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Sunday 21 October 2018 7–9.05pm Barbican Hall

LSO SEASON CONCERT

De Falla Scenes and Dances from ‘The Three Cornered Hat’ Part I FIRE De Falla Three Dances from ‘The Three Cornered Hat’ Part II Lalo Symphonie espagnole Interval Stravinsky The Firebird – Suite (1945)

Jaime Martín conductor BIRD Christian Tetzlaff Welcome LSO News Online

I hope you enjoy and that you LSO EAST LONDON ACADEMY LSO BLOG: NIKOLAJ SZEPS-ZNAIDER are able to join us again soon. On Thursday ON CONDUCTING 25 October, Philippe Jordan will make his Developed in partnership with ten East LSO debut in a programme of Tchaikovsky’s London boroughs, the LSO East London Ahead of his appearances this month, Symphony No 5 and Szymanowski’s Violin Academy is the first step on a path to Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider told us about the Concerto No 2, with Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider making the truly representative first time he conducted a professional as soloist. Then, on Thursday 1 November of its community in London. Opening at LSO symphony orchestra, his approach to the LSO Principal Guest Conductor Gianandrea St Luke’s in spring 2019, it aims to identify craft, and what it takes to do it well. Noseda conducts Shostakovich’s mammoth and develop the potential of young East Fourth Symphony alongside the UK Londoners who show exceptional musical Visit lso.co.uk/blog to read the whole premiere of James MacMillan’s talent, irrespective of their background or interview. elcome to tonight’s LSO concert Concerto, featuring LSO Co-Principal financial circumstance. at the Barbican. We are pleased Trombone Peter Moore. to be joined this evening by Visit lso.co.uk/news to read more about YOUTUBE: SIR SIMON RATTLE Jaime Martín, who made his LSO debut the programme. CONDUCTS SIBELIUS conducting the Orchestra in Madrid earlier this week. The dry heat of Martín’s native The LSO’s performance of Sibelius’ Fifth Spain is palpable throughout the first APPLICATIONS OPEN FOR THE 2019 Symphony and Janáček’s Sinfonietta, half of tonight’s programme, in the lively Kathryn McDowell CBE DL PANUFNIK COMPOSERS SCHEME recorded at the Barbican on Wednesday 19 Andalucian dances and folk songs of Manuel Managing Director September, is now available to watch on de Falla’s The Three Cornered Hat, which The Panufnik Composers Scheme offers our YouTube channel and will be available received its premiere here in London nearly six composers from a wide range of there until 19 December. one hundred years ago. musical approaches and backgrounds the opportunity to work with the Orchestra Visit youtube.com/lso for more. Joining the Orchestra to play Édouard Lalo’s and composition director Colin Matthews, Symphonie espagnole, we welcome back leading to a full orchestral workshop with our long-standing friend Christian Tetzlaff, LSO Principal Guest Conductor François- WELCOME TO TONIGHT’S GROUPS whose performance of Harrison Birtwistle’s Xavier Roth. Applications for this year’s opened the LSO’s 2017/18 scheme close on Wednesday 31 October. We are delighted to welcome the groups season. This colourful programme then attending tonight’s concert: closes with the Suite from Stravinsky’s Visit lso.co.uk/panufnik to find out how Michael Whittaker & Friends The Firebird. to apply. and Hertford U3A.

2 Welcome 21 October 2018 Tonight’s Concert / by Wendy Thompson Coming Up

uites drawn from two vibrant ballet and colourful Symphonie espagnole Thursday 25 October 2018 7.30pm Sunday 4 November 2018 7pm scores brimming with exotic colour (Spanish Symphony) for violin and orchestra, Barbican Hall Barbican Hall form the focus of this programme. written for the Parisian-trained virtuoso Both were commissioned by Serge Diaghilev , appeared at the same TCHAIKOVSKY’S FIFTH ALL THE HILLS AND VALES ALONG for his Russes: Stravinsky’s The time as , and has remained a Firebird in 1909/10, and Manuel de Falla’s perennial favourite. Mussorgsky Night on the Bare Mountain James MacMillan The Three Cornered Hat some ten years Szymanowski Violin Concerto No 2 All the Hills and Vales Along * later, once its composer had returned to his Tchaikovsky Symphony No 5 Shostakovich Symphony No 4 native Andalucia after more than a decade PROGRAMME NOTE WRITERS spent in . There he had refined his style Philippe Jordan conductor Gianandrea Noseda conductor by marrying the subtle orchestral palette Wendy Thompson studied at the Royal Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider violin Ian Bostridge tenor of his friends Debussy and Ravel with the College of Music, before taking an London Symphony Chorus folk idioms of his homeland, especially its MMus in musicology at King’s College, Simon Halsey chorus director captivating flamenco dances and soulful London. In addition to writing about National Youth Brass Band of Great Britain gypsy songs. The Three Cornered Hat was music she is Executive Director of Classic first performed at London’s Alhambra Arts Productions, a major supplier of Thursday 1 November 2018 7.30pm * Commissioned by the London Symphony Orchestra and Theatre in 1919 with décor by the young independent programmes to BBC Radio. Barbican Hall 14-18 NOW: WW1 Centenary Art Commissions, with the world premieres taking place at The Cumnock Tryst festival Picasso, and choreography by the dancer (chamber version) on 6 October 2018 and LSO (orchestral Léonide Massine. It was an instant hit. Paul Griffithshas been a critic for nearly HOMELANDS version) on 4 November 2018 40 years, including for The Times and The young Stravinsky inherited his talent The New Yorker, and is an authority Kodály Dances of Galánta for sensuous orchestration from his teacher on 20th- and 21st-century music. James MacMillan Trombone Concerto Rimsky-Korsakov, another lover of Spanish Among his books are studies of Boulez, (UK premiere) music. His fantastical score for The Firebird, Ligeti and Stravinsky. He also writes Shostakovich Symphony No 4 Supported by LSO Patrons based on a Russian folk-tale involving a novels and librettos. mythical bird who helps a prince destroy the Gianandrea Noseda conductor Part of the Barbican’s For the Fallen: spell of an evil magician, was first unveiled Andrew Stewart is a freelance music Peter Moore trombone Marking the First World War Centenary at the Paris Opera in , and became journalist and writer. He is the author of The a mainstay of the ’ repertoire. LSO at 90, and contributes to a wide variety LSO Platforms: Guildhall Artists Meanwhile French composers from Bizet of specialist publications. 6pm Barbican Hall onwards frequently looked beyond the Free entry Pyrenees for inspiration: Lalo’s brilliant

Tonight’s Concert 3 Manuel de Falla Scenes and Dances from ‘The Three Cornered Hat’ Part I 1919

1 Introduction — 2 Afternoon ‘Tonight there will be much excitement among the ultra-artistic set and lovers of 3 The Miller’s Wife 4 The Magistrate the generally. For a new ballet will be produced by the wonderful 5 The Grapes Massine ... This is The Three Cornered Hat, with music by Manuel de Falla, the Spanish composer (who is a very clever falla indeed).’ anuel de Falla’s musical style skilfully marries the orchestral colour-wash of his friends Debussy The London paper Daily Sketch, 22 July 1919 and Ravel (he lived in Paris for seven years) — with the flamenco dances and soulful gypsy songs of his native Andalucia. The Three ‘two o’clock’ right. The miller’s pretty wife is • DIAGHILEV & THE BALLETS RUSSES Cornered Hat was one of several pieces noticed first by a passing dandy, and then by Falla wrote after returning to Spain during the pompous village Mayor (and magistrate), The Ballets Russes company was conceived World War I. Based on a story taken from who wears a three-cornered hat to denote by impresario Serge Diaghilev and performed an old Spanish ballad, it started life as a his important status. The jealous miller, throughout Europe and on tours to North pantomime with singing and dancing. The in his turn, blows a kiss to a passing girl, and South America between 1909 and 1929, impresario Serge Diaghilev • was impressed but his wife objects, and they are quickly though the company never performed in by the piece and persuaded Falla to rework it reconciled. The miller’s wife hears the Mayor Russia. It is widely regarded as the most for his Ballets Russes Company. With décor returning, and tells her husband to hide. influential of the 20th century, partly • ’s costume design for the by the young Picasso, and choreography She decides to tease the Mayor by dancing because of its ground-breaking artistic original 1919 London production of by the dancer Léonide Massine, the ballet first a lively Spanish fandango (complete collaborations with young choreographers, The Three Cornered Hat was first performed at London’s Alhambra with castanets), then a more formal minuet, composers, designers, and dancers. Theatre in 1919. It was a major hit from the introduced by a solo . The Mayor Diaghilev commissioned music from © Succession Picasso/DACS, London 2018 start, and has always been one of Falla’s tries to with her, but she taunts Stravinsky, Debussy, Ravel and Prokofiev, most popular pieces. him with a bunch of grapes until he loses as well as artwork from Wasily Kandinsky, his temper and falls over while trying to and Pablo Picasso, and The action takes place at a mill in a sleepy grab her. The miller appears with a stick designs from Léon Bakst and Coco Chanel. Andalucian village where, during a hot in his hand, pretending that he has heard afternoon, the miller is trying to teach his intruders. The embarrassed Mayor is dusted pet blackbird to tell the time. Listen for its down and sent on his way, while the miller high-pitched whistles – eventually it gets and his wife dance her fandango together. •

4 Programme Notes 21 October 2018 Manuel de Falla Three Dances from ‘The Three Cornered Hat’ Part II 1919

1 The Neighbours (Seguidilla) the miller’s instead – only to find himself In 1905 Falla established himself as a 2 The Miller’s Dance (Farruca) arrested by his own officers. Finally the major talent, winning two prestigious 2 Final Dance (Jota) miller and his wife return, and matters are national competitions for composition sorted out to the strains of a rumbustious and performance. t’s St John’s Eve, and a party is in jota, while the lecherous Mayor’s effigy is progress at the mill. The neighbours tossed in a blanket by the derisive villagers. • In 1907 he travelled around , Belgium, celebrate with a seguidilla, while Switzerland and Germany as part of a the miller shows off by dancing a rhythmic Programme Notes by Wendy Thompson touring theatre company. He received a farruca in flamenco style. Suddenly there’s grant in 1908 from the Spanish King Alfonso a knock at the gate (the Fate motif from XIII to live in Paris whilst he completed Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony). The magistrate • FIRST IMPRESSIONS the composition of his Pièces Espagnoles. has sent officers to arrest the miller. His wife During his time in Paris he encountered retires sadly to her room (as voices outside The London critics were of the same many important musical figures, including sing a nocturne): the blackbird and a cuckoo opinion as the public; The Three Cornered Debussy and Ravel. After several years clock announce that it’s nine o’clock. Hat was a complete success. A Daily Express travelling and composing, Falla returned to headline the day after the 1919 premiere Madrid in 1914. During this period of his life Now the perfidious Mayor reappears – rather reported an ‘Alhambra Dance Sensation: • MANUEL DE FALLA 1876–1946 he composed many of his best-known works drunk – for another assault on the object of Spectators Electrified by the Jota’ while including the ballets El Amor Brujo (1925) his desire. He tries to dance a minuet, and The Evening News’ Woman in London Manuel de Falla is considered by many to and The Three Cornered Hat (1919). tumbles into the millstream. The miller’s column confessed: ‘I don’t know how be one of the most influential Spanish wife confronts and taunts him, but runs many ‘curtains’ there were after The Three composers of the 20th century. His music In 1922 he retired to Granada where he off in a fright when he brandishes a gun. Cornered Hat … Someone said 14, but I did is characterised by a distinctive use of established a cante jondo festival (dedicated The angry Mayor enters the miller’s house, not count. I was too busy clapping my instrumental colour, and its dance-like to the performance of flamenco music) takes off his hat and sodden clothes, and hands til they tingled.’ quality based on the traditional folk and composed his puppet opera El Retablo falls asleep in the miller’s bed. There he is melodies of Andalucia. de Maese Pedro (1923), and his Concerto discovered by the miller, who has escaped for Harpsichord and Five Instruments from jail. Jumping to the obvious conclusion, His musical education started at home (1926). His late works show the influence of and determined on revenge, the miller where he was taught by his Stravinsky in their use of dissonance and dresses up in the Mayor’s clothes, and grandfather and mother. At the age of 20 angular rhythms, all the while maintaining sets off to pay a visit to the Mayor’s wife. he moved to Madrid to attend the Real a connection with his Spanish roots. • The Mayor meanwhile wakes up, finds Conservatorio de Música y Declamación his clothes are gone, and puts on some of where he studied piano and composition. Composer Profile by Benjamin Picard

Programme Notes 5 Édouard Lalo Symphonie espagnole 1874

1 time. Famous for his effortless technique, violin develops the first of many Spanish- by characteristic triplet figuration, appears 2 Scherzando: Allegro molto perfect intonation, and the sweetness and sounding themes, while the second subject in a slower central episode, before the 3 Intermezzo: Allegro non troppo purity of his tone, Sarasate was enjoying is more lyrical. The second movement, original theme returns and the piece ends in 4 Andante a hugely popular international career. a of Mendelssohnian lightness, a virtuosic shower of left-hand pizzicato. • 5 Rondo: Allegro Saint-Saëns dedicated both his Third has the character of a Spanish dance, Violin Concerto and the Introduction and with pizzicato strings imitating a guitar. Programme Note by Wendy Thompson Christian Tetzlaff violin Rondo capriccioso to Sarasate, and Lalo In the slower, central section, the solo followed suit, first with his own Violin violin muses with telling intensity. alo was, like his contemporaries Concerto (1873), and then a year later with Gounod and Offenbach, one of a the Symphonie espagnole. He followed The third movement is an Intermezzo in generation of French composers these up with two further works for violin habañera style, in which, after a lengthy who enjoyed success during the Second and orchestra – a Norwegian Fantasy and orchestral introduction, the violin stars as Empire. His family was strongly opposed a Russian Concerto, concertos for an operatic diva. The melancholy character to him studying music, so at the age of and for piano, and a symphony in G minor, of Spanish flamenco comes to the fore here, 16 he ran away from his home in Lille to before finally achieving his lifetime’s and eventually the movement subsides into study violin and composition at the Paris ambition with the successful premiere silence. It’s followed by a slow Andante, Conservatoire. His early compositions of his opera Le roi d’Ys in 1888. which opens with a dirge-like theme on tended towards chamber music – then an the brass in the home key of D minor, unfashionable medium in France – and The Symphonie espagnole, however, is the the preceding three movements having from 1855 he himself played and later piece for which Lalo is primarily remembered gradually climbed upwards by tonal steps violin in a string quartet. During the 1860s today. It dates from the same year as from the starting point of A. The violin’s he expended much time and energy on an Bizet’s masterpiece, the opera Carmen (both wistful, elegiac theme almost prefigures the operatic flop,Fiesque , and only achieved works were premiered around the same slow movement of Tchaikovsky’s concerto, success relatively late in life. time, in early 1875), and both cashed in on written three years later – Tchaikovsky was the contemporary craze in France for all another composer greatly influenced by Bizet. The formation in the 1870s of the influential things Spanish. Although titled ‘Symphony’, Interval – 20 minutes Société Nationale, which promoted the the work is really a five-movement violin The rondo finale shows a much lighter There are bars on all levels of the works of contemporary French composers, concerto. Like Carmen, and in homage to side of Spanish life, with all the gaiety of a Concert Hall; ice cream can be bought inspired Lalo to turn his hand to orchestral Sarasate, the piece draws on exotic Spanish fiesta. The violin introduces an insouciant, at the stands on Stalls and Circle level. works. He was also encouraged to do so idioms, which Lalo adapts to telling effect. playfully accented theme, and then engages Visit the Barbican Shop on Level -1 to see by the great Spanish violinist Pablo de It opens with a dramatic, declamatory in skittish dialogue with the woodwind. our new range of Gifts and Accessories. Sarasate, who was active in Paris at the statement in open fifths, after which the Another Spanish-sounding theme, marked

6 Programme Notes 21 October 2018 Édouard Lalo in profile 1823–92

apoleon’s fall in 1815 left Édouard Lalo suffered a series of professional Lalo’s soldier father without work setbacks in the 1860s, especially so when his VIOLIN CONCERTOS IN 2018/19 and status, but by the time of self-valued grand opera Fiesque was rejected Édouard’s birth in 1823 his parents had for performance. His fame was secured in Thursday 25 October 2018 7.30pm re-established their roots in Lille. The young the 1870s with the performance of a series boy showed signs of musical talent, initially of boldly scored orchestral and instrumental SZYMANOWSKI 2 encouraged by his family and developed works, the Violin Concerto in F major, the with violin and cello lessons at the Lille five-movementSymphonie espagnole, Philippe Jordan conductor Conservatoire. When it became clear that the and the Divertissement Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider violin Lalo wanted to pursue a musical career, prominent among them. Lalo scored a however, his father attempted to block any massive hit in 1888, when the Paris Opéra- Sunday 16 December 2018 7pm further progress. The 16-year-old Édouard Comique produced his exotic opera Le roi Tuesday 18 December 2018 7.30pm decided to leave home in favour of further d’Ys. He died in Paris on 22 April 1892, studies in Paris, supporting a brief stint survived by his wife and former pupil, Julie BRAHMS in Habeneck’s violin class at the Paris de Maligny, and their son Pierre Lalo, who Conservatoire and a longer run of private achieved notoriety as a music critic. • Sir Simon Rattle conductor composition lessons with the money he Leonidas Kavakos violin earned from teaching and violin playing. Composer Profile by Andrew Stewart Thursday 14 & 21 March 2019 7.30pm For a long time, Lalo composed in relative obscurity, his early works including DVOŘÁK two symphonies, which the composer subsequently destroyed. He gained a limited Bernard Haitink conductor reputation in the 1840s following the Isabelle Faust violin publication of several salon pieces, spending much of the next decade playing, promoting Thursday 30 May 2019 7.30pm and composing chamber music. In part due to his efforts, Paris saw a revival of chamber BEETHOVEN music in the 1850s. As a founder-member of the Armingaud Quartet, he helped conductor introduce the quartets of Haydn, Mozart Julia Fischer violin and Beethoven to Parisian audiences.

Programme Notes 7 The Firebird – Suite 1910, rev 1945

1 Introduction – — The Firebird and its Dance – Variation ‘The stage and the whole theatre glittered at the premiere 2 Pantomime I 3 Pas de deux: and that is all I remember.’ Firebird and Tsarevich Ivan Igor Stravinsky, on the premiere of The Firebird 4 Pantomime II — 5 Scherzo: Dance of the Princesses 6 Pantomime III Stravinsky later made three orchestral suites captive princesses (‘Scherzo: Dance of the 7 Rondo: The Princesses’ Khorovod from the ballet, in 1911, 1919 and 1945. The Princesses’), and falls in love with the most 8 Infernal Dance of Kashchei last of these was based on the 1919 version, beautiful of them. After a further linking 9 Lullaby of the Firebird in which Stravinsky – in tune with post- passage the princesses perform a Round 10 Final Hymn war austerity – had reduced the colossal Dance, but Kashchei and his minions arrive orchestra. However, to movements and take Ivan prisoner in an exotic Infernal he Firebird was Stravinsky’s first of the 1919 version, Stravinsky now added Dance. Ivan uses his magic feather to summon commission for Serge Diaghilev’s five more numbers taken from the original the Firebird, who puts Kashchei and his Ballet Russes. Having settled on score, partly to make a more versatile retinue to sleep in a hypnotic Lullaby. In the the exotic Russian folk-tale of the magical alternative concert or stage version of the Finale, Ivan destroys the magic egg shell Firebird as a suitable ballet subject and ballet, and also to protect his copyright, in which Kashchei keeps his evil soul. The • THE FIREBIRD COSTUME extracted a scenario from his choreographer, following a successful lawsuit brought by spell is broken, the captives are freed, and Mikhail Fokine, Diaghilev took the bold the original Russian publisher of the score. the Prince marries his chosen princess in a The image above is taken from an original step of approaching Stravinsky, then a radiant, hymn-like epithalamium. • design for the character of the Firebird by young and virtually unknown composer. A mysterious opening introduces the revolutionary costume and set designer Léon His gamble paid dividends. The Firebird Firebird, who performs her Dance and Programme Note by Wendy Thompson Bakst (1866–1924). Bakst was associated was first performed on 25 June 1910 at the Variation. Prince Ivan captures her, and after with Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes from 1909 Paris Opéra, with the great ballerina Tamara a brief linking section called ‘Pantomime’ to 1922. His costumes were ornate, intricate Karsavina in the title role. Opulent decor, they perform a pas de deux. Ivan releases and cast in bold colours to heighten the choreography and Stravinsky’s luminous the Firebird in exchange for one of her magic effect of the company’s new choreography. score made The Firebird an instant hit, and feathers. Another short linking passage it remained the mainstay of the Ballets takes him to the magician Kashchei’s palace, Russes’ repertory until its disbandment. where he finds himself surrounded by

8 Programme Notes 21 October 2018 Igor Stravinsky in profile 1882–1971

hird in a family of four sons, Igor In 1939, soon after the deaths of his wife • STRAVINSKY ON LSO LIVE Stravinsky had a comfortable and mother, he sailed to New York with upbringing in St Petersburg, Vera, whom he married, and with whom he where his father was Principal at settled in Los Angeles. Following his opera the . In 1902 he started The Rake’s Progress (1947–51) he began to lessons with Rimsky-Korsakov, but he was a interest himself in Schoenberg and Webern, slow developer, and hardly a safe bet when and within three years had worked out a Diaghilev commissioned The Firebird. The new serial style. Sacred works became more success of that work encouraged him to and more important, to end with Requiem remain in western Europe, writing scores Canticles (1965–66), which was performed almost annually for Diaghilev. The October at his funeral, in Venice in 1971. • Revolution of 1917 sealed him off from his homeland; his response was to create a rural Composer Profile by Paul Griffiths Russia of the mind, in such works as the peasant-wedding ballet (1914–23). Before that was completed, a ballet based on 18th-century music, (1919–20), opened the door to a whole neo-Classical period, which was to last three decades and Stravinsky more. He also began spending much of his Ligeti Mysteries of the Macabre time in Paris and on tour with his mistress Berg Three Fragments from ‘Wozzeck’ Vera Sudeikina, while his wife, mother and Webern Six Pieces for Orchestra children lived elsewhere in France. Sir Simon Rattle conductor Up to the end of the 1920s, his big works Barbara Hannigan soprano were nearly all for the theatre (including the nine he wrote for Diaghilev). By Blu-ray & DVD set contrast, large-scale abstract works Filmed at the Barbican Hall in January 2015 began to dominate his output after 1930, including three symphonies, of which the lsolive.co.uk first, (1930), marks also his reawakened religious observance.

Programme Notes 9 Jaime Martín conductor

aime Martín has risen quickly Since turning to conducting only five years Eric Ericson . He has also recorded to international acclaim as a ago, he has worked with an impressive Schubert’s Symphony No 9, Montsalvatge’s conductor, following his prominent list of , including the London Petita Suite Burlesca, Halffter’s Sinfonietta career as a flautist. Recently announced as Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestre and Beethoven’s Symphony No 3 with the Music Director Designate of the Los Angeles Philharmonique de Radio France, Royal Orquestra de Cadaqués. In 2015 he recorded Chamber Orchestra, he begins his tenure Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Barcelona ’s symphonic work Collages for in September 2019. In 2013, he became Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia four horns and orchestra. Artistic Director and Principal Conductor Orchestra, Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra of Gävle Symphony Orchestra. He is also and the Queensland Symphony Orchestra. Solo recordings as a flautist include Mozart’s Chief Conductor of Orquestra de Cadaqués He has also made appearances with the Flute Concertos with Sir Neville Marriner and Artistic Director of the Santander Royal Scottish National Orchestra, RTVE and a premiere recording of the Sinfonietta- International Festival. Symphony Orchestra in Madrid, Orchestre Concerto for Flute and Orchestra, written for National du Capitol de Toulouse, Swedish him by Xavier Montsalvatge and conducted Forthcoming debuts include performances Radio Symphony Orchestra, Orquestra by Gianandrea Noseda. He has also recorded with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo, London Bach’s works for flute, violin and piano Colorado Symphony, Sydney Symphony, Mozart Players, Lausanne Chamber with Murray Perahia and the Academy Melbourne Symphony and Gulbenkian Orchestra, Beijing Symphony Orchestra and of St Martin in the Fields for Sony, and Orchestras. He also tours throughout Europe the Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Mozart’s Flute Quartet for EMI. with the Gävle Symphony Orchestra and Orquesta de Cadaqués, with performances at Martín made his operatic debut conducting Born in Santander, Spain, Jaime Martín the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Zürich’s Mozart’s The Magic Flute at El Escorial studied with Antonio Arias in Madrid and with Tonhalle and at the Prague Spring Festival. Madrid and San Sebastian Festival in August Paul Verhey in The Hague, Netherlands. • 2012. He made his English National Opera Highlights of Martín’s 2017/18 season debut in February 2013 conducting Rossini’s included the opening of the Los Angeles The Barber of Seville and returned in autumn Chamber Orchestra’s season with Joshua 2014 for Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro. Bell as soloist, debuts with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony, Bilbao Symphony, Essen Martín’s recordings include the Brahms Philharmonic and Bordeaux Orchestras, Serenades with the Gävle Symphony and returns to the New Zealand Symphony, Orchestra for the label Ondine, as well as RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra and Songs of Destiny, a recording of Brahms Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestras. choral works with the Gävle Symphony and

10 Artist Biographies 21 October 2018 Christian Tetzlaff violin

qually at home in classical, Musikfest Bremen; and return to Wigmore Vancouver. He also performs with the Tetzlaff romantic and contemporary Hall for a season-long residency, including a Quartett across Europe, and will appear in repertoire, Christian Tetzlaff is duo recital with Lars Vogt and performances Leipzig, Luxembourg, Ghent and Berlin. known for his interpretations of the concertos with the Tetzlaff Quartett and Jörg Widmann. by Beethoven, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Berg His recordings have received numerous and Ligeti, and is renowned for his innovative His regular collaboration with conductor prizes, most recently the Gramophone chamber music projects and performances of Robin Ticciati continued with tours to Dubai Classical Music Award in 2018 for his album Bach’s solo repertoire. with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe; of Bartók’s Violin Concertos Nos 1 and 2 Frankfurt, Hamburg and Essen with the with Hannu Lintu and the Finnish Radio The 2018/19 season sees Tetzlaff perform Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin; Symphony Orchestra. Other awards include with many distinguished orchestras from and a return to Edinburgh with the Scottish the Diapason d’Or, Edison, Midem Classical, across the world including the Deutsches Chamber Orchestra. as well as several Grammy nominations. Symphonie-Orchester in Berlin, NDR His discography also includes the Violin Radiophilharmonie, Munich Philharmonic, He is a former Artist-in-Residence with Concertos by Dvořák, Mozart, Lalo, Sibelius, Luzerner Sinfonieorchester and Helsinki the Berlin Philharmonic, and other projects Tchaikovsky, Beethoven and Jörg Widmann; Philharmonic Orchestra in Europe, as well during the last season saw him give Mark-Anthony Turnage’s Mambo Blues and as the Detroit, New World and Toronto concerts with Paavo Järvi and the NHK ; and violin sonatas by Mozart, Symphony Orchestras in North America. Symphony, and Lahav Shani with the Israel Bartók, Schumann and Brahms. In Asia he performs with the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra. Other appearances Philharmonic and the NHK Symphony included the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Born in Hamburg in 1966, Christian Tetzlaff Orchestras, joining the latter on a tour to in Berlin with Vladimir Jurowski, the studied at the Lübeck Conservatory with Vietnam. In the United Kingdom, in addition Konzerthausorchester Berlin with Juraj Uwe-Martin Haiberg and in Cincinnati with to his concerts in London and on tour Valčuha, the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Walter Levin. with the LSO, he returns to the London Bremen with Paavo Järvi, and the Tonhalle- Philharmonic Orchestra, City of Birmingham Orchester Zürich with Ton Koopmann. He plays a violin by German maker Peter Symphony and BBC Philharmonic Orchestras. Greiner and teaches regularly at the Increasingly in demand as a chamber Kronberg Academy, near Frankfurt. • Last year saw Tetzlaff reunite with Sir Simon musician, Tetzlaff returns to North America Rattle to open the LSO’s 2017/18 season; this season with his long-time chamber tour with the London Philharmonic partners Tanja Tetzlaff and Lars Vogt for a Orchestra and Vladimir Jurowski to the trio tour visiting Carnegie Hall in New York, George Enescu Festival, Bucharest and as well as San Francisco, Washington and

Artist Biographies 11 London Symphony Orchestra on stage tonight

Leader Second Flutes Horns LSO String Experience Scheme Julien Szulman David Alberman Rebecca Gilliver Gareth Davies Diego Incertis Nigel Thomas Since 1992, the LSO String Experience Thomas Norris Alastair Blayden Luke O’Toole Angela Barnes Scheme has enabled young string players First Violins Sarah Quinn Jennifer Brown Alex Wide Percussion from the London music conservatoires at Carmine Lauri Miya Väisänen Eve-Marie Caravassilis Piccolo Jonathan Lipton Neil Percy the start of their professional careers to gain Ginette Decuyper Matthew Gardner Daniel Gardner Patricia Moynihan Andrew Budden David Jackson work experience by playing in rehearsals Gerald Gregory Julian Gil Rodriguez Hilary Jones Sam Walton and concerts with the LSO. The musicians Maxine Kwok-Adams Naoko Keatley Penny Driver Tom Edwards are treated as professional ‘extra’ players Elizabeth Pigram Belinda McFarlane Victoria Harrild Juliana Koch David Elton Paul Stoneman (additional to LSO members) and receive fees Claire Parfitt Andrew Pollock Kim Mackrell Rosie Jenkins Toby Street for their work in line with LSO section players. Laurent Quénelle Ingrid Button Deborah Tolksdorf Paul Mayes Harp The Scheme is supported by: Harriet Rayfield Alix Lagasse Bryn Lewis The Polonsky Foundation Sylvain Vasseur Gordon MacKay Double Basses Christine Pendrill Barbara Whatmore Charitable Trust Rhys Watkins Greta Mutlu Graham Mitchell Dudley Bright Piano Derek Hill Foundation Morane Cohen- Csilla Pogany Colin Paris James Maynard Philip Moore The Thistle Trust Lamberger Patrick Laurence Andrew Marriner Idlewild Trust Laura Dixon Thomas Goodman Chi-Yu Mo Bass Trombone Angus Allnatt Charitable Foundation Hilary Jane Parker Edward Vanderspar Joe Melvin Paul Milner Erzsebet Racz Gillianne Haddow Emre Ersahin Helena Smart Malcolm Johnston Jim Vanderspar Rachel Gough Anna Bastow Nicholas Worters Joost Bosdijk Sasha Koushk-Jalali German Clavijo Robert Turner Editor Cynthia Perrin Fiona Dinsdale | [email protected] Paloma Cueto- Editorial Photography Felgueroso Mejias Ranald Mackechnie, Alexander Lindström, May Dolan Giorgia Bertazzi Stephanie Edmundson Print Cantate 020 3651 1690 Nancy Johnson Advertising Cabbells Ltd 020 3603 7937 Sofia Silva Sousa Details in this publication were correct at time of going to press.

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