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Gardiner's Schumann Sunday 11 March 2018 7–9pm Barbican Hall LSO SEASON CONCERT GARDINER’S SCHUMANN Schumann Overture: Genoveva Berlioz Les nuits d’été Interval Schumann Symphony No 2 SCHUMANN Sir John Eliot Gardiner conductor Ann Hallenberg mezzo-soprano Recommended by Classic FM Streamed live on YouTube and medici.tv Welcome LSO News On Our Blog This evening we hear Schumann’s works THANK YOU TO THE LSO GUARDIANS WATCH: alongside a set of orchestral songs by another WHY IS THE ORCHESTRA STANDING? quintessentially Romantic composer – Berlioz. Tonight we welcome the LSO Guardians, and It is a great pleasure to welcome soloist extend our sincere thanks to them for their This evening’s performance of Schumann’s Ann Hallenberg, who makes her debut with commitment to the Orchestra. LSO Guardians Second Symphony will be performed with the Orchestra this evening in Les nuits d’été. are those who have pledged to remember the members of the Orchestra standing up. LSO in their Will. In making this meaningful Watch as Sir John Eliot Gardiner explains I would like to take this opportunity to commitment, they are helping to secure why this is the case. thank our media partners, medici.tv, who the future of the Orchestra, ensuring that are broadcasting tonight’s concert live, our world-class artistic programme and youtube.com/lso and to Classic FM, who have recommended pioneering education and community A warm welcome to this evening’s LSO tonight’s concert to their listeners. The projects will thrive for years to come. concert at the Barbican, as we are joined by performance will also be streamed live on WELCOME TO TONIGHT’S GROUPS one of the Orchestra’s regular collaborators, the LSO’s YouTube channel, where it will lso.co.uk/legacies Sir John Eliot Gardiner. Alongside a significant be available to watch again for 90 days. Tonight we are delighted to welcome: European tour during the last fortnight, Queenswood School which concludes at the Paris Philharmonie I hope that you enjoy tonight’s concert and YOUTUBE LIVE STREAM Waltham Forest Music Service on Tuesday, tonight’s performance marks that you can join us again as we continue our Hertford U3A the beginning of his latest project with the exploration of Schumann’s symphonies. Tonight’s concert is being broadcast on LSO, exploring the full cycle of Schumann’s On Thursday 15 March Sir John Eliot Gardiner both medici.tv and YouTube. Head to our symphonies during 2018 and 2019. Following conducts the Fourth Symphony, the most YouTube channel at youtube.com/lso, where Read our news, watch videos and more the success of the conductor’s recent cycle innovative of Schumann's symphonic output. it will be available to watch for 90 days. • lso.co.uk/news of Mendelssohn’s symphonies – which were • youtube.com/lso recorded and released to critical acclaim on • lso.co.uk/blog LSO Live – we greatly anticipate this cycle OBITUARY: NELSON COOKE 1919–2018 and the insight which he will bring to these rarely performed works. The LSO was saddened to sad to hear Kathryn McDowell CBE DL of the death of former Principal Cello Managing Director Nelson Cooke on 7 February. Nelson was Principal Cello of the LSO from 1963 to 1968, before moving back to Australia where he trained generations of cellists. We extend our condolences to his family. 2 Welcome 11 March 2018 Tonight’s Concert / by Stephen Johnson Coming Up in April obert Schumann and Hector Berlioz’s Les nuits d’été (Summer Nights) Sunday 8 April 2018 7pm Thursday 19 & 26 April 2018 7.30pm Berlioz were two of Romanticism’s on the other hand is an oasis of calm, poise Barbican Hall Barbican Hall wildest and most brilliant spirits. and exquisite beauty, quite unlike anything Their dazzling imagination and utterly fresh else Berlioz every composed. Its tender, NOSEDA’S SHOSTAKOVICH MAHLER’S NINTH attitude to familiar musical forms has earned atmospheric lyricism and glorious vocal them devotion, but also furious criticism. writing have made it a firm favourite, even Beethoven Piano Concerto No 4 Helen Grime Woven Space * Even today they still divide the crowds. with listeners normally resistant to Berlioz. Shostakovich Symphony No 8 (world premiere) While some find their passion and fantasy Putting Schumann and Berlioz together like Mahler Symphony No 9 enthralling, others draw back – perhaps this gives some idea of the incredible range Gianandrea Noseda conductor sensing something of the mental instability of feeling and colour opened up in music by Nikolai Lugansky piano Sir Simon Rattle conductor that caused both men such acute suffering. the Romantic revolution. * Commissioned for Sir Simon Rattle and the But the works in this programme, in their Sunday 15 April 2018 7pm LSO by the Barbican very different ways, show how creativity PROGRAMME NOTE WRITERS Barbican Hall can bring relief, even joy, to troubled minds. 26 April generously supported by Baker McKenzie Schumann’s Overture to Genoveva tells Stephen Johnson is the author of Bruckner ELGAR CELLO CONCERTO the story of a woman wronged, plunged Remembered (Faber). He also contributes into despair, yet ultimately vindicated. The regularly to BBC Music Magazine and The Patrick Giguère Revealing music’s energy and pathos suggests that Guardian, and broadcasts for BBC Radio 3 (world premiere, Panufnik Commission*) he identified deeply with the sufferings of (Discovering Music), BBC Radio 4 and the Elgar Cello Concerto Sunday 22 April 2018 7pm the woman he chose as the heroine of his BBC World Service. Sibelius Symphony No 5 Barbican Hall only opera. The Second Symphony was written while Schumann was trying to drag David Cairns Volume Two of David Cairns’ Susanna Mälkki conductor MAHLER’S TENTH himself from the pit of a terrible depression. biography of Berlioz (Servitude and Daniel Müller-Schott cello We can perhaps hear something of his pain Greatness) won the biography category Tippett The Rose Lake † in the music, especially in the wonderful of the Whitbread Prize and the Samuel * The Panufnik Composers Scheme is generously Mahler comp Cooke Symphony No 10 slow movement, but the finale leads us Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction. Volume One supported by Lady Hamlyn and the Helen Hamlyn Trust through to glorious sunlit re-emergence from (The Making of an Artist) has been re-issued Sir Simon Rattle conductor the previous dark shadows, culminating in in a revised edition. a hymn of thanks to his wife Clara for her † Supported by Resonate, a PRS Foundation initiative in devoted support in time of crisis. lso.co.uk/whatson partnership with the Association of British Orchestras, 020 7638 8891 BBC Radio 3 and the Boltini Trust Tonight’s Concert 3 Robert Schumann Overture: Genoveva 1849 / note by Stephen Johnson ike many of the leading German Genoveva, the opera’s heroine, is the wife Romantics, Schumann was strongly of the legendary Germanic warrior Siegfried. drawn to the idea of national opera. While Siegfried is away performing heroic Ideally such a work might help create a feats, his rival Golo attempts to seduce sense of collective identity amongst the Genoveva. When she rejects him, Golo German-speaking peoples, at that time still denounces her as unfaithful and she is fragmented into principalities, dukedoms, condemned to death, only to be saved at independent city states and a much-reduced the last moment when Golo’s treachery is Austria. The great pioneering example here uncovered. Schuman’s Overture begins with was Weber’s Der Freischütz (The Free-Shooter, a sombre slow introduction, depicting both 1817–21), which combined old Germanic the anguish and the beauty of wronged LSO GUARDIANS legend, magic and a triumphant redemptive Genoveva. The following Allegro provides love story with music steeped in ‘folkish’ plenty of Romantic Sturm und Drang elements: the hunting and dance songs of (Storm and Stress), and evocative touches SECURE THE FUTURE the people, and the mysterious, elemental of colour, including some clearly masculine qualities of the great German forests. horn-calls (the absent Siegfried?). Eventually the dark minor key turns to bright major as Legacy Giving It wasn’t until the advent of Wagner that Genoveva’s triumphant vindication grows Leaving a legacy to the London Symphony Orchestra Der Freischütz found a truly great successor. ever more certain. • is one of the most enduring gifts you can make, But although Schumann’s only opera, and ensures that future generations will have access Genoveva (1847–49) is still often condemned as a failure from a dramatic point of view, to the outstanding music-making of the Orchestra. opinions of the music have risen recently – When the time is right for you to include a gift part of a welcome general re-appraisal of in your Will, please remember us. Schumann’s later works. All the same, the opera’s crowning glory remains its overture – To find out more about Legacy Giving, or to have a discussion which, like Schumann’s magnificent ‘Manfred’ Overture (also written in 1849), about leaving a legacy to the LSO, please contact us: works well both as a portrait of the leading lso.co.uk/legacies | [email protected] | 020 7382 2542 character, and as a concise, atmospheric tone poem in its own right. 4 Programme Notes 11 March 2018 Robert Schumann in profile 1810–56 / by Stephen Johnson he youngest son of a Saxon Besides welcoming the financial return THE SCHUMANN CYCLE CONTINUES … bookseller, Robert Schumann was that published Lieder (songs) could deliver, encouraged by his father to study Schumann was also able to preserve his 2017/18 SEASON music. Soon after his tenth birthday in 1820, intense feelings for Clara in the richly young Robert began taking piano lessons expressive medium of song.
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