flat major
Piers Lane piano
1 In tempo moderato2 Lento espressivo ndash 3 Allegro ndash Allegretto giocoso
John Ireland was born in Bowdon south of Manchester and studied the piano and composition at the Royal College of Music in London where he later taught for many years his pupils including Benjamin Britten He was trained by Stanford in the tradition of Brahms but was open to the influence of several 20th-century composers including Debussy Ravel and Prokofiev His list of works is dominated by songs and piano pieces (many of which were inspired by places that he loved) but he also wrote effectively for orchestra Ireland wrote his Piano Concerto in 1930 for his piano pupil and proteacutegeacutee Helen Perkin She gave the first performance at the age of 21 in a Promenade Concert conducted by Sir Henry Wood in October 1930 Although conceived for her small hands the solo part is brilliantly virtuosic in places with some figuration echoing the jazz-tinged lsquonovelty numbersrsquo of between-the-wars popular piano music ndash as well as containing a great deal in a vein of poetic introspection
The Concerto is in three thematically linked movements (though Ireland numbered the second and third which are played without a break as a single unit) The first movement begins with a smooth string melody in octaves of which the first four notes ndash a falling fourth
followed by a rising fourth a step higher ndash constitute the unifying motto theme of the movement and to some extent the whole work This motto makes its presence felt in the following lyrical dialogue between the piano and the strings dominates the accelerating transition to the lively second-subject group and returns in full force as the starting-point of a broad orchestral melody After a short central section in which the piano plays continuously the motto returns as part of a fleeting reprise of the first-subject group makes a brief appearance during the extended reprise of the second-subject group and returns at the very end of the movement
The slow movement begins with an expressive string melody incorporating a phrase which hints at the perky rhythms of the first movementrsquos second subject The piano answers with a rhapsodic solo in changing metres which is continued by the strings with telling details in the horns The expressive melody of the opening returns on flute and piano a little later the first movementrsquos motto and the second-subject phrase are run together to form a counter-melody to pearly piano figuration The timpani ndash making their first appearance in the work ndash intervene to lead an
JohnIreland
1879ndash1962
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Programme notes continued
Symphony No 1
1 Allegro assai2 Presto con malizia3 Andante con malinconia4 Maestoso ndash Allegro brioso ed ardentemente ndash Vivacissimo ndash Maestoso
WilliamWalton
1902ndash83
acceleration to the finale This is a rondo on an ebullient tune introduced by the piano in sparkling high octaves The two contrasting episodes are both at a slower tempo the first opening out from the pianorsquos first phrase in the first movement the second beginning with a rapturous duet for piano and solo violin derived from ideas in the second movement The motto makes a final appearance before the last quick section in which the metre shifts from 24 to 34 and the entry of the rondo theme now transformed into a waltz is delayed until nearly the end
Interval ndash 20 minutesAn announcement will be made five minutes before the end of the interval
John Ireland in his studio 14a Gunter Grove London
During his 20s William Walton burst on to the British musical scene with his avant-garde lsquoentertainmentrsquo Faccedilade consolidated his position in the mainstream with the Portsmouth Point Overture the Sinfonia Concertante for piano and the Viola Concerto and breathed new life into the traditional form of the oratorio with Belshazzarrsquos Feast His obvious next step was a symphony not least as a challenge to his seniors Vaughan Williams and Bax he was duly invited to write one by Sir Hamilton Harty then conductor of the Halleacute Orchestra in Manchester He drafted three movements and began a fourth during 1932 and 1933 but then became stuck Harty was by now conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra and anxious to schedule
the premiere with the LSO Walton orchestrated the first three movements but remained unable to complete the finale and in the end allowed the work to be performed without it in December 1934 The following year refreshed by the ending of a stormy love affair and the start of a calmer new relationship he resumed work on the finale this time successfully The first performance of the complete Symphony with Harty this time conducting the BBC Symphony Orchestra took place in November 1935 It was a triumph immediately gaining the work an honoured place in British music which it has never since lost (and which so far has not been shared by Waltonrsquos Second Symphony of a quarter-century later)
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The lsquovery fastrsquo opening movement in B flat minor conveys a sense of breadth and power that belies the relatively modest size of the orchestra (which includes no more than double woodwind and at this stage no percussion other than timpani) The breadth stems from slow-moving harmonies over Sibelius-like long-held bass notes and timpani rolls the power from urgently repeated ostinato figures blazing dissonances and sonorous scoring The first section of the movement presents a series of subtly inter-related themes in an atmosphere of sustained tension and excitement relaxing only slightly for the broad second subject it ends with a climax of battering repeated notes The central development begins by returning to the opening idea at a subdued dynamic level and gradually builds up intensity again towards a harmonically more stable reprise of the opening section
The two middle movements reflect two contrasting and complementary aspects of Waltonrsquos musical personality The lsquomaliciousrsquo scherzo in E minor is in a very fast one-in-a-bar 34 time disrupted by occasional bars of 54 various rhythmic figures and scraps of melody are rotated but there is no contrasting trio section and no slackening of the movementrsquos biting intensity The lsquomelancholyrsquo Andante in C sharp minor is based on two melodies of characteristically bitter-sweet lyricism which are developed organically in contrapuntal textures the closing section rises to a fervently declamatory climax before falling away to a quiet ending
The B flat major finale (which adds a second timpanist and two percussionists to the orchestra) has a more sectional structure than its predecessors It begins with a lsquomajesticrsquo introduction in the boldly rhetorical manner familiar from Waltonrsquos later marches and film scores Then come two large paragraphs at a lsquofast animated and ardentrsquo tempo the first crackling with energy the second an extended incisive fugue with a smoother central episode The material of these paragraphs is transformed and developed still largely in fugal texture in a new section in lsquovery livelyrsquo triple time To round off the Symphony the tempo of the introduction is restored for a grandiloquent coda
Programme notes copy Anthony Burton
This is the work of a true Master ndash unlike any other English symphony this is in the real line of symphonic tradition It is simply colossal grand original and moving to the emotions to the most extreme degreehellip It has established you as the most vital and original genius in Europe No one but a bloody fool could possibly fail to see thishellipJohn Ireland writing to Walton after hearing the first recording of the Symphony
More Piano Concertos with the LPO at Royal Festival Hall
Saturday 21 March 2015 | 730pmProkofiev Chout (excerpts)Magnus Lindberg Piano Concerto No 2 (UK premiere)Stravinsky Petrushka (1911 version)
Vladimir Jurowski conductor | Yefim Bronfman piano
Wednesday 25 March 2015 | 730pmMozart Symphony No 36 (Linz) Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No 1 (final version) Dvořaacutek Symphony No 8
Ilyich Rivas conductor | Dmitry Mayboroda piano
Part of Rachmaninoff Inside Out
Wednesday 15 April 2015 | 730pmBeethoven Piano Concerto No 4Bruckner Symphony No 4 (Romantic) (Nowak Edition)
Robin Ticciati conductor Menahem Pressler piano
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London Philharmonic Orchestra | 13
The Elgar Birthplace Museum Exploring the life and music of Englandrsquos great composer
Set in the beautiful countryside of Worcestershire is the museum
dedicated to the life and times of Englandrsquos great composer
Sir Edward Elgar
1 Free Entry to the Museum with this programme when accompanied by a full paying adult
Lower Broadheath Worcester tel 01905 33224
birthplaceelgarmuseumorg
Open every day 11am - 5pm
Available from lpoorgukrecordings the LPO Ticket Office (020 7840 4242) and all good CD outlets
Available to download or stream online via iTunes Spotify Amazon and others
Symphony No 4 Ryan Wigglesworth conductor
Symphony No 8 Vladimir Jurowski conductor
London Philharmonic Orchestra
LPO-0082
Available on the LPO Label Vaughan Williams Symphonies Nos 4 amp 8
lsquoFirst-rate playing from the London Philharmonic Orchestra with a fine warm bloom to the soundrsquo Financial Times (Symphony No 4)
Recommended recordings of tonightrsquos worksElgar Introduction and Allegro London Philharmonic Orchestra | Sir Adrian Boult [EMI 5665402]
Ireland Piano Concerto Piers Lane | Ulster Orchestra | David Lloyd-Jones [Hyperion CDA67296]
Eileen Joyce | London Philharmonic Orchestra | Sir Adrian Boult [LPO-0041]
Walton Symphony No 1 London Philharmonic Orchestra | Sir Charles Mackerras [Classics for Pleasure 75569]
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We would like to acknowledge the generous support of the following Thomas Beecham Group Patrons Principal Benefactors and Benefactors
Thomas Beecham Group
The Tsukanov Family Foundation
Neil Westreich
William and Alex de Winton Simon Robey Victoria Robey OBEJulian amp Gill Simmonds
Anonymous Garf amp Gill CollinsAndrew Davenport Mrs Sonja DrexlerDavid amp Victoria Graham Fuller Mrs Philip KanMr amp Mrs MakharinskyGeoff amp Meg MannCaroline Jamie amp Zander SharpEric Tomsett
John amp Manon Antoniazzi John amp Angela Kessler Guy amp Utti Whittaker
BrightSparks patrons Instead of supporting a chair in the Orchestra these donors have chosen to support our series of schoolsrsquo concerts
Principal BenefactorsMark amp Elizabeth AdamsDesmond amp Ruth CecilMr John H CookDavid EllenMr Daniel Goldstein Drs Frank amp Gek LimPeter MacDonald Eggers Dr Eva Lotta amp Mr Thierry Sciard Mr amp Mrs David MalpasMr Michael PosenMr amp Mrs G SteinMr amp Mrs John C TuckerMr amp Mrs John amp Susi Underwood Lady Marina Vaizey Laurence Watt Grenville amp Krysia Williams Mr Anthony Yolland
BenefactorsMrs A Beare David amp Patricia BuckMrs Alan CarringtonMr amp Mrs Stewart CohenMr Alistair Corbett Georgy Djaparidze Mr David Edgecombe Mr Timothy Fancourt QCMr Richard FernyhoughTony amp Susan Hayes Michael amp Christine HenryMalcolm Herring J Douglas HomeIvan Hurry
Mr Glenn HurstfieldPer JonssonMr Gerald LevinWg Cdr amp Mrs M T Liddiard OBE JP RAFPaul amp Brigitta Lock Mr Peter MaceMs Ulrike Mansel Robert MarkwickMr Brian Marsh Andrew T MillsJohn Montgomery Dr Karen Morton Mr amp Mrs Andrew Neill Tom amp Phillis SharpeMartin and Cheryl Southgate Professor John StuddMr Peter TausigMrs Kazue Turner Simon Turner Howard amp Sheelagh Watson Des amp Maggie WhitelockChristopher WilliamsBill Yoe and others who wish to remain
anonymous
Hon BenefactorElliott Bernerd
Hon Life MembersKenneth Goode Carol Colburn Grigor CBE Pehr G GyllenhammarMrs Jackie Rosenfeld OBE
The generosity of our Sponsors Corporate Members supporters and donors is gratefully acknowledgedCorporate Members
Silver AREVA UK BerenbergBritish American BusinessCarter-Ruck
Bronze Appleyard amp Trew LLP BTO Management Consulting AG Charles Russell SpeechlysLeventis Overseas
Preferred Partners Corinthia Hotel London Heineken Lindt amp Spruumlngli LtdSipsmith Steinway Villa Maria In-kind SponsorsGoogle IncSela Tilleyrsquos Sweets
Trusts and Foundations Angus Allnatt Charitable Foundation Ambache Charitable Trust Ruth Berkowitz Charitable Trust The Boltini Trust
Borletti-Buitoni TrustBritten-Pears Foundation The Candide Trust The Peter Carr Charitable Trust in memory
of Peter CarrThe Ernest Cook TrustThe Coutts Charitable TrustThe DrsquoOyly Carte Charitable TrustDunard FundThe Equitable Charitable Trust Fidelio Charitable TrustThe Foyle FoundationLucille Graham TrustThe Jeniffer and Jonathan Harris
Charitable TrustHelp Musicians UK The Hinrichsen Foundation The Hobson Charity The Idlewild Trust Kirby Laing Foundation The Leche Trust London Stock Exchange Group FoundationMarsh Christian TrustThe Mayor of Londonrsquos Fund for Young
MusiciansAdam Mickiewicz Institute The Peter Minet TrustThe Ann and Frederick OrsquoBrien
Charitable Trust
Office for Cultural and Scientific Affairs ofthe Embassy of Spain in London
Palazzetto Bru Zane ndash Centre de musiqueromantique franccedilaise
The Austin and Hope Pilkington Trust Polish Cultural Institute in London PRS for Music FoundationThe Radcliffe TrustRivers Foundation The R K Charitable TrustSerge Rachmaninoff Foundation Romanian Cultural Institute Schroder Charity Trust Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation The David Solomons Charitable Trust The Steel Charitable TrustThe John Thaw FoundationThe Tillett Trust UK Friends of the Felix-Mendelssohn-
Bartholdy-Foundation The Viney FamilyGarfield Weston FoundationThe Barbara Whatmore Charitable TrustYouth Music and others who wish to remain anonymous
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SOUND FUTURES DONORS
We are grateful to the following donors for their generous contributions to Sound Futures which will establish our first ever endowment Donations from those below have already been matched pound for pound by Arts Council England through a Catalyst Endowment grant
By May 2015 we aim to have raised pound1 million which when matched will create a pound2 million fund supporting our Education and Community Programme our creative programming and major artistic projects at Southbank Centre
We thank those who are helping us to realise the vision
Masur CircleArts Council EnglandDunard Fund Victoria Robey OBE Emmanuel amp Barrie RomanThe Underwood Trust
Welser-Moumlst CircleWilliam amp Alex de WintonJohn Ireland Charitable Trust The Tsukanov Family FoundationNeil Westreich
Tennstedt CircleRichard Buxton Simon Robey Simon amp Vero Turner The late Mr K Twyman
Solti PatronsAgeas John amp Manon Antoniazzi Georgy DjaparidzeMrs Mina Goodman and
Miss Suzanne GoodmanMr James R D KornerRobert Markwick amp Kasia RobinskiThe Rothschild Foundation
Haitink PatronsMark amp Elizabeth AdamsMrs Pauline BaumgartnerLady Jane BerrillMr Frederick BrittendenDavid amp Yi Yao BuckleyGill amp Garf CollinsMr John H CookBruno de KegelMr Gavin GrahamMoya GreeneTony and Susie Hayes
Catherine Hoslashgel amp Ben MardleMrs Philip Kan Rose and Dudley LeighLady Roslyn Marion LyonsMiss Jeanette MartinDiana and Allan Morgenthau
Charitable TrustDr Karen MortonRuth RattenburyThe Reed Foundation Sir Bernard RixDavid Ross and Line Forestier (Canada)Carolina amp Martin SchwabTom and Phillis SharpeDr Brian SmithMr amp Mrs G SteinDr Peter Stephenson Miss Anne StoddartTFS Loans LimitedLady Marina VaizeyMs Jenny WatsonGuy amp Utti Whittaker
Pritchard DonorsRalph and Elizabeth AldwinckleMichael and Linda BlackstoneConrad Blakey OBEDr Anthony BucklandBusiness Events SydneyLady June ChichesterJohn Childress amp Christiane WuillamieLindka CierachPaul CollinsMr Alistair CorbettDavid DennisMr David EdgecombeDavid EllenMr Timothy Fancourt QCKarima amp David GMr Daniel Goldstein
Mr Derek B GrayMr Roger GreenwoodRebecca Halford HarrisonMr J Douglas HomeHoneymead Arts TrustMrs Dawn HooperRehmet Kassim-LakhaMr Geoffrey KirkhamPeter LeaverDrs Frank amp Gek LimPeter MaceMr David MacfarlaneGeoff amp Meg MannMarsh Christian TrustDr David McGibneyMichael amp Patricia McLaren-TurnerJohn MontgomeryRosemary MorganGail MutruxParis NatarMr Roger H C PattisonThe late Edmund PirouetMr Michael PosenSarah amp John PriestlandMr Christopher QuereeMr Peter RussellMr Alan SainerTim SlorickLady Valerie SoltiTimothy Walker AMLaurence WattMr R WattsDes amp Maggie WhitelockChristopher WilliamsPeter Wilson SmithVictoria YanakovaMr Anthony Yolland
And all other donors who wish to remain anonymous
16 | London Philharmonic Orchestra
Administration
Board of DirectorsVictoria Robey OBE Chairman Stewart McIlwham President Gareth Newman Vice-PresidentDr Manon Antoniazzi Richard Brass Desmond Cecil CMG Vesselin Gellev Jonathan Harris CBE FRICS Dr Catherine C HoslashgelMartin Houmlhmann George Peniston Kevin Rundell Julian SimmondsMark TempletonNatasha TsukanovaTimothy Walker AM Laurence WattNeil Westreich
Player-Director
Advisory CouncilVictoria Robey OBE Chairman Christopher Aldren Richard Brass David Buckley Sir Alan Collins KCVO CMG Andrew Davenport Jonathan Dawson William de Winton Edward Dolman Christopher Fraser OBE Lord Hall of Birkenhead CBE Jamie Korner Clive Marks OBE FCA Stewart McIlwham Sir Bernard Rix Baroness ShackletonLord Sharman of Redlynch OBE Thomas Sharpe QC Martin SouthgateSir Philip Thomas Sir John TooleyChris VineyTimothy Walker AMElizabeth Winter
American Friends of the London Philharmonic Orchestra IncJenny Ireland Co-ChairmanWilliam A Kerr Co-ChairmanKyung-Wha ChungAlexandra JupinDr Felisa B KaplanJill Fine MainelliKristina McPhee Dr Joseph MulvehillHarvey M Spear EsqDanny Lopez Hon ChairmanNoel Kilkenny Hon DirectorVictoria Robey OBE Hon DirectorRichard Gee Esq Of Counsel Jenifer L Keiser CPA
EisnerAmper LLP
Chief Executive
Timothy Walker AM Chief Executive and Artistic Director
Amy SugarmanPA to the Chief Executive Administrative Assistant
Finance
David BurkeGeneral Manager and Finance Director
David GreensladeFinance and IT Manager
Dayse GuilhermeFinance Officer
Concert Management
Roanna Gibson Concerts Director
Graham WoodConcerts and Recordings Manager
Jenny Chadwick Tours Manager
Tamzin Aitken Glyndebourne and UK Engagements Manager
Alison JonesConcerts and Recordings Co-ordinator
Jo CotterTours Co-ordinator Orchestra Personnel
Andrew CheneryOrchestra Personnel Manager
Sarah Holmes Sarah ThomasLibrarians ( job-share)
Christopher AldertonStage Manager
Damian Davis Transport Manager
Ellie Swithinbank Assistant Orchestra Personnel Manager
Education and Community
Isabella Kernot Education Director
Alexandra ClarkeEducation and Community Project Manager
Lucy DuffyEducation and Community Project Manager
Richard MallettEducation and Community Producer
Development
Nick JackmanDevelopment Director
Catherine Faulkner Development Events Manager
Kathryn HagemanIndividual Giving Manager
Laura Luckhurst Corporate Relations Manager
Anna Quillin Trusts and Foundations Manager
Helen Etheridge Development Assistant
Rebecca FoggDevelopment Assistant
Kirstin PeltonenDevelopment Associate
Marketing
Kath TroutMarketing Director
Mia RobertsMarketing Manager
Rachel WilliamsPublications Manager (maternity leave)
Sarah BreedenPublications Manager (maternity cover)
Samantha CleverleyBox Office Manager(Tel 020 7840 4242)
Libby Northcote-GreenMarketing Co-ordinator
Digital Projects
Alison Atkinson Digital Projects Director
Matthew Freeman Recordings Consultant Public Relations
Albion Media (Tel 020 3077 4930) Archives
Philip StuartDiscographer
Gillian Pole Recordings Archive Professional Services
Charles RussellSolicitors
Crowe Clark Whitehill LLPAuditors
Dr Louise MillerHonorary Doctor
London Philharmonic Orchestra89 Albert Embankment London SE1 7TPTel 020 7840 4200Box Office 020 7840 4242Email adminlpoorguklpoorguk
The London Philharmonic Orchestra Limited is a registered charity No 238045
Composer photographs of Elgar and Walton courtesy of the Royal College of Music London Ireland photographs courtesy of The John Ireland Charitable Trust Front cover photograph Martin Hobbs horn copy Julian Calverley Cover design art direction Chaos Design
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On stage tonight
First ViolinsVesselin Gellev LeaderIlyoung Chae
Chair supported by an anonymous donor
Ji-Hyun Lee Chair supported by Eric Tomsett
Catherine CraigThomas EisnerMartin HoumlhmannGeoffrey Lynn
Chair supported by Caroline Jamie amp Zander Sharp
Robert PoolSarah StreatfeildYang ZhangRebecca ShorrockAlina PetrenkoGalina TanneyCaroline SharpHelena SmartNilufar Alimaksumova
Second ViolinsCharlotte Potgieter
Guest PrincipalJeongmin Kim
Sub-PrincipalKate Birchall
Chair supported by David amp Victoria Graham Fuller
Nancy ElanLorenzo Gentili-TedeschiFiona HighamNynke HijlkemaJoseph MaherAshley StevensDean Williamson
Sioni WilliamsHarry KerrMila MustakovaSheila Law
ViolasJon Thorne
Guest PrincipalKatharine LeekSusanne MartensBenedetto PollaniEmmanuella ReiterLaura VallejoNaomi HoltIsabel PereiraDaniel CornfordMartin FennMiriam EiseleFay Sweet
CellosHetty Snell Guest PrincipalFrancis BucknallLaura DonoghueSantiago CarvalhodaggerDavid LaleGregory WalmsleyElisabeth WiklanderSue Sutherley Susanna RiddellTom Roff
Double BassesKevin Rundell PrincipalLaurence LovelleGeorge PenistonWilliam ColeLowri MorganCharlotte KerbegianAntonia BakewellRichard Dalling
FlutesJuliette Bausor
Guest PrincipalStewart McIlwham
PiccoloStewart McIlwham
Principal
OboesIan Hardwick PrincipalAlice Munday
ClarinetsRobert Hill PrincipalThomas Watmough
BassoonsGareth Newman PrincipalSimon Estell
HornsDavid Pyatt Principal
Chair supported by Simon Robey
John Ryan PrincipalMartin HobbsMark Vines Co-PrincipalGareth Mollison
TrumpetsPaul Beniston PrincipalAnne McAneney
Chair supported by Geoff amp Meg Mann
Nicholas Betts Co-Principal
TrombonesMark Templeton Principal
Chair supported by William amp Alex de Winton
David Whitehouse
Bass TromboneLyndon Meredith Principal
TubaLee Tsarmaklis Principal
Chair supported by Friends of the Orchestra
TimpaniSimon Carrington PrincipalJames Bower
Percussion Andrew Barclay Principal
Chair supported by Andrew Davenport
Keith Millar
Holds a professorial appointment in London
dagger Chevalier of the Brazilian Order of Rio Branco
Meet our members lpoorgukplayers
Chair Supporters
The London Philharmonic Orchestra also acknowledges the following chair supporters whose players are not present at this concert Neil Westreich Sonja Drexler Victoria Robey OBE
4 | London Philharmonic Orchestra
London Philharmonic Orchestra
The London Philharmonic Orchestra is one of the worldrsquos finest orchestras balancing a long and distinguished history with its present-day position as one of the most dynamic and forward-looking ensembles in the UK As well as its performances in the concert hall the Orchestra also records film and video game soundtracks releases CDs on its own record label and reaches thousands of people every year through activities for families schools and community groups
The Orchestra was founded by Sir Thomas Beecham in 1932 It has since been headed by many of the worldrsquos greatest conductors including Sir Adrian Boult Bernard Haitink Sir Georg Solti Klaus Tennstedt and Kurt Masur Vladimir Jurowski is currently the Orchestrarsquos Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor appointed in 2007 From September 2015 Andreacutes Orozco-Estrada will take up the position of Principal Guest Conductor Magnus Lindberg is the Orchestrarsquos current Composer in Residence
The Orchestra is based at Southbank Centrersquos Royal Festival Hall in London where it has performed since the Hallrsquos opening in 1951 and been Resident Orchestra since 1992 It gives around 30 concerts there each season with many of the worldrsquos top conductors and
soloists Throughout 2013 the Orchestra collaborated with Southbank Centre on the year-long The Rest Is Noise festival charting the influential works of the 20th century 201415 highlights include a season-long festival Rachmaninoff Inside Out exploring the composerrsquos major orchestral masterpieces premieres of works by Harrison Birtwistle Julian Anderson Colin Matthews James Horner and the Orchestrarsquos new Composer in Residence Magnus Lindberg and appearances by many of todayrsquos most sought-after artists including Maria Joatildeo Pires Christoph Eschenbach Yannick Neacutezet-Seacuteguin Osmo Vaumlnskauml Lars Vogt Barbara Hannigan Vasily Petrenko Marin Alsop Katia and Marielle Labegraveque and Robin Ticciati
Outside London the Orchestra has flourishing residencies in Brighton and Eastbourne and performs regularly around the UK Each summer it takes up its annual residency at Glyndebourne Festival Opera in the Sussex countryside 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
Full marks to the London Philharmonic for continuing to offer the most adventurous concerts in LondonThe Financial Times 14 April 2014
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Touring remains a large part of the Orchestrarsquos life highlights of the 201415 season include appearances across Europe (including Iceland) and tours to the USA (West and East Coasts) Canada and China
The London Philharmonic Orchestra has recorded the soundtracks to numerous blockbuster films 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 80 releases available on CD and to download Recent additions include organ works by Poulenc and Saint-Saeumlns with Yannick Neacutezet-Seacuteguin Straussrsquos Don Juan and Ein Heldenleben with Bernard Haitink Shostakovichrsquos Symphonies Nos 6 amp 14 and Zemlinskyrsquos A Florentine Tragedy with Vladimir Jurowski and Orffrsquos Carmina Burana with Hans Graf In summer 2012 the London Philharmonic Orchestra performed as part of The Queenrsquos Diamond Jubilee Pageant on the River Thames and was also chosen to record all the worldrsquos national anthems for the London 2012 Olympics In 2013 it was the winner of the RPS Music Award for Ensemble
The London Philharmonic Orchestra is committed to inspiring the next generation of musicians through an energetic programme of activities for young people Highlights include the BrightSparks schoolsrsquo concerts and FUNharmonics family concerts the Young Composers Programme and the Foyle Future Firsts orchestral training programme for outstanding young players Its work at the forefront of digital engagement and social media has enabled the Orchestra to reach even more people worldwide all its recordings are available to download from iTunes and as well as a YouTube channel and regular podcast series the Orchestra has a lively presence on Facebook and Twitter
Find out more and get involved
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Vesselin Gellev leader
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Bulgarian violinist Vesselin Gellev has been a featured soloist with the London Philharmonic Orchestra Spoleto Festival Orchestra New Haven Symphony Orchestra and Juilliard Orchestra among others
He won First Prize at the Concert Artists Guild
Competition in New York as a member of the Antares Quartet and has recorded several albums and toured worldwide as Concertmaster of Kristjan Jaumlrvirsquos Grammy-nominated Absolute Ensemble
Vesselin has performed as Guest Leader with orchestras including the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Royal Scottish National Orchestra BBC National Orchestra of Wales Mahler Chamber Orchestra and the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
Vesselin studied at The Juilliard School and joined the London Philharmonic Orchestra as Sub-Leader in 2007
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Andrew Manzeconductor
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Andrew Manzersquos extensive and scholarly knowledge of the repertoire together with his skill as a communicator and boundless energy has marked him out amongst his peers In September 2014 he became the Principal Conductor of the NDR Radio Philharmonic Orchestra in Hannover and he regularly performs as a guest conductor with a number of leading international orchestras including the Munich Philharmonic Leipzig Gewandhaus Gothenburg Symphony Oslo Philharmonic City of Birmingham Symphony Halleacute Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Mahler Chamber Orchestra and the Scottish and Swedish Chamber orchestras
He was Principal Conductor and Artistic Director of the Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra Sweden (from 2006ndash14) with which he made a number of recordings including Beethovenrsquos Symphony No 3 lsquoEroicarsquo (Harmonia Mundi) and a cycle of Brahms symphonies (CPO) He was Associate Guest Conductor of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra from 2010ndash14 and Principal Guest Conductor of the Norwegian Radio Symphony Orchestra from 2008ndash11
Orchestral debuts this season and beyond include the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Frankfurt Radio Symphony orchestras and Orquestra Sinfocircnica do Estado de Satildeo Paulo Alongside his regular guesting Manze returns to the Leipzig Gewandhausorchester WDR Sinfonieorchester Koumlln Tonkuumlnstler and Danish National Symphony orchestras and makes his fourth consecutive appearance at the Mostly Mozart Fesival New York this summer
After reading Classics at Cambridge University Andrew Manze studied the violin and rapidly became a leading specialist in the world of historical performance practice
He became Associate Director of The Academy of Ancient Music in 1996 and then Artistic Director of The English Concert from 2003 until 2007 As a violinist Manze has released an astonishing variety of CDs many of them award-winning
He is a fellow of the Royal Academy of Music and a Visiting Professor at the Oslo Academy and has contributed to new editions of sonatas and concertos by Mozart and Bach published by Baumlrenreiter and Breitkopf and Haumlrtel He also teaches edits and writes about music as well as broadcasting regularly on radio and television
Andrew Manze received the prestigious Rolf Schock Prize in Stockholm in 2011 Previous winners include Ligeti Kagel Gidon Kremer and Anne Sofie von Otter
This eveningrsquos performance marks Andrew Manzersquos debut with the London Philharmonic Orchestra
Andrew Manze conducts Vaughan Williams A Pastoral Symphony at the 2014 BBC Proms
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Andrew Manze has developed into one of the most gifted present-day occupants of the podiumGuy Rickards Gramophone September 2014 Recording of Larrson Orchestral Works Vol 1
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Piers Lanepiano
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London-based Australian pianist Piers Lane is in great demand as soloist and collaborative artist Recent highlights include concerto performances of Busoni and Bridge at Carnegie Hall premieres of Carl Vinersquos Second Piano Concerto written for him with the Sydney Symphony and the London Philharmonic orchestras and sold-out solo recitals at Wigmore Hall
Five-times soloist at the BBC Proms Piers Lanersquos concerto repertoire exceeds 90 works and has led to engagements with many of the worldrsquos great orchestras including the American Bournemouth and Gothenburg Symphony orchestras Orchestre National de France City of London Sinfonia and Warsaw Philharmonic Leading conductors with whom he has worked include Andrey Boreyko Sir Andrew Davis Andrew Litton Jerzy Maksymiuk Vassily Sinaisky and Yan Pascal Tortelier
He frequently performs at prestigious festivals such as Aldeburgh Prague Spring and the Chopin festival in Warsaw He is Artistic Director of the Australian Festival of Chamber Music and also directed the annual Myra Hess Day at the National Gallery in London from its inception in 2006 until 2013 From this sprang Admission One Shilling a collaboration with actress Patricia Routledge devised by Nigel Hess for theatre exploring Dame Myrarsquos work during the Second World War it has been performed over 70 times throughout the UK and most recently in Australia and Belgium
Piers Lanersquos discography of over 50 CDs includes much admired recordings of rare Romantic piano concertos the complete Preludes and Etudes by Scriabin and transcriptions of Bach and Strauss Last season Hyperion released his most recent solo recording Piers Lane goes to Town
Piers Lane continues his longstanding partnership with violinist Tasmin Little clarinettist Michael Collins and the Goldner String Quartet He has performed with Anne Sofie von Otter and Bengt Forsberg pianists Marc-Andreacute Hamelin and Kathryn Stott and string quartets the Australian Doric Kodaacutely Medici New Budapest New Zealand Prazak and RTE Vanbrugh
Many composers have written for Piers Lane and he has premiered works by Brett Dean Dave Heath Colin Matthews Richard Mills Carl Vine Benjamin Wallfisch and Malcolm Williamson among others He has made many first recordings including Elgarrsquos Impromptu Irelandrsquos Ballerina and Williamsonrsquos Piano Concerto No 4
Piers Lane has written and presented over 100 programmes for BBC Radio 3 including the popular 54-part series The Piano He was recently presented with the first medal from the Laza Kostic fund for promoting Serbian culture during difficult political times in the late 90s In the Queenrsquos Diamond Jubilee Birthday Honours he was made an Officer in the Order of Australia (AO) for distinguished services to the arts as pianist mentor and organiser
pierslanecom
The recital was notable for Piers Lanersquos sustained interpretative probing as much as for the pianistrsquos technical assurance and attention to musical detail Claire Seymour Seen and Heard International January 2015
8 | London Philharmonic Orchestra
Programme notes
Tonightrsquos programme presents works from the early 20th century by three English composers of successive generations (all of them first performed in the Queenrsquos Hall which was destroyed in the Second World War and replaced by the Royal Festival Hall) Edward Elgar trained as a violinist showed his flair for writing for strings in his sonorous Introduction and Allegro of 1904ndash5 The pianist-composer John Ireland combined his characteristic mood of
rhapsodic keyboard musing with a subtle thematic sub-structure in his 1930 Piano Concerto William Walton no performer but a master of the craft of orchestration established himself as a major figure with his First Symphony begun in 1932ndash3 with a purposeful first movement a lsquomaliciousrsquo scherzo and a lsquomelancholyrsquo slow movement and completed in 1935 with a brilliant finale
Speedread
Elgar studied the violin from an early age had hopes at one stage of making a career as a soloist and earned much of his living for several years as an orchestral musician in the West Midlands So he always wrote for the strings of the orchestra with special understanding and he composed two substantial pieces for strings alone The Serenade of 1892 was a breakthrough work first tried out with a ladiesrsquo orchestra in Worcestershire but accepted for publication by the august firm of Breitkopf and Haumlrtel in Leipzig On the other hand the Introduction and Allegro was written when he was at the height of his fame It was begun in the year of his knighthood 1904 in response to a request from the recently formed London Symphony Orchestra for a new piece to be included in an all-Elgar concert Elgar himself conducted the first performance in March 1905
The scoring contrasts the main string orchestra with a solo quartet of section leaders ndash used sometimes as a concertino group (similar to Handelrsquos string concertos)
Introduction and Allegro for Strings Op 47EdwardElgar
1857ndash1934
Elgar outside his house Craeg Lea in Malvern Wells
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sometimes as individual soloists and sometimes to add subtle touches of colouring to the texture The broad Introduction anticipates the melodic material of the Allegro which is in traditional sonata form but with the usual central development section replaced by a brilliant fugue One of the workrsquos principal melodies first heard near the beginning on solo viola and brought
back in triumph towards the end of the Allegro is based on an idea that Elgar had sketched in 1901 on a holiday in Wales he was reminded of it by a song he heard in the distance in the Wye Valley on the Welsh border And the whole work he once wrote lsquois really a tribute to that sweet borderland where I have made my homersquo
Piano Concerto in E flat major
Piers Lane piano
1 In tempo moderato2 Lento espressivo ndash 3 Allegro ndash Allegretto giocoso
John Ireland was born in Bowdon south of Manchester and studied the piano and composition at the Royal College of Music in London where he later taught for many years his pupils including Benjamin Britten He was trained by Stanford in the tradition of Brahms but was open to the influence of several 20th-century composers including Debussy Ravel and Prokofiev His list of works is dominated by songs and piano pieces (many of which were inspired by places that he loved) but he also wrote effectively for orchestra Ireland wrote his Piano Concerto in 1930 for his piano pupil and proteacutegeacutee Helen Perkin She gave the first performance at the age of 21 in a Promenade Concert conducted by Sir Henry Wood in October 1930 Although conceived for her small hands the solo part is brilliantly virtuosic in places with some figuration echoing the jazz-tinged lsquonovelty numbersrsquo of between-the-wars popular piano music ndash as well as containing a great deal in a vein of poetic introspection
The Concerto is in three thematically linked movements (though Ireland numbered the second and third which are played without a break as a single unit) The first movement begins with a smooth string melody in octaves of which the first four notes ndash a falling fourth
followed by a rising fourth a step higher ndash constitute the unifying motto theme of the movement and to some extent the whole work This motto makes its presence felt in the following lyrical dialogue between the piano and the strings dominates the accelerating transition to the lively second-subject group and returns in full force as the starting-point of a broad orchestral melody After a short central section in which the piano plays continuously the motto returns as part of a fleeting reprise of the first-subject group makes a brief appearance during the extended reprise of the second-subject group and returns at the very end of the movement
The slow movement begins with an expressive string melody incorporating a phrase which hints at the perky rhythms of the first movementrsquos second subject The piano answers with a rhapsodic solo in changing metres which is continued by the strings with telling details in the horns The expressive melody of the opening returns on flute and piano a little later the first movementrsquos motto and the second-subject phrase are run together to form a counter-melody to pearly piano figuration The timpani ndash making their first appearance in the work ndash intervene to lead an
JohnIreland
1879ndash1962
10 | London Philharmonic Orchestra
Programme notes continued
Symphony No 1
1 Allegro assai2 Presto con malizia3 Andante con malinconia4 Maestoso ndash Allegro brioso ed ardentemente ndash Vivacissimo ndash Maestoso
WilliamWalton
1902ndash83
acceleration to the finale This is a rondo on an ebullient tune introduced by the piano in sparkling high octaves The two contrasting episodes are both at a slower tempo the first opening out from the pianorsquos first phrase in the first movement the second beginning with a rapturous duet for piano and solo violin derived from ideas in the second movement The motto makes a final appearance before the last quick section in which the metre shifts from 24 to 34 and the entry of the rondo theme now transformed into a waltz is delayed until nearly the end
Interval ndash 20 minutesAn announcement will be made five minutes before the end of the interval
John Ireland in his studio 14a Gunter Grove London
During his 20s William Walton burst on to the British musical scene with his avant-garde lsquoentertainmentrsquo Faccedilade consolidated his position in the mainstream with the Portsmouth Point Overture the Sinfonia Concertante for piano and the Viola Concerto and breathed new life into the traditional form of the oratorio with Belshazzarrsquos Feast His obvious next step was a symphony not least as a challenge to his seniors Vaughan Williams and Bax he was duly invited to write one by Sir Hamilton Harty then conductor of the Halleacute Orchestra in Manchester He drafted three movements and began a fourth during 1932 and 1933 but then became stuck Harty was by now conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra and anxious to schedule
the premiere with the LSO Walton orchestrated the first three movements but remained unable to complete the finale and in the end allowed the work to be performed without it in December 1934 The following year refreshed by the ending of a stormy love affair and the start of a calmer new relationship he resumed work on the finale this time successfully The first performance of the complete Symphony with Harty this time conducting the BBC Symphony Orchestra took place in November 1935 It was a triumph immediately gaining the work an honoured place in British music which it has never since lost (and which so far has not been shared by Waltonrsquos Second Symphony of a quarter-century later)
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The lsquovery fastrsquo opening movement in B flat minor conveys a sense of breadth and power that belies the relatively modest size of the orchestra (which includes no more than double woodwind and at this stage no percussion other than timpani) The breadth stems from slow-moving harmonies over Sibelius-like long-held bass notes and timpani rolls the power from urgently repeated ostinato figures blazing dissonances and sonorous scoring The first section of the movement presents a series of subtly inter-related themes in an atmosphere of sustained tension and excitement relaxing only slightly for the broad second subject it ends with a climax of battering repeated notes The central development begins by returning to the opening idea at a subdued dynamic level and gradually builds up intensity again towards a harmonically more stable reprise of the opening section
The two middle movements reflect two contrasting and complementary aspects of Waltonrsquos musical personality The lsquomaliciousrsquo scherzo in E minor is in a very fast one-in-a-bar 34 time disrupted by occasional bars of 54 various rhythmic figures and scraps of melody are rotated but there is no contrasting trio section and no slackening of the movementrsquos biting intensity The lsquomelancholyrsquo Andante in C sharp minor is based on two melodies of characteristically bitter-sweet lyricism which are developed organically in contrapuntal textures the closing section rises to a fervently declamatory climax before falling away to a quiet ending
The B flat major finale (which adds a second timpanist and two percussionists to the orchestra) has a more sectional structure than its predecessors It begins with a lsquomajesticrsquo introduction in the boldly rhetorical manner familiar from Waltonrsquos later marches and film scores Then come two large paragraphs at a lsquofast animated and ardentrsquo tempo the first crackling with energy the second an extended incisive fugue with a smoother central episode The material of these paragraphs is transformed and developed still largely in fugal texture in a new section in lsquovery livelyrsquo triple time To round off the Symphony the tempo of the introduction is restored for a grandiloquent coda
Programme notes copy Anthony Burton
This is the work of a true Master ndash unlike any other English symphony this is in the real line of symphonic tradition It is simply colossal grand original and moving to the emotions to the most extreme degreehellip It has established you as the most vital and original genius in Europe No one but a bloody fool could possibly fail to see thishellipJohn Ireland writing to Walton after hearing the first recording of the Symphony
More Piano Concertos with the LPO at Royal Festival Hall
Saturday 21 March 2015 | 730pmProkofiev Chout (excerpts)Magnus Lindberg Piano Concerto No 2 (UK premiere)Stravinsky Petrushka (1911 version)
Vladimir Jurowski conductor | Yefim Bronfman piano
Wednesday 25 March 2015 | 730pmMozart Symphony No 36 (Linz) Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No 1 (final version) Dvořaacutek Symphony No 8
Ilyich Rivas conductor | Dmitry Mayboroda piano
Part of Rachmaninoff Inside Out
Wednesday 15 April 2015 | 730pmBeethoven Piano Concerto No 4Bruckner Symphony No 4 (Romantic) (Nowak Edition)
Robin Ticciati conductor Menahem Pressler piano
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London Philharmonic Orchestra | 13
The Elgar Birthplace Museum Exploring the life and music of Englandrsquos great composer
Set in the beautiful countryside of Worcestershire is the museum
dedicated to the life and times of Englandrsquos great composer
Sir Edward Elgar
1 Free Entry to the Museum with this programme when accompanied by a full paying adult
Lower Broadheath Worcester tel 01905 33224
birthplaceelgarmuseumorg
Open every day 11am - 5pm
Available from lpoorgukrecordings the LPO Ticket Office (020 7840 4242) and all good CD outlets
Available to download or stream online via iTunes Spotify Amazon and others
Symphony No 4 Ryan Wigglesworth conductor
Symphony No 8 Vladimir Jurowski conductor
London Philharmonic Orchestra
LPO-0082
Available on the LPO Label Vaughan Williams Symphonies Nos 4 amp 8
lsquoFirst-rate playing from the London Philharmonic Orchestra with a fine warm bloom to the soundrsquo Financial Times (Symphony No 4)
Recommended recordings of tonightrsquos worksElgar Introduction and Allegro London Philharmonic Orchestra | Sir Adrian Boult [EMI 5665402]
Ireland Piano Concerto Piers Lane | Ulster Orchestra | David Lloyd-Jones [Hyperion CDA67296]
Eileen Joyce | London Philharmonic Orchestra | Sir Adrian Boult [LPO-0041]
Walton Symphony No 1 London Philharmonic Orchestra | Sir Charles Mackerras [Classics for Pleasure 75569]
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We would like to acknowledge the generous support of the following Thomas Beecham Group Patrons Principal Benefactors and Benefactors
Thomas Beecham Group
The Tsukanov Family Foundation
Neil Westreich
William and Alex de Winton Simon Robey Victoria Robey OBEJulian amp Gill Simmonds
Anonymous Garf amp Gill CollinsAndrew Davenport Mrs Sonja DrexlerDavid amp Victoria Graham Fuller Mrs Philip KanMr amp Mrs MakharinskyGeoff amp Meg MannCaroline Jamie amp Zander SharpEric Tomsett
John amp Manon Antoniazzi John amp Angela Kessler Guy amp Utti Whittaker
BrightSparks patrons Instead of supporting a chair in the Orchestra these donors have chosen to support our series of schoolsrsquo concerts
Principal BenefactorsMark amp Elizabeth AdamsDesmond amp Ruth CecilMr John H CookDavid EllenMr Daniel Goldstein Drs Frank amp Gek LimPeter MacDonald Eggers Dr Eva Lotta amp Mr Thierry Sciard Mr amp Mrs David MalpasMr Michael PosenMr amp Mrs G SteinMr amp Mrs John C TuckerMr amp Mrs John amp Susi Underwood Lady Marina Vaizey Laurence Watt Grenville amp Krysia Williams Mr Anthony Yolland
BenefactorsMrs A Beare David amp Patricia BuckMrs Alan CarringtonMr amp Mrs Stewart CohenMr Alistair Corbett Georgy Djaparidze Mr David Edgecombe Mr Timothy Fancourt QCMr Richard FernyhoughTony amp Susan Hayes Michael amp Christine HenryMalcolm Herring J Douglas HomeIvan Hurry
Mr Glenn HurstfieldPer JonssonMr Gerald LevinWg Cdr amp Mrs M T Liddiard OBE JP RAFPaul amp Brigitta Lock Mr Peter MaceMs Ulrike Mansel Robert MarkwickMr Brian Marsh Andrew T MillsJohn Montgomery Dr Karen Morton Mr amp Mrs Andrew Neill Tom amp Phillis SharpeMartin and Cheryl Southgate Professor John StuddMr Peter TausigMrs Kazue Turner Simon Turner Howard amp Sheelagh Watson Des amp Maggie WhitelockChristopher WilliamsBill Yoe and others who wish to remain
anonymous
Hon BenefactorElliott Bernerd
Hon Life MembersKenneth Goode Carol Colburn Grigor CBE Pehr G GyllenhammarMrs Jackie Rosenfeld OBE
The generosity of our Sponsors Corporate Members supporters and donors is gratefully acknowledgedCorporate Members
Silver AREVA UK BerenbergBritish American BusinessCarter-Ruck
Bronze Appleyard amp Trew LLP BTO Management Consulting AG Charles Russell SpeechlysLeventis Overseas
Preferred Partners Corinthia Hotel London Heineken Lindt amp Spruumlngli LtdSipsmith Steinway Villa Maria In-kind SponsorsGoogle IncSela Tilleyrsquos Sweets
Trusts and Foundations Angus Allnatt Charitable Foundation Ambache Charitable Trust Ruth Berkowitz Charitable Trust The Boltini Trust
Borletti-Buitoni TrustBritten-Pears Foundation The Candide Trust The Peter Carr Charitable Trust in memory
of Peter CarrThe Ernest Cook TrustThe Coutts Charitable TrustThe DrsquoOyly Carte Charitable TrustDunard FundThe Equitable Charitable Trust Fidelio Charitable TrustThe Foyle FoundationLucille Graham TrustThe Jeniffer and Jonathan Harris
Charitable TrustHelp Musicians UK The Hinrichsen Foundation The Hobson Charity The Idlewild Trust Kirby Laing Foundation The Leche Trust London Stock Exchange Group FoundationMarsh Christian TrustThe Mayor of Londonrsquos Fund for Young
MusiciansAdam Mickiewicz Institute The Peter Minet TrustThe Ann and Frederick OrsquoBrien
Charitable Trust
Office for Cultural and Scientific Affairs ofthe Embassy of Spain in London
Palazzetto Bru Zane ndash Centre de musiqueromantique franccedilaise
The Austin and Hope Pilkington Trust Polish Cultural Institute in London PRS for Music FoundationThe Radcliffe TrustRivers Foundation The R K Charitable TrustSerge Rachmaninoff Foundation Romanian Cultural Institute Schroder Charity Trust Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation The David Solomons Charitable Trust The Steel Charitable TrustThe John Thaw FoundationThe Tillett Trust UK Friends of the Felix-Mendelssohn-
Bartholdy-Foundation The Viney FamilyGarfield Weston FoundationThe Barbara Whatmore Charitable TrustYouth Music and others who wish to remain anonymous
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SOUND FUTURES DONORS
We are grateful to the following donors for their generous contributions to Sound Futures which will establish our first ever endowment Donations from those below have already been matched pound for pound by Arts Council England through a Catalyst Endowment grant
By May 2015 we aim to have raised pound1 million which when matched will create a pound2 million fund supporting our Education and Community Programme our creative programming and major artistic projects at Southbank Centre
We thank those who are helping us to realise the vision
Masur CircleArts Council EnglandDunard Fund Victoria Robey OBE Emmanuel amp Barrie RomanThe Underwood Trust
Welser-Moumlst CircleWilliam amp Alex de WintonJohn Ireland Charitable Trust The Tsukanov Family FoundationNeil Westreich
Tennstedt CircleRichard Buxton Simon Robey Simon amp Vero Turner The late Mr K Twyman
Solti PatronsAgeas John amp Manon Antoniazzi Georgy DjaparidzeMrs Mina Goodman and
Miss Suzanne GoodmanMr James R D KornerRobert Markwick amp Kasia RobinskiThe Rothschild Foundation
Haitink PatronsMark amp Elizabeth AdamsMrs Pauline BaumgartnerLady Jane BerrillMr Frederick BrittendenDavid amp Yi Yao BuckleyGill amp Garf CollinsMr John H CookBruno de KegelMr Gavin GrahamMoya GreeneTony and Susie Hayes
Catherine Hoslashgel amp Ben MardleMrs Philip Kan Rose and Dudley LeighLady Roslyn Marion LyonsMiss Jeanette MartinDiana and Allan Morgenthau
Charitable TrustDr Karen MortonRuth RattenburyThe Reed Foundation Sir Bernard RixDavid Ross and Line Forestier (Canada)Carolina amp Martin SchwabTom and Phillis SharpeDr Brian SmithMr amp Mrs G SteinDr Peter Stephenson Miss Anne StoddartTFS Loans LimitedLady Marina VaizeyMs Jenny WatsonGuy amp Utti Whittaker
Pritchard DonorsRalph and Elizabeth AldwinckleMichael and Linda BlackstoneConrad Blakey OBEDr Anthony BucklandBusiness Events SydneyLady June ChichesterJohn Childress amp Christiane WuillamieLindka CierachPaul CollinsMr Alistair CorbettDavid DennisMr David EdgecombeDavid EllenMr Timothy Fancourt QCKarima amp David GMr Daniel Goldstein
Mr Derek B GrayMr Roger GreenwoodRebecca Halford HarrisonMr J Douglas HomeHoneymead Arts TrustMrs Dawn HooperRehmet Kassim-LakhaMr Geoffrey KirkhamPeter LeaverDrs Frank amp Gek LimPeter MaceMr David MacfarlaneGeoff amp Meg MannMarsh Christian TrustDr David McGibneyMichael amp Patricia McLaren-TurnerJohn MontgomeryRosemary MorganGail MutruxParis NatarMr Roger H C PattisonThe late Edmund PirouetMr Michael PosenSarah amp John PriestlandMr Christopher QuereeMr Peter RussellMr Alan SainerTim SlorickLady Valerie SoltiTimothy Walker AMLaurence WattMr R WattsDes amp Maggie WhitelockChristopher WilliamsPeter Wilson SmithVictoria YanakovaMr Anthony Yolland
And all other donors who wish to remain anonymous
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Administration
Board of DirectorsVictoria Robey OBE Chairman Stewart McIlwham President Gareth Newman Vice-PresidentDr Manon Antoniazzi Richard Brass Desmond Cecil CMG Vesselin Gellev Jonathan Harris CBE FRICS Dr Catherine C HoslashgelMartin Houmlhmann George Peniston Kevin Rundell Julian SimmondsMark TempletonNatasha TsukanovaTimothy Walker AM Laurence WattNeil Westreich
Player-Director
Advisory CouncilVictoria Robey OBE Chairman Christopher Aldren Richard Brass David Buckley Sir Alan Collins KCVO CMG Andrew Davenport Jonathan Dawson William de Winton Edward Dolman Christopher Fraser OBE Lord Hall of Birkenhead CBE Jamie Korner Clive Marks OBE FCA Stewart McIlwham Sir Bernard Rix Baroness ShackletonLord Sharman of Redlynch OBE Thomas Sharpe QC Martin SouthgateSir Philip Thomas Sir John TooleyChris VineyTimothy Walker AMElizabeth Winter
American Friends of the London Philharmonic Orchestra IncJenny Ireland Co-ChairmanWilliam A Kerr Co-ChairmanKyung-Wha ChungAlexandra JupinDr Felisa B KaplanJill Fine MainelliKristina McPhee Dr Joseph MulvehillHarvey M Spear EsqDanny Lopez Hon ChairmanNoel Kilkenny Hon DirectorVictoria Robey OBE Hon DirectorRichard Gee Esq Of Counsel Jenifer L Keiser CPA
EisnerAmper LLP
Chief Executive
Timothy Walker AM Chief Executive and Artistic Director
Amy SugarmanPA to the Chief Executive Administrative Assistant
Finance
David BurkeGeneral Manager and Finance Director
David GreensladeFinance and IT Manager
Dayse GuilhermeFinance Officer
Concert Management
Roanna Gibson Concerts Director
Graham WoodConcerts and Recordings Manager
Jenny Chadwick Tours Manager
Tamzin Aitken Glyndebourne and UK Engagements Manager
Alison JonesConcerts and Recordings Co-ordinator
Jo CotterTours Co-ordinator Orchestra Personnel
Andrew CheneryOrchestra Personnel Manager
Sarah Holmes Sarah ThomasLibrarians ( job-share)
Christopher AldertonStage Manager
Damian Davis Transport Manager
Ellie Swithinbank Assistant Orchestra Personnel Manager
Education and Community
Isabella Kernot Education Director
Alexandra ClarkeEducation and Community Project Manager
Lucy DuffyEducation and Community Project Manager
Richard MallettEducation and Community Producer
Development
Nick JackmanDevelopment Director
Catherine Faulkner Development Events Manager
Kathryn HagemanIndividual Giving Manager
Laura Luckhurst Corporate Relations Manager
Anna Quillin Trusts and Foundations Manager
Helen Etheridge Development Assistant
Rebecca FoggDevelopment Assistant
Kirstin PeltonenDevelopment Associate
Marketing
Kath TroutMarketing Director
Mia RobertsMarketing Manager
Rachel WilliamsPublications Manager (maternity leave)
Sarah BreedenPublications Manager (maternity cover)
Samantha CleverleyBox Office Manager(Tel 020 7840 4242)
Libby Northcote-GreenMarketing Co-ordinator
Digital Projects
Alison Atkinson Digital Projects Director
Matthew Freeman Recordings Consultant Public Relations
Albion Media (Tel 020 3077 4930) Archives
Philip StuartDiscographer
Gillian Pole Recordings Archive Professional Services
Charles RussellSolicitors
Crowe Clark Whitehill LLPAuditors
Dr Louise MillerHonorary Doctor
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The London Philharmonic Orchestra Limited is a registered charity No 238045
Composer photographs of Elgar and Walton courtesy of the Royal College of Music London Ireland photographs courtesy of The John Ireland Charitable Trust Front cover photograph Martin Hobbs horn copy Julian Calverley Cover design art direction Chaos Design
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London Philharmonic Orchestra
The London Philharmonic Orchestra is one of the worldrsquos finest orchestras balancing a long and distinguished history with its present-day position as one of the most dynamic and forward-looking ensembles in the UK As well as its performances in the concert hall the Orchestra also records film and video game soundtracks releases CDs on its own record label and reaches thousands of people every year through activities for families schools and community groups
The Orchestra was founded by Sir Thomas Beecham in 1932 It has since been headed by many of the worldrsquos greatest conductors including Sir Adrian Boult Bernard Haitink Sir Georg Solti Klaus Tennstedt and Kurt Masur Vladimir Jurowski is currently the Orchestrarsquos Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor appointed in 2007 From September 2015 Andreacutes Orozco-Estrada will take up the position of Principal Guest Conductor Magnus Lindberg is the Orchestrarsquos current Composer in Residence
The Orchestra is based at Southbank Centrersquos Royal Festival Hall in London where it has performed since the Hallrsquos opening in 1951 and been Resident Orchestra since 1992 It gives around 30 concerts there each season with many of the worldrsquos top conductors and
soloists Throughout 2013 the Orchestra collaborated with Southbank Centre on the year-long The Rest Is Noise festival charting the influential works of the 20th century 201415 highlights include a season-long festival Rachmaninoff Inside Out exploring the composerrsquos major orchestral masterpieces premieres of works by Harrison Birtwistle Julian Anderson Colin Matthews James Horner and the Orchestrarsquos new Composer in Residence Magnus Lindberg and appearances by many of todayrsquos most sought-after artists including Maria Joatildeo Pires Christoph Eschenbach Yannick Neacutezet-Seacuteguin Osmo Vaumlnskauml Lars Vogt Barbara Hannigan Vasily Petrenko Marin Alsop Katia and Marielle Labegraveque and Robin Ticciati
Outside London the Orchestra has flourishing residencies in Brighton and Eastbourne and performs regularly around the UK Each summer it takes up its annual residency at Glyndebourne Festival Opera in the Sussex countryside 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
Full marks to the London Philharmonic for continuing to offer the most adventurous concerts in LondonThe Financial Times 14 April 2014
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Touring remains a large part of the Orchestrarsquos life highlights of the 201415 season include appearances across Europe (including Iceland) and tours to the USA (West and East Coasts) Canada and China
The London Philharmonic Orchestra has recorded the soundtracks to numerous blockbuster films 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 80 releases available on CD and to download Recent additions include organ works by Poulenc and Saint-Saeumlns with Yannick Neacutezet-Seacuteguin Straussrsquos Don Juan and Ein Heldenleben with Bernard Haitink Shostakovichrsquos Symphonies Nos 6 amp 14 and Zemlinskyrsquos A Florentine Tragedy with Vladimir Jurowski and Orffrsquos Carmina Burana with Hans Graf In summer 2012 the London Philharmonic Orchestra performed as part of The Queenrsquos Diamond Jubilee Pageant on the River Thames and was also chosen to record all the worldrsquos national anthems for the London 2012 Olympics In 2013 it was the winner of the RPS Music Award for Ensemble
The London Philharmonic Orchestra is committed to inspiring the next generation of musicians through an energetic programme of activities for young people Highlights include the BrightSparks schoolsrsquo concerts and FUNharmonics family concerts the Young Composers Programme and the Foyle Future Firsts orchestral training programme for outstanding young players Its work at the forefront of digital engagement and social media has enabled the Orchestra to reach even more people worldwide all its recordings are available to download from iTunes and as well as a YouTube channel and regular podcast series the Orchestra has a lively presence on Facebook and Twitter
Find out more and get involved
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Vesselin Gellev leader
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Bulgarian violinist Vesselin Gellev has been a featured soloist with the London Philharmonic Orchestra Spoleto Festival Orchestra New Haven Symphony Orchestra and Juilliard Orchestra among others
He won First Prize at the Concert Artists Guild
Competition in New York as a member of the Antares Quartet and has recorded several albums and toured worldwide as Concertmaster of Kristjan Jaumlrvirsquos Grammy-nominated Absolute Ensemble
Vesselin has performed as Guest Leader with orchestras including the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Royal Scottish National Orchestra BBC National Orchestra of Wales Mahler Chamber Orchestra and the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
Vesselin studied at The Juilliard School and joined the London Philharmonic Orchestra as Sub-Leader in 2007
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Andrew Manzeconductor
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Andrew Manzersquos extensive and scholarly knowledge of the repertoire together with his skill as a communicator and boundless energy has marked him out amongst his peers In September 2014 he became the Principal Conductor of the NDR Radio Philharmonic Orchestra in Hannover and he regularly performs as a guest conductor with a number of leading international orchestras including the Munich Philharmonic Leipzig Gewandhaus Gothenburg Symphony Oslo Philharmonic City of Birmingham Symphony Halleacute Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Mahler Chamber Orchestra and the Scottish and Swedish Chamber orchestras
He was Principal Conductor and Artistic Director of the Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra Sweden (from 2006ndash14) with which he made a number of recordings including Beethovenrsquos Symphony No 3 lsquoEroicarsquo (Harmonia Mundi) and a cycle of Brahms symphonies (CPO) He was Associate Guest Conductor of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra from 2010ndash14 and Principal Guest Conductor of the Norwegian Radio Symphony Orchestra from 2008ndash11
Orchestral debuts this season and beyond include the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Frankfurt Radio Symphony orchestras and Orquestra Sinfocircnica do Estado de Satildeo Paulo Alongside his regular guesting Manze returns to the Leipzig Gewandhausorchester WDR Sinfonieorchester Koumlln Tonkuumlnstler and Danish National Symphony orchestras and makes his fourth consecutive appearance at the Mostly Mozart Fesival New York this summer
After reading Classics at Cambridge University Andrew Manze studied the violin and rapidly became a leading specialist in the world of historical performance practice
He became Associate Director of The Academy of Ancient Music in 1996 and then Artistic Director of The English Concert from 2003 until 2007 As a violinist Manze has released an astonishing variety of CDs many of them award-winning
He is a fellow of the Royal Academy of Music and a Visiting Professor at the Oslo Academy and has contributed to new editions of sonatas and concertos by Mozart and Bach published by Baumlrenreiter and Breitkopf and Haumlrtel He also teaches edits and writes about music as well as broadcasting regularly on radio and television
Andrew Manze received the prestigious Rolf Schock Prize in Stockholm in 2011 Previous winners include Ligeti Kagel Gidon Kremer and Anne Sofie von Otter
This eveningrsquos performance marks Andrew Manzersquos debut with the London Philharmonic Orchestra
Andrew Manze conducts Vaughan Williams A Pastoral Symphony at the 2014 BBC Proms
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Andrew Manze has developed into one of the most gifted present-day occupants of the podiumGuy Rickards Gramophone September 2014 Recording of Larrson Orchestral Works Vol 1
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Piers Lanepiano
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London-based Australian pianist Piers Lane is in great demand as soloist and collaborative artist Recent highlights include concerto performances of Busoni and Bridge at Carnegie Hall premieres of Carl Vinersquos Second Piano Concerto written for him with the Sydney Symphony and the London Philharmonic orchestras and sold-out solo recitals at Wigmore Hall
Five-times soloist at the BBC Proms Piers Lanersquos concerto repertoire exceeds 90 works and has led to engagements with many of the worldrsquos great orchestras including the American Bournemouth and Gothenburg Symphony orchestras Orchestre National de France City of London Sinfonia and Warsaw Philharmonic Leading conductors with whom he has worked include Andrey Boreyko Sir Andrew Davis Andrew Litton Jerzy Maksymiuk Vassily Sinaisky and Yan Pascal Tortelier
He frequently performs at prestigious festivals such as Aldeburgh Prague Spring and the Chopin festival in Warsaw He is Artistic Director of the Australian Festival of Chamber Music and also directed the annual Myra Hess Day at the National Gallery in London from its inception in 2006 until 2013 From this sprang Admission One Shilling a collaboration with actress Patricia Routledge devised by Nigel Hess for theatre exploring Dame Myrarsquos work during the Second World War it has been performed over 70 times throughout the UK and most recently in Australia and Belgium
Piers Lanersquos discography of over 50 CDs includes much admired recordings of rare Romantic piano concertos the complete Preludes and Etudes by Scriabin and transcriptions of Bach and Strauss Last season Hyperion released his most recent solo recording Piers Lane goes to Town
Piers Lane continues his longstanding partnership with violinist Tasmin Little clarinettist Michael Collins and the Goldner String Quartet He has performed with Anne Sofie von Otter and Bengt Forsberg pianists Marc-Andreacute Hamelin and Kathryn Stott and string quartets the Australian Doric Kodaacutely Medici New Budapest New Zealand Prazak and RTE Vanbrugh
Many composers have written for Piers Lane and he has premiered works by Brett Dean Dave Heath Colin Matthews Richard Mills Carl Vine Benjamin Wallfisch and Malcolm Williamson among others He has made many first recordings including Elgarrsquos Impromptu Irelandrsquos Ballerina and Williamsonrsquos Piano Concerto No 4
Piers Lane has written and presented over 100 programmes for BBC Radio 3 including the popular 54-part series The Piano He was recently presented with the first medal from the Laza Kostic fund for promoting Serbian culture during difficult political times in the late 90s In the Queenrsquos Diamond Jubilee Birthday Honours he was made an Officer in the Order of Australia (AO) for distinguished services to the arts as pianist mentor and organiser
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The recital was notable for Piers Lanersquos sustained interpretative probing as much as for the pianistrsquos technical assurance and attention to musical detail Claire Seymour Seen and Heard International January 2015
8 | London Philharmonic Orchestra
Programme notes
Tonightrsquos programme presents works from the early 20th century by three English composers of successive generations (all of them first performed in the Queenrsquos Hall which was destroyed in the Second World War and replaced by the Royal Festival Hall) Edward Elgar trained as a violinist showed his flair for writing for strings in his sonorous Introduction and Allegro of 1904ndash5 The pianist-composer John Ireland combined his characteristic mood of
rhapsodic keyboard musing with a subtle thematic sub-structure in his 1930 Piano Concerto William Walton no performer but a master of the craft of orchestration established himself as a major figure with his First Symphony begun in 1932ndash3 with a purposeful first movement a lsquomaliciousrsquo scherzo and a lsquomelancholyrsquo slow movement and completed in 1935 with a brilliant finale
Speedread
Elgar studied the violin from an early age had hopes at one stage of making a career as a soloist and earned much of his living for several years as an orchestral musician in the West Midlands So he always wrote for the strings of the orchestra with special understanding and he composed two substantial pieces for strings alone The Serenade of 1892 was a breakthrough work first tried out with a ladiesrsquo orchestra in Worcestershire but accepted for publication by the august firm of Breitkopf and Haumlrtel in Leipzig On the other hand the Introduction and Allegro was written when he was at the height of his fame It was begun in the year of his knighthood 1904 in response to a request from the recently formed London Symphony Orchestra for a new piece to be included in an all-Elgar concert Elgar himself conducted the first performance in March 1905
The scoring contrasts the main string orchestra with a solo quartet of section leaders ndash used sometimes as a concertino group (similar to Handelrsquos string concertos)
Introduction and Allegro for Strings Op 47EdwardElgar
1857ndash1934
Elgar outside his house Craeg Lea in Malvern Wells
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sometimes as individual soloists and sometimes to add subtle touches of colouring to the texture The broad Introduction anticipates the melodic material of the Allegro which is in traditional sonata form but with the usual central development section replaced by a brilliant fugue One of the workrsquos principal melodies first heard near the beginning on solo viola and brought
back in triumph towards the end of the Allegro is based on an idea that Elgar had sketched in 1901 on a holiday in Wales he was reminded of it by a song he heard in the distance in the Wye Valley on the Welsh border And the whole work he once wrote lsquois really a tribute to that sweet borderland where I have made my homersquo
Piano Concerto in E flat major
Piers Lane piano
1 In tempo moderato2 Lento espressivo ndash 3 Allegro ndash Allegretto giocoso
John Ireland was born in Bowdon south of Manchester and studied the piano and composition at the Royal College of Music in London where he later taught for many years his pupils including Benjamin Britten He was trained by Stanford in the tradition of Brahms but was open to the influence of several 20th-century composers including Debussy Ravel and Prokofiev His list of works is dominated by songs and piano pieces (many of which were inspired by places that he loved) but he also wrote effectively for orchestra Ireland wrote his Piano Concerto in 1930 for his piano pupil and proteacutegeacutee Helen Perkin She gave the first performance at the age of 21 in a Promenade Concert conducted by Sir Henry Wood in October 1930 Although conceived for her small hands the solo part is brilliantly virtuosic in places with some figuration echoing the jazz-tinged lsquonovelty numbersrsquo of between-the-wars popular piano music ndash as well as containing a great deal in a vein of poetic introspection
The Concerto is in three thematically linked movements (though Ireland numbered the second and third which are played without a break as a single unit) The first movement begins with a smooth string melody in octaves of which the first four notes ndash a falling fourth
followed by a rising fourth a step higher ndash constitute the unifying motto theme of the movement and to some extent the whole work This motto makes its presence felt in the following lyrical dialogue between the piano and the strings dominates the accelerating transition to the lively second-subject group and returns in full force as the starting-point of a broad orchestral melody After a short central section in which the piano plays continuously the motto returns as part of a fleeting reprise of the first-subject group makes a brief appearance during the extended reprise of the second-subject group and returns at the very end of the movement
The slow movement begins with an expressive string melody incorporating a phrase which hints at the perky rhythms of the first movementrsquos second subject The piano answers with a rhapsodic solo in changing metres which is continued by the strings with telling details in the horns The expressive melody of the opening returns on flute and piano a little later the first movementrsquos motto and the second-subject phrase are run together to form a counter-melody to pearly piano figuration The timpani ndash making their first appearance in the work ndash intervene to lead an
JohnIreland
1879ndash1962
10 | London Philharmonic Orchestra
Programme notes continued
Symphony No 1
1 Allegro assai2 Presto con malizia3 Andante con malinconia4 Maestoso ndash Allegro brioso ed ardentemente ndash Vivacissimo ndash Maestoso
WilliamWalton
1902ndash83
acceleration to the finale This is a rondo on an ebullient tune introduced by the piano in sparkling high octaves The two contrasting episodes are both at a slower tempo the first opening out from the pianorsquos first phrase in the first movement the second beginning with a rapturous duet for piano and solo violin derived from ideas in the second movement The motto makes a final appearance before the last quick section in which the metre shifts from 24 to 34 and the entry of the rondo theme now transformed into a waltz is delayed until nearly the end
Interval ndash 20 minutesAn announcement will be made five minutes before the end of the interval
John Ireland in his studio 14a Gunter Grove London
During his 20s William Walton burst on to the British musical scene with his avant-garde lsquoentertainmentrsquo Faccedilade consolidated his position in the mainstream with the Portsmouth Point Overture the Sinfonia Concertante for piano and the Viola Concerto and breathed new life into the traditional form of the oratorio with Belshazzarrsquos Feast His obvious next step was a symphony not least as a challenge to his seniors Vaughan Williams and Bax he was duly invited to write one by Sir Hamilton Harty then conductor of the Halleacute Orchestra in Manchester He drafted three movements and began a fourth during 1932 and 1933 but then became stuck Harty was by now conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra and anxious to schedule
the premiere with the LSO Walton orchestrated the first three movements but remained unable to complete the finale and in the end allowed the work to be performed without it in December 1934 The following year refreshed by the ending of a stormy love affair and the start of a calmer new relationship he resumed work on the finale this time successfully The first performance of the complete Symphony with Harty this time conducting the BBC Symphony Orchestra took place in November 1935 It was a triumph immediately gaining the work an honoured place in British music which it has never since lost (and which so far has not been shared by Waltonrsquos Second Symphony of a quarter-century later)
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The lsquovery fastrsquo opening movement in B flat minor conveys a sense of breadth and power that belies the relatively modest size of the orchestra (which includes no more than double woodwind and at this stage no percussion other than timpani) The breadth stems from slow-moving harmonies over Sibelius-like long-held bass notes and timpani rolls the power from urgently repeated ostinato figures blazing dissonances and sonorous scoring The first section of the movement presents a series of subtly inter-related themes in an atmosphere of sustained tension and excitement relaxing only slightly for the broad second subject it ends with a climax of battering repeated notes The central development begins by returning to the opening idea at a subdued dynamic level and gradually builds up intensity again towards a harmonically more stable reprise of the opening section
The two middle movements reflect two contrasting and complementary aspects of Waltonrsquos musical personality The lsquomaliciousrsquo scherzo in E minor is in a very fast one-in-a-bar 34 time disrupted by occasional bars of 54 various rhythmic figures and scraps of melody are rotated but there is no contrasting trio section and no slackening of the movementrsquos biting intensity The lsquomelancholyrsquo Andante in C sharp minor is based on two melodies of characteristically bitter-sweet lyricism which are developed organically in contrapuntal textures the closing section rises to a fervently declamatory climax before falling away to a quiet ending
The B flat major finale (which adds a second timpanist and two percussionists to the orchestra) has a more sectional structure than its predecessors It begins with a lsquomajesticrsquo introduction in the boldly rhetorical manner familiar from Waltonrsquos later marches and film scores Then come two large paragraphs at a lsquofast animated and ardentrsquo tempo the first crackling with energy the second an extended incisive fugue with a smoother central episode The material of these paragraphs is transformed and developed still largely in fugal texture in a new section in lsquovery livelyrsquo triple time To round off the Symphony the tempo of the introduction is restored for a grandiloquent coda
Programme notes copy Anthony Burton
This is the work of a true Master ndash unlike any other English symphony this is in the real line of symphonic tradition It is simply colossal grand original and moving to the emotions to the most extreme degreehellip It has established you as the most vital and original genius in Europe No one but a bloody fool could possibly fail to see thishellipJohn Ireland writing to Walton after hearing the first recording of the Symphony
More Piano Concertos with the LPO at Royal Festival Hall
Saturday 21 March 2015 | 730pmProkofiev Chout (excerpts)Magnus Lindberg Piano Concerto No 2 (UK premiere)Stravinsky Petrushka (1911 version)
Vladimir Jurowski conductor | Yefim Bronfman piano
Wednesday 25 March 2015 | 730pmMozart Symphony No 36 (Linz) Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No 1 (final version) Dvořaacutek Symphony No 8
Ilyich Rivas conductor | Dmitry Mayboroda piano
Part of Rachmaninoff Inside Out
Wednesday 15 April 2015 | 730pmBeethoven Piano Concerto No 4Bruckner Symphony No 4 (Romantic) (Nowak Edition)
Robin Ticciati conductor Menahem Pressler piano
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12 | London Philharmonic Orchestra
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London Philharmonic Orchestra | 13
The Elgar Birthplace Museum Exploring the life and music of Englandrsquos great composer
Set in the beautiful countryside of Worcestershire is the museum
dedicated to the life and times of Englandrsquos great composer
Sir Edward Elgar
1 Free Entry to the Museum with this programme when accompanied by a full paying adult
Lower Broadheath Worcester tel 01905 33224
birthplaceelgarmuseumorg
Open every day 11am - 5pm
Available from lpoorgukrecordings the LPO Ticket Office (020 7840 4242) and all good CD outlets
Available to download or stream online via iTunes Spotify Amazon and others
Symphony No 4 Ryan Wigglesworth conductor
Symphony No 8 Vladimir Jurowski conductor
London Philharmonic Orchestra
LPO-0082
Available on the LPO Label Vaughan Williams Symphonies Nos 4 amp 8
lsquoFirst-rate playing from the London Philharmonic Orchestra with a fine warm bloom to the soundrsquo Financial Times (Symphony No 4)
Recommended recordings of tonightrsquos worksElgar Introduction and Allegro London Philharmonic Orchestra | Sir Adrian Boult [EMI 5665402]
Ireland Piano Concerto Piers Lane | Ulster Orchestra | David Lloyd-Jones [Hyperion CDA67296]
Eileen Joyce | London Philharmonic Orchestra | Sir Adrian Boult [LPO-0041]
Walton Symphony No 1 London Philharmonic Orchestra | Sir Charles Mackerras [Classics for Pleasure 75569]
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We would like to acknowledge the generous support of the following Thomas Beecham Group Patrons Principal Benefactors and Benefactors
Thomas Beecham Group
The Tsukanov Family Foundation
Neil Westreich
William and Alex de Winton Simon Robey Victoria Robey OBEJulian amp Gill Simmonds
Anonymous Garf amp Gill CollinsAndrew Davenport Mrs Sonja DrexlerDavid amp Victoria Graham Fuller Mrs Philip KanMr amp Mrs MakharinskyGeoff amp Meg MannCaroline Jamie amp Zander SharpEric Tomsett
John amp Manon Antoniazzi John amp Angela Kessler Guy amp Utti Whittaker
BrightSparks patrons Instead of supporting a chair in the Orchestra these donors have chosen to support our series of schoolsrsquo concerts
Principal BenefactorsMark amp Elizabeth AdamsDesmond amp Ruth CecilMr John H CookDavid EllenMr Daniel Goldstein Drs Frank amp Gek LimPeter MacDonald Eggers Dr Eva Lotta amp Mr Thierry Sciard Mr amp Mrs David MalpasMr Michael PosenMr amp Mrs G SteinMr amp Mrs John C TuckerMr amp Mrs John amp Susi Underwood Lady Marina Vaizey Laurence Watt Grenville amp Krysia Williams Mr Anthony Yolland
BenefactorsMrs A Beare David amp Patricia BuckMrs Alan CarringtonMr amp Mrs Stewart CohenMr Alistair Corbett Georgy Djaparidze Mr David Edgecombe Mr Timothy Fancourt QCMr Richard FernyhoughTony amp Susan Hayes Michael amp Christine HenryMalcolm Herring J Douglas HomeIvan Hurry
Mr Glenn HurstfieldPer JonssonMr Gerald LevinWg Cdr amp Mrs M T Liddiard OBE JP RAFPaul amp Brigitta Lock Mr Peter MaceMs Ulrike Mansel Robert MarkwickMr Brian Marsh Andrew T MillsJohn Montgomery Dr Karen Morton Mr amp Mrs Andrew Neill Tom amp Phillis SharpeMartin and Cheryl Southgate Professor John StuddMr Peter TausigMrs Kazue Turner Simon Turner Howard amp Sheelagh Watson Des amp Maggie WhitelockChristopher WilliamsBill Yoe and others who wish to remain
anonymous
Hon BenefactorElliott Bernerd
Hon Life MembersKenneth Goode Carol Colburn Grigor CBE Pehr G GyllenhammarMrs Jackie Rosenfeld OBE
The generosity of our Sponsors Corporate Members supporters and donors is gratefully acknowledgedCorporate Members
Silver AREVA UK BerenbergBritish American BusinessCarter-Ruck
Bronze Appleyard amp Trew LLP BTO Management Consulting AG Charles Russell SpeechlysLeventis Overseas
Preferred Partners Corinthia Hotel London Heineken Lindt amp Spruumlngli LtdSipsmith Steinway Villa Maria In-kind SponsorsGoogle IncSela Tilleyrsquos Sweets
Trusts and Foundations Angus Allnatt Charitable Foundation Ambache Charitable Trust Ruth Berkowitz Charitable Trust The Boltini Trust
Borletti-Buitoni TrustBritten-Pears Foundation The Candide Trust The Peter Carr Charitable Trust in memory
of Peter CarrThe Ernest Cook TrustThe Coutts Charitable TrustThe DrsquoOyly Carte Charitable TrustDunard FundThe Equitable Charitable Trust Fidelio Charitable TrustThe Foyle FoundationLucille Graham TrustThe Jeniffer and Jonathan Harris
Charitable TrustHelp Musicians UK The Hinrichsen Foundation The Hobson Charity The Idlewild Trust Kirby Laing Foundation The Leche Trust London Stock Exchange Group FoundationMarsh Christian TrustThe Mayor of Londonrsquos Fund for Young
MusiciansAdam Mickiewicz Institute The Peter Minet TrustThe Ann and Frederick OrsquoBrien
Charitable Trust
Office for Cultural and Scientific Affairs ofthe Embassy of Spain in London
Palazzetto Bru Zane ndash Centre de musiqueromantique franccedilaise
The Austin and Hope Pilkington Trust Polish Cultural Institute in London PRS for Music FoundationThe Radcliffe TrustRivers Foundation The R K Charitable TrustSerge Rachmaninoff Foundation Romanian Cultural Institute Schroder Charity Trust Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation The David Solomons Charitable Trust The Steel Charitable TrustThe John Thaw FoundationThe Tillett Trust UK Friends of the Felix-Mendelssohn-
Bartholdy-Foundation The Viney FamilyGarfield Weston FoundationThe Barbara Whatmore Charitable TrustYouth Music and others who wish to remain anonymous
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SOUND FUTURES DONORS
We are grateful to the following donors for their generous contributions to Sound Futures which will establish our first ever endowment Donations from those below have already been matched pound for pound by Arts Council England through a Catalyst Endowment grant
By May 2015 we aim to have raised pound1 million which when matched will create a pound2 million fund supporting our Education and Community Programme our creative programming and major artistic projects at Southbank Centre
We thank those who are helping us to realise the vision
Masur CircleArts Council EnglandDunard Fund Victoria Robey OBE Emmanuel amp Barrie RomanThe Underwood Trust
Welser-Moumlst CircleWilliam amp Alex de WintonJohn Ireland Charitable Trust The Tsukanov Family FoundationNeil Westreich
Tennstedt CircleRichard Buxton Simon Robey Simon amp Vero Turner The late Mr K Twyman
Solti PatronsAgeas John amp Manon Antoniazzi Georgy DjaparidzeMrs Mina Goodman and
Miss Suzanne GoodmanMr James R D KornerRobert Markwick amp Kasia RobinskiThe Rothschild Foundation
Haitink PatronsMark amp Elizabeth AdamsMrs Pauline BaumgartnerLady Jane BerrillMr Frederick BrittendenDavid amp Yi Yao BuckleyGill amp Garf CollinsMr John H CookBruno de KegelMr Gavin GrahamMoya GreeneTony and Susie Hayes
Catherine Hoslashgel amp Ben MardleMrs Philip Kan Rose and Dudley LeighLady Roslyn Marion LyonsMiss Jeanette MartinDiana and Allan Morgenthau
Charitable TrustDr Karen MortonRuth RattenburyThe Reed Foundation Sir Bernard RixDavid Ross and Line Forestier (Canada)Carolina amp Martin SchwabTom and Phillis SharpeDr Brian SmithMr amp Mrs G SteinDr Peter Stephenson Miss Anne StoddartTFS Loans LimitedLady Marina VaizeyMs Jenny WatsonGuy amp Utti Whittaker
Pritchard DonorsRalph and Elizabeth AldwinckleMichael and Linda BlackstoneConrad Blakey OBEDr Anthony BucklandBusiness Events SydneyLady June ChichesterJohn Childress amp Christiane WuillamieLindka CierachPaul CollinsMr Alistair CorbettDavid DennisMr David EdgecombeDavid EllenMr Timothy Fancourt QCKarima amp David GMr Daniel Goldstein
Mr Derek B GrayMr Roger GreenwoodRebecca Halford HarrisonMr J Douglas HomeHoneymead Arts TrustMrs Dawn HooperRehmet Kassim-LakhaMr Geoffrey KirkhamPeter LeaverDrs Frank amp Gek LimPeter MaceMr David MacfarlaneGeoff amp Meg MannMarsh Christian TrustDr David McGibneyMichael amp Patricia McLaren-TurnerJohn MontgomeryRosemary MorganGail MutruxParis NatarMr Roger H C PattisonThe late Edmund PirouetMr Michael PosenSarah amp John PriestlandMr Christopher QuereeMr Peter RussellMr Alan SainerTim SlorickLady Valerie SoltiTimothy Walker AMLaurence WattMr R WattsDes amp Maggie WhitelockChristopher WilliamsPeter Wilson SmithVictoria YanakovaMr Anthony Yolland
And all other donors who wish to remain anonymous
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Administration
Board of DirectorsVictoria Robey OBE Chairman Stewart McIlwham President Gareth Newman Vice-PresidentDr Manon Antoniazzi Richard Brass Desmond Cecil CMG Vesselin Gellev Jonathan Harris CBE FRICS Dr Catherine C HoslashgelMartin Houmlhmann George Peniston Kevin Rundell Julian SimmondsMark TempletonNatasha TsukanovaTimothy Walker AM Laurence WattNeil Westreich
Player-Director
Advisory CouncilVictoria Robey OBE Chairman Christopher Aldren Richard Brass David Buckley Sir Alan Collins KCVO CMG Andrew Davenport Jonathan Dawson William de Winton Edward Dolman Christopher Fraser OBE Lord Hall of Birkenhead CBE Jamie Korner Clive Marks OBE FCA Stewart McIlwham Sir Bernard Rix Baroness ShackletonLord Sharman of Redlynch OBE Thomas Sharpe QC Martin SouthgateSir Philip Thomas Sir John TooleyChris VineyTimothy Walker AMElizabeth Winter
American Friends of the London Philharmonic Orchestra IncJenny Ireland Co-ChairmanWilliam A Kerr Co-ChairmanKyung-Wha ChungAlexandra JupinDr Felisa B KaplanJill Fine MainelliKristina McPhee Dr Joseph MulvehillHarvey M Spear EsqDanny Lopez Hon ChairmanNoel Kilkenny Hon DirectorVictoria Robey OBE Hon DirectorRichard Gee Esq Of Counsel Jenifer L Keiser CPA
EisnerAmper LLP
Chief Executive
Timothy Walker AM Chief Executive and Artistic Director
Amy SugarmanPA to the Chief Executive Administrative Assistant
Finance
David BurkeGeneral Manager and Finance Director
David GreensladeFinance and IT Manager
Dayse GuilhermeFinance Officer
Concert Management
Roanna Gibson Concerts Director
Graham WoodConcerts and Recordings Manager
Jenny Chadwick Tours Manager
Tamzin Aitken Glyndebourne and UK Engagements Manager
Alison JonesConcerts and Recordings Co-ordinator
Jo CotterTours Co-ordinator Orchestra Personnel
Andrew CheneryOrchestra Personnel Manager
Sarah Holmes Sarah ThomasLibrarians ( job-share)
Christopher AldertonStage Manager
Damian Davis Transport Manager
Ellie Swithinbank Assistant Orchestra Personnel Manager
Education and Community
Isabella Kernot Education Director
Alexandra ClarkeEducation and Community Project Manager
Lucy DuffyEducation and Community Project Manager
Richard MallettEducation and Community Producer
Development
Nick JackmanDevelopment Director
Catherine Faulkner Development Events Manager
Kathryn HagemanIndividual Giving Manager
Laura Luckhurst Corporate Relations Manager
Anna Quillin Trusts and Foundations Manager
Helen Etheridge Development Assistant
Rebecca FoggDevelopment Assistant
Kirstin PeltonenDevelopment Associate
Marketing
Kath TroutMarketing Director
Mia RobertsMarketing Manager
Rachel WilliamsPublications Manager (maternity leave)
Sarah BreedenPublications Manager (maternity cover)
Samantha CleverleyBox Office Manager(Tel 020 7840 4242)
Libby Northcote-GreenMarketing Co-ordinator
Digital Projects
Alison Atkinson Digital Projects Director
Matthew Freeman Recordings Consultant Public Relations
Albion Media (Tel 020 3077 4930) Archives
Philip StuartDiscographer
Gillian Pole Recordings Archive Professional Services
Charles RussellSolicitors
Crowe Clark Whitehill LLPAuditors
Dr Louise MillerHonorary Doctor
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The London Philharmonic Orchestra Limited is a registered charity No 238045
Composer photographs of Elgar and Walton courtesy of the Royal College of Music London Ireland photographs courtesy of The John Ireland Charitable Trust Front cover photograph Martin Hobbs horn copy Julian Calverley Cover design art direction Chaos Design
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Touring remains a large part of the Orchestrarsquos life highlights of the 201415 season include appearances across Europe (including Iceland) and tours to the USA (West and East Coasts) Canada and China
The London Philharmonic Orchestra has recorded the soundtracks to numerous blockbuster films 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 80 releases available on CD and to download Recent additions include organ works by Poulenc and Saint-Saeumlns with Yannick Neacutezet-Seacuteguin Straussrsquos Don Juan and Ein Heldenleben with Bernard Haitink Shostakovichrsquos Symphonies Nos 6 amp 14 and Zemlinskyrsquos A Florentine Tragedy with Vladimir Jurowski and Orffrsquos Carmina Burana with Hans Graf In summer 2012 the London Philharmonic Orchestra performed as part of The Queenrsquos Diamond Jubilee Pageant on the River Thames and was also chosen to record all the worldrsquos national anthems for the London 2012 Olympics In 2013 it was the winner of the RPS Music Award for Ensemble
The London Philharmonic Orchestra is committed to inspiring the next generation of musicians through an energetic programme of activities for young people Highlights include the BrightSparks schoolsrsquo concerts and FUNharmonics family concerts the Young Composers Programme and the Foyle Future Firsts orchestral training programme for outstanding young players Its work at the forefront of digital engagement and social media has enabled the Orchestra to reach even more people worldwide all its recordings are available to download from iTunes and as well as a YouTube channel and regular podcast series the Orchestra has a lively presence on Facebook and Twitter
Find out more and get involved
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Vesselin Gellev leader
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Bulgarian violinist Vesselin Gellev has been a featured soloist with the London Philharmonic Orchestra Spoleto Festival Orchestra New Haven Symphony Orchestra and Juilliard Orchestra among others
He won First Prize at the Concert Artists Guild
Competition in New York as a member of the Antares Quartet and has recorded several albums and toured worldwide as Concertmaster of Kristjan Jaumlrvirsquos Grammy-nominated Absolute Ensemble
Vesselin has performed as Guest Leader with orchestras including the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Royal Scottish National Orchestra BBC National Orchestra of Wales Mahler Chamber Orchestra and the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
Vesselin studied at The Juilliard School and joined the London Philharmonic Orchestra as Sub-Leader in 2007
6 | London Philharmonic Orchestra
Andrew Manzeconductor
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Andrew Manzersquos extensive and scholarly knowledge of the repertoire together with his skill as a communicator and boundless energy has marked him out amongst his peers In September 2014 he became the Principal Conductor of the NDR Radio Philharmonic Orchestra in Hannover and he regularly performs as a guest conductor with a number of leading international orchestras including the Munich Philharmonic Leipzig Gewandhaus Gothenburg Symphony Oslo Philharmonic City of Birmingham Symphony Halleacute Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Mahler Chamber Orchestra and the Scottish and Swedish Chamber orchestras
He was Principal Conductor and Artistic Director of the Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra Sweden (from 2006ndash14) with which he made a number of recordings including Beethovenrsquos Symphony No 3 lsquoEroicarsquo (Harmonia Mundi) and a cycle of Brahms symphonies (CPO) He was Associate Guest Conductor of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra from 2010ndash14 and Principal Guest Conductor of the Norwegian Radio Symphony Orchestra from 2008ndash11
Orchestral debuts this season and beyond include the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Frankfurt Radio Symphony orchestras and Orquestra Sinfocircnica do Estado de Satildeo Paulo Alongside his regular guesting Manze returns to the Leipzig Gewandhausorchester WDR Sinfonieorchester Koumlln Tonkuumlnstler and Danish National Symphony orchestras and makes his fourth consecutive appearance at the Mostly Mozart Fesival New York this summer
After reading Classics at Cambridge University Andrew Manze studied the violin and rapidly became a leading specialist in the world of historical performance practice
He became Associate Director of The Academy of Ancient Music in 1996 and then Artistic Director of The English Concert from 2003 until 2007 As a violinist Manze has released an astonishing variety of CDs many of them award-winning
He is a fellow of the Royal Academy of Music and a Visiting Professor at the Oslo Academy and has contributed to new editions of sonatas and concertos by Mozart and Bach published by Baumlrenreiter and Breitkopf and Haumlrtel He also teaches edits and writes about music as well as broadcasting regularly on radio and television
Andrew Manze received the prestigious Rolf Schock Prize in Stockholm in 2011 Previous winners include Ligeti Kagel Gidon Kremer and Anne Sofie von Otter
This eveningrsquos performance marks Andrew Manzersquos debut with the London Philharmonic Orchestra
Andrew Manze conducts Vaughan Williams A Pastoral Symphony at the 2014 BBC Proms
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Andrew Manze has developed into one of the most gifted present-day occupants of the podiumGuy Rickards Gramophone September 2014 Recording of Larrson Orchestral Works Vol 1
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Piers Lanepiano
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London-based Australian pianist Piers Lane is in great demand as soloist and collaborative artist Recent highlights include concerto performances of Busoni and Bridge at Carnegie Hall premieres of Carl Vinersquos Second Piano Concerto written for him with the Sydney Symphony and the London Philharmonic orchestras and sold-out solo recitals at Wigmore Hall
Five-times soloist at the BBC Proms Piers Lanersquos concerto repertoire exceeds 90 works and has led to engagements with many of the worldrsquos great orchestras including the American Bournemouth and Gothenburg Symphony orchestras Orchestre National de France City of London Sinfonia and Warsaw Philharmonic Leading conductors with whom he has worked include Andrey Boreyko Sir Andrew Davis Andrew Litton Jerzy Maksymiuk Vassily Sinaisky and Yan Pascal Tortelier
He frequently performs at prestigious festivals such as Aldeburgh Prague Spring and the Chopin festival in Warsaw He is Artistic Director of the Australian Festival of Chamber Music and also directed the annual Myra Hess Day at the National Gallery in London from its inception in 2006 until 2013 From this sprang Admission One Shilling a collaboration with actress Patricia Routledge devised by Nigel Hess for theatre exploring Dame Myrarsquos work during the Second World War it has been performed over 70 times throughout the UK and most recently in Australia and Belgium
Piers Lanersquos discography of over 50 CDs includes much admired recordings of rare Romantic piano concertos the complete Preludes and Etudes by Scriabin and transcriptions of Bach and Strauss Last season Hyperion released his most recent solo recording Piers Lane goes to Town
Piers Lane continues his longstanding partnership with violinist Tasmin Little clarinettist Michael Collins and the Goldner String Quartet He has performed with Anne Sofie von Otter and Bengt Forsberg pianists Marc-Andreacute Hamelin and Kathryn Stott and string quartets the Australian Doric Kodaacutely Medici New Budapest New Zealand Prazak and RTE Vanbrugh
Many composers have written for Piers Lane and he has premiered works by Brett Dean Dave Heath Colin Matthews Richard Mills Carl Vine Benjamin Wallfisch and Malcolm Williamson among others He has made many first recordings including Elgarrsquos Impromptu Irelandrsquos Ballerina and Williamsonrsquos Piano Concerto No 4
Piers Lane has written and presented over 100 programmes for BBC Radio 3 including the popular 54-part series The Piano He was recently presented with the first medal from the Laza Kostic fund for promoting Serbian culture during difficult political times in the late 90s In the Queenrsquos Diamond Jubilee Birthday Honours he was made an Officer in the Order of Australia (AO) for distinguished services to the arts as pianist mentor and organiser
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The recital was notable for Piers Lanersquos sustained interpretative probing as much as for the pianistrsquos technical assurance and attention to musical detail Claire Seymour Seen and Heard International January 2015
8 | London Philharmonic Orchestra
Programme notes
Tonightrsquos programme presents works from the early 20th century by three English composers of successive generations (all of them first performed in the Queenrsquos Hall which was destroyed in the Second World War and replaced by the Royal Festival Hall) Edward Elgar trained as a violinist showed his flair for writing for strings in his sonorous Introduction and Allegro of 1904ndash5 The pianist-composer John Ireland combined his characteristic mood of
rhapsodic keyboard musing with a subtle thematic sub-structure in his 1930 Piano Concerto William Walton no performer but a master of the craft of orchestration established himself as a major figure with his First Symphony begun in 1932ndash3 with a purposeful first movement a lsquomaliciousrsquo scherzo and a lsquomelancholyrsquo slow movement and completed in 1935 with a brilliant finale
Speedread
Elgar studied the violin from an early age had hopes at one stage of making a career as a soloist and earned much of his living for several years as an orchestral musician in the West Midlands So he always wrote for the strings of the orchestra with special understanding and he composed two substantial pieces for strings alone The Serenade of 1892 was a breakthrough work first tried out with a ladiesrsquo orchestra in Worcestershire but accepted for publication by the august firm of Breitkopf and Haumlrtel in Leipzig On the other hand the Introduction and Allegro was written when he was at the height of his fame It was begun in the year of his knighthood 1904 in response to a request from the recently formed London Symphony Orchestra for a new piece to be included in an all-Elgar concert Elgar himself conducted the first performance in March 1905
The scoring contrasts the main string orchestra with a solo quartet of section leaders ndash used sometimes as a concertino group (similar to Handelrsquos string concertos)
Introduction and Allegro for Strings Op 47EdwardElgar
1857ndash1934
Elgar outside his house Craeg Lea in Malvern Wells
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sometimes as individual soloists and sometimes to add subtle touches of colouring to the texture The broad Introduction anticipates the melodic material of the Allegro which is in traditional sonata form but with the usual central development section replaced by a brilliant fugue One of the workrsquos principal melodies first heard near the beginning on solo viola and brought
back in triumph towards the end of the Allegro is based on an idea that Elgar had sketched in 1901 on a holiday in Wales he was reminded of it by a song he heard in the distance in the Wye Valley on the Welsh border And the whole work he once wrote lsquois really a tribute to that sweet borderland where I have made my homersquo
Piano Concerto in E flat major
Piers Lane piano
1 In tempo moderato2 Lento espressivo ndash 3 Allegro ndash Allegretto giocoso
John Ireland was born in Bowdon south of Manchester and studied the piano and composition at the Royal College of Music in London where he later taught for many years his pupils including Benjamin Britten He was trained by Stanford in the tradition of Brahms but was open to the influence of several 20th-century composers including Debussy Ravel and Prokofiev His list of works is dominated by songs and piano pieces (many of which were inspired by places that he loved) but he also wrote effectively for orchestra Ireland wrote his Piano Concerto in 1930 for his piano pupil and proteacutegeacutee Helen Perkin She gave the first performance at the age of 21 in a Promenade Concert conducted by Sir Henry Wood in October 1930 Although conceived for her small hands the solo part is brilliantly virtuosic in places with some figuration echoing the jazz-tinged lsquonovelty numbersrsquo of between-the-wars popular piano music ndash as well as containing a great deal in a vein of poetic introspection
The Concerto is in three thematically linked movements (though Ireland numbered the second and third which are played without a break as a single unit) The first movement begins with a smooth string melody in octaves of which the first four notes ndash a falling fourth
followed by a rising fourth a step higher ndash constitute the unifying motto theme of the movement and to some extent the whole work This motto makes its presence felt in the following lyrical dialogue between the piano and the strings dominates the accelerating transition to the lively second-subject group and returns in full force as the starting-point of a broad orchestral melody After a short central section in which the piano plays continuously the motto returns as part of a fleeting reprise of the first-subject group makes a brief appearance during the extended reprise of the second-subject group and returns at the very end of the movement
The slow movement begins with an expressive string melody incorporating a phrase which hints at the perky rhythms of the first movementrsquos second subject The piano answers with a rhapsodic solo in changing metres which is continued by the strings with telling details in the horns The expressive melody of the opening returns on flute and piano a little later the first movementrsquos motto and the second-subject phrase are run together to form a counter-melody to pearly piano figuration The timpani ndash making their first appearance in the work ndash intervene to lead an
JohnIreland
1879ndash1962
10 | London Philharmonic Orchestra
Programme notes continued
Symphony No 1
1 Allegro assai2 Presto con malizia3 Andante con malinconia4 Maestoso ndash Allegro brioso ed ardentemente ndash Vivacissimo ndash Maestoso
WilliamWalton
1902ndash83
acceleration to the finale This is a rondo on an ebullient tune introduced by the piano in sparkling high octaves The two contrasting episodes are both at a slower tempo the first opening out from the pianorsquos first phrase in the first movement the second beginning with a rapturous duet for piano and solo violin derived from ideas in the second movement The motto makes a final appearance before the last quick section in which the metre shifts from 24 to 34 and the entry of the rondo theme now transformed into a waltz is delayed until nearly the end
Interval ndash 20 minutesAn announcement will be made five minutes before the end of the interval
John Ireland in his studio 14a Gunter Grove London
During his 20s William Walton burst on to the British musical scene with his avant-garde lsquoentertainmentrsquo Faccedilade consolidated his position in the mainstream with the Portsmouth Point Overture the Sinfonia Concertante for piano and the Viola Concerto and breathed new life into the traditional form of the oratorio with Belshazzarrsquos Feast His obvious next step was a symphony not least as a challenge to his seniors Vaughan Williams and Bax he was duly invited to write one by Sir Hamilton Harty then conductor of the Halleacute Orchestra in Manchester He drafted three movements and began a fourth during 1932 and 1933 but then became stuck Harty was by now conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra and anxious to schedule
the premiere with the LSO Walton orchestrated the first three movements but remained unable to complete the finale and in the end allowed the work to be performed without it in December 1934 The following year refreshed by the ending of a stormy love affair and the start of a calmer new relationship he resumed work on the finale this time successfully The first performance of the complete Symphony with Harty this time conducting the BBC Symphony Orchestra took place in November 1935 It was a triumph immediately gaining the work an honoured place in British music which it has never since lost (and which so far has not been shared by Waltonrsquos Second Symphony of a quarter-century later)
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The lsquovery fastrsquo opening movement in B flat minor conveys a sense of breadth and power that belies the relatively modest size of the orchestra (which includes no more than double woodwind and at this stage no percussion other than timpani) The breadth stems from slow-moving harmonies over Sibelius-like long-held bass notes and timpani rolls the power from urgently repeated ostinato figures blazing dissonances and sonorous scoring The first section of the movement presents a series of subtly inter-related themes in an atmosphere of sustained tension and excitement relaxing only slightly for the broad second subject it ends with a climax of battering repeated notes The central development begins by returning to the opening idea at a subdued dynamic level and gradually builds up intensity again towards a harmonically more stable reprise of the opening section
The two middle movements reflect two contrasting and complementary aspects of Waltonrsquos musical personality The lsquomaliciousrsquo scherzo in E minor is in a very fast one-in-a-bar 34 time disrupted by occasional bars of 54 various rhythmic figures and scraps of melody are rotated but there is no contrasting trio section and no slackening of the movementrsquos biting intensity The lsquomelancholyrsquo Andante in C sharp minor is based on two melodies of characteristically bitter-sweet lyricism which are developed organically in contrapuntal textures the closing section rises to a fervently declamatory climax before falling away to a quiet ending
The B flat major finale (which adds a second timpanist and two percussionists to the orchestra) has a more sectional structure than its predecessors It begins with a lsquomajesticrsquo introduction in the boldly rhetorical manner familiar from Waltonrsquos later marches and film scores Then come two large paragraphs at a lsquofast animated and ardentrsquo tempo the first crackling with energy the second an extended incisive fugue with a smoother central episode The material of these paragraphs is transformed and developed still largely in fugal texture in a new section in lsquovery livelyrsquo triple time To round off the Symphony the tempo of the introduction is restored for a grandiloquent coda
Programme notes copy Anthony Burton
This is the work of a true Master ndash unlike any other English symphony this is in the real line of symphonic tradition It is simply colossal grand original and moving to the emotions to the most extreme degreehellip It has established you as the most vital and original genius in Europe No one but a bloody fool could possibly fail to see thishellipJohn Ireland writing to Walton after hearing the first recording of the Symphony
More Piano Concertos with the LPO at Royal Festival Hall
Saturday 21 March 2015 | 730pmProkofiev Chout (excerpts)Magnus Lindberg Piano Concerto No 2 (UK premiere)Stravinsky Petrushka (1911 version)
Vladimir Jurowski conductor | Yefim Bronfman piano
Wednesday 25 March 2015 | 730pmMozart Symphony No 36 (Linz) Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No 1 (final version) Dvořaacutek Symphony No 8
Ilyich Rivas conductor | Dmitry Mayboroda piano
Part of Rachmaninoff Inside Out
Wednesday 15 April 2015 | 730pmBeethoven Piano Concerto No 4Bruckner Symphony No 4 (Romantic) (Nowak Edition)
Robin Ticciati conductor Menahem Pressler piano
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London Philharmonic Orchestra | 13
The Elgar Birthplace Museum Exploring the life and music of Englandrsquos great composer
Set in the beautiful countryside of Worcestershire is the museum
dedicated to the life and times of Englandrsquos great composer
Sir Edward Elgar
1 Free Entry to the Museum with this programme when accompanied by a full paying adult
Lower Broadheath Worcester tel 01905 33224
birthplaceelgarmuseumorg
Open every day 11am - 5pm
Available from lpoorgukrecordings the LPO Ticket Office (020 7840 4242) and all good CD outlets
Available to download or stream online via iTunes Spotify Amazon and others
Symphony No 4 Ryan Wigglesworth conductor
Symphony No 8 Vladimir Jurowski conductor
London Philharmonic Orchestra
LPO-0082
Available on the LPO Label Vaughan Williams Symphonies Nos 4 amp 8
lsquoFirst-rate playing from the London Philharmonic Orchestra with a fine warm bloom to the soundrsquo Financial Times (Symphony No 4)
Recommended recordings of tonightrsquos worksElgar Introduction and Allegro London Philharmonic Orchestra | Sir Adrian Boult [EMI 5665402]
Ireland Piano Concerto Piers Lane | Ulster Orchestra | David Lloyd-Jones [Hyperion CDA67296]
Eileen Joyce | London Philharmonic Orchestra | Sir Adrian Boult [LPO-0041]
Walton Symphony No 1 London Philharmonic Orchestra | Sir Charles Mackerras [Classics for Pleasure 75569]
14 | London Philharmonic Orchestra
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Thomas Beecham Group
The Tsukanov Family Foundation
Neil Westreich
William and Alex de Winton Simon Robey Victoria Robey OBEJulian amp Gill Simmonds
Anonymous Garf amp Gill CollinsAndrew Davenport Mrs Sonja DrexlerDavid amp Victoria Graham Fuller Mrs Philip KanMr amp Mrs MakharinskyGeoff amp Meg MannCaroline Jamie amp Zander SharpEric Tomsett
John amp Manon Antoniazzi John amp Angela Kessler Guy amp Utti Whittaker
BrightSparks patrons Instead of supporting a chair in the Orchestra these donors have chosen to support our series of schoolsrsquo concerts
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anonymous
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of Peter CarrThe Ernest Cook TrustThe Coutts Charitable TrustThe DrsquoOyly Carte Charitable TrustDunard FundThe Equitable Charitable Trust Fidelio Charitable TrustThe Foyle FoundationLucille Graham TrustThe Jeniffer and Jonathan Harris
Charitable TrustHelp Musicians UK The Hinrichsen Foundation The Hobson Charity The Idlewild Trust Kirby Laing Foundation The Leche Trust London Stock Exchange Group FoundationMarsh Christian TrustThe Mayor of Londonrsquos Fund for Young
MusiciansAdam Mickiewicz Institute The Peter Minet TrustThe Ann and Frederick OrsquoBrien
Charitable Trust
Office for Cultural and Scientific Affairs ofthe Embassy of Spain in London
Palazzetto Bru Zane ndash Centre de musiqueromantique franccedilaise
The Austin and Hope Pilkington Trust Polish Cultural Institute in London PRS for Music FoundationThe Radcliffe TrustRivers Foundation The R K Charitable TrustSerge Rachmaninoff Foundation Romanian Cultural Institute Schroder Charity Trust Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation The David Solomons Charitable Trust The Steel Charitable TrustThe John Thaw FoundationThe Tillett Trust UK Friends of the Felix-Mendelssohn-
Bartholdy-Foundation The Viney FamilyGarfield Weston FoundationThe Barbara Whatmore Charitable TrustYouth Music and others who wish to remain anonymous
London Philharmonic Orchestra | 15
SOUND FUTURES DONORS
We are grateful to the following donors for their generous contributions to Sound Futures which will establish our first ever endowment Donations from those below have already been matched pound for pound by Arts Council England through a Catalyst Endowment grant
By May 2015 we aim to have raised pound1 million which when matched will create a pound2 million fund supporting our Education and Community Programme our creative programming and major artistic projects at Southbank Centre
We thank those who are helping us to realise the vision
Masur CircleArts Council EnglandDunard Fund Victoria Robey OBE Emmanuel amp Barrie RomanThe Underwood Trust
Welser-Moumlst CircleWilliam amp Alex de WintonJohn Ireland Charitable Trust The Tsukanov Family FoundationNeil Westreich
Tennstedt CircleRichard Buxton Simon Robey Simon amp Vero Turner The late Mr K Twyman
Solti PatronsAgeas John amp Manon Antoniazzi Georgy DjaparidzeMrs Mina Goodman and
Miss Suzanne GoodmanMr James R D KornerRobert Markwick amp Kasia RobinskiThe Rothschild Foundation
Haitink PatronsMark amp Elizabeth AdamsMrs Pauline BaumgartnerLady Jane BerrillMr Frederick BrittendenDavid amp Yi Yao BuckleyGill amp Garf CollinsMr John H CookBruno de KegelMr Gavin GrahamMoya GreeneTony and Susie Hayes
Catherine Hoslashgel amp Ben MardleMrs Philip Kan Rose and Dudley LeighLady Roslyn Marion LyonsMiss Jeanette MartinDiana and Allan Morgenthau
Charitable TrustDr Karen MortonRuth RattenburyThe Reed Foundation Sir Bernard RixDavid Ross and Line Forestier (Canada)Carolina amp Martin SchwabTom and Phillis SharpeDr Brian SmithMr amp Mrs G SteinDr Peter Stephenson Miss Anne StoddartTFS Loans LimitedLady Marina VaizeyMs Jenny WatsonGuy amp Utti Whittaker
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And all other donors who wish to remain anonymous
16 | London Philharmonic Orchestra
Administration
Board of DirectorsVictoria Robey OBE Chairman Stewart McIlwham President Gareth Newman Vice-PresidentDr Manon Antoniazzi Richard Brass Desmond Cecil CMG Vesselin Gellev Jonathan Harris CBE FRICS Dr Catherine C HoslashgelMartin Houmlhmann George Peniston Kevin Rundell Julian SimmondsMark TempletonNatasha TsukanovaTimothy Walker AM Laurence WattNeil Westreich
Player-Director
Advisory CouncilVictoria Robey OBE Chairman Christopher Aldren Richard Brass David Buckley Sir Alan Collins KCVO CMG Andrew Davenport Jonathan Dawson William de Winton Edward Dolman Christopher Fraser OBE Lord Hall of Birkenhead CBE Jamie Korner Clive Marks OBE FCA Stewart McIlwham Sir Bernard Rix Baroness ShackletonLord Sharman of Redlynch OBE Thomas Sharpe QC Martin SouthgateSir Philip Thomas Sir John TooleyChris VineyTimothy Walker AMElizabeth Winter
American Friends of the London Philharmonic Orchestra IncJenny Ireland Co-ChairmanWilliam A Kerr Co-ChairmanKyung-Wha ChungAlexandra JupinDr Felisa B KaplanJill Fine MainelliKristina McPhee Dr Joseph MulvehillHarvey M Spear EsqDanny Lopez Hon ChairmanNoel Kilkenny Hon DirectorVictoria Robey OBE Hon DirectorRichard Gee Esq Of Counsel Jenifer L Keiser CPA
EisnerAmper LLP
Chief Executive
Timothy Walker AM Chief Executive and Artistic Director
Amy SugarmanPA to the Chief Executive Administrative Assistant
Finance
David BurkeGeneral Manager and Finance Director
David GreensladeFinance and IT Manager
Dayse GuilhermeFinance Officer
Concert Management
Roanna Gibson Concerts Director
Graham WoodConcerts and Recordings Manager
Jenny Chadwick Tours Manager
Tamzin Aitken Glyndebourne and UK Engagements Manager
Alison JonesConcerts and Recordings Co-ordinator
Jo CotterTours Co-ordinator Orchestra Personnel
Andrew CheneryOrchestra Personnel Manager
Sarah Holmes Sarah ThomasLibrarians ( job-share)
Christopher AldertonStage Manager
Damian Davis Transport Manager
Ellie Swithinbank Assistant Orchestra Personnel Manager
Education and Community
Isabella Kernot Education Director
Alexandra ClarkeEducation and Community Project Manager
Lucy DuffyEducation and Community Project Manager
Richard MallettEducation and Community Producer
Development
Nick JackmanDevelopment Director
Catherine Faulkner Development Events Manager
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Laura Luckhurst Corporate Relations Manager
Anna Quillin Trusts and Foundations Manager
Helen Etheridge Development Assistant
Rebecca FoggDevelopment Assistant
Kirstin PeltonenDevelopment Associate
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Kath TroutMarketing Director
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Alison Atkinson Digital Projects Director
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Composer photographs of Elgar and Walton courtesy of the Royal College of Music London Ireland photographs courtesy of The John Ireland Charitable Trust Front cover photograph Martin Hobbs horn copy Julian Calverley Cover design art direction Chaos Design
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6 | London Philharmonic Orchestra
Andrew Manzeconductor
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Andrew Manzersquos extensive and scholarly knowledge of the repertoire together with his skill as a communicator and boundless energy has marked him out amongst his peers In September 2014 he became the Principal Conductor of the NDR Radio Philharmonic Orchestra in Hannover and he regularly performs as a guest conductor with a number of leading international orchestras including the Munich Philharmonic Leipzig Gewandhaus Gothenburg Symphony Oslo Philharmonic City of Birmingham Symphony Halleacute Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Mahler Chamber Orchestra and the Scottish and Swedish Chamber orchestras
He was Principal Conductor and Artistic Director of the Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra Sweden (from 2006ndash14) with which he made a number of recordings including Beethovenrsquos Symphony No 3 lsquoEroicarsquo (Harmonia Mundi) and a cycle of Brahms symphonies (CPO) He was Associate Guest Conductor of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra from 2010ndash14 and Principal Guest Conductor of the Norwegian Radio Symphony Orchestra from 2008ndash11
Orchestral debuts this season and beyond include the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Frankfurt Radio Symphony orchestras and Orquestra Sinfocircnica do Estado de Satildeo Paulo Alongside his regular guesting Manze returns to the Leipzig Gewandhausorchester WDR Sinfonieorchester Koumlln Tonkuumlnstler and Danish National Symphony orchestras and makes his fourth consecutive appearance at the Mostly Mozart Fesival New York this summer
After reading Classics at Cambridge University Andrew Manze studied the violin and rapidly became a leading specialist in the world of historical performance practice
He became Associate Director of The Academy of Ancient Music in 1996 and then Artistic Director of The English Concert from 2003 until 2007 As a violinist Manze has released an astonishing variety of CDs many of them award-winning
He is a fellow of the Royal Academy of Music and a Visiting Professor at the Oslo Academy and has contributed to new editions of sonatas and concertos by Mozart and Bach published by Baumlrenreiter and Breitkopf and Haumlrtel He also teaches edits and writes about music as well as broadcasting regularly on radio and television
Andrew Manze received the prestigious Rolf Schock Prize in Stockholm in 2011 Previous winners include Ligeti Kagel Gidon Kremer and Anne Sofie von Otter
This eveningrsquos performance marks Andrew Manzersquos debut with the London Philharmonic Orchestra
Andrew Manze conducts Vaughan Williams A Pastoral Symphony at the 2014 BBC Proms
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Andrew Manze has developed into one of the most gifted present-day occupants of the podiumGuy Rickards Gramophone September 2014 Recording of Larrson Orchestral Works Vol 1
London Philharmonic Orchestra | 7
Piers Lanepiano
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London-based Australian pianist Piers Lane is in great demand as soloist and collaborative artist Recent highlights include concerto performances of Busoni and Bridge at Carnegie Hall premieres of Carl Vinersquos Second Piano Concerto written for him with the Sydney Symphony and the London Philharmonic orchestras and sold-out solo recitals at Wigmore Hall
Five-times soloist at the BBC Proms Piers Lanersquos concerto repertoire exceeds 90 works and has led to engagements with many of the worldrsquos great orchestras including the American Bournemouth and Gothenburg Symphony orchestras Orchestre National de France City of London Sinfonia and Warsaw Philharmonic Leading conductors with whom he has worked include Andrey Boreyko Sir Andrew Davis Andrew Litton Jerzy Maksymiuk Vassily Sinaisky and Yan Pascal Tortelier
He frequently performs at prestigious festivals such as Aldeburgh Prague Spring and the Chopin festival in Warsaw He is Artistic Director of the Australian Festival of Chamber Music and also directed the annual Myra Hess Day at the National Gallery in London from its inception in 2006 until 2013 From this sprang Admission One Shilling a collaboration with actress Patricia Routledge devised by Nigel Hess for theatre exploring Dame Myrarsquos work during the Second World War it has been performed over 70 times throughout the UK and most recently in Australia and Belgium
Piers Lanersquos discography of over 50 CDs includes much admired recordings of rare Romantic piano concertos the complete Preludes and Etudes by Scriabin and transcriptions of Bach and Strauss Last season Hyperion released his most recent solo recording Piers Lane goes to Town
Piers Lane continues his longstanding partnership with violinist Tasmin Little clarinettist Michael Collins and the Goldner String Quartet He has performed with Anne Sofie von Otter and Bengt Forsberg pianists Marc-Andreacute Hamelin and Kathryn Stott and string quartets the Australian Doric Kodaacutely Medici New Budapest New Zealand Prazak and RTE Vanbrugh
Many composers have written for Piers Lane and he has premiered works by Brett Dean Dave Heath Colin Matthews Richard Mills Carl Vine Benjamin Wallfisch and Malcolm Williamson among others He has made many first recordings including Elgarrsquos Impromptu Irelandrsquos Ballerina and Williamsonrsquos Piano Concerto No 4
Piers Lane has written and presented over 100 programmes for BBC Radio 3 including the popular 54-part series The Piano He was recently presented with the first medal from the Laza Kostic fund for promoting Serbian culture during difficult political times in the late 90s In the Queenrsquos Diamond Jubilee Birthday Honours he was made an Officer in the Order of Australia (AO) for distinguished services to the arts as pianist mentor and organiser
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The recital was notable for Piers Lanersquos sustained interpretative probing as much as for the pianistrsquos technical assurance and attention to musical detail Claire Seymour Seen and Heard International January 2015
8 | London Philharmonic Orchestra
Programme notes
Tonightrsquos programme presents works from the early 20th century by three English composers of successive generations (all of them first performed in the Queenrsquos Hall which was destroyed in the Second World War and replaced by the Royal Festival Hall) Edward Elgar trained as a violinist showed his flair for writing for strings in his sonorous Introduction and Allegro of 1904ndash5 The pianist-composer John Ireland combined his characteristic mood of
rhapsodic keyboard musing with a subtle thematic sub-structure in his 1930 Piano Concerto William Walton no performer but a master of the craft of orchestration established himself as a major figure with his First Symphony begun in 1932ndash3 with a purposeful first movement a lsquomaliciousrsquo scherzo and a lsquomelancholyrsquo slow movement and completed in 1935 with a brilliant finale
Speedread
Elgar studied the violin from an early age had hopes at one stage of making a career as a soloist and earned much of his living for several years as an orchestral musician in the West Midlands So he always wrote for the strings of the orchestra with special understanding and he composed two substantial pieces for strings alone The Serenade of 1892 was a breakthrough work first tried out with a ladiesrsquo orchestra in Worcestershire but accepted for publication by the august firm of Breitkopf and Haumlrtel in Leipzig On the other hand the Introduction and Allegro was written when he was at the height of his fame It was begun in the year of his knighthood 1904 in response to a request from the recently formed London Symphony Orchestra for a new piece to be included in an all-Elgar concert Elgar himself conducted the first performance in March 1905
The scoring contrasts the main string orchestra with a solo quartet of section leaders ndash used sometimes as a concertino group (similar to Handelrsquos string concertos)
Introduction and Allegro for Strings Op 47EdwardElgar
1857ndash1934
Elgar outside his house Craeg Lea in Malvern Wells
Cou
rtes
y of
Th
e El
gar
Birt
hpl
ace
Mu
seu
m
London Philharmonic Orchestra | 9
sometimes as individual soloists and sometimes to add subtle touches of colouring to the texture The broad Introduction anticipates the melodic material of the Allegro which is in traditional sonata form but with the usual central development section replaced by a brilliant fugue One of the workrsquos principal melodies first heard near the beginning on solo viola and brought
back in triumph towards the end of the Allegro is based on an idea that Elgar had sketched in 1901 on a holiday in Wales he was reminded of it by a song he heard in the distance in the Wye Valley on the Welsh border And the whole work he once wrote lsquois really a tribute to that sweet borderland where I have made my homersquo
Piano Concerto in E flat major
Piers Lane piano
1 In tempo moderato2 Lento espressivo ndash 3 Allegro ndash Allegretto giocoso
John Ireland was born in Bowdon south of Manchester and studied the piano and composition at the Royal College of Music in London where he later taught for many years his pupils including Benjamin Britten He was trained by Stanford in the tradition of Brahms but was open to the influence of several 20th-century composers including Debussy Ravel and Prokofiev His list of works is dominated by songs and piano pieces (many of which were inspired by places that he loved) but he also wrote effectively for orchestra Ireland wrote his Piano Concerto in 1930 for his piano pupil and proteacutegeacutee Helen Perkin She gave the first performance at the age of 21 in a Promenade Concert conducted by Sir Henry Wood in October 1930 Although conceived for her small hands the solo part is brilliantly virtuosic in places with some figuration echoing the jazz-tinged lsquonovelty numbersrsquo of between-the-wars popular piano music ndash as well as containing a great deal in a vein of poetic introspection
The Concerto is in three thematically linked movements (though Ireland numbered the second and third which are played without a break as a single unit) The first movement begins with a smooth string melody in octaves of which the first four notes ndash a falling fourth
followed by a rising fourth a step higher ndash constitute the unifying motto theme of the movement and to some extent the whole work This motto makes its presence felt in the following lyrical dialogue between the piano and the strings dominates the accelerating transition to the lively second-subject group and returns in full force as the starting-point of a broad orchestral melody After a short central section in which the piano plays continuously the motto returns as part of a fleeting reprise of the first-subject group makes a brief appearance during the extended reprise of the second-subject group and returns at the very end of the movement
The slow movement begins with an expressive string melody incorporating a phrase which hints at the perky rhythms of the first movementrsquos second subject The piano answers with a rhapsodic solo in changing metres which is continued by the strings with telling details in the horns The expressive melody of the opening returns on flute and piano a little later the first movementrsquos motto and the second-subject phrase are run together to form a counter-melody to pearly piano figuration The timpani ndash making their first appearance in the work ndash intervene to lead an
JohnIreland
1879ndash1962
10 | London Philharmonic Orchestra
Programme notes continued
Symphony No 1
1 Allegro assai2 Presto con malizia3 Andante con malinconia4 Maestoso ndash Allegro brioso ed ardentemente ndash Vivacissimo ndash Maestoso
WilliamWalton
1902ndash83
acceleration to the finale This is a rondo on an ebullient tune introduced by the piano in sparkling high octaves The two contrasting episodes are both at a slower tempo the first opening out from the pianorsquos first phrase in the first movement the second beginning with a rapturous duet for piano and solo violin derived from ideas in the second movement The motto makes a final appearance before the last quick section in which the metre shifts from 24 to 34 and the entry of the rondo theme now transformed into a waltz is delayed until nearly the end
Interval ndash 20 minutesAn announcement will be made five minutes before the end of the interval
John Ireland in his studio 14a Gunter Grove London
During his 20s William Walton burst on to the British musical scene with his avant-garde lsquoentertainmentrsquo Faccedilade consolidated his position in the mainstream with the Portsmouth Point Overture the Sinfonia Concertante for piano and the Viola Concerto and breathed new life into the traditional form of the oratorio with Belshazzarrsquos Feast His obvious next step was a symphony not least as a challenge to his seniors Vaughan Williams and Bax he was duly invited to write one by Sir Hamilton Harty then conductor of the Halleacute Orchestra in Manchester He drafted three movements and began a fourth during 1932 and 1933 but then became stuck Harty was by now conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra and anxious to schedule
the premiere with the LSO Walton orchestrated the first three movements but remained unable to complete the finale and in the end allowed the work to be performed without it in December 1934 The following year refreshed by the ending of a stormy love affair and the start of a calmer new relationship he resumed work on the finale this time successfully The first performance of the complete Symphony with Harty this time conducting the BBC Symphony Orchestra took place in November 1935 It was a triumph immediately gaining the work an honoured place in British music which it has never since lost (and which so far has not been shared by Waltonrsquos Second Symphony of a quarter-century later)
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London Philharmonic Orchestra | 11
The lsquovery fastrsquo opening movement in B flat minor conveys a sense of breadth and power that belies the relatively modest size of the orchestra (which includes no more than double woodwind and at this stage no percussion other than timpani) The breadth stems from slow-moving harmonies over Sibelius-like long-held bass notes and timpani rolls the power from urgently repeated ostinato figures blazing dissonances and sonorous scoring The first section of the movement presents a series of subtly inter-related themes in an atmosphere of sustained tension and excitement relaxing only slightly for the broad second subject it ends with a climax of battering repeated notes The central development begins by returning to the opening idea at a subdued dynamic level and gradually builds up intensity again towards a harmonically more stable reprise of the opening section
The two middle movements reflect two contrasting and complementary aspects of Waltonrsquos musical personality The lsquomaliciousrsquo scherzo in E minor is in a very fast one-in-a-bar 34 time disrupted by occasional bars of 54 various rhythmic figures and scraps of melody are rotated but there is no contrasting trio section and no slackening of the movementrsquos biting intensity The lsquomelancholyrsquo Andante in C sharp minor is based on two melodies of characteristically bitter-sweet lyricism which are developed organically in contrapuntal textures the closing section rises to a fervently declamatory climax before falling away to a quiet ending
The B flat major finale (which adds a second timpanist and two percussionists to the orchestra) has a more sectional structure than its predecessors It begins with a lsquomajesticrsquo introduction in the boldly rhetorical manner familiar from Waltonrsquos later marches and film scores Then come two large paragraphs at a lsquofast animated and ardentrsquo tempo the first crackling with energy the second an extended incisive fugue with a smoother central episode The material of these paragraphs is transformed and developed still largely in fugal texture in a new section in lsquovery livelyrsquo triple time To round off the Symphony the tempo of the introduction is restored for a grandiloquent coda
Programme notes copy Anthony Burton
This is the work of a true Master ndash unlike any other English symphony this is in the real line of symphonic tradition It is simply colossal grand original and moving to the emotions to the most extreme degreehellip It has established you as the most vital and original genius in Europe No one but a bloody fool could possibly fail to see thishellipJohn Ireland writing to Walton after hearing the first recording of the Symphony
More Piano Concertos with the LPO at Royal Festival Hall
Saturday 21 March 2015 | 730pmProkofiev Chout (excerpts)Magnus Lindberg Piano Concerto No 2 (UK premiere)Stravinsky Petrushka (1911 version)
Vladimir Jurowski conductor | Yefim Bronfman piano
Wednesday 25 March 2015 | 730pmMozart Symphony No 36 (Linz) Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No 1 (final version) Dvořaacutek Symphony No 8
Ilyich Rivas conductor | Dmitry Mayboroda piano
Part of Rachmaninoff Inside Out
Wednesday 15 April 2015 | 730pmBeethoven Piano Concerto No 4Bruckner Symphony No 4 (Romantic) (Nowak Edition)
Robin Ticciati conductor Menahem Pressler piano
Tickets pound9ndashpound39 (premium seats pound65)
London Philharmonic Orchestra Ticket Office020 7840 4242 MondayndashFriday 1000amndash500pm lpoorguk Transaction fees pound175 online pound275 telephone
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Radio 3 Live In ConcertListen to the best live performances from across the UK every evening at 730pm
in dimensions
Discover classical music
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London Philharmonic Orchestra | 13
The Elgar Birthplace Museum Exploring the life and music of Englandrsquos great composer
Set in the beautiful countryside of Worcestershire is the museum
dedicated to the life and times of Englandrsquos great composer
Sir Edward Elgar
1 Free Entry to the Museum with this programme when accompanied by a full paying adult
Lower Broadheath Worcester tel 01905 33224
birthplaceelgarmuseumorg
Open every day 11am - 5pm
Available from lpoorgukrecordings the LPO Ticket Office (020 7840 4242) and all good CD outlets
Available to download or stream online via iTunes Spotify Amazon and others
Symphony No 4 Ryan Wigglesworth conductor
Symphony No 8 Vladimir Jurowski conductor
London Philharmonic Orchestra
LPO-0082
Available on the LPO Label Vaughan Williams Symphonies Nos 4 amp 8
lsquoFirst-rate playing from the London Philharmonic Orchestra with a fine warm bloom to the soundrsquo Financial Times (Symphony No 4)
Recommended recordings of tonightrsquos worksElgar Introduction and Allegro London Philharmonic Orchestra | Sir Adrian Boult [EMI 5665402]
Ireland Piano Concerto Piers Lane | Ulster Orchestra | David Lloyd-Jones [Hyperion CDA67296]
Eileen Joyce | London Philharmonic Orchestra | Sir Adrian Boult [LPO-0041]
Walton Symphony No 1 London Philharmonic Orchestra | Sir Charles Mackerras [Classics for Pleasure 75569]
14 | London Philharmonic Orchestra
We would like to acknowledge the generous support of the following Thomas Beecham Group Patrons Principal Benefactors and Benefactors
Thomas Beecham Group
The Tsukanov Family Foundation
Neil Westreich
William and Alex de Winton Simon Robey Victoria Robey OBEJulian amp Gill Simmonds
Anonymous Garf amp Gill CollinsAndrew Davenport Mrs Sonja DrexlerDavid amp Victoria Graham Fuller Mrs Philip KanMr amp Mrs MakharinskyGeoff amp Meg MannCaroline Jamie amp Zander SharpEric Tomsett
John amp Manon Antoniazzi John amp Angela Kessler Guy amp Utti Whittaker
BrightSparks patrons Instead of supporting a chair in the Orchestra these donors have chosen to support our series of schoolsrsquo concerts
Principal BenefactorsMark amp Elizabeth AdamsDesmond amp Ruth CecilMr John H CookDavid EllenMr Daniel Goldstein Drs Frank amp Gek LimPeter MacDonald Eggers Dr Eva Lotta amp Mr Thierry Sciard Mr amp Mrs David MalpasMr Michael PosenMr amp Mrs G SteinMr amp Mrs John C TuckerMr amp Mrs John amp Susi Underwood Lady Marina Vaizey Laurence Watt Grenville amp Krysia Williams Mr Anthony Yolland
BenefactorsMrs A Beare David amp Patricia BuckMrs Alan CarringtonMr amp Mrs Stewart CohenMr Alistair Corbett Georgy Djaparidze Mr David Edgecombe Mr Timothy Fancourt QCMr Richard FernyhoughTony amp Susan Hayes Michael amp Christine HenryMalcolm Herring J Douglas HomeIvan Hurry
Mr Glenn HurstfieldPer JonssonMr Gerald LevinWg Cdr amp Mrs M T Liddiard OBE JP RAFPaul amp Brigitta Lock Mr Peter MaceMs Ulrike Mansel Robert MarkwickMr Brian Marsh Andrew T MillsJohn Montgomery Dr Karen Morton Mr amp Mrs Andrew Neill Tom amp Phillis SharpeMartin and Cheryl Southgate Professor John StuddMr Peter TausigMrs Kazue Turner Simon Turner Howard amp Sheelagh Watson Des amp Maggie WhitelockChristopher WilliamsBill Yoe and others who wish to remain
anonymous
Hon BenefactorElliott Bernerd
Hon Life MembersKenneth Goode Carol Colburn Grigor CBE Pehr G GyllenhammarMrs Jackie Rosenfeld OBE
The generosity of our Sponsors Corporate Members supporters and donors is gratefully acknowledgedCorporate Members
Silver AREVA UK BerenbergBritish American BusinessCarter-Ruck
Bronze Appleyard amp Trew LLP BTO Management Consulting AG Charles Russell SpeechlysLeventis Overseas
Preferred Partners Corinthia Hotel London Heineken Lindt amp Spruumlngli LtdSipsmith Steinway Villa Maria In-kind SponsorsGoogle IncSela Tilleyrsquos Sweets
Trusts and Foundations Angus Allnatt Charitable Foundation Ambache Charitable Trust Ruth Berkowitz Charitable Trust The Boltini Trust
Borletti-Buitoni TrustBritten-Pears Foundation The Candide Trust The Peter Carr Charitable Trust in memory
of Peter CarrThe Ernest Cook TrustThe Coutts Charitable TrustThe DrsquoOyly Carte Charitable TrustDunard FundThe Equitable Charitable Trust Fidelio Charitable TrustThe Foyle FoundationLucille Graham TrustThe Jeniffer and Jonathan Harris
Charitable TrustHelp Musicians UK The Hinrichsen Foundation The Hobson Charity The Idlewild Trust Kirby Laing Foundation The Leche Trust London Stock Exchange Group FoundationMarsh Christian TrustThe Mayor of Londonrsquos Fund for Young
MusiciansAdam Mickiewicz Institute The Peter Minet TrustThe Ann and Frederick OrsquoBrien
Charitable Trust
Office for Cultural and Scientific Affairs ofthe Embassy of Spain in London
Palazzetto Bru Zane ndash Centre de musiqueromantique franccedilaise
The Austin and Hope Pilkington Trust Polish Cultural Institute in London PRS for Music FoundationThe Radcliffe TrustRivers Foundation The R K Charitable TrustSerge Rachmaninoff Foundation Romanian Cultural Institute Schroder Charity Trust Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation The David Solomons Charitable Trust The Steel Charitable TrustThe John Thaw FoundationThe Tillett Trust UK Friends of the Felix-Mendelssohn-
Bartholdy-Foundation The Viney FamilyGarfield Weston FoundationThe Barbara Whatmore Charitable TrustYouth Music and others who wish to remain anonymous
London Philharmonic Orchestra | 15
SOUND FUTURES DONORS
We are grateful to the following donors for their generous contributions to Sound Futures which will establish our first ever endowment Donations from those below have already been matched pound for pound by Arts Council England through a Catalyst Endowment grant
By May 2015 we aim to have raised pound1 million which when matched will create a pound2 million fund supporting our Education and Community Programme our creative programming and major artistic projects at Southbank Centre
We thank those who are helping us to realise the vision
Masur CircleArts Council EnglandDunard Fund Victoria Robey OBE Emmanuel amp Barrie RomanThe Underwood Trust
Welser-Moumlst CircleWilliam amp Alex de WintonJohn Ireland Charitable Trust The Tsukanov Family FoundationNeil Westreich
Tennstedt CircleRichard Buxton Simon Robey Simon amp Vero Turner The late Mr K Twyman
Solti PatronsAgeas John amp Manon Antoniazzi Georgy DjaparidzeMrs Mina Goodman and
Miss Suzanne GoodmanMr James R D KornerRobert Markwick amp Kasia RobinskiThe Rothschild Foundation
Haitink PatronsMark amp Elizabeth AdamsMrs Pauline BaumgartnerLady Jane BerrillMr Frederick BrittendenDavid amp Yi Yao BuckleyGill amp Garf CollinsMr John H CookBruno de KegelMr Gavin GrahamMoya GreeneTony and Susie Hayes
Catherine Hoslashgel amp Ben MardleMrs Philip Kan Rose and Dudley LeighLady Roslyn Marion LyonsMiss Jeanette MartinDiana and Allan Morgenthau
Charitable TrustDr Karen MortonRuth RattenburyThe Reed Foundation Sir Bernard RixDavid Ross and Line Forestier (Canada)Carolina amp Martin SchwabTom and Phillis SharpeDr Brian SmithMr amp Mrs G SteinDr Peter Stephenson Miss Anne StoddartTFS Loans LimitedLady Marina VaizeyMs Jenny WatsonGuy amp Utti Whittaker
Pritchard DonorsRalph and Elizabeth AldwinckleMichael and Linda BlackstoneConrad Blakey OBEDr Anthony BucklandBusiness Events SydneyLady June ChichesterJohn Childress amp Christiane WuillamieLindka CierachPaul CollinsMr Alistair CorbettDavid DennisMr David EdgecombeDavid EllenMr Timothy Fancourt QCKarima amp David GMr Daniel Goldstein
Mr Derek B GrayMr Roger GreenwoodRebecca Halford HarrisonMr J Douglas HomeHoneymead Arts TrustMrs Dawn HooperRehmet Kassim-LakhaMr Geoffrey KirkhamPeter LeaverDrs Frank amp Gek LimPeter MaceMr David MacfarlaneGeoff amp Meg MannMarsh Christian TrustDr David McGibneyMichael amp Patricia McLaren-TurnerJohn MontgomeryRosemary MorganGail MutruxParis NatarMr Roger H C PattisonThe late Edmund PirouetMr Michael PosenSarah amp John PriestlandMr Christopher QuereeMr Peter RussellMr Alan SainerTim SlorickLady Valerie SoltiTimothy Walker AMLaurence WattMr R WattsDes amp Maggie WhitelockChristopher WilliamsPeter Wilson SmithVictoria YanakovaMr Anthony Yolland
And all other donors who wish to remain anonymous
16 | London Philharmonic Orchestra
Administration
Board of DirectorsVictoria Robey OBE Chairman Stewart McIlwham President Gareth Newman Vice-PresidentDr Manon Antoniazzi Richard Brass Desmond Cecil CMG Vesselin Gellev Jonathan Harris CBE FRICS Dr Catherine C HoslashgelMartin Houmlhmann George Peniston Kevin Rundell Julian SimmondsMark TempletonNatasha TsukanovaTimothy Walker AM Laurence WattNeil Westreich
Player-Director
Advisory CouncilVictoria Robey OBE Chairman Christopher Aldren Richard Brass David Buckley Sir Alan Collins KCVO CMG Andrew Davenport Jonathan Dawson William de Winton Edward Dolman Christopher Fraser OBE Lord Hall of Birkenhead CBE Jamie Korner Clive Marks OBE FCA Stewart McIlwham Sir Bernard Rix Baroness ShackletonLord Sharman of Redlynch OBE Thomas Sharpe QC Martin SouthgateSir Philip Thomas Sir John TooleyChris VineyTimothy Walker AMElizabeth Winter
American Friends of the London Philharmonic Orchestra IncJenny Ireland Co-ChairmanWilliam A Kerr Co-ChairmanKyung-Wha ChungAlexandra JupinDr Felisa B KaplanJill Fine MainelliKristina McPhee Dr Joseph MulvehillHarvey M Spear EsqDanny Lopez Hon ChairmanNoel Kilkenny Hon DirectorVictoria Robey OBE Hon DirectorRichard Gee Esq Of Counsel Jenifer L Keiser CPA
EisnerAmper LLP
Chief Executive
Timothy Walker AM Chief Executive and Artistic Director
Amy SugarmanPA to the Chief Executive Administrative Assistant
Finance
David BurkeGeneral Manager and Finance Director
David GreensladeFinance and IT Manager
Dayse GuilhermeFinance Officer
Concert Management
Roanna Gibson Concerts Director
Graham WoodConcerts and Recordings Manager
Jenny Chadwick Tours Manager
Tamzin Aitken Glyndebourne and UK Engagements Manager
Alison JonesConcerts and Recordings Co-ordinator
Jo CotterTours Co-ordinator Orchestra Personnel
Andrew CheneryOrchestra Personnel Manager
Sarah Holmes Sarah ThomasLibrarians ( job-share)
Christopher AldertonStage Manager
Damian Davis Transport Manager
Ellie Swithinbank Assistant Orchestra Personnel Manager
Education and Community
Isabella Kernot Education Director
Alexandra ClarkeEducation and Community Project Manager
Lucy DuffyEducation and Community Project Manager
Richard MallettEducation and Community Producer
Development
Nick JackmanDevelopment Director
Catherine Faulkner Development Events Manager
Kathryn HagemanIndividual Giving Manager
Laura Luckhurst Corporate Relations Manager
Anna Quillin Trusts and Foundations Manager
Helen Etheridge Development Assistant
Rebecca FoggDevelopment Assistant
Kirstin PeltonenDevelopment Associate
Marketing
Kath TroutMarketing Director
Mia RobertsMarketing Manager
Rachel WilliamsPublications Manager (maternity leave)
Sarah BreedenPublications Manager (maternity cover)
Samantha CleverleyBox Office Manager(Tel 020 7840 4242)
Libby Northcote-GreenMarketing Co-ordinator
Digital Projects
Alison Atkinson Digital Projects Director
Matthew Freeman Recordings Consultant Public Relations
Albion Media (Tel 020 3077 4930) Archives
Philip StuartDiscographer
Gillian Pole Recordings Archive Professional Services
Charles RussellSolicitors
Crowe Clark Whitehill LLPAuditors
Dr Louise MillerHonorary Doctor
London Philharmonic Orchestra89 Albert Embankment London SE1 7TPTel 020 7840 4200Box Office 020 7840 4242Email adminlpoorguklpoorguk
The London Philharmonic Orchestra Limited is a registered charity No 238045
Composer photographs of Elgar and Walton courtesy of the Royal College of Music London Ireland photographs courtesy of The John Ireland Charitable Trust Front cover photograph Martin Hobbs horn copy Julian Calverley Cover design art direction Chaos Design
Printed by Cantate
London Philharmonic Orchestra | 7
Piers Lanepiano
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eith
Sau
nde
rs
London-based Australian pianist Piers Lane is in great demand as soloist and collaborative artist Recent highlights include concerto performances of Busoni and Bridge at Carnegie Hall premieres of Carl Vinersquos Second Piano Concerto written for him with the Sydney Symphony and the London Philharmonic orchestras and sold-out solo recitals at Wigmore Hall
Five-times soloist at the BBC Proms Piers Lanersquos concerto repertoire exceeds 90 works and has led to engagements with many of the worldrsquos great orchestras including the American Bournemouth and Gothenburg Symphony orchestras Orchestre National de France City of London Sinfonia and Warsaw Philharmonic Leading conductors with whom he has worked include Andrey Boreyko Sir Andrew Davis Andrew Litton Jerzy Maksymiuk Vassily Sinaisky and Yan Pascal Tortelier
He frequently performs at prestigious festivals such as Aldeburgh Prague Spring and the Chopin festival in Warsaw He is Artistic Director of the Australian Festival of Chamber Music and also directed the annual Myra Hess Day at the National Gallery in London from its inception in 2006 until 2013 From this sprang Admission One Shilling a collaboration with actress Patricia Routledge devised by Nigel Hess for theatre exploring Dame Myrarsquos work during the Second World War it has been performed over 70 times throughout the UK and most recently in Australia and Belgium
Piers Lanersquos discography of over 50 CDs includes much admired recordings of rare Romantic piano concertos the complete Preludes and Etudes by Scriabin and transcriptions of Bach and Strauss Last season Hyperion released his most recent solo recording Piers Lane goes to Town
Piers Lane continues his longstanding partnership with violinist Tasmin Little clarinettist Michael Collins and the Goldner String Quartet He has performed with Anne Sofie von Otter and Bengt Forsberg pianists Marc-Andreacute Hamelin and Kathryn Stott and string quartets the Australian Doric Kodaacutely Medici New Budapest New Zealand Prazak and RTE Vanbrugh
Many composers have written for Piers Lane and he has premiered works by Brett Dean Dave Heath Colin Matthews Richard Mills Carl Vine Benjamin Wallfisch and Malcolm Williamson among others He has made many first recordings including Elgarrsquos Impromptu Irelandrsquos Ballerina and Williamsonrsquos Piano Concerto No 4
Piers Lane has written and presented over 100 programmes for BBC Radio 3 including the popular 54-part series The Piano He was recently presented with the first medal from the Laza Kostic fund for promoting Serbian culture during difficult political times in the late 90s In the Queenrsquos Diamond Jubilee Birthday Honours he was made an Officer in the Order of Australia (AO) for distinguished services to the arts as pianist mentor and organiser
pierslanecom
The recital was notable for Piers Lanersquos sustained interpretative probing as much as for the pianistrsquos technical assurance and attention to musical detail Claire Seymour Seen and Heard International January 2015
8 | London Philharmonic Orchestra
Programme notes
Tonightrsquos programme presents works from the early 20th century by three English composers of successive generations (all of them first performed in the Queenrsquos Hall which was destroyed in the Second World War and replaced by the Royal Festival Hall) Edward Elgar trained as a violinist showed his flair for writing for strings in his sonorous Introduction and Allegro of 1904ndash5 The pianist-composer John Ireland combined his characteristic mood of
rhapsodic keyboard musing with a subtle thematic sub-structure in his 1930 Piano Concerto William Walton no performer but a master of the craft of orchestration established himself as a major figure with his First Symphony begun in 1932ndash3 with a purposeful first movement a lsquomaliciousrsquo scherzo and a lsquomelancholyrsquo slow movement and completed in 1935 with a brilliant finale
Speedread
Elgar studied the violin from an early age had hopes at one stage of making a career as a soloist and earned much of his living for several years as an orchestral musician in the West Midlands So he always wrote for the strings of the orchestra with special understanding and he composed two substantial pieces for strings alone The Serenade of 1892 was a breakthrough work first tried out with a ladiesrsquo orchestra in Worcestershire but accepted for publication by the august firm of Breitkopf and Haumlrtel in Leipzig On the other hand the Introduction and Allegro was written when he was at the height of his fame It was begun in the year of his knighthood 1904 in response to a request from the recently formed London Symphony Orchestra for a new piece to be included in an all-Elgar concert Elgar himself conducted the first performance in March 1905
The scoring contrasts the main string orchestra with a solo quartet of section leaders ndash used sometimes as a concertino group (similar to Handelrsquos string concertos)
Introduction and Allegro for Strings Op 47EdwardElgar
1857ndash1934
Elgar outside his house Craeg Lea in Malvern Wells
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Th
e El
gar
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ace
Mu
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m
London Philharmonic Orchestra | 9
sometimes as individual soloists and sometimes to add subtle touches of colouring to the texture The broad Introduction anticipates the melodic material of the Allegro which is in traditional sonata form but with the usual central development section replaced by a brilliant fugue One of the workrsquos principal melodies first heard near the beginning on solo viola and brought
back in triumph towards the end of the Allegro is based on an idea that Elgar had sketched in 1901 on a holiday in Wales he was reminded of it by a song he heard in the distance in the Wye Valley on the Welsh border And the whole work he once wrote lsquois really a tribute to that sweet borderland where I have made my homersquo
Piano Concerto in E flat major
Piers Lane piano
1 In tempo moderato2 Lento espressivo ndash 3 Allegro ndash Allegretto giocoso
John Ireland was born in Bowdon south of Manchester and studied the piano and composition at the Royal College of Music in London where he later taught for many years his pupils including Benjamin Britten He was trained by Stanford in the tradition of Brahms but was open to the influence of several 20th-century composers including Debussy Ravel and Prokofiev His list of works is dominated by songs and piano pieces (many of which were inspired by places that he loved) but he also wrote effectively for orchestra Ireland wrote his Piano Concerto in 1930 for his piano pupil and proteacutegeacutee Helen Perkin She gave the first performance at the age of 21 in a Promenade Concert conducted by Sir Henry Wood in October 1930 Although conceived for her small hands the solo part is brilliantly virtuosic in places with some figuration echoing the jazz-tinged lsquonovelty numbersrsquo of between-the-wars popular piano music ndash as well as containing a great deal in a vein of poetic introspection
The Concerto is in three thematically linked movements (though Ireland numbered the second and third which are played without a break as a single unit) The first movement begins with a smooth string melody in octaves of which the first four notes ndash a falling fourth
followed by a rising fourth a step higher ndash constitute the unifying motto theme of the movement and to some extent the whole work This motto makes its presence felt in the following lyrical dialogue between the piano and the strings dominates the accelerating transition to the lively second-subject group and returns in full force as the starting-point of a broad orchestral melody After a short central section in which the piano plays continuously the motto returns as part of a fleeting reprise of the first-subject group makes a brief appearance during the extended reprise of the second-subject group and returns at the very end of the movement
The slow movement begins with an expressive string melody incorporating a phrase which hints at the perky rhythms of the first movementrsquos second subject The piano answers with a rhapsodic solo in changing metres which is continued by the strings with telling details in the horns The expressive melody of the opening returns on flute and piano a little later the first movementrsquos motto and the second-subject phrase are run together to form a counter-melody to pearly piano figuration The timpani ndash making their first appearance in the work ndash intervene to lead an
JohnIreland
1879ndash1962
10 | London Philharmonic Orchestra
Programme notes continued
Symphony No 1
1 Allegro assai2 Presto con malizia3 Andante con malinconia4 Maestoso ndash Allegro brioso ed ardentemente ndash Vivacissimo ndash Maestoso
WilliamWalton
1902ndash83
acceleration to the finale This is a rondo on an ebullient tune introduced by the piano in sparkling high octaves The two contrasting episodes are both at a slower tempo the first opening out from the pianorsquos first phrase in the first movement the second beginning with a rapturous duet for piano and solo violin derived from ideas in the second movement The motto makes a final appearance before the last quick section in which the metre shifts from 24 to 34 and the entry of the rondo theme now transformed into a waltz is delayed until nearly the end
Interval ndash 20 minutesAn announcement will be made five minutes before the end of the interval
John Ireland in his studio 14a Gunter Grove London
During his 20s William Walton burst on to the British musical scene with his avant-garde lsquoentertainmentrsquo Faccedilade consolidated his position in the mainstream with the Portsmouth Point Overture the Sinfonia Concertante for piano and the Viola Concerto and breathed new life into the traditional form of the oratorio with Belshazzarrsquos Feast His obvious next step was a symphony not least as a challenge to his seniors Vaughan Williams and Bax he was duly invited to write one by Sir Hamilton Harty then conductor of the Halleacute Orchestra in Manchester He drafted three movements and began a fourth during 1932 and 1933 but then became stuck Harty was by now conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra and anxious to schedule
the premiere with the LSO Walton orchestrated the first three movements but remained unable to complete the finale and in the end allowed the work to be performed without it in December 1934 The following year refreshed by the ending of a stormy love affair and the start of a calmer new relationship he resumed work on the finale this time successfully The first performance of the complete Symphony with Harty this time conducting the BBC Symphony Orchestra took place in November 1935 It was a triumph immediately gaining the work an honoured place in British music which it has never since lost (and which so far has not been shared by Waltonrsquos Second Symphony of a quarter-century later)
Cou
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Th
e Jo
hn
Irel
and
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London Philharmonic Orchestra | 11
The lsquovery fastrsquo opening movement in B flat minor conveys a sense of breadth and power that belies the relatively modest size of the orchestra (which includes no more than double woodwind and at this stage no percussion other than timpani) The breadth stems from slow-moving harmonies over Sibelius-like long-held bass notes and timpani rolls the power from urgently repeated ostinato figures blazing dissonances and sonorous scoring The first section of the movement presents a series of subtly inter-related themes in an atmosphere of sustained tension and excitement relaxing only slightly for the broad second subject it ends with a climax of battering repeated notes The central development begins by returning to the opening idea at a subdued dynamic level and gradually builds up intensity again towards a harmonically more stable reprise of the opening section
The two middle movements reflect two contrasting and complementary aspects of Waltonrsquos musical personality The lsquomaliciousrsquo scherzo in E minor is in a very fast one-in-a-bar 34 time disrupted by occasional bars of 54 various rhythmic figures and scraps of melody are rotated but there is no contrasting trio section and no slackening of the movementrsquos biting intensity The lsquomelancholyrsquo Andante in C sharp minor is based on two melodies of characteristically bitter-sweet lyricism which are developed organically in contrapuntal textures the closing section rises to a fervently declamatory climax before falling away to a quiet ending
The B flat major finale (which adds a second timpanist and two percussionists to the orchestra) has a more sectional structure than its predecessors It begins with a lsquomajesticrsquo introduction in the boldly rhetorical manner familiar from Waltonrsquos later marches and film scores Then come two large paragraphs at a lsquofast animated and ardentrsquo tempo the first crackling with energy the second an extended incisive fugue with a smoother central episode The material of these paragraphs is transformed and developed still largely in fugal texture in a new section in lsquovery livelyrsquo triple time To round off the Symphony the tempo of the introduction is restored for a grandiloquent coda
Programme notes copy Anthony Burton
This is the work of a true Master ndash unlike any other English symphony this is in the real line of symphonic tradition It is simply colossal grand original and moving to the emotions to the most extreme degreehellip It has established you as the most vital and original genius in Europe No one but a bloody fool could possibly fail to see thishellipJohn Ireland writing to Walton after hearing the first recording of the Symphony
More Piano Concertos with the LPO at Royal Festival Hall
Saturday 21 March 2015 | 730pmProkofiev Chout (excerpts)Magnus Lindberg Piano Concerto No 2 (UK premiere)Stravinsky Petrushka (1911 version)
Vladimir Jurowski conductor | Yefim Bronfman piano
Wednesday 25 March 2015 | 730pmMozart Symphony No 36 (Linz) Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No 1 (final version) Dvořaacutek Symphony No 8
Ilyich Rivas conductor | Dmitry Mayboroda piano
Part of Rachmaninoff Inside Out
Wednesday 15 April 2015 | 730pmBeethoven Piano Concerto No 4Bruckner Symphony No 4 (Romantic) (Nowak Edition)
Robin Ticciati conductor Menahem Pressler piano
Tickets pound9ndashpound39 (premium seats pound65)
London Philharmonic Orchestra Ticket Office020 7840 4242 MondayndashFriday 1000amndash500pm lpoorguk Transaction fees pound175 online pound275 telephone
12 | London Philharmonic Orchestra
Radio 3 Live In ConcertListen to the best live performances from across the UK every evening at 730pm
in dimensions
Discover classical music
bbccoukradio3
BBC_Radio3_dimensions_ad_175x247mm_BWindd 1 02102014 1447
London Philharmonic Orchestra | 13
The Elgar Birthplace Museum Exploring the life and music of Englandrsquos great composer
Set in the beautiful countryside of Worcestershire is the museum
dedicated to the life and times of Englandrsquos great composer
Sir Edward Elgar
1 Free Entry to the Museum with this programme when accompanied by a full paying adult
Lower Broadheath Worcester tel 01905 33224
birthplaceelgarmuseumorg
Open every day 11am - 5pm
Available from lpoorgukrecordings the LPO Ticket Office (020 7840 4242) and all good CD outlets
Available to download or stream online via iTunes Spotify Amazon and others
Symphony No 4 Ryan Wigglesworth conductor
Symphony No 8 Vladimir Jurowski conductor
London Philharmonic Orchestra
LPO-0082
Available on the LPO Label Vaughan Williams Symphonies Nos 4 amp 8
lsquoFirst-rate playing from the London Philharmonic Orchestra with a fine warm bloom to the soundrsquo Financial Times (Symphony No 4)
Recommended recordings of tonightrsquos worksElgar Introduction and Allegro London Philharmonic Orchestra | Sir Adrian Boult [EMI 5665402]
Ireland Piano Concerto Piers Lane | Ulster Orchestra | David Lloyd-Jones [Hyperion CDA67296]
Eileen Joyce | London Philharmonic Orchestra | Sir Adrian Boult [LPO-0041]
Walton Symphony No 1 London Philharmonic Orchestra | Sir Charles Mackerras [Classics for Pleasure 75569]
14 | London Philharmonic Orchestra
We would like to acknowledge the generous support of the following Thomas Beecham Group Patrons Principal Benefactors and Benefactors
Thomas Beecham Group
The Tsukanov Family Foundation
Neil Westreich
William and Alex de Winton Simon Robey Victoria Robey OBEJulian amp Gill Simmonds
Anonymous Garf amp Gill CollinsAndrew Davenport Mrs Sonja DrexlerDavid amp Victoria Graham Fuller Mrs Philip KanMr amp Mrs MakharinskyGeoff amp Meg MannCaroline Jamie amp Zander SharpEric Tomsett
John amp Manon Antoniazzi John amp Angela Kessler Guy amp Utti Whittaker
BrightSparks patrons Instead of supporting a chair in the Orchestra these donors have chosen to support our series of schoolsrsquo concerts
Principal BenefactorsMark amp Elizabeth AdamsDesmond amp Ruth CecilMr John H CookDavid EllenMr Daniel Goldstein Drs Frank amp Gek LimPeter MacDonald Eggers Dr Eva Lotta amp Mr Thierry Sciard Mr amp Mrs David MalpasMr Michael PosenMr amp Mrs G SteinMr amp Mrs John C TuckerMr amp Mrs John amp Susi Underwood Lady Marina Vaizey Laurence Watt Grenville amp Krysia Williams Mr Anthony Yolland
BenefactorsMrs A Beare David amp Patricia BuckMrs Alan CarringtonMr amp Mrs Stewart CohenMr Alistair Corbett Georgy Djaparidze Mr David Edgecombe Mr Timothy Fancourt QCMr Richard FernyhoughTony amp Susan Hayes Michael amp Christine HenryMalcolm Herring J Douglas HomeIvan Hurry
Mr Glenn HurstfieldPer JonssonMr Gerald LevinWg Cdr amp Mrs M T Liddiard OBE JP RAFPaul amp Brigitta Lock Mr Peter MaceMs Ulrike Mansel Robert MarkwickMr Brian Marsh Andrew T MillsJohn Montgomery Dr Karen Morton Mr amp Mrs Andrew Neill Tom amp Phillis SharpeMartin and Cheryl Southgate Professor John StuddMr Peter TausigMrs Kazue Turner Simon Turner Howard amp Sheelagh Watson Des amp Maggie WhitelockChristopher WilliamsBill Yoe and others who wish to remain
anonymous
Hon BenefactorElliott Bernerd
Hon Life MembersKenneth Goode Carol Colburn Grigor CBE Pehr G GyllenhammarMrs Jackie Rosenfeld OBE
The generosity of our Sponsors Corporate Members supporters and donors is gratefully acknowledgedCorporate Members
Silver AREVA UK BerenbergBritish American BusinessCarter-Ruck
Bronze Appleyard amp Trew LLP BTO Management Consulting AG Charles Russell SpeechlysLeventis Overseas
Preferred Partners Corinthia Hotel London Heineken Lindt amp Spruumlngli LtdSipsmith Steinway Villa Maria In-kind SponsorsGoogle IncSela Tilleyrsquos Sweets
Trusts and Foundations Angus Allnatt Charitable Foundation Ambache Charitable Trust Ruth Berkowitz Charitable Trust The Boltini Trust
Borletti-Buitoni TrustBritten-Pears Foundation The Candide Trust The Peter Carr Charitable Trust in memory
of Peter CarrThe Ernest Cook TrustThe Coutts Charitable TrustThe DrsquoOyly Carte Charitable TrustDunard FundThe Equitable Charitable Trust Fidelio Charitable TrustThe Foyle FoundationLucille Graham TrustThe Jeniffer and Jonathan Harris
Charitable TrustHelp Musicians UK The Hinrichsen Foundation The Hobson Charity The Idlewild Trust Kirby Laing Foundation The Leche Trust London Stock Exchange Group FoundationMarsh Christian TrustThe Mayor of Londonrsquos Fund for Young
MusiciansAdam Mickiewicz Institute The Peter Minet TrustThe Ann and Frederick OrsquoBrien
Charitable Trust
Office for Cultural and Scientific Affairs ofthe Embassy of Spain in London
Palazzetto Bru Zane ndash Centre de musiqueromantique franccedilaise
The Austin and Hope Pilkington Trust Polish Cultural Institute in London PRS for Music FoundationThe Radcliffe TrustRivers Foundation The R K Charitable TrustSerge Rachmaninoff Foundation Romanian Cultural Institute Schroder Charity Trust Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation The David Solomons Charitable Trust The Steel Charitable TrustThe John Thaw FoundationThe Tillett Trust UK Friends of the Felix-Mendelssohn-
Bartholdy-Foundation The Viney FamilyGarfield Weston FoundationThe Barbara Whatmore Charitable TrustYouth Music and others who wish to remain anonymous
London Philharmonic Orchestra | 15
SOUND FUTURES DONORS
We are grateful to the following donors for their generous contributions to Sound Futures which will establish our first ever endowment Donations from those below have already been matched pound for pound by Arts Council England through a Catalyst Endowment grant
By May 2015 we aim to have raised pound1 million which when matched will create a pound2 million fund supporting our Education and Community Programme our creative programming and major artistic projects at Southbank Centre
We thank those who are helping us to realise the vision
Masur CircleArts Council EnglandDunard Fund Victoria Robey OBE Emmanuel amp Barrie RomanThe Underwood Trust
Welser-Moumlst CircleWilliam amp Alex de WintonJohn Ireland Charitable Trust The Tsukanov Family FoundationNeil Westreich
Tennstedt CircleRichard Buxton Simon Robey Simon amp Vero Turner The late Mr K Twyman
Solti PatronsAgeas John amp Manon Antoniazzi Georgy DjaparidzeMrs Mina Goodman and
Miss Suzanne GoodmanMr James R D KornerRobert Markwick amp Kasia RobinskiThe Rothschild Foundation
Haitink PatronsMark amp Elizabeth AdamsMrs Pauline BaumgartnerLady Jane BerrillMr Frederick BrittendenDavid amp Yi Yao BuckleyGill amp Garf CollinsMr John H CookBruno de KegelMr Gavin GrahamMoya GreeneTony and Susie Hayes
Catherine Hoslashgel amp Ben MardleMrs Philip Kan Rose and Dudley LeighLady Roslyn Marion LyonsMiss Jeanette MartinDiana and Allan Morgenthau
Charitable TrustDr Karen MortonRuth RattenburyThe Reed Foundation Sir Bernard RixDavid Ross and Line Forestier (Canada)Carolina amp Martin SchwabTom and Phillis SharpeDr Brian SmithMr amp Mrs G SteinDr Peter Stephenson Miss Anne StoddartTFS Loans LimitedLady Marina VaizeyMs Jenny WatsonGuy amp Utti Whittaker
Pritchard DonorsRalph and Elizabeth AldwinckleMichael and Linda BlackstoneConrad Blakey OBEDr Anthony BucklandBusiness Events SydneyLady June ChichesterJohn Childress amp Christiane WuillamieLindka CierachPaul CollinsMr Alistair CorbettDavid DennisMr David EdgecombeDavid EllenMr Timothy Fancourt QCKarima amp David GMr Daniel Goldstein
Mr Derek B GrayMr Roger GreenwoodRebecca Halford HarrisonMr J Douglas HomeHoneymead Arts TrustMrs Dawn HooperRehmet Kassim-LakhaMr Geoffrey KirkhamPeter LeaverDrs Frank amp Gek LimPeter MaceMr David MacfarlaneGeoff amp Meg MannMarsh Christian TrustDr David McGibneyMichael amp Patricia McLaren-TurnerJohn MontgomeryRosemary MorganGail MutruxParis NatarMr Roger H C PattisonThe late Edmund PirouetMr Michael PosenSarah amp John PriestlandMr Christopher QuereeMr Peter RussellMr Alan SainerTim SlorickLady Valerie SoltiTimothy Walker AMLaurence WattMr R WattsDes amp Maggie WhitelockChristopher WilliamsPeter Wilson SmithVictoria YanakovaMr Anthony Yolland
And all other donors who wish to remain anonymous
16 | London Philharmonic Orchestra
Administration
Board of DirectorsVictoria Robey OBE Chairman Stewart McIlwham President Gareth Newman Vice-PresidentDr Manon Antoniazzi Richard Brass Desmond Cecil CMG Vesselin Gellev Jonathan Harris CBE FRICS Dr Catherine C HoslashgelMartin Houmlhmann George Peniston Kevin Rundell Julian SimmondsMark TempletonNatasha TsukanovaTimothy Walker AM Laurence WattNeil Westreich
Player-Director
Advisory CouncilVictoria Robey OBE Chairman Christopher Aldren Richard Brass David Buckley Sir Alan Collins KCVO CMG Andrew Davenport Jonathan Dawson William de Winton Edward Dolman Christopher Fraser OBE Lord Hall of Birkenhead CBE Jamie Korner Clive Marks OBE FCA Stewart McIlwham Sir Bernard Rix Baroness ShackletonLord Sharman of Redlynch OBE Thomas Sharpe QC Martin SouthgateSir Philip Thomas Sir John TooleyChris VineyTimothy Walker AMElizabeth Winter
American Friends of the London Philharmonic Orchestra IncJenny Ireland Co-ChairmanWilliam A Kerr Co-ChairmanKyung-Wha ChungAlexandra JupinDr Felisa B KaplanJill Fine MainelliKristina McPhee Dr Joseph MulvehillHarvey M Spear EsqDanny Lopez Hon ChairmanNoel Kilkenny Hon DirectorVictoria Robey OBE Hon DirectorRichard Gee Esq Of Counsel Jenifer L Keiser CPA
EisnerAmper LLP
Chief Executive
Timothy Walker AM Chief Executive and Artistic Director
Amy SugarmanPA to the Chief Executive Administrative Assistant
Finance
David BurkeGeneral Manager and Finance Director
David GreensladeFinance and IT Manager
Dayse GuilhermeFinance Officer
Concert Management
Roanna Gibson Concerts Director
Graham WoodConcerts and Recordings Manager
Jenny Chadwick Tours Manager
Tamzin Aitken Glyndebourne and UK Engagements Manager
Alison JonesConcerts and Recordings Co-ordinator
Jo CotterTours Co-ordinator Orchestra Personnel
Andrew CheneryOrchestra Personnel Manager
Sarah Holmes Sarah ThomasLibrarians ( job-share)
Christopher AldertonStage Manager
Damian Davis Transport Manager
Ellie Swithinbank Assistant Orchestra Personnel Manager
Education and Community
Isabella Kernot Education Director
Alexandra ClarkeEducation and Community Project Manager
Lucy DuffyEducation and Community Project Manager
Richard MallettEducation and Community Producer
Development
Nick JackmanDevelopment Director
Catherine Faulkner Development Events Manager
Kathryn HagemanIndividual Giving Manager
Laura Luckhurst Corporate Relations Manager
Anna Quillin Trusts and Foundations Manager
Helen Etheridge Development Assistant
Rebecca FoggDevelopment Assistant
Kirstin PeltonenDevelopment Associate
Marketing
Kath TroutMarketing Director
Mia RobertsMarketing Manager
Rachel WilliamsPublications Manager (maternity leave)
Sarah BreedenPublications Manager (maternity cover)
Samantha CleverleyBox Office Manager(Tel 020 7840 4242)
Libby Northcote-GreenMarketing Co-ordinator
Digital Projects
Alison Atkinson Digital Projects Director
Matthew Freeman Recordings Consultant Public Relations
Albion Media (Tel 020 3077 4930) Archives
Philip StuartDiscographer
Gillian Pole Recordings Archive Professional Services
Charles RussellSolicitors
Crowe Clark Whitehill LLPAuditors
Dr Louise MillerHonorary Doctor
London Philharmonic Orchestra89 Albert Embankment London SE1 7TPTel 020 7840 4200Box Office 020 7840 4242Email adminlpoorguklpoorguk
The London Philharmonic Orchestra Limited is a registered charity No 238045
Composer photographs of Elgar and Walton courtesy of the Royal College of Music London Ireland photographs courtesy of The John Ireland Charitable Trust Front cover photograph Martin Hobbs horn copy Julian Calverley Cover design art direction Chaos Design
Printed by Cantate
8 | London Philharmonic Orchestra
Programme notes
Tonightrsquos programme presents works from the early 20th century by three English composers of successive generations (all of them first performed in the Queenrsquos Hall which was destroyed in the Second World War and replaced by the Royal Festival Hall) Edward Elgar trained as a violinist showed his flair for writing for strings in his sonorous Introduction and Allegro of 1904ndash5 The pianist-composer John Ireland combined his characteristic mood of
rhapsodic keyboard musing with a subtle thematic sub-structure in his 1930 Piano Concerto William Walton no performer but a master of the craft of orchestration established himself as a major figure with his First Symphony begun in 1932ndash3 with a purposeful first movement a lsquomaliciousrsquo scherzo and a lsquomelancholyrsquo slow movement and completed in 1935 with a brilliant finale
Speedread
Elgar studied the violin from an early age had hopes at one stage of making a career as a soloist and earned much of his living for several years as an orchestral musician in the West Midlands So he always wrote for the strings of the orchestra with special understanding and he composed two substantial pieces for strings alone The Serenade of 1892 was a breakthrough work first tried out with a ladiesrsquo orchestra in Worcestershire but accepted for publication by the august firm of Breitkopf and Haumlrtel in Leipzig On the other hand the Introduction and Allegro was written when he was at the height of his fame It was begun in the year of his knighthood 1904 in response to a request from the recently formed London Symphony Orchestra for a new piece to be included in an all-Elgar concert Elgar himself conducted the first performance in March 1905
The scoring contrasts the main string orchestra with a solo quartet of section leaders ndash used sometimes as a concertino group (similar to Handelrsquos string concertos)
Introduction and Allegro for Strings Op 47EdwardElgar
1857ndash1934
Elgar outside his house Craeg Lea in Malvern Wells
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Th
e El
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hpl
ace
Mu
seu
m
London Philharmonic Orchestra | 9
sometimes as individual soloists and sometimes to add subtle touches of colouring to the texture The broad Introduction anticipates the melodic material of the Allegro which is in traditional sonata form but with the usual central development section replaced by a brilliant fugue One of the workrsquos principal melodies first heard near the beginning on solo viola and brought
back in triumph towards the end of the Allegro is based on an idea that Elgar had sketched in 1901 on a holiday in Wales he was reminded of it by a song he heard in the distance in the Wye Valley on the Welsh border And the whole work he once wrote lsquois really a tribute to that sweet borderland where I have made my homersquo
Piano Concerto in E flat major
Piers Lane piano
1 In tempo moderato2 Lento espressivo ndash 3 Allegro ndash Allegretto giocoso
John Ireland was born in Bowdon south of Manchester and studied the piano and composition at the Royal College of Music in London where he later taught for many years his pupils including Benjamin Britten He was trained by Stanford in the tradition of Brahms but was open to the influence of several 20th-century composers including Debussy Ravel and Prokofiev His list of works is dominated by songs and piano pieces (many of which were inspired by places that he loved) but he also wrote effectively for orchestra Ireland wrote his Piano Concerto in 1930 for his piano pupil and proteacutegeacutee Helen Perkin She gave the first performance at the age of 21 in a Promenade Concert conducted by Sir Henry Wood in October 1930 Although conceived for her small hands the solo part is brilliantly virtuosic in places with some figuration echoing the jazz-tinged lsquonovelty numbersrsquo of between-the-wars popular piano music ndash as well as containing a great deal in a vein of poetic introspection
The Concerto is in three thematically linked movements (though Ireland numbered the second and third which are played without a break as a single unit) The first movement begins with a smooth string melody in octaves of which the first four notes ndash a falling fourth
followed by a rising fourth a step higher ndash constitute the unifying motto theme of the movement and to some extent the whole work This motto makes its presence felt in the following lyrical dialogue between the piano and the strings dominates the accelerating transition to the lively second-subject group and returns in full force as the starting-point of a broad orchestral melody After a short central section in which the piano plays continuously the motto returns as part of a fleeting reprise of the first-subject group makes a brief appearance during the extended reprise of the second-subject group and returns at the very end of the movement
The slow movement begins with an expressive string melody incorporating a phrase which hints at the perky rhythms of the first movementrsquos second subject The piano answers with a rhapsodic solo in changing metres which is continued by the strings with telling details in the horns The expressive melody of the opening returns on flute and piano a little later the first movementrsquos motto and the second-subject phrase are run together to form a counter-melody to pearly piano figuration The timpani ndash making their first appearance in the work ndash intervene to lead an
JohnIreland
1879ndash1962
10 | London Philharmonic Orchestra
Programme notes continued
Symphony No 1
1 Allegro assai2 Presto con malizia3 Andante con malinconia4 Maestoso ndash Allegro brioso ed ardentemente ndash Vivacissimo ndash Maestoso
WilliamWalton
1902ndash83
acceleration to the finale This is a rondo on an ebullient tune introduced by the piano in sparkling high octaves The two contrasting episodes are both at a slower tempo the first opening out from the pianorsquos first phrase in the first movement the second beginning with a rapturous duet for piano and solo violin derived from ideas in the second movement The motto makes a final appearance before the last quick section in which the metre shifts from 24 to 34 and the entry of the rondo theme now transformed into a waltz is delayed until nearly the end
Interval ndash 20 minutesAn announcement will be made five minutes before the end of the interval
John Ireland in his studio 14a Gunter Grove London
During his 20s William Walton burst on to the British musical scene with his avant-garde lsquoentertainmentrsquo Faccedilade consolidated his position in the mainstream with the Portsmouth Point Overture the Sinfonia Concertante for piano and the Viola Concerto and breathed new life into the traditional form of the oratorio with Belshazzarrsquos Feast His obvious next step was a symphony not least as a challenge to his seniors Vaughan Williams and Bax he was duly invited to write one by Sir Hamilton Harty then conductor of the Halleacute Orchestra in Manchester He drafted three movements and began a fourth during 1932 and 1933 but then became stuck Harty was by now conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra and anxious to schedule
the premiere with the LSO Walton orchestrated the first three movements but remained unable to complete the finale and in the end allowed the work to be performed without it in December 1934 The following year refreshed by the ending of a stormy love affair and the start of a calmer new relationship he resumed work on the finale this time successfully The first performance of the complete Symphony with Harty this time conducting the BBC Symphony Orchestra took place in November 1935 It was a triumph immediately gaining the work an honoured place in British music which it has never since lost (and which so far has not been shared by Waltonrsquos Second Symphony of a quarter-century later)
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London Philharmonic Orchestra | 11
The lsquovery fastrsquo opening movement in B flat minor conveys a sense of breadth and power that belies the relatively modest size of the orchestra (which includes no more than double woodwind and at this stage no percussion other than timpani) The breadth stems from slow-moving harmonies over Sibelius-like long-held bass notes and timpani rolls the power from urgently repeated ostinato figures blazing dissonances and sonorous scoring The first section of the movement presents a series of subtly inter-related themes in an atmosphere of sustained tension and excitement relaxing only slightly for the broad second subject it ends with a climax of battering repeated notes The central development begins by returning to the opening idea at a subdued dynamic level and gradually builds up intensity again towards a harmonically more stable reprise of the opening section
The two middle movements reflect two contrasting and complementary aspects of Waltonrsquos musical personality The lsquomaliciousrsquo scherzo in E minor is in a very fast one-in-a-bar 34 time disrupted by occasional bars of 54 various rhythmic figures and scraps of melody are rotated but there is no contrasting trio section and no slackening of the movementrsquos biting intensity The lsquomelancholyrsquo Andante in C sharp minor is based on two melodies of characteristically bitter-sweet lyricism which are developed organically in contrapuntal textures the closing section rises to a fervently declamatory climax before falling away to a quiet ending
The B flat major finale (which adds a second timpanist and two percussionists to the orchestra) has a more sectional structure than its predecessors It begins with a lsquomajesticrsquo introduction in the boldly rhetorical manner familiar from Waltonrsquos later marches and film scores Then come two large paragraphs at a lsquofast animated and ardentrsquo tempo the first crackling with energy the second an extended incisive fugue with a smoother central episode The material of these paragraphs is transformed and developed still largely in fugal texture in a new section in lsquovery livelyrsquo triple time To round off the Symphony the tempo of the introduction is restored for a grandiloquent coda
Programme notes copy Anthony Burton
This is the work of a true Master ndash unlike any other English symphony this is in the real line of symphonic tradition It is simply colossal grand original and moving to the emotions to the most extreme degreehellip It has established you as the most vital and original genius in Europe No one but a bloody fool could possibly fail to see thishellipJohn Ireland writing to Walton after hearing the first recording of the Symphony
More Piano Concertos with the LPO at Royal Festival Hall
Saturday 21 March 2015 | 730pmProkofiev Chout (excerpts)Magnus Lindberg Piano Concerto No 2 (UK premiere)Stravinsky Petrushka (1911 version)
Vladimir Jurowski conductor | Yefim Bronfman piano
Wednesday 25 March 2015 | 730pmMozart Symphony No 36 (Linz) Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No 1 (final version) Dvořaacutek Symphony No 8
Ilyich Rivas conductor | Dmitry Mayboroda piano
Part of Rachmaninoff Inside Out
Wednesday 15 April 2015 | 730pmBeethoven Piano Concerto No 4Bruckner Symphony No 4 (Romantic) (Nowak Edition)
Robin Ticciati conductor Menahem Pressler piano
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London Philharmonic Orchestra Ticket Office020 7840 4242 MondayndashFriday 1000amndash500pm lpoorguk Transaction fees pound175 online pound275 telephone
12 | London Philharmonic Orchestra
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London Philharmonic Orchestra | 13
The Elgar Birthplace Museum Exploring the life and music of Englandrsquos great composer
Set in the beautiful countryside of Worcestershire is the museum
dedicated to the life and times of Englandrsquos great composer
Sir Edward Elgar
1 Free Entry to the Museum with this programme when accompanied by a full paying adult
Lower Broadheath Worcester tel 01905 33224
birthplaceelgarmuseumorg
Open every day 11am - 5pm
Available from lpoorgukrecordings the LPO Ticket Office (020 7840 4242) and all good CD outlets
Available to download or stream online via iTunes Spotify Amazon and others
Symphony No 4 Ryan Wigglesworth conductor
Symphony No 8 Vladimir Jurowski conductor
London Philharmonic Orchestra
LPO-0082
Available on the LPO Label Vaughan Williams Symphonies Nos 4 amp 8
lsquoFirst-rate playing from the London Philharmonic Orchestra with a fine warm bloom to the soundrsquo Financial Times (Symphony No 4)
Recommended recordings of tonightrsquos worksElgar Introduction and Allegro London Philharmonic Orchestra | Sir Adrian Boult [EMI 5665402]
Ireland Piano Concerto Piers Lane | Ulster Orchestra | David Lloyd-Jones [Hyperion CDA67296]
Eileen Joyce | London Philharmonic Orchestra | Sir Adrian Boult [LPO-0041]
Walton Symphony No 1 London Philharmonic Orchestra | Sir Charles Mackerras [Classics for Pleasure 75569]
14 | London Philharmonic Orchestra
We would like to acknowledge the generous support of the following Thomas Beecham Group Patrons Principal Benefactors and Benefactors
Thomas Beecham Group
The Tsukanov Family Foundation
Neil Westreich
William and Alex de Winton Simon Robey Victoria Robey OBEJulian amp Gill Simmonds
Anonymous Garf amp Gill CollinsAndrew Davenport Mrs Sonja DrexlerDavid amp Victoria Graham Fuller Mrs Philip KanMr amp Mrs MakharinskyGeoff amp Meg MannCaroline Jamie amp Zander SharpEric Tomsett
John amp Manon Antoniazzi John amp Angela Kessler Guy amp Utti Whittaker
BrightSparks patrons Instead of supporting a chair in the Orchestra these donors have chosen to support our series of schoolsrsquo concerts
Principal BenefactorsMark amp Elizabeth AdamsDesmond amp Ruth CecilMr John H CookDavid EllenMr Daniel Goldstein Drs Frank amp Gek LimPeter MacDonald Eggers Dr Eva Lotta amp Mr Thierry Sciard Mr amp Mrs David MalpasMr Michael PosenMr amp Mrs G SteinMr amp Mrs John C TuckerMr amp Mrs John amp Susi Underwood Lady Marina Vaizey Laurence Watt Grenville amp Krysia Williams Mr Anthony Yolland
BenefactorsMrs A Beare David amp Patricia BuckMrs Alan CarringtonMr amp Mrs Stewart CohenMr Alistair Corbett Georgy Djaparidze Mr David Edgecombe Mr Timothy Fancourt QCMr Richard FernyhoughTony amp Susan Hayes Michael amp Christine HenryMalcolm Herring J Douglas HomeIvan Hurry
Mr Glenn HurstfieldPer JonssonMr Gerald LevinWg Cdr amp Mrs M T Liddiard OBE JP RAFPaul amp Brigitta Lock Mr Peter MaceMs Ulrike Mansel Robert MarkwickMr Brian Marsh Andrew T MillsJohn Montgomery Dr Karen Morton Mr amp Mrs Andrew Neill Tom amp Phillis SharpeMartin and Cheryl Southgate Professor John StuddMr Peter TausigMrs Kazue Turner Simon Turner Howard amp Sheelagh Watson Des amp Maggie WhitelockChristopher WilliamsBill Yoe and others who wish to remain
anonymous
Hon BenefactorElliott Bernerd
Hon Life MembersKenneth Goode Carol Colburn Grigor CBE Pehr G GyllenhammarMrs Jackie Rosenfeld OBE
The generosity of our Sponsors Corporate Members supporters and donors is gratefully acknowledgedCorporate Members
Silver AREVA UK BerenbergBritish American BusinessCarter-Ruck
Bronze Appleyard amp Trew LLP BTO Management Consulting AG Charles Russell SpeechlysLeventis Overseas
Preferred Partners Corinthia Hotel London Heineken Lindt amp Spruumlngli LtdSipsmith Steinway Villa Maria In-kind SponsorsGoogle IncSela Tilleyrsquos Sweets
Trusts and Foundations Angus Allnatt Charitable Foundation Ambache Charitable Trust Ruth Berkowitz Charitable Trust The Boltini Trust
Borletti-Buitoni TrustBritten-Pears Foundation The Candide Trust The Peter Carr Charitable Trust in memory
of Peter CarrThe Ernest Cook TrustThe Coutts Charitable TrustThe DrsquoOyly Carte Charitable TrustDunard FundThe Equitable Charitable Trust Fidelio Charitable TrustThe Foyle FoundationLucille Graham TrustThe Jeniffer and Jonathan Harris
Charitable TrustHelp Musicians UK The Hinrichsen Foundation The Hobson Charity The Idlewild Trust Kirby Laing Foundation The Leche Trust London Stock Exchange Group FoundationMarsh Christian TrustThe Mayor of Londonrsquos Fund for Young
MusiciansAdam Mickiewicz Institute The Peter Minet TrustThe Ann and Frederick OrsquoBrien
Charitable Trust
Office for Cultural and Scientific Affairs ofthe Embassy of Spain in London
Palazzetto Bru Zane ndash Centre de musiqueromantique franccedilaise
The Austin and Hope Pilkington Trust Polish Cultural Institute in London PRS for Music FoundationThe Radcliffe TrustRivers Foundation The R K Charitable TrustSerge Rachmaninoff Foundation Romanian Cultural Institute Schroder Charity Trust Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation The David Solomons Charitable Trust The Steel Charitable TrustThe John Thaw FoundationThe Tillett Trust UK Friends of the Felix-Mendelssohn-
Bartholdy-Foundation The Viney FamilyGarfield Weston FoundationThe Barbara Whatmore Charitable TrustYouth Music and others who wish to remain anonymous
London Philharmonic Orchestra | 15
SOUND FUTURES DONORS
We are grateful to the following donors for their generous contributions to Sound Futures which will establish our first ever endowment Donations from those below have already been matched pound for pound by Arts Council England through a Catalyst Endowment grant
By May 2015 we aim to have raised pound1 million which when matched will create a pound2 million fund supporting our Education and Community Programme our creative programming and major artistic projects at Southbank Centre
We thank those who are helping us to realise the vision
Masur CircleArts Council EnglandDunard Fund Victoria Robey OBE Emmanuel amp Barrie RomanThe Underwood Trust
Welser-Moumlst CircleWilliam amp Alex de WintonJohn Ireland Charitable Trust The Tsukanov Family FoundationNeil Westreich
Tennstedt CircleRichard Buxton Simon Robey Simon amp Vero Turner The late Mr K Twyman
Solti PatronsAgeas John amp Manon Antoniazzi Georgy DjaparidzeMrs Mina Goodman and
Miss Suzanne GoodmanMr James R D KornerRobert Markwick amp Kasia RobinskiThe Rothschild Foundation
Haitink PatronsMark amp Elizabeth AdamsMrs Pauline BaumgartnerLady Jane BerrillMr Frederick BrittendenDavid amp Yi Yao BuckleyGill amp Garf CollinsMr John H CookBruno de KegelMr Gavin GrahamMoya GreeneTony and Susie Hayes
Catherine Hoslashgel amp Ben MardleMrs Philip Kan Rose and Dudley LeighLady Roslyn Marion LyonsMiss Jeanette MartinDiana and Allan Morgenthau
Charitable TrustDr Karen MortonRuth RattenburyThe Reed Foundation Sir Bernard RixDavid Ross and Line Forestier (Canada)Carolina amp Martin SchwabTom and Phillis SharpeDr Brian SmithMr amp Mrs G SteinDr Peter Stephenson Miss Anne StoddartTFS Loans LimitedLady Marina VaizeyMs Jenny WatsonGuy amp Utti Whittaker
Pritchard DonorsRalph and Elizabeth AldwinckleMichael and Linda BlackstoneConrad Blakey OBEDr Anthony BucklandBusiness Events SydneyLady June ChichesterJohn Childress amp Christiane WuillamieLindka CierachPaul CollinsMr Alistair CorbettDavid DennisMr David EdgecombeDavid EllenMr Timothy Fancourt QCKarima amp David GMr Daniel Goldstein
Mr Derek B GrayMr Roger GreenwoodRebecca Halford HarrisonMr J Douglas HomeHoneymead Arts TrustMrs Dawn HooperRehmet Kassim-LakhaMr Geoffrey KirkhamPeter LeaverDrs Frank amp Gek LimPeter MaceMr David MacfarlaneGeoff amp Meg MannMarsh Christian TrustDr David McGibneyMichael amp Patricia McLaren-TurnerJohn MontgomeryRosemary MorganGail MutruxParis NatarMr Roger H C PattisonThe late Edmund PirouetMr Michael PosenSarah amp John PriestlandMr Christopher QuereeMr Peter RussellMr Alan SainerTim SlorickLady Valerie SoltiTimothy Walker AMLaurence WattMr R WattsDes amp Maggie WhitelockChristopher WilliamsPeter Wilson SmithVictoria YanakovaMr Anthony Yolland
And all other donors who wish to remain anonymous
16 | London Philharmonic Orchestra
Administration
Board of DirectorsVictoria Robey OBE Chairman Stewart McIlwham President Gareth Newman Vice-PresidentDr Manon Antoniazzi Richard Brass Desmond Cecil CMG Vesselin Gellev Jonathan Harris CBE FRICS Dr Catherine C HoslashgelMartin Houmlhmann George Peniston Kevin Rundell Julian SimmondsMark TempletonNatasha TsukanovaTimothy Walker AM Laurence WattNeil Westreich
Player-Director
Advisory CouncilVictoria Robey OBE Chairman Christopher Aldren Richard Brass David Buckley Sir Alan Collins KCVO CMG Andrew Davenport Jonathan Dawson William de Winton Edward Dolman Christopher Fraser OBE Lord Hall of Birkenhead CBE Jamie Korner Clive Marks OBE FCA Stewart McIlwham Sir Bernard Rix Baroness ShackletonLord Sharman of Redlynch OBE Thomas Sharpe QC Martin SouthgateSir Philip Thomas Sir John TooleyChris VineyTimothy Walker AMElizabeth Winter
American Friends of the London Philharmonic Orchestra IncJenny Ireland Co-ChairmanWilliam A Kerr Co-ChairmanKyung-Wha ChungAlexandra JupinDr Felisa B KaplanJill Fine MainelliKristina McPhee Dr Joseph MulvehillHarvey M Spear EsqDanny Lopez Hon ChairmanNoel Kilkenny Hon DirectorVictoria Robey OBE Hon DirectorRichard Gee Esq Of Counsel Jenifer L Keiser CPA
EisnerAmper LLP
Chief Executive
Timothy Walker AM Chief Executive and Artistic Director
Amy SugarmanPA to the Chief Executive Administrative Assistant
Finance
David BurkeGeneral Manager and Finance Director
David GreensladeFinance and IT Manager
Dayse GuilhermeFinance Officer
Concert Management
Roanna Gibson Concerts Director
Graham WoodConcerts and Recordings Manager
Jenny Chadwick Tours Manager
Tamzin Aitken Glyndebourne and UK Engagements Manager
Alison JonesConcerts and Recordings Co-ordinator
Jo CotterTours Co-ordinator Orchestra Personnel
Andrew CheneryOrchestra Personnel Manager
Sarah Holmes Sarah ThomasLibrarians ( job-share)
Christopher AldertonStage Manager
Damian Davis Transport Manager
Ellie Swithinbank Assistant Orchestra Personnel Manager
Education and Community
Isabella Kernot Education Director
Alexandra ClarkeEducation and Community Project Manager
Lucy DuffyEducation and Community Project Manager
Richard MallettEducation and Community Producer
Development
Nick JackmanDevelopment Director
Catherine Faulkner Development Events Manager
Kathryn HagemanIndividual Giving Manager
Laura Luckhurst Corporate Relations Manager
Anna Quillin Trusts and Foundations Manager
Helen Etheridge Development Assistant
Rebecca FoggDevelopment Assistant
Kirstin PeltonenDevelopment Associate
Marketing
Kath TroutMarketing Director
Mia RobertsMarketing Manager
Rachel WilliamsPublications Manager (maternity leave)
Sarah BreedenPublications Manager (maternity cover)
Samantha CleverleyBox Office Manager(Tel 020 7840 4242)
Libby Northcote-GreenMarketing Co-ordinator
Digital Projects
Alison Atkinson Digital Projects Director
Matthew Freeman Recordings Consultant Public Relations
Albion Media (Tel 020 3077 4930) Archives
Philip StuartDiscographer
Gillian Pole Recordings Archive Professional Services
Charles RussellSolicitors
Crowe Clark Whitehill LLPAuditors
Dr Louise MillerHonorary Doctor
London Philharmonic Orchestra89 Albert Embankment London SE1 7TPTel 020 7840 4200Box Office 020 7840 4242Email adminlpoorguklpoorguk
The London Philharmonic Orchestra Limited is a registered charity No 238045
Composer photographs of Elgar and Walton courtesy of the Royal College of Music London Ireland photographs courtesy of The John Ireland Charitable Trust Front cover photograph Martin Hobbs horn copy Julian Calverley Cover design art direction Chaos Design
Printed by Cantate
London Philharmonic Orchestra | 9
sometimes as individual soloists and sometimes to add subtle touches of colouring to the texture The broad Introduction anticipates the melodic material of the Allegro which is in traditional sonata form but with the usual central development section replaced by a brilliant fugue One of the workrsquos principal melodies first heard near the beginning on solo viola and brought
back in triumph towards the end of the Allegro is based on an idea that Elgar had sketched in 1901 on a holiday in Wales he was reminded of it by a song he heard in the distance in the Wye Valley on the Welsh border And the whole work he once wrote lsquois really a tribute to that sweet borderland where I have made my homersquo
Piano Concerto in E flat major
Piers Lane piano
1 In tempo moderato2 Lento espressivo ndash 3 Allegro ndash Allegretto giocoso
John Ireland was born in Bowdon south of Manchester and studied the piano and composition at the Royal College of Music in London where he later taught for many years his pupils including Benjamin Britten He was trained by Stanford in the tradition of Brahms but was open to the influence of several 20th-century composers including Debussy Ravel and Prokofiev His list of works is dominated by songs and piano pieces (many of which were inspired by places that he loved) but he also wrote effectively for orchestra Ireland wrote his Piano Concerto in 1930 for his piano pupil and proteacutegeacutee Helen Perkin She gave the first performance at the age of 21 in a Promenade Concert conducted by Sir Henry Wood in October 1930 Although conceived for her small hands the solo part is brilliantly virtuosic in places with some figuration echoing the jazz-tinged lsquonovelty numbersrsquo of between-the-wars popular piano music ndash as well as containing a great deal in a vein of poetic introspection
The Concerto is in three thematically linked movements (though Ireland numbered the second and third which are played without a break as a single unit) The first movement begins with a smooth string melody in octaves of which the first four notes ndash a falling fourth
followed by a rising fourth a step higher ndash constitute the unifying motto theme of the movement and to some extent the whole work This motto makes its presence felt in the following lyrical dialogue between the piano and the strings dominates the accelerating transition to the lively second-subject group and returns in full force as the starting-point of a broad orchestral melody After a short central section in which the piano plays continuously the motto returns as part of a fleeting reprise of the first-subject group makes a brief appearance during the extended reprise of the second-subject group and returns at the very end of the movement
The slow movement begins with an expressive string melody incorporating a phrase which hints at the perky rhythms of the first movementrsquos second subject The piano answers with a rhapsodic solo in changing metres which is continued by the strings with telling details in the horns The expressive melody of the opening returns on flute and piano a little later the first movementrsquos motto and the second-subject phrase are run together to form a counter-melody to pearly piano figuration The timpani ndash making their first appearance in the work ndash intervene to lead an
JohnIreland
1879ndash1962
10 | London Philharmonic Orchestra
Programme notes continued
Symphony No 1
1 Allegro assai2 Presto con malizia3 Andante con malinconia4 Maestoso ndash Allegro brioso ed ardentemente ndash Vivacissimo ndash Maestoso
WilliamWalton
1902ndash83
acceleration to the finale This is a rondo on an ebullient tune introduced by the piano in sparkling high octaves The two contrasting episodes are both at a slower tempo the first opening out from the pianorsquos first phrase in the first movement the second beginning with a rapturous duet for piano and solo violin derived from ideas in the second movement The motto makes a final appearance before the last quick section in which the metre shifts from 24 to 34 and the entry of the rondo theme now transformed into a waltz is delayed until nearly the end
Interval ndash 20 minutesAn announcement will be made five minutes before the end of the interval
John Ireland in his studio 14a Gunter Grove London
During his 20s William Walton burst on to the British musical scene with his avant-garde lsquoentertainmentrsquo Faccedilade consolidated his position in the mainstream with the Portsmouth Point Overture the Sinfonia Concertante for piano and the Viola Concerto and breathed new life into the traditional form of the oratorio with Belshazzarrsquos Feast His obvious next step was a symphony not least as a challenge to his seniors Vaughan Williams and Bax he was duly invited to write one by Sir Hamilton Harty then conductor of the Halleacute Orchestra in Manchester He drafted three movements and began a fourth during 1932 and 1933 but then became stuck Harty was by now conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra and anxious to schedule
the premiere with the LSO Walton orchestrated the first three movements but remained unable to complete the finale and in the end allowed the work to be performed without it in December 1934 The following year refreshed by the ending of a stormy love affair and the start of a calmer new relationship he resumed work on the finale this time successfully The first performance of the complete Symphony with Harty this time conducting the BBC Symphony Orchestra took place in November 1935 It was a triumph immediately gaining the work an honoured place in British music which it has never since lost (and which so far has not been shared by Waltonrsquos Second Symphony of a quarter-century later)
Cou
rtes
y of
Th
e Jo
hn
Irel
and
Ch
arit
y Tr
ust
London Philharmonic Orchestra | 11
The lsquovery fastrsquo opening movement in B flat minor conveys a sense of breadth and power that belies the relatively modest size of the orchestra (which includes no more than double woodwind and at this stage no percussion other than timpani) The breadth stems from slow-moving harmonies over Sibelius-like long-held bass notes and timpani rolls the power from urgently repeated ostinato figures blazing dissonances and sonorous scoring The first section of the movement presents a series of subtly inter-related themes in an atmosphere of sustained tension and excitement relaxing only slightly for the broad second subject it ends with a climax of battering repeated notes The central development begins by returning to the opening idea at a subdued dynamic level and gradually builds up intensity again towards a harmonically more stable reprise of the opening section
The two middle movements reflect two contrasting and complementary aspects of Waltonrsquos musical personality The lsquomaliciousrsquo scherzo in E minor is in a very fast one-in-a-bar 34 time disrupted by occasional bars of 54 various rhythmic figures and scraps of melody are rotated but there is no contrasting trio section and no slackening of the movementrsquos biting intensity The lsquomelancholyrsquo Andante in C sharp minor is based on two melodies of characteristically bitter-sweet lyricism which are developed organically in contrapuntal textures the closing section rises to a fervently declamatory climax before falling away to a quiet ending
The B flat major finale (which adds a second timpanist and two percussionists to the orchestra) has a more sectional structure than its predecessors It begins with a lsquomajesticrsquo introduction in the boldly rhetorical manner familiar from Waltonrsquos later marches and film scores Then come two large paragraphs at a lsquofast animated and ardentrsquo tempo the first crackling with energy the second an extended incisive fugue with a smoother central episode The material of these paragraphs is transformed and developed still largely in fugal texture in a new section in lsquovery livelyrsquo triple time To round off the Symphony the tempo of the introduction is restored for a grandiloquent coda
Programme notes copy Anthony Burton
This is the work of a true Master ndash unlike any other English symphony this is in the real line of symphonic tradition It is simply colossal grand original and moving to the emotions to the most extreme degreehellip It has established you as the most vital and original genius in Europe No one but a bloody fool could possibly fail to see thishellipJohn Ireland writing to Walton after hearing the first recording of the Symphony
More Piano Concertos with the LPO at Royal Festival Hall
Saturday 21 March 2015 | 730pmProkofiev Chout (excerpts)Magnus Lindberg Piano Concerto No 2 (UK premiere)Stravinsky Petrushka (1911 version)
Vladimir Jurowski conductor | Yefim Bronfman piano
Wednesday 25 March 2015 | 730pmMozart Symphony No 36 (Linz) Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No 1 (final version) Dvořaacutek Symphony No 8
Ilyich Rivas conductor | Dmitry Mayboroda piano
Part of Rachmaninoff Inside Out
Wednesday 15 April 2015 | 730pmBeethoven Piano Concerto No 4Bruckner Symphony No 4 (Romantic) (Nowak Edition)
Robin Ticciati conductor Menahem Pressler piano
Tickets pound9ndashpound39 (premium seats pound65)
London Philharmonic Orchestra Ticket Office020 7840 4242 MondayndashFriday 1000amndash500pm lpoorguk Transaction fees pound175 online pound275 telephone
12 | London Philharmonic Orchestra
Radio 3 Live In ConcertListen to the best live performances from across the UK every evening at 730pm
in dimensions
Discover classical music
bbccoukradio3
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London Philharmonic Orchestra | 13
The Elgar Birthplace Museum Exploring the life and music of Englandrsquos great composer
Set in the beautiful countryside of Worcestershire is the museum
dedicated to the life and times of Englandrsquos great composer
Sir Edward Elgar
1 Free Entry to the Museum with this programme when accompanied by a full paying adult
Lower Broadheath Worcester tel 01905 33224
birthplaceelgarmuseumorg
Open every day 11am - 5pm
Available from lpoorgukrecordings the LPO Ticket Office (020 7840 4242) and all good CD outlets
Available to download or stream online via iTunes Spotify Amazon and others
Symphony No 4 Ryan Wigglesworth conductor
Symphony No 8 Vladimir Jurowski conductor
London Philharmonic Orchestra
LPO-0082
Available on the LPO Label Vaughan Williams Symphonies Nos 4 amp 8
lsquoFirst-rate playing from the London Philharmonic Orchestra with a fine warm bloom to the soundrsquo Financial Times (Symphony No 4)
Recommended recordings of tonightrsquos worksElgar Introduction and Allegro London Philharmonic Orchestra | Sir Adrian Boult [EMI 5665402]
Ireland Piano Concerto Piers Lane | Ulster Orchestra | David Lloyd-Jones [Hyperion CDA67296]
Eileen Joyce | London Philharmonic Orchestra | Sir Adrian Boult [LPO-0041]
Walton Symphony No 1 London Philharmonic Orchestra | Sir Charles Mackerras [Classics for Pleasure 75569]
14 | London Philharmonic Orchestra
We would like to acknowledge the generous support of the following Thomas Beecham Group Patrons Principal Benefactors and Benefactors
Thomas Beecham Group
The Tsukanov Family Foundation
Neil Westreich
William and Alex de Winton Simon Robey Victoria Robey OBEJulian amp Gill Simmonds
Anonymous Garf amp Gill CollinsAndrew Davenport Mrs Sonja DrexlerDavid amp Victoria Graham Fuller Mrs Philip KanMr amp Mrs MakharinskyGeoff amp Meg MannCaroline Jamie amp Zander SharpEric Tomsett
John amp Manon Antoniazzi John amp Angela Kessler Guy amp Utti Whittaker
BrightSparks patrons Instead of supporting a chair in the Orchestra these donors have chosen to support our series of schoolsrsquo concerts
Principal BenefactorsMark amp Elizabeth AdamsDesmond amp Ruth CecilMr John H CookDavid EllenMr Daniel Goldstein Drs Frank amp Gek LimPeter MacDonald Eggers Dr Eva Lotta amp Mr Thierry Sciard Mr amp Mrs David MalpasMr Michael PosenMr amp Mrs G SteinMr amp Mrs John C TuckerMr amp Mrs John amp Susi Underwood Lady Marina Vaizey Laurence Watt Grenville amp Krysia Williams Mr Anthony Yolland
BenefactorsMrs A Beare David amp Patricia BuckMrs Alan CarringtonMr amp Mrs Stewart CohenMr Alistair Corbett Georgy Djaparidze Mr David Edgecombe Mr Timothy Fancourt QCMr Richard FernyhoughTony amp Susan Hayes Michael amp Christine HenryMalcolm Herring J Douglas HomeIvan Hurry
Mr Glenn HurstfieldPer JonssonMr Gerald LevinWg Cdr amp Mrs M T Liddiard OBE JP RAFPaul amp Brigitta Lock Mr Peter MaceMs Ulrike Mansel Robert MarkwickMr Brian Marsh Andrew T MillsJohn Montgomery Dr Karen Morton Mr amp Mrs Andrew Neill Tom amp Phillis SharpeMartin and Cheryl Southgate Professor John StuddMr Peter TausigMrs Kazue Turner Simon Turner Howard amp Sheelagh Watson Des amp Maggie WhitelockChristopher WilliamsBill Yoe and others who wish to remain
anonymous
Hon BenefactorElliott Bernerd
Hon Life MembersKenneth Goode Carol Colburn Grigor CBE Pehr G GyllenhammarMrs Jackie Rosenfeld OBE
The generosity of our Sponsors Corporate Members supporters and donors is gratefully acknowledgedCorporate Members
Silver AREVA UK BerenbergBritish American BusinessCarter-Ruck
Bronze Appleyard amp Trew LLP BTO Management Consulting AG Charles Russell SpeechlysLeventis Overseas
Preferred Partners Corinthia Hotel London Heineken Lindt amp Spruumlngli LtdSipsmith Steinway Villa Maria In-kind SponsorsGoogle IncSela Tilleyrsquos Sweets
Trusts and Foundations Angus Allnatt Charitable Foundation Ambache Charitable Trust Ruth Berkowitz Charitable Trust The Boltini Trust
Borletti-Buitoni TrustBritten-Pears Foundation The Candide Trust The Peter Carr Charitable Trust in memory
of Peter CarrThe Ernest Cook TrustThe Coutts Charitable TrustThe DrsquoOyly Carte Charitable TrustDunard FundThe Equitable Charitable Trust Fidelio Charitable TrustThe Foyle FoundationLucille Graham TrustThe Jeniffer and Jonathan Harris
Charitable TrustHelp Musicians UK The Hinrichsen Foundation The Hobson Charity The Idlewild Trust Kirby Laing Foundation The Leche Trust London Stock Exchange Group FoundationMarsh Christian TrustThe Mayor of Londonrsquos Fund for Young
MusiciansAdam Mickiewicz Institute The Peter Minet TrustThe Ann and Frederick OrsquoBrien
Charitable Trust
Office for Cultural and Scientific Affairs ofthe Embassy of Spain in London
Palazzetto Bru Zane ndash Centre de musiqueromantique franccedilaise
The Austin and Hope Pilkington Trust Polish Cultural Institute in London PRS for Music FoundationThe Radcliffe TrustRivers Foundation The R K Charitable TrustSerge Rachmaninoff Foundation Romanian Cultural Institute Schroder Charity Trust Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation The David Solomons Charitable Trust The Steel Charitable TrustThe John Thaw FoundationThe Tillett Trust UK Friends of the Felix-Mendelssohn-
Bartholdy-Foundation The Viney FamilyGarfield Weston FoundationThe Barbara Whatmore Charitable TrustYouth Music and others who wish to remain anonymous
London Philharmonic Orchestra | 15
SOUND FUTURES DONORS
We are grateful to the following donors for their generous contributions to Sound Futures which will establish our first ever endowment Donations from those below have already been matched pound for pound by Arts Council England through a Catalyst Endowment grant
By May 2015 we aim to have raised pound1 million which when matched will create a pound2 million fund supporting our Education and Community Programme our creative programming and major artistic projects at Southbank Centre
We thank those who are helping us to realise the vision
Masur CircleArts Council EnglandDunard Fund Victoria Robey OBE Emmanuel amp Barrie RomanThe Underwood Trust
Welser-Moumlst CircleWilliam amp Alex de WintonJohn Ireland Charitable Trust The Tsukanov Family FoundationNeil Westreich
Tennstedt CircleRichard Buxton Simon Robey Simon amp Vero Turner The late Mr K Twyman
Solti PatronsAgeas John amp Manon Antoniazzi Georgy DjaparidzeMrs Mina Goodman and
Miss Suzanne GoodmanMr James R D KornerRobert Markwick amp Kasia RobinskiThe Rothschild Foundation
Haitink PatronsMark amp Elizabeth AdamsMrs Pauline BaumgartnerLady Jane BerrillMr Frederick BrittendenDavid amp Yi Yao BuckleyGill amp Garf CollinsMr John H CookBruno de KegelMr Gavin GrahamMoya GreeneTony and Susie Hayes
Catherine Hoslashgel amp Ben MardleMrs Philip Kan Rose and Dudley LeighLady Roslyn Marion LyonsMiss Jeanette MartinDiana and Allan Morgenthau
Charitable TrustDr Karen MortonRuth RattenburyThe Reed Foundation Sir Bernard RixDavid Ross and Line Forestier (Canada)Carolina amp Martin SchwabTom and Phillis SharpeDr Brian SmithMr amp Mrs G SteinDr Peter Stephenson Miss Anne StoddartTFS Loans LimitedLady Marina VaizeyMs Jenny WatsonGuy amp Utti Whittaker
Pritchard DonorsRalph and Elizabeth AldwinckleMichael and Linda BlackstoneConrad Blakey OBEDr Anthony BucklandBusiness Events SydneyLady June ChichesterJohn Childress amp Christiane WuillamieLindka CierachPaul CollinsMr Alistair CorbettDavid DennisMr David EdgecombeDavid EllenMr Timothy Fancourt QCKarima amp David GMr Daniel Goldstein
Mr Derek B GrayMr Roger GreenwoodRebecca Halford HarrisonMr J Douglas HomeHoneymead Arts TrustMrs Dawn HooperRehmet Kassim-LakhaMr Geoffrey KirkhamPeter LeaverDrs Frank amp Gek LimPeter MaceMr David MacfarlaneGeoff amp Meg MannMarsh Christian TrustDr David McGibneyMichael amp Patricia McLaren-TurnerJohn MontgomeryRosemary MorganGail MutruxParis NatarMr Roger H C PattisonThe late Edmund PirouetMr Michael PosenSarah amp John PriestlandMr Christopher QuereeMr Peter RussellMr Alan SainerTim SlorickLady Valerie SoltiTimothy Walker AMLaurence WattMr R WattsDes amp Maggie WhitelockChristopher WilliamsPeter Wilson SmithVictoria YanakovaMr Anthony Yolland
And all other donors who wish to remain anonymous
16 | London Philharmonic Orchestra
Administration
Board of DirectorsVictoria Robey OBE Chairman Stewart McIlwham President Gareth Newman Vice-PresidentDr Manon Antoniazzi Richard Brass Desmond Cecil CMG Vesselin Gellev Jonathan Harris CBE FRICS Dr Catherine C HoslashgelMartin Houmlhmann George Peniston Kevin Rundell Julian SimmondsMark TempletonNatasha TsukanovaTimothy Walker AM Laurence WattNeil Westreich
Player-Director
Advisory CouncilVictoria Robey OBE Chairman Christopher Aldren Richard Brass David Buckley Sir Alan Collins KCVO CMG Andrew Davenport Jonathan Dawson William de Winton Edward Dolman Christopher Fraser OBE Lord Hall of Birkenhead CBE Jamie Korner Clive Marks OBE FCA Stewart McIlwham Sir Bernard Rix Baroness ShackletonLord Sharman of Redlynch OBE Thomas Sharpe QC Martin SouthgateSir Philip Thomas Sir John TooleyChris VineyTimothy Walker AMElizabeth Winter
American Friends of the London Philharmonic Orchestra IncJenny Ireland Co-ChairmanWilliam A Kerr Co-ChairmanKyung-Wha ChungAlexandra JupinDr Felisa B KaplanJill Fine MainelliKristina McPhee Dr Joseph MulvehillHarvey M Spear EsqDanny Lopez Hon ChairmanNoel Kilkenny Hon DirectorVictoria Robey OBE Hon DirectorRichard Gee Esq Of Counsel Jenifer L Keiser CPA
EisnerAmper LLP
Chief Executive
Timothy Walker AM Chief Executive and Artistic Director
Amy SugarmanPA to the Chief Executive Administrative Assistant
Finance
David BurkeGeneral Manager and Finance Director
David GreensladeFinance and IT Manager
Dayse GuilhermeFinance Officer
Concert Management
Roanna Gibson Concerts Director
Graham WoodConcerts and Recordings Manager
Jenny Chadwick Tours Manager
Tamzin Aitken Glyndebourne and UK Engagements Manager
Alison JonesConcerts and Recordings Co-ordinator
Jo CotterTours Co-ordinator Orchestra Personnel
Andrew CheneryOrchestra Personnel Manager
Sarah Holmes Sarah ThomasLibrarians ( job-share)
Christopher AldertonStage Manager
Damian Davis Transport Manager
Ellie Swithinbank Assistant Orchestra Personnel Manager
Education and Community
Isabella Kernot Education Director
Alexandra ClarkeEducation and Community Project Manager
Lucy DuffyEducation and Community Project Manager
Richard MallettEducation and Community Producer
Development
Nick JackmanDevelopment Director
Catherine Faulkner Development Events Manager
Kathryn HagemanIndividual Giving Manager
Laura Luckhurst Corporate Relations Manager
Anna Quillin Trusts and Foundations Manager
Helen Etheridge Development Assistant
Rebecca FoggDevelopment Assistant
Kirstin PeltonenDevelopment Associate
Marketing
Kath TroutMarketing Director
Mia RobertsMarketing Manager
Rachel WilliamsPublications Manager (maternity leave)
Sarah BreedenPublications Manager (maternity cover)
Samantha CleverleyBox Office Manager(Tel 020 7840 4242)
Libby Northcote-GreenMarketing Co-ordinator
Digital Projects
Alison Atkinson Digital Projects Director
Matthew Freeman Recordings Consultant Public Relations
Albion Media (Tel 020 3077 4930) Archives
Philip StuartDiscographer
Gillian Pole Recordings Archive Professional Services
Charles RussellSolicitors
Crowe Clark Whitehill LLPAuditors
Dr Louise MillerHonorary Doctor
London Philharmonic Orchestra89 Albert Embankment London SE1 7TPTel 020 7840 4200Box Office 020 7840 4242Email adminlpoorguklpoorguk
The London Philharmonic Orchestra Limited is a registered charity No 238045
Composer photographs of Elgar and Walton courtesy of the Royal College of Music London Ireland photographs courtesy of The John Ireland Charitable Trust Front cover photograph Martin Hobbs horn copy Julian Calverley Cover design art direction Chaos Design
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10 | London Philharmonic Orchestra
Programme notes continued
Symphony No 1
1 Allegro assai2 Presto con malizia3 Andante con malinconia4 Maestoso ndash Allegro brioso ed ardentemente ndash Vivacissimo ndash Maestoso
WilliamWalton
1902ndash83
acceleration to the finale This is a rondo on an ebullient tune introduced by the piano in sparkling high octaves The two contrasting episodes are both at a slower tempo the first opening out from the pianorsquos first phrase in the first movement the second beginning with a rapturous duet for piano and solo violin derived from ideas in the second movement The motto makes a final appearance before the last quick section in which the metre shifts from 24 to 34 and the entry of the rondo theme now transformed into a waltz is delayed until nearly the end
Interval ndash 20 minutesAn announcement will be made five minutes before the end of the interval
John Ireland in his studio 14a Gunter Grove London
During his 20s William Walton burst on to the British musical scene with his avant-garde lsquoentertainmentrsquo Faccedilade consolidated his position in the mainstream with the Portsmouth Point Overture the Sinfonia Concertante for piano and the Viola Concerto and breathed new life into the traditional form of the oratorio with Belshazzarrsquos Feast His obvious next step was a symphony not least as a challenge to his seniors Vaughan Williams and Bax he was duly invited to write one by Sir Hamilton Harty then conductor of the Halleacute Orchestra in Manchester He drafted three movements and began a fourth during 1932 and 1933 but then became stuck Harty was by now conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra and anxious to schedule
the premiere with the LSO Walton orchestrated the first three movements but remained unable to complete the finale and in the end allowed the work to be performed without it in December 1934 The following year refreshed by the ending of a stormy love affair and the start of a calmer new relationship he resumed work on the finale this time successfully The first performance of the complete Symphony with Harty this time conducting the BBC Symphony Orchestra took place in November 1935 It was a triumph immediately gaining the work an honoured place in British music which it has never since lost (and which so far has not been shared by Waltonrsquos Second Symphony of a quarter-century later)
Cou
rtes
y of
Th
e Jo
hn
Irel
and
Ch
arit
y Tr
ust
London Philharmonic Orchestra | 11
The lsquovery fastrsquo opening movement in B flat minor conveys a sense of breadth and power that belies the relatively modest size of the orchestra (which includes no more than double woodwind and at this stage no percussion other than timpani) The breadth stems from slow-moving harmonies over Sibelius-like long-held bass notes and timpani rolls the power from urgently repeated ostinato figures blazing dissonances and sonorous scoring The first section of the movement presents a series of subtly inter-related themes in an atmosphere of sustained tension and excitement relaxing only slightly for the broad second subject it ends with a climax of battering repeated notes The central development begins by returning to the opening idea at a subdued dynamic level and gradually builds up intensity again towards a harmonically more stable reprise of the opening section
The two middle movements reflect two contrasting and complementary aspects of Waltonrsquos musical personality The lsquomaliciousrsquo scherzo in E minor is in a very fast one-in-a-bar 34 time disrupted by occasional bars of 54 various rhythmic figures and scraps of melody are rotated but there is no contrasting trio section and no slackening of the movementrsquos biting intensity The lsquomelancholyrsquo Andante in C sharp minor is based on two melodies of characteristically bitter-sweet lyricism which are developed organically in contrapuntal textures the closing section rises to a fervently declamatory climax before falling away to a quiet ending
The B flat major finale (which adds a second timpanist and two percussionists to the orchestra) has a more sectional structure than its predecessors It begins with a lsquomajesticrsquo introduction in the boldly rhetorical manner familiar from Waltonrsquos later marches and film scores Then come two large paragraphs at a lsquofast animated and ardentrsquo tempo the first crackling with energy the second an extended incisive fugue with a smoother central episode The material of these paragraphs is transformed and developed still largely in fugal texture in a new section in lsquovery livelyrsquo triple time To round off the Symphony the tempo of the introduction is restored for a grandiloquent coda
Programme notes copy Anthony Burton
This is the work of a true Master ndash unlike any other English symphony this is in the real line of symphonic tradition It is simply colossal grand original and moving to the emotions to the most extreme degreehellip It has established you as the most vital and original genius in Europe No one but a bloody fool could possibly fail to see thishellipJohn Ireland writing to Walton after hearing the first recording of the Symphony
More Piano Concertos with the LPO at Royal Festival Hall
Saturday 21 March 2015 | 730pmProkofiev Chout (excerpts)Magnus Lindberg Piano Concerto No 2 (UK premiere)Stravinsky Petrushka (1911 version)
Vladimir Jurowski conductor | Yefim Bronfman piano
Wednesday 25 March 2015 | 730pmMozart Symphony No 36 (Linz) Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No 1 (final version) Dvořaacutek Symphony No 8
Ilyich Rivas conductor | Dmitry Mayboroda piano
Part of Rachmaninoff Inside Out
Wednesday 15 April 2015 | 730pmBeethoven Piano Concerto No 4Bruckner Symphony No 4 (Romantic) (Nowak Edition)
Robin Ticciati conductor Menahem Pressler piano
Tickets pound9ndashpound39 (premium seats pound65)
London Philharmonic Orchestra Ticket Office020 7840 4242 MondayndashFriday 1000amndash500pm lpoorguk Transaction fees pound175 online pound275 telephone
12 | London Philharmonic Orchestra
Radio 3 Live In ConcertListen to the best live performances from across the UK every evening at 730pm
in dimensions
Discover classical music
bbccoukradio3
BBC_Radio3_dimensions_ad_175x247mm_BWindd 1 02102014 1447
London Philharmonic Orchestra | 13
The Elgar Birthplace Museum Exploring the life and music of Englandrsquos great composer
Set in the beautiful countryside of Worcestershire is the museum
dedicated to the life and times of Englandrsquos great composer
Sir Edward Elgar
1 Free Entry to the Museum with this programme when accompanied by a full paying adult
Lower Broadheath Worcester tel 01905 33224
birthplaceelgarmuseumorg
Open every day 11am - 5pm
Available from lpoorgukrecordings the LPO Ticket Office (020 7840 4242) and all good CD outlets
Available to download or stream online via iTunes Spotify Amazon and others
Symphony No 4 Ryan Wigglesworth conductor
Symphony No 8 Vladimir Jurowski conductor
London Philharmonic Orchestra
LPO-0082
Available on the LPO Label Vaughan Williams Symphonies Nos 4 amp 8
lsquoFirst-rate playing from the London Philharmonic Orchestra with a fine warm bloom to the soundrsquo Financial Times (Symphony No 4)
Recommended recordings of tonightrsquos worksElgar Introduction and Allegro London Philharmonic Orchestra | Sir Adrian Boult [EMI 5665402]
Ireland Piano Concerto Piers Lane | Ulster Orchestra | David Lloyd-Jones [Hyperion CDA67296]
Eileen Joyce | London Philharmonic Orchestra | Sir Adrian Boult [LPO-0041]
Walton Symphony No 1 London Philharmonic Orchestra | Sir Charles Mackerras [Classics for Pleasure 75569]
14 | London Philharmonic Orchestra
We would like to acknowledge the generous support of the following Thomas Beecham Group Patrons Principal Benefactors and Benefactors
Thomas Beecham Group
The Tsukanov Family Foundation
Neil Westreich
William and Alex de Winton Simon Robey Victoria Robey OBEJulian amp Gill Simmonds
Anonymous Garf amp Gill CollinsAndrew Davenport Mrs Sonja DrexlerDavid amp Victoria Graham Fuller Mrs Philip KanMr amp Mrs MakharinskyGeoff amp Meg MannCaroline Jamie amp Zander SharpEric Tomsett
John amp Manon Antoniazzi John amp Angela Kessler Guy amp Utti Whittaker
BrightSparks patrons Instead of supporting a chair in the Orchestra these donors have chosen to support our series of schoolsrsquo concerts
Principal BenefactorsMark amp Elizabeth AdamsDesmond amp Ruth CecilMr John H CookDavid EllenMr Daniel Goldstein Drs Frank amp Gek LimPeter MacDonald Eggers Dr Eva Lotta amp Mr Thierry Sciard Mr amp Mrs David MalpasMr Michael PosenMr amp Mrs G SteinMr amp Mrs John C TuckerMr amp Mrs John amp Susi Underwood Lady Marina Vaizey Laurence Watt Grenville amp Krysia Williams Mr Anthony Yolland
BenefactorsMrs A Beare David amp Patricia BuckMrs Alan CarringtonMr amp Mrs Stewart CohenMr Alistair Corbett Georgy Djaparidze Mr David Edgecombe Mr Timothy Fancourt QCMr Richard FernyhoughTony amp Susan Hayes Michael amp Christine HenryMalcolm Herring J Douglas HomeIvan Hurry
Mr Glenn HurstfieldPer JonssonMr Gerald LevinWg Cdr amp Mrs M T Liddiard OBE JP RAFPaul amp Brigitta Lock Mr Peter MaceMs Ulrike Mansel Robert MarkwickMr Brian Marsh Andrew T MillsJohn Montgomery Dr Karen Morton Mr amp Mrs Andrew Neill Tom amp Phillis SharpeMartin and Cheryl Southgate Professor John StuddMr Peter TausigMrs Kazue Turner Simon Turner Howard amp Sheelagh Watson Des amp Maggie WhitelockChristopher WilliamsBill Yoe and others who wish to remain
anonymous
Hon BenefactorElliott Bernerd
Hon Life MembersKenneth Goode Carol Colburn Grigor CBE Pehr G GyllenhammarMrs Jackie Rosenfeld OBE
The generosity of our Sponsors Corporate Members supporters and donors is gratefully acknowledgedCorporate Members
Silver AREVA UK BerenbergBritish American BusinessCarter-Ruck
Bronze Appleyard amp Trew LLP BTO Management Consulting AG Charles Russell SpeechlysLeventis Overseas
Preferred Partners Corinthia Hotel London Heineken Lindt amp Spruumlngli LtdSipsmith Steinway Villa Maria In-kind SponsorsGoogle IncSela Tilleyrsquos Sweets
Trusts and Foundations Angus Allnatt Charitable Foundation Ambache Charitable Trust Ruth Berkowitz Charitable Trust The Boltini Trust
Borletti-Buitoni TrustBritten-Pears Foundation The Candide Trust The Peter Carr Charitable Trust in memory
of Peter CarrThe Ernest Cook TrustThe Coutts Charitable TrustThe DrsquoOyly Carte Charitable TrustDunard FundThe Equitable Charitable Trust Fidelio Charitable TrustThe Foyle FoundationLucille Graham TrustThe Jeniffer and Jonathan Harris
Charitable TrustHelp Musicians UK The Hinrichsen Foundation The Hobson Charity The Idlewild Trust Kirby Laing Foundation The Leche Trust London Stock Exchange Group FoundationMarsh Christian TrustThe Mayor of Londonrsquos Fund for Young
MusiciansAdam Mickiewicz Institute The Peter Minet TrustThe Ann and Frederick OrsquoBrien
Charitable Trust
Office for Cultural and Scientific Affairs ofthe Embassy of Spain in London
Palazzetto Bru Zane ndash Centre de musiqueromantique franccedilaise
The Austin and Hope Pilkington Trust Polish Cultural Institute in London PRS for Music FoundationThe Radcliffe TrustRivers Foundation The R K Charitable TrustSerge Rachmaninoff Foundation Romanian Cultural Institute Schroder Charity Trust Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation The David Solomons Charitable Trust The Steel Charitable TrustThe John Thaw FoundationThe Tillett Trust UK Friends of the Felix-Mendelssohn-
Bartholdy-Foundation The Viney FamilyGarfield Weston FoundationThe Barbara Whatmore Charitable TrustYouth Music and others who wish to remain anonymous
London Philharmonic Orchestra | 15
SOUND FUTURES DONORS
We are grateful to the following donors for their generous contributions to Sound Futures which will establish our first ever endowment Donations from those below have already been matched pound for pound by Arts Council England through a Catalyst Endowment grant
By May 2015 we aim to have raised pound1 million which when matched will create a pound2 million fund supporting our Education and Community Programme our creative programming and major artistic projects at Southbank Centre
We thank those who are helping us to realise the vision
Masur CircleArts Council EnglandDunard Fund Victoria Robey OBE Emmanuel amp Barrie RomanThe Underwood Trust
Welser-Moumlst CircleWilliam amp Alex de WintonJohn Ireland Charitable Trust The Tsukanov Family FoundationNeil Westreich
Tennstedt CircleRichard Buxton Simon Robey Simon amp Vero Turner The late Mr K Twyman
Solti PatronsAgeas John amp Manon Antoniazzi Georgy DjaparidzeMrs Mina Goodman and
Miss Suzanne GoodmanMr James R D KornerRobert Markwick amp Kasia RobinskiThe Rothschild Foundation
Haitink PatronsMark amp Elizabeth AdamsMrs Pauline BaumgartnerLady Jane BerrillMr Frederick BrittendenDavid amp Yi Yao BuckleyGill amp Garf CollinsMr John H CookBruno de KegelMr Gavin GrahamMoya GreeneTony and Susie Hayes
Catherine Hoslashgel amp Ben MardleMrs Philip Kan Rose and Dudley LeighLady Roslyn Marion LyonsMiss Jeanette MartinDiana and Allan Morgenthau
Charitable TrustDr Karen MortonRuth RattenburyThe Reed Foundation Sir Bernard RixDavid Ross and Line Forestier (Canada)Carolina amp Martin SchwabTom and Phillis SharpeDr Brian SmithMr amp Mrs G SteinDr Peter Stephenson Miss Anne StoddartTFS Loans LimitedLady Marina VaizeyMs Jenny WatsonGuy amp Utti Whittaker
Pritchard DonorsRalph and Elizabeth AldwinckleMichael and Linda BlackstoneConrad Blakey OBEDr Anthony BucklandBusiness Events SydneyLady June ChichesterJohn Childress amp Christiane WuillamieLindka CierachPaul CollinsMr Alistair CorbettDavid DennisMr David EdgecombeDavid EllenMr Timothy Fancourt QCKarima amp David GMr Daniel Goldstein
Mr Derek B GrayMr Roger GreenwoodRebecca Halford HarrisonMr J Douglas HomeHoneymead Arts TrustMrs Dawn HooperRehmet Kassim-LakhaMr Geoffrey KirkhamPeter LeaverDrs Frank amp Gek LimPeter MaceMr David MacfarlaneGeoff amp Meg MannMarsh Christian TrustDr David McGibneyMichael amp Patricia McLaren-TurnerJohn MontgomeryRosemary MorganGail MutruxParis NatarMr Roger H C PattisonThe late Edmund PirouetMr Michael PosenSarah amp John PriestlandMr Christopher QuereeMr Peter RussellMr Alan SainerTim SlorickLady Valerie SoltiTimothy Walker AMLaurence WattMr R WattsDes amp Maggie WhitelockChristopher WilliamsPeter Wilson SmithVictoria YanakovaMr Anthony Yolland
And all other donors who wish to remain anonymous
16 | London Philharmonic Orchestra
Administration
Board of DirectorsVictoria Robey OBE Chairman Stewart McIlwham President Gareth Newman Vice-PresidentDr Manon Antoniazzi Richard Brass Desmond Cecil CMG Vesselin Gellev Jonathan Harris CBE FRICS Dr Catherine C HoslashgelMartin Houmlhmann George Peniston Kevin Rundell Julian SimmondsMark TempletonNatasha TsukanovaTimothy Walker AM Laurence WattNeil Westreich
Player-Director
Advisory CouncilVictoria Robey OBE Chairman Christopher Aldren Richard Brass David Buckley Sir Alan Collins KCVO CMG Andrew Davenport Jonathan Dawson William de Winton Edward Dolman Christopher Fraser OBE Lord Hall of Birkenhead CBE Jamie Korner Clive Marks OBE FCA Stewart McIlwham Sir Bernard Rix Baroness ShackletonLord Sharman of Redlynch OBE Thomas Sharpe QC Martin SouthgateSir Philip Thomas Sir John TooleyChris VineyTimothy Walker AMElizabeth Winter
American Friends of the London Philharmonic Orchestra IncJenny Ireland Co-ChairmanWilliam A Kerr Co-ChairmanKyung-Wha ChungAlexandra JupinDr Felisa B KaplanJill Fine MainelliKristina McPhee Dr Joseph MulvehillHarvey M Spear EsqDanny Lopez Hon ChairmanNoel Kilkenny Hon DirectorVictoria Robey OBE Hon DirectorRichard Gee Esq Of Counsel Jenifer L Keiser CPA
EisnerAmper LLP
Chief Executive
Timothy Walker AM Chief Executive and Artistic Director
Amy SugarmanPA to the Chief Executive Administrative Assistant
Finance
David BurkeGeneral Manager and Finance Director
David GreensladeFinance and IT Manager
Dayse GuilhermeFinance Officer
Concert Management
Roanna Gibson Concerts Director
Graham WoodConcerts and Recordings Manager
Jenny Chadwick Tours Manager
Tamzin Aitken Glyndebourne and UK Engagements Manager
Alison JonesConcerts and Recordings Co-ordinator
Jo CotterTours Co-ordinator Orchestra Personnel
Andrew CheneryOrchestra Personnel Manager
Sarah Holmes Sarah ThomasLibrarians ( job-share)
Christopher AldertonStage Manager
Damian Davis Transport Manager
Ellie Swithinbank Assistant Orchestra Personnel Manager
Education and Community
Isabella Kernot Education Director
Alexandra ClarkeEducation and Community Project Manager
Lucy DuffyEducation and Community Project Manager
Richard MallettEducation and Community Producer
Development
Nick JackmanDevelopment Director
Catherine Faulkner Development Events Manager
Kathryn HagemanIndividual Giving Manager
Laura Luckhurst Corporate Relations Manager
Anna Quillin Trusts and Foundations Manager
Helen Etheridge Development Assistant
Rebecca FoggDevelopment Assistant
Kirstin PeltonenDevelopment Associate
Marketing
Kath TroutMarketing Director
Mia RobertsMarketing Manager
Rachel WilliamsPublications Manager (maternity leave)
Sarah BreedenPublications Manager (maternity cover)
Samantha CleverleyBox Office Manager(Tel 020 7840 4242)
Libby Northcote-GreenMarketing Co-ordinator
Digital Projects
Alison Atkinson Digital Projects Director
Matthew Freeman Recordings Consultant Public Relations
Albion Media (Tel 020 3077 4930) Archives
Philip StuartDiscographer
Gillian Pole Recordings Archive Professional Services
Charles RussellSolicitors
Crowe Clark Whitehill LLPAuditors
Dr Louise MillerHonorary Doctor
London Philharmonic Orchestra89 Albert Embankment London SE1 7TPTel 020 7840 4200Box Office 020 7840 4242Email adminlpoorguklpoorguk
The London Philharmonic Orchestra Limited is a registered charity No 238045
Composer photographs of Elgar and Walton courtesy of the Royal College of Music London Ireland photographs courtesy of The John Ireland Charitable Trust Front cover photograph Martin Hobbs horn copy Julian Calverley Cover design art direction Chaos Design
Printed by Cantate
London Philharmonic Orchestra | 11
The lsquovery fastrsquo opening movement in B flat minor conveys a sense of breadth and power that belies the relatively modest size of the orchestra (which includes no more than double woodwind and at this stage no percussion other than timpani) The breadth stems from slow-moving harmonies over Sibelius-like long-held bass notes and timpani rolls the power from urgently repeated ostinato figures blazing dissonances and sonorous scoring The first section of the movement presents a series of subtly inter-related themes in an atmosphere of sustained tension and excitement relaxing only slightly for the broad second subject it ends with a climax of battering repeated notes The central development begins by returning to the opening idea at a subdued dynamic level and gradually builds up intensity again towards a harmonically more stable reprise of the opening section
The two middle movements reflect two contrasting and complementary aspects of Waltonrsquos musical personality The lsquomaliciousrsquo scherzo in E minor is in a very fast one-in-a-bar 34 time disrupted by occasional bars of 54 various rhythmic figures and scraps of melody are rotated but there is no contrasting trio section and no slackening of the movementrsquos biting intensity The lsquomelancholyrsquo Andante in C sharp minor is based on two melodies of characteristically bitter-sweet lyricism which are developed organically in contrapuntal textures the closing section rises to a fervently declamatory climax before falling away to a quiet ending
The B flat major finale (which adds a second timpanist and two percussionists to the orchestra) has a more sectional structure than its predecessors It begins with a lsquomajesticrsquo introduction in the boldly rhetorical manner familiar from Waltonrsquos later marches and film scores Then come two large paragraphs at a lsquofast animated and ardentrsquo tempo the first crackling with energy the second an extended incisive fugue with a smoother central episode The material of these paragraphs is transformed and developed still largely in fugal texture in a new section in lsquovery livelyrsquo triple time To round off the Symphony the tempo of the introduction is restored for a grandiloquent coda
Programme notes copy Anthony Burton
This is the work of a true Master ndash unlike any other English symphony this is in the real line of symphonic tradition It is simply colossal grand original and moving to the emotions to the most extreme degreehellip It has established you as the most vital and original genius in Europe No one but a bloody fool could possibly fail to see thishellipJohn Ireland writing to Walton after hearing the first recording of the Symphony
More Piano Concertos with the LPO at Royal Festival Hall
Saturday 21 March 2015 | 730pmProkofiev Chout (excerpts)Magnus Lindberg Piano Concerto No 2 (UK premiere)Stravinsky Petrushka (1911 version)
Vladimir Jurowski conductor | Yefim Bronfman piano
Wednesday 25 March 2015 | 730pmMozart Symphony No 36 (Linz) Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No 1 (final version) Dvořaacutek Symphony No 8
Ilyich Rivas conductor | Dmitry Mayboroda piano
Part of Rachmaninoff Inside Out
Wednesday 15 April 2015 | 730pmBeethoven Piano Concerto No 4Bruckner Symphony No 4 (Romantic) (Nowak Edition)
Robin Ticciati conductor Menahem Pressler piano
Tickets pound9ndashpound39 (premium seats pound65)
London Philharmonic Orchestra Ticket Office020 7840 4242 MondayndashFriday 1000amndash500pm lpoorguk Transaction fees pound175 online pound275 telephone
12 | London Philharmonic Orchestra
Radio 3 Live In ConcertListen to the best live performances from across the UK every evening at 730pm
in dimensions
Discover classical music
bbccoukradio3
BBC_Radio3_dimensions_ad_175x247mm_BWindd 1 02102014 1447
London Philharmonic Orchestra | 13
The Elgar Birthplace Museum Exploring the life and music of Englandrsquos great composer
Set in the beautiful countryside of Worcestershire is the museum
dedicated to the life and times of Englandrsquos great composer
Sir Edward Elgar
1 Free Entry to the Museum with this programme when accompanied by a full paying adult
Lower Broadheath Worcester tel 01905 33224
birthplaceelgarmuseumorg
Open every day 11am - 5pm
Available from lpoorgukrecordings the LPO Ticket Office (020 7840 4242) and all good CD outlets
Available to download or stream online via iTunes Spotify Amazon and others
Symphony No 4 Ryan Wigglesworth conductor
Symphony No 8 Vladimir Jurowski conductor
London Philharmonic Orchestra
LPO-0082
Available on the LPO Label Vaughan Williams Symphonies Nos 4 amp 8
lsquoFirst-rate playing from the London Philharmonic Orchestra with a fine warm bloom to the soundrsquo Financial Times (Symphony No 4)
Recommended recordings of tonightrsquos worksElgar Introduction and Allegro London Philharmonic Orchestra | Sir Adrian Boult [EMI 5665402]
Ireland Piano Concerto Piers Lane | Ulster Orchestra | David Lloyd-Jones [Hyperion CDA67296]
Eileen Joyce | London Philharmonic Orchestra | Sir Adrian Boult [LPO-0041]
Walton Symphony No 1 London Philharmonic Orchestra | Sir Charles Mackerras [Classics for Pleasure 75569]
14 | London Philharmonic Orchestra
We would like to acknowledge the generous support of the following Thomas Beecham Group Patrons Principal Benefactors and Benefactors
Thomas Beecham Group
The Tsukanov Family Foundation
Neil Westreich
William and Alex de Winton Simon Robey Victoria Robey OBEJulian amp Gill Simmonds
Anonymous Garf amp Gill CollinsAndrew Davenport Mrs Sonja DrexlerDavid amp Victoria Graham Fuller Mrs Philip KanMr amp Mrs MakharinskyGeoff amp Meg MannCaroline Jamie amp Zander SharpEric Tomsett
John amp Manon Antoniazzi John amp Angela Kessler Guy amp Utti Whittaker
BrightSparks patrons Instead of supporting a chair in the Orchestra these donors have chosen to support our series of schoolsrsquo concerts
Principal BenefactorsMark amp Elizabeth AdamsDesmond amp Ruth CecilMr John H CookDavid EllenMr Daniel Goldstein Drs Frank amp Gek LimPeter MacDonald Eggers Dr Eva Lotta amp Mr Thierry Sciard Mr amp Mrs David MalpasMr Michael PosenMr amp Mrs G SteinMr amp Mrs John C TuckerMr amp Mrs John amp Susi Underwood Lady Marina Vaizey Laurence Watt Grenville amp Krysia Williams Mr Anthony Yolland
BenefactorsMrs A Beare David amp Patricia BuckMrs Alan CarringtonMr amp Mrs Stewart CohenMr Alistair Corbett Georgy Djaparidze Mr David Edgecombe Mr Timothy Fancourt QCMr Richard FernyhoughTony amp Susan Hayes Michael amp Christine HenryMalcolm Herring J Douglas HomeIvan Hurry
Mr Glenn HurstfieldPer JonssonMr Gerald LevinWg Cdr amp Mrs M T Liddiard OBE JP RAFPaul amp Brigitta Lock Mr Peter MaceMs Ulrike Mansel Robert MarkwickMr Brian Marsh Andrew T MillsJohn Montgomery Dr Karen Morton Mr amp Mrs Andrew Neill Tom amp Phillis SharpeMartin and Cheryl Southgate Professor John StuddMr Peter TausigMrs Kazue Turner Simon Turner Howard amp Sheelagh Watson Des amp Maggie WhitelockChristopher WilliamsBill Yoe and others who wish to remain
anonymous
Hon BenefactorElliott Bernerd
Hon Life MembersKenneth Goode Carol Colburn Grigor CBE Pehr G GyllenhammarMrs Jackie Rosenfeld OBE
The generosity of our Sponsors Corporate Members supporters and donors is gratefully acknowledgedCorporate Members
Silver AREVA UK BerenbergBritish American BusinessCarter-Ruck
Bronze Appleyard amp Trew LLP BTO Management Consulting AG Charles Russell SpeechlysLeventis Overseas
Preferred Partners Corinthia Hotel London Heineken Lindt amp Spruumlngli LtdSipsmith Steinway Villa Maria In-kind SponsorsGoogle IncSela Tilleyrsquos Sweets
Trusts and Foundations Angus Allnatt Charitable Foundation Ambache Charitable Trust Ruth Berkowitz Charitable Trust The Boltini Trust
Borletti-Buitoni TrustBritten-Pears Foundation The Candide Trust The Peter Carr Charitable Trust in memory
of Peter CarrThe Ernest Cook TrustThe Coutts Charitable TrustThe DrsquoOyly Carte Charitable TrustDunard FundThe Equitable Charitable Trust Fidelio Charitable TrustThe Foyle FoundationLucille Graham TrustThe Jeniffer and Jonathan Harris
Charitable TrustHelp Musicians UK The Hinrichsen Foundation The Hobson Charity The Idlewild Trust Kirby Laing Foundation The Leche Trust London Stock Exchange Group FoundationMarsh Christian TrustThe Mayor of Londonrsquos Fund for Young
MusiciansAdam Mickiewicz Institute The Peter Minet TrustThe Ann and Frederick OrsquoBrien
Charitable Trust
Office for Cultural and Scientific Affairs ofthe Embassy of Spain in London
Palazzetto Bru Zane ndash Centre de musiqueromantique franccedilaise
The Austin and Hope Pilkington Trust Polish Cultural Institute in London PRS for Music FoundationThe Radcliffe TrustRivers Foundation The R K Charitable TrustSerge Rachmaninoff Foundation Romanian Cultural Institute Schroder Charity Trust Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation The David Solomons Charitable Trust The Steel Charitable TrustThe John Thaw FoundationThe Tillett Trust UK Friends of the Felix-Mendelssohn-
Bartholdy-Foundation The Viney FamilyGarfield Weston FoundationThe Barbara Whatmore Charitable TrustYouth Music and others who wish to remain anonymous
London Philharmonic Orchestra | 15
SOUND FUTURES DONORS
We are grateful to the following donors for their generous contributions to Sound Futures which will establish our first ever endowment Donations from those below have already been matched pound for pound by Arts Council England through a Catalyst Endowment grant
By May 2015 we aim to have raised pound1 million which when matched will create a pound2 million fund supporting our Education and Community Programme our creative programming and major artistic projects at Southbank Centre
We thank those who are helping us to realise the vision
Masur CircleArts Council EnglandDunard Fund Victoria Robey OBE Emmanuel amp Barrie RomanThe Underwood Trust
Welser-Moumlst CircleWilliam amp Alex de WintonJohn Ireland Charitable Trust The Tsukanov Family FoundationNeil Westreich
Tennstedt CircleRichard Buxton Simon Robey Simon amp Vero Turner The late Mr K Twyman
Solti PatronsAgeas John amp Manon Antoniazzi Georgy DjaparidzeMrs Mina Goodman and
Miss Suzanne GoodmanMr James R D KornerRobert Markwick amp Kasia RobinskiThe Rothschild Foundation
Haitink PatronsMark amp Elizabeth AdamsMrs Pauline BaumgartnerLady Jane BerrillMr Frederick BrittendenDavid amp Yi Yao BuckleyGill amp Garf CollinsMr John H CookBruno de KegelMr Gavin GrahamMoya GreeneTony and Susie Hayes
Catherine Hoslashgel amp Ben MardleMrs Philip Kan Rose and Dudley LeighLady Roslyn Marion LyonsMiss Jeanette MartinDiana and Allan Morgenthau
Charitable TrustDr Karen MortonRuth RattenburyThe Reed Foundation Sir Bernard RixDavid Ross and Line Forestier (Canada)Carolina amp Martin SchwabTom and Phillis SharpeDr Brian SmithMr amp Mrs G SteinDr Peter Stephenson Miss Anne StoddartTFS Loans LimitedLady Marina VaizeyMs Jenny WatsonGuy amp Utti Whittaker
Pritchard DonorsRalph and Elizabeth AldwinckleMichael and Linda BlackstoneConrad Blakey OBEDr Anthony BucklandBusiness Events SydneyLady June ChichesterJohn Childress amp Christiane WuillamieLindka CierachPaul CollinsMr Alistair CorbettDavid DennisMr David EdgecombeDavid EllenMr Timothy Fancourt QCKarima amp David GMr Daniel Goldstein
Mr Derek B GrayMr Roger GreenwoodRebecca Halford HarrisonMr J Douglas HomeHoneymead Arts TrustMrs Dawn HooperRehmet Kassim-LakhaMr Geoffrey KirkhamPeter LeaverDrs Frank amp Gek LimPeter MaceMr David MacfarlaneGeoff amp Meg MannMarsh Christian TrustDr David McGibneyMichael amp Patricia McLaren-TurnerJohn MontgomeryRosemary MorganGail MutruxParis NatarMr Roger H C PattisonThe late Edmund PirouetMr Michael PosenSarah amp John PriestlandMr Christopher QuereeMr Peter RussellMr Alan SainerTim SlorickLady Valerie SoltiTimothy Walker AMLaurence WattMr R WattsDes amp Maggie WhitelockChristopher WilliamsPeter Wilson SmithVictoria YanakovaMr Anthony Yolland
And all other donors who wish to remain anonymous
16 | London Philharmonic Orchestra
Administration
Board of DirectorsVictoria Robey OBE Chairman Stewart McIlwham President Gareth Newman Vice-PresidentDr Manon Antoniazzi Richard Brass Desmond Cecil CMG Vesselin Gellev Jonathan Harris CBE FRICS Dr Catherine C HoslashgelMartin Houmlhmann George Peniston Kevin Rundell Julian SimmondsMark TempletonNatasha TsukanovaTimothy Walker AM Laurence WattNeil Westreich
Player-Director
Advisory CouncilVictoria Robey OBE Chairman Christopher Aldren Richard Brass David Buckley Sir Alan Collins KCVO CMG Andrew Davenport Jonathan Dawson William de Winton Edward Dolman Christopher Fraser OBE Lord Hall of Birkenhead CBE Jamie Korner Clive Marks OBE FCA Stewart McIlwham Sir Bernard Rix Baroness ShackletonLord Sharman of Redlynch OBE Thomas Sharpe QC Martin SouthgateSir Philip Thomas Sir John TooleyChris VineyTimothy Walker AMElizabeth Winter
American Friends of the London Philharmonic Orchestra IncJenny Ireland Co-ChairmanWilliam A Kerr Co-ChairmanKyung-Wha ChungAlexandra JupinDr Felisa B KaplanJill Fine MainelliKristina McPhee Dr Joseph MulvehillHarvey M Spear EsqDanny Lopez Hon ChairmanNoel Kilkenny Hon DirectorVictoria Robey OBE Hon DirectorRichard Gee Esq Of Counsel Jenifer L Keiser CPA
EisnerAmper LLP
Chief Executive
Timothy Walker AM Chief Executive and Artistic Director
Amy SugarmanPA to the Chief Executive Administrative Assistant
Finance
David BurkeGeneral Manager and Finance Director
David GreensladeFinance and IT Manager
Dayse GuilhermeFinance Officer
Concert Management
Roanna Gibson Concerts Director
Graham WoodConcerts and Recordings Manager
Jenny Chadwick Tours Manager
Tamzin Aitken Glyndebourne and UK Engagements Manager
Alison JonesConcerts and Recordings Co-ordinator
Jo CotterTours Co-ordinator Orchestra Personnel
Andrew CheneryOrchestra Personnel Manager
Sarah Holmes Sarah ThomasLibrarians ( job-share)
Christopher AldertonStage Manager
Damian Davis Transport Manager
Ellie Swithinbank Assistant Orchestra Personnel Manager
Education and Community
Isabella Kernot Education Director
Alexandra ClarkeEducation and Community Project Manager
Lucy DuffyEducation and Community Project Manager
Richard MallettEducation and Community Producer
Development
Nick JackmanDevelopment Director
Catherine Faulkner Development Events Manager
Kathryn HagemanIndividual Giving Manager
Laura Luckhurst Corporate Relations Manager
Anna Quillin Trusts and Foundations Manager
Helen Etheridge Development Assistant
Rebecca FoggDevelopment Assistant
Kirstin PeltonenDevelopment Associate
Marketing
Kath TroutMarketing Director
Mia RobertsMarketing Manager
Rachel WilliamsPublications Manager (maternity leave)
Sarah BreedenPublications Manager (maternity cover)
Samantha CleverleyBox Office Manager(Tel 020 7840 4242)
Libby Northcote-GreenMarketing Co-ordinator
Digital Projects
Alison Atkinson Digital Projects Director
Matthew Freeman Recordings Consultant Public Relations
Albion Media (Tel 020 3077 4930) Archives
Philip StuartDiscographer
Gillian Pole Recordings Archive Professional Services
Charles RussellSolicitors
Crowe Clark Whitehill LLPAuditors
Dr Louise MillerHonorary Doctor
London Philharmonic Orchestra89 Albert Embankment London SE1 7TPTel 020 7840 4200Box Office 020 7840 4242Email adminlpoorguklpoorguk
The London Philharmonic Orchestra Limited is a registered charity No 238045
Composer photographs of Elgar and Walton courtesy of the Royal College of Music London Ireland photographs courtesy of The John Ireland Charitable Trust Front cover photograph Martin Hobbs horn copy Julian Calverley Cover design art direction Chaos Design
Printed by Cantate
12 | London Philharmonic Orchestra
Radio 3 Live In ConcertListen to the best live performances from across the UK every evening at 730pm
in dimensions
Discover classical music
bbccoukradio3
BBC_Radio3_dimensions_ad_175x247mm_BWindd 1 02102014 1447
London Philharmonic Orchestra | 13
The Elgar Birthplace Museum Exploring the life and music of Englandrsquos great composer
Set in the beautiful countryside of Worcestershire is the museum
dedicated to the life and times of Englandrsquos great composer
Sir Edward Elgar
1 Free Entry to the Museum with this programme when accompanied by a full paying adult
Lower Broadheath Worcester tel 01905 33224
birthplaceelgarmuseumorg
Open every day 11am - 5pm
Available from lpoorgukrecordings the LPO Ticket Office (020 7840 4242) and all good CD outlets
Available to download or stream online via iTunes Spotify Amazon and others
Symphony No 4 Ryan Wigglesworth conductor
Symphony No 8 Vladimir Jurowski conductor
London Philharmonic Orchestra
LPO-0082
Available on the LPO Label Vaughan Williams Symphonies Nos 4 amp 8
lsquoFirst-rate playing from the London Philharmonic Orchestra with a fine warm bloom to the soundrsquo Financial Times (Symphony No 4)
Recommended recordings of tonightrsquos worksElgar Introduction and Allegro London Philharmonic Orchestra | Sir Adrian Boult [EMI 5665402]
Ireland Piano Concerto Piers Lane | Ulster Orchestra | David Lloyd-Jones [Hyperion CDA67296]
Eileen Joyce | London Philharmonic Orchestra | Sir Adrian Boult [LPO-0041]
Walton Symphony No 1 London Philharmonic Orchestra | Sir Charles Mackerras [Classics for Pleasure 75569]
14 | London Philharmonic Orchestra
We would like to acknowledge the generous support of the following Thomas Beecham Group Patrons Principal Benefactors and Benefactors
Thomas Beecham Group
The Tsukanov Family Foundation
Neil Westreich
William and Alex de Winton Simon Robey Victoria Robey OBEJulian amp Gill Simmonds
Anonymous Garf amp Gill CollinsAndrew Davenport Mrs Sonja DrexlerDavid amp Victoria Graham Fuller Mrs Philip KanMr amp Mrs MakharinskyGeoff amp Meg MannCaroline Jamie amp Zander SharpEric Tomsett
John amp Manon Antoniazzi John amp Angela Kessler Guy amp Utti Whittaker
BrightSparks patrons Instead of supporting a chair in the Orchestra these donors have chosen to support our series of schoolsrsquo concerts
Principal BenefactorsMark amp Elizabeth AdamsDesmond amp Ruth CecilMr John H CookDavid EllenMr Daniel Goldstein Drs Frank amp Gek LimPeter MacDonald Eggers Dr Eva Lotta amp Mr Thierry Sciard Mr amp Mrs David MalpasMr Michael PosenMr amp Mrs G SteinMr amp Mrs John C TuckerMr amp Mrs John amp Susi Underwood Lady Marina Vaizey Laurence Watt Grenville amp Krysia Williams Mr Anthony Yolland
BenefactorsMrs A Beare David amp Patricia BuckMrs Alan CarringtonMr amp Mrs Stewart CohenMr Alistair Corbett Georgy Djaparidze Mr David Edgecombe Mr Timothy Fancourt QCMr Richard FernyhoughTony amp Susan Hayes Michael amp Christine HenryMalcolm Herring J Douglas HomeIvan Hurry
Mr Glenn HurstfieldPer JonssonMr Gerald LevinWg Cdr amp Mrs M T Liddiard OBE JP RAFPaul amp Brigitta Lock Mr Peter MaceMs Ulrike Mansel Robert MarkwickMr Brian Marsh Andrew T MillsJohn Montgomery Dr Karen Morton Mr amp Mrs Andrew Neill Tom amp Phillis SharpeMartin and Cheryl Southgate Professor John StuddMr Peter TausigMrs Kazue Turner Simon Turner Howard amp Sheelagh Watson Des amp Maggie WhitelockChristopher WilliamsBill Yoe and others who wish to remain
anonymous
Hon BenefactorElliott Bernerd
Hon Life MembersKenneth Goode Carol Colburn Grigor CBE Pehr G GyllenhammarMrs Jackie Rosenfeld OBE
The generosity of our Sponsors Corporate Members supporters and donors is gratefully acknowledgedCorporate Members
Silver AREVA UK BerenbergBritish American BusinessCarter-Ruck
Bronze Appleyard amp Trew LLP BTO Management Consulting AG Charles Russell SpeechlysLeventis Overseas
Preferred Partners Corinthia Hotel London Heineken Lindt amp Spruumlngli LtdSipsmith Steinway Villa Maria In-kind SponsorsGoogle IncSela Tilleyrsquos Sweets
Trusts and Foundations Angus Allnatt Charitable Foundation Ambache Charitable Trust Ruth Berkowitz Charitable Trust The Boltini Trust
Borletti-Buitoni TrustBritten-Pears Foundation The Candide Trust The Peter Carr Charitable Trust in memory
of Peter CarrThe Ernest Cook TrustThe Coutts Charitable TrustThe DrsquoOyly Carte Charitable TrustDunard FundThe Equitable Charitable Trust Fidelio Charitable TrustThe Foyle FoundationLucille Graham TrustThe Jeniffer and Jonathan Harris
Charitable TrustHelp Musicians UK The Hinrichsen Foundation The Hobson Charity The Idlewild Trust Kirby Laing Foundation The Leche Trust London Stock Exchange Group FoundationMarsh Christian TrustThe Mayor of Londonrsquos Fund for Young
MusiciansAdam Mickiewicz Institute The Peter Minet TrustThe Ann and Frederick OrsquoBrien
Charitable Trust
Office for Cultural and Scientific Affairs ofthe Embassy of Spain in London
Palazzetto Bru Zane ndash Centre de musiqueromantique franccedilaise
The Austin and Hope Pilkington Trust Polish Cultural Institute in London PRS for Music FoundationThe Radcliffe TrustRivers Foundation The R K Charitable TrustSerge Rachmaninoff Foundation Romanian Cultural Institute Schroder Charity Trust Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation The David Solomons Charitable Trust The Steel Charitable TrustThe John Thaw FoundationThe Tillett Trust UK Friends of the Felix-Mendelssohn-
Bartholdy-Foundation The Viney FamilyGarfield Weston FoundationThe Barbara Whatmore Charitable TrustYouth Music and others who wish to remain anonymous
London Philharmonic Orchestra | 15
SOUND FUTURES DONORS
We are grateful to the following donors for their generous contributions to Sound Futures which will establish our first ever endowment Donations from those below have already been matched pound for pound by Arts Council England through a Catalyst Endowment grant
By May 2015 we aim to have raised pound1 million which when matched will create a pound2 million fund supporting our Education and Community Programme our creative programming and major artistic projects at Southbank Centre
We thank those who are helping us to realise the vision
Masur CircleArts Council EnglandDunard Fund Victoria Robey OBE Emmanuel amp Barrie RomanThe Underwood Trust
Welser-Moumlst CircleWilliam amp Alex de WintonJohn Ireland Charitable Trust The Tsukanov Family FoundationNeil Westreich
Tennstedt CircleRichard Buxton Simon Robey Simon amp Vero Turner The late Mr K Twyman
Solti PatronsAgeas John amp Manon Antoniazzi Georgy DjaparidzeMrs Mina Goodman and
Miss Suzanne GoodmanMr James R D KornerRobert Markwick amp Kasia RobinskiThe Rothschild Foundation
Haitink PatronsMark amp Elizabeth AdamsMrs Pauline BaumgartnerLady Jane BerrillMr Frederick BrittendenDavid amp Yi Yao BuckleyGill amp Garf CollinsMr John H CookBruno de KegelMr Gavin GrahamMoya GreeneTony and Susie Hayes
Catherine Hoslashgel amp Ben MardleMrs Philip Kan Rose and Dudley LeighLady Roslyn Marion LyonsMiss Jeanette MartinDiana and Allan Morgenthau
Charitable TrustDr Karen MortonRuth RattenburyThe Reed Foundation Sir Bernard RixDavid Ross and Line Forestier (Canada)Carolina amp Martin SchwabTom and Phillis SharpeDr Brian SmithMr amp Mrs G SteinDr Peter Stephenson Miss Anne StoddartTFS Loans LimitedLady Marina VaizeyMs Jenny WatsonGuy amp Utti Whittaker
Pritchard DonorsRalph and Elizabeth AldwinckleMichael and Linda BlackstoneConrad Blakey OBEDr Anthony BucklandBusiness Events SydneyLady June ChichesterJohn Childress amp Christiane WuillamieLindka CierachPaul CollinsMr Alistair CorbettDavid DennisMr David EdgecombeDavid EllenMr Timothy Fancourt QCKarima amp David GMr Daniel Goldstein
Mr Derek B GrayMr Roger GreenwoodRebecca Halford HarrisonMr J Douglas HomeHoneymead Arts TrustMrs Dawn HooperRehmet Kassim-LakhaMr Geoffrey KirkhamPeter LeaverDrs Frank amp Gek LimPeter MaceMr David MacfarlaneGeoff amp Meg MannMarsh Christian TrustDr David McGibneyMichael amp Patricia McLaren-TurnerJohn MontgomeryRosemary MorganGail MutruxParis NatarMr Roger H C PattisonThe late Edmund PirouetMr Michael PosenSarah amp John PriestlandMr Christopher QuereeMr Peter RussellMr Alan SainerTim SlorickLady Valerie SoltiTimothy Walker AMLaurence WattMr R WattsDes amp Maggie WhitelockChristopher WilliamsPeter Wilson SmithVictoria YanakovaMr Anthony Yolland
And all other donors who wish to remain anonymous
16 | London Philharmonic Orchestra
Administration
Board of DirectorsVictoria Robey OBE Chairman Stewart McIlwham President Gareth Newman Vice-PresidentDr Manon Antoniazzi Richard Brass Desmond Cecil CMG Vesselin Gellev Jonathan Harris CBE FRICS Dr Catherine C HoslashgelMartin Houmlhmann George Peniston Kevin Rundell Julian SimmondsMark TempletonNatasha TsukanovaTimothy Walker AM Laurence WattNeil Westreich
Player-Director
Advisory CouncilVictoria Robey OBE Chairman Christopher Aldren Richard Brass David Buckley Sir Alan Collins KCVO CMG Andrew Davenport Jonathan Dawson William de Winton Edward Dolman Christopher Fraser OBE Lord Hall of Birkenhead CBE Jamie Korner Clive Marks OBE FCA Stewart McIlwham Sir Bernard Rix Baroness ShackletonLord Sharman of Redlynch OBE Thomas Sharpe QC Martin SouthgateSir Philip Thomas Sir John TooleyChris VineyTimothy Walker AMElizabeth Winter
American Friends of the London Philharmonic Orchestra IncJenny Ireland Co-ChairmanWilliam A Kerr Co-ChairmanKyung-Wha ChungAlexandra JupinDr Felisa B KaplanJill Fine MainelliKristina McPhee Dr Joseph MulvehillHarvey M Spear EsqDanny Lopez Hon ChairmanNoel Kilkenny Hon DirectorVictoria Robey OBE Hon DirectorRichard Gee Esq Of Counsel Jenifer L Keiser CPA
EisnerAmper LLP
Chief Executive
Timothy Walker AM Chief Executive and Artistic Director
Amy SugarmanPA to the Chief Executive Administrative Assistant
Finance
David BurkeGeneral Manager and Finance Director
David GreensladeFinance and IT Manager
Dayse GuilhermeFinance Officer
Concert Management
Roanna Gibson Concerts Director
Graham WoodConcerts and Recordings Manager
Jenny Chadwick Tours Manager
Tamzin Aitken Glyndebourne and UK Engagements Manager
Alison JonesConcerts and Recordings Co-ordinator
Jo CotterTours Co-ordinator Orchestra Personnel
Andrew CheneryOrchestra Personnel Manager
Sarah Holmes Sarah ThomasLibrarians ( job-share)
Christopher AldertonStage Manager
Damian Davis Transport Manager
Ellie Swithinbank Assistant Orchestra Personnel Manager
Education and Community
Isabella Kernot Education Director
Alexandra ClarkeEducation and Community Project Manager
Lucy DuffyEducation and Community Project Manager
Richard MallettEducation and Community Producer
Development
Nick JackmanDevelopment Director
Catherine Faulkner Development Events Manager
Kathryn HagemanIndividual Giving Manager
Laura Luckhurst Corporate Relations Manager
Anna Quillin Trusts and Foundations Manager
Helen Etheridge Development Assistant
Rebecca FoggDevelopment Assistant
Kirstin PeltonenDevelopment Associate
Marketing
Kath TroutMarketing Director
Mia RobertsMarketing Manager
Rachel WilliamsPublications Manager (maternity leave)
Sarah BreedenPublications Manager (maternity cover)
Samantha CleverleyBox Office Manager(Tel 020 7840 4242)
Libby Northcote-GreenMarketing Co-ordinator
Digital Projects
Alison Atkinson Digital Projects Director
Matthew Freeman Recordings Consultant Public Relations
Albion Media (Tel 020 3077 4930) Archives
Philip StuartDiscographer
Gillian Pole Recordings Archive Professional Services
Charles RussellSolicitors
Crowe Clark Whitehill LLPAuditors
Dr Louise MillerHonorary Doctor
London Philharmonic Orchestra89 Albert Embankment London SE1 7TPTel 020 7840 4200Box Office 020 7840 4242Email adminlpoorguklpoorguk
The London Philharmonic Orchestra Limited is a registered charity No 238045
Composer photographs of Elgar and Walton courtesy of the Royal College of Music London Ireland photographs courtesy of The John Ireland Charitable Trust Front cover photograph Martin Hobbs horn copy Julian Calverley Cover design art direction Chaos Design
Printed by Cantate
London Philharmonic Orchestra | 13
The Elgar Birthplace Museum Exploring the life and music of Englandrsquos great composer
Set in the beautiful countryside of Worcestershire is the museum
dedicated to the life and times of Englandrsquos great composer
Sir Edward Elgar
1 Free Entry to the Museum with this programme when accompanied by a full paying adult
Lower Broadheath Worcester tel 01905 33224
birthplaceelgarmuseumorg
Open every day 11am - 5pm
Available from lpoorgukrecordings the LPO Ticket Office (020 7840 4242) and all good CD outlets
Available to download or stream online via iTunes Spotify Amazon and others
Symphony No 4 Ryan Wigglesworth conductor
Symphony No 8 Vladimir Jurowski conductor
London Philharmonic Orchestra
LPO-0082
Available on the LPO Label Vaughan Williams Symphonies Nos 4 amp 8
lsquoFirst-rate playing from the London Philharmonic Orchestra with a fine warm bloom to the soundrsquo Financial Times (Symphony No 4)
Recommended recordings of tonightrsquos worksElgar Introduction and Allegro London Philharmonic Orchestra | Sir Adrian Boult [EMI 5665402]
Ireland Piano Concerto Piers Lane | Ulster Orchestra | David Lloyd-Jones [Hyperion CDA67296]
Eileen Joyce | London Philharmonic Orchestra | Sir Adrian Boult [LPO-0041]
Walton Symphony No 1 London Philharmonic Orchestra | Sir Charles Mackerras [Classics for Pleasure 75569]
14 | London Philharmonic Orchestra
We would like to acknowledge the generous support of the following Thomas Beecham Group Patrons Principal Benefactors and Benefactors
Thomas Beecham Group
The Tsukanov Family Foundation
Neil Westreich
William and Alex de Winton Simon Robey Victoria Robey OBEJulian amp Gill Simmonds
Anonymous Garf amp Gill CollinsAndrew Davenport Mrs Sonja DrexlerDavid amp Victoria Graham Fuller Mrs Philip KanMr amp Mrs MakharinskyGeoff amp Meg MannCaroline Jamie amp Zander SharpEric Tomsett
John amp Manon Antoniazzi John amp Angela Kessler Guy amp Utti Whittaker
BrightSparks patrons Instead of supporting a chair in the Orchestra these donors have chosen to support our series of schoolsrsquo concerts
Principal BenefactorsMark amp Elizabeth AdamsDesmond amp Ruth CecilMr John H CookDavid EllenMr Daniel Goldstein Drs Frank amp Gek LimPeter MacDonald Eggers Dr Eva Lotta amp Mr Thierry Sciard Mr amp Mrs David MalpasMr Michael PosenMr amp Mrs G SteinMr amp Mrs John C TuckerMr amp Mrs John amp Susi Underwood Lady Marina Vaizey Laurence Watt Grenville amp Krysia Williams Mr Anthony Yolland
BenefactorsMrs A Beare David amp Patricia BuckMrs Alan CarringtonMr amp Mrs Stewart CohenMr Alistair Corbett Georgy Djaparidze Mr David Edgecombe Mr Timothy Fancourt QCMr Richard FernyhoughTony amp Susan Hayes Michael amp Christine HenryMalcolm Herring J Douglas HomeIvan Hurry
Mr Glenn HurstfieldPer JonssonMr Gerald LevinWg Cdr amp Mrs M T Liddiard OBE JP RAFPaul amp Brigitta Lock Mr Peter MaceMs Ulrike Mansel Robert MarkwickMr Brian Marsh Andrew T MillsJohn Montgomery Dr Karen Morton Mr amp Mrs Andrew Neill Tom amp Phillis SharpeMartin and Cheryl Southgate Professor John StuddMr Peter TausigMrs Kazue Turner Simon Turner Howard amp Sheelagh Watson Des amp Maggie WhitelockChristopher WilliamsBill Yoe and others who wish to remain
anonymous
Hon BenefactorElliott Bernerd
Hon Life MembersKenneth Goode Carol Colburn Grigor CBE Pehr G GyllenhammarMrs Jackie Rosenfeld OBE
The generosity of our Sponsors Corporate Members supporters and donors is gratefully acknowledgedCorporate Members
Silver AREVA UK BerenbergBritish American BusinessCarter-Ruck
Bronze Appleyard amp Trew LLP BTO Management Consulting AG Charles Russell SpeechlysLeventis Overseas
Preferred Partners Corinthia Hotel London Heineken Lindt amp Spruumlngli LtdSipsmith Steinway Villa Maria In-kind SponsorsGoogle IncSela Tilleyrsquos Sweets
Trusts and Foundations Angus Allnatt Charitable Foundation Ambache Charitable Trust Ruth Berkowitz Charitable Trust The Boltini Trust
Borletti-Buitoni TrustBritten-Pears Foundation The Candide Trust The Peter Carr Charitable Trust in memory
of Peter CarrThe Ernest Cook TrustThe Coutts Charitable TrustThe DrsquoOyly Carte Charitable TrustDunard FundThe Equitable Charitable Trust Fidelio Charitable TrustThe Foyle FoundationLucille Graham TrustThe Jeniffer and Jonathan Harris
Charitable TrustHelp Musicians UK The Hinrichsen Foundation The Hobson Charity The Idlewild Trust Kirby Laing Foundation The Leche Trust London Stock Exchange Group FoundationMarsh Christian TrustThe Mayor of Londonrsquos Fund for Young
MusiciansAdam Mickiewicz Institute The Peter Minet TrustThe Ann and Frederick OrsquoBrien
Charitable Trust
Office for Cultural and Scientific Affairs ofthe Embassy of Spain in London
Palazzetto Bru Zane ndash Centre de musiqueromantique franccedilaise
The Austin and Hope Pilkington Trust Polish Cultural Institute in London PRS for Music FoundationThe Radcliffe TrustRivers Foundation The R K Charitable TrustSerge Rachmaninoff Foundation Romanian Cultural Institute Schroder Charity Trust Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation The David Solomons Charitable Trust The Steel Charitable TrustThe John Thaw FoundationThe Tillett Trust UK Friends of the Felix-Mendelssohn-
Bartholdy-Foundation The Viney FamilyGarfield Weston FoundationThe Barbara Whatmore Charitable TrustYouth Music and others who wish to remain anonymous
London Philharmonic Orchestra | 15
SOUND FUTURES DONORS
We are grateful to the following donors for their generous contributions to Sound Futures which will establish our first ever endowment Donations from those below have already been matched pound for pound by Arts Council England through a Catalyst Endowment grant
By May 2015 we aim to have raised pound1 million which when matched will create a pound2 million fund supporting our Education and Community Programme our creative programming and major artistic projects at Southbank Centre
We thank those who are helping us to realise the vision
Masur CircleArts Council EnglandDunard Fund Victoria Robey OBE Emmanuel amp Barrie RomanThe Underwood Trust
Welser-Moumlst CircleWilliam amp Alex de WintonJohn Ireland Charitable Trust The Tsukanov Family FoundationNeil Westreich
Tennstedt CircleRichard Buxton Simon Robey Simon amp Vero Turner The late Mr K Twyman
Solti PatronsAgeas John amp Manon Antoniazzi Georgy DjaparidzeMrs Mina Goodman and
Miss Suzanne GoodmanMr James R D KornerRobert Markwick amp Kasia RobinskiThe Rothschild Foundation
Haitink PatronsMark amp Elizabeth AdamsMrs Pauline BaumgartnerLady Jane BerrillMr Frederick BrittendenDavid amp Yi Yao BuckleyGill amp Garf CollinsMr John H CookBruno de KegelMr Gavin GrahamMoya GreeneTony and Susie Hayes
Catherine Hoslashgel amp Ben MardleMrs Philip Kan Rose and Dudley LeighLady Roslyn Marion LyonsMiss Jeanette MartinDiana and Allan Morgenthau
Charitable TrustDr Karen MortonRuth RattenburyThe Reed Foundation Sir Bernard RixDavid Ross and Line Forestier (Canada)Carolina amp Martin SchwabTom and Phillis SharpeDr Brian SmithMr amp Mrs G SteinDr Peter Stephenson Miss Anne StoddartTFS Loans LimitedLady Marina VaizeyMs Jenny WatsonGuy amp Utti Whittaker
Pritchard DonorsRalph and Elizabeth AldwinckleMichael and Linda BlackstoneConrad Blakey OBEDr Anthony BucklandBusiness Events SydneyLady June ChichesterJohn Childress amp Christiane WuillamieLindka CierachPaul CollinsMr Alistair CorbettDavid DennisMr David EdgecombeDavid EllenMr Timothy Fancourt QCKarima amp David GMr Daniel Goldstein
Mr Derek B GrayMr Roger GreenwoodRebecca Halford HarrisonMr J Douglas HomeHoneymead Arts TrustMrs Dawn HooperRehmet Kassim-LakhaMr Geoffrey KirkhamPeter LeaverDrs Frank amp Gek LimPeter MaceMr David MacfarlaneGeoff amp Meg MannMarsh Christian TrustDr David McGibneyMichael amp Patricia McLaren-TurnerJohn MontgomeryRosemary MorganGail MutruxParis NatarMr Roger H C PattisonThe late Edmund PirouetMr Michael PosenSarah amp John PriestlandMr Christopher QuereeMr Peter RussellMr Alan SainerTim SlorickLady Valerie SoltiTimothy Walker AMLaurence WattMr R WattsDes amp Maggie WhitelockChristopher WilliamsPeter Wilson SmithVictoria YanakovaMr Anthony Yolland
And all other donors who wish to remain anonymous
16 | London Philharmonic Orchestra
Administration
Board of DirectorsVictoria Robey OBE Chairman Stewart McIlwham President Gareth Newman Vice-PresidentDr Manon Antoniazzi Richard Brass Desmond Cecil CMG Vesselin Gellev Jonathan Harris CBE FRICS Dr Catherine C HoslashgelMartin Houmlhmann George Peniston Kevin Rundell Julian SimmondsMark TempletonNatasha TsukanovaTimothy Walker AM Laurence WattNeil Westreich
Player-Director
Advisory CouncilVictoria Robey OBE Chairman Christopher Aldren Richard Brass David Buckley Sir Alan Collins KCVO CMG Andrew Davenport Jonathan Dawson William de Winton Edward Dolman Christopher Fraser OBE Lord Hall of Birkenhead CBE Jamie Korner Clive Marks OBE FCA Stewart McIlwham Sir Bernard Rix Baroness ShackletonLord Sharman of Redlynch OBE Thomas Sharpe QC Martin SouthgateSir Philip Thomas Sir John TooleyChris VineyTimothy Walker AMElizabeth Winter
American Friends of the London Philharmonic Orchestra IncJenny Ireland Co-ChairmanWilliam A Kerr Co-ChairmanKyung-Wha ChungAlexandra JupinDr Felisa B KaplanJill Fine MainelliKristina McPhee Dr Joseph MulvehillHarvey M Spear EsqDanny Lopez Hon ChairmanNoel Kilkenny Hon DirectorVictoria Robey OBE Hon DirectorRichard Gee Esq Of Counsel Jenifer L Keiser CPA
EisnerAmper LLP
Chief Executive
Timothy Walker AM Chief Executive and Artistic Director
Amy SugarmanPA to the Chief Executive Administrative Assistant
Finance
David BurkeGeneral Manager and Finance Director
David GreensladeFinance and IT Manager
Dayse GuilhermeFinance Officer
Concert Management
Roanna Gibson Concerts Director
Graham WoodConcerts and Recordings Manager
Jenny Chadwick Tours Manager
Tamzin Aitken Glyndebourne and UK Engagements Manager
Alison JonesConcerts and Recordings Co-ordinator
Jo CotterTours Co-ordinator Orchestra Personnel
Andrew CheneryOrchestra Personnel Manager
Sarah Holmes Sarah ThomasLibrarians ( job-share)
Christopher AldertonStage Manager
Damian Davis Transport Manager
Ellie Swithinbank Assistant Orchestra Personnel Manager
Education and Community
Isabella Kernot Education Director
Alexandra ClarkeEducation and Community Project Manager
Lucy DuffyEducation and Community Project Manager
Richard MallettEducation and Community Producer
Development
Nick JackmanDevelopment Director
Catherine Faulkner Development Events Manager
Kathryn HagemanIndividual Giving Manager
Laura Luckhurst Corporate Relations Manager
Anna Quillin Trusts and Foundations Manager
Helen Etheridge Development Assistant
Rebecca FoggDevelopment Assistant
Kirstin PeltonenDevelopment Associate
Marketing
Kath TroutMarketing Director
Mia RobertsMarketing Manager
Rachel WilliamsPublications Manager (maternity leave)
Sarah BreedenPublications Manager (maternity cover)
Samantha CleverleyBox Office Manager(Tel 020 7840 4242)
Libby Northcote-GreenMarketing Co-ordinator
Digital Projects
Alison Atkinson Digital Projects Director
Matthew Freeman Recordings Consultant Public Relations
Albion Media (Tel 020 3077 4930) Archives
Philip StuartDiscographer
Gillian Pole Recordings Archive Professional Services
Charles RussellSolicitors
Crowe Clark Whitehill LLPAuditors
Dr Louise MillerHonorary Doctor
London Philharmonic Orchestra89 Albert Embankment London SE1 7TPTel 020 7840 4200Box Office 020 7840 4242Email adminlpoorguklpoorguk
The London Philharmonic Orchestra Limited is a registered charity No 238045
Composer photographs of Elgar and Walton courtesy of the Royal College of Music London Ireland photographs courtesy of The John Ireland Charitable Trust Front cover photograph Martin Hobbs horn copy Julian Calverley Cover design art direction Chaos Design
Printed by Cantate
14 | London Philharmonic Orchestra
We would like to acknowledge the generous support of the following Thomas Beecham Group Patrons Principal Benefactors and Benefactors
Thomas Beecham Group
The Tsukanov Family Foundation
Neil Westreich
William and Alex de Winton Simon Robey Victoria Robey OBEJulian amp Gill Simmonds
Anonymous Garf amp Gill CollinsAndrew Davenport Mrs Sonja DrexlerDavid amp Victoria Graham Fuller Mrs Philip KanMr amp Mrs MakharinskyGeoff amp Meg MannCaroline Jamie amp Zander SharpEric Tomsett
John amp Manon Antoniazzi John amp Angela Kessler Guy amp Utti Whittaker
BrightSparks patrons Instead of supporting a chair in the Orchestra these donors have chosen to support our series of schoolsrsquo concerts
Principal BenefactorsMark amp Elizabeth AdamsDesmond amp Ruth CecilMr John H CookDavid EllenMr Daniel Goldstein Drs Frank amp Gek LimPeter MacDonald Eggers Dr Eva Lotta amp Mr Thierry Sciard Mr amp Mrs David MalpasMr Michael PosenMr amp Mrs G SteinMr amp Mrs John C TuckerMr amp Mrs John amp Susi Underwood Lady Marina Vaizey Laurence Watt Grenville amp Krysia Williams Mr Anthony Yolland
BenefactorsMrs A Beare David amp Patricia BuckMrs Alan CarringtonMr amp Mrs Stewart CohenMr Alistair Corbett Georgy Djaparidze Mr David Edgecombe Mr Timothy Fancourt QCMr Richard FernyhoughTony amp Susan Hayes Michael amp Christine HenryMalcolm Herring J Douglas HomeIvan Hurry
Mr Glenn HurstfieldPer JonssonMr Gerald LevinWg Cdr amp Mrs M T Liddiard OBE JP RAFPaul amp Brigitta Lock Mr Peter MaceMs Ulrike Mansel Robert MarkwickMr Brian Marsh Andrew T MillsJohn Montgomery Dr Karen Morton Mr amp Mrs Andrew Neill Tom amp Phillis SharpeMartin and Cheryl Southgate Professor John StuddMr Peter TausigMrs Kazue Turner Simon Turner Howard amp Sheelagh Watson Des amp Maggie WhitelockChristopher WilliamsBill Yoe and others who wish to remain
anonymous
Hon BenefactorElliott Bernerd
Hon Life MembersKenneth Goode Carol Colburn Grigor CBE Pehr G GyllenhammarMrs Jackie Rosenfeld OBE
The generosity of our Sponsors Corporate Members supporters and donors is gratefully acknowledgedCorporate Members
Silver AREVA UK BerenbergBritish American BusinessCarter-Ruck
Bronze Appleyard amp Trew LLP BTO Management Consulting AG Charles Russell SpeechlysLeventis Overseas
Preferred Partners Corinthia Hotel London Heineken Lindt amp Spruumlngli LtdSipsmith Steinway Villa Maria In-kind SponsorsGoogle IncSela Tilleyrsquos Sweets
Trusts and Foundations Angus Allnatt Charitable Foundation Ambache Charitable Trust Ruth Berkowitz Charitable Trust The Boltini Trust
Borletti-Buitoni TrustBritten-Pears Foundation The Candide Trust The Peter Carr Charitable Trust in memory
of Peter CarrThe Ernest Cook TrustThe Coutts Charitable TrustThe DrsquoOyly Carte Charitable TrustDunard FundThe Equitable Charitable Trust Fidelio Charitable TrustThe Foyle FoundationLucille Graham TrustThe Jeniffer and Jonathan Harris
Charitable TrustHelp Musicians UK The Hinrichsen Foundation The Hobson Charity The Idlewild Trust Kirby Laing Foundation The Leche Trust London Stock Exchange Group FoundationMarsh Christian TrustThe Mayor of Londonrsquos Fund for Young
MusiciansAdam Mickiewicz Institute The Peter Minet TrustThe Ann and Frederick OrsquoBrien
Charitable Trust
Office for Cultural and Scientific Affairs ofthe Embassy of Spain in London
Palazzetto Bru Zane ndash Centre de musiqueromantique franccedilaise
The Austin and Hope Pilkington Trust Polish Cultural Institute in London PRS for Music FoundationThe Radcliffe TrustRivers Foundation The R K Charitable TrustSerge Rachmaninoff Foundation Romanian Cultural Institute Schroder Charity Trust Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation The David Solomons Charitable Trust The Steel Charitable TrustThe John Thaw FoundationThe Tillett Trust UK Friends of the Felix-Mendelssohn-
Bartholdy-Foundation The Viney FamilyGarfield Weston FoundationThe Barbara Whatmore Charitable TrustYouth Music and others who wish to remain anonymous
London Philharmonic Orchestra | 15
SOUND FUTURES DONORS
We are grateful to the following donors for their generous contributions to Sound Futures which will establish our first ever endowment Donations from those below have already been matched pound for pound by Arts Council England through a Catalyst Endowment grant
By May 2015 we aim to have raised pound1 million which when matched will create a pound2 million fund supporting our Education and Community Programme our creative programming and major artistic projects at Southbank Centre
We thank those who are helping us to realise the vision
Masur CircleArts Council EnglandDunard Fund Victoria Robey OBE Emmanuel amp Barrie RomanThe Underwood Trust
Welser-Moumlst CircleWilliam amp Alex de WintonJohn Ireland Charitable Trust The Tsukanov Family FoundationNeil Westreich
Tennstedt CircleRichard Buxton Simon Robey Simon amp Vero Turner The late Mr K Twyman
Solti PatronsAgeas John amp Manon Antoniazzi Georgy DjaparidzeMrs Mina Goodman and
Miss Suzanne GoodmanMr James R D KornerRobert Markwick amp Kasia RobinskiThe Rothschild Foundation
Haitink PatronsMark amp Elizabeth AdamsMrs Pauline BaumgartnerLady Jane BerrillMr Frederick BrittendenDavid amp Yi Yao BuckleyGill amp Garf CollinsMr John H CookBruno de KegelMr Gavin GrahamMoya GreeneTony and Susie Hayes
Catherine Hoslashgel amp Ben MardleMrs Philip Kan Rose and Dudley LeighLady Roslyn Marion LyonsMiss Jeanette MartinDiana and Allan Morgenthau
Charitable TrustDr Karen MortonRuth RattenburyThe Reed Foundation Sir Bernard RixDavid Ross and Line Forestier (Canada)Carolina amp Martin SchwabTom and Phillis SharpeDr Brian SmithMr amp Mrs G SteinDr Peter Stephenson Miss Anne StoddartTFS Loans LimitedLady Marina VaizeyMs Jenny WatsonGuy amp Utti Whittaker
Pritchard DonorsRalph and Elizabeth AldwinckleMichael and Linda BlackstoneConrad Blakey OBEDr Anthony BucklandBusiness Events SydneyLady June ChichesterJohn Childress amp Christiane WuillamieLindka CierachPaul CollinsMr Alistair CorbettDavid DennisMr David EdgecombeDavid EllenMr Timothy Fancourt QCKarima amp David GMr Daniel Goldstein
Mr Derek B GrayMr Roger GreenwoodRebecca Halford HarrisonMr J Douglas HomeHoneymead Arts TrustMrs Dawn HooperRehmet Kassim-LakhaMr Geoffrey KirkhamPeter LeaverDrs Frank amp Gek LimPeter MaceMr David MacfarlaneGeoff amp Meg MannMarsh Christian TrustDr David McGibneyMichael amp Patricia McLaren-TurnerJohn MontgomeryRosemary MorganGail MutruxParis NatarMr Roger H C PattisonThe late Edmund PirouetMr Michael PosenSarah amp John PriestlandMr Christopher QuereeMr Peter RussellMr Alan SainerTim SlorickLady Valerie SoltiTimothy Walker AMLaurence WattMr R WattsDes amp Maggie WhitelockChristopher WilliamsPeter Wilson SmithVictoria YanakovaMr Anthony Yolland
And all other donors who wish to remain anonymous
16 | London Philharmonic Orchestra
Administration
Board of DirectorsVictoria Robey OBE Chairman Stewart McIlwham President Gareth Newman Vice-PresidentDr Manon Antoniazzi Richard Brass Desmond Cecil CMG Vesselin Gellev Jonathan Harris CBE FRICS Dr Catherine C HoslashgelMartin Houmlhmann George Peniston Kevin Rundell Julian SimmondsMark TempletonNatasha TsukanovaTimothy Walker AM Laurence WattNeil Westreich
Player-Director
Advisory CouncilVictoria Robey OBE Chairman Christopher Aldren Richard Brass David Buckley Sir Alan Collins KCVO CMG Andrew Davenport Jonathan Dawson William de Winton Edward Dolman Christopher Fraser OBE Lord Hall of Birkenhead CBE Jamie Korner Clive Marks OBE FCA Stewart McIlwham Sir Bernard Rix Baroness ShackletonLord Sharman of Redlynch OBE Thomas Sharpe QC Martin SouthgateSir Philip Thomas Sir John TooleyChris VineyTimothy Walker AMElizabeth Winter
American Friends of the London Philharmonic Orchestra IncJenny Ireland Co-ChairmanWilliam A Kerr Co-ChairmanKyung-Wha ChungAlexandra JupinDr Felisa B KaplanJill Fine MainelliKristina McPhee Dr Joseph MulvehillHarvey M Spear EsqDanny Lopez Hon ChairmanNoel Kilkenny Hon DirectorVictoria Robey OBE Hon DirectorRichard Gee Esq Of Counsel Jenifer L Keiser CPA
EisnerAmper LLP
Chief Executive
Timothy Walker AM Chief Executive and Artistic Director
Amy SugarmanPA to the Chief Executive Administrative Assistant
Finance
David BurkeGeneral Manager and Finance Director
David GreensladeFinance and IT Manager
Dayse GuilhermeFinance Officer
Concert Management
Roanna Gibson Concerts Director
Graham WoodConcerts and Recordings Manager
Jenny Chadwick Tours Manager
Tamzin Aitken Glyndebourne and UK Engagements Manager
Alison JonesConcerts and Recordings Co-ordinator
Jo CotterTours Co-ordinator Orchestra Personnel
Andrew CheneryOrchestra Personnel Manager
Sarah Holmes Sarah ThomasLibrarians ( job-share)
Christopher AldertonStage Manager
Damian Davis Transport Manager
Ellie Swithinbank Assistant Orchestra Personnel Manager
Education and Community
Isabella Kernot Education Director
Alexandra ClarkeEducation and Community Project Manager
Lucy DuffyEducation and Community Project Manager
Richard MallettEducation and Community Producer
Development
Nick JackmanDevelopment Director
Catherine Faulkner Development Events Manager
Kathryn HagemanIndividual Giving Manager
Laura Luckhurst Corporate Relations Manager
Anna Quillin Trusts and Foundations Manager
Helen Etheridge Development Assistant
Rebecca FoggDevelopment Assistant
Kirstin PeltonenDevelopment Associate
Marketing
Kath TroutMarketing Director
Mia RobertsMarketing Manager
Rachel WilliamsPublications Manager (maternity leave)
Sarah BreedenPublications Manager (maternity cover)
Samantha CleverleyBox Office Manager(Tel 020 7840 4242)
Libby Northcote-GreenMarketing Co-ordinator
Digital Projects
Alison Atkinson Digital Projects Director
Matthew Freeman Recordings Consultant Public Relations
Albion Media (Tel 020 3077 4930) Archives
Philip StuartDiscographer
Gillian Pole Recordings Archive Professional Services
Charles RussellSolicitors
Crowe Clark Whitehill LLPAuditors
Dr Louise MillerHonorary Doctor
London Philharmonic Orchestra89 Albert Embankment London SE1 7TPTel 020 7840 4200Box Office 020 7840 4242Email adminlpoorguklpoorguk
The London Philharmonic Orchestra Limited is a registered charity No 238045
Composer photographs of Elgar and Walton courtesy of the Royal College of Music London Ireland photographs courtesy of The John Ireland Charitable Trust Front cover photograph Martin Hobbs horn copy Julian Calverley Cover design art direction Chaos Design
Printed by Cantate
London Philharmonic Orchestra | 15
SOUND FUTURES DONORS
We are grateful to the following donors for their generous contributions to Sound Futures which will establish our first ever endowment Donations from those below have already been matched pound for pound by Arts Council England through a Catalyst Endowment grant
By May 2015 we aim to have raised pound1 million which when matched will create a pound2 million fund supporting our Education and Community Programme our creative programming and major artistic projects at Southbank Centre
We thank those who are helping us to realise the vision
Masur CircleArts Council EnglandDunard Fund Victoria Robey OBE Emmanuel amp Barrie RomanThe Underwood Trust
Welser-Moumlst CircleWilliam amp Alex de WintonJohn Ireland Charitable Trust The Tsukanov Family FoundationNeil Westreich
Tennstedt CircleRichard Buxton Simon Robey Simon amp Vero Turner The late Mr K Twyman
Solti PatronsAgeas John amp Manon Antoniazzi Georgy DjaparidzeMrs Mina Goodman and
Miss Suzanne GoodmanMr James R D KornerRobert Markwick amp Kasia RobinskiThe Rothschild Foundation
Haitink PatronsMark amp Elizabeth AdamsMrs Pauline BaumgartnerLady Jane BerrillMr Frederick BrittendenDavid amp Yi Yao BuckleyGill amp Garf CollinsMr John H CookBruno de KegelMr Gavin GrahamMoya GreeneTony and Susie Hayes
Catherine Hoslashgel amp Ben MardleMrs Philip Kan Rose and Dudley LeighLady Roslyn Marion LyonsMiss Jeanette MartinDiana and Allan Morgenthau
Charitable TrustDr Karen MortonRuth RattenburyThe Reed Foundation Sir Bernard RixDavid Ross and Line Forestier (Canada)Carolina amp Martin SchwabTom and Phillis SharpeDr Brian SmithMr amp Mrs G SteinDr Peter Stephenson Miss Anne StoddartTFS Loans LimitedLady Marina VaizeyMs Jenny WatsonGuy amp Utti Whittaker
Pritchard DonorsRalph and Elizabeth AldwinckleMichael and Linda BlackstoneConrad Blakey OBEDr Anthony BucklandBusiness Events SydneyLady June ChichesterJohn Childress amp Christiane WuillamieLindka CierachPaul CollinsMr Alistair CorbettDavid DennisMr David EdgecombeDavid EllenMr Timothy Fancourt QCKarima amp David GMr Daniel Goldstein
Mr Derek B GrayMr Roger GreenwoodRebecca Halford HarrisonMr J Douglas HomeHoneymead Arts TrustMrs Dawn HooperRehmet Kassim-LakhaMr Geoffrey KirkhamPeter LeaverDrs Frank amp Gek LimPeter MaceMr David MacfarlaneGeoff amp Meg MannMarsh Christian TrustDr David McGibneyMichael amp Patricia McLaren-TurnerJohn MontgomeryRosemary MorganGail MutruxParis NatarMr Roger H C PattisonThe late Edmund PirouetMr Michael PosenSarah amp John PriestlandMr Christopher QuereeMr Peter RussellMr Alan SainerTim SlorickLady Valerie SoltiTimothy Walker AMLaurence WattMr R WattsDes amp Maggie WhitelockChristopher WilliamsPeter Wilson SmithVictoria YanakovaMr Anthony Yolland
And all other donors who wish to remain anonymous
16 | London Philharmonic Orchestra
Administration
Board of DirectorsVictoria Robey OBE Chairman Stewart McIlwham President Gareth Newman Vice-PresidentDr Manon Antoniazzi Richard Brass Desmond Cecil CMG Vesselin Gellev Jonathan Harris CBE FRICS Dr Catherine C HoslashgelMartin Houmlhmann George Peniston Kevin Rundell Julian SimmondsMark TempletonNatasha TsukanovaTimothy Walker AM Laurence WattNeil Westreich
Player-Director
Advisory CouncilVictoria Robey OBE Chairman Christopher Aldren Richard Brass David Buckley Sir Alan Collins KCVO CMG Andrew Davenport Jonathan Dawson William de Winton Edward Dolman Christopher Fraser OBE Lord Hall of Birkenhead CBE Jamie Korner Clive Marks OBE FCA Stewart McIlwham Sir Bernard Rix Baroness ShackletonLord Sharman of Redlynch OBE Thomas Sharpe QC Martin SouthgateSir Philip Thomas Sir John TooleyChris VineyTimothy Walker AMElizabeth Winter
American Friends of the London Philharmonic Orchestra IncJenny Ireland Co-ChairmanWilliam A Kerr Co-ChairmanKyung-Wha ChungAlexandra JupinDr Felisa B KaplanJill Fine MainelliKristina McPhee Dr Joseph MulvehillHarvey M Spear EsqDanny Lopez Hon ChairmanNoel Kilkenny Hon DirectorVictoria Robey OBE Hon DirectorRichard Gee Esq Of Counsel Jenifer L Keiser CPA
EisnerAmper LLP
Chief Executive
Timothy Walker AM Chief Executive and Artistic Director
Amy SugarmanPA to the Chief Executive Administrative Assistant
Finance
David BurkeGeneral Manager and Finance Director
David GreensladeFinance and IT Manager
Dayse GuilhermeFinance Officer
Concert Management
Roanna Gibson Concerts Director
Graham WoodConcerts and Recordings Manager
Jenny Chadwick Tours Manager
Tamzin Aitken Glyndebourne and UK Engagements Manager
Alison JonesConcerts and Recordings Co-ordinator
Jo CotterTours Co-ordinator Orchestra Personnel
Andrew CheneryOrchestra Personnel Manager
Sarah Holmes Sarah ThomasLibrarians ( job-share)
Christopher AldertonStage Manager
Damian Davis Transport Manager
Ellie Swithinbank Assistant Orchestra Personnel Manager
Education and Community
Isabella Kernot Education Director
Alexandra ClarkeEducation and Community Project Manager
Lucy DuffyEducation and Community Project Manager
Richard MallettEducation and Community Producer
Development
Nick JackmanDevelopment Director
Catherine Faulkner Development Events Manager
Kathryn HagemanIndividual Giving Manager
Laura Luckhurst Corporate Relations Manager
Anna Quillin Trusts and Foundations Manager
Helen Etheridge Development Assistant
Rebecca FoggDevelopment Assistant
Kirstin PeltonenDevelopment Associate
Marketing
Kath TroutMarketing Director
Mia RobertsMarketing Manager
Rachel WilliamsPublications Manager (maternity leave)
Sarah BreedenPublications Manager (maternity cover)
Samantha CleverleyBox Office Manager(Tel 020 7840 4242)
Libby Northcote-GreenMarketing Co-ordinator
Digital Projects
Alison Atkinson Digital Projects Director
Matthew Freeman Recordings Consultant Public Relations
Albion Media (Tel 020 3077 4930) Archives
Philip StuartDiscographer
Gillian Pole Recordings Archive Professional Services
Charles RussellSolicitors
Crowe Clark Whitehill LLPAuditors
Dr Louise MillerHonorary Doctor
London Philharmonic Orchestra89 Albert Embankment London SE1 7TPTel 020 7840 4200Box Office 020 7840 4242Email adminlpoorguklpoorguk
The London Philharmonic Orchestra Limited is a registered charity No 238045
Composer photographs of Elgar and Walton courtesy of the Royal College of Music London Ireland photographs courtesy of The John Ireland Charitable Trust Front cover photograph Martin Hobbs horn copy Julian Calverley Cover design art direction Chaos Design
Printed by Cantate
16 | London Philharmonic Orchestra
Administration
Board of DirectorsVictoria Robey OBE Chairman Stewart McIlwham President Gareth Newman Vice-PresidentDr Manon Antoniazzi Richard Brass Desmond Cecil CMG Vesselin Gellev Jonathan Harris CBE FRICS Dr Catherine C HoslashgelMartin Houmlhmann George Peniston Kevin Rundell Julian SimmondsMark TempletonNatasha TsukanovaTimothy Walker AM Laurence WattNeil Westreich
Player-Director
Advisory CouncilVictoria Robey OBE Chairman Christopher Aldren Richard Brass David Buckley Sir Alan Collins KCVO CMG Andrew Davenport Jonathan Dawson William de Winton Edward Dolman Christopher Fraser OBE Lord Hall of Birkenhead CBE Jamie Korner Clive Marks OBE FCA Stewart McIlwham Sir Bernard Rix Baroness ShackletonLord Sharman of Redlynch OBE Thomas Sharpe QC Martin SouthgateSir Philip Thomas Sir John TooleyChris VineyTimothy Walker AMElizabeth Winter
American Friends of the London Philharmonic Orchestra IncJenny Ireland Co-ChairmanWilliam A Kerr Co-ChairmanKyung-Wha ChungAlexandra JupinDr Felisa B KaplanJill Fine MainelliKristina McPhee Dr Joseph MulvehillHarvey M Spear EsqDanny Lopez Hon ChairmanNoel Kilkenny Hon DirectorVictoria Robey OBE Hon DirectorRichard Gee Esq Of Counsel Jenifer L Keiser CPA
EisnerAmper LLP
Chief Executive
Timothy Walker AM Chief Executive and Artistic Director
Amy SugarmanPA to the Chief Executive Administrative Assistant
Finance
David BurkeGeneral Manager and Finance Director
David GreensladeFinance and IT Manager
Dayse GuilhermeFinance Officer
Concert Management
Roanna Gibson Concerts Director
Graham WoodConcerts and Recordings Manager
Jenny Chadwick Tours Manager
Tamzin Aitken Glyndebourne and UK Engagements Manager
Alison JonesConcerts and Recordings Co-ordinator
Jo CotterTours Co-ordinator Orchestra Personnel
Andrew CheneryOrchestra Personnel Manager
Sarah Holmes Sarah ThomasLibrarians ( job-share)
Christopher AldertonStage Manager
Damian Davis Transport Manager
Ellie Swithinbank Assistant Orchestra Personnel Manager
Education and Community
Isabella Kernot Education Director
Alexandra ClarkeEducation and Community Project Manager
Lucy DuffyEducation and Community Project Manager
Richard MallettEducation and Community Producer
Development
Nick JackmanDevelopment Director
Catherine Faulkner Development Events Manager
Kathryn HagemanIndividual Giving Manager
Laura Luckhurst Corporate Relations Manager
Anna Quillin Trusts and Foundations Manager
Helen Etheridge Development Assistant
Rebecca FoggDevelopment Assistant
Kirstin PeltonenDevelopment Associate
Marketing
Kath TroutMarketing Director
Mia RobertsMarketing Manager
Rachel WilliamsPublications Manager (maternity leave)
Sarah BreedenPublications Manager (maternity cover)
Samantha CleverleyBox Office Manager(Tel 020 7840 4242)
Libby Northcote-GreenMarketing Co-ordinator
Digital Projects
Alison Atkinson Digital Projects Director
Matthew Freeman Recordings Consultant Public Relations
Albion Media (Tel 020 3077 4930) Archives
Philip StuartDiscographer
Gillian Pole Recordings Archive Professional Services
Charles RussellSolicitors
Crowe Clark Whitehill LLPAuditors
Dr Louise MillerHonorary Doctor
London Philharmonic Orchestra89 Albert Embankment London SE1 7TPTel 020 7840 4200Box Office 020 7840 4242Email adminlpoorguklpoorguk
The London Philharmonic Orchestra Limited is a registered charity No 238045
Composer photographs of Elgar and Walton courtesy of the Royal College of Music London Ireland photographs courtesy of The John Ireland Charitable Trust Front cover photograph Martin Hobbs horn copy Julian Calverley Cover design art direction Chaos Design
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