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Sibelius Violin Concerto Interval SIBELIUS Sibelius Symphony No 6 Sibelius Symphony No 7 Thursday 17 May 2018 7.30–9.30pm Barbican Hall LSO SEASON CONCERT MICHAEL TILSON THOMAS Sibelius Violin Concerto Interval SIBELIUS Sibelius Symphony No 6 Sibelius Symphony No 7 Michael Tilson Thomas conductor Ray Chen violin Recommended by Classic FM Welcome LSO News Online I hope that you enjoy the performance ‘THIS IS RATTLE’ WINS RPS AWARD LIVE STREAMS and that you are able to join us again soon. On Sunday, Michael Tilson Thomas conducts The LSO has been awarded the Royal The LSO’s concert on Sunday 24 June a cast of renowned singers and the London Philharmonic Society’s Music Award in the will be streamed live for free by Medici.tv Symphony Chorus in Beethoven’s choral epic, Concert Series and Festivals category for at 7pm, as Gianandrea Noseda conducts the Missa Solemnis. After that, the Orchestra September’s ‘This is Rattle’ celebrations – Shostakovich’s Symphony No 10. tours with Michael Tilson Thomas to Baden ten days of concerts, live streams, films, Baden, Amsterdam, Cologne and Stuttgart exhibitions, and performances by our Watch on the LSO’s YouTube channel at at the end of May, before returning to community and education groups. youtube.com/lso London for concerts with the LSO’s Principal Guest Conductor Gianandrea Noseda in June. Welcome to this evening’s LSO concert at the THE LSO ON MELODY VR PANUFNIK COMMISSIONS ANNOUNCED Barbican. We are delighted to be joined by long-time friend of the Orchestra, LSO The LSO is now available on Melody VR, the Every year the LSO Panufnik Composers Conductor Laureate Michael Tilson Thomas. world’s first dedicated virtual reality music Scheme commissions two of its six In the first of two concerts with the Orchestra, platform. Join Gianandrea Noseda on the participating composers to create short he conducts an all-Sibelius programme Kathryn McDowell CBE DL Barbican stage for music by Debussy, Haydn works for performance in the LSO’s main featuring the composer’s lyrical Violin Managing Director and Shostakovich, and get a unique view Barbican season. We are delighted to Concerto alongside the Sixth and Seventh as you watch from inside the Orchestra. announce that James Hoyle and Sophya Symphonies. In the Violin Concerto we are Visit melodyvr.com to find out more. Polevaya receive five- and ten-minute joined by Ray Chen, who steps in at short commissions respectively. Their pieces will notice for Janine Jansen to make his LSO be performed in the LSO’s 2019/20 season. debut. We look forward to his performance WELCOME TO TONIGHT’S GROUPS Visit lso.co.uk/news for more information. tonight, and to his appearance in the BBC Radio 3 Concert series ‘Alice Sara Ott This evening we are delighted to welcome & Friends’ at LSO St Luke’s in May 2019. Hertford U3A Read our news, watch videos and more • lso.co.uk/news I would like to take this opportunity to • youtube.com/lso thank our media partner Classic FM, • lso.co.uk/blog which has recommended tonight’s concert to its listeners. 2 Welcome 17 May 2018 Tonight’s Concert / by Stephen Johnson Coming Up f ever there were a composer who In the Seventh Symphony Sibelius fuses Sunday 20 May 2018 7pm Thursday 5 July 2018 7.30pm taught us to welcome failure, a wide range of moods and tempos into Barbican Hall Barbican Hall it’s Jean Sibelius. When he was one single movement, as organic as the a student in Helsinki, Sibelius’ teachers birth–growth–death life-cycles he observed MISSA SOLEMNIS LSO ON TRACK AT 10 prophesied a great future for him as a violin all around him. Although he didn’t know it virtuoso. But nerves got the better of him at the time, the Seventh was to be Sibelius’ Beethoven Missa Solemnis John Adams Short Ride in a Fast Machine and he gave it up, to his everlasting shame last symphony. It’s hard to imagine a more Kirsty Devaney Urban Nature (world premiere) and regret. Eventually he poured out his stirring, uplifting farewell. Michael Tilson Thomas conductor Beethoven Finale from Symphony No 7 grief over this loss in his Violin Concerto – Camilla Tilling soprano Márquez Danzón No 2 and the result was one of the glories of the Sasha Cooke mezzo-soprano James Moriarty Beat Goes On (world premiere) solo violin repertoire. It’s hard to believe that PROGRAMME NOTE WRITERS Toby Spence tenor Howard Moody the man who wrote this thrilling, hauntingly Luca Pisaroni bass-baritone Chaconne for Sydney Moxon (world premiere) atmospheric, heartbreakingly lyrical concerto Stephen Johnson is the author of Bruckner London Symphony Chorus could judge himself a failure, but he did, and Remembered. He contributes regularly to Simon Halsey chorus director Elim Chan conductor he only got through composing it with the BBC Music Magazine and The Guardian, Howard Moody conductor help of terrifying quantities of alcohol. and broadcasts for BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio 4 Rachel Leach presenter and the BBC World Service. Sunday 3 June 2018 7pm LSO On Track Young Musicians Some years later Sibelius tried to write a Barbican Hall East London Secondary School Second Violin Concerto: this time he failed young musicians completely, but out of the wreckage PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION Guildhall School Musicians came his Sixth and Seventh Symphonies. The Sixth, described in the sketches Ravel Rhapsodie espagnole Elim Chan’s appearance with the LSO is as ‘Winter’, is one of Sibelius’ most Beethoven Piano Concerto No 3 generously supported by Reignwood exquisite and enigmatic evocations of Mussorgsky arr Ravel Nordic landscapes and moods. It has Pictures at an Exhibition been described as a landscape without human figures: if so, then what emerges is Gianandrea Noseda conductor astonishingly rich drama of natural forces: Yefim Bronfman piano LSO On Track is a partnership between the LSO and the play of eerie far-northern light on Barking & Dagenham Community Music Service; Bird College; Royal Greenwich Music Hub; Hackney Music Service; water, rocks and trees, and the elemental Recommended by Classic FM Havering Music School; Lewisham Music Service; Newham catastrophe of a great storm. Music; Redbridge Music Service; Tower Hamlets Arts and Music Education Service; and Waltham Forest Music Service. Tonight’s Concert 3 Jean Sibelius Violin Concerto in D minor Op 47 1904, rev 1905 / note by Stephen Johnson 1 Allegro moderato was marked by one of his worst periods of But the hand of Sibelius the great • SIBELIUS ON LSO LIVE 2 Adagio di molto alcoholism. The central slow movement symphonist, the master of organic logic, 3 Allegro, ma non tanto was apparently sketched out during an epic is always in evidence. And after the three-day hangover. Sibelius’ explanation emotionally probing first and second Ray Chen violin was simple: ‘When I am standing in front movements comes an energetic, resolute of a grand orchestra and have drunk a half- polonaise-like finale. The stormy but s a young man Sibelius had bottle of champagne, then I conduct like unambiguously major-key ending suggests dreamed of a career as a violin a young god. Otherwise I am nervous and inner darkness confronted and defied. virtuoso. His violin teacher at tremble, feel unsure of myself, and then For Sibelius the man, such self-mastery the Helsinki University, Mitrofan Vasiliev, everything is lost. The same is true of my may have been pure fantasy; but as art pronounced him a ‘genius’. But nerves visits to the bank manager’. it’s stirringly convincing. • seem to have got the better of him, and his technique suffered. For a while Sibelius Yet there is little evidence of ‘weakness’ Composer Profile onPage 6 thought of giving up music altogether, in the Violin Concerto. Nowhere is this the ‘and living the life of an idiot, for which kind of music one would describe as self- I’m well qualified’. But the urge to create indulgent or rambling. The violin writing music was too strong. Sibelius bowed to the is superb – an indication of how thoroughly Sibelius Symphonies Nos 1 to 7 inevitable – he was to be a composer, not a Sibelius understood his instrument. violinist – but not without lasting regret. Some of it is ferociously difficult, but on Sir Colin Davis conductor the whole it presents the kind of challenges London Symphony Orchestra Then, at the turn of the century, Sibelius that excite rather than intimidate virtuosos. London Symphony Chorus met the man who was to become one of his most important friends, Axel Carpelan. In fact the idea of mastery extends to Available to buy at LSO Live and Amazon, Carpelan was full of ideas: Sibelius every dimension of the Violin Concerto. or to stream on Spotify and Apple Music should seek creative renewal in Italy, he The musical framework is taut, the long should write more symphonies, music for lyrical paragraphs (like the floating, soaring lsolive.co.uk Interval – 20 minutes Shakespeare’s plays, a violin concerto … violin line at the very beginning) are always There are bars on all levels of the Sibelius did all of this; but one can imagine beautifully shaped. There are moments, concert hall; ice cream can be bought how mixed his feelings must have been such as the impassioned second theme of at the stands on Stalls and Circle level. when he came to the Violin Concerto. the first movement, or virtually the whole Visit the Barbican Shop on Level -1 to see Significantly, the time immediately before of the central Adagio di molto, where the our new range of Gifts and Accessories. and during Sibelius’ work on the Concerto mood is achingly nostalgic, even pained. 4 Programme Notes 17 May 2018 with Michael Tilson Thomas in 2018/19 Beethoven Violin Concerto with Julia Fischer violin Thursday 30 May 2019 Beethoven Piano Concerto No 5 with Daniil Trifonov piano Sunday 2 June 2019 lso.co.uk/201819season 020 7638 8891 Jean Sibelius in Profile 1865–1957 1865 BORN 1898–99 FIRST SYMPHONY 1904 SIBELIUS BY ALBERT ENGSTRÖM Hämeenlinna, Finland, then an At a time when Russia was attempting He completed the Violin Concerto and autonomous part of the Russian Empire.
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