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Thursday 19 & 26 April 2018 7.30–9.50pm Barbican Hall LSO SEASON CONCERT SIR SIMON RATTLE Helen Grime Woven Space (world premiere) * Interval WOVEN Mahler Symphony No 9 Sir Simon Rattle conductor * Commissioned for the LSO and SPACE Sir Simon Rattle by the Barbican 26 April generously supported by Baker McKenzie Welcome LSO News Online Fanfares and Woven Space were THE LSO’S 2018/19 SEASON YOUTUBE LIVE STREAMS commissioned for the LSO and Sir Simon Rattle by the Barbican, and our sincere The LSO’s 2018/19 season is now on sale. If you can't make it to the Barbican, thanks go to them. Highlights include Music Director Sir Simon tune in to the LSO’s YouTube channel Rattle’s exploration of folk-inspired music on Sunday 24 June 2018 at 7pm to watch At the concert on Thursday 19 April we in his series Roots and Origins; the the LSO’s Principal Guest Conductor welcome the LSO’s wide family of supporters continuation of Gianandrea Noseda’s Gianandrea Noseda conduct Shostakovich's so that members of the Orchestra can thank Shostakovich cycle; Artist Portraits Violin Concerto No 1 and Symphony No 10 them personally for their commitment with soprano and conductor Barbara Hannigan live from the Barbican Hall. to our work. I add my thanks to theirs – and pianist Daniil Trifonov; and seven world you make our achievements possible premieres across the season. Full listings You can also watch back previous live In perfect harmony Welcome to this evening’s LSO concert at and we are immensely grateful. are available at lso.co.uk/201819season. streams at youtube.com/lso. BAKER MCKENZIE AND THE the Barbican, conducted by the Orchestra’s Music Director Sir Simon Rattle. Continuing Our concert on Thursday 26 April is LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA his focus on late works, Sir Simon conducts generously supported by Baker McKenzie. BMW CLASSICS AT TRAFALGAR SQUARE WLECOME TO OUR NEW MEMBERS Mahler’s Ninth Symphony, which was unheard I would like to take this opportunity to thank during the composer’s lifetime, paired with them for what is a landmark partnership Trafalgar Square will be transformed into A warm welcome to our two new Baker McKenzie has a passion for the Arts, which is the world premiere of Helen Grime’s that has endured for two decades. a giant free music stage for Sir Simon Rattle members Steve Doman and Carol Ella, why we are proud to have been official lawyers to the Woven Space. and the London Symphony Orchestra to who both join the Viola section. London Symphony Orchestra for the past two decades. I hope that you enjoy the performance, present BMW Classics on Sunday 1 July 2018. Eagle-eyed regulars might recognise Helen Grime first worked with the LSO in 2007 and that you are able to join us again soon. The concert is free to all, both in the both Steve and Carol as former participants as a member of the Orchestra’s programme On Thursday 17 and Sunday 20 May, we are Square and streamed live on YouTube. of LSO Discovery’s String Experience Scheme. for young composers, writing her first work joined by the LSO’s Conductor Laureate The programme will feature music on for full orchestra, Virga. It was during an Michael Tilson Thomas for an all-Sibelius a theme of dance and ballet by Dvořák, LSO workshop that she was singled out for programme and Beethoven's Missa Solemnis Massenet, Tchaikovsky and Stravinsky. praise by Pierre Boulez and we have enjoyed with the London Symphony Chorus. Visit lso.co.uk/bmwclassics for more details. seeing Helen Grime’s career go from strength to strength ever since. We look forward to Read our news, watch videos and more hearing the first performances of Woven WELCOME TO TONIGHT’S GROUPS • lso.co.uk/news www.bakermckenzie.com Space, a work that includes Fanfares, which • youtube.com/lso opened Sir Simon Rattle’s first season as Kathryn McDowell CBE DL Tonight we are delighted to welcome • lso.co.uk/blog Baker & McKenzie LLP is a limited liability partnership registered in England and Music Director in September 2017. Managing Director Mrs Adele Friedland & Friends Wales with registered number OC311297. Baker & McKenzie LLP is a member of Baker & McKenzie International, a global law firm with member law firms around the world. © 2018 Baker McKenzie 2 Welcome 19 & 26 April 2018 In perfect harmony BAKER MCKENZIE AND THE LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Baker McKenzie has a passion for the Arts, which is why we are proud to have been official lawyers to the London Symphony Orchestra for the past two decades. www.bakermckenzie.com Baker & McKenzie LLP is a limited liability partnership registered in England and Wales with registered number OC311297. Baker & McKenzie LLP is a member of Baker & McKenzie International, a global law firm with member law firms around the world. © 2018 Baker McKenzie Tonight’s Concert / by Paul Griffiths Coming Up elen Grime’s Woven Space is a The first movement, with its two-note falls PROGRAMME NOTE WRITERS Thursday 17 May 2018 7.30pm compact, brilliant and energetic inherited from Beethoven’s ‘Les Adieux’ Barbican Hall symphony that turns into music Sonata, seems to be singing ‘Farewell’ Paul Griffiths has been a critic for nearly the dynamism and fluidity of the landscape through much of its course. What follows is 40 years, including for The Times and SIBELIUS art of Laura Ellen Bacon, her great structures a dance medley, violently grotesque. Then The New Yorker, and is an authority on 20th of woven willow stems winding through this frantic dance is succeeded by a frantic and 21st-century music. Among his books Sibelius Violin Concerto space. The first movement, appropriately march, brilliant and black. Out of it comes are studies of Boulez, Ligeti and Stravinsky. Sibelius Symphonies Nos 6 & 7 called ‘Fanfares’, brings together contrasting a figure that will be the mainstay of the He also writes novels and librettos. kinds of exuberance. The second and concluding adagio, through hymn, Alpine Michael Tilson Thomas conductor biggest, sharing its title with the work as vision and final ebbing. • Stephen Johnson is the author of Bruckner Janine Jansen violin a whole, moves from mystery to luminous Remembered. He contributes regularly to exuberance. ‘Course’, the finale, vigorously BBC Music Magazine and The Guardian, Recommended by Classic FM pursues its winding way, piling in ideas from and broadcasts for BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio 4 earlier in the work as it comes towards its and the BBC World Service. exciting finish. Andrew Stewart is a freelance music Mahler’s Ninth Symphony, drafted during journalist and writer. He is the author Sunday 20 May 2018 7pm the composer’s summer break in Austria in of The LSO at 90, and contributes to Barbican Hall 1909 and completed during the following a wide variety of specialist classical New York concert season, was the last work music publications. MISSA SOLEMNIS he completed. Its prevailing atmosphere of leave-taking might therefore seem grimly Beethoven Missa Solemnis appropriate. However, even though Mahler was very much aware of his mortality, the Michael Tilson Thomas conductor farewells he was conveying came on behalf of Camilla Tilling soprano a whole musical culture he felt to be reaching Sasha Cooke mezzo-soprano its end: the culture of full-hearted Romantic Toby Spence tenor expression, of stable tonality, of the splendour Luca Pisaroni bass-baritone and the tawdriness of imperial Vienna. London Symphony Chorus Simon Halsey chorus director Generously supported by The Atkin Foundation 4 Tonight’s Concert 19 & 26 April 2018 Helen Grime in Profile b 1981 This disc was awarded ‘Editor's Choice’ • LSO SOUNDSCAPES: PIONEERS by Gramophone on its release and was nominated in the Contemporary category The LSO Soundscapes: Pioneers Scheme of the 2015 Gramophone Awards. In 2016 offered 26 early-career composers the her Two Eardley Pictures were premiered opportunity to write short works for at the BBC Proms and in Glasgow, winning inclusion in main season LSO concerts the prize for large-scale composition in at the Barbican between 2005 and 2009. the Scottish Awards for New Music and a nomination in the British Composer Awards For more information about the LSO’s the following year. composer development schemes, turn to page 8. Grime is Composer in Residence at Wigmore Hall for the 2016/17 and 2017/18 seasons. Highlights of this period include a day of concerts devoted to her music, as orn in 1981, Helen Grime studied As well as the LSO and the Barbican, Grime well as the premieres of a Piano Concerto at the Royal College of Music has had works commissioned by ensembles for Huw Watkins and Birmingham with Julian Anderson and Edwin and institutions including Aldeburgh Music, Contemporary Music Group conducted Roxburgh (composition) and John Anderson Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, by Oliver Knussen, and a song cycle, Bright (oboe). She came to public attention in Britten Sinfonia, BBC Scottish Symphony Travellers, for soprano Ruby Hughes and 2003, when her Oboe Concerto won a British Orchestra, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln pianist Joseph Middleton. Composer Award. She went on to take part in Center and the Tanglewood Music Center. the LSO’s Soundscapes: Pioneers Scheme • Conductors who have performed her work In 2017 she was commissioned by the in 2007, premiering her short commission include Sir Simon Rattle, Pierre Boulez, Barbican to write a two-part work for Virga in July of the same year. In 2008 Daniel Harding, Yan Pascal Tortelier, Sir Simon Rattle’s inaugural season as Music she was awarded a Leonard Bernstein Oliver Knussen and Sir Mark Elder.
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