Sunday 22 April 2018 7–9.25pm Barbican Hall LSO SEASON CONCERT TIPPETT & MAHLER Tippett The Rose Lake * Interval Mahler comp Cooke Symphony No 10 Sir Simon Rattle conductor * Supported by Resonate, a PRS Foundation RATTLE initiative in partnership with the Association of British Orchestras, BBC Radio 3 and The Boltini Trust Streamed live on YouTube and recorded for broadcast on Monday 23 April on BBC Radio 3 Welcome LSO News Online It has been a long-term project for the THE LSO’S 2018/19 SEASON LIVE STREAMS LSO and Sir Simon Rattle to revive Tippett’s final masterpiece, and it is thanks to The LSO’s 2018/19 season is now on sale. Tonight’s concert will be broadcast live on Resonate, a PRS Foundation initiative in Highlights include Music Director Sir Simon the LSO’s YouTube channel, and will also be partnership with the Association of British Rattle’s exploration of folk-inspired music available to watch back in full for 90 days. Orchestras, BBC Radio 3 and The Boltini Trust, in his series Roots and Origins; the Visit youtube.com/lso for more. that this performance has been possible. continuation of Gianandrea Noseda’s Shostakovich cycle; Artist Portraits Our next live stream will take place on Today we hosted a Discovery Day focused on with soprano and conductor Barbara Hannigan Sunday 24 June 2018 at 7pm, as the LSO’s Tippett at the Barbican and LSO St Luke’s, and pianist Daniil Trifonov; and seven world Principal Guest Conductor Gianandrea with an open rehearsal, chamber music and premieres across the season. Full listings Noseda conducts Shostakovich’s Symphony Welcome to tonight’s concert, as the LSO’s talks. A warm welcome to attendees who are available at lso.co.uk/201819season. No 10 and Violin Concerto No 1, with soloist Music Director Sir Simon Rattle guides join us in the audience this evening. Nicola Benedetti, live from the Barbican Hall. us through the final works of two great composers – Sir Michael Tippett and Gustav As well as being recorded for future BMW CLASSICS IN TRAFALGAR SQUARE Mahler. This season we have explored the broadcast on BBC Radio 3, tonight’s WELCOME TO THE NEW MEMBERS late works that Mahler never heard in his performance is also being streamed live The LSO and Sir Simon Rattle will perform a OF THE VIOLA SECTION lifetime, from Das Lied von der Erde to the on the LSO’s YouTube channel, and will free open-air concert in Trafalgar Square on Ninth Symphony. We finally arrive at the be available to watch again for 90 days. Sunday 1 July, alongside 50 young musicians On Monday 16 April we welcomed two composer’s unfinished Tenth Symphony, from the LSO On Track programme and new Members to the LSO, Steve Doman and published posthumously in a ‘performing I hope that you enjoy tonight’s concert musicians from the Guildhall School. Carol Ella, both joining the Viola section. version’ by Deryck Cooke in the 1960s. and that you can join us again soon. Visit lso.co.uk/bmwclassics for details. Find out more on our blog. On 17 and 20 May the LSO’s Conductor Tonight’s performance of The Rose Lake Laureate Michael Tilson Thomas conducts is a very special occasion for the Orchestra. Sibelius and Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis. STOCKHAUSEN AT TATE MODERN The piece was originally commissioned by Read our news, watch videos and more the LSO to mark Tippett’s 90th birthday, On Saturday 30 June the LSO and • lso.co.uk/news and it is fitting that we will hear it exactly Sir Simon Rattle will bring Stockhausen’s • youtube.com/lso 25 years after it was completed, on 22 orchestral masterpiece Gruppen to • lso.co.uk/blog April 1993. The work was premiered at Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall. Tickets go the Barbican in February 1995, and was Kathryn McDowell CBE DL on sale at 10am on Monday 23 April. last conducted here with the LSO in 2005. Managing Director Visit lso.co.uk/tate for full details. 2 Welcome 22 April 2018 Tonight’s Concert / by Oliver Soden Coming Up onight’s is a concert of last works ‘I think the minute you hear The Rose Lake Thursday 17 May 2018 7.30pm Sunday 3 June 2018 7pm and incomplete manuscripts. and you hear the finale of the Tenth you’ll Barbican Hall Barbican Hall Mahler, suffering from a defective know what I was after – both of them, heart valve, knew he might not live to they’re in some kind of transcendent region MTT & JANINE JANSEN PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION complete his Tenth Symphony, and didn’t. that only comes to people near the end Tippett, beginning The Rose Lake at the of the journey. It’s as simple as that.’ Sibelius Violin Concerto Ravel Rhapsodie espagnole age of 86, knew he might not finish his Sibelius Symphonies Nos 6 & 7 Beethoven Piano Concerto No 3 ‘song without words for orchestra’, but did. Mussorgsky arr Ravel PROGRAMME NOTE WRITERS Michael Tilson Thomas conductor Pictures at an Exhibition Mahler’s work, left unfinished and heard Janine Jansen violin tonight in Deryck Cooke’s performing Oliver Soden is a writer and broadcaster Gianandrea Noseda conductor version, was composed in the knowledge on music and the arts. His work includes Recommended by Classic FM Yefim Bronfman piano that his wife, Alma, had been unfaithful. an edition of John Barton’s ten-play epic Its score is annotated with anguish: ‘To live Tantalus; articles in publications such as Recommended by Classic FM for you! To die for you!’ the composer wrote Gramophone and The Guardian; and a number on the final page of the final movement. of appearances on BBC Radio. His biography Tippett, seeking with The Rose Lake to of Michael Tippett will be published by Sunday 20 May 2018 7pm capture in sound the effect of light playing Weidenfeld and Nicolson in 2019. Barbican Hall on the pink waters of an African lake, was Sunday 24 June 2018 7pm suffering from near blindness. At some parts Stephen Johnson is the author of Bruckner MISSA SOLEMNIS Barbican Hall of the manuscript his swollen handwriting Remembered. He contributes regularly to gives out altogether, and, depressed and BBC Music Magazine and The Guardian, Beethoven Missa Solemnis SHOSTAKOVICH exhausted, he was at the mercy of dictation and broadcasts for BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio 4 and amanuenses. The piece that resulted and the BBC World Service. Michael Tilson Thomas conductor Shostakovich Violin Concerto No 1 is one of joy and sunlight, with little or Camilla Tilling soprano Shostakovich Symphony No 10 no Mahlerian anguish, and a chirruping, Andrew Stewart is a freelance music Sasha Cooke mezzo-soprano cheeky coda that punctures the reverie. journalist and writer. He is the author Toby Spence tenor Gianandrea Noseda conductor of The LSO at 90, and contributes to Luca Pisaroni bass-baritone Nicola Benedetti violin Why programme the works together? a wide variety of specialist classical London Symphony Chorus ‘Wisdom. Colour.’ replies Simon Rattle. music publications. Simon Halsey chorus director Generously supported by Reignwood Generously supported by The Atkin Foundation Tonight's Concert 3 Michael Tippett The Rose Lake, a song without words for orchestra 1991–3 / note by Oliver Soden medium fast – Standing by Lake Retba, he began to imagine seem a remarkable, perhaps unprecedented, extensive battery of percussion, including The Lake begins to sing: slow – The Rose Lake. ‘A song without words for achievement. Physical difficulties had not two tam-tams, a gong and tubular bells. fast – orchestra’, it would be nothing so crude as hampered Tippett’s creative power, nor his The horn section is augmented to six The Lake Song is echoed from the sky: slow – a sonic depiction of the lake, but an attempt determination to explore new worlds with players. And most clear to an audience at a fast – medium slow – to capture in music the dappled interplay each passing piece. A 60-year career had live performance is the array of rototoms: The Lake is in full song: slow – between water and light and colour, and seen his music shift from verdant lyricism drums tuned to a specific pitch by rotating medium slow-medium fast – medium slow – to chart a progression from dawn to dusk. to fragmented violence and back again. the head. Invented in the late 60s, less The Lake Song leaves the sky: slow – cumbersome and with a lighter sound than fast – — timpani, they were soon beloved of pop The Lake sings itself to sleep: medium slow – ‘I reached Lake Retba at midday, just in time to see it turn a marvellous groups such as Pink Floyd. Tippett had used medium fast rototoms before, in his large-scale setting transluscent pink. The sight of it triggered a profound disturbance in me: of Yeats’ Byzantium (1988–90), but they are n Senegal, north-west Africa, the sort of disturbance which told me that the new orchestral work had begun.’ more prominent in The Rose Lake, which a little way north-east of the — calls for three octaves, no fewer than 38 capital, Dakar, there is a pink lake, individual drums, spread one-to-a-note like separated from the Atlantic ocean only by a Michael Tippett on his experiences of Lake Retba in Senegal a gigantic keyboard across the back of the narrow line of sand dunes. Lake Retba, as it stage. The rototom part, one of the most is called, contains an algae (dunaliella salina) Composition did not begin until August 1991. Listeners cannot help but hear The Rose difficult and extensive in the instrument’s that produces a red pigment able to absorb Macular degeneration and cataracts had made Lake as a swansong, and Tippett himself repertoire, takes no prisoners, requiring light.