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LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA 51719 LPO 1 May 10 51719 LPO 1 May 10 26/04/2010 13:03 Page 2 51719 LPO 1 May 10_51719 LPO 1 May 10 26/04/2010 13:03 Page 1 Principal Conductor VLADIMIR JUROWSKI Principal Guest Conductor YANNICK NÉZET-SÉGUIN Leader PIETER SCHOEMAN Composer in Residence MARK-ANTHONY TURNAGE Patron HRH THE DUKE OF KENT KG Chief Executive and Artistic Director TIMOTHY WALKER AM† SOUTHBANK CENTRE’S ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL PROGRAMME £3 Saturday 1 May 2010 | 7.30 pm CONTENTS 2 List of Players 3 Orchestra History VLADIMIR JUROWSKI conductor 4 Leader 5 Vladimir Jurowski ANNA LARSSON contralto 6 Anna Larsson / Peter Auty PETER AUTY tenor 7 London Philharmonic LONDON PHILHARMONIC CHOIR Choir 8 Programme Notes 12 Recordings WAGNER 13 Supporters 14 Southbank Centre A Faust Overture (11’) 15 Administration 16 Future Concerts BRAHMS The timings shown are not Rhapsody for alto, male chorus and orchestra (13’) precise and are given only as a guide. INTERVAL LISZT A Faust Symphony (59’) † supported by Macquarie Group CONCERT PRESENTED BY THE LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA 51719 LPO 1 May 10_51719 LPO 1 May 10 26/04/2010 13:03 Page 2 LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA FIRST VIOLINS VIOLAS FLUTES BASS TROMBONE Pieter Schoeman* Leader Fiona Winning Guest Principal Jaime Martin* Principal Lyndon Meredith Principal Vesselin Gellev Sub-Leader Robert Duncan Joanna Marsh Julia Rumley Julia McCarthy Stewart McIlwham* TUBA Chair supported by Katharine Leek Lee Tsarmaklis Principal Mrs Steven Ward Susanne Martens PICCOLO Katalin Varnagy Emmanuella Reiter Stewart McIlwham* Principal TIMPANI Catherine Craig Laura Vallejo Simon Carrington* Principal Thomas Eisner Daniel Cornford OBOES Tina Gruenberg Alistair Scahill Ian Hardwick Principal PERCUSSION Martin Höhmann Isabel Pereira Owen Dennis Andrew Barclay* Principal Chair supported by Miranda Davis Keith Millar Richard Karl Goeltz Karin Norlen CLARINETS Geoffrey Lynn Robert Hill* Principal HARP Robert Pool CELLOS Katie Lockhart Rachel Masters* Principal Sarah Streatfeild Kristina Blaumane Principal Yang Zhang Chair supported by BASSOONS ORGAN Rebecca Shorrock Simon Yates and Kevin Roon Gareth Newman* Principal Catherine Edwards Joanne Chen Francis Bucknall Christopher Cooper Galina Tanney Laura Donoghue Emma Harding Kay Chappell Jonathan Ayling Chair supported by Caroline, HORNS SECOND VIOLINS Jamie and Zander Sharp John Ryan Principal Clare Duckworth Principal Aleksei Kiseliov Stephen Stirling Guest Chair supported by Pavlos Carvalho Principal Richard and Victoria Sharp William Routledge Martin Hobbs Joseph Maher Stephen Anstee Nicolas Wolmark ASSISTANT CONDUCTOR Kate Birchall Alexandra Mackenzie Gareth Mollison Ralf Sochaczewsky Chair supported by David Tae-Mi Song and Victoria Graham Fuller TRUMPETS Nancy Elan DOUBLE BASSES Paul Beniston* Principal Fiona Higham Kevin Rundell* Principal Anne McAneney* Nynke Hijlkema George Peniston Chair supported by Marie-Anne Mairesse Richard Lewis Geoff and Meg Mann Ashley Stevens Anita Mazzantini Nicholas Betts Co-Principal Andrew Thurgood David Johnson Sioni Williams Helen Rowlands TROMBONES Mila Mustakova Damian Rubido Gonzalez Mark Templeton* Principal Peter Graham Rebecca Welsh David Whitehouse Sheila Law * Holds a professorial Elizabeth Baldey appointment in London Chair Supporters The London Philharmonic Orchestra also acknowledges the following chair supporters whose players are not present at this concert: John and Angela Kessler Julian and Gill Simmonds 2 | London Philharmonic Orchestra 51719 LPO 1 May 10_51719 LPO 1 May 10 26/04/2010 13:03 Page 3 LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA © Richard Cannon Seventy-seven years after Sir Thomas Beecham founded Imaginative programming and a commitment to new the London Philharmonic Orchestra, it is recognised music are at the heart of the Orchestra’s activity, with today as one of the finest orchestras on the international regular commissions and world première performances. stage. Following Beecham’s influential founding tenure the Orchestra’s Principal Conductorship has been passed In addition to its London season, the Orchestra has from one illustrious musician to another, amongst them flourishing residencies in Brighton and Eastbourne, and Sir Adrian Boult, Bernard Haitink, Sir Georg Solti, Klaus performs regularly around the UK. It is unique in Tennstedt and Kurt Masur. This impressive tradition combining these concert activities with esteemed opera continued in September 2007 when Vladimir Jurowski performances each summer at Glyndebourne Festival became the Orchestra’s Principal Conductor, and in a Opera where it has been the Resident Symphony further exciting move, the Orchestra appointed Yannick Orchestra since 1964. Nézet-Séguin, its new Principal Guest Conductor from September 2008. The London Philharmonic Orchestra performs to enthusiastic audiences all round the world. In 1956 it The London Philharmonic Orchestra has been performing became the first British orchestra to appear in Soviet at Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall since it opened Russia and in 1973 it made the first ever visit to China by in 1951, becoming Resident Orchestra in 1992. It plays a Western orchestra. Touring continues to form a there around 40 times each season with many of the significant part of the Orchestra’s schedule and is world’s most sought after conductors and soloists. supported by Aviva, the International Touring Partner of Concert highlights in 2009/10 include Between Two Worlds – an exploration of the music and times of Alfred Schnittke; a Sibelius symphony cycle with ‘This pulsating concert was the best possible Osmo Vänskä in January/February 2010; a perform- advertisement for the rest of Osmo Vänskä’s ance of Mendelssohn’s Elijah conducted by Kurt Sibelius cycle ... If any musical event this Masur and dedicated to the 20th Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall; and new works by Rautavaara, season has a better Finnish than this, I’m a Philip Glass, Ravi Shankar and the Orchestra’s Norseman.’ Composer in Residence, Mark-Anthony Turnage. RICHARD MORRISON, THE TIMES, 29 JANUARY 2010 London Philharmonic Orchestra | 3 51719 LPO 1 May 10_51719 LPO 1 May 10 26/04/2010 13:03 Page 4 LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA PIETER SCHOEMAN LEADER the London Philharmonic Orchestra. Tours in 2009/10 In 2002, Pieter include visits to Germany, Australia, France, China, the Schoeman joined the Canaries and the USA. London Philharmonic Orchestra as Co-Leader. In 2008 he was appointed Leader. Having long been embraced by the recording, broadcasting and film industries, the London Born in South Africa, he made his solo debut with the Philharmonic Orchestra broadcasts regularly on domestic Cape Town Symphony Orchestra at the age of ten. He and international television and radio. It also works studied with Jack de Wet in South Africa, winning extensively with the Hollywood and UK film industries, numerous competitions, including the 1984 World Youth recording soundtracks for blockbuster motion pictures Concerto Competition in America. In 1987 he was offered including the Oscar-winning score for The Lord of the the Heifetz Chair of Music scholarship to study with Rings trilogy and scores for Lawrence of Arabia, The Edouard Schmieder in Los Angeles and in 1991 his talent Mission, Philadelphia and East is East. was spotted by Pinchas Zukerman who recommended that he move to New York to study with Sylvia The Orchestra also enjoys strong relationships with the Rosenberg. In 1994 he became her teaching assistant at major record labels and in 2005 began reaching out to Indiana University, Bloomington. new global audiences through the release of live, studio and archive recordings on its own CD label. Recent Pieter Schoeman has performed as a soloist and recitalist additions to the catalogue have included acclaimed throughout the world in such famous halls as the releases of early Britten works conducted by Vladimir Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Moscow’s Rachmaninov Jurowski; Mahler’s Symphony 6 under the baton of Klaus Hall, Capella Hall in St Petersburg, Staatsbibliothek in Tennstedt; Tchaikovsky’s Symphonies 1 and 6 conducted Berlin, Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles and Queen by Vladimir Jurowski; Sir Thomas Beecham recordings of Elizabeth Hall in London. As a chamber musician he Mozart, Delius and Rimsky-Korsakov from the 1930s; a regularly performs at London’s prestigious Wigmore Hall. CD of John Ireland’s works taken from his 70th Birthday As a soloist with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, he Concert in 1949; and Dvo ˘rák’s Requiem conducted by has performed Arvo Pärt’s Double Concerto and Neeme Järvi. The Orchestra’s own-label releases are Benjamin Britten’s Double Concerto, which was recorded available to download by work or individual track from its for the Orchestra’s own record label. Most recently he website: www.lpo.org.uk/shop. also played concertos with the Wiener Concertverein and Orchestre Philharmonique de Nice. The Orchestra reaches thousands of Londoners through its rich programme of community and school-based In 1995 Pieter Schoeman became Co-Leader of the activity in Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark, which Orchestre Philharmonique de Nice. During his tenure includes the offshoot ensembles Renga and The Band, its there he performed frequently as Guest Leader with the Foyle Future Firsts apprenticeship scheme for symphony orchestras of Barcelona, Bordeaux, Lyon, outstanding young instrumentalists, and regular family Baltimore and the London Philharmonic Orchestra. and schools concerts. A frequent guest of the BBC Symphony Orchestra in London, Pieter Schoeman returned in October 2006 to To help maintain its high standards
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