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Origin Stories: Greek Myth in Discounts Apply to Matinees Too, So You Music Series Adventures in music London Season 2020/21 Esa-Pekka Salonen Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor Tickets: philharmonia.co.uk 0800 652 6717 Official paper supplier: Sappi Fine Paper Europe Welcome … to the Philharmonia Orchestra’s 2020/21 London season at the Southbank Centre. Our season is brimming with stories, from Nordic legends to Old Testament dramas. There are stories to seduce and to shock, epic choral masterpieces, opium-fuelled dreams and chivalric fantasies. Our concerts feature some of the greatest artists in classical music, including conductor Riccardo Muti, violinist Joshua Bell and pianist Yuja Wang. At the heart of the programme are three concerts with our Principal Conductor & Artistic Advisor Esa-Pekka Salonen, exploring Greek myths set to music by great composers. Look out for Richard Strauss’s extraordinary opera Elektra, Scriabin’s multi-sensory Prometheus: The Poem of Fire, and Ravel’s captivating music for the ballet Daphnis and Chloé. Esa-Pekka Salonen © Benjamin Ealovega Come and join us for a year of adventures in music. Yuja Wang © Julia Wesely Soong Choo and Eunsley Park © Camilla Greenwell 2 philharmonia.co.uk 0800 652 6717 3 Who’s who Where and when Esa-Pekka Salonen Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor This is Esa-Pekka’s final season as our Principal Conductor. He first conducted the Philharmonia in 1983, and has been at the helm since 2008. Over the years he has led us on some of our most exciting artistic adventures – this year he’s set a course for Ancient Greece, exploring the enduring power of Greek myths and legends Philharmonia Orchestra © Camilla Greenwell through music by Scriabin, Strauss, Rameau The Orchestra and Ravel – and a piece of his own. The Philharmonia Orchestra is a team of 80 musicians, of 18 different nationalities. Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall © Belinda Lawley We are Resident Orchestra at the Southbank Centre, and also have residencies in Bedford, We play around 40 concerts each year at the Canterbury, Leicester, Basingstoke, at Southbank Centre. Most of them are in the Support Us Garsington Opera and at the Three Choirs Grade-I listed Royal Festival Hall, built in 1951 Your support is vital and Festival. We tour all over Europe, and to as the centrepiece of the Festival of Britain. helps us achieve our mission the USA, Japan and China. Some are in the smaller Queen Elizabeth Hall to create thrilling musical and Purcell Room, just next door. experiences for everyone. We make recordings, play for movie and video soundtracks, and create groundbreaking Virtual Esa-Pekka Salonen © Clive Barda Our season runs from September to June, and As a registered charity, Reality experiences. Our learning and education most of our London concerts are on Thursday the Philharmonia relies on projects, our films, and our pioneering use of Santtu-Matias Rouvali and Sunday evenings, and Sunday afternoons. funding from a wide range technology enable more people to experience A full list of this season’s concerts begins of sources. You can donate Principal Conductor Designate world-class music-making. on page 8. as an individual, or through a Santtu will take over the Principal Conductor’s foundation, trust or company. Find out more about us on our website, The Southbank Centre is close to Waterloo, baton from his fellow Finn next season, elected philharmonia.co.uk. Embankment and Charing Cross tube stations. Your support helps us create by the players themselves. He’s already It’s accessible to all, and has a choice of world-class concerts across made quite an impression with his expressive restaurants, cafes and bars. For more details the UK, and continue our conducting style and his deep musicality. visit southbankcentre.co.uk/visitor-info. extraordinary Learning & Catch him conducting Beethoven, Shostakovich, Engagement projects with Orff, Mozart and Tchaikovsky this season. Some of our concerts are broadcast on BBC school children, promising Radio 3, either live or a few days later, and young musicians, families available for 30 days via the Radio 3 website and communities. and the BBC iPlayer Radio app. To find out more, please visit philharmonia.co.uk/support or call 020 7921 3903. Santtu-Matias Rouvali © Camilla Greenwell 4 philharmonia.co.uk 0800 652 6717 5 What’s what Philharmonia Chamber Players These concerts are at 6pm in Royal Festival Hall, they last around 45 minutes, and they are completely free – just walk straight in. They are planned and performed by small ensembles formed from within the Orchestra. Our players relish the opportunity to play chamber music with their friends and © Beth Walsh colleagues and share some of their favourite music with you. Programme details will be Subscription concerts available online from spring 2020. Almost all our 7.30pm and 3pm concerts are part of our subscription season, which Music of Today means you can ‘subscribe’ by booking three Experience musical history in the making and or more concerts in the same transaction to be the first to hear brand new works – without save between 10% and 30% on your tickets. risking too much of your time or money. The exceptions are our two Christmas concerts Most of our Music of Today concerts are at 6pm on 13 December (page 18), our family concert and last around 45 minutes, and most of them Gaspard’s Foxtrot on 20 February (page 22) are free. They take place in different Southbank and The Dream of Gerontius on 25 June Centre venues, including Queen Elizabeth Hall (page 34). You’ll find details of subscription and Purcell Room. You’ll find full details on savings on page 39. page 36. Sunday matinees Insights events Our popular Sunday Matinee concerts start Before some concerts, hear from conductors, at 3pm and finish around 5pm. There’s plenty soloists and members of the Orchestra about of time for you to meet friends and family the music you’re about to enjoy. Our Insights for a meal before or after the concert, and Talks are free, just walk in. to enjoy some great music without worrying This season’s Insights Day on 7 February is about missing the last train home. Subscription part of our Origin Stories: Greek Myth in discounts apply to matinees too, so you Music series. Learn more about the enduring can make it a habit. Look out for in the fascination of Ancient Greek myths and concert listings. characters for composers, writers and artists. See page 20 for details. Santtu-Matias Rouvali © Camilla Greenwell 6 philharmonia.co.uk 0800 652 6717 7 Our concerts Key: Origin Stories: Dohnányi conducts Brahms Dvořák and Rachmaninov Philharmonia at 75 Prometheus Sunday 27 September 2020, 7.30pm Thursday 1 October 2020, 7.30pm Origin Stories: Greek Myth in Music Thursday 24 September 2020, 7.30pm Christoph von Dohnányi – conductor Conductor to be confirmed* Sunday Matinees Martin Helmchen – piano Denis Kozhukhin – piano Esa-Pekka Salonen – conductor Beethoven 250 Yuja Wang – piano BRAHMS Piano Concerto No. 1 DVOŘÁK In Nature’s Realm Philharmonia Voices BRAHMS Symphony No. 3 RACHMANINOV Piano Concerto No. 3 Brahms Symphonies DVOŘÁK Symphony No. 8 Programme includes: Principal Conductor of the Philharmonia for All concerts are in Royal Festival Hall, BEETHOVEN The Creatures 11 years, and now Honorary Conductor for Life, Two of Dvořák’s sunniest works make unless otherwise stated. See page 39 of Prometheus (excerpts) Christoph von Dohnányi is one of the most the perfect foil for the intensity of for ticket prices. SCRIABIN Prometheus: The Poem of Fire distinguished figures in classical music. Rachmaninov’s Third Piano Concerto. Origin Stories: Esa-Pekka Salonen opens his exploration of He opens with Brahms’s First Piano Concerto, Both overture and symphony open with the Greek Myth Greek myth in music with two contrasting works musical drama on a symphonic scale. The piece sound of birdsong. An early reviewer praised inspired by an ancient Greek creation story. stems from a turning point in Brahms’s life, In Nature’s Realm for its “joyful spring in Music Both tell of Prometheus, who breathed life into the attempted suicide of his mentor Robert mood… vitality, spontaneity and naturalness”, clay to create human beings, and stole fire from Schumann and his burgeoning love for Clara, and the same could be said of the Eighth Esa-Pekka Salonen presents the gods to give them light and understanding. Robert’s wife. Martin Helmchen follows in Symphony, full of melodies evoking Dvořák’s three epic performances, both Brahms’s and Clara Schumann’s footsteps beloved Bohemian countryside. exploring classical Beethoven wrote his only ballet score in 1801. as soloist, with “nimble fingers, questing composers’ responses to Beyond the well-known Overture lies music of Rachmaninov’s Third Piano Concerto was intelligence and a beating heart” the elemental tales found Classical grace, including the theme that later considered too difficult by even the top pianists (The Times). in Ancient Greek myth. became the Finale of the ‘Eroica’ Symphony. of his day, but it holds no fear for soloist Composers from Beethoven Over twenty years later, a more serene Brahms Denis Kozhukhin. A regular collaborator with Scriabin envelops his audience not just in to Strauss take on universal (still a steadfast friend to Clara) composed his the Philharmonia, Kozhukhin was praised last metaphorical light, but in the colours he themes: violence and Third Symphony. Woven through this graceful time he played with us for his “impeccably associated with different pitches and harmonies revenge, resistance work is his musical motto, F - A flat - F, standing crystal clear technique [and] musical – his Prometheus features a part for the ‘luce’, to tyranny, sex and desire, for ‘Frei aber froh’, free but happy. confidence” (Bachtrack). or colour organ.
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