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Shostakovich Symphony No 4 Thursday 1 November 2018 7.30–10pm Barbican Hall LSO SEASON CONCERT SHOSTAKOVICH SYMPHONY NO 4 Kodály Dances of Galánta James MacMillan Trombone Concerto SHOSTA (UK premiere) Interval Shostakovich Symphony No 4 Gianandrea Noseda conductor Peter Moore trombone 6pm Barbican Hall LSO Platforms: Guildhall Artists KOVICH Free pre-concert recital Kodály Duo for violin and cello Welcome LSO News Online lost in action in 1915. The LSO has a long- THE DONATELLA FLICK LSO LSO BLOG: standing relationship with James MacMillan CONDUCTING COMPETITION JAIME MARTÍN & PHILIPPE JORDAN dating back to the mid-1990s. The World’s Ransoming was premiered by Principal Cor This month 20 emerging conductors from As part of their LSO debuts last month, we Anglais Christine Pendrill, and in 2008 the across Europe will take part in the 15th spoke to two conductors, Jaime Martín and Orchestra gave the first performance of the Donatella Flick LSO Conducting Competition. Philippe Jordan, about their programming, St John Passion, an 80th birthday gift to Across two days of intense preliminary working with the Orchestra and how they Principal Conductor Sir Colin Davis. rounds they’ll compete for the chance to came to music. impress our panel of esteemed judges in Shostakovich’s Symphony No 4 closes the Grand Final here in the Barbican Hall To learn about how Jaime Martín this evening’s concert, with the Orchestra on Thursday 22 November. programmed his concert of dance-inspired Welcome to this evening’s LSO concert at the swelling to over 100 musicians for one music, and what Philippe Jordan listens to Barbican, where we are joined by Principal of the composer’s wildest symphonic Visit lso.co.uk/conducting-competition to in his spare time, visit lso.co.uk/blog. Guest Conductor Gianandrea Noseda for the outpourings. The performance is being find out more about the competitors. first of his six concerts this season. recorded for the Orchestra’s label LSO Live, and will be released as part of Gianandrea YOUTUBE: SIR SIMON RATTLE Tonight’s programme opens with Kodály’s Noseda’s ongoing Shostakovich cycle. LSO EAST LONDON ACADEMY CONDUCTS SIBELIUS Dances of Galánta, followed by the UK We look forward to his interpretation premiere of James MacMillan’s Trombone of the First later in the season. Developed in partnership with ten East The LSO’s performance of Sibelius’ Fifth Concerto, the first of two MacMillan premieres London boroughs, the LSO East London Symphony and Janáček’s Sinfonietta, given by the Orchestra this week, featuring I hope that you enjoy the performance Academy is the first step on a path to recorded at the Barbican on Wednesday LSO Co-Principal Trombone Peter Moore as and will be able to join us again soon. making the Orchestra truly representative 19 September, is available to watch on soloist. The members of the Orchestra are On Sunday 11 November, François-Xavier of its community in London. Opening at LSO our YouTube channel until 19 December. exceptional artists in their own right, and Roth will conduct works by Ligeti and Bartók St Luke’s in spring 2019, it aims to identify it is always a great pleasure to hear them alongside Hadyn’s Nelson Mass with the and develop the potential of young East Visit youtube.com/lso for more. taking on the role of soloist. London Symphony Chorus. Londoners who show exceptional musical talent, irrespective of their background or On Sunday we mark 100 years since the financial circumstance. Armistice of 1918 with the world premiere of MacMillan’s All the Hills and Vales Along, Visit lso.co.uk/news to read more about a poignant memorial which sets texts by Kathryn McDowell CBE DL the programme. war poet Charles Hamilton Sorley, who was Managing Director 2 Welcome 1 November 2018 Tonight’s Concert / by Gianandrea Noseda Coming Up any of the problems we face to Shostakovich being denounced for writing Sunday 4 November 2018 7pm Sunday 11 November 2018 7pm today – with globalisation on one advanced modern music, and the symphony Barbican Hall Barbican Hall side and the sobering power of was rejected. But even as the USSR rejected individual states on the other – are partly him, he found his roots elsewhere. This was a ALL THE HILLS AND VALES ALONG NELSON MASS due to a lack of knowledge about our own turning point. From Symphony No 4 onwards, origins. As artists, our responsibility is to bring his symphonies became Mahlerian in spirit, James MacMillan Ligeti Lontano people together to uncover our collective not only in following Mahler’s poetry, but also All the Hills and Vales Along * Bartók Cantata profana roots by showing the influence they have in in terms of what a symphony is supposed Shostakovich Symphony No 4 Haydn Nelson Mass music. If we can share that information with to do, how it depicts society. In Mahler's the widest possible audience, we can help. symphonies you can recognise the sounds Gianandrea Noseda conductor François-Xavier Roth conductor of Bohemia and the same is true with Ian Bostridge tenor Camilla Tilling soprano This evening’s concert begins with Kodály’s Shostakovich. The noble, trivial, vulgar, London Symphony Chorus Adèle Charvet mezzo-soprano spectacular Dances of Galánta. Based on old tender, grotesque elements of Shostakovich's Simon Halsey chorus director Julien Behr tenor Hungarian dances, the piece has a flavour of Russia are all present in these works. National Youth Brass Band of Great Britain Matthew Rose bass the Danube and ‘Mitteleuropa’. It is followed London Symphony Chorus by James MacMillan’s Trombone Concerto. PROGRAMME NOTE WRITERS * Commissioned by the London Symphony Orchestra and Simon Halsey chorus director MacMillan was composer-in-residence 14-18 NOW: WW1 Centenary Art Commissions, with the world premieres taking place at The Cumnock Tryst festival when I served as Chief Conductor at the BBC Wendy Thompson studied at the Royal (chamber version) on 6 October 2018 and LSO (orchestral Philharmonic so I know and love his work. College of Music and King’s College, version) on 4 November 2018 Tuesday 13 November 2018 6.30pm I believe we have to give today’s important London. In addition to writing about Barbican Hall composers the possibility of composing music she is Executive Director of Classic and displaying their output. Music has Arts Productions, a major supplier of HALF SIX FIX: ALSO SPRACH ZARATHUSTRA not stopped talking to us and it’s vitally independent programmes to BBC Radio. important that we listen. Supported by LSO Patrons Debussy Prélude à l’après-midi d’un Faune Andrew Huth is a musician, writer and Strauss Also sprach Zarathustra And finally, Shostakovich. Everything the translator who writes extensively on French, Part of the Barbican’s For the Fallen: Introduced on stage by the conductor composer wrote is 100 percent Russian – Russian and Eastern European music. Marking the First World War Centenary he really dug inside the soul of Russian François-Xavier Roth conductor society and its people. But Symphony No 4 Andrew Stewart is a freelance music is a problematic work because it was journalist and writer. He is the author of The composed immediately after the opera LSO at 90, and contributes to a wide variety Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, which had led of specialist classical music publications. Tonight’s Concert 3 Zoltán Kodály Dances of Galánta 1933 / note by Wendy Thompson ogether with Béla Bartók, Zoltán countryside to persuade young men to Following lessons in Paris with CM Widor, Kodály was one of the leading sign up to the army. Kodály presents the Kodály returned to Budapest in 1907 to Hungarian composers of the first themes in a rondo sequence. The opening lecture at the Academy of Music. He also half of the 20th century. His father worked slow introduction features a poignant contributed music reviews to various as a station-master, and Kodály’s childhood clarinet theme, introduced by a cadenza. publications, and continued his folk-song was dictated by the family’s postings to This becomes the main material of the studies with Bartók. Political upheavals in towns on Hungary’s rail network. When he rondo, in which slow sections called lassú, 1919 robbed Kodály of his post as deputy was three, they moved to Galánta, a market characterised by syncopated and dotted director of the Academy of Music; however, town on the main line between Budapest rhythms, are separated by faster episodes his career received a significant boost and Bratislava. They spent seven years (friss) featuring solos for oboe and flute. with the premiere in 1923 of the Psalmus there, a time Kodály remembered as being The string of dance tunes gradually becomes Hungaricus, a grand oratorio composed to particularly idyllic. When in 1933, by then a faster and wilder, until the slow opening mark the 50th anniversary of the union respected teacher, educationalist, composer, melody and the clarinet cadenza return to of Buda and Pest. The work was soon and avid folk-music collector, Kodály was herald the whirlwind ending. • recognised abroad, its success followed by commissioned to write an orchestral work that of Kodály’s opera Háry János (1926) and to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the • ZOLTÁN KODÁLY 1882–1967 its related orchestral suite. During the 1930s Budapest Philharmonic Society, he chose he completed two suites of folk dances, to recall his happy childhood days and the Sir Arthur Bliss once noted that the ‘voice the Dances of Marosszék and the Dances of musical traditions of Galánta. of Kodály in music is the voice of Hungary’. Galánta, which swiftly entered the orchestral Kodály was born in the small Hungarian repertoire. During World War II Kodály The melodies used in Dances of Galánta town of Keckskemét, and received his remained in Budapest where he managed drew on several old published volumes of elementary education in Galánta where to help many Jews and others persecuted Hungarian dances, one of which listed its his father became station master.
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