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Sir Simon Rattle Sunday 5 May 2019 7–9.15pm Barbican LSO SEASON CONCERT SIR SIMON RATTLE John Adams Harmonielehre Interval BERLIOZ Berlioz Symphonie fantastique Sir Simon Rattle conductor Streamed live at youtube.com/lso 150 5.30pm Barbican Hall LSO Platforms: Guildhall Artists Free entry John Adams Phrygian Gates Ben Smith piano Welcome Latest News On Our Blog Prior to the Orchestra’s performance tonight THE LSO IN LATIN AMERICA JOHN ADAMS’ HARMONIELEHRE we also hosted a pre-concert recital by Guildhall School student Ben Smith, who This month the LSO tours Latin America In the age of synth pop, Live Aid and performed one of John Adams’ solo piano for the first time in our history. In concerts Madonna’s Material Girl, how was a composer works, Phrygian Gates. These free LSO in Bogotá, Medellín, Lima, Buenos Aires, to write large-scale orchestral music for the Platforms recitals seek to complement the Montevideo and Santiago, Sir Simon Rattle concert hall? Composed in 1985, John Adams’ repertoire in the Orchestra’s main season conducts Mahler’s Fifth Symphony and Harmonielehre is one of the most significant as well as showcasing the musicians of the Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique. examples of a composer grappling with the future. Visit lso.co.uk/lsoplatforms for Later in 2019, the Orchestra tours to Ireland, idea of a symphony in the 20th century. more information. California, Central Europe and Asia. Follow us on social media for behind- elcome to this evening’s LSO I hope that you enjoy tonight’s performance, the-scenes updates. THE PUBLIC DOMAIN concert at the Barbican. Tonight and that you will join us again soon. Following Sir Simon Rattle conducts two a performance of Mahler’s Symphony No 5 facebook.com/londonsymphonyorchestra On Sunday 24 March 500 singers filled the hugely colourful works for large orchestra – at the Barbican next Wednesday, the LSO instagram.com/londonsymphonyorchestra Barbican foyers for a moving performance of John Adams’ Harmonielehre, one of the and Sir Simon Rattle depart for a two-week twitter.com/londonsymphony David Lang’s the public domain. In a short great orchestral showpieces of the 20th tour of Latin America, the first visit there film on the LSO Blog, we take a look back century, and in the second half of the in the Orchestra’s history. We return to at this extraordinary performance and the concert, Berlioz’s 19th-century masterpiece, London for a concert on Thursday 30 May, a WELCOME TO TONIGHT’S GROUPS people who brought it to life. Symphonie fantastique. This performance programme of Bartók, Cage and Beethoven forms part of Berlioz 150, a series of events with LSO Conductor Laureate Michael Tilson We are delighted to welcome two groups taking place internationally to mark 150 Thomas and violinist Julia Fischer. attending tonight’s concert: ARTIST PORTRAIT: DANIIL TRIFONOV years since the composer’s death. David Squires & Friends The Gerrards Cross Community Association Piano superstar Daniil Trifonov tells us about Those of us here in the Barbican Hall will be his life away from the concert stage and joined by an international audience watching the experiences that made him love music: online as we stream tonight’s concert live from rock and jazz to the films of Andrei around the world on the LSO’s YouTube Kathryn McDowell CBE DL Tarkovsky and Scriabin’s ‘Poem of Ecstasy’. channel, where it will be available to watch Managing Director back for 90 days after the concert. Please ensure all phones are switched off. Photography and audio/video recording Read these articles and more are not permitted during the performance. • lso.co.uk/blog 2 Welcome 5 May 2019 Tonight’s Concert In Brief / by Liam Hennebry Sir Simon Rattle with the LSO Thursday 20 June 7.30–9.45pm Sunday 30 June 5–7pm ne good dream and one bad, scene. All is well. But things soon take a dark Barbican Trafalgar Square tonight’s programme explores turn. He imagines he has murdered her and works inspired by the strange that he is being marched to the scaffold to LSO + GUILDHALL SCHOOL: BRUCKNER BMW CLASSICS hallucinations of night time. be executed. Darker still, he finds himself witnessing his own funeral from beyond the Vaughan Williams Fantasia on a Theme by Dvořák Selection of Slavonic Dances John Adams’ Harmonielehre draws on dreams grave. Witches dance around, and the horror Thomas Tallis Bushra El-Turk Tuqus (world premiere) * the composer had as a young man. In one, builds to a quite brilliant climax that, like bad Grainger Lincolnshire Posy for Winds Poulenc Selection from ‘Les biches – Suite’ his daughter rides through the heavens on dreams we’ve all had, leaves the executed Bruckner Symphony No 4 Ravel La valse the shoulder of 13th-century theologian, love, shaken but ultimately unharmed. Eckhart. In another, a vast oil tanker rises Sir Simon Rattle conductor Sir Simon Rattle conductor out of the water of the San Francisco Bay, London Symphony Orchestra London Symphony Orchestra before launching itself into the sky like the PROGRAMME CONTRIBUTORS Guildhall School Musicians LSO On Track Young Musicians * Saturn V rocket. One of very few late 20th- Guildhall School Musicians * century pieces to have fully embedded itself David Cairns won the biography category Generously supported by Baker McKenzie in the repertoire, the work uses this vivid of the Whitbread Prize and the Samuel Produced in partnership with BMW imagery to explore the rich tonal harmonies Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction for his Thursday 27 June 7.30–9.25pm of late-Romanticism alongside Minimalist second volume biography on Berlioz: Saturday 29 June 7.30–9.25pm developmental techniques. What results is Servitude and Greatness. Working alongside Barbican a lush, swirling sound world that develops Sir Colin Davis since the 1950s, their Berlioz Saturday 14 September 7.30–9.30pm gradually, building bar by bar to such reputation goes before them: ‘Cairns and THE CUNNING LITTLE VIXEN Barbican exultant climaxes that you can’t help but Davis made Berlioz not just acceptable, smell the rocket fuel. but almost normal, a patient, rational Janáček The Cunning Little Vixen (semi-staged) SEASON OPENING craftsman, a great composer like any other’ Bernstein described Berlioz’s Symphonie (Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times). Sir Simon Rattle conductor Emily Howard Antisphere (world premiere)* fantastique as music’s first psychedelic Peter Sellars director Colin Matthews Violin Concerto work. Its fever-dream story tells of a restless Lucy Crowe Vixen Walton Symphony No 1 young man. Dejected and sick with despair Gerald Finley Forester (the result of unrequited love), he dreams Sophia Burgos Fox, Chocholka Sir Simon Rattle conductor of being happy with a flawless romantic Peter Hoare Schoolmaster, Cock, Mosquito Leila Josefowicz violin partner. One moment he’s dancing with Jan Martiník Badger, Parson his beloved at a grand ball, the next they *Commissioned for Sir Simon Rattle and the LSO find themselves in a pastoral, countryside Produced by LSO and Barbican by the Barbican Tonight’s Concert 3 John Adams Harmonielehre 1985 / note by John Adams 1 First Movement mind whose entire life ran unfailingly and European musical festivals is still It is a large, three-movement work for 2 The Anfortas Wound against the grain of society, almost as if potent. Rejecting Schoenberg was like orchestra that marries the developmental 3 Meister Eckhardt and Quackie he had chosen the role of irritant. siding with the Philistines, and freeing techniques of Minimalism with the harmonic and expressive world of fin-de-siècle late armonielehre is roughly translated — Romanticism. It was a conceit that could as ‘the book of harmony’ or ‘Rejecting Schoenberg was like siding with the Philistines, and freeing myself only be attempted once. The shades of ‘treatise on harmony.’ It is the Mahler, Sibelius, Debussy and the young title of a huge study of tonal harmony, part from the model he represented was an act of enormous will power.’ Schoenberg are everywhere in this strange textbook, part philosophical rumination, — piece. This is a work that looks at the past that Arnold Schoenberg published in 1911 in what I suspect is ‘postmodernist’ spirit, just as he was embarking on a voyage into Despite my respect for and even intimidation myself from the model he represented but, unlike Grand Pianola Music or Nixon in unknown waters, one in which he would by the persona of Schoenberg, I felt it only was an act of enormous willpower. China, it does so entirely without irony. more or less permanently renounce the honest to acknowledge that I profoundly laws of tonality. My own relationship to disliked the sound of twelve-tone music. Not surprisingly, my rejection took the The first part is a 17-minute inverted arch Schoenberg needs some explanation. Leon His aesthetic was to me an overripening of form of parody … not a single parody, but form: high energy at the beginning and end, Kirchner, with whom I studied at Harvard, 19th-century individualism, one in which the several extremely different ones. In my with a long, roaming Sehnsucht section in had himself been a student of Schoenberg composer was a god of sorts, to which the Chamber Symphony, the busy, hyperactive between. The pounding E minor chords at in Los Angeles during the 1940s. Kirchner listener would come as if to a sacramental style of Schoenberg’s own early work is the beginning and end of the movement are had no interest in the serial system that altar. It was with Schoenberg that the ‘agony placed in a salad spinner with Hollywood the musical counterparts of a dream image I Schoenberg had invented, but he shared a of modern music’ had been born, and it was cartoon music.
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