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BRUCKNER 4Thursday 20 June Thursday 20 June 7.30–9.55pm Barbican LSO + GUILDHALL SCHOOL BRUCKNER Vaughan Williams Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis BRUCKNER 4 Grainger Lincolnshire Posy Interval Bruckner Symphony No 4 Sir Simon Rattle conductor London Symphony Orchestra Guildhall School musicians Generously supported by Baker McKenzie Welcome News On Our Blog Throughout the concert, we welcome LSO AT THE BBC PROMS 2019 MEET TONIGHT’S MUSICIANS students from Guildhall School of Music & Drama as they play side-by-side with the The LSO and a 300-strong choir perform ‘Being on the Orchestral Artistry course LSO. Since the formation in 2013 of our joint Walton’s Belshazzar’s Feast on Tuesday has changed how I understand music – Orchestral Artistry Masters programme – 20 August at the BBC Proms, conducted it’s about finding a sound that blends with which helps to equip young musicians with by Sir Simon Rattle. The programme also everyone, being flexible, and being you. the skills needed for life in professional includes Varèse’s Amériques and French When I first worked with LSO musicians, ensembles – the LSO has been working composer Charles Koechlin’s Les bandar-log. they said, ‘Forget about the right notes!’ – ever more closely with Guildhall School. they want something special, something Our partnership has been strengthened that could only come from you. We can all with the launch of Culture Mile, an initiative LIVE STREAM: BMW CLASSICS play a lot of notes, but not everyone can warm welcome to this evening’s that aims to create an unrivalled destination communicate something about the music.’ LSO concert at the Barbican, for culture, creativity and learning in the Our annual, free concert returns to Trafalgar Julia Raga Pascual, Orchestral Artistry Clarinet conducted by Music Director City of London, and we look forward to future Square on 30 June. Can’t make it on the day? Sir Simon Rattle. Last month Sir Simon led collaborations in the seasons to come. Watch the concert live on our YouTube ‘Working with the LSO and taking part in the Orchestra on a highly successful tour channel wherever you are in the world mock auditions has really challenged me to to Latin America – the first visit in the LSO’s This evening’s concert is generously (also available on demand for 90 days). think about how I can put my stamp on the 115-year history – and we are delighted to supported by Baker McKenzie. I would like to music I’m presenting, and how I can show see him return to the Barbican stage to take this opportunity to warmly welcome their • youtube.com/lso what I have to offer as part of the orchestra, close the 2018/19 season tonight and in guests and thank them for their landmark not just as an individual. It’s challenged me next week’s semi-staged performances partnership as much-valued legal advisors in a really positive way to think about how of The Cunning Little Vixen. to the LSO over the past two decades. WELCOME TO TONIGHT’S GROUPS to always strive for the best music-making, how far you can go for the sake of the music.’ Continuing the season theme of ‘roots and I hope you enjoy the concert, and that you We are delighted to welcome Susanna Bailey, Orchestral Artistry Flute origins’, we begin with two works that take will join us again soon. Tübinger Saxophon-Ensemble inspiration from the English folk tradition in Memorial University of Newfoundland Read more, and get to know the Guildhall different ways: Vaughan Williams’ Fantasia School musicians performing with the LSO on a Theme by Thomas Tallis for strings, and in tonight’s concert, on the LSO Blog. Percy Grainger’s set of ‘musical wildflowers’, Please ensure all phones are switched off. Lincolnshire Posy. Bruckner’s rich and Photography and audio/video recording • lso.co.uk/blog Romantic Fourth Symphony follows in Kathryn McDowell CBE DL are not permitted during the performance. the second half. Managing Director 2 Welcome 20 June 2019 In perfect harmony BAKER MCKENZIE AND THE LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA www.bakermckenzie.com Baker McKenzie has a passion for the Arts, which is Baker & McKenzie LLP is a limited liability partnership registered in England and Wales with registered number OC311297. Baker & McKenzie LLP is a member of why we are proud to have been official lawyers to the Baker & McKenzie International, a global law firm with member law firms around the world. London Symphony Orchestra for the past two decades. © 2019 Baker McKenzie Tonight’s Concert In Brief Coming Up he tradition of English song, both PROGRAMME CONTRIBUTORS Thursday 27 June 7.30–9.25pm Sunday 30 June 5–6.30pm sacred and secular, fills the first Saturday 29 June 7.30–9.25pm Trafalgar Square half of tonight’s programme, as we Wendy Thompson studied at the Royal Barbican hear from two composers of the 20th century College of Music, before taking an MMus BMW CLASSICS who reached back to the music of the past. in musicology at King’s College, London. THE CUNNING LITTLE VIXEN In his Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas In addition to writing about music Dvořák Selection of Slavonic Dances Tallis, which was premiered by the LSO in she is Executive Director of Classical Janáček The Cunning Little Vixen (semi-staged) Bushra El-Turk Tuqus (world premiere) * 1910, Vaughan Williams was influenced by Arts Productions, a major supplier of Poulenc Selection from ‘Les biches – Suite’ the melodies he encountered while editing independent programmes to BBC Radio. Sir Simon Rattle conductor Ravel La valse The English Hymnal. The result was a richly Peter Sellars director textured, elaborate piece for double string Andrew Stewart is a freelance music London Symphony Orchestra Sir Simon Rattle conductor orchestra that embellishes Tallis’ Tudor journalist and writer. He is the author of The Lucy Crowe Vixen London Symphony Orchestra Psalm tune. Also a collector of folk music, LSO at 90 and contributes to a wide variety Gerald Finley Forester LSO On Track young musicians * Percy Grainger based the six songs of his of specialist classical music publications. Sophia Burgos Fox, Chocholka Guildhall School musicians * Lincolnshire Posy on the folk tunes and Peter Hoare Schoolmaster, Cock, Mosquito singers he had encountered during a trip Malcolm Gillies is an author, musicologist Jan Martiník Badger, Parson Free entry, early arrival recommended to Lincolnshire. and critic, resident in Canberra. Hanno Müller-Brachmann Haraschta Paulina Malefane Forester’s Wife, Owl, Woodpecker Produced in partnership with BMW In the second half, Sir Simon Rattle gathers David Nice writes, lectures and broadcasts Anna Lapkovskaja Mrs Pasek, Dog a vast orchestra – in his own words, ‘a massive on music, notably for BBC Radio 3 and Jonah Halton Pasek concert with a massive orchestra’ – for BBC Music Magazine. His books include Irene Hoogveld Jay LSO 2019/20 SEASON Bruckner’s Fourth Symphony. Subtitled the short studies of Richard Strauss, Elgar, London Symphony Chorus ‘Romantic’, the symphony conjures brightly Tchaikovsky and Stravinsky, and a Prokofiev LSO Discovery Voices Starts 14 September, featuring coloured images of enchanted woodland, biography, From Russia to the West 1891–1935. Simon Halsey chorus director Sir Simon Rattle: Beethoven 250 knights and huntsmen with a clarity surely David Lawrence & Lucy Griffiths chorus masters Gianandrea Noseda: Russian Roots only Bruckner could have achieved. François-Xavier Roth: Bartók & Stravinsky Ben Zamora lighting designer Michael Tilson Thomas: 50th LSO Anniversary Guildhall School musicians play side-by- Nick Hillel & Adam Smith (Yeast Culture) LSO Artist Portrait: Antoine Tamestit side with the LSO throughout tonight’s video designers concert, following extensive coaching Hans Georg Lenhart assistant director On sale now with LSO players. • lso.co.uk/201920season Produced by LSO and Barbican 4 Tonight’s Concert 20 June 2019 Ralph Vaughan Williams Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis 1910 / note by Wendy Thompson aughan Williams’ most famous recognised as a minor masterpiece, and it composition to make any public impact, Fantasia sprang from a combination has since been one of the composer’s most the song Linden Lea, was published in 1902. of passions: his absorption in Tudor popular and frequently performed pieces. music and English folk-song collecting, and His ‘discovery’ of folk song in 1903 was a from his editorship of The English Hymnal, The Fantasia is scored for double string major influence on the development of which occupied him almost exclusively orchestra of unequal size, from which the his style. A period of study with Maurice from 1904 to 1906. Several of the tunes section leaders emerge as a solo quartet. Ravel in 1908 was also very successful, included in the Hymnal influenced his own Vaughan Williams took as his starting with Vaughan Williams learning, as he put subsequent compositions, including the point Tallis’ original harmonisation of his it, ‘how to orchestrate in points of colour third of nine Psalm tunes by the Elizabethan modal melody, and based his structure on rather than in lines’. The immediate outcome composer Thomas Tallis, originally printed in the sectional concept of the Tudor fantasia. was the song-cycle On Wenlock Edge. Archbishop Parker’s metrical Psalter of 1567. The theme appears in various embellished The Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis, This melody, in the Phrygian mode, is set guises, before reappearing in its original using a tune he had studied while editing in the English Hymnal to Addison’s words grandeur in the closing section. • The English Hymnal, was first performed ‘When rising from the bed of death’. in Gloucester Cathedral in 1910. With these RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS 1872–1958 works he established a reputation which In 1910, Vaughan Williams was commissioned subsequent compositions, such as the to write a piece for the Three Choirs Festival.
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