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Sunday 21 January 2018 7–9pm Barbican Hall

LSO SEASON CONCERT THE YOUNG DEBUSSY

Wagner Overture: Tannhäuser Lalo Interval Debussy Première Suite d’Orchestre DEBUSSY (UK premiere) Massenet – Suite

François-Xavier Roth conductor Edgar Moreau cello

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2 Welcome 21 January 2018 Tonight’s Concert / by François-Xavier Roth Spring 2018: Elgar, Mahler & Helen Grime

ith 2018 being 100 years since PROGRAMME NOTE WRITERS Thursday 8 February 2018 7.30pm Thursday 19 & 26 April 2018 7.30pm the death of Debussy I wanted to Barbican Hall Barbican Hall celebrate this major figure, whom Andrew Huth is a musician, writer and many people believe was the first to really translator who writes extensively on French, SIR MARK ELDER HELEN GRIME WORLD PREMIERE advance modern music. I thought it would be Russian and Eastern European music. great to have three programmes that guide us Janáček Schluck und Jau Helen Grime Woven Space * through Debussy’s music, from his influences Wendy Thompson studied at the Bartók Piano Concerto No 3 (world premiere) through to those whom he influenced. Royal College of Music and King’s College, Elgar Symphony No 1 Mahler Symphony No 9 London. In addition to writing about I started with Debussy’s roots. There’s no music she is Executive Director of Classic Sir Mark Elder conductor Sir conductor doubt that he was influenced by French Arts Productions, a major supplier of Francesco Piemontesi piano traditionalists, like Édouard Lalo. As a programmes to BBC Radio. * Commissioned for Sir Simon Rattle and the young man Debussy discovered Lalo’s ballet LSO by the Barbican Namouna, and was fascinated by the new Roger Nichols has taught in British Sunday 11 February 2018 7pm possibilities that were coming through his Universities, written and presented Barbican Hall 26 April generously supported by Baker McKenzie music. was also a great programmes for BBC Radio 3 and published influence, especially in the way he structured 20 books on French music. In 2007 he was SIR MARK ELDER his works and his philosophy; and finally appointed chevalier de la Légion d’honneur was an extremely important for services to French culture. Dvořák Overture: Othello figure while Debussy was a student in . Bruch No 1 Sunday 22 April 2018 7pm Richard Langham Smith has published widely Elgar Symphony No 2 Barbican Hall By Debussy himself we will have an exciting on French music and has a particular interest discovery: the UK premiere of Première Suite. in Debussy. In 1995 he was made a chevalier Sir Mark Elder conductor TIPPETT’S THE ROSE LAKE The parts for this work were only recently de l’ordre des Arts et des Lettres for services Nikolaj Znaider violin unearthed in a library in New York, and I had to French culture. He is currently Research Tippett The Rose Lake † the great privilege of premiering this piece in Professor at the Royal College of Music. Mahler comp Cooke Symphony No 10 2012 with my orchestra, Les Siècles. Although it’s clearly music by a young man, it already Andrew Stewart is a freelance music Sir Simon Rattle conductor shows some really interesting developments journalist and writer. He is the author and has some magical moments. of The LSO at 90, and contributes to † Supported by Resonate, a PRS Foundation a wide variety of specialist classical lso.co.uk/whatson initiative in partnership with the Association of Read the full article at lso.co.uk/debussy music publications. 020 7638 8891 British Orchestras, BBC Radio 3 and the Boltini Trust

Tonight’s Concert 3 Richard Wagner Overture: Tannhäuser 1845 / note by Andrew Huth

n Wagner’s imagination, the when the minstrels are invited to sing • TANNHÄUSER THE MINNESINGER • RICHARD WAGNER IN PROFILE combination of medieval German of the true nature of love. Tannhäuser legends that makes up the story scandalises everyone by his praise of Venus, of Tannhäuser • became a symbol of the and is commanded to join a band of pilgrims eternal battle between the life of the senses and seek forgiveness for his sins in . and the life of the spirit. The also He returns in the third act, unforgiven, provides a vivid picture of the 30-year-old and is about to return to Venus, feeling composer absorbing the operatic styles himself cursed by man and God, but is of the present and past, and looking far finally and miraculously redeemed at the into the future. There are many features point of death by the pure love of the that reflect the sort of spectacular French Landgrave’s daughter. that Wagner would later condemn out of hand: a ballet, an elaborate Begun in 1843 and completed in 1845, Tannhäuser (c 1200–70) was a Minnesinger, Wagner was born on 22 May 1813 in Leipzig. transformation scene and imposing Tannhäuser was first performed on a German poet-musician. In the 12th and In 1829 he completed his first instrumental processions; but the essence of the opera 19 October at the Dresden Opera, where 13th centuries ‘Minnesang’ were songs that compositions, writing the for his is something much more personal. Wagner had been working as an energetic recounted intrigues of courtly love, a social first opera Die Feen in 1833. In 1839 Wagner Tannhäuser himself is a complex figure, torn and enterprising conductor, and was already code of behaviour between lovers which moved from Riga to Paris to escape his within himself and at odds with his world, famous as the hugely ambitious composer emphasised values of chivalry and ‘loving creditors, living in extreme poverty. Here and his moments of overwrought suffering of Rienzi and The Flying Dutchman. Over nobly’. This romantic ideal had come to he completed Rienzi and created The Flying foreshadow the even more complex figures the following years it was subject to Germany from and the traditions Dutchman, which established his reputation. to be found in Wagner’s later music dramas, several revisions, the most wide-ranging of the troubadours. As a Minnesinger In the 1850s, he began composing his cycle particularly Tristan and Parsifal. of which were made for its disastrous Tannhäuser travelled widely, and he is of the four Nibelung , also completing three performances in Paris in 1861; these suspected to have taken part in the Crusade his opera Tristan and Isolde. His financial Tannhäuser is a minstrel-knight who has cut revisions changed the opera’s balance and of 1228–29, but otherwise not much is difficulties were removed in 1864 by King himself off from the company of his fellow character to some extent, but from the known about his life. His work is preserved Ludwig II, a dedicated Wagnerite who knights to devote himself to Venus, the beginning, the powerful Overture contains in the Codex Manesse (c 1300–40), in which commissioned Der Ring des Nibelungen. pagan goddess of love, and the embodiment the outlines of the two symbolic worlds much Middle High German poetry was The king later funded the building of a new of sensual joy. But in Act One, sated with that clash in the opera. Opening with the collated. The legend of Venus with which theatre at Bayreuth for the sole performance physical passion, he now longs to return calm processional music of the pilgrims, Tannhäuser became associated and which of Wagner’s works, and the Bayreuth Festival to the world of men. The crisis point of the it builds to a climax which spills into the wild inspired Wagner can be traced back to the was launched in 1876. Wagner’s final opera opera is a song competition held at the and erotic music associated with Venus. • 13th century, and was preserved in a popular Parsifal was written specifically for Bayreuth. castle of the Landgrave of Thuringia, 15th-century ballad entitled Danhauser. He died in on 13 February 1883.

4 Programme Notes 21 January 2018 Édouard Lalo 1876 / note by Wendy Thompson

1 Prélude: Lento – Allegro maestoso great Spanish violinist , maestoso, counterbalanced by a meltingly • ÉDOUARD LALO IN PROFILE 2 Intermezzo: Andantino con moto – who was active in Paris at the time. Camille lyrical second subject and featuring several Allegro presto – Andantino (Tempo I) Saint-Saëns dedicated both his Third Violin virtuosic passages. The Intermezzo neatly 3 Introduction: Andante – Allegro vivace Concerto and the Introduction and Rondo fuses elements of both slow movement Capriccioso to Sarasate, and Lalo followed and scherzo, its tranquil, romanza-like Edgar Moreau cello suit, first with his own Violin Concerto principal section interrupted with faster, (1873), and then a year later with his greatest Spanish-inflected episodes; while the ontemporary with Gounod popular success, the , rondo Finale, prefaced by a short slow and Offenbach, Édouard Lalo premiered less than a month before Bizet’s introduction in which the soloist muses belonged to a generation of French . He followed these up with further on themes to come, evolves into an composers who enjoyed success during works for violin and orchestra, together with exuberant dance, again invoking the the Second Empire. His family strongly for cello and for piano. Of these, atmosphere of a Spanish fiesta. • opposed his musical ambitions, so at the only the D minor Cello Concerto, written Born in Lille in 1823, the young Lalo was age of 16 he ran away from his home in for the brilliant young Belgian cellist Adolf encouraged by his family and at the Lille Lille to study violin and composition at the Fischer and premiered at the Cirque d’Hiver Conservatoire, but showed no signs of Paris Conservatoire. His early compositions in Paris in 1877, is much played today. musical talent. When it became clear that tended towards chamber music – then an he wanted to pursue a musical career, his unfashionable medium in France – and Lalo’s concerto has very few precedents in father tried to block any further progress. from 1855 he himself played viola and later the 19th-century cello repertory, although The 16-year-old Édouard decided to leave violin in a string quartet. During the 1860s it may have been inspired by the earlier home in favour of further studies in Paris. he expended much energy on composing success of Saint-Saëns’ A minor Concerto. an operatic flop,Fiesque , and only achieved The cello takes a starring role throughout, Lalo’s early works included two symphonies, success relatively late in life, finally realising discreetly supported by subtle touches which the composer later destroyed. He his lifetime’s ambition only four years before of , particularly in the gained a limited reputation in the 1840s his death with the successful premiere of his woodwind, which tantalisingly prefigure following the publication of several salon opera Le roi d’Ys. Dvořák’s masterpiece, written around Interval – 20 minutes pieces, spending much of the next decade two decades later. The Concerto opens There are bars on all levels of the promoting and composing chamber music. The formation in the 1870s of the influential with a declamatory slow introduction in Concert Hall; ice cream can be bought His fame was secured in the 1870s with works Société nationale to promote the works of recitative style, dominated by the soloist at the stands on Stalls and Circle level. including the Violin Concerto, Symphonie contemporary French composers inspired and punctuated by loud, dramatic orchestral Visit the Barbican Shop on Level -1 and see espagnole and the Cello Concerto. He died in Lalo to turn his hand to orchestral works. chords. The cello then introduces the our new range of Gifts and Accessories. Paris on 22 April 1892, survived by his wife, He was also encouraged to do so by the muscular principal theme of the Allegro Julie de Maligny, and their son Pierre Lalo.

Programme Notes 5 Première Suite d’Orchestre 1883–84 / note by Richard Langham Smith

1 Fête Complementing these was his work on more Perhaps most similar in format to the Amongst pieces which hint at a Russian 2 Ballet extended orchestral music, shown nowhere Première Suite is the Petite Suite for two influence, there is also evidence of a penchant 3 Rêve more clearly than in this Suite. Shortly after, pianos (written between 1886 and 1889), for exotic music: from North Africa perhaps or 4 Cortège et Bacchanale in the mid-1880s, he was ready to fuse his which again has only loose connections further East, especially in the third movement. vocal writing with the orchestral skills he had between its movements. In its 1907 This is one of the strands that was to develop ts various movements dating from developed, resulting in the Diane orchestration by Henri Büsser (no doubt slowly throughout the composer’s life. around 1883 to 1884, the Première au bois and three acts of an opera, Rodrigue done with the composer’s approval), Suite is one of Debussy’s earliest- et Chimène, which in several aspects looks this is perhaps the closest in conception Some of the themes of the Suite exist in conceived orchestral pieces: appropriate that towards his masterpiece Pelléas et Mélisande. to the Suite that we hear tonight. Debussy’s sketchbooks – fascinating as they it should receive its first airing in the UK on throw some light on the composer’s working the centenary of his death. Its surface shows — methods. He once advised a pupil to ‘gather us only a little about the composer’s mature ‘Although it’s clearly music by a young man, it already shows some really impressions’ but not to work on them too orchestral works, now firmly established in much, so as to preserve the ‘freshness of the the repertoire: the orchestral Nocturnes, the interesting developments and has some magical moments.’ first sketch’, an aesthetic not too far away Images, La mer and even the Prélude à l’après- — from that of the Impressionist painters midi d’un faune, to which some oriental François-Xavier Roth on Debussy’s Première Suite and already showing his rejection of forms aspects of the Suite are perhaps closest. inherited from the Austro-German school. •

Quite a few pieces from this early ‘learning’ The Première Suite can in no way be The movements of the Suite give hints as period of Debussy’s life are yet to be described as ‘Impressionistic’ and the titles to how Debussy’s music was to develop. rediscovered. The ‘Vasnier’ songs – named of its movements seem to have no common There are the repeated two-bar phrases of after a songbook he wrote out for his lover, thread. Suites, such as several by Massenet, the time, but also passages where Debussy’s a high-register singer ten years his senior – were a successful way of getting pieces experimentation with transparent textures are the best-known works of his twenties published, certainly a priority for any young and oriental scales • is evident. Also notable and have attracted performances by many composer. Debussy, it has to be said, wasn’t is his immediate talent for orchestration well-known . Inspired both by as yet very successful at this – thus the many in all the movements except the third Mme Vasnier’s voice and the poetry of such works of his youth exist only in manuscripts (Rêve), for which no orchestral manuscript celebrated figures as Banville, Verlaine which are messy and often incomplete, has yet been found. Philippe Manoury’s and Mallarmé, these melodies are already requiring a good deal of reconstruction convincing scoring uses tremolando strings to accomplished pieces with skilled vocal writing. before they can be performed. transport us into this extended dream-world.

6 Programme Notes 21 January 2018 Claude Debussy In Profile 1862–1918

• DEBUSSY’S INFLUENCES • DEBUSSY ON LSO LIVE His Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune, although regarded as a revolutionary work at the time of its premiere in December 1894, soon found favour with concert-goers and the habitually conservative French press. Late in the summer of the previous year he had begun work on the only opera he completed, Pelléas et Mélisande, which was inspired by Maeterlinck’s play. It was an immediate success after its first production in April 1902.

In 1904 he met Emma Bardac, the former wife of a successful financier, and moved into an apartment with her; his wife, Lily Texier, attempted suicide following their separation. From the 1850s onwards, Japanese and Debussy Pelléas et Mélisande espite an insecure family Debussy and Emma had a daughter and Chinese art was very much in vogue in Paris, background (his father was were subsequently married in January 1908. and Debussy greatly admired artists such as Sir Simon Rattle conductor imprisoned as a revolutionary The composer’s troubled domestic life did Hiroshige and Hokusai (whose work The Great Magdalena Kožená Mélisande in 1871), Claude Debussy took piano not affect the quality of his work, with Wave was later used on the original cover Christian Gerhaher Pelléas lessons and was accepted as a pupil of such magnificent scores as La mer for large of the score for La mer in 1905, pictured). Gerald Finley Golaud the Paris Conservatoire in 1872, but failed orchestra and the first set of Images for piano Glimpses of whole-tone and pentatonic Bernarda Fink Genevieve to make the grade as a concert pianist. produced during this period. scales in early works like the Première Suite Franz-Josef Selig Arkel The gifted musician directed his talents and L’enfant prodigue (1884) are examples Joshua Bloom The Doctor, The Shepherd towards composition, eventually winning Debussy’s ballet Jeux was first performed of how this interest in the Far East extended Elias Madlër Yniold the coveted in 1884 and by Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes in May 1913, a to music. With the World Fairs of 1899 and London Symphony Chorus spending two years in Italy. During the fortnight before the premiere of Stravinsky’s 1900 showcasing Javanese gamelan in Paris, Simon Halsey chorus director 1890s he lived in poverty with his mistress The Rite of Spring. Although suffering from the young composer’s fascination was London Symphony Orchestra Gabrielle Dupont, eventually marrying the cancer, he managed to complete the first only to grow, and these influences would dressmaker Rosalie (Lily) Texier in 1899. three of a projected set of six instrumental come to form the backbone of Debussy’s Available at lsolive.lso.co.uk, Amazon sonatas. He died at his Paris home and was compositional techniques. and iTunes, or to stream on Apple Music buried at Passy cemetery. • and Spotify

Programme Notes 7 His greatest orchestral works, THE 2017/18 Jules Massenet Le Cid – Suite 1885 / note by Roger Nichols and the music he inspired SEASON CONTINUES … 1 Castillane Perhaps sensibly, composers did not spend • • JULES MASSENET IN PROFILE 2 Andalouse much effort trying to make their ballets 3 Aragonaise relevant to the plot of the wider opera. ‘El Cid’, meaning ‘the Lord’, was the name AT THE BARBICAN 4 Aubade In Le Cid, it is necessary for the populace of given to Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar (c 1043–99), a conducted by François-Xavier Roth 5 Catalane to remain unaware of recent events – Spanish medieval nobleman. He was known 6 Madrilène the murder of Count Gormas by the hero for his military strength, leading many with Cédric Tiberghien piano 7 Navarraise Don Rodrigue – and simply to celebrate the campaigns against the Muslim Kingdoms 25 January arrival of spring. This they do in ‘Hallelujahs’ and the sons of King Ferdinand the Great. ollowing the premiere of Don César before enjoying a succession of seven Exiled in 1081, he continued to exercise his with Renaud Capuçon violin de Bazan in 1872, Massenet had dances that may be summed up briefly: military prowess, and in 1094 laid siege and 25 March composed three more operas ‘Castillane’, a reworking of the ‘Sevillana’ conquered the eastern town of Valencia, (, Hérodiade and ) from Don César; ‘Andalouse’, the lazy Spain; establishing an independent principality. Half Six Fix over the next dozen years. Of these, even ‘Aragonaise’, what Massenet could have An hour-long performance introduced if Le Roi marked him out firmly as a coming done in the field of operetta; ‘Aubade’, • ROSITA MAURI Jules Massenet (1842–1912) was born in the on stage by the conductor man, Manon was by some way the most again, not a wasted note; ‘Catalane’, marked Loire region of France. The family moved to 28 March successful and set a precedent for the kind ‘sombre et très accentuée ; ‘Madrilène’, Paris in 1848, and by 1851 Massenet had begun of drama called ‘larmoyant’ (tear-inducing, langorous wind solos; ‘Navarraise’, a finale studying at the Paris Conservatoire. After or ‘weepy’) which was to become Massenet’s that returns to the ‘Aragonaise’. winning the Prix de Rome in 1863 the young BBC RADIO 3 LUNCHTIME CONCERTS stock-in-trade. In the meantime he made composer travelled to study in Italy, where AT LSO ST LUKE’S almost a last bid for heroic status by turning Massenet wrote these dances specially for he met , as well as his future wife to the legend of El Cid • – according to the famous ballerina Rosita Mauri •, who Ninon. Returning to Paris in 1866 he was Cédric Tiberghien & Friends James Harding, the 27th composer to do so. was painted by Manet, Renoir and Degas invited to compose a work for the Opéra- 9 February, 16 February, 16 March among others. He also incorporated what he Comique, a one-act opera La grand’tante, Le Cid was premiered at the Paris Opéra called ‘quelques rythmes très intéressants’ Rosita Mauri (1850–1923) was one of the 19th which was to launch his career. After the BBC Singers on 30 November 1885. Whether or not one (a few very interesting rhythms), which she century’s principal ballerinas. Born in Majorca, interruption of the Franco-Prussian war 9 March regards this attempt as successful, heroics suggested to him. • her father was a Catalan ballet master and of 1870–71, during which Massenet served play no part in the music for the self- trained her for stardom from an early age. as a volunteer in the National Guard, he contained ballet – without which no work She rose to fame after debuts at in continued composing prolifically – ballets, DEBUSSY DAY AT MILTON COURT at the Paris Opéra was deemed complete – Milan and the Paris Opéra, becoming a muse ,song cycles and some 34 which takes place at the end of Act Two. in artistic circles and frequently the subject of operas, including (1892), ThaÏs lso.co.uk/debussy with Jean-Efflam Bavouzet and paintings and poems (like Degas’ renowned (1894) and (1910). He died in Debussy Scholar Roger Nichols 1878 painting Prima ballerina, pictured here). 1912 after suffering from abdominal cancer. 020 7638 8891 25 March

8 Programme Notes 21 January 2018 His greatest orchestral works, THE 2017/18 and the music he inspired SEASON CONTINUES …

AT THE BARBICAN conducted by François-Xavier Roth

with Cédric Tiberghien piano 25 January

with Renaud Capuçon violin 25 March

Half Six Fix An hour-long performance introduced on stage by the conductor 28 March

BBC RADIO 3 LUNCHTIME CONCERTS AT LSO ST LUKE’S

Cédric Tiberghien & Friends 9 February, 16 February, 16 March

BBC Singers 9 March

DEBUSSY DAY AT MILTON COURT lso.co.uk/debussy with Jean-Efflam Bavouzet and Debussy Scholar Roger Nichols 020 7638 8891 25 March François-Xavier Roth conductor

rançois-Xavier Roth is one of His third Cologne opera season features new His first recording with the Gürzenich today’s most charismatic and productions of Wagner’s Tannhäuser and Orchestra, Mahler’s Fifth Symphony, enterprising conductors. Since Die Soldaten by Bernd Alois Zimmermann, premiered in Cologne by the Orchestra under 2015, he has been General Music Director marking the centenary of the composer’s Mahler in 1904, was released last December. of the City of Cologne, leading both the birth in Cologne. With the Gürzenich Gürzenich Orchestra and the Opera. Orchestra, he continues a focus on the Engagement with new audiences is an This season he took up the position composer Philippe Manoury, from whom essential part of François-Xavier Roth’s of Principal Guest Conductor of the the orchestra has commissioned a trilogy work. With the Festival Berlioz and Les London Symphony Orchestra. of works, the second of which, a Flute Siècles, he founded the Jeune Orchestre Concerto, will receive its premiere with Européen , a unique orchestra- With a reputation for inventive programming, Emmanuel Pahud. academy with its own collection of period his incisive approach and inspiring leadership instruments. Roth and Les Siècles devised are valued around the world. He regularly As Principal Conductor of the SWR Presto!, a television series for France 2, works with leading orchestras including the Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden & Freiburg attracting weekly audiences of over three and Staatskapelle, (2011–16), Roth recorded the complete tone million. The Gürzenich Orchestra’s Ohrenauf! Royal Concertgebouw, Boston Symphony, poems of . youth programme received a Junge Ohren Munich Philharmonic and Zurich Tonhalle. Produktion Award in February 2017. His recordings of the Stravinsky ballets In 2003 he founded Les Siècles, an The Firebird, Petrushka and The Rite of A tireless champion of contemporary music, innovative orchestra performing contrasting Spring with Les Siècles have also been he is conductor of the ground-breaking and colourful programmes on modern and widely acclaimed, the latter being awarded LSO Panufnik Composers Scheme. Roth period instruments, often within the same a German Record Critics’ Prize. They have has premiered works by Yann Robin, concert. With Les Siècles, he has given embarked on a complete Ravel cycle for Georg-Friedrich Haas and Simon Steen- FRANÇOIS-XAVIER ROTH CONDUCTS THE concerts in France, Italy, Germany, The Harmonia Mundi. The first release, Daphnis Anderson and collaborated with composers PANUFNIK COMPOSERS WORKSHOPS Netherlands, Belgium, England and Japan. and Chloé, was a Gramophone magazine including Pierre Boulez, Wolfgang Rihm, Recent highlights with Les Siècles include Editor’s Choice and CD of the month in Jörg Widmann and Helmut Lachenmann. Sunday 18 March 2018 10am & 2.30pm recreating the original sound of Stravinsky’s Rondo magazine. Roth and Les Siècles LSO St Luke’s The Rite of Spring in its centenary year at also recently released Mirages, a vocal For his achievements as musician, conductor, the BBC Proms and Alte Oper, Frankfurt recital with Sabine Devieilhe for Erato, music director and teacher, François-Xavier New music by six composers on the scheme. and, subsequently, with the Pina Bausch a Gramophone Editor’s Choice and Sunday Roth was named a Chevalier of the Légion and Dominique Brun dance companies. Times Album of the Week. d’honneur on Bastille Day 2017. • lso.co.uk/whatson

10 Artist Biographies 21 January 2018 Edgar Moreau cello

ellist Edgar Moreau won First Moreau is a committed chamber musician Festival, Saint-Denis Festival, the Fazioli Prize in the 2014 Young Concert and has worked with artists including Concert Hall Series in Sacile, and in Tokyo, Artists International Auditions. the Talich, Prazak, Modigliani and Ebène Amsterdam and Geneva. At the age of 17 he was awarded six Special Quartets, Renaud Capuçon, Nicholas Prizes after winning Second Prize and Angelich, Jean-Frederic Neuburger, and Born in 1994 in Paris, Edgar Moreau began the Prize for the Best Performance of the Khatia Buniatishvili. Festival appearances playing the cello at the age of four and the Commissioned Work at the International have included performances at Poland’s piano at six. From 2008 to 2013 he studied Tchaikovsky Competition in July 2011, Easter Festival in Warsaw, Radio France with Professor Philippe Muller at the under the chairmanship of . Montpellier Festival, Verbier Festival, Conservatoire National Supérieur de Paris He has also been named ‘New Talent of Edinburgh International Festival, and he currently studies with Professor the Year 2013’ and ‘Instrumental Soloist Sommets Musicaux de Gstaad, Mozartfest Frans Helmerson at the Kronberg Academy. of the Year 2015’ at the French Victoires in Würzburg, Luzern Festival and the He has taken part in masterclasses with de la Musique awards. Musikverein in Vienna. such eminent cellists as Gary Hoffman, Lynn Harrell and David Geringas. He made his orchestral debut at the age He has also given recitals with pianist of eleven with the Teatro Regio Orchestra Pierre-Yves Hodique – who won the Prize His first album, Play, was released in 2014 in Turin. He has since appeared as soloist of the Best Accompanist at the 14th on the Warner Classics label. His follow-up with the Musica Viva Orchestra in Russia International Tchaikovsky Competition – album, Giovincello, (ECHO Classik 2016) and in Japan (with conductor Alexander at the Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersburg, presents 18th-century cello concertos Rudin), the Sinfonia Iuventus Orchestra the Berlin Philharmonie, in Brussels, and recorded with the Italian Baroque ensemble (with conductor ), the the Auditorium du Louvre in Paris. Il Pomo d’Oro. His most recent release on Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, the Simón the Erato label is a duo recital with pianist Bolívar Orchestra in Caracas, the Mariinsky Recent engagements have included David Kadouch, featuring the music of Orchestra in Toulouse (under the baton of performances with the Franck, Poulenc and Strohl. Valery Gergiev), the Orchestre National de and conductor Lahav Shani, Barcelona France at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées Symphony Orchestra (performing the Edgar Moreau plays a David Tecchler cello, in Paris, the St Petersburg Philharmonic Beethoven Triple Concerto with Renaud dated 1711. • Orchestra (with conductor Jean-Claude Capuçon and Khatia Buniatishvili), the Casadesus), the Orchestre de la Suisse Brussels Philharmonic, the Orchestre Romande in Switzerland, the Malaysian National de France (conducted by Nikolaj Philharmonic Orchestra and the Hong Kong Znaider), as well as chamber performances Sinfonietta, among others. at the Cologne Philharmonic, Verbier

Artist Biographies 11 London Symphony Orchestra on stage tonight

Leader Second Violins Flutes Horns Timpani LSO String Experience Scheme Roman Simovic David Alberman Tim Hugh Gareth Davies Timothy Jones Nigel Thomas Since 1992, the LSO String Experience Thomas Norris Minat Lyons Alex Jakeman Angela Barnes Scheme has enabled young string players First Violins Sarah Quinn Alastair Blayden Jason Koczur Percussion from the London music conservatoires at Carmine Lauri Miya Väisänen Jennifer Brown Piccolo Jonathan Lipton Neil Percy the start of their professional careers to gain Lennox Mackenzie David Ballesteros Noel Bradshaw Patricia Moynihan Tim Ball David Jackson work experience by playing in rehearsals Clare Duckworth Matthew Gardner Eve-Marie Caravassilis Sam Walton and concerts with the LSO. The musicians Ginette Decuyper Naoko Keatley Daniel Gardner are treated as professional ‘extra’ players Gerald Gregory Belinda McFarlane Hilary Jones Juliana Koch Philip Cobb Harps (additional to LSO members) and receive Maxine Kwok-Adams William Melvin Amanda Truelove Ruth Contractor David Elton Bryn Lewis fees for their work in line with LSO Section Claire Parfitt Iwona Muszynska Victoria Harrild Gerald Ruddock Manon Morris players. The Scheme is supported by Laurent Quenelle Andrew Pollock Niall Keatley The Polonsky Foundation, Barbara Colin Renwick Paul Robson Double Basses Christine Pendrill Whatmore Charitable Trust, The Thistle Sylvain Vasseur Siobhan Doyle Colin Paris Trust and Idlewild Trust. Julian Azkoul Eugenio Sacchetti Patrick Laurence Clarinets Peter Moore Richard Blayden Matthew Gibson Chris Richards James Maynard Performing in tonight’s concert are Eleanor Fagg Violas Thomas Goodman Peter Sparks Eriko Nagayama (Second Violin) and Lulu Fuller Scott Dickinson Joe Melvin Mario Torres Valdivieso (Double Bass). Grace Lee Gillianne Haddow Jani Pensola Paul Milner Anna Bastow Sebastian Pennar Rachel Gough Lander Echevarria Simo Väisänen Joost Bosdijk Tuba Julia O’Riordan David Kendall Editor Robert Turner Edward Appleyard | [email protected] Jonathan Welch Fiona Dinsdale | [email protected] Cameron Campbell Editorial Photography May Dolan Ranald Mackechnie, Hilaire Degas, Stephen Doman Marco Borggreve Alistair Scahill Print Cantate 020 3651 1690 Milena Simovic Advertising Cabbells Ltd 020 3603 7937

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