Sunday 21 October 2018 7–9.05pm Barbican Hall LSO SEASON CONCERT THE FIREBIRD De Falla Scenes and Dances from ‘The Three Cornered Hat’ Part I De Falla Three Dances from FIRE ‘The Three Cornered Hat’ Part II Lalo Symphonie espagnole Interval Stravinsky The Firebird – Suite (1945) Jaime Martín conductor BIRD Christian Tetzlaff violin Welcome LSO News Online I hope you enjoy the concert and that you LSO EAST LONDON ACADEMY LSO BLOG: NIKOLAJ SZEPS-ZNAIDER are able to join us again soon. On Thursday ON CONDUCTING 25 October, Philippe Jordan will make his Developed in partnership with ten East LSO debut in a programme of Tchaikovsky’s London boroughs, the LSO East London Ahead of his appearances this month, Symphony No 5 and Szymanowski’s Violin Academy is the first step on a path to Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider told us about the Concerto No 2, with Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider making the Orchestra truly representative first time he conducted a professional as soloist. Then, on Thursday 1 November of its community in London. Opening at LSO symphony orchestra, his approach to the LSO Principal Guest Conductor Gianandrea St Luke’s in spring 2019, it aims to identify craft, and what it takes to do it well. Noseda conducts Shostakovich’s mammoth and develop the potential of young East Fourth Symphony alongside the UK Londoners who show exceptional musical Visit lso.co.uk/blog to read the whole premiere of James MacMillan’s Trombone talent, irrespective of their background or interview. elcome to tonight’s LSO concert Concerto, featuring LSO Co-Principal financial circumstance. at the Barbican. We are pleased Trombone Peter Moore. to be joined this evening by Visit lso.co.uk/news to read more about YOUTUBE: SIR SIMON RATTLE Jaime Martín, who made his LSO debut the programme. CONDUCTS SIBELIUS conducting the Orchestra in Madrid earlier this week. The dry heat of Martín’s native The LSO’s performance of Sibelius’ Fifth Spain is palpable throughout the first APPLICATIONS OPEN FOR THE 2019 Symphony and Janáček’s Sinfonietta, half of tonight’s programme, in the lively Kathryn McDowell CBE DL PANUFNIK COMPOSERS SCHEME recorded at the Barbican on Wednesday 19 Andalucian dances and folk songs of Manuel Managing Director September, is now available to watch on de Falla’s The Three Cornered Hat, which The Panufnik Composers Scheme offers our YouTube channel and will be available received its premiere here in London nearly six composers from a wide range of there until 19 December. one hundred years ago. musical approaches and backgrounds the opportunity to work with the Orchestra Visit youtube.com/lso for more. Joining the Orchestra to play Édouard Lalo’s and composition director Colin Matthews, Symphonie espagnole, we welcome back leading to a full orchestral workshop with our long-standing friend Christian Tetzlaff, LSO Principal Guest Conductor François- WELCOME TO TONIGHT’S GROUPS whose performance of Harrison Birtwistle’s Xavier Roth. Applications for this year’s Violin Concerto opened the LSO’s 2017/18 scheme close on Wednesday 31 October. We are delighted to welcome the groups season. This colourful programme then attending tonight’s concert: closes with the Suite from Stravinsky’s Visit lso.co.uk/panufnik to find out how Michael Whittaker & Friends ballet The Firebird. to apply. and Hertford U3A. 2 Welcome 21 October 2018 Tonight’s Concert / by Wendy Thompson Coming Up uites drawn from two vibrant ballet and colourful Symphonie espagnole Thursday 25 October 2018 7.30pm Sunday 4 November 2018 7pm scores brimming with exotic colour (Spanish Symphony) for violin and orchestra, Barbican Hall Barbican Hall form the focus of this programme. written for the Parisian-trained virtuoso Both were commissioned by Serge Diaghilev Pablo de Sarasate, appeared at the same TCHAIKOVSKY’S FIFTH ALL THE HILLS AND VALES ALONG for his Ballets Russes: Stravinsky’s The time as Carmen, and has remained a Firebird in 1909/10, and Manuel de Falla’s perennial favourite. Mussorgsky Night on the Bare Mountain James MacMillan The Three Cornered Hat some ten years Szymanowski Violin Concerto No 2 All the Hills and Vales Along * later, once its composer had returned to his Tchaikovsky Symphony No 5 Shostakovich Symphony No 4 native Andalucia after more than a decade PROGRAMME NOTE WRITERS spent in Paris. There he had refined his style Philippe Jordan conductor Gianandrea Noseda conductor by marrying the subtle orchestral palette Wendy Thompson studied at the Royal Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider violin Ian Bostridge tenor of his friends Debussy and Ravel with the College of Music, before taking an London Symphony Chorus folk idioms of his homeland, especially its MMus in musicology at King’s College, Simon Halsey chorus director captivating flamenco dances and soulful London. In addition to writing about National Youth Brass Band of Great Britain gypsy songs. The Three Cornered Hat was music she is Executive Director of Classic first performed at London’s Alhambra Arts Productions, a major supplier of Thursday 1 November 2018 7.30pm * Commissioned by the London Symphony Orchestra and Theatre in 1919 with décor by the young independent programmes to BBC Radio. Barbican Hall 14-18 NOW: WW1 Centenary Art Commissions, with the world premieres taking place at The Cumnock Tryst festival Picasso, and choreography by the dancer (chamber version) on 6 October 2018 and LSO (orchestral Léonide Massine. It was an instant hit. Paul Griffiths has been a critic for nearly HOMELANDS version) on 4 November 2018 40 years, including for The Times and The young Stravinsky inherited his talent The New Yorker, and is an authority Kodály Dances of Galánta for sensuous orchestration from his teacher on 20th- and 21st-century music. James MacMillan Trombone Concerto Rimsky-Korsakov, another lover of Spanish Among his books are studies of Boulez, (UK premiere) music. His fantastical score for The Firebird, Ligeti and Stravinsky. He also writes Shostakovich Symphony No 4 Supported by LSO Patrons based on a Russian folk-tale involving a novels and librettos. mythical bird who helps a prince destroy the Gianandrea Noseda conductor Part of the Barbican’s For the Fallen: spell of an evil magician, was first unveiled Andrew Stewart is a freelance music Peter Moore trombone Marking the First World War Centenary at the Paris Opera in June 1910, and became journalist and writer. He is the author of The a mainstay of the Ballets Russes’ repertoire. LSO at 90, and contributes to a wide variety LSO Platforms: Guildhall Artists Meanwhile French composers from Bizet of specialist classical music publications. 6pm Barbican Hall onwards frequently looked beyond the Free entry Pyrenees for inspiration: Lalo’s brilliant Tonight’s Concert 3 Manuel de Falla Scenes and Dances from ‘The Three Cornered Hat’ Part I 1919 1 Introduction — 2 Afternoon ‘Tonight there will be much excitement among the ultra-artistic set and lovers of 3 The Miller’s Wife 4 The Magistrate the Russian ballet generally. For a new ballet will be produced by the wonderful 5 The Grapes Massine ... This is The Three Cornered Hat, with music by Manuel de Falla, the Spanish composer (who is a very clever falla indeed).’ anuel de Falla’s musical style skilfully marries the orchestral colour-wash of his friends Debussy The London paper Daily Sketch, 22 July 1919 and Ravel (he lived in Paris for seven years) — with the flamenco dances and soulful gypsy songs of his native Andalucia. The Three ‘two o’clock’ right. The miller’s pretty wife is • DIAGHILEV & THE BALLETS RUSSES Cornered Hat was one of several pieces noticed first by a passing dandy, and then by Falla wrote after returning to Spain during the pompous village Mayor (and magistrate), The Ballets Russes company was conceived World War I. Based on a story taken from who wears a three-cornered hat to denote by impresario Serge Diaghilev and performed an old Spanish ballad, it started life as a his important status. The jealous miller, throughout Europe and on tours to North pantomime with singing and dancing. The in his turn, blows a kiss to a passing girl, and South America between 1909 and 1929, impresario Serge Diaghilev • was impressed but his wife objects, and they are quickly though the company never performed in by the piece and persuaded Falla to rework it reconciled. The miller’s wife hears the Mayor Russia. It is widely regarded as the most for his Ballets Russes Company. With décor returning, and tells her husband to hide. influential of the 20th century, partly • Pablo Picasso’s costume design for the by the young Picasso, and choreography She decides to tease the Mayor by dancing because of its ground-breaking artistic original 1919 London production of by the dancer Léonide Massine, the ballet first a lively Spanish fandango (complete collaborations with young choreographers, The Three Cornered Hat was first performed at London’s Alhambra with castanets), then a more formal minuet, composers, designers, and dancers. Theatre in 1919. It was a major hit from the introduced by a solo bassoon. The Mayor Diaghilev commissioned music from © Succession Picasso/DACS, London 2018 start, and has always been one of Falla’s tries to dance with her, but she taunts Stravinsky, Debussy, Ravel and Prokofiev, most popular pieces. him with a bunch of grapes until he loses as well as artwork from Wasily Kandinsky, his temper and falls over while trying to Alexandre Benois and Pablo Picasso, and The action takes place at a mill in a sleepy grab her. The miller appears with a stick designs from Léon Bakst and Coco Chanel. Andalucian village where, during a hot in his hand, pretending that he has heard afternoon, the miller is trying to teach his intruders.