LPO programme 4 Mar 2026 - LPO programme 4 Mar 2026 - Tchaikovsky & Sibelius
Principal Conductor Edward Gardner supported by Aud Jebsen
Principal Guest Conductor Karina Canellakis supported by Richard Buxton
Conductor Emeritus Vladimir Jurowski KBE Patron HRH The Duke of Kent KG
Artistic Director Jesús Herrera Chief Executive David Burke
Leader Pieter Schoeman supported by Neil Westreich
Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall
Wednesday 4 March 2026 | 7.30pm
Tchaikovsky & Sibelius
Tchaikovsky
Piano Concerto No. 2 (49’)
Interval (20’)
Sibelius
Symphony No. 2 (45’)
Paavo Järvi conductor
Alexandre Kantorow piano
Tonight in 2 minutes
New to classical? Short on time? Your quick guide to tonight’s concert.
The vibe
Tchaikovsky & Sibelius
Tonight’s concert brings together two big musical works composed either side of 1900. The first is a piano concerto – for a soloist and orchestra – by Russian composer Tchaikovsky, built around virtuosity and drama. After the interval comes a symphony by Finnish composer Sibelius, infused with a sense of atmosphere and landscape, and driven by a strong feeling of building momentum and forward motion.
Paavo Järvi – conductor
Paavo Järvi is tonight’s guest conductor. He is Music Director of the Tonhalle Orchestra in Zürich (Switzerland), and is regularly invited to conduct other prestigious orchestras around the world. Later this week, he and the Orchestra will repeat the same programme on tour in Budapest and Athens. Music runs in Paavo’s family – his father, Neeme Järvi, is also an esteemed conductor, and his siblings Kristjan and Maarika are both professional musicians too.
Alexandre Kantorow – piano
Described by Gramophone magazine as ‘the real deal; a fire-breathing virtuoso’, French pianist Alexandre is still in his 20s, but has already won several major international prizes, marking him out as one of the world’s leading young pianists. Tonight is his first performance with the LPO – an exciting occasion! He joins the stage for the first piece in the concert, Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 2.
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Tonight there are over 80 LPO musicians on stage. Our musicians represent over 14 different nationalities, and many enjoy busy solo, chamber and teaching careers alongside their orchestral work. Turn to page 6 to see a full player list.
What to expect
Take your seats...
The Orchestra tune up their instruments, then the conductor, Paavo, enters the stage. Once the applause dies down, sit back and enjoy the music ...
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 2 with soloist Alexandre Kantorow
A concerto is a showpiece for a solo instrument accompanied by the orchestra. During the three movements, we’ll hear the piano unfurl long, sweeping melodies, sparkle through playful dance-like passages, and then surge into a bold, exhilarating finale. It’s a dazzling showpiece that pairs technical fireworks with a warm, romantic feel.
Interval 20 min
Jean Sibelius Symphony No. 2
Longer classical pieces are often made up of movements, or shorter sections. Applause is usually saved for after the final movement.
Maybe an encore! The soloist might play a little extra surprise piece, if the applause is loud enough!
Written by Finnish composer Jean Sibelius, this music carries a strong sense of the North – open landscapes, cool air, and a feeling of quiet strength. Across the 45-minute span of its four movements, we’ll hear ideas grow and gather momentum. The gentle, pastoral opening is followed by a brooding, windswept slow movement. The exhilarating third movement leads without a break into the triumphant finale, as the whole Orchestra surges forward together.
After the final piece, we applaud the performers. The conductor will acknowledge the Leader (chief First Violin), Pieter, and might highlight other players for particular appreciation and applause, with several rounds of bows bringing the evening to a celebratory close.
Want to read more? Turn to page 11 for a deeper dive into this evening’s pieces.
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After Dark with the LPO
Our ‘After Dark’ series is back at the Southbank Centre this spring, bringing relaxed late-night performances to the Queen Elizabeth foyer after selected concerts. Our ‘After Dark’ performances are free for main concert ticket-holders, or just £10 if you’re joining the fun on its own.
Our Saturday 21 March 6.30pm concert at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, ‘Four Seasons of Buenos Aires’, features BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing dancers Lauren Oakley and Kai Widdrington. We’re thrilled that Lauren and Kai will also join us afterwards for an ‘After Dark’ post-concert performance from 8.30pm in the QEH foyer. LPO string players will perform an intimate set of tango music, featuring more live dance from Lauren and Kai.
On Wednesday 15 April, following Saint-Saëns’s The Carnival of the Animals in our main 7.30pm concert at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, we celebrate ZSL’s 200th anniversary with a lively ‘After Dark’ performance by the Orchestra’s brass and percussion players. It opens with William Walton’s Roaring Fanfare, written 50 years ago for ZSL’s 150th anniversary. The players then embark on a lively sonic safari through Chris Hazell’s The Cats Suite, before raising a festive final toast with Goff Richards’s Homage to the Noble Grape Book now via lpo.org.uk/whatson
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London Philharmonic Orchestra
Uniquely groundbreaking and exhilarating to watch and hear, the London Philharmonic Orchestra has been celebrated as one of the world’s great orchestras since Sir Thomas Beecham founded it in 1932. Our mission is to share wonder with the modern world through the power of orchestral music, which we accomplish through live performances, online, and an extensive education and community programme, cementing our position as a leading orchestra for the 21st century.
Our home is at the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall, where we’re at the beating heart of London’s cultural life. You’ll also find us at our resident venues in Brighton, Eastbourne and Saffron Walden, and on tour worldwide. In 2024 we celebrated 60 years as Resident Symphony Orchestra at Glyndebourne Festival Opera, combining the magic of opera with Glyndebourne’s glorious setting in the Sussex countryside.
Soundtrack to key moments
Everyone will have heard the Grammy-nominated London Philharmonic Orchestra, whether it’s playing the world’s National Anthems for every medal ceremony of the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics, our iconic recording with Pavarotti that made Nessun Dorma a global football anthem, or closing the flotilla at The Queen’s Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant. And you’ll almost certainly have heard us on the soundtracks for major films including The Lord of the Rings
Sharing the wonder worldwide
We’re one of the world’s most-streamed orchestras, with over 15 million plays of our content each month. We’re the most followed UK orchestra on Instagram, the most followed orchestra globally on TikTok, and overall the third most followed globally across all social platforms. In 2024 we featured in a TV documentary series on Sky Arts: ‘Backstage with the London Philharmonic Orchestra’, which was nominated for a 2025 BAFTA. During 2025/26 we’re once again working with Marquee TV to broadcast selected live concerts to enjoy at home.
Our conductors
Our Principal Conductors have included great historic names like Sir Adrian Boult, Bernard Haitink, Klaus Tennstedt and Kurt Masur. In 2021 Edward Gardner became our 13th Principal Conductor, and Vladimir Jurowski became Conductor Emeritus. Karina Canellakis is our current Principal Guest Conductor, and Sir George Benjamin our Composer-in-Residence.
Next generations
We’re committed to nurturing the next generation of musicians and music-lovers: we love seeing the joy of children and families experiencing their first musical moments, and we’re passionate about inspiring schools and teachers through dedicated concerts, workshops, resources and training. Reflecting our values of
collaboration and inclusivity, our OrchLab and Open Sound Ensemble projects offer music-making opportunities for adults and young people with disabilities and special educational needs.
Today’s young instrumentalists are the orchestra members of the future, and we have a number of opportunities to support their progression. Our LPO Junior Artists programme leads the way in creating pathways into the profession for young artists from under-represented communities, and our LPO Young Composers and Foyle Future Firsts schemes support the next generation of professional musicians, bridging the transition from education to professional careers. We also recently launched the LPO Conducting Fellowship, supporting the development of outstanding early-career conductors from backgrounds underrepresented in the profession.
2025/26 season
This season’s theme, Harmony with Nature, explores humanity’s bond with the natural world through works by Beethoven, Sibelius, Mendelssohn, Elgar and Dvořák; masterpieces of an era that saw nature as a mirror of human emotion. Closer to our own time, we’ll hear from composers as diverse as Duke Ellington, John Luther Adams and Anna Thorvaldsdottir, who have all found a source of creative energy in the processes of nature.
Highlights with Principal Conductor Edward Gardner include symphonies by Tchaikovsky, Mahler, Brahms and Rachmaninov; a pair of concerts spotlighting 20th-century Central European composers; an evening dedicated to Elgar; and a performance of Berg’s Wozzeck to end the season. We’ll also welcome back Karina Canellakis and Vladimir Jurowski, as well as guest conductors including Robin Ticciati, Kirill Karabits, Mark Elder and Kahchun Wong. Our lineup of soloists this season includes violinists Anne-Sophie Mutter, Alina Ibragimova, James Ehnes and Himari; cellist Nicolas Altstaedt; and pianists Yefim Bronfman, Alexandre Kantorow and Tomoko Mukaiyama. The season features nine world and UK premieres, including Tan Dun’s choral ‘Ode to Peace’ Nine, and A Tale of God’s Will (A Requiem for Katrina) by jazz icon Terence Blanchard.
This season also sees tours to South Korea and across Europe, as well as a wide range of performances and community events in our Brighton, Eastbourne and Saffron Walden residencies.
Pieter Schoeman
Leader
Pieter Schoeman was appointed Leader of the London Philharmonic Orchestra in 2008, having previously been Co-Leader since 2002. He is also a Professor of Violin at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music & Dance.
Pieter has performed worldwide as a soloist and recitalist in such famous halls as the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Moscow’s Rachmaninoff Hall, Capella Hall in St Petersburg, Staatsbibliothek in Berlin, Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, and the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall. He has also appeared as Guest Leader with many prestigious orchestras across the world. As a chamber musician, he regularly appears at London’s prestigious Wigmore Hall. His chamber music partners have included Anne-Sophie Mutter, Veronika Eberle, Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Boris Garlitsky, Jean-Guihen Queyras, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Martin Helmchen and Julia Fischer.
Pieter has performed numerous times as a soloist with the LPO. Highlights have included an appearance as both conductor and soloist in Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, the Brahms Double Concerto with Kristina Blaumane, Florence Price’s Violin Concerto No. 2, and the Britten Double Concerto with Alexander Zemtsov, which was released on the LPO Label to great critical acclaim.
Pieter’s chair in the LPO is generously supported by Neil Westreich.
New video series: ‘Humans of the Orchestra’ Scan the QR code to watch our interview with Pieter
Chair supported by Irina Gofman & Mr Rodrik V. G. Cave
Minn Majoe
Chair supported by Dr Alex & Maria Chan
Thomas Eisner
Chair supported by Ryze Power
Katalin Varnagy
Yang Zhang
Nilufar Alimaksumova
Rasa Zukauskaite
Alison Strange
Daniel Pukach
Caroline Heard
Victoria Gill
Camille Buitenhuis
Second Violins
Tania Mazzetti Principal
Chair supported by The Candide Trust
Emma Oldfield Co-Principal
Claudia Tarrant-Matthews
Coco Inman
Kate Birchall
Nancy Elan
Nynke Hijlkema
Joseph Maher
Sophie Phillips
Chair supported by Friends of the Orchestra
Ashley Stevens
Sioni Williams
Ricky Gore
Emma Crossley
Eriko Nagayama
Violas
Nathan Braude
Guest Principal
Samuel Burstin
Laura Vallejo
Martin Wray
Chair supported by David & Bettina Harden
On stage tonight
James Heron
Shiry Rashkovsky
Jisu Song
Kate De Campos
Raquel López Bolívar
Toby Warr
Jill Valentine
Abby Bowen
Cellos
Kristina Blaumane Principal
Chair supported by Bianca & Stuart Roden
Henry Shapard Co-Principal
Waynne Kwon
Chair supported by an anonymous donor
David Lale
Leo Melvin
Iain Ward
Colin Alexander
Hee Yeon Cho
Rasmus Støier Andersen
Deni Teo
Double Basses
Kevin Rundell* Principal
Hugh Kluger
George Peniston
Laura Murphy
Chair supported by Ian Ferguson & Susan Tranter
Lowri Estell
Ben Havinden-Williams
Catherine Ricketts
Siret Lust
Flutes
Juliette Bausor Principal
Chair supported by Malcolm & Alison Thwaites
Stewart McIlwham*
Oboes
Ian Hardwick* Principal
Alice Munday
Chair supported by David & Yi
Buckley
Clarinets
Benjamin Mellefont* Principal
Chair supported by Sir Nigel Boardman & Prof. Lynda Gratton
Thomas Watmough
Chair supported by Roger Greenwood
Bassoons
Jonathan Davies* Principal
Chair supported by Sir Simon Robey
Helen Storey*
Horns
Annemarie Federle Principal
Chair supported by Victoria Robey CBE
Martin Hobbs
Mark Vines Co-Principal
Gareth Mollison
Elise Cambell
Trumpets
Paul Beniston* Principal Chair supported by the Williams family in memory of Grenville Williams
Tom Nielsen* Principal Anne McAneney*
Trombones
Mark Templeton* Principal Chair supported by William & Alex de Winton
David Whitehouse
Bass Trombone
Lyndon Meredith Principal
Tuba
Lee Tsarmaklis* Principal Chair supported by William & Alex de Winton
Timpani
Simon Carrington* Principal Chair supported by Victoria Robey CBE
*Professor at a London conservatoire
The LPO also acknowledges the following chair supporters whose players are not present at this concert:
Gill & Garf Collins
Dr Barry Grimaldi
Joe Topley & Tracey Countryman
Video series: Humans of the Orchestra
Have you seen our new video series? ‘Humans of the Orchestra’ gives LPO audiences and fans a chance to get to know the people behind the music – the personalities, stories and passions of our players.
So far, we’ve featured Leader Pieter Schoeman, Principal Cello Kristina Blaumane, Principal Trumpet Paul Beniston, Principal Tuba Lee Tsarmaklis and Principal
Bass Trombone Lyndon Meredith – with more to come very soon!
Watch on our YouTube channel by scanning the QR code, or visit youtube.com/ londonphilharmonic orchestra
Paavo Järvi
conductor
Estonian Grammy Award-winning conductor Paavo Järvi is widely recognised as one of today’s most eminent conductors, enjoying close partnerships with the finest orchestras around the world. He serves as Music Director of the Tonhalle Orchester-Zürich, as Artistic Director of the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, and as both the founder and Artistic Director of the Estonian Festival Orchestra.
Paavo Järvi first conducted the London Philharmonic Orchestra in 1998. Most recently, he led the Orchestra on tour in 2023, in London the following year, and on a tour of China in 2025. Following this evening’s concert, he and the Orchestra will repeat the programme in Budapest and Athens.
Highlights of Paavo Järvi’s seventh season as Music Director of the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich include the continuation of their Mahler symphony cycle, and a tribute to Swiss-French composer Arthur Honegger on the 70th anniversary of his death. Additional spotlights include performances with cellist Sol Gabetta and pianist Kirill Gerstein, as well as a year-long exploration of the music of Thomas Adès, this year’s Creative Chair. Alpha Classics released Mahler’s Symphony No. 1 in autumn 2025, coinciding with the start of a three-year guest residency at the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden and a Mahler tour which took them to the Vienna Musikverein and the Cologne and Paris Philharmonies. Further tours include appearances at the Gstaad Menuhin Festival and the George Enescu Festival in Bucharest, a guest performance at La Scala, Milan, and an extensive tour to Japan and South Korea in May 2026.
Now in his third decade as Artistic Director of the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Paavo Järvi has performed and recorded benchmark performances of the complete orchestral works of Beethoven, Schumann and Brahms with them on the RCA Red Seal label. Highlights in the 2025/26 season include the final release of Haydn’s ‘London’ symphonies, as well as recordings and performances of Schubert’s symphonies at home in Bremen and on tour across Europe.
In addition to his permanent positions, Paavo is much in demand as a guest conductor, regularly appearing with the Berlin Philharmonic, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and New York Philharmonic. This season, he also conducts the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Toronto Symphony, Gewandhaus Orchestra, NDR Elbphilharmonie, Philharmonia Orchestra, Luxembourg Philharmonic and Verbier Festival Orchestra. He also continues to enjoy close relationships with many of the orchestras of which he was previously Music Director, including the Orchestre de Paris, Frankfurt Radio Symphony and NHK Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo.
Recent accolades include Germany’s 2025 Opus Klassik ‘Composer of the Year’ Award for the Estonian Festival Orchestra’s recording of Jüri Reinvere’s Ship of Fools, and an International Classical Music Award for his recording of Bruckner’s Symphony No. 8 with the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, both on Alpha Classics. With the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, he won the 2024 Opus Klassik and 2023 Gramophone ‘Orchestra of the Year’ awards, as well as the 2019 Rheingau Music Prize and Opus Klassik ‘Conductor of the Year’. Other prizes and honours include a Grammy Award for his recording of Sibelius’s Cantatas with the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, and the Commandeur de L’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, awarded by the French Ministry of Culture. In 2015, he was also presented with the Sibelius Medal in recognition of his work in bringing the Finnish composer’s music to a wider public and, in 2012, he received the Hindemith Prize for Art and Humanity. As a dedicated supporter of Estonian culture, Paavo Järvi was awarded the Order of the White Star by the President of Estonia in 2013.
In 2019, aged 22, Alexandre Kantorow became the first French pianist to win the Gold Medal at the International Tchaikovsky Competition, along with the rarelyawarded Grand Prix, granted only three times in the competition’s history. In 2024, he was recognised once again when he received the esteemed Gilmore Artist Award, solidifying his place as one the world’s leading pianists. Gramophone magazine has described him as ‘the real deal, a fire-breathing virtuoso with a poetic charm and innate stylistic mastery’. He is in demand at the highest level across the globe, performing in the world’s finest halls both in recital and with the most renowned orchestras and conductors.
Tonight is his debut with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, and later this week he will join them and conductor Paavo Järvi on tour, performing the same programme in Budapest and Athens.
Other highlights of Alexandre’s 2025/26 season include a tour of Japan with the Concertgebouw Orchestra and Klaus Mäkelä, a European tour with the Filarmonica della Scala and Riccardo Chailly, a tour of Asia with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France and Jaap van Zweden, and a tour to the US with the Philharmonia Orchestra and Marin Alsop, including a performance at Carnegie Hall. He will also embark on a major recital tour of North America, make his debut with the San Francisco Symphony, and return to the Rotterdam Philharmonic and Bavarian Radio Symphony orchestras.
In recent seasons, Alexandre has performed with many of the world’s finest orchestras such as the New York Philharmonic, LA Philharmonic, Orchestre de Paris, Berlin Philharmonic, Munich Philharmonic and Budapest Festival orchestras, and with conductors including Esa-
Pekka Salonen, Manfred Honeck, Iván Fischer, Yannick Nézet-Séguin and Sir Antonio Pappano.
Alexandre Kantorow performs in recital regularly across the globe, in venues such as Carnegie Hall, the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, the Vienna Konzerthaus, London’s Wigmore Hall, Philharmonie de Paris, Tokyo’s Suntory Hall, and at festivals such as Edinburgh, Salzburg, La Roque d’Anthéron, Piano aux Jacobins, Verbier, Rheingau and Klavierfest Ruhr. Chamber music is one of his great pleasures, and he performs regularly with artists such as Janine Jansen, Renaud Capuçon, Gautier Capuçon and Matthias Goerne. With Liya Petrova and Aurélien Pascal, he is co-artistic director of the ‘Rencontres Musicales de Nîmes’ festival and the Pianopolis festival in Angers.
Alexandre Kantorow records exclusively for the BIS label. His recordings have received the highest critical acclaim worldwide, and most recently he was awarded a Gramophone Award for his Brahms and Schubert recording, featuring Brahms’s Piano Sonata No. 1 in C major, Op. 1, Schubert/Liszt song transcriptions, and Schubert’s Fantasy in C major. In 2024, he was awarded the title of Chevalier of the National Order of Merit by the French President of the Republic, having previously been made a Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters by the Minister of Culture. In July 2024, he performed Ravel’s Jeux d’eau at the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympic Games.
Alexandre Kantorow studied with Pierre-Alain Volondat, Igor Lazko, Frank Braley and Rena Shereshevskaya.
As Tchaikovsky approached the end of the 1870s, he was understandably keen to put memories of that turbulent decade behind him. The emotional fallout from his catastrophic attempt at marriage in 1877 had to some extent been worked through in the intense psychodramas of his opera Eugene Onegin and the Fourth Symphony (both 1877-78). Now, in the autumn of 1879, he opted for a period of rest and recuperation at his sister’s country house at Kamenka, about 350 miles southeast of Moscow.
It was a sound idea, but Tchaikovsky was soon restless and fretful. ‘I began to sense in my innermost heart a kind of indefinable dissatisfaction with myself which was beginning to turn into boredom’, he wrote. ‘I realised that what I lacked was work, and began to apply myself a little. Immediately the boredom went and I felt altogether lighter in spirit.’ What was now taking shape was a piano concerto, his second: ‘I will work without hurrying, straining or tiring myself in any way.’ In other words, composing the Second Piano Concerto was to be very different from the anxious ordeal so many of his earlier major works had demanded of him.
In character and conception, the Second Piano Concerto is a long way from the impassioned, barnstorming First. Where in the First Concerto the models were clearly the devilishly charismatic Franz Liszt, and to a lesser extent the romantic Russian nationalists, here we can see Tchaikovsky turning –as he often did when he felt the need to calm himself –
Programme notes
to Mozart. Not only is the orchestra smaller, more classical than in Piano Concerto No. 1 (no trombones), its relationship with the piano is subtler. The kind of dramatic contention developed by Beethoven – the soloist as heroic individual taking the elemental force of the orchestra – is replaced with a more intimate, classical kind of dialogue. Piano and orchestra are more inclined to share the musical ideas than to fight over them – at least until the tour de force finale, where the orchestra is largely happy to play a supporting role.
This was quite an unusual approach in a late-romantic piano concerto, and it caused a moment of slight friction with the Second Concerto’s dedicatee, the pianist-composer Nikolai Rubinstein. Rubinstein’s initially hostile response to the First Concerto had caused Tchaikovsky a lot of pain, though when Rubinstein took it up (shrewdly noting how popular it was becoming) Tchaikovsky graciously forgave him. As with the Concerto No. 1, Rubinstein apparently initially mistook strengths for weaknesses: ‘It seemed, at first sight, strange to me that the piano part is so episodic and mostly in dialogue with the orchestra, and not enough in the foreground … But as I say all this is having scarcely played the concerto once through,
perhaps I am wrong.’ Tchaikovsky stuck to his guns, and Rubinstein conceded. Alas, Rubinstein died before he had the chance to play it.
In fact, understanding and enjoying the Second Piano Concerto is only a problem if one expects it to be like the First. The long first movement, launched by a bright folksy theme with a Russian courtly swagger, certainly had its dramatic and brilliant moments, but the piano’s imposing solo that ends the first section turns, surprisingly, into confidential, tender poetry for the second theme. The contrast between these two kinds of music is compellingly developed, through the substantial solo cadenza and the following recapitulation, right through to the end. The gorgeous slow movement then brings another surprise: here solo violin and cello play such important parts that towards the climax this begins to sound more like a concerto for piano trio and orchestra – concertos with multiple soloists were much more a feature of Mozart’s Classical era than in the individualistic 19th century. The finale, however, is a gift for the soloist: a dashing, scintillating display piece, almost a perpetuum mobile, culminating in cascading arpeggios.
Interval – 20 minutes
An announcement will be made five minutes before the end of the interval.
Programme notes
Jean Sibelius
1865–1957
Symphony No. 2 1902
1. Allegretto
2. Tempo Andante, ma rubato
3. Vivacissimo – Lento e suave – Tempo primo – Lento e suave –
4. Finale: Allegro moderato
Sibelius once told his fellow composer Gustav Mahler that, for him, writing symphonies was about finding ‘the profound logic that establishes a connection between all the motifs’. True, no 20th-century composer is more profoundly logical than Sibelius at his best: following the development of a whole movement from a tiny thematic ‘germ’ can be like watching a speeded-up film of a plant growing from a seed to full flower. But it’s also clear that there is much more to a work like the Second Symphony than abstract development. In fact the slow second movement began life as a tone-poem about the final struggle between Don Juan and Death – it’s still possible to trace the outlines of the story in the music – while the triumphant emergence of the majestic Finale theme from the stormy ending of the third movement is much more than a clever piece of musical engineering.
For many of Sibelius’s fellow Finns, listening to the Symphony’s first performance in 1902, this passage in particular expressed the nation’s growing hope of independence after a century of Russian domination. In fact the Second Symphony soon came to be known as the ‘Symphony of Liberation’. For his part, Sibelius never completely confirmed or denied this interpretation, but it’s hard to believe that the fate of his oppressed but heroically defiant native country didn’t leave a deep imprint on this music – and especially on its blazingly positive conclusion.
In the first movement, profound logic and mounting optimism work hand in hand. The opening string chords
Programme notes
outline a three-note rising figure, moving upwards in simple steps. This is the seed from which almost everything in this music grows. But at first the growth is hesitant, broken by pauses and expectant silences. Eventually the pace and excitement mount, but this too seems to run out of steam, and a nervous oboe figure, with murmuring string accompaniment initiates a long, striving build up. At the height of this long crescendo, triumphant brass fanfares burst through, culminating in a grand restatement of the opening material, now without its earlier hesitancy. A brief recapitulation leads to a calmer coda, the opening rising string figures now falling to rest.
Eerie pizzicato (plucked) figures for basses and cellos, followed by a lugubrious bassoon solo, set a more sombre tone for the slow movement. In his sketches for the original Don Juan tone-poem, Sibelius drafted out a programme for this first section: ‘Sitting in the twilight in my castle. A stranger comes in. I ask him more than once who he is. Finally he strikes up a song. Then Don Juan sees who it is – Death.’ It’s not hard to match this closely to the music. The sense of struggle grows darker, more painful, but a warmer, major-key theme for full strings (labelled ‘Christus’ in the sketches) brings welcome contrast. In this movement it is the darker music – ‘Death’ according to Sibelius’s abandoned programme – that wins.
However that only makes the rushing vitality of the following Vivacissimo third movement all the more exhilarating. Twice this music is interrupted by a chantlike theme (led by oboe) in a slower tempo, but the second time this leads into a stormy transition, with scraps of a new theme heard first on bass instruments –Sibelius’s model here is clearly the thrilling Scherzo–Finale transition in Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony.
Eventually the clouds part, and the scraps fuse into the superbly confident Finale theme, striding forward in three beats to the bar. This movement too has its darker episodes – Sibelius’s widow revealed that the plaintive oboe theme (above murmuring low strings) was composed in memory of her sister, who committed suicide – Death in another guise. But eventually the Finale theme returns with renewed vigour. Finally the tempo broadens and trumpets extend the theme into a radiant song of victory.
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Our next Royal Festival Hall concert
Four Seasons of Buenos Aires
Saturday 21 March 2026, 6.30pm
Queen Elizabeth Hall Please note time & venue
John Luther Adams Become River
Clarice Assad Terra: Concerto for Bassoon and Orchestra (European premiere)
Piazzolla The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires (with live dance)
Pablo Rus Broseta conductor
Jonathan Davies bassoon*
Alice Ivy-Pemberton violin
Lauren Oakley & Kai Widdrington tango dancers
*LPO chair supported by Sir Simon Robey
Supported by Cockayne Grants for the Arts, a Donor Advised Fund, held at The Prism Charitable Trust.
Post-concert performance: After Dark – Tango Landscapes
8.30pm, Queen Elizabeth Hall Foyer
Members of the Orchestra take to the Queen Elizabeth Hall foyer for a selection of tango classics from Astor Piazzolla to Carlos Gardel, with a further appearance from dancers Kai Widdrington and Lauren Oakley to bring the dance to life.
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Sound Futures donors
We are grateful to the following donors for their generous contributions to our Sound Futures campaign. Thanks to their support, we successfully raised £1 million by 30 April 2015 which has now been matched pound for pound by Arts Council England through a Catalyst Endowment grant. This has enabled us to create a £2 million endowment fund supporting special artistic projects, creative programming and education work with key venue partners including our Southbank Centre home. Supporters listed below donated £500 or over. For a full list of those who have given to this campaign please visit lpo.org.uk/soundfutures
Masur Circle
Arts Council England
Dunard Fund
Victoria Robey CBE
Emmanuel & Barrie Roman
The Underwood Trust
Welser-Möst Circle
William & Alex de Winton
John Ireland Charitable Trust
The Tsukanov Family Foundation
Neil Westreich
Tennstedt Circle
Valentina & Dmitry Aksenov
Richard Buxton
The Candide Trust
Michael & Elena Kroupeev
Kirby Laing Foundation
Mr & Mrs Makharinsky
Alexey & Anastasia Reznikovich
Sir Simon Robey
Bianca & Stuart Roden
Simon & Vero Turner
The late Mr K Twyman
Solti Patrons
Ageas
John & Manon Antoniazzi
Gabor Beyer, through BTO
Management Consulting AG
Jon Claydon
Mrs Mina Goodman & Miss Suzanne
Goodman
Roddy & April Gow
The Jeniffer & Jonathan Harris
Charitable Trust
Mr James R.D. Korner OBE
Christoph Ladanyi & Dr Sophia Ladanyi-Czernin
Robert Markwick & Kasia Robinski
The Maurice Marks Charitable Trust
Mr Paris Natar
The Rothschild Foundation
Tom & Phillis Sharpe
The Viney Family
Haitink Patrons
Mark & Elizabeth Adams
Dr Christopher Aldren
Mrs Pauline Baumgartner
Lady Jane Berrill
Mr Frederick Brittenden
David & Yi Yao Buckley
Mr Clive Butler
Gill & Garf Collins
Mr John H Cook
Mr Alistair Corbett
Bruno De Kegel
Georgy Djaparidze
David Ellen
Christopher Fraser OBE
David & Victoria Graham Fuller
Goldman Sachs International
Mr Gavin Graham
Moya Greene
Mrs Dorothy Hambleton
Tony & Susie Hayes
Malcolm Herring
Catherine Høgel & Ben Mardle
Mrs Philip Kan
Rehmet Kassim-Lakha de Morixe
Rose & Dudley Leigh
Lady Roslyn Marion Lyons
Miss Jeanette Martin
Duncan Matthews KC
Diana & Allan Morgenthau
Charitable Trust
Dr Karen Morton
Mr Roger Phillimore
Ruth Rattenbury
The Reed Foundation
The Rind Foundation
Sir Bernard Rix
David Ross & Line Forestier (Canada)
Carolina & Martin Schwab
Dr Brian Smith
Lady Valerie Solti
Mr & Mrs G Stein
Dr Peter Stephenson
Miss Anne Stoddart
TFS Loans Limited
Marina Vaizey
Jenny Watson
Guy & Utti Whittaker
Pritchard Donors
Ralph & Elizabeth Aldwinckle
Mrs Arlene Beare
Mr Patrick & Mrs Joan Benner
Mr Conrad Blakey
Dr Anthony Buckland
Paul Collins
Alastair Crawford
Mr Derek B. Gray
Mr Roger Greenwood
The HA.SH Foundation
Darren & Jennifer Holmes
Honeymead Arts Trust
Mr Geoffrey Kirkham
Drs Frank & Gek Lim
Peter Mace
Mr & Mrs David Malpas
Dr David McGibney
Michael & Patricia McLaren-Turner
Mr & Mrs Andrew Neill
Mr Christopher Querée
The Rosalyn & Nicholas Springer
Charitable Trust
Timothy Walker CBE AM
Christopher Williams
Peter Wilson Smith
Mr Anthony Yolland
and all other donors who wish to remain anonymous
Thank you
As a registered charity, we are extremely grateful to all our supporters who have given generously to the LPO over the past year to help maintain the breadth and depth of the LPO’s activities, as well as supporting the Orchestra both on and off the concert platform.
Artistic Director’s Circle
The American Friends of the London Philharmonic Orchestra
William & Alex de Winton
Catherine Høgel & Ben Mardle
Aud Jebsen
In memory of Paul Morgan
In memory of Donald Pelmear
In memory of Rita Reay
Sir Simon & Lady Robey CBE
In memory of Peter J Watson
Orchestra Circle
Richard Buxton
In memory of Nicola Goodman
Mr & Mrs Philip Kan
Neil Westreich
Principal Associates
An anonymous donor
Steven M. Berzin
Irina Gofman & Mr Rodrik V. G Cave
George Ramishvilli
In memory of Kenneth Shaw
The Tsukanov Family
Associates
Anonymous donors
Sir Nigel Boardman & Prof. Lynda Gratton
Garf & Gill Collins
Michelle Crowe Hernandez & Christian Hernandez
Ian Ferguson & Susan Tranter
Stuart & Bianca Roden
Malcolm & Alison Thwaites
Joe Topley & Tracey Countryman
The Williams Family in memory of Grenville Williams
Gold Patrons
An anonymous donor
David & Yi Buckley
Dr Alex & Maria Chan
In memory of Allner Mavis Channing
In memory of Peter Coe
John & Sam Dawson
Fiona Espenhahn
Mr Roger Greenwood
Sally Groves MBE
David & Bettina Harden
Eugene & Allison Hayes
Malcolm Herring
Mrs Asli Hodson
John & Angela Kessler
Mrs Elizabeth Meshkvicheva
Peter & Lucy Noble
Julian & Gill Simmonds
Eric Tomsett
The Viney Family
Guy & Utti Whittaker
Silver Patrons
An anonymous donor
David Burke & Valerie Graham
Mr Luke Gardiner
The Jeniffer and Jonathan Harris
Charitable Trust
Mr & Mrs Andrew Neill
Clandia Wu & Hiu Fung Ng
Simon & Lucy Owen-Johnstone
Andrew & Cindy Peck
Mr Roger Phillimore
Tom & Phillis Sharpe
Laurence Watt
Joanna Williams
Bronze Patrons
Anonymous donors
Miram Al Rasheed
Michael Allen
Gabriela Andino-Benson
Irina Bednaya
Nicholas Berwin
Mrs Amna Boheim
Dame Colette Bowe
Lorna & Christopher Bown
Mr Bernard Bradbury
Dr Anthony Buckland
Desmond & Ruth Cecil
Mr John H Cook
Cameron & Kathryn Doley
Elena & Sergey Dubinets
Harron Ellenson & Charles Miller
Smith
Cristina & Malcolm Fallen
Christopher Fraser OBE
Charles Fulton
Gini & Richard Gabbertas
Jenny & Duncan Goldie-Scot
Mr Daniel Goldstein
David & Jane Gosman
Mr Gavin Graham
Mrs Dorothy Hambleton
Iain & Alicia Hasnip
J Douglas Home
Mr & Mrs Ralph Kanza
Mrs Irina Kiryukhina
Rose & Dudley Leigh
Wg. Cdr. M T Liddiard OBE JP RAF
Drs Frank & Gek Lim
Svetlana London
Graham Long
Richard & Judy Luddington
Mr & Mrs Makharinsky
James Maxey-Branch
Andrew T Mills
John Nickson & Simon Rew
Mikhail Noskov & Vasilina Bindley
Mr Stephen Olton
Nigel Phipps & Amanda McDowall
Mr Michael Posen
Marie Power
Neil & Karen Reynolds
Sir Bernard Rix
Baroness Shackleton
Tim Slorick
John & Madeleine Tucker
In memory of Doris Tylee
Mr & Mrs John & Susi Underwood
Sophie Walker
Jenny Watson CBE
Elena Y. Zeng
Principal Supporters
Anonymous donors
Dr M. Arevuo
Mrs Carol Ann Bailey
Mr John D Barnard
Roger & Clare Barron
Mr Geoffrey Bateman
Mrs A Beare
Adam J. Brunk & Madeleine Haddon
Simon Burke & Rupert King
David & Liz Conway
Mr Alistair Corbett
David Devons
Deborah Dolce
Sir Timothy Fancourt
Jonathan Franklin
Professor Erol & Mrs Deniz Gelenbe
Steve & Cristina Goldring
Prof Emeritus John Gruzelier
Sebastian Arun Hansjee
Nick Hely-Hutchinson
Michael & Christine Henry
Mrs Farrah Jamal
Bruce & Joanna Jenkyn-Jones
Per Jonsson
Julian & Annette Armstrong
Mr Ian Kapur
Gee Lee
Dr Peter Mace
Mr Nikita Mishin
Allison Mollerberg
Simon Moore
Dr Simon Moore
Mrs Terry Neale
Mr Matthew Pearson
Mr James Pickford
Filippo Poli
Sukand Ramachandran
Mr Martin Randall
Mr Robert Ross
Mr Andrea Santacroce & Olivia Veillet-Lavallée
Aniruddha Sharma
Priscylla Shaw
Michael Smith
Erika Song
Mr & Mrs G Stein
Andrew & Rosemary Tusa
Wolf-Christian Ulrich
Ben Valentin KC
Christine Warsaw
Mr Rodney Whittaker
Christopher Williams
Supporters
Anonymous donors
Ralph & Elizabeth Aldwinckle
Alison Clarke & Leo Pilkington
Mr Philip Bathard-Smith
Mrs Martha Brooke
Mr Julien Chilcott-Monk
Miss Tessa Cowie
St Peter’s Composers, Bexhill-on-Sea
Dorothy Hobden
The Jackman Family
Jan Leigh & Jan Rynkiewicz
Mr Mack Lindsey
Mr David MacFarlane
Simon & Fiona Mortimore
Dana Mosevics
Dame Jane Newell DBE
Michael Noyce
Mr & Mrs Graham & Jean Pugh
Emilie Sydney-Smith
Ms Caroline Tate
Craig Terry
Tony & Hilary Vines
Dr Ann Turrall
Dr June Wakefield
Mr John Weekes
Mr C D Yates
Hon. Benefactor
Elliott Bernerd
Hon. Life Members
Alfonso Aijón
Dame Carol Colburn Grigor DBE
Robert Hill
Keith Millar
Victoria Robey CBE
Mrs Jackie Rosenfeld OBE
Cornelia Schmid
Timothy Walker CBE AM
Laurence Watt
Thomas Beecham
Group Members
An anonymous donor
Sir Nigel Boardman & Prof. Lynda Gratton
David & Yi Buckley
Dr Alex & Maria Chan
Garf & Gill Collins
William & Alex de Winton
Ian Ferguson & Susan Tranter
The Friends of the LPO
Irina Gofman & Mr Rodrik V. G.
Cave
Mr Roger Greenwood
Barry Grimaldi
David & Bettina Harden
Mr & Mrs Philip Kan
John & Angela Kessler
Sir Simon Robey
Victoria Robey OBE
Stuart & Bianca Roden
Julian & Gill Simmonds
Malcolm & Alison Thwaites
Eric Tomsett
Neil Westreich
Guy & Utti Whittaker
LPO Corporate Members
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Lazard
Natixis Corporate & Investment
Banking
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Walpole
Preferred Partners
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Trusts and Foundations
ABO Trust
Art Mentor Foundation Lucerne
Candide Trust
Cockayne – Grants for the Arts
David Solomons Charitable Trust
Dunard Fund
Foyle Foundation
Garfield Weston Foundation
The Baily Thomas Charitable Fund
The Boshier-Hinton Foundation
The Golsoncott Foundation
Jerwood Foundation
John Thaw Foundation
John Horniman’s Children’s Trust
The Ian Askew Charitable Trust
Idlewild Trust
Institute Adam Mickiewicz
Thank you
Kirby Laing Foundation
The Lennox Hannay Charitable Trust
Lord and Lady Lurgan Trust
Lucille Graham Trust
The Marchus Trust
Margaret Killbery Foundation
Maria Bjӧrnson Memorial Fund
The 29th May 1961 Charitable Trust
PRS Foundation
The Radcliffe Trust
Rivers Foundation
Rothschild Foundation
Scops Arts Trust
Sir William Boreman’s Foundation
The John S Cohen Foundation
TIOC Foundation
UK Friends of the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Foundation
Vaughan Williams Foundation
The Viney Family
The Barbara Whatmore Charitable Trust
and others who wish to remain anonymous.
Board of the American Friends of the LPO
We are grateful to the Board of the American Friends of the London Philharmonic Orchestra, who assist with fundraising for our activities in the United States of America:
Hannah Young Chair
Lora Aroyo
Jon Carter
Alexandra Jupin
Natalie Pray MBE
Dr Irene Rosner David
Marc Wassermann
Catherine Høgel
Hon. Director
LPO International Board of Governors
Natasha Tsukanova Chair
Steven M. Berzin
Shashank Bhagat
Irina Gofman
Olivia Ma
George Ramishvili
Florian Wunderlich
Trusts and Foundations
Principal Partners
Principal Supporters
Major Supporters
Corporate Sponsors
Principal Partner
OrchLab Project Partner
Principal Supporter
Major Supporters
London Philharmonic Orchestra Administration
Board of Directors
Dr Catherine C. Høgel Chair
Nigel Boardman Vice-Chair
Mark Vines* President
Kate Birchall* Vice-President
Emily Benn
David Buckley
David Burke
Simon Burke
Simon Carrington*
Michelle Crowe Hernandez
Deborah Dolce
Simon Estell*
Jesús Herrera
Tanya Joseph
Minn Majoe*
Tania Mazzetti*
Jamie Njoku-Goodwin OBE
Neil Westreich
David Whitehouse*
*Player-Director
Advisory Council
Roger Barron Chairman
Christopher Aldren
Kate Birchall
Amna Boheim
Richard Brass
Helen Brocklebank
YolanDa Brown OBE
David Burke
Simon Callow CBE
Desmond Cecil CMG
Jane Coulson
Andrew Davenport
Guillaume Descottes
Cameron Doley
Lena Fankhauser
Christopher Fraser OBE
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Jonathan Harris CBE FRICS
Nick Hely-Hutchinson DL
Jesús Herrera
Dr Catherine C. Høgel
Martin Höhmann
Jamie Korner OBE
Andrew Neill
Nadya Powell
Sir Bernard Rix
Victoria Robey CBE
Baroness Shackleton
Thomas Sharpe KC
Julian Simmonds
Daisuke Tsuchiya
Mark Vines
Chris Viney
Laurence Watt
Elizabeth Winter
New Generation Board
Ellie Ajao
Peter De Souza
Vivek Haria
Rianna Henriques
Zerlina Vulliamy
General Administration
Jesús Herrera
Artistic Director
David Burke
Chief Executive
Alicia Downie PA to the Executive & Office Manager
Concert Management
Roanna Gibson
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Alison Jones
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Alice Drury Tours & Projects Assistant
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Ellie Leon
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