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Harding & Kavakos Sunday 18 February 2018 7–9pm Barbican Hall LSO SEASON CONCERT HARDING & KAVAKOS Helen Grime Virga Prokofiev Violin Concerto No 2 HARDING & Interval Strauss An Alpine Symphony Daniel Harding conductor KAVAKOS Leonidas Kavakos violin Welcome LSO News On Our Blog marks a very welcome return. We also THE LSO’S 2018/19 SEASON NEW ON DIGITAL THEATRE welcome soloist Leonidas Kavakos, another artist with whom the LSO has worked The LSO’s 2018/19 season is now on sale. Visit our blog to find out more about LSO a great deal over the last decade. It is a Highlights include Music Director Sir Simon concert recordings available to enjoy from great pleasure to perform alongside him in Rattle’s exploration of folk-inspired music the comfort of your own home via Digital the season that marks his 50th birthday. in his series Roots and Origins; Artist Portraits Theatre, adding to the Orchestra’s ever- with soprano and conductor Barbara Hannigan growing collection on the online platform. I hope that you enjoy tonight’s concert and pianist Daniil Trifonov; and eight and that you can join us again soon. On premieres across the season. 22 February we delve further into repertoire ON YOUTUBE: for solo violin, with Alina Ibragimova Plus there’s much more to explore with MAHLER SYMPHONY NO 2 Welcome to this evening’s LSO concert performing Brahms’ Violin Concerto. LSO Discovery’s free lunchtime concerts, at the Barbican, which combines three vivid Discovery and Singing Days, as well as Watch the LSO, London Symphony Chorus works by Prokofiev, Strauss and British BBC Radio 3’s concerts at LSO St Luke’s. and conductor Semyon Bychkov performing composer Helen Grime. After participating Mahler’s monumental Second Symphony in the LSO’s schemes for emerging composers, Visit lso.co.uk/201819season for full listings. in full, recorded live at the Barbican on Helen Grime’s Virga was commissioned Sunday 4 February. by the Orchestra in 2007. Our relationship Kathryn McDowell CBE DL has since continued to go from strength Managing Director NEW ON LSO PLAY: DEBUSSY to strength, with the world premiere of PRÉLUDE À L’APRÈS-MIDI D’UN FAUNE Read our news, watch videos and more her work Fanfare opening the LSO season • lso.co.uk/news in September 2017, and a further world Watch Principal Guest Conductor • youtube.com/lso premiere still to come – Woven Space, François-Xavier Roth conduct Debussy’s • lso.co.uk/blog conducted by Sir Simon Rattle on 19 April. Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune from multiple camera angles on our interactive We are delighted to be joined once again platform LSO Play. Available at play.lso.co.uk. by conductor Daniel Harding, who last conducted the Orchestra at the Barbican LSO Play is generously supported in June 2016 with a memorable performance by Reignwood. of Mahler's Second Symphony. His relationship with the LSO goes back over 20 years and this evening’s performance 2 Welcome 18 February 2018 Tonight’s Concert Coming Up in March & April his concert of musical journeys PROGRAMME NOTE WRITERS Sunday 11 March 2018 7pm Thursday 19 & 26 April 2018 7.30pm and vivid storytelling begins in Barbican Hall Barbican Hall the intricately woven soundworld John Fallas is a writer and editor. of Helen Grime’s Virga. The piece – Grime’s He regularly contributes CD booklet essays GARDINER’S SCHUMANN HELEN GRIME WORLD PREMIERE first work for full orchestra, written in 2007 – to labels including NMC (London) and aeon takes its title from the hazy streaks of (France), and is Publications Officer for Schumann Overture: Genoveva Helen Grime Woven Space * precipitation that drop from clouds and Delphian Records (Edinburgh). Berlioz Les nuits d’été (world premiere) evaporate before reaching the ground, Schumann Symphony No 2 Mahler Symphony No 9 evoked, in Grime’s own words, through David Gutman has written four books on ‘falling cascades of sound’. subjects ranging from Prokofiev to Lennon, Sir John Eliot Gardiner conductor Sir Simon Rattle conductor and is a regular contributor to Gramophone, Ann Hallenberg mezzo-soprano Strauss’ tone poem An Alpine Symphony is International Record Review and The Stage. * Commissioned for Sir Simon Rattle and the also inspired by the natural world, but takes Recommended by Classic FM LSO by the Barbican listeners on an altogether different journey: Andrew Stewart is a freelance music an ascent to the heights of an Alpine peak. journalist and writer. He is the author 26 April generously supported by Baker McKenzie A story of extremes, illustrated by a vast of The LSO at 90, and contributes to Thursday 15 March 2018 7.30pm orchestra, every daring step and awe-inspiring a wide variety of specialist classical Barbican Hall force of nature – including, in a parallel to music publications. Virga, a conjuring up of misty rainfall – is GARDINER’S SCHUMANN captured in Strauss’ music, from sunrise to Sunday 22 April 2018 7pm the summit, violent thunder to nightfall. Schumann Overture: Genoveva Barbican Hall WELCOME TO TONIGHT’S GROUPS Mozart Piano Concerto No 25 K503 Prokofiev’s Second Violin Concerto sits Schumann Overture, Scherzo and Finale TIPPETT’S THE ROSE LAKE between these two works. The composer Tonight we are delighted to welcome Schumann Symphony No 4 wrote that the piece was the product Gerrards Cross Community Association Tippett The Rose Lake † of his ‘nomadic concert-tour existence’, Sir John Eliot Gardiner conductor Mahler comp Cooke Symphony No 10 which took him from Paris to Baku, Madrid Piotr Anderszewski piano to Morocco. Despite this, its fluid, lyrical Sir Simon Rattle conductor melodies carry more than a hint of the composer’s Russian homeland, to which he † Supported by Resonate, a PRS Foundation initiative was about to return, along with tinges of lso.co.uk/whatson in partnership with the Association of British Orchestras, Spain in the finale’s clicking castanets. 020 7638 8891 BBC Radio 3 and the Boltini Trust Tonight’s Concert 3 Helen Grime Virga 2007 / note by John Fallas ike Strauss’ vast Alpine Symphony, textures, or the stabs and dots of harmony revisit all of its earlier materials and show • NATURE IN MUSIC AND ART this short but incident-packed that surround its melodic lines. It is also them as parts of its diverse unity – of its concert opener has a title that an exploration of the orchestra – and weather system, as it were. The violins are refers to something in the outside world. in particular of the orchestra’s registral joined by celeste, harp and piccolos in a Such titles gained popularity in the Romantic extremes, which are first opened out at moment of magical, expectant stillness. period • when, pushing music in the the very beginning of the piece, with celeste The bass line gradually re-forms, at first direction of images and stories, they also and two piccolos exchanging arabesques from isolated notes, and above these low offered composers the opportunity to over a long held note in the double basses. rumblings the melody descends. The brass invent new forms, or to give new meaning And it is an exploration, too, of different re-enter. Over a more continuous bass line, to old ones. A century and a half later, when types of musical motion, as when that held the melody is taken up by all of the strings pre-established formal shapes are no more bass note unfolds into a slow-moving line together now – a gradually blurred unison, than one option among many and musical rising through the brass, or when this slow plangent, insistent, trumpets crowning meaning is correspondingly less likely to build-up releases into a more lightly-scored a final climax before the music fades back arise from their transgression, composers section in which the orchestra’s stabs of into the atmosphere. need no such pretext. But they may still harmony accompany little scurrying figures Nature has long served as a source need images and stories, and even when in two clarinets. Composed in 2007 as part of the London of artistic inspiration, particularly during a piece’s purely musical construction is as Symphony Orchestra’s UBS Sound Adventures the Romantic era of the late 18th and early tight as here, its title may enable us to listen At the centre of the piece comes something scheme, Virga had remarkable early 19th centuries. In this school of thought, ‘poetically’, imagining extra-musical parallels unexpected – a remarkable, entirely successes: it was taken up by Oliver Knussen, which was partly a reaction against the for what the piece expresses musically. unaccompanied melody for the first violins. who conducted it at the BBC Proms in August growing industrialisation and modernisation Structurally, this is the opposite of all 2009, and by no less a figure than Pierre of society, the beauty of nature – and the Poetry, indeed, seems to be the appropriate that has gone before, with the orchestra’s Boulez, who gave the French premiere with retreat of the individual into the natural metaphor here: where Strauss’ images and high and low extremities emptied out to the Orchestre de Paris in May 2010. Further world – served as one of the artist’s most stories are explicit and writ large, Helen bring the middle register into startlingly performances followed in Grime’s home important sources of inspiration. This Grime’s preference is for the glancing and close focus. Metaphorically, too, everything country of Scotland and in Manchester, is famously illustrated by Friedrich's suggestive, and her ‘outside-world’ reference is different here, the kaleidoscope of droplets as part of her three-year Associate Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog (1818), is correspondingly unusual, yet still intensely replaced by a solid shelf of melody (perhaps, Composership with the Hallé (2011–14).
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