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The 2018/19 Season The BBC Philharmonic welcomes you to its Introducing: 2018/19 Bridgewater Hall season

Reflect and Reimagine

This season we reimagine the orchestral Mark Simpson. We also perform all three This season we launch Philharmonic Lab, Philharmonic Lab is a new initiative where, experience through our programming and of Walton’s and both of Elgar’s concertos exploring ways to bring new music to working with our colleagues in BBC presentation whilst celebrating Manchester for string instruments. Placing the familiar new audiences through new technology Research & Development, we will ensure as a destination for world class talent in a alongside the new, with adventurous and in the concert hall, through broadcasts that we remain at the vanguard, introducing season of core orchestral classics alongside sometimes surprising programming, I look and online. these developments to you, our Manchester neglected repertoire with some of the best forward to sharing this season with you. In The Bridgewater Hall there will audience, first. The pricing and seating contemporary music. be designated Philharmonic Lab areas areas are included in this brochure. Look for We are proud of the way we collaborate Simon Webb is General Manager of the where audience members can access the Philharmonic Lab symbol on the seating with colleagues and this season we are BBC Philharmonic information about the music during the plan. And please keep your phone on silent! working both with The Bridgewater Hall, concert, synchronised to the music as it co-promoting the Symphonic Cinema is performed. Yes - we are asking people in concert in January and with the Hallé, these areas of the hall to keep their phones who include one of our concerts in their on during these concerts. We appreciate this subscription season. Another important may not suit everyone and so have selected partner for us is BBC Research & Development areas which are not overlooked by those with whom we launch Philharmonic Lab. of us who may prefer the more traditional Throughout the season there are English concert experience. concertos, some very familiar and others The BBC Philharmonic has always less so, including a new clarinet concerto taken risks and dared to reimagine the by, and for, Composer in Association orchestral experience for new generations. 2 3 Saturday 22 September 2018, 7.30pm Saturday 6 October 2018, 7.30pm Saturday 13 October 2018, 7.30pm Respighi Looking ahead Mozart Stravinsky (16’) (11’) Fountains of Rome The BBC Philharmonic’s commitment Symphony No. 36 Funeral Song Walton to new music is stronger than ever (‘Linz’)(29’) Mendelssohn (27’) – and this season features a wealth Cello Concerto of work by some of the most gifted Wagner Violin Concerto Sibelius and original minds in contemporary Die Walküre – Act I (67’) in E minor (27’) Symphony No. 2 (42’) music. Finnish pioneer Kaija Saariaho joins us on 26 Oct for a concert Omer Meir Wellber has established himself Tchaikovsky (44’) focused on her extraordinary music, among the world’s top-tier conductors of The BBC Philharmonic and Chief Guest Symphony No. 5 while Oliver Knussen features as both orchestral and operatic music. Both Conductor John Storgårds open the new both composer and conductor on specialities will be on show in his first ever A memorial tribute to his teacher, season with a true Italian job. William 9 Mar. The season also includes concert at The Bridgewater Hall, in which Russian composer Nikolay Rimsky- Walton’s rhapsodic Cello Concerto, major works by living composers Wellber will conduct a stellar cast of singers Korsakov, Stravinsky’s Funeral Song performed here by Norwegian virtuoso Truls such as Sir James MacMillan (2 May), for a concert performance of the first act of died an unexpected death when its score Mørk, seems to pay homage to our green and Thomas Adès (6 Apr) and Valentin Wagner’s mighty Die Walküre. It’s preceded went missing soon after its 1909 premiere. pleasant land – but it was actually written Silvestrov (23 Feb) – and brand-new by Mozart’s ‘Linz’ Symphony, written to order Three years ago, it turned up in a St when this proudly English composer lived music, commissioned and premiered in just four days for a wealthy Austrian count Petersburg archive – and tonight it will be on the Italian island of Ischia. It’s a similar by the orchestra, from three great who hopefully appreciated the level of genius performed in Manchester for the first time. story for Sibelius’s Second Symphony, long British composers: Robin Holloway that involved. Every concert violinist has Mendelssohn’s thought a tribute to his native Finland but (23 Feb), Martin Suckling (9 Mar) enduring E minor Violin Concerto in their influenced by and written in Italy. As for and BBC Philharmonic Composer in Christiane Libor – Sieglinde armoury, but it takes a talent as special as Respighi’s cherished tribute to the Eternal Association Mark Simpson (15 Jun). Guy Mannheim – Siegmund Carolin Widmann to really make it sing. City, its inspiration has never been in doubt. Brindley Sherratt – Hunding To close, Ben Gernon, the orchestra’s

Omer Meir Wellber – conductor Principal Guest Conductor, directs Truls Mørk – cello Tchaikovsky’s dramatic Fifth Symphony. John Storgårds – conductor

Carolin Widmann – violin 6.30pm. Omer Meir Wellber gives an Ben Gernon – conductor introduction to this evening’s performance. Join us at 6.15pm for Journey Through Music. See page 20 for details. John Storgårds, credit: Marco Borggreve Marco credit: Storgårds, John Omer Meir Wellber, credit: Wilfried Hösl Carolin Widmann, credit: Lennard Rühle

4 5 Friday 26 October 2018, 7.30pm Thursday 1 November 2018, 7.30pm Kaija Saariaho Ravel Laterna magica (22’) Le tombeau Berlioz de Couperin (18’) Cléopâtre (21’) Elgar Berlioz Cello Concerto (27’) Overture, ‘King Lear’ (15’) Stravinsky Kaija Saariaho Petrushka Earth’s Shadows (15’) (1947 version) (34’)

Born in Helsinki and based in Paris, Crowned BBC Young Musician of the Year Kaija Saariaho is one of modern music’s in 2016, Sheku Kanneh-Mason balances most daring and brilliant voices. Saariaho studies at the Royal Academy of Music with will be joining us in person for this concert a fast-rising professional career. Tonight, featuring two of her compositions, both the captivating 19-year-old prodigy turns written in the past decade: Earth’s Shadows, his attention to the most treasured cello a lush yet elemental work featuring fellow concerto of all: Elgar’s intimate yet immense Finn Jan Lehtola on the mighty Bridgewater memorial for a world changed beyond Hall organ, and Laterna magica, a majestic measure by the Great War, performed in sound-world of light and shade that takes the month marking the centenary of the its title from the autobiography of film Armistice. Joana Carneiro pairs it with two director Ingmar Bergman. Nestled in works from the same era: Ravel’s wartime between are two dramatic works by another suite, which finds light in darkness, and superb orchestral colourist: Hector Berlioz. Stravinsky’s electrifying ballet.

Jan Lehtola – organ Sheku Kanneh-Mason – cello Karen Cargill – mezzo-soprano Joana Carneiro – conductor Ludovic Morlot – conductor

6.30pm. Pre-concert performance. Students from the RNCM perform works by Kaija Saariaho. Sheku Kanneh-Mason, credit: Lars Borges

6 Friday 16 November 2018, 7.30pm Saturday 8 December 2018, 7.30pm Saturday 19 January 2019, 7.30pm War is over Stephan Rachmaninov Symphonic Cinema (38’) The First World War changed the Music for Orchestra Piano Concerto No. 3 lives of millions beyond recognition (1912) (19’) Holst Stravinsky – and two concerts commemorate (49’) (45’) the centenary of the Armistice which, Walton The Planets The Firebird on 11 November 1918, brought this Viola Concerto (26’) Ravel devastating conflict to a close. In the mountain range of piano concertos, Edward Elgar took a panoramic Howells Rachmaninov’s Third is the Everest – intense Daphnis and Chloe – view of the post-war world in his Elegy (9’) and immense, technically demanding and Suites 1 & 2 (30’) heartrending Cello Concerto (1 Nov), emotionally overpowering. Few pianists prove equal to the task – but, as his acclaimed while other composers drew on Shostakovich The BBC Philharmonic in association with (25’) performance of the work at the BBC Proms more deeply personal connections Symphony No. 9 The Bridgewater Hall presents a very special last year made clear, Alexander Gavrylyuk to the conflict: Ravel’s Le tombeau event marrying sound with vision, bringing is more than a match for it. Vassily Sinaisky de Couperin (1 Nov) and Herbert In 1915 Rudi Stephan’s promising career classic works by two of the 20th century’s follows it with another work of great breadth Howells’s Elegy (16 Nov) both pay was cut brutally short when a sniper greatest composers to vivid musical and and popularity: Holst’s rousing orchestral moving tribute to friends who died on shot and killed the 28-year-old German cinematic life. Ben Gernon conducts the journey through our solar system, the battlefields. There is also music by composer on the Eastern Front. A rarity orchestra in Igor Stravinsky’s breathtaking first performed in 1918. a composer who lost his life fighting well worth reviving in a second concert ballet and two evocative suites by Maurice for his country – German composer reflecting on the Armistice, Stephan’s Ravel – with all three works accompanied Alexander Gavrylyuk – piano Rudi Stephan (16 Nov), shot and killed Music for Orchestra (1912) opens a concert by specially created dramatic films, edited Manchester Chamber Choir (ladies) during conflict in 1915. that also features Herbert Howells’s moving live by director and ‘image soloist’ Lucas Vassily Sinaisky – conductor tribute to Francis Purcell Warren, a fellow van Woerkum to ensure perfect harmony composer who died on the battlefield a year between the sounds of the orchestra and later, and Shostakovich’s Ninth Symphony, the pictures on the big screen. a profoundly brave riposte to Stalin, written as the Second World War drew to a close. Lucas van Woerkum – film director Lawrence Power takes the spotlight in Ben Gernon – conductor Walton’s haunting Viola Concerto. This concert is a co-promotion with The Lawrence Power – viola Bridgewater Hall. Pricing, seating plan and Moritz Gnann – conductor ticket bands will be set by The Bridgewater Hall. This concert is not included in the BBC Philharmonic Series subscription package.

6.30pm. Pre-concert talk with Moritz Gnann, Lawrence Power and Stephen Walton of Imperial War Museums. Vassily Sinaisky, credit: Jesper Lindgren Moritz Gnann, credit: Simon Pauly

8 9 Saturday 26 January 2019, 7.30pm Saturday 16 February 2019, 7.30pm Saturday 23 February 2019, 7.30pm Stravinsky Page, stage and screen Berlioz Schumann (14’) (130’) Scherzo fantastique Several concerts translate stage Béatrice et Bénédict Overture, Scherzo Mozart works to the concert hall – with and Finale (17’) all their drama intact. On 19 Jan, As merry as the day is long, Hector Berlioz’s Piano Concerto Symphonic Cinema pairs landmark captivating comic opera is one of the most Robin Holloway (30’) ballet scores by Stravinsky and joyful operatic translations of Shakespeare No. 25, K503 from page to stage. Béatrice et Bénédict Trumpet Concerto Ravel not with dance but with (25’) Tchaikovsky dazzling dramatic films by Lucas slims down the plot of Much Ado About (world premiere) (41’) van Woerkum, edited live to ensure Nothing to focus on the will-they-won’t- Symphony No. 4 they romance between the title characters, Valentin Silvestrov synchronicity between the orchestra (47’) whose attraction to each other is the living, Mozart could turn his hand to more and the big screen above. Meanwhile, Symphony No. 5 breathing antithesis of love at first sight. or less anything, but this greatest of two other evenings offer concert Can the two bickering marital sceptics Robin Holloway is one of this country’s musical all-rounders was something performances of classic Romantic make peace – and love – with each other finest living composers, a restless and of a piano-concerto specialist – in no operas: as well as Act I of Wagner’s long enough to tie the knot? Ludovic uncategorisable writer of music in a wealth small part because he was himself a Die Walküre (6 Oct), the BBC Morlot – like Berlioz, a Frenchman – of styles. To celebrate the composer’s 75th tremendous pianist. His 25th, performed Philharmonic will be marking the is tonight’s conductor. birthday, Håkan Hardenberger joins John for us by the outstanding Paul Lewis, 150th anniversary of Hector Berlioz’s Storgårds and the orchestra for the world is among his most elegant and expressive. death with a complete concert Daniela Mack – Béatrice premiere of Holloway’s first trumpet Just the second orchestral work completed performance of his vibrant opera TBC – Bénédict concerto. The concert opens with a by Igor Stravinsky, the sparkling Scherzo Béatrice et Bénédict (16 Feb). Crouch End Festival Chorus gloriously melodic but little-performed fantastique is full of verve and wonder. Ludovic Morlot – conductor work by Schumann, a longtime favourite Its joyous energy stands in contrast to of Holloway, and ends with the Tchaikovsky’s turbulent Fourth Symphony, extraordinary sound-world of Valentin written during a particularly choppy period Silvestrov’s Fifth Symphony – luminous, in the composer’s always complicated 6.30pm. Pre-concert talk with Ludovic beautiful and utterly transcendent. love life. Morlot and The University of Manchester’s Dr Fred Schurink. Håkan Hardenberger – trumpet Paul Lewis – piano John Storgårds – conductor Ben Gernon – conductor

6.30pm. Pre-concert performance of Robin Holloway’s work – introduced by the composer himself. Ben Gernon, credit: Simon Annand Daniela Mack, credit: Shervin Lainez

10 11 Reflect and Reimagine Saturday 9 March 2019, 7.30pm Saturday 23 March 2019, 7.30pm Saturday 6 April 2019, 7.30pm Oliver Knussen Stravinsky Thomas Adès The world in Flourish with Fireworks (3’) Orpheus (29’) Three Studies Manchester (14’) Henze Dvořák from Couperin The BBC Philharmonic welcomes Ariosi (24’) Cello Concerto Prokofiev an array of world-class talent to (39’) (21’) The Bridgewater Hall this season. Martin Suckling in B minor Violin Concerto No. 1 Some guest musicians hail from This Departing Martinů Schubert the UK: the likes of pianists Paul (33’) Lewis (26 Jan) and Steven Osborne Landscape Symphony No. 4 Symphony No. 9, (25 Apr), singers Sophie Bevan (2 May) (10’) (48’) and Roderick Williams (1 Jun), and (world premiere) Blacklisted by the Nazis, Czech-born ‘Great C major’ conductors Oliver Knussen (9 Mar) composer Bohuslav Martinu fled Europe Borodin and John Wilson (13 Apr). Others, in January 1941, crossing the Atlantic Composed against the turbulent backdrop though, have further to travel. Symphony No. 2 to shelter in the USA. Four years later, of the Russian Revolution, Prokofiev’s First Alongside a quartet of international (27’) the Germans were vanquished – and the Violin Concerto vividly captures a world in (original version) violin virtuosos – James Ehnes fugitive composer marked their defeat with flux. Frantic, romantic and edgily modern, it’s a roller-coaster ride for the listener – (13 Apr), Alina Pogostkina (6 Apr), The title of this exhilarating new work this symphonic tour de force. There’s also and also for Alina Pogostkina, the brilliant Christian Tetzlaff (18 May) and by young Scottish-born composer Martin music from another European who found young violinist who performs it for us. Carolin Widmann (13 Oct) – we Suckling is taken from fellow composer wartime exile in America: Igor Stravinsky, Thomas Adès’s elegant homage to a French welcome outstanding pianist Morton Feldman’s poignant description who wrote this expressive 1948 ballet while Baroque master looks both backwards and Alexander Gavrylyuk (8 Dec), brilliant of how music slips away from us even living in Los Angeles. In between, Andrei forwards, while Schubert’s valedictory Ninth Norwegian cellist Truls Mørk (22 Sep) while we’re listening. It’s conducted by Ionita is the soloist in Dvorák’s compelling – ‘Great’ in both size and stature – finds the and Swedish trumpet master Håkan the great Oliver Knussen, making a rare Cello Concerto, a work begun in America ailing composer concerned only with the Hardenberger (23 Feb), among others. Manchester appearance, whose own and completed on the Czech composer’s here and now. Two years after completing homage to Stravinsky starts the evening return to Bohemia. it, he died at the age of just 31. with a bang. Hans Werner Henze’s spectral song-cycle of lost love and the dashing Andrei Ioniță – cello Alina Pogostkina – cello Second Symphony by Russian polymath John Storgårds – conductor Clemens Schuldt – conductor Alexander Borodin complete a daring programme.

Claire Booth – soprano 6.30pm. Pre-concert talk with Professor Alan Clio Gould – violin 6.30pm. Pre-concert talk with Clemens Williams from the University of Salford. Oliver Knussen – conductor Schuldt and Alina Pogostkina. Alina Pogostkina, credit: Nikolaj Lund Nikolaj credit: Pogostkina, Alina

14 15 Saturday 13 April 2019, 7.30pm Thursday 25 April 2019, 7.30pm Thursday 2 May 2019, 7.30pm Bax Sibelius The English concerto Sir James MacMillan (19’) (27’) (38’) November Woods Symphony No. 6 William Walton’s set of three string Symphony No. 4 Walton Tippett concertos – for violin, viola and Britten (30’) (33’) cello – are a towering achievement (21’) Violin Concerto Piano Concerto in English music. This season, the Les illuminations Vaughan Williams Stravinsky BBC Philharmonic performs all three Tippett (31’) (30’) (22 Sep, 16 Nov and 13 Apr), part of a (32’) Symphony No. 4 Symphony in C season-long focus on the rich variety Symphony No. 4 of English approaches to the concerto BBC Philharmonic favourite John Michael Tippett’s masterpiece for solo format. Some are famous, such as Benjamin Britten was just 25 when he wrote Wilson returns to The Bridgewater piano and orchestra redefined the English Elgar’s beloved Cello Concerto Les illuminations, a poignant and gripping Hall for an all-English programme concerto, marrying pastoral lyricism (1 Nov). Some, such as Michael song-cycle – but, even so, he was still several with a Canadian soloist at centre stage. with spiky modernity to thrilling effect. Tippett’s Piano Concerto (25 Apr), years older than the poet whose words he The orchestra is performing all three Tonight, the orchestra welcomes two are singular, even subversive. And set: Arthur Rimbaud, the volatile French of William Walton’s string concertos performers who inhabit Tippett’s sound- some are brand-new: the orchestra libertine who hung up his pen aged just 21. during this season, and James Ehnes world like few others: Steven Osborne, premieres Robin Holloway’s Trumpet Either side of Sophie Bevan’s performance, completes the set with the composer’s who made the definitive recording a few Concerto, featuring soloist Håkan conducted by English National Opera’s iconic work for solo violin. It’s followed years ago, and Sir Andrew Davis, a longtime Hardenberger (23 Feb), and Mark Music Director Martyn Brabbins, two epic by Vaughan Williams’s Fourth Symphony, Tippett admirer. Tonight also features Simpson’s Clarinet Concerto (15 Jun), fourth symphonies by great Britons, each a rich and surprising work dedicated to two symphonies by 20th-century pioneers: performed by the composer himself. a single movement: James MacMillan’s fellow composer and contemporary Arnold Sibelius’s lucid, translucent Sixth, and kaleidoscopic masterpiece, premiered at Bax – whose impassioned, evocative and a potent, persuasive work written by Igor the 2015 BBC Proms to huge acclaim, and ultimately lovelorn tone-poem opens Stravinsky, in his own words, ‘to the glory Michael Tippett’s punch-packing odyssey the evening. of God’. from birth through life to our inevitable end.

James Ehnes – violin Steven Osborne – piano Sophie Bevan – soprano John Wilson – conductor Sir Andrew Davis – conductor Martyn Brabbins – conductor

For this concert, the BBC Philharmonic is a guest in the Hallé’s Thursday Series. Please note that pricing, seating plan and ticket bands for this concert are in line with the Hallé’s concert season. This concert is not included in the BBC Philharmonic Series subscription package.

Free pre-concert talk with Sir James MacMillan. 6.30pm in the auditorium. John Wilson, credit: Sasha Gusov Gusov Sasha credit: Wilson, John Ahlburg Sussie credit: Bevan, Sophie

16 17 Saturday 18 May 2019, 7.30pm Saturday 1 June 2019, 7.30pm Saturday 15 June 2019, 7.30pm Elgar Mahler Mozart (46’) (20’) Violin Concerto Rückert-Lieder Idomeneo – Overture, The BBC Philharmonic offer Rachmaninov Shostakovich Ilia’s three arias pre-concert events before many (41’) (63’) (24’) of its Bridgewater Hall concerts. Symphony No. 3 Symphony No. 4 and March These specially programmed events Mark Simpson are designed to enhance the concert Before making his name as a composer, Devoted party propagandist or subtly experience and provide insights into Edward Elgar made his living as a violinist anti-Soviet rebel? The inner life of Dmitry Clarinet Concerto the evening’s performance. Free of – which explains the extraordinary empathy Shostakovich, one of music’s most (world premiere) (20’) charge to ticket-holders, these events he retained for string instruments of fascinating enigmas, has been the subject include informal conversations every size and scale. This soaring Violin of endless speculation, even inspiring a Mahler with the artists, introductions from Concerto could only have come from the recent novel by Julian Barnes. And yet it Symphony No. 4 (56’) composers, pre-concert performances pen of this most English and romantic of doesn’t take much to hear the man in the and a number of guest speakers to composers, and represents a huge technical sweeping plenitude of his Fourth Symphony, The prodigiously talented Mark Simpson provide a different perspective on challenge for any violinist who dares to take written in Stalinist Russia during 1936 but is the only person to have won both the the music. Talks are held in The it on. Christian Tetzlaff is in the spotlight not premiered until 25 years later, long after BBC Young Musician and BBC Young Bridgewater Hall auditorium at tonight, before John Storgårds conducts the dictator’s death. Mark Wigglesworth Composer of the Year awards. Tonight, 6.30pm and last for approximately the orchestra in another work that sings conducts a programme that also features both of Simpson’s parallel musical lives 30 minutes. There is no need to of its composer’s homeland – Rachmaninov’s British baritone Roderick Williams in some are on show, as the BBC Philharmonic’s book so please do come and join us. memorable Third Symphony. of Mahler’s most romantic songs. Composer in Association gives the world Please note that speakers are subject

premiere of his own Clarinet Concerto. to change. Christian Tetzlaff – violin Roderick Williams – baritone Tonight’s other soloist, leading British John Storgårds – conductor Mark Wigglesworth – conductor soprano Elizabeth Watts, is on double duty: tackling three Mozart arias to open the programme, then returning to end the season with Mahler’s soulful but uplifting 6.30pm. Pre-concert talk with Fourth Symphony. Mark Wigglesworth. Mark Simpson – clarinet Elizabeth Watts – soprano Ben Gernon – conductor

6.30pm. Pre-concert talk with Ben Gernon and Mark Simpson. Christian Tetzlaff, credit: Giorgia Bertazzi Ealovega Benjamin credit: Williams, Roderick Mark Simpson, credit: Sim Canetty-Clarke

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2018 2019 (Cont.)

Sat 22 Sept Respighi – Fountains of Rome Sat 9 March Oliver Knussen – Flourish Walton – Cello Concerto with Fireworks Sibelius – Symphony No. 2 Henze – Ariosi Martin Suckling – This Departing Sat 6 Oct Mozart – Symphony No. 36 (‘Linz’) Landscape (world premiere) Wagner – Die Walküre - Act I Borodin – Symphony No. 2 Sat 13 Oct Stravinsky – Funeral Song Sat 23 March Stravinsky – Orpheus Mendelssohn – Violin Concerto Dvořák – Cello Concerto in B minor in E minor Martinů – Symphony No. 4 Tchaikovsky – Symphony No. 5 Sat 6 April Thomas Adès – Three Studies Fri 26 Oct Kaija Saariaho – Laterna magica from Couperin Berlioz – Cléopâtre Prokofiev – Violin Concerto No. 1 Berlioz – Overture, ‘King Lear’ Schubert – Symphony No. 9 Kaija Saariaho – Earth’s Shadows ‘Great C major’ Thu 1 Nov Ravel – Le tombeau de Couperin Sat 13 April Bax – November Woods Elgar – Cello Concerto Walton – Violin Concerto Stravinsky – Petrushka (1947 version) Vaughan Williams – Symphony No. 4 Fri 16 Nov Stephan – Music for Orchestra (1912) Thu 25 Apr Sibelius – Symphony No. 6 Walton – Viola Concerto Tippett – Piano Concerto Howells – Elegy Stravinsky – Symphony in C Shostakovich – Symphony No. 9 Sat 2 May Sir James MacMillan – Sat 8 Dec Rachmaninov – Piano Concerto No. 3 Symphony No. 4 Holst – The Planets Britten – Les illuminations 2019 Tippett – Symphony No.4

Sat 19 Jan Stravinsky – The Firebird Sat 11 May BBC Philharmonic Family Concert Ravel – Daphnis and Chloe – Suites 1 & 2 Sat 18 May Elgar – Violin Concerto Sat 26 Jan Stravinsky – Scherzo fantastique Rachmaninov – Symphony No. 3 Mozart – Piano Concerto No.25 Sat 1 Jun Mahler – Rückert-Lieder Tchaikovsky – Symphony No. 4 Shostakovich – Symphony No. 4 Sat 16 Feb Berlioz – Béatrice et Bénédict Sat 15 Jun Mozart – Idomeneo – Overture, Sat 23 Feb Schumann – Overture, Scherzo Ilia’s three arias and March and Finale Mark Simpson – Clarinet Concerto Robin Holloway – Trumpet Concerto (world premiere) (world premiere) Mahler – Symphony No. 4 Valetin Silvestrov – Symphony No. 5

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