Leeds Town Hall All concerts start at 7.30pm (except 15 October, which starts at 7pm) WELCOME TO LEEDS INTERNATIONAL CONCERT SEASON’S 2016/17 ORCHESTRAL SEASON. The 2016/17 season opens with a visit from the Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra performing Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony, the composer’s magnificent exploration of fate, doubt and triumph. Also from abroad we are Free pre-concert talks delighted to welcome tours by the Czech National Symphony Orchestra, St Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by maestro Yuri Temirkanov, Discover more about the music at one of our free pre-concert talks, Vienna Tonkünstler Orchestra, Norwegian Chamber Orchestra with Leif Ove at 6.45pm on the night of each concert – an opportunity to learn more Andsnes as director and soloist, and Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra. about the music you are about to hear, background to the composers and tips on what to listen out for. The finest British orchestras continue to visit Leeds Town Hall including the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and, for the first time in thirteen years, the City Find out first of London Sinfonia with clarinettist Michael Collins as director and soloist. We Be the first to hear about the latest music events by signing up to our are delighted to welcome back the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra with e-bulletin service at www.leedsconcertseason.com. Music Director Vasily Petrenko and the Orchestra of Opera North with new Music Director Aleksandar Markovic. The talented young musicians of the National You can also follow Leeds International Concert Season at Youth Orchestra of Great Britain return in April 2017 with a performance of twitter.com/LeedsConcerts and Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony alongside the fireworks of two works by Mexican facebook.com/LeedsInternationalConcertSeason. composers Márquez and Revueltas. Gift vouchers Leeds is lucky enough to boast two great choral societies, both playing an important role in the season. Leeds Festival Chorus performs Rossini’s Petit Treat your loved one, friend or colleague to a special night out – gift vouchers are Messe Solennelle in November, with Leeds Philharmonic Chorus presenting available from the City Centre Box Office in denominations of £5, £10 and £20. Elgar’s The Music Makers in March before the choruses join together for a resounding performance of Verdi’s Requiem to end the season in May. Subscribe and save money Save up to 25% on the cost of your tickets by booking five or more concerts. Leeds’ International Orchestral Season continues to be one of the finest See page 24 for further details. orchestral programmes in the country. We look forward to welcoming you to Leeds Town hall during the 2016/17 season. Under 26? Hear great music for a fiver If you’re under 26, you can buy tickets in Rows 1 – 7 for £5 in the seven days before a concert (subject to availability). 2 3 Saturday Saturday 8 October TCHAIKOVSKY 15 October ROYAL PHILHARMONIC 2016 SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 2016 ORCHESTRA Free pre-concert talk Free pre-concert talk at 6.45pm by at 6.15pm by Please Catherine Tackley Judy Blezzard note this concert starts at 7pm Vladimir Fedoseyev Eduardo Portal conductor conductor Jennifer Pike Anna Tsybuleva violin piano Winner, Leeds International Piano Competition, 2015 Borodin Polovtsian Dances Weber Sibelius Overture: Der Freischütz Vladimir Fedoseyev © Anja Köhler Violin Concerto Eduardo Portal Chopin Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No 2 Symphony No 5 Brahms Symphony No 4 Jennifer Pike © Tom Barnes Anna Tsybuleva © Vera Greiner Area Tickets Music begins where the possibilities of Area Tickets Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has language end. played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, A £33.50 A £33.50 SIBELIUS it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning B £30.50 B £30.50 reward of art. C £28 C £28 CHOPIN D £22 D £22 E £16.50 E £16.50 O £12.50 O £12.50 4 5 Saturday Saturday 22 October THE HALLÉ 29 October BBC PHILHARMONIC 2016 2016 Free pre-concert talk Free pre-concert talk at 6.45pm by at 6.45pm by Simon Lindley Brian Newbould Gergely Madaras Antony Hermus conductor conductor Katherine Baker Pavel Kolesnikov flute piano Marie Leenhardt harp Smetana Overture and Dances: The Bartered Bride (orch Rimsky-Korsakov) Tchaikovsky Gergely Madaras Mussorgsky Antony Hermus © Marcus Borggreve Night on Bald Mountain Piano Concerto No 1 Mozart Dvořák Flute and Harp Concerto Symphony No 7 Bartók Hungarian Sketches Borodin Symphony No 2 Pavel Kolesnikov © Colin Way Area Tickets As a composer seeking to remain anonymous, Area Tickets I am now busy with this symphony for London, I am shy of confessing my musical activity... and wherever I go I can think of nothing else. A £33.50 A £33.50 For others it is their chief business, the God grant that this Czech music will move B £30.50 occupation and aim of life. For me it is a B £30.50 the world!! C £28 relaxation, a pastime which distracts me from C £28 DVOŘÁK ON THE WRITING OF THE SEVENTH SYMPHONY D £22 my principal business, my professorship. D £22 BORODIN E £16.50 E £16.50 This concert is being recorded for O £12.50 O £12.50 future broadcast 6 7 Saturday Saturday 19 November CZECH NATIONAL 26 November BBC PHILHARMONIC 2016 SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 2016 LEEDS FESTIVAL CHORUS Free pre-concert talk Free pre-concert talk at 6.45pm by at 6.45pm by David Fligg Peter Whitfield Libor Pešek Simon Wright conductor conductor Natalie Clein Lucy Hall cello soprano Kathryn Rudge Smetana mezzo soprano From Bohemia’s Forests and Meadows: Má Vlast Peter Auty Libor Pešek © Vohanka Simon Wright tenor Dvořák Cello Concerto Henry Waddington Glass bass Adagio Beethoven Verdi Symphony No 5 Overture: I Vespri Siciliani Verdi Va, pensiero: Nabucco Verdi Natalie Clein © Sussie Ahlburg Kathryn Rudge © Sussie Ahlburg Prelude to Act III: La traviata Puccini Area Tickets Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony is the most Area Tickets Nessun Dorma: Turandot sublime noise that has ever penetrated into A £33.50 A £33.50 Rossini the ear of man. Petite Messe Solennelle B £30.50 EM FORSTER B £30.50 C £28 C £28 D £22 D £22 E £16.50 E £16.50 O £12.50 O n/a 8 9 Saturday Saturday 3 December MANCHESTER 14 January THE HALLÉ 2016 CAMERATA 2017 Free pre-concert talk Free pre-concert talk at 6.45pm by at 6.45pm by Clive McClelland Catherine Tackley Tine Thing Helseth Markus Stenz director and trumpet conductor Adi Brett Laurence Rogers violin horn Katie Stillman violin Mozart Symphony No 41 (Jupiter) Rachael Clegg Strauss Tine Thing Helselth © Paul Marc Mitchell oboe Markus Stenz © Molina Visuals Horn Concerto No 1 Tracey Redfern Schumann trumpet Symphony No 4 Pachelbel Canon and Gigue Bach Double Violin Concerto Vivaldi/Bach Katie Stillman © Alejandro Tamagno Trumpet Concerto Laurence Rogers Bach Area Tickets Oboe and Violin Concerto Area Tickets In order to compose, all you need to do is remember a tune that nobody else has A £33.50 Vivaldi A £33.50 Double Trumpet Concerto thought of. B £30.50 B £30.50 SCHUMANN C £28 Corelli C £28 D £22 Christmas Concerto D £22 E £16.50 E £16.50 O £12.50 O £12.50 10 11 Saturday Saturday 21 January ROYAL LIVERPOOL 28 January ST PETERSBURG 2017 PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA 2017 PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Free pre-concert talk Free pre-concert talk at 6.45pm by at 6.45pm by George Kennaway Catherine Tackley Vasily Petrenko Yuri Temirkanov conductor conductor Teo Gheorghiu Nikolai Lugansky piano piano Britten Khachaturian Four Sea Interludes Suite: Spartacus Schubert/Liszt Rachmaninov Vasily Petrenko © Mark McNulty Wanderer Fantasy Yuri Temirkanov © Sasha Gustov Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini Shostakovich Rimsky-Korsakov Symphony No 12 (The Year 1917) Scheherazade Teo Gheorghiu Nikolai Lugansky © Jean-Baptiste Millot Area Tickets He did not write about this war and that Area Tickets All I desired was that the hearer, if he liked my revolution, but about war and revolution piece as symphonic music, should carry away A £33.50 A £33.50 in general, the state of mind and emotion, the impression that it is beyond a doubt an B £30.50 not facts. B £30.50 Oriental narrative of some numerous and varied C £28 MAXIM SHOSTAKOVICH ON HIS FATHER, DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH C £28 fairy-tale wonders and not merely four pieces D £22 D £22 played one after the other and composed on the basis of themes common to all the four E £16.50 E £16.50 movements. O £12.50 O £12.50 RIMSKY-KORSAKOV ON SCHEHERAZADE 12 13 Saturday Saturday 4 February EUROPEAN UNION 18 February CITY OF LONDON 2017 CHAMBER ORCHESTRA 2017 SINFONIA Free pre-concert talk Free pre-concert talk at 6.45pm by at 6.45pm by Julian Rushton Dan Holden Hans-Peter Hofmann Michael Collins director conductor and clarinet Jennifer Pike Alexandra Wood violin violin Elgar Britten Serenade for Strings Suite on English Folk Tunes Mozart Finzi Hans-Peter Hofmann Violin Concerto No 3 Michael Collins © Eric Richmond Clarinet Concerto Grieg Vaughan Williams Two Elegiac Melodies The Lark Ascending Haydn Beethoven Symphony No 57 Symphony No 7 Jennifer Pike © Tom Barnes ALEXANDER WOOD Area Tickets I listened more than I studied... therefore little Area Tickets Don’t only practise your art, but force your by little my knowledge and ability were way into its secrets. A £33.50 A £33.50 developed. BEETHOVEN B £30.50 HAYDN B £30.50 C £28 C £28 D £22 D £22 E £16.50 E £16.50 O £12.50 O £12.50 14 15 Saturday Saturday 25 February VIENNA TONKÜNSTLER 11 March CITY OF BIRMINGHAM 2017 ORCHESTRA 2017 SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Free pre-concert talk Free pre-concert talk at 6.45pm by at 6.45pm by Brian Newbould Peter Whitfield Yutaka Sado Daniele Rustioni conductor conductor Angela Hewitt Roman Simovic piano violin Mozart Tchaikovsky Overture: The Marriage of Figaro Violin Concerto Beethoven Respighi Yutaka Sado © Werner Kmetitsch Piano Concerto No 4 Daniele Rustioni © Davide Cerati Fountains of Rome Sibelius Mendelssohn Symphony No 2 Symphony No 4 (Italian) Angela Hewitt © Bernd Eberle Roman Simovic Area Tickets If we understood the world, we would realise Area Tickets The Italian symphony is making great progress.