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19/20 bbc.co.uk/philharmonic Adventurous and innovative - the BBC Philharmonic is making bold moves to reimagine the orchestral experience. Discover more about the orchestra with a home in Salford and worldwide recognition… 10. At The Bridgewater Hall Join us in person at one of the finest concert halls in Europe. 18. Omer Meir Wellber 4. The BBC Philharmonic Get to know our new With strong roots in the city Chief Conductor. of Manchester, we can trace our origins back to 1921. We’re proud of our history and we’re energised for our future. 38. Learning & Participation Bringing exciting and innovative musical opportunities to the local community and beyond. 22. Beethoven 250 From February, along with our friends at the Hallé, we’re marking 250 years since Beethoven’s birth. 6. At the BBC Proms 40. On Tour We appear annually at the Performing across the North Royal Albert Hall as part of England and beyond. of the world’s greatest We’ve been everywhere classical music festival. from Sheffield to Shanghai. 8. Research & 42. In the Studio Development Our free studio concerts Discover more about our work across the year reach with BBC North’s pioneering audiences of over 8,000. digital teams. 2 3 The BBC Philharmonic is one of the most adventurous, innovative and The BBC versatile orchestras in Europe. Philharmonic We’re defined by our dynamism, In these pages, you’ll find details of our reimagining the orchestral experience flagship concert season at Manchester’s by bringing new music, concert-hall Bridgewater Hall. You can also learn rarities and established classics to the more about everything else we do, widest range of audiences across the from our BBC Proms concerts and UK and beyond. extensive recording catalogue to our free concerts in our Salford studio and New music is a key part of our mission our eclectic collaborations: we’ve recently – and so is the creation of new ways to worked with everyone from BBC Young experience it. Through our award-winning Musician Sheku Kanneh-Mason to The learning and participation programme, 1975 and Jarvis Cocker. We hope you can we take music out of the concert hall and join us for some of the 60+ concerts and into schools and community venues around special events in our 2019 – 20 season. the country. And, with our colleagues at BBC Research & Development, we’re pioneering innovative digital technologies to bring you fresh perspectives on the music we perform. 4 5 At the BBC Proms Our first two Proms in 2019 will be orchestra’s first ever Relaxed Prom Omer Meir Wellber’s first concerts (6 August), suitable for children and as the orchestra’s Chief Conductor: adults with autism, sensory or a varied programme on 23 July communication impairments or learning (broadcast on BBC Four on 26 July), disabilities, or who are deaf, hard-of- and a performance of Haydn’s The hearing, blind or partially sighted. Creation with the BBC Proms Youth Choir on 29 July. John Storgårds, Our Proms concerts on 23 July, 29 July, the orchestra’s Chief Guest Conductor, 4 August and 5 August are broadcast live takes charge for the world premiere of on BBC Radio 3 and are then available Outi Tarkiainen’s Midnight Sun online via BBC Sounds. See page 44 Variations on 4 August (live on BBC for a full list of our Proms concerts. Four; also at The Bridgewater Hall on 21 November), before Principal Guest Every summer, the orchestra decamps Conductor Ben Gernon directs the to London’s Royal Albert Hall for several concerts at the world’s greatest classical music festival: the BBC Proms. 6 7 Research & Development Through the Philharmonic Lab initiative, listening on headphones. You’ll be able we’ve been working hand in hand with our to listen to these recordings online via BBC R&D colleagues on a host of exciting BBC Sounds. new ways to experience music. And, last but not least, we’ve recently For 2019–20, we’re launching Notes, teamed up with the Royal Northern a new way to discover more about the College of Music’s Centre for Practice music as it unfolds at The Bridgewater and Research in Science and Music Hall. If you’re sitting in a specific part of (PRiSM) to help facilitate research the hall, we’ll beam free digital programme into the future of music – beginning with notes live to your smartphone during composer Robert Laidlow’s exploration the concert. into how composers and musicians could work with Artificial Intelligence (AI) We’ll be recording most of this season’s throughout the creative process. MediaCityUK is one of the most vital Bridgewater Hall concerts in Binaural creative hothouses in the country – and Sound, which creates an extraordinary the BBC Research & Development team three-dimensional effect for anyone is a vital element of that dynamism. 8 9 At The Bridgewater Hall An outstanding orchestra live in a all Beethoven’s symphonies and a selection world-class concert hall – the BBC of choral music. Sir Mark Elder, the Hallé’s Philharmonic’s annual season at Music Director, will also be joining us for Manchester’s Bridgewater Hall is one night only. one of the highlights of the British concert calendar. Every Bridgewater Hall concert is broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and available The 2019 – 20 season represents online via BBC Sounds. But nothing a new beginning for the orchestra compares with hearing music live in such with the arrival of Omer Meir Wellber, a magnificent concert hall – and with free, our new Chief Conductor. The first of family-friendly Journey Through Music Omer’s three concerts this season will workshops before many of the concerts, open with a UK premiere, one of five programme notes sent live to your world or UK premieres we’re performing smartphone (see page 35) and tickets during the season. from just £3, there’s never been a better time to join us in person. From February to June, we’re marking 250 years since Beethoven’s birth by teaming up with the Hallé to perform 10 11 Saturday 21 September, 7.30pm Thursday 24 October, 7.30pm Kabalevsky Jeffrey Mumford Colas Breugnon, Within diffuse echoes Overture (5’) … softly spreading Prokofiev (BBC commission: Piano Concerto No. 3 (28’) world premiere) (18’) Coates Mendelssohn Dancing Nights (8’) Piano Concerto No. 1 (19’) Walton Mahler (43’) (68’) Symphony No. 1 Symphony No. 5 Opening the BBC Philharmonic’s From dawn to dusk, American composer Bridgewater Hall season, John Wilson Jeffrey Mumford’s evocative music pairs light with darkness and sugar with takes its cues from the daily ebbing and spice in a sweeping selection of music from flowing of natural light around and between the wars. The lightness comes upon us. Tonight’s world premiere of courtesy of Eric Coates’s quintessentially within diffuse echoes … softly spreading, English waltz, the spice from Dmitry a BBC commission, is conducted by Kabalevsky’s fizzing operatic overture. Joana Carneiro, who is joined by soloist Prokofiev’s fiery Third Piano Concerto Denis Kozhukhin for Mendelssohn’s is a showcase for virtuoso pianists, dashing, dazzling First Piano Concerto. and Alexander Gavrylyuk has made it a Gustav Mahler’s typically majestic Fifth speciality. Contrast its confidence with Symphony progresses from tragedy to William Walton’s searing, heartbroken triumph in five sweeping movements, First Symphony, written after the collapse including perhaps the most treasured of a passionate affair and now regarded music he ever wrote: the Adagietto, as one of the greatest British symphonies a love note to his wife. ever written. Denis Kozhukhin – piano Alexander Gavrylyuk – piano Joana Carneiro – conductor John Wilson – conductor See page 35 for details 12 13 Saturday 2 November, 7.30pm Saturday 9 November, 7.30pm Stravinsky Wagner Song of the Wesendonck Lieder (21’) Nightingale(21’) Bruckner (70’) Philip Grange Symphony No. 5 Violin Concerto Anton Bruckner waited 20 years for the (BBC commission: premiere of his Fifth Symphony, fell ill, (25’) missed the concert and then died world premiere) without ever having heard it performed. Tchaikovsky From such shaky origins, the reputation of this monumental work has only grown Symphony No. 1, throughout the years – and Australian (42’) ‘Winter Daydreams’ conductor Simone Young, a Bruckner specialist whose 2015 recording garnered Commissioned by the BBC and performed rave reviews across the board, should bring tonight for the first time, Philip Grange’s the very best from it here. Before she does, Violin Concerto takes flight into the soprano Sally Matthews takes on the five- world around us. At times, it’s inspired song cycle of Mathilde Wesendonck poems by massed forces from nature: swarms composed by Richard Wagner, Bruckner’s of bees and murmurations of starlings, musical idol. plagues of locusts and clouds of bats. But, at others, the soloist – violin virtuoso Sally Matthews – soprano Carolin Widmann – is left isolated and Simone Young – conductor alone. Stravinsky’s singing nightingale soars away to the court of a Chinese emperor in his predictably unpredictable ballet, before Tchaikovsky’s bold and beguiling First Symphony heralds the imminent arrival of the fierce Manchester winter. Carolin Widmann – violin Ben Gernon – conductor See page 35 for details 14 15 Thursday 21 November, 7.30pm Thursday 28 November, 7.30pm Kalevi Aho Milhaud Theremin Concerto Le boeuf sur le toit (17’) (UK premiere)(32’) Ravel Outi Tarkiainen Piano Concerto Midnight Sun in G major (22’) Variations (10’) Prokofiev (42’) Shostakovich Symphony No. 5 Symphony No. 12, The transatlantic relationship between (38’) ‘The Year 1917’ France and the USA has rarely seemed as friendly as it does in Ravel’s Piano A century after its invention, the theremin Concerto, a note-perfect mix of Jazz Age still sounds like it’s just dropped in from energy and classical European grace.