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Thursday 5 March 2015 7.30pm Barbican Hall

DANCE OF THE GYPSY

Brahms arr Schoenberg Quartet in G minor INTERVAL Kodály Háry János – Suite Weiner Fox Dance Traditional arr Haanstra Deux Guitares Vladimir Cosma Le Grand Blond Schindler’s List London’s Symphony Orchestra Csampai / Bihari Memory of Bihari / Hejre Kati

Kristjan Järvi conductor Roby Lakatos violin László Bóni violin Kálmán Cséki Jr piano Jenö Lisztes László Balogh guitar László ‘Csorosz’ Lisztes bass

Concert finishes approx 10.30pm

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Welcome to this evening’s concert with the LSO, BBC RADIO 3 LUNCHTIME CONCERTS the next instalment in conductor Kristjan Järvi’s Eclectica at the Barbican series, which explores A new series of BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concerts different musical genres and cultures through begins at LSO St Luke’s this month, taking place diverse collaborations. Following a first half every Thursday at 1pm. In Haydn Plus One, dedicated to the orchestral arrangement of Brahms’ performers including the Endellion String Quartet, First Piano Quartet, with its vibrant ‘Rondo alla Ronald Brautigam, Meta4 String Quartet and the Zingarese’ finale, virtuoso violinist Roby Lakatos ATOS Trio examine influential works by Haydn, one and his Ensemble join the LSO for a programme of the truly pivotal figures in the history of chamber of Hungarian dances and gypsy-inspired tunes, music, alongside complementary masterpieces by melding classical, jazz and folk music. a range of later composers.

Roby Latakos, celebrated as the ‘King of the Gypsy lso.co.uk/lunchtimeconcerts Violin’, is an old friend of the LSO, having previously performed several times with the Orchestra on the Barbican stage and in our UBS Soundscapes: THE LSO ON TOUR THIS MONTH Eclectica events at LSO St Luke’s. We are delighted to see him return tonight with his Ensemble. In celebration of LSO Principal Guest Conductor ’ 70th birthday, the Orchestra I hope that you enjoy the performance. Join us and MTT perform two concerts this month at the again on 12 and 15 March as we celebrate the Barbican on 12 and 15 March, before heading to the 70th birthday of Michael Tilson Thomas, the LSO’s US for an eleven-date tour. Keep up-to-date with the Principal Guest Conductor, with two special concerts. LSO’s travels and behind-the-scenes stories on our These are followed by a tour to New York and the Facebook and Twitter pages. LSO International Violin Festival West Coast of America. The Orchestra’s London season will resume on 8 April with the first concert facebook.com/londonsymphonyorchestra 12 Violin Superstars | 12 Amazing Concerts of the LSO International Violin Festival, featuring twitter.com/londonsymphony soloist Leonidas Kavakos. April to June 2015 A WARM WELCOME TO TONIGHT’S GROUPS 020 7638 8891 | lso.co.uk/violinfestival Groups of 10+ receive great benefits, including a 20% discount on standard tickets, a dedicated The LSO International Violin Festival is Kathryn McDowell CBE DL group booking hotline and, for larger groups, the generously supported by Jonathan Moulds Managing Director chance to meet LSO musicians. This evening we are delighted to welcome Rachel Good & Friends and Simon Hewitt Jones & Friends.

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Tonight’s Concert Dance of the Gypsy Violin

JOHANNES BRAHMS (1833–97) played; and thirdly, ‘It is always played badly, because PIANO QUARTET NO 1 IN G MINOR OP 25 the better the pianist, the louder he plays, and you ARR FOR ORCHESTRA BY ARNOLD SCHOENBERG hear nothing from the strings. I wanted just once to (1874–1951) hear everything, and this I achieved’. Schoenberg went on to say that his orchestration would be 1 ALLEGRO strictly in the style of Brahms, going no further than 2 INTERMEZZO: ALLEGRO Brahms would have gone ‘had he been alive today’. 3 ANDANTE CON MOTO In fact, Schoenberg’s vibrant orchestration intensifies 4 RONDO ALLA ZINGARESE: PRESTO the drama of the piece and gives it a modern twist, while retaining the rich, string-heavy sound of the PROGRAMME NOTES WRITER Tonight’s concert brings the alluring and exotic Romantic era. WENDY THOMPSON is sounds of Central Europe to the Barbican in a Executive Director of Classic Arts celebration of the iconic of Although the first two movements – a large- Productions, a major supplier of the Austro-Hungarian Empire – the violin. The scale Allegro, which unwinds with concentrated independent programmes to BBC characteristic sound of the gypsy – soulful, intensity, and an intermezzo-like Scherzo with an Radio 3, including Essential Classics. intense, virtuosic, its plangent melodies derived animated trio in the major key – belong firmly to both from the folk music of the Danube plains and the concert hall, the music of the street intrudes in from Jewish bands – percolated throughout the broadly lyrical slow movement in the form of THE is an 18th and the squares, cafés and beer gardens of the Empire, a jaunty episode in military-style dotted rhythms. 19th-century , infusing popular dance music and the orchestral The contrasting tempos of the episodes – slow or characterised by the alternation and chamber works of the concert hall alike. extremely fast – in the final ‘Rondo alla zingarese’ of slow and fast sections, dotted clearly derive from the gypsy verbunkos or rhythms, virtuosic melodies and As a youthful virtuoso pianist of 20, Brahms toured tradition. The percussion section comes into its own the clicking of spurs. A ‘recruiting with the Hungarian violinist Eduard Reményi, whose here, with a xylophone, punctuated by tambourine, dance’ performed by members of fiery playing owed much to the . Brahms’ imitating the traditional cimbalom. Schoenberg the Hungarian light cavalry, it was own Hungarian Dances, begun at the same period, cleverly distributes Brahms’ brilliant piano passage- designed to encourage patriotism translated Reményi’s alla zingarese style to the work between and a solo , while several among those watching and to keyboard, while his Piano Quartet in G minor, written of the slow episodes, especially the last, which encourage young men in the in the early 1860s, bottles its essence within the features solo strings and a wailing , evoke villages to join the army. formal constraints of chamber music. the sound of a klezmer band.

THE CSÁRDÁS is a 19th-century In 1937 Arnold Schoenberg, who had recently moved INTERVAL – 20 minutes Hungarian dance derived from the from the Berlin of the Third Reich to Los Angeles, There are bars on all levels of the Concert Hall; ice cream verbunkos, which was particularly arranged the Quartet for orchestra at the instigation can be bought at the stands on Stalls and Circle level. popular in aristocratic circles. Like of the conductor Otto Klemperer, who conducted The Barbican shop will also be open. the verbunkos, it alternates tempos, the premiere with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. beginning slowly and ending at a very A fervent admirer of Brahms, Schoenberg said that Why not tweet us your thoughts on the first half of the fast (or ‘friss’, meaning ‘fresh’) speed. he had made the arrangement for three reasons: performance @londonsymphony, or come and talk to firstly, he liked the piece; secondly, it was seldom LSO staff at the Information Desk on the Circle level?

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ZOLTÁN KODÁLY (1882–1967) Kodály said of his fantasist hero: ‘The stories HÁRY JÁNOS – SUITE released by his imagination are an inextricable mixture of realism and naivety, of comic humour 1 PRELUDE: THE TALE BEGINS and pathos … Though on the surface he seems to 2 VIENNESE MUSICAL CLOCK be just boasting, he is actually a natural visionary 3 SONG and poet. His stories may be untrue, but that is 4 THE BATTLE AND DEFEAT OF NAPOLEON irrelevant, for they spring from a lively imagination 5 INTERMEZZO which seeks to create an enchanted dream world 6 ENTRANCE OF THE EMPEROR AND HIS COURT for himself and others’.

Zoltán Kodály was one of several 20th-century Kodály later extracted a six-movement orchestral Hungarian composers who fertilised western suite from the opera, which was first performed at genres with Magyar and gypsy folk idioms. From the Liceo Theatre in Barcelona on 24 March 1927. THE CIMBALOM is a Hungarian 1905 onwards he began to collect and record folk It uses a large orchestra, including a cimbalom. – a musical instrument, like songs in collaboration with his friend, the composer a , with strings set across a Béla Bartók, with whom he shared a vision of The first movement, The Tale Begins, opens with trapezoid-shaped box that are struck ‘an educated , reborn from the people’. a famous orchestral ‘sneeze’. Kodály said that, by hammers or beaters. Kodály’s use ‘according to Hungarian superstition, if someone of the cimbalom in his Háry János ‘If I were to name the composer sneezes after hearing a statement, it is taken to Suite is one of the instrument’s most whose works are the most perfect mean that the statement is true. The Suite begins famous appearances in classical with a sneeze of this kind!’ In the next movement, works, but composers like Liszt, embodiment of the Hungarian Viennese Musical Clock, Háry admires the famous Stravinsky, Bartók and Sir Peter spirit, I would answer, Kodály. musical clock in the imperial palace. Bells chime, Maxwell Davies have also included and a procession of wooden soldiers marches it in their compositions. His work proves his faith in the round and round to a cheerful military-sounding Hungarian spirit.’ tune. The following Song is a vivid expression of homesickness, coloured by the sound of the Bartók writing about Kodály in 1928 cimbalom, and introduced by a melancholy solo .

Kodály’s comic opera Háry János, a Hungarian folk Then comes The Battle and Defeat of Napoleon. opera with spoken dialogue, was performed in Jaunty trombones sound a call to arms, but the in 1926. The eponymous hero is a veteran opening French victory march proves premature, soldier who fought with the Austrian army in the and subsides into a funeral dirge led by a mournful early 19th century. He now sits in the village pub saxophone. The fifth movement, Intermezzo, is regaling his listeners with fantastic tales of derring- a spirited csárdás starring the cimbalom, its trio do, such as winning the love of Napoleon’s wife, featuring horns and woodwind solos, while the the Empress Marie-Louise, and single-handedly Suite ends with the Entrance of the Emperor defeating Napoleon’s armies, before retreating and his Court, strutting and preening with back to his own village with his sweetheart. comical exaggeration.

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Tonight’s Concert Dance of the Gypsy Violin continued

LEÓ WEINER (1885–1960) Cosma’s vast output includes over 300 film FOX DANCE soundtracks, most notably Diva (1980), for which he won a César Award. Throughout his career he Among Kodály’s professorial colleagues at the has worked particularly closely with the director Budapest Academy of Music was the composer Yves Robert, and another of his best-known film . Although Weiner himself did not scores is for Robert’s 1973 film Le grand blond collect folk music, his own work is permeated with avec une chaussure noire (The tall fair-haired Hungarian idioms. In this scintillating arrangement man with a black shoe), a comedy in which an of his work Fox Dance, originally written for solo unsuspecting musician becomes entangled in piano, Roby Lakatos is accompanied here by his the net of the French Secret Service. ensemble of violin, cimbalom, guitar, and piano. The theme tune of Le grand blond glitters with the sound of the cimbalom, ubiquitous in both Romanian TRADITIONAL ARR HAANSTRA and . DEUX GUITARES JOHN WILLIAMS (b 1932) Some well-known Roma melodies have been SCHINDLER’S LIST: THEME passed down through an oral tradition, and cannot be attributed to a definite composer. One such is The significance of the violin in Central European the much loved Deux Guitares, which probably folk music – in the intertwined gypsy and Jewish originated in Russia. Roby Lakatos simulates the traditions – is underlined in John Williams’ multi- The SCHINDLER’S LIST flamenco-style strumming of the guitars with a award-winning score for Steven Spielberg’s 1993 soundtrack is one of film composer virtuoso display of continuous . film Schindler’s List, in which a haunting violin solo John Williams’ best-loved film scores, seems to encapsulate the tragic fate of European winning Academy, BAFTA and Grammy VLADIMIR COSMA (b 1940) Jews during the Holocaust. Awards in 1993 when the film was LE GRAND BLOND released. Its main theme features a moving, poignant melody on solo Gypsy style has permeated many different types violin, which was originally played by of music, not least film scores. The Romanian legendary violinist Itzhak Perlman. composer Vladimir Cosma, who studied at the Conservatoire and then in Paris with Nadia Boulanger, has assimilated elements of jazz, French chanson and Central European folk idioms, as well as the classical tradition, into his music.

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JÁNOS BIHARI IVO CSAMPAI / JÁNOS BIHARI (1764–1827) 2015/16 SEASON MEMORY OF BIHARI / HEJRE KATI

Roby Lakatos was born into the legendary dynasty of Gypsy musicians descended from the ‘Napoleon of the fiddle’, János Bihari, a Hungarian violinist, bandleader and composer, who achieved widespread fame and success with his Ensemble. Like his contemporary Niccolò Paganini, Bihari’s astonishing technique seemed to possess a supernatural quality. The young Liszt was enchanted by his dazzling performances, while other listeners described him as ‘the incarnation of the musical demon of fiery imagination’. : MAN OF THE THEATRE Fri 9, Sun 11 & Sun 18 Oct 2015 ‘The tones sung by his magic violin Valery Gergiev brings a wealth of theatrical flow on our enchanted ears like experience to dramatic ballet scores by the tears.’ Stravinsky and Bartók, including The Firebird, The Rite of Spring and The Miraculous Mandarin. on János Bihari

CREATIVE GENIUSES Bihari may have invented the spirited Hungarian Sat 9 & Sun 10 Jan 2016 dance known as the verbunkos, and some of the best-known csárdás melodies have been ascribed Sir collaborates with Peter Sellars on to him, including Hejre Kati (Come Here, Katie), this semi-staged performance of Debussy’s opera with its typical alternation of slow and fast sections. Pelléas et Mélisande. Csampai’s piece pays homage to the memory of a truly remarkable musician. SHAKESPEARE 400 Thu 16, Thu 25 & Sun 28 Feb 2016

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Kristjan Järvi Conductor

Kristjan Järvi has ‘earned a reputation as one of Järvi works with some of today’s brightest creative the canniest, and most innovative, programmers minds, from film directors Tom Tykwer and the on the classical scene’ (Reuters), with his original, Wachowskis, to composers and artists Arvo Pärt, genre-fusing projects proclaimed as a ‘life-enhancing Steve Reich, Tan Dun, Hauschka, Dhafer Youssef, experience’ by The Herald Scotland. Anoushka Shankar and Esa-Pekka Salonen, with whom he started his career as Assistant Conductor He realises his pioneering ideas with his four at the Los Angeles Philharmonic. ensembles: as Music Director of the MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Gstaad Festival Born in Estonia, Kristjan Järvi emigrated to the Orchestra, as Founder-Conductor of his New United States as a child and grew up in New York York-based classical-hip-hop-jazz group Absolute City. He is an accomplished pianist and graduated Ensemble, and as Founder and Music Director of from the Manhattan School of Music, following the Baltic Sea Youth Philharmonic, the cornerstone this with conducting studies at the University of the Baltic Sea Music Education System. An of Michigan. entrepreneur by nature and a passionate educator, Kristjan Järvi leads both the oldest Radio Orchestra Music Director in Europe and the newest Youth Orchestra. Ongoing MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony guest conducting engagements include concerts Orchestra with the Orchestre National de France, Orchestre de Paris, Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia Rome, Music Director National Symphony Orchestra (Washington DC), Gstaad Festival Orchestra the Minnesota Orchestra, and NHK Symphony Japan. In 2012 he made his debut with the Berlin Founder-Conductor Philharmonic Orchestra. Absolute Ensemble As a recording artist Järvi has more than 60 albums Founder & Music Director to his credit, from Hollywood soundtracks such as Baltic Sea Youth Philharmonic Cloud Atlas and award-winning albums on Sony and Chandos, to his eponymous series on Naïve Classique, the Kristjan Järvi Sound Project. Launched in 2014, the series features projects across all of Järvi’s ensembles and is characterised by the conductor’s unmistakable approach in taking a fresh look at the old, with concepts and presentation that transcend the borders of classical music.

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Roby Lakatos Violin

‘This was a display of virtuoso skill and sensitivity rounded out with fine lyrical swooping and quick-fire double-handed pizzicato. Not gypsy music as we know it now, this was the kind of well-bred but dazzling playing that excited 19th-century listeners, Brahms among them, and still gets audiences on their feet.’ The Independent on Roby Lakatos with the LSO

Born in 1965 into the legendary family of gypsy Roby Lakatos has performed at the great halls violinists descended from János Bihari, ‘King of Gypsy and festivals of Europe, Asia and America. This Violinists’, Roby Lakatos was introduced to music as is his fourth performance with the LSO. He first a child, making his public debut at the age of nine as collaborated with the Orchestra in March 2004 as first violin in a gypsy band. His musicianship evolved part of the Genius of the Violin festival, appearing not only within his own family but also at the Béla on the Barbican stage alongside Maxim Vengerov. Bartók Conservatory of Budapest, where he won the His last concert with the LSO, The Devil’s Fiddler, first prize for classical violin in 1984. Between 1986 took place in June 2009 and saw Roby and his and 1996, he and his ensemble delighted audiences Ensemble perform their characteristic and dazzling at Les Atéliers de la grande Ile, a restaurant in mix of classical, jazz and Hungarian folk music. , their musical home throughout this period. He has collaborated with Vadim Repin and Stéphane Grappelli, and his playing was greatly admired by Sir , who always made a point of visiting the club in Brussels to hear Lakatos.

Roby Lakatos is not only a scorching virtuoso, but is also a musician of extraordinary stylistic versatility. Equally comfortable performing classical music as he is playing jazz and in his own Hungarian folk idiom, Lakatos is a rare musician who defies definition. He is referred to as a gypsy violinist or a ‘devil’s fiddler’, a classical virtuoso, a jazz improviser, a composer and arranger, and a 19th-century throwback, and he is actually all of these things at once. He is the kind of universal musician so rarely encountered in our time – a player whose strength as an interpreter derives from his activities as an improviser and composer.

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Roby Lakatos Ensemble

Roby Lakatos Ensemble (L to R): László ‘Csorosz’ Lisztes, László Bóni, Kálmán Cséki Jr, Jenö Lisztes, László Balogh

LÁSZLÓ BÓNI (second violin) was born in Budapest in 1968 and LÁSZLÓ BALOGH (guitar) was born in Budapest in 1987, beginning his studied with Roby Lakatos’ father, playing in his orchestra and earning music studies at the age of six with Agnes Székely at the Aladár Tóth a soloist’s diploma as a Gypsy violinist in 1987. He then spent six Music School. His first instrument was the cimbalom, but he switched months in Japan, performing with a Gypsy trio that subsequently to the guitar when he was 12. He went on to study at the Franz Liszt toured Europe. He worked in Antwerp from 1991 to 1994, and is Music Academy, after which he became an apprentice in the Roby Roby Lakatos’ oldest collaborator. Lakatos Ensemble. He is now solo guitarist.

KÁLMÁN CSÉKI JR (piano) was born in Budapest in 1982. LÁSZLÓ ‘CSOROSZ’ LISZTES (bass) was born in 1988. Having begun He studied classical music at the Aladár Tóth Music School. Later his musical studies on the violin, at the age of nine he changed to he moved on to the Léo Weiner Music Conservatory. Kálmán Cséki Jr double bass and entered the Aladár Tóth Music School, studying with is the son of Kálmán Cséki Sr, Roby’s previous pianist who now Lajos Duduj. He later moved on to the Béla Bartók Academy, where he teaches piano in Mexico. studied under Istvàn Lukàcshàzi. At present he is taking courses at the Pécs Conservatory as a postgraduate student. JENÖ LISZTES (cimbalom) was born in Budapest in 1986 and is the grandson of a famous cimbalom player. He was four when he started studying the classical cimbalom with Agnes Székely. He then studied classical and Gypsy music with Jenö Soros, winning the Racz Aladar Cimbalom Competition at the age of 12. He has been studying at the Franz Liszt Music Academy in Budapest since 2005.

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