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Beethoven & Berg Thursday 16 January 2020 7.30–9.40pm Barbican LSO SEASON CONCERT BEETHOVEN & BERG Berg Seven Early Songs Berg Passacaglia Berg Three Pieces for Orchestra Interval Beethoven Symphony No 7 Sir Simon Rattle conductor Dorothea Röschmann soprano Part of Beethoven 250 at the Barbican Welcome Latest News at Birmingham’s Symphony Hall earlier DONATELLA FLICK LSO PROGRAMME NOTE WRITERS this week and last night’s Half Six Fix CONDUCTING COMPETITION concert here at the Barbican. In the second Paul Griffiths has been a critic for nearly half, Sir Simon conducts Beethoven’s Applications are now open for the 16th 40 years, including for The Times and The Seventh Symphony, and we look forward to Donatella Flick LSO Conducting Competition New Yorker, and is an authority on 20th- forthcoming performances of Beethoven’s in 2021, founded in 1990 by Donatella Flick and 21st-century music. Among his books Ninth Symphony in the coming weeks, in and celebrating its 30th anniversary this year. are studies of Boulez, Ligeti and Stravinsky. London and on tour to Barcelona, Paris, He also writes novels and librettos. Hamburg and Baden-Baden. • lso.co.uk/more/news Andrew Stewart is a freelance music journalist I hope that you enjoy tonight’s performance AN INTRODUCTION TO and writer. He is the author of The LSO at 90, warm welcome to this evening’s and that you are able to join us again CHRIST ON THE MOUNT OF OLIVES and contributes to a wide variety of specialist LSO concert at the Barbican, soon. On Sunday, Sir Simon conducts classical music publications. conducted by Sir Simon Rattle. Beethoven’s rarely performed Christ on the In the words of Sir Simon Rattle, Beethoven This performance begins our year-long Mount of Olives together with Berg’s Violin is ‘absolutely inescapable’, particularly in his Lindsay Kemp is a senior producer for celebrations of the 250th anniversary Concerto, for which we welcome soloist anniversary year. Ahead of two performances BBC Radio 3, including programming of Beethoven’s birth, as part of a wider Lisa Batiashvili. At the end of the month, of Christ on the Mount of Olives, find out lunchtime concerts at Wigmore Hall and Beethoven 250 series at the Barbican. Principal Guest Conductor Gianandrea Noseda more about the musical titan’s only oratorio. LSO St Luke’s. He is also Artistic Advisor to Throughout January and February, Sir Simon resumes his Shostakovich cycle with the York Early Music Festival, Artistic Director of will pair the music of this great composer Ninth Symphony, which will be recorded • lso.co.uk/more/blog Baroque at the Edge Festival and a regular with a master of the 20th century, Alban for LSO Live. • contributor to Gramophone magazine. Berg, opening tonight with a trio of the latter composer’s works – his Seven Early Songs WELCOME TO OUR GROUP BOOKERS and the Passacaglia, leading straight into his Three Pieces for Orchestra. Benjamin Brody & Friends We are joined for the Seven Early Songs Kathryn McDowell CBE DL by soprano Dorothea Röschmann, who Managing Director made her LSO debut in 2012 with Mahler’s songs from Des Knaben Wunderhorn. It is Please ensure all phones are switched off. a pleasure to welcome her back tonight, Photography and audio/video recording following a performance with the Orchestra are not permitted during the performance. 2 Welcome 16 January 2020 Tonight’s Concert In Brief by Paul Griffiths Coming Up he first half of tonight’s concert The first movement has an introduction Sunday 19 January 7pm Thursday 30 January 7.30pm invites us to follow Alban Berg that, by turns rousing and lyrical, Thursday 13 February 7.30pm Barbican through his twenties, from the accumulates energy to spin off through Barbican passionate Romanticism of his Seven Early the usual sections of a first movement: SHOSTAKOVICH NINTH SYMPHONY Songs to the devastating turmoil of the exposition, development and recapitulation. CHRIST ON THE MOUNT OF OLIVES Three Pieces he composed during the first Liveliness persists, thanks to quick-rotating Prokofiev Symphony No 1, ‘Classical’ stages of World War I. The songs are love themes and fresh woodwind colour. Minor Berg Violin Concerto Mozart Violin Concerto No 3 songs, centred on a luminous setting of an harmony and a steady tread might have Beethoven Christ on the Mount of Olives Mussorgsky Prelude to ‘Khovanshchina’ early Rilke lyric, and all given extra elegance made the slow movement a funeral Shostakovich Symphony No 9 by the orchestration Berg added 20 years march, but it speaks more of effort and Sir Simon Rattle conductor later. Next comes a symphonic Passacaglia achievement. The scherzo has bursting Lisa Batiashvili violin Gianandrea Noseda conductor – an unfinished draft by Berg realised by energy, alternating with strong song and Elsa Dreisig soprano Christian Tetzlaff violin the Swiss conductor Christian von Borries. leaving the symphony on course for a finale Pavol Breslik tenor Altogether larger in scope and catastrophic, of swelling joy. • David Soar bass 6pm Barbican the Three Pieces comprise a prelude that London Symphony Chorus LSO Platforms: Guildhall Artists grows and symmetrically unwinds, a Simon Halsey chorus director Free pre-concert recital Round Dance wafting on the rhythm of the Viennese waltz, and a huge march that Part of Beethoven 250 at the Barbican Friday 7 February 12.30pm reaches on further from Mahler, with military LSO St Luke’s signals and shattering hammer blows. Friday 17, 24 & 31 January 1pm LSO St Luke’s LSO DISCOVERY At the time he was composing his early FREE FRIDAY LUNCHTIME CONCERT: songs, Berg had a bust of Beethoven on BBC RADIO 3 LUNCHTIME CONCERT FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE his bedside table, and it is to Beethoven BACH UP CLOSE we turn after the interval for his Seventh Musicians from all backgrounds explore Symphony of 1811–12. Here, following Discover the idiosyncrasies of Bach’s 20th-century Russian responses to the the oppression-to-freedom story of his chamber music with intimate performances Baroque in chamber music by Bach, Fifth Symphony and the country scenes from soloists and ensembles. Stravinsky, Schnittke and Shostakovich. of the ‘Pastoral’, Beethoven returned to abstract form – though Wagner, noting the Recorded for future broadcast by BBC Radio 3 Rachel Leach presenter prominent rhythms throughout, called the piece ‘the apotheosis of the dance’. Tonight’s Concert 3 Beethoven 250 at the Barbican by Dr Joanne Cormac COMING UP AT THE BARBICAN Saturday 1 – Sunday 2 February This season, the Barbican, London Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Academy of BEETHOVEN WEEKENDER Ancient Music and Guildhall School of Music & Drama celebrate 250 years since the birth of Ludwig van Beethoven. But what is his relevance today? Nine symphonies. Five orchestras. One extraordinary weekend celebrating Beethoven is the ultimate creative genius. social change. It is a powerful symbol of the original musical trailblazer. He epitomises the popular, romanticised hope, revisited in times of political struggle, image of the great composer. Beethoven a celebration of freedom and brotherhood. Sponsored by DHL suffered. He was taciturn, isolated, and lacking in social graces. He endured the The popular image can be problematic. Thursday 6 February 7.30pm worst affliction imaginable for a musician: Beethoven’s vocal and choral music, or deafness. In spite of all this (many, including simply the works that do not contain EVGENY KISSIN PLAYS BEETHOVEN Wagner, would argue because of all this), journeys of struggle to redemption, are he managed to compose some of the most rarely performed because they do not comply Beethoven Piano Sonata No 8 Op 13 breathtaking, transcendental, sublime with our perception of the heroic, suffering 15 Variations and a Fugue Op 35 music of the Western canon. At first, the artist. The Barbican’s innovative, inclusive Piano Sonata No 17 Op 31 composer's deafness was understood as a and occasionally irreverent programme, Piano Sonata No 21 Op 53 barrier to his compositional prowess: the in contrast, will question the myths. The reason for the bizarre, jarring sounds of the Beethoven we hear will be refreshingly Thursday 27 February 7.30pm late string quartets. Later, it was seen as the unfamiliar at times. Milton Court Concert Hall key to his greatness, enabling Beethoven to access profound, inward truths. Beethoven’s music endures. Its universal THE LAST THREE PIANO SONATAS themes mean that it remains relevant to Living through turbulent revolutionary times, almost any time and place. It has been heard Beethoven Piano Sonata No 30 Beethoven was an advocate for political in prisons, concentration camps, at the fall of in E major Op 109 reform. He saw a power-shift away from the Berlin Wall, in films, and in venues across Piano Sonata No 31 in A-flat major Op 110 the aristocracy. His political beliefs were the globe. 250 years after his birth, Beethoven Piano Sonata No 32 in C minor Op 111 more ambivalent and changeable than his belongs to everyone. And that is something mythology allows, but Beethoven’s music to celebrate. • Ronan O'Hora piano has come to represent resistance against tyranny and oppression, and the defence Explore the whole series online Promoted by Guildhall School of Music & Drama of individual freedom, equality and radical • barbican.org.uk/beethoven250 4 Beethoven 250 at the Barbican 16 January 2020 Alban Berg Seven Early Songs 1905–08 / note by Paul Griffiths LATER THIS SEASON Sunday 1 March 7pm 1 Nacht (Night) the first number and elsewhere, as well as, comes next, was the title poem of an early Barbican 2 Schilflied (Song Amongst the Reeds) where the choice of texts was concerned, for Rainer Maria Rilke collection; here, midway 3 Die Nachtigall (The Nightingale) the shimmering imagery of contemporary through the cycle, it provides for a rapturous SYMPHONIC GOSPEL SPIRIT 4 Traumgekrönt (A Crown of Dreams) poetry.
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