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View/Download Programme Notes Cadogan final 30/3/11 11:28 Page 1 Cadogan Hall Etiquette and Information CKNOWLEDGED as one of the UK’s most prodigious orchestras, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (RPO) enjoys an international reputation for bringing ETIQUETTE A audiences worldwide first-class performances and the highest possible standards of music-making across a diverse range of musical repertoire. This was the vision of the Smoking: Orchestra’s flamboyant founder Sir Thomas Beecham, whose legacy is maintained today All areas of Cadogan Hall are non-smoking as the Orchestra thrives under the exceptional direction of its new Artistic Director and areas. Principal Conductor, Maestro Charles Dutoit. www.rpo.co.uk Food & Beverages: You are kindly requested not to bring food and The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra is London-based and performs a prestigious series of other refreshments into Cadogan Hall. concerts each year at Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall, featuring artists of the highest calibre. The Orchestra’s London home is at Cadogan Hall, just off Sloane Square, Cameras and Electronic Devices: where concert-goers enjoy an intimate atmosphere in an idyllic location. Complementing Video equipment, cameras and tape recorders the concert series at Cadogan Hall, the Orchestra regularly performs in the magnificent ROYAL PHILHARMONIC are not permitted. Please ensure all pagers and Royal Albert Hall, presenting works of great magnitude designed to suit the immensity of mobile phones are switched off before entering this historic and grand venue. the auditorium. Interval and timings: Within the UK, the Orchestra is committed to offering an extensive regional touring ORCHESTRA Intervals vary with each performance. Some programme, including established residencies in Croydon, Northampton, Lowestoft, performances may not have an interval. Reading and Crawley. As an international orchestra, the RPO has toured more than thirty Latecomers will not be admitted until a suitable countries in the last five years. Recent tours have included performances in Egypt, Russia, at the Cadogan Hall London break in the performance. Spain, Italy, Germany, the USA, China and the Far East. Consideration: The Orchestra is also recognised for its artistic work through a vibrant and innovative We aim to deliver the highest standards of community and education programme, titled RPO resound. Specially trained members of service. Therefore, we would ask you to treat the Orchestra, alongside accomplished project leaders, provide comprehensive SATURDAY APRIL 9TH 2011 our staff with courtesy and in a manner in which workshops where music is used as a powerful and inspirational force. you would expect to be treated. Frequently found in the recording studio, the Orchestra records extensively for film and v FOOD AND BEVERAGES television as well as for all the major commercial record companies. The Orchestra also ROBERTAS SERVENIKAS Conductor Culford Room owns its own record label and is proud to be the first UK orchestra to stream its entire The house wines, champagne and soft drinks series of concerts live from Cadogan Hall. DIANA BREKALO Piano • ANGELA WHELAN Solo Trumpet are available from the bars in the Culford Room Calvin Bruce of Paul Davis and Partners at all concerts. Oakley Bar THE ORCHESTRA VIOLAS FLUTES FRENCH HORNS BEETHOVEN Concert goers may enjoy a wide selection of Vicci Wardman Emer McDonough Laurence Davies champagnes, spirits, red and white wines, FIRST VIOLINS Helen Kamminga Helen Keen Kathryn Saunders Egmont Overture Op.84 beers and soft drinks from the Oakley Room Duncan Riddell Andrew Sippings Phil Woods Bar. There are also some light refreshments Tamas Andras Esther Harling PICCOLO Andrew Fletcher FRIBBINS available. Judith Templeman Kathy Balmain Helen Keen Kaoru Yamada Laura Holt TRUMPETS Concerto for Piano & Orchestra (première) Gallery Bar Andrew Klee OBOES Brian Thomson Customers seated in the Gallery can buy Kay Chappell CELLOS Tim Watts Mike Allen SHOSTAKOVICH interval drinks from the Gallery Bar at some Anthony Protheroe Chantal Webster Leila Ward concerts. Erik Chapman Roberto Sorrentino TIMPANI Concerto for Piano, Trumpet and Strings Op.35 William Heggart CLARINETS Chris Thomas ACCESS SECOND VIOLINS Shinko Hanaoka Michael Whight Cadogan Hall has a range of services to assist Andrew Storey Rachel van der Tang Tom Watmough BEETHOVEN disabled customers including a provision for Elen Hâf Richards Symphony No.8 in F Op.93 wheelchair users in the stalls. Companions of Charlotte Ansbergs DOUBLE BASSES BASSOONS disabled customers are entitled to a free seat Jennifer Christie Roy Benson Paco Cerpa when assisting disabled customers at Cadogan Siân McInally David Broughton Fraser Gordon Hall. Guy Bebb David Gordon Stephen Kear www.rpo.co.uk Please note that companion seats not sold 48hrs prior to any given performance will be released for general sale. ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA MANAGEMENT Wheel Chair Users: Artistic Director and Principal Conductor Charles Dutoit If you use a wheelchair and wish to transfer to a Managing Director Ian Maclay seat, we regret we may not be able to provide a Finance Director Michelle Johnson member of staff to help you physically. Concerts Director Elizabeth Forbes However, we will arrange for your wheelchair to Concerts Manager Kate Green be taken away and stored. A lift is located to Head of Press & Marketing Chris Evans MUSIC HAVEN the right once inside the box office reception Education Manager Ruth Currie London allowing access to a lowered box office counter. www.musichaven.co.uk Orchestra Managers Jane Aebi, Malcolm Wilson Foyer areas are on the same level as the box Librarian Patrick Williams office and the foyer bar (Caversham Room) is Promoted by Music Stage Manager Chris Ouzman accessed via a wide access lift. A member of Haven London under the auspices of the United Cadogan Hall, 5 Sloane Terrace, London SW1X 9DQ staff will help you with your requirements. Stalls If you would like to join the Royal Philharmonic Kingdom Embassy of the BOOKING INFORMATION Box Office: 020 7730 4500 are accessed via a wide lift as are adapted Orchestra’s FREE mailing list or for further information Republic of Croatia and toilet facilities. Please note that there is no about concerts and recordings, please take a look at our with the support of Online Booking: www.cadoganhall.com (booking fees apply) wheelchair access to the Gallery seats. website: www.rpo.co.uk or call us on 020 7608 8800. Middlesex University. COVER PHOTOS: DAVID LINDSAY & ROBERT TAYLOR Cadogan final 30/3/11 11:28 Page 2 Egmont Overture Op.84 Concerto for Piano & the whole movement is derived. This movement forms a more serious and develops into a slow fugal introduction until expressive interlude to the somewhat Orchestra (premiere) LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN the music manages to break free in a cinema-graphic nature of the drama, with (1770-1827) PETER FRIBBINS (B.1969) forceful allegro version of the theme. The some beautiful counter melodies in the solo slow middle movement opens with a trumpet, which then goes on to take a One of Beethoven’s best known overtures, Commissioned by the United Kingdom Embassy plangent oboe melody, then taken up by rather more equal role in the wonderfully ‘Egmont’ forms part of the music he of the Republic of Croatia the piano. An expressive and more amusing and riotous last movement. composed for an 1810 production of I Adagio Drammatico – Allegro Vivo contrapuntal Andante section prefaces a Goethe’s play of the same name at the II Adagio – Andante – Tempo Primo – return to the opening melody, but this time Hoftheater in Vienna. Goethe completed his III Allegro Vivo – Andante – Adagio – incorporating ingredients of the middle Symphony No.8 in F Op.93 v famous romantic drama in 1788: the section, particularly a pithy and quietly Conductor ROBERTAS SERVENIKAS musical development was continued Affettando – Fugato LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN sixteenth-century Flemish warrior Count insistent trumpet fanfare. The Finale follows studied at the St. Petersburg through generous grants, enabling her, Egmont is pitted against the Spanish In late 2009 I acquired a Bechstein grand the slow movement without a break and (1770-1827) Conservatoire and since 1993 has eventually, to come to London with a full despotic invader, the Duke of Alba. Egmont piano, owned for seventy years by a opens with strident piano gestures. The conducted the Lithuanian National scholarship to undertake further studies refuses to flee and abandon his ideal of remarkable retired physician, musician and Symphony Orchestra, the Lithuanian, at the Guildhall. The winner of numerous material eventually takes a more lyrical and I Allegro vivace e con brio v liberty and is eventually martyred, his death painter, Dr John Horder CBE, who was keen fluid guise marked Andante, before a II Allegretto scherzando Siauliai and Klaipòda Chamber national and international piano prizes, representing a victory against oppression. for the instrument to go to a fellow ghost-like remembrance of the motto- III Tempo di Menuetto Orchestras as well as leading the including Croatian Artist of the Year 2010, E.T.A Hoffmann, reviewing the music in musician. Shortly after, I met the talented theme of the first movement wistfully leads IV Allegro vivace Lithuanian Academy of Music Symphony Diana Brekalo has performed in cities Allgemeine Musikalische Zeitung in 1813 German-Croatian pianist, Diana Brekalo, us back to a more unstable version of the Orchestra. In 1997, Mstislav Rostropovich throughout Europe, the USA, the main Sketches for Beethoven’s eighth symphony wrote: ‘It is indeed a gratifying aspect to and after hearing her perform a concerto in opening material, culminating in a invited him to conduct the Philharmonie concert halls in China and Japan, and date from 1811 and the work was finished see two great masters unified in a London, she asked if I might like to write seemingly unstoppable fugue. A climax der Nationen Orchestra during the Evian given live performances on both TV and by early 1813.
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