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LONDON PHILHARMONIC CHOIR Southbank Centre 6 London Philharmonic HAYDN Choir 7 Programme Notes (20’) Symphony No 55639 LPO 25 September 10_55639 LPO 25 September 10 20/09/2010 10:43 Page 1 Principal Conductor VLADIMIR JUROWSKI Principal Guest Conductor YANNICK NÉZET-SÉGUIN Leader PIETER SCHOEMAN Composer in Residence JULIAN ANDERSON Patron HRH THE DUKE OF KENT KG Chief Executive and Artistic Director TIMOTHY WALKER AM† SOUTHBANK CENTRE’S ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL PROGRAMME £3 Saturday 25 September 2010 | 7.30 pm CONTENTS VLADIMIR JUROWSKI conductor 2 List of Players OMAR EBRAHIM narrator 3 Vladimir Jurowski THE HILLIARD ENSEMBLE 4 The Hilliard Ensemble 5 Omar Ebrahim / LONDON PHILHARMONIC CHOIR Southbank Centre 6 London Philharmonic HAYDN Choir 7 Programme Notes (20’) Symphony No. 63 (La Roxelane) 13 Orchestra History 14 Administration MATTEO D’AMICO 15 Supporters Flight from Byzantium (world première) * (23’) 16 Future Concerts INTERVAL The timings shown are not precise and are given only as a guide. DUFAY Moribus et genere** ; Vergene bella**; Lamentatio Bar lines – FREE Post-Concert sanctae matris ecclesiae Constantinopolitanae** (15’) Event: Level 2 Foyer at Royal BARTÓK Festival Hall An informal discussion with The Miraculous Mandarin (complete) (30’) Vladimir Jurowski following the evening’s performance. * Commissioned by the London Philharmonic Orchestra with the assistance of Sonja Drexler and the Orchestra Giovanile Italiana. ** The Hilliard Ensemble only † supported by Macquarie Group CONCERT PRESENTED BY THE LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA 55639 LPO 25 September 10_55639 LPO 25 September 10 20/09/2010 10:43 Page 2 LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA FIRST VIOLINS Isabel Pereira COR ANGLAIS TUBA Tomo Keller Guest Leader Daniel Cornford Sue Bohling Principal Lee Tsarmaklis Principal Vesselin Gellev Sub-Leader Alistair Scahill Chair supported by Julia Rumley Sarah Malcolm Julian and Gill Simmonds TIMPANI Chair supported by Miranda Davis Simon Carrington* Principal Mrs Steven Ward Karin Norlen CLARINETS Katalin Varnagy Nicholas Carpenter Principal PERCUSSION Catherine Craig CELLOS Katie Lockhart Andrew Barclay* Principal Thomas Eisner Kristina Blaumane Principal Paul Richards Chair supported by Tina Gruenberg Chair supported by Andrew Davenport Martin Höhmann Simon Yates and Kevin Roon E FLAT CLARINET Keith Millar Chair supported by Francis Bucknall Katie Lockhart Guest Principal Jeremy Cornes Richard Karl Goeltz Laura Donoghue Sam Walton Geoffrey Lynn Santiago Sabino Carvalh o+ BASS CLARINET Ignacio Molins Robert Pool Jonathan Ayling Paul Richards Principal Florence Schoeman Chair supported by Caroline, HARP Sarah Streatfeild Jamie and Zander Sharp BASSOONS Rachel Masters* Principal Yang Zhang Sue Sutherley Gareth Newman* Principal Alain Petitclerc Susanna Riddell Clare Webster PIANO Peter Nall Sibylle Hentschel Simon Estell Catherine Edwards Galina Tanney Tom Roff Rosie Banks CONTRA BASSOON CELESTA SECOND VIOLINS Simon Estell Principal Bernard Robertson Clare Duckworth Principal DOUBLE BASSES Chair supported by Kevin Rundell* Principal HORNS ORGAN Richard and Victoria Sharp Laurence Lovelle John Ryan Principal Henry Parkes Joseph Maher George Peniston Alec Frank-Gemmill Guest Nancy Elan Richard Lewis Principal DUDUK Fiona Higham Kenneth Knussen Martin Hobbs Martin Robertson Marie-Anne Mairesse Joe Melvin Gareth Mollison Ashley Stevens Helen Rowlands Mark Vines OUD Sioni Williams Louis Garson James Ellis Heather Badke TRUMPETS Peter Graham FLUTES Paul Beniston* Principal Stephen Stewart Susan Thomas* Principal Anne McAneney* Mila Mustakova Joanna Marsh Chair supported by Sheila Law Stewart McIlwham* Geoff and Meg Mann * Holds a professorial Lisa Obert Nicholas Betts Co-Principal appointment in London Steve Dinwoodie PICCOLOS Stewart McIlwham* Principal TROMBONES + Chevalier of the Brazilian VIOLAS Joanna Marsh Mark Templeton* Principal Order of Rio Branco Rachel Roberts Guest Principal David Whitehouse Robert Duncan OBOES Susanne Martens Ian Hardwick Principal BASS TROMBONE Benedetto Pollani Angela Tennick Lyndon Meredith Principal Emmanuella Reiter-Bootiman Sue Bohling ASSISTANT CONDUCTOR Laura Vallejo Eduardo Portal Chair Supporters The London Philharmonic Orchestra also acknowledges the following chair supporters whose players are not present at this concert: David and Victoria Graham Fuller John and Angela Kessler 2 | London Philharmonic Orchestra 55639 LPO 25 September 10_55639 LPO 25 September 10 20/09/2010 10:44 Page 3 VLADIMIR JUROWSKI CONDUCTOR Vladimir Jurowski is a regular guest with many of the world’s leading orchestras including the Berlin Philharmonic, Oslo Philharmonic, Royal Concertgebouw, Bavarian Radio Symphony, Dresden Staatskapelle, Los Angeles Philharmonic and Philadelphia Orchestras as well as the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. Highlights of n o the 2010/11 season and beyond include his debuts s n i with the Vienna Philharmonic, Cleveland, San Francisco b o R Symphony and Mahler Chamber Orchestras, and return n e r visits to the Chicago Symphony, Chamber Orchestra of a K Europe, Berlin Philharmonic, Royal Concertgebouw, St Petersburg Philharmonic and Philadelphia Orchestras. Born in Moscow, the son of conductor Mikhail Jurowski, Vladimir Jurowski completed the first part of his His operatic engagements have included Jen ůfa, The musical studies at the Music College of the Moscow Queen of Spades and Hänsel und Gretel at the Conservatory. In 1990 he relocated with his family to Metropolitan Opera, Parsifal and Wozzeck at Welsh Germany where he continued his studies in Dresden National Opera, War and Peace at the Opéra National and Berlin, studying conducting with Rolf Reuter and de Paris, Eugene Onegin at La Scala Milan, as well as Die vocal coaching with Semion Skigin. In 1995 he made his Zauberflöte, La Cenerentola, Otello, Macbeth, Falstaff, international debut at the Wexford Festival, where he Tristan und Isolde, Don Giovanni, The Rake’s Progress and conducted Rimsky-Korsakov’s May Night . The same year Peter Eötvös’ Love and Other Demons at Glyndebourne saw his brilliant debut at the Royal Opera House Covent Opera. Future engagements include new productions of Garden in Nabucco . In 1996 he joined the ensemble of Die Meistersinger and The Cunning Little Vixen at Komische Oper Berlin, becoming First Kapellmeister in Glyndebourne, Die Frau ohne Schatten at the 1997 and continuing to work at the Komische Oper on Metropolitan Opera, Ruslan and Ludmila at the Bolshoi a permanent basis until 2001. Theatre, and Iolanta at the Dresden Semperoper. Since 1997 Vladimir Jurowski has been a guest at some Jurowski’s discography includes the first ever recording of the world’s leading musical institutions including the of Giya Kancheli’s cantata Exile for ECM (1994), L’Étoile Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Teatro La Fenice di du Nord by Meyerbeer for Naxos-Marco Polo (1996) and Venezia, Opéra Bastille de Paris, Théâtre de la Monnaie Werther for BMG (1999) as well as live recordings of Bruxelles, Maggio Musicale Festival Florence, Rossini works by Rachmaninov, Turnage, Tchaikovsky, Britten, Opera Festival Pesaro, Edinburgh Festival, Semperoper Brahms and Shostakovich on the London Philharmonic Dresden and Teatro Comunale di Bologna (where he Orchestra’s own label, and Prokofiev’s Betrothal in a served as Principal Guest Conductor between 2000 and Monastery on Glyndebourne Opera’s own label. He also 2003). In 1999 he made his debut at the Metropolitan records for PentaTone with the Russian National Opera New York with Rigoletto . Orchestra, with releases to date including Tchaikovsky’s Suite No. 3 and Stravinsky’s Divertimento from Le Baiser In January 2001 Vladimir Jurowski took up the position de la fée , Shostakovich’s Symphonies Nos 1 and 6, of Music Director of Glyndebourne Festival Opera and Prokofiev’s Symphony No. 5 and Tchaikovsky’s Hamlet in 2003 was appointed Principal Guest Conductor of Incidental Music. Glyndebourne have released DVD the London Philharmonic Orchestra, becoming the recordings of his performances of La Cenerentola, Orchestra’s Principal Conductor in September 2007. He Gianni Schicchi, Die Fledermaus and Rachmaninov’s The also holds the title of Principal Artist of the Orchestra Miserly Knight . Other recent DVD releases include of the Age of Enlightenment, and from 2005 to 2009 Hänsel und Gretel from the Metropolitan Opera New served as Principal Guest Conductor of the Russian York, and his first concert as the London Philharmonic National Orchestra with whom he will continue to work Orchestra’s Principal Conductor featuring works by in the years ahead. Wagner, Berg and Mahler (released by Medici Arts). London Philharmonic Orchestra | 3 55639 LPO 25 September 10_55639 LPO 25 September 10 20/09/2010 10:44 Page 4 THE HILLIARD ENSEMBLE DAVID JAMES countertenor ROGERS COVEY-CRUMP tenor STEVEN HARROLD tenor GORDON JONES baritone on the research of Professor Helga Thoene, this is a unique interweaving of Bach’s Partita in D minor for solo violin with a selection of Chorale verses crowned by the epic Ciaconna , in which instrumentalist and vocalists are united. The group continues in its quest to forge relationships with living composers, often in an orchestral context. In 1999, they premièred Miroirs des Temps by Unsuk Chin with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Kent Nagano. In the same year, James MacMillan’s d l o Quickening , commissioned jointly by the BBC and the h n i e Philadelphia Orchestra, was premièred at the BBC R n Proms. With Lorin Maazel and the New York u r d e Philharmonic, they performed the world première of i r F Stephen Hartke’s 3rd Symphony and they recently Unrivalled for its formidable
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