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2023/24 concert season

Filmed live at the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall

Gardner conducts Mendelssohn & Brahms Broadcast Saturday 21 October 2023 Digital concert programme Felix Mendelssohn Hebrides Overture Brahms Symphony No. 1 Edward Gardner conductor Generously supported by Aud Jebsen

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3 On stage 4 London Philharmonic Orchestra 5 Leader: Pieter Schoeman 6 Edward Gardner 7 Programme notes 10 On the LPO Label 11 Marquee TV 12 LPO 2023/24 concert season 13 Sound Futures donors 14 Thank you 16 LPO administration

Concert performed at the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall on 27 September 2023 and filmed by Intersection. The LPO would like to acknowledge the generosity of all of its members, supporters and donors. Thank you for your support.

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On stage First Violins

Cellos

Chair supported by Neil Westreich

Chair supported by Bianca & Stuart Roden

Pieter Schoeman* Leader

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

Lasma Taimina

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

Minn Majoe Thomas Eisner Cassandra Hamilton Yang Zhang Martin Höhmann Katalin Varnagy

Chair supported by Sonja Drexler

Elizaveta Tyun Nilufar Alimaksumova Sophie Phillips

Second Violins

Tania Mazzetti Principal Emma Oldfield Co-Principal Molly Cockburn Nancy Elan Ricky Gore Kate Birchall Marie-Anne Mairesse Joseph Maher Fiona Higham

Chair supported by David & Yi Buckley

Sioni Williams Lyrit Milgram Sheila Law Nynke Hijlkema Charlie MacClure

Violas

Caroline Harrison Guest Principal Katharine Leek Lucia Ortiz Sauco Martin Wray Benedetto Pollani Alistair Scahill Michelle Bruil James Heron Raquel López Bolívar Kate De Campos

Kristina Blaumane Principal Waynne Kwon Francis Bucknall David Lale Sue Sutherley Helen Thomas George Hoult Sibylle Hentschel

Horns

John Ryan* Principal Annemarie Federle Principal Martin Hobbs Mark Vines Co-Principal Gareth Mollison

Trumpets

Paul Beniston* Principal Tom Nielsen Co-Principal

Double Basses

Kevin Rundell* Principal Sebastian Pennar Co-Principal George Peniston Laura Murphy Lowri Morgan Adam Wynter

Trombones

Mark Templeton* Principal

Chair supported by William & Alex de Winton

David Whitehouse

Bass Trombone

Lyndon Meredith Principal

Flutes

Juliette Bausor Principal Stewart McIlwham*

Timpani

Simon Carrington* Principal

Chair supported by Victoria Robey OBE

Oboes

Rainer Gibbons Guest Principal Alice Munday

Clarinets

Benjamin Mellefont Principal Thomas Watmough

Assistant Conductor Charlotte Politi

*Holds a professorship at a London conversatoire.

Chair supported by Roger Greenwood

Bassoons

Jonathan Davies Principal

Chair supported by Sir Simon Robey

Hunter Gordon

Contrabassoon

Simon Estell* Principal

The LPO also acknowledges the following chair supporters whose players are not present at this concert: Gill & Garf Collins Mr B C Fairhall Friends of the Orchestra Dr Barry Grimaldi Caroline, Jamie & Zander Sharp

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London Philharmonic Orchestra on Marquee TV • 21 October 2023 • Gardner conducts Mendelssohn & Brahms

London Philharmonic Orchestra

Our conductors

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. With every performance we aim to bring wonder to the modern world and cement our position as a leading orchestra for the 21st century.

Our Principal Conductors have included some of the greatest historic names like Sir Adrian Boult, Bernard Haitink, Sir Georg Solti, Klaus Tennstedt and Kurt Masur. In 2021 Edward Gardner became our 13th Principal Conductor, taking the Orchestra into its tenth decade. Vladimir Jurowski became Conductor Emeritus in recognition of his impact as Principal Conductor from 2007–21. Karina Canellakis is our current Principal Guest Conductor and Tania León our Composer-in-Residence.

Our home is here 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 throughout the UK and internationally, performing to sell-out audiences worldwide. Each summer we’re resident 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 London Philharmonic Orchestra, whether it’s playing the world’s National Anthems at 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 You’ll find us online, on streaming platforms, on social media and through our broadcast partnership with Marquee TV. During the pandemic period we launched ‘LPOnline’: over 100 videos of performances, insights and introductions to playlists, which led to us being named runner-up in the Digital Classical Music Awards 2020. During 2023/24 we’re once again be working with Marquee TV to broadcast selected live concerts, so you can share or relive the wonder from your own living room.

We also release live, studio and archive recordings on our own label, and are the world’s most-streamed orchestra, with over 15 million plays of our content each month.

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Pieter Schoeman Leader

There’s nothing we love more than seeing the joy of children and families enjoying their first musical moments, and we’re passionate about equipping schools and teachers through schools’ concerts, resources and training. Reflecting our values of collaboration and inclusivity, our OrchLab and Open Sound Ensemble projects offer music-making opportunities for adults and young people with special educational needs and disabilities. Our LPO Junior Artists programme is leading the way in creating pathways into the profession for young artists from under-represented communities, and our LPO Young Composers and Foyle Future Firsts schemes support the next generation of professional musicians, bridging the transition from education to professional careers. We also recently launched the LPO Conducting Fellowship, supporting the development of outstanding early-career conductors from backgrounds currently under-represented in the profession.

Next generations

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.

Looking forward

Pieter has performed worldwide as a soloist and recitalist in such famous halls as the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Moscow’s Rachmaninov Hall, Capella Hall in St Petersburg, Staatsbibliothek in Berlin, Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles and the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall. As a chamber musician he regularly appears at London’s prestigious Wigmore Hall. His chamber music partners have included Anne-Sophie Mutter, Veronika Eberle, Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Boris Garlitsky, Jean-Guihen Queyras, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Martin Helmchen and Julia Fischer.

The centrepiece of our 2023/24 season is our spring 2024 festival The Music in You. Reflecting our adventurous spirit, the festival embraces all kinds of expression – dance, music theatre, and audience participation. We’ll collaborate with artists from across the creative spectrum, and give premieres by composers including Tania León, Julian Joseph, Daniel Kidane, Victoria Vita Polevá, Luís Tinoco and John Williams. Rising stars making their debuts with us in 2023/24 include conductors Tianyi Lu, Oksana Lyniv, Jonathon Heyward and Natalia Ponomarchuk, accordionist João Barradas and organist Anna Lapwood. We also present the long-awaited conclusion of Conductor Emeritus Vladimir Jurowski’s Wagner Ring Cycle, Götterdämmerung, and, as well as our titled conductors Edward Gardner and Karina Canellakis, we welcome back classical stars including Anne-Sophie Mutter, Robin Ticciati, Christian Tetzlaff and Danielle de Niese.

Pieter has performed numerous times as a soloist with the London Philharmonic Orchestra. Highlights have included an appearance as both conductor and soloist in Vivaldi’s Four Seasons at the Royal Festival Hall, the Brahms Double Concerto with Kristina Blaumane, and the Britten Double Concerto with Alexander Zemtsov, which was recorded and released on the LPO Label to great critical acclaim. Pieter has appeared as Guest Leader with the BBC, Barcelona, Bordeaux, Lyon and Baltimore symphony orchestras; the Rotterdam and BBC Philharmonic orchestras; and the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra.

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

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Edward Gardner Principal Conductor, London Philharmonic Orchestra

In demand as a guest conductor, recent seasons have seen Edward make debuts with the Cleveland Symphony, Staatskapelle Berlin, Bavarian Radio Symphony, New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia, San Francisco Symphony, Berlin Radio Symphony and Vienna Symphony orchestras; while returns have included engagements with the Chicago Symphony, Montreal Symphony and Philharmonia orchestras, the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, and the Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano. He also continued his longstanding collaboration with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, where he was Principal Guest Conductor from 2010–16, and with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, whom he has conducted at both the First and Last Nights of the BBC Proms. Music Director of English National Opera for eight years (2007–15), Edward has also built a strong relationship with New York’s Metropolitan Opera, where he has conducted productions of The Damnation of Faust, Carmen, Don Giovanni, Der Rosenkavalier and Werther. In London he made his Royal Opera House debut in 2019 in a new production of Káťa Kabanová, followed by Werther a season later. Elsewhere, he has conducted at the Bavarian State Opera, La Scala, Chicago Lyric Opera, Glyndebourne Festival Opera and Opéra National de Paris, and this season he will conduct a double-bill of Bartók’s Bluebeard’s Castle and Poulenc’s La voix humaine at Teatro di San Carlo.

Edward Gardner has been Principal Conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra since September 2021. He is also Chief Conductor of the Bergen Philharmonic, a position he will relinquish at the end of the 2023/24 season. From August 2024 he will undertake the Music Directorship of the Norwegian Opera and Ballet, having been their Artistic Advisor since February 2022. During the 2023/24 season Edward will conduct the LPO in ten concerts at the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall, and tour with the Orchestra to South Korea, Taiwan, and major European cities including Paris, Munich, Frankfurt, Hamburg and Bruges. As part of the LPO’s cross-arts festival ‘The Music in You’ in spring 2024, Edward will conduct concerts including Haydn’s The Creation; a reinvention of Szymanowski’s ballet Harnasie in collaboration with choreographer Wayne McGregor; Weill’s Seven Deadly Sins; and Mozart’s Mass in C minor. Other highlights with the Orchestra this season include Holst’s The Planets and Stravinsky’s Petrushka.

A passionate supporter of young talent, Edward founded the Hallé Youth Orchestra in 2002 and regularly conducts the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain. He has a close relationship with The Juilliard School of Music and with the Royal Academy of Music, which appointed him its inaugural Sir Charles Mackerras Conducting Chair in 2014. Born in Gloucester in 1974, Edward was educated at Cambridge and the Royal Academy of Music. He went on to become Assistant Conductor of the Hallé and Music Director of Glyndebourne Touring Opera. His many accolades include being named Royal Philharmonic Society Award Conductor of the Year (2008), an Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Opera (2009), and an OBE for Services to Music in The Queen’s Birthday Honours (2012).

Edward opened the Bergen Philharmonic season in September 2023 with Mahler’s Symphony No. 1. He completes his tenure as Chief Conductor at the closing of next summer’s Bergen International Festival, conducting Mahler’s Symphony No. 8. The orchestra will be joined by several choirs, including the Edvard Grieg Kor, of which Edward is the Principal Conductor. As Artistic Advisor of the Norwegian National Opera and Ballet, this season Edward will conduct a triple-bill of Schumann’s Frauen-Liebe und Leben, Bartók’s Bluebeard’s Castle and Zemlinsky’s A Florentine Tragedy. Future plans with the company include a Wagner Ring Cycle commencing in spring 2026.

Edward Gardner’s position at the LPO is generously supported by Aud Jebsen.

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Programme notes Felix Mendelssohn 1809–47

Hebrides Overture 1830

mysteriously at the end. ‘The best I have to tell you’, Mendelssohn wrote after that enthralling sea voyage, ‘is described exactly in the music’. And nearly two centuries later, the Hebrides Overture tells that story as vividly as ever.

In 1829, the 20-year-old Felix Mendelssohn made his first visit to Britain. He was awestruck by London: ‘the grandest and most complicated monster on the face of the earth’, he wrote to his family, back in Berlin. Then, with his older friend Karl Klingemann, he set off for Scotland. Edinburgh delighted his romantic imagination: ‘Few of my Switzerland reminiscences can compare to this; everything looks so stern and robust, half enveloped in haze or smoke or fog’. The idea of composing a ‘Scottish’ Symphony was born around this time. On the other hand, a visit to the world-famous novelist Sir Walter Scott at his home at Abbotsford was something of an anticlimax: ‘We drove eighty miles and lost a day for the sake of at best one half-hour of superficial conversation’.

Felix Mendelssohn

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Then, in August, came the encounter that yielded the richest musical results. Klingemann and Mendelssohn made the long, difficult land-sea journey to the Hebridean islands. Mendelssohn was overwhelmed by the dramatic coastal scenery, especially the island of Staffa, with its huge sea cave, framed by vast basaltic columns – according to legend the abode of the legendary hero Fingal. ‘In order to make you understand how extraordinarily the Hebrides affected me’, he wrote home, ‘the following came to my mind there’. And in the letter, underneath those words, is a sketch for what is unmistakably the opening of the Hebrides Overture, with its short but pregnant repeated motif for violas, cellos and bassoon. From this grew one of the greatest of all romantic tone-poems. Broadly speaking, Mendelssohn keeps to the outlines of classical ‘sonata form’: two contrasting themes, both recapitulated after a powerful central ‘development’ section. But what is most impressive about the Overture is its sustained imaginative flight. One moment huge open vistas are evoked, the next we are offered musical ‘close-ups’ of waves dashing against rocks or scudding storm clouds; and always in the background is the swell of the sea, rising to a thrilling final climax before fading

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Programme notes Johannes Brahms 1833–97

Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 68 1855–76

1 Un poco sostenuto – Allegro 2 Andante sostenuto 3 Un poco allegretto e grazioso 4 Adagio – Allegro non troppo, ma con brio Few great concert works have taken longer to mature than Brahms’s First Symphony. Ideas probably began to take shape in Brahms’s mind around 1855, when he was 22. But five years later, Brahms’s confidante and ‘ideal’ love Clara Schumann – virtuoso pianist and widow of the composer Robert Schumann – was still urging him not to give up the struggle: ‘Such a sky of storm may yet lead to a symphony.’ Two years after that, in the summer of 1862, Clara received a surprise parcel containing the Symphony’s first movement – or at least an early version of it. ‘It begins somewhat severely’, she wrote to a friend, ‘but I have got used to it. The movement is full of beauties; the themes are treated with a mastery that grows more and more individual.’

compliment made Brahms doubt himself all over again. Had he emerged from the giant’s shadow or not? When someone unwisely pointed out the ‘extraordinary’ similarity between the main theme of Brahms’s finale and the ‘Ode to Joy’ theme in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, Brahms snapped back: ‘Yes, and still more extraordinary that any fool can hear it!’ It isn’t hard to hear echoes of Beethoven in the first movement’s surging momentum and grim, almost obsessive rhythmic determination. When Brahms first conceived this movement he was still struggling to come to terms with the final mental breakdown and suicide of his great friend and mentor Robert Schumann, Clara’s husband – another composer who worshipped Beethoven and strove to match up to his great example. But it’s also possible that the slow introduction – almost certainly added after the main Allegro was complete – contains a tribute to another of Brahms’s gods, Johann Sebastian Bach. The opening’s low throbbing bass notes could be an echo of the opening chorus of Bach’s St Matthew Passion. As Clara Schumann observed on receiving the 1862 version of this movement, the flow of ideas is remarkably sustained, and the climatic buildup to the return of the first Allegro theme is superbly, thrillingly engineered. Beethovenian perhaps, but what Brahms does at the end is completely original. The tempo drops and the pulsating bass notes of the introduction return, quietly this time. The end is neither thunderous triumph nor black tragedy; C minor turbulence gradually yields to ambiguous C major calm.

Fourteen more years were to pass before Brahms was able to show Clara a completed score – and even then there were more revisions to follow. The problem was at least partly that Brahms had set himself such dauntingly high standards: his goal was to produce something worthy to set beside the greatest of all symphonists, Ludwig van Beethoven. ‘I shall never write a symphony’, Brahms told the conductor Hermann Levi in 1870. ‘You’ve no idea what it feels like with such a giant marching behind you.’ But his friends carried on a campaign of sustained encouragement, and the success of Brahms’s first orchestral masterpiece, Variations on a Theme of Haydn, in 1874 seems to have rekindled his ambition. By 1876 the First Symphony as we know it was finally ready. It was performed all over Europe, with increasing success. Soon, critics were calling it ‘Beethoven’s Tenth’ – but even that ringing

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Programme notes Heroic struggle is forgotten in the two central movements. In the Andante sostenuto it is melody that carries the argument, reaching its apotheosis in a ravishing violin solo in the final moments. The opening theme of the Un poco allegretto e grazioso is all relaxed charm – a far cry from the cosmic dance energy of the typical Beethovenian scherzo. More energetic music follows, but as a whole the effect is to heighten our expectations of the finale, which now has to be an effective counterweight to the first movement, confronting and finally resolving its tragic tensions. The opening brings an immediate darkening, after which the music seems to be groping in the shadows for something definitive – the outline of a fully-fledged theme, perhaps. A sudden timpani fortissimo dispels the gloom: to warm harmonies on trombones (their first appearance in the Symphony) a noble horn theme sounds through shimmering strings. This was the theme Brahms noted in a letter to Clara Schumann in 1868, adding the words, ‘High on the mountain, deep in the valley, I send you a thousand greetings.’ The vision fades, then a confident, forward striding tune begins the Allegro non troppo ma con brio – Brahms’s reply to Beethoven’s ‘Ode to Joy’ theme. There are reminders of the first movement’s heroic struggle, but this time the ending is unambiguous, with a forcefully affirmative brass hymn tune heralding a victorious final dash to the finishing post. Programme notes © Stephen Johnson

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London Philharmonic Orchestra on Marquee TV • 21 October 2023 • Gardner conducts Mendelssohn & Brahms

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

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

Chris Viney Laurence Watt Elizabeth Winter

Finance

Marketing

Frances Slack Finance Director

General Administration

Dayse Guilherme Finance Manager

Kath Trout Marketing and Communications Director

Elena Dubinets Artistic Director

Jean-Paul Ramotar Finance and IT Officer

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

Education and Community Talia Lash Education and Community Director

Concert Management

Lowri Davies Hannah Foakes Education and Community Project Managers

Roanna Gibson Concerts and Planning Director Graham Wood Concerts and Recordings Manager

Hannah Smith Education and Community Co-ordinator

Maddy Clarke Tours Manager

Claudia Clarkson Regional Partnerships Manager

Madeleine Ridout Glyndebourne and Projects Manager Alison Jones Concerts and Recordings Co-ordinator

Development

Robert Winup Concerts and Tours Assistant

Rosie Morden Individual Giving Manager

Laura Willis Development Director

Matthew Freeman Recordings Consultant

Siân Jenkins Corporate Relations Manager

Andrew Chenery Orchestra Personnel Manager

Anna Quillin Trusts and Foundations Manager

Sarah Thomas Martin Sargeson Librarians

Katurah Morrish Development Events Manager

Laura Kitson Stage and Operations Manager

Eleanor Conroy Al Levin Development Co-ordinators

Stephen O’Flaherty Deputy Operations Manager

Nick Jackman Campaigns and Projects Director

Benjamin Wakley Assistant Stage Manager Felix Lo Orchestra and Auditions Manager

Kirstin Peltonen Development Associate

Sophie Harvey Marketing Manager Rachel Williams Publications Manager Gavin Miller Sales and Ticketing Manager Ruth Haines Press and PR Manager Hayley Kim Residencies and Projects Marketing Manager Greg Felton Digital Creative Alicia Hartley Digital and Marketing Co-ordinator Isobel Jones Marketing Assistant

Archives Philip Stuart Discographer Gillian Pole Recordings Archive

Professional Services Charles Russell Speechlys Solicitors Crowe Clark Whitehill LLP Auditors Dr Barry Grimaldi Honorary Doctor Mr Chris Aldren Honorary ENT Surgeon Mr Simon Owen-Johnstone Hon. Orthopaedic Surgeon London Philharmonic Orchestra 89 Albert Embankment London SE1 7TP Tel: 020 7840 4200 Box Office: 020 7840 4242 Email: admin@lpo.org.uk lpo.org.uk Cover photo Silent Studio @ James Wicks