london philharmonic orchestra 30 january 2016 concert programme

Concert programme2015/16 London Seasonlpo.org.uk

Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor VLADIMIR JUROWSKI supported by the Tsukanov Family FoundationPrincipal Guest Conductor ANDRÉS OROZCO-ESTRADALeader pIETER SChOEMAN supported by Neil WestreichComposer in Residence MAgNUS LINDbERgPatron hRh ThE DUKE OF KENT Kg

Chief Executive and Artistic Director TIMOThY WALKER AM

Contents

2 Welcome3 On stage tonight 4 About the Orchestra5 Leader: Pieter Schoeman6 Vladimir Jurowski7 Elena Vassilieva Iestyn Davies8 Mark Padmore Nikolay Didenko9 Choir of Clare College, Cambridge10 Programme notes13 Alexander Raskatov14 Next concerts15 Shakespeare40016 Recent LPO CD releases18 Sound Futures donors19 Supporters20 LPO administration

The timings shown are not precise and are given only as a guide.

CONCERT PRESENTED BY THE LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA

Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival hallSaturday 30 January 2016 | 7.30pm

beethoven Symphony No. 6 (Pastoral) (40’)

Interval Alexander Raskatov Green Mass (world premiere) (65’)

Commissioned by the London Philharmonic Orchestra

Vladimir Jurowski conductor

Elena Vassilieva soprano

Iestyn Davies countertenor

Mark padmore tenor

Nikolay Didenko bass

Choir of Clare College, Cambridge

Free pre-concert event 6.15–6.45pm | Royal Festival hall

Alexander Raskatov discusses the world premiere of his Green Mass.

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Welcome

2016/17 season now announcedDetails of next season's LPO concerts are now available. Browse the new season brochure online at lpo.org.uk or look out for your copy in the post in early February. Booking opens on Thursday 11 February (online and via the LPO Box Office only). To take advantage of priority booking (from Tuesday 2 February), become a Friend of the London Philharmonic Orchestra for as little as £50 a year. Call Helen Yang on 020 7840 4225 or visit lpo.org.uk/support/memberships

LpO on tour The Orchestra recently returned from a tour to the Canary Islands where we performed in Gran Canaria and Tenerife with conductors Andrés Orozco-Estrada and Christopher Franklin, along with soloists Juan Diego Flórez (tenor) and Denis Matsuev (piano). We're busy performing in London and around the UK in February before our next tour to Brussels in March and Madrid a few days later. Tickets are available for all tour concerts: visit lpo.org.uk/tours.

Sounds & Sweet Airs: 2016 gala We are delighted to announce that ‘Sounds & Sweet Airs’, the 2016 London Philharmonic Orchestra Gala evening, will be held on Wednesday 27 April amidst the stunning surroundings of the Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich. The evening, curated in partnership with acclaimed actor Simon Callow CBE, will include performances inspired by Shakespeare as we celebrate his 400th anniversary. Guests will enjoy a Champagne Taittinger reception on the Colonnades before moving on to the beautiful Chapel for an orchestral showcase with Vladimir Jurowski at the helm. Guests will then adjourn to the stunning Painted Hall to enjoy a three-course gala dinner and a live auction in support of the work of the London Philharmonic Orchestra.For further information and to book your ticket please contact Catherine Faulkner on 0207 840 4207, email [email protected] or visit lpo.org.uk/support/gala.html

Welcome to Southbank Centre

We hope you enjoy your visit. We have a Duty Manager available at all times. If you have any queries please ask any member of staff for assistance.

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If you wish to get in touch with us following your visit please contact the Visitor Experience Team at Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, London SE1 8XX, phone 020 7960 4250, or email [email protected]

We look forward to seeing you again soon.

Queen Elizabeth Hall, Purcell Room and Hayward Gallery are closed for essential refurbishment until 2018. During this period, our resident orchestras are performing in venues including St John's Smith Square. Find out more at southbankcentre.co.uk/sjss

A few points to note for your comfort and enjoyment:

phOTOgRAphY is not allowed in the auditorium.

LATECOMERS will only be admitted to the auditorium if there is a suitable break in the performance.

RECORDINg is not permitted in the auditorium without the prior consent of Southbank Centre. Southbank Centre reserves the right to confiscate video or sound equipment and hold it in safekeeping until the performance has ended.

MObILES, pAgERS AND WATChES should be switched off before the performance begins.

Orchestra news

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First ViolinsPieter Schoeman* Leader

Chair supported by Neil Westreich

Yang XuVesselin Gellev Sub-LeaderIlyoung Chae

Chair supported by an anonymous donor

Ji-Hyun LeeChair supported by Eric Tomsett

Katalin VarnagyChair supported by Sonja Drexler

Catherine CraigThomas EisnerMartin Höhmann

Chair supported by The Jeniffer and Jonathan Harris Charitable Trust

Geoffrey LynnChair supported by Caroline, Jamie & Zander Sharp

Robert PoolSarah StreatfeildYang ZhangTina GruenbergGrace Lee Rebecca Shorrock

Second ViolinsPhilippe Honoré

Guest PrincipalKate Birchall

Chair supported by David & Victoria Graham Fuller

Nancy ElanLorenzo Gentili-TedeschiFiona HighamNynke HijlkemaJoseph MaherMarie-Anne MairesseHelena NichollsHarry KerrSheila Law Elizabeth Baldey Alison Strange John Dickinson

ViolasPrzemysław Pujanek

Guest PrincipalRobert DuncanGregory AronovichKatharine Leek

Susanne MartensBenedetto PollaniEmmanuella ReiterLaura VallejoNaomi HoltAlistair ScahillDaniel CornfordMartin Fenn

CellosKristina Blaumane

PrincipalChair supported by Bianca and Stuart Roden

Pei-Jee NgFrancis BucknallLaura DonoghueSantiago Carvalho†David LaleGregory WalmsleyElisabeth Wiklander

Chair supported by The Viney Family

Sue Sutherley Susanna Riddell

Double bassesKevin Rundell* PrincipalGeorge Peniston Laurence LovelleSebastian PennarLowri MorganHelen RowlandsCharlotte KerbegianBen Wolstenholme

FlutesJuliette Bausor

Guest PrincipalSue Thomas*

Chair supported by Victoria Robey OBE

Stewart McIlwham

piccolosStewart McIlwham*

PrincipalChair supported by Friends of the Orchestra

Sue Thomas*

Alto FluteSue Thomas*

OboesIan Hardwick* PrincipalAlice MundaySue Böhling*

Cor AnglaisSue Böhling* Principal

ClarinetsThomas Watmough

PrincipalRichard Russell Paul Richards Alan Andrews

bass ClarinetsPaul Richards PrincipalAlan Andrews

Contrabass Clarinet/ E flat ClarinetAlan Andrews

bassoonsJonathan Davies

Guest PrincipalGareth NewmanRachel Simms

ContrabassoonRachel Simms

hornsDavid Pyatt* Principal

Chair supported by Simon Robey

John Ryan* PrincipalChair supported by Laurence Watt

Martin HobbsMark Vines Co-PrincipalGareth Mollison

TrumpetsPaul Beniston* PrincipalAnne McAneney*

Chair supported by Geoff & Meg Mann

Nicholas Betts Co-Principal

bass Trumpet David Whitehouse

TrombonesMark Templeton* Principal

Chair supported by William & Alex de Winton

David WhitehouseRoss Learmonth

bass/Contrabass TromboneLyndon Meredith Principal

TubaLee Tsarmaklis* Principal

TimpaniSimon Carrington* Principal

percussionAndrew Barclay* Principal

Chair supported by Andrew Davenport

Henry Baldwin Co-PrincipalChair supported by Jon Claydon

Keith MillarJeremy CornesKaren HuttJames BowerEdward Cervenka

CymbalomEdward Cervenka

harpRachel Masters* Principal

piano John Alley

CelesteClíodna Shanahan

Electric guitarDaniel Thomas

bass guitarStephen Rossell

Assistant Conductor Tim Murray

* Holds a professorial appointment in London

† Chevalier of the Brazilian Order of Rio Branco

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On stage tonight


London Philharmonic Orchestra

Recognised today as one of the finest orchestras on the international stage, the London Philharmonic Orchestra balances a long and distinguished history with a reputation as one of the UK’s most forward-looking ensembles. As well as its performances in the concert hall, the Orchestra also records film and video game soundtracks, releases CDs on its own record label, and reaches thousands of people every year through activities for families, schools and community groups.

The Orchestra was founded by Sir Thomas Beecham in 1932. It has since been headed by many of the world’s greatest conductors including Sir Adrian Boult, Bernard Haitink, Sir Georg Solti, Klaus Tennstedt and Kurt Masur. Vladimir Jurowski is currently the Orchestra’s Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor, appointed in 2007. Andrés Orozco-Estrada took up the position of Principal Guest Conductor in September 2015. Magnus Lindberg is the Orchestra’s current Composer in Residence.

The Orchestra is resident at Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall in London, where it gives over 30 concerts each season. Throughout 2014/15 the Orchestra gave a series of concerts entitled Rachmaninoff: Inside Out, a festival exploring the composer’s major

orchestral masterpieces. 2015/16 is a strong season for singers, with performances by Toby Spence and Anne Sofie von Otter amongst others; Sibelius enjoys 150th anniversary celebrations; distinguished visiting conductors include Stanisław Skrowaczewski, Jukka-Pekka Saraste and Vasily Petrenko, with Robin Ticciati returning after his debut in 2015; and in 2016 the LPO joins many of London’s other leading cultural institutions in Shakespeare400, celebrating the Bard’s legacy 400 years since his death. The Orchestra continues its commitment to new music with premieres of commissions including Magnus Lindberg’s Second Violin Concerto and Alexander Raskatov’s Green Mass.

Outside London, the Orchestra has flourishing residencies in Brighton and Eastbourne, and performs regularly around the UK. Each summer the Orchestra takes up its annual residency at Glyndebourne Festival Opera in the Sussex countryside, where it has been Resident Symphony Orchestra for over 50 years. The Orchestra also tours internationally, performing to sell-out audiences worldwide. In 1956 it became the first British orchestra to appear in Soviet Russia and in 1973 made the first ever visit to China by a Western orchestra. Touring remains a large part of

Richard Fairman, Financial Times, September 2015

Jurowski and the LPO can stand alongside the top international orchestras with pride


Pieter Schoemanleader

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Pieter Schoeman was appointed Leader of the LPO in 2008, having previously been Co-Leader since 2002.

Born in South Africa, he made his solo debut aged 10 with the Cape Town Symphony Orchestra. He studied with Jack de Wet in South Africa, winning

numerous competitions including the 1984 World Youth Concerto Competition in the US. In 1987 he was offered the Heifetz Chair of Music scholarship to study with Eduard Schmieder in Los Angeles and in 1991 his talent was spotted by Pinchas Zukerman, who recommended that he move to New York to study with Sylvia Rosenberg. In 1994 he became her teaching assistant at Indiana University, Bloomington.

Pieter has performed worldwide as a soloist and recitalist in such famous halls as the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Moscow's Rachmaninov Hall, Capella Hall in St Petersburg, Staatsbibliothek in Berlin, Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, and Southbank Centre's Queen Elizabeth Hall in London. As a chamber musician he regularly performs at London's prestigious Wigmore Hall.

As a soloist with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Pieter has performed Arvo Pärt's Double Concerto with Boris Garlitsky, Brahms's Double Concerto with Kristina Blaumane, and Britten's Double Concerto with Alexander Zemtsov, which was recorded and released on the Orchestra's own record label to great critical acclaim. He has recorded numerous violin solos with the London Philharmonic Orchestra for Chandos, Opera Rara, Naxos, X5, the BBC and for American film and television, and led the Orchestra in its soundtrack recordings for The Lord of the Rings trilogy.

In 1995 Pieter became Co-Leader of the Orchestre Philharmonique de Nice. Since then he has appeared frequently as Guest Leader with the Barcelona, Bordeaux, Lyon, Baltimore and BBC symphony orchestras, and the Rotterdam and BBC Philharmonic orchestras. He is a Professor of Violin at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in London. Pieter's chair in the London Philharmonic Orchestra is supported by Neil Westreich.

the Orchestra’s life: highlights of the 2015/16 season include visits to Mexico City as part of the UK Mexico Year of Culture, Spain, Germany, the Canary Islands, Belgium, a return to the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam and the Orchestra’s debut at La Scala, Milan.

The London Philharmonic Orchestra has recorded the soundtracks to numerous blockbuster films, from The Lord of the Rings trilogy to Lawrence of Arabia, East is East, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey and Thor: The Dark World. It also broadcasts regularly on television and radio, and in 2005 established its own record label. There are now over 80 releases available on CD and to download. Recent additions include Messiaen’s Des Canyons Aux Étoiles under Christoph Eschenbach, and archive recordings of Mahler Symphonies and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5 conducted by Klaus Tennstedt.

In summer 2012 the London Philharmonic Orchestra performed as part of The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Pageant on the River Thames, and was also chosen to record all the world’s national anthems for the London 2012 Olympics. In 2013 it was the winner of the RPS Music Award for Ensemble.

The London Philharmonic Orchestra is committed to inspiring the next generation of musicians through an energetic programme of activities for young people. Highlights include the BrightSparks schools’ concerts and FUNharmonics family concerts; the Young Composers Programme; and the Foyle Future Firsts orchestral training programme for outstanding young players. Its work at the forefront of digital engagement and social media has enabled the Orchestra to reach even more people worldwide: all its recordings are available to download from iTunes and, as well as a YouTube channel and regular podcast series, the Orchestra has a lively presence on Facebook and Twitter.

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Jurowski and the LPO can stand alongside the top international orchestras with pride


Vladimir Jurowskiconductor

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Jurowski seems to have reached the magic state when he can summon a packed house to hear anything he conducts with the LPO, however unfamiliar

Geoff Brown, The Arts Desk, February 2015

One of today’s most sought-after conductors, acclaimed worldwide for his incisive musicianship and adventurous artistic commitment, Vladimir Jurowski was born in Moscow and studied at the Music Academies of Dresden and Berlin. In 1995 he made his international debut at the Wexford Festival conducting Rimsky-Korsakov’s May Night, and the same year saw his debut at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, with Nabucco.

Vladimir Jurowski was appointed Principal Guest Conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra in 2003, becoming Principal Conductor in 2007. In October 2015 he was appointed the next Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of the Rundfunk-sinfonieorchester Berlin, a position he will take up in September 2017, and also accepted the honorary position of Artistic Director of the Enescu International Festival in Bucharest, also from 2017. He has previously held the positions of First Kapellmeister of the Komische Oper Berlin (1997–2001), Principal Guest Conductor of the Teatro Comunale di Bologna (2000–03), Principal Guest Conductor of the Russian National Orchestra (2005–09), and Music Director of Glyndebourne Festival Opera (2001–13).

He is a regular guest with many leading orchestras in both Europe and North America, including the Berlin Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic and Rundfunk Sinfonieorchester Berlin; the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra; The Philadelphia Orchestra; The Cleveland Orchestra; the Boston, San Francisco and Chicago symphony orchestras; and the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, Leipzig Gewandhausorchester, Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Staatskapelle Dresden and Chamber Orchestra of Europe.

In 2007 Vladimir was a guest on BBC Radio 4's flagship programme Desert Island Discs. Discover his eight records of choice here: bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007w97r

His opera engagements have included Rigoletto, Jenůfa, The Queen of Spades, Hansel and Gretel and Die Frau ohne Schatten at the Metropolitan Opera, New York; Parsifal and Wozzeck at Welsh National Opera; War and Peace at the Opéra national de Paris; Eugene Onegin at the Teatro alla Scala, Milan; Ruslan and Ludmila at the Bolshoi Theatre; Moses und Aron at Komische and Iolanta and Die Teufel von Loudun at Semperoper Dresden, and numerous operas at Glyndebourne including Otello, Macbeth, Falstaff, Tristan und Isolde, Don Giovanni, The Cunning Little Vixen, Peter Eötvös’s Love and Other Demons, and Ariadne auf Naxos. The Glyndebourne production of Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, led by Vladimir Jurowski with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Glyndebourne Chorus won the 2015 BBC Music Magazine Opera Award.

During the performance we are all 'in the same boat', so since conductors are meant to be silent during the concert, a friendly encouraging look in the right moment is very helpful, almost as helpful as good conducting technique (the latter being rather obligatory). Vladimir Jurowski on engaging players during a performance

As well as his debut at the Salzburg Easter Festival at the helm of the Staatskapelle Dresden, 2015/16 season highlights also include bringing together the London Philharmonic Orchestra and State Academic Symphony of Russia to perform Schoenberg's Gurrelieder at the Moscow Rostropovich Festival.


Elena Vassilievasoprano

Elena Vassilieva was born in France into a family of musicians and made her stage debut aged nine as Mozart's Bastienne. She studied dance for 15 years, before becoming a pupil of the renowned soprano Elisabeth Schwarzkopf in 1983.Since then she has enjoyed an international

singing career during which she has appeared at major opera houses and theatres across Europe and in Japan.

Contemporary music plays a particularly important role in Elena's repertoire: composers who have written for her include Edison Denisov, Sofia Gubaidulina, Nicolaus Huber, Ivo Malec, György Kurtág and Alexander Raskatov.

Over the last 30 years Elena Vassilieva has made many recordings for labels including Erato, Le Chant du Monde, BIS, Cascavelle, Harmonia Mundi, Cybelia, Megadisc and Claves. In 2008 she recorded Raskatov's Nunc Dimitis with the Hilliard Ensemble and the Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra under conductor Dennis Russell Davies for ECM. Last year she recorded a new disc with the Chinese pianist Yu Fen Chang on the theme of sacred music, covering a wide repertoire from Vivaldi to Raskatov.

In June 2012 she made her solo recital debut at the Festival of White Nights in St Petersburg. Later that year she appeared as soloist in the first performances of Raskatov's Mysterium Magnum in Basel, St Petersburg and Moscow, again under Dennis Russell Davies. She also sang Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire in Ferrara, Bologna and Roma in December 2012 with members of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra. In March 2013 she made her debut at the Teatro della Scala, Milan, in Raskatov's opera A Dog's Heart. The opera was later reprised at Lyon Opera in 2014.

In 2015 Elena was invited by the Mikhailovsky Theatre in St Petersburg for a production of Carmen.

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Iestyn Davies’s opera engagements include the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden; Glyndebourne Festival Opera; English National Opera; La Scala, Milan; the Metropolitan Opera, New York; Chicago Lyric Opera; and the Munich and Vienna festivals. He is a leading exponent of

Handel – roles include Bertarido (Rodelinda), the title role in Rinaldo, Arsace (Partenope), Hamor (Jephtha) and David (Saul) – and contemporary opera, most notably the roles of Trinculo in Thomas Adès’s The Tempest and First Angel in George Benjamin’s Written on Skin.

In concert Iestyn has performed at La Scala, Milan; the Royal Concertgebouw, Amsterdam; the Tonhalle in Zurich; the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris; Lincoln Center in New York and the BBC Proms. He has appeared in recital at Carnegie Hall and regularly appears at Wigmore Hall, where he has curated his own Residency.

Recent highlights and future engagements include a theatre project entitled Farinelli and the King at Shakespeare’s Globe and subsequently at the Duke of York’s Theatre with Mark Rylance; concerts with the New York Philharmonic and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra; a European tour of Handel’s Orlando with the English Concert; a Japanese recital tour; and returns to London’s Wigmore Hall and the Salzburg Festival.

A prolific recording artist, Iestyn Davies was the recipient of the 2014 Gramophone Recital Award for his disc Arise, my muse on the Wigmore Live label.

Iestyn Daviescountertenor


Mark Padmoretenor

Mark Padmore was born in London. After beginning his musical studies on the clarinet he gained a choral scholarship to King’s College, Cambridge and graduated with an honours degree in music.

He has established an international career in

opera, concert and recital. His appearances in the Bach Passions have gained particular notice, especially his acclaimed performances as Evangelist in the St Matthew and St John Passions with the Berlin Philharmonic and Sir Simon Rattle, staged by Peter Sellars, including in Berlin, Salzburg, New York and at the BBC Proms.

Recent opera appearances include the leading roles in Harrison Birtwistle's The Corridor and The Cure at the Aldeburgh Festival and in London; Handel's Jephtha for WNO and ENO; and Captain Vere in Britten's Billy Budd and Evangelist in a staging of St Matthew Passion for Glyndebourne Festival Opera. Mark has appeared with the world’s leading orchestras and given recitals worldwide. He appears frequently at Wigmore Hall, where he first sang all three Schubert song cycles in 2008. He repeated the cycles there with Paul Lewis and this season they will perform them for the White Light Festival at Lincoln Center, New York. He also recently sang the cycles at Theater an der Wien and at Salle Gaveau in Paris with Till Fellner. He makes regular appearances with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, with whom he has conceived projects exploring Bach's St John and St Matthew Passions.

Composers who have written for him include Harrison Birtwistle, Mark-Anthony Turnage, Alec Roth, Sally Beamish, Thomas Larcher and Huw Watkins. As well as his regular collaborators Paul Lewis, Till Fellner, Kristian Bezuidenhout, Julius Drake, Roger Vignoles, Simon Lepper and Andrew West, he works with many internationally renowned chamber musicians including Imogen Cooper and Steven Isserlis.

Mark is Artistic Director of the St Endellion Summer Music Festival in Cornwall. He was voted Vocalist of the Year in the Musical America 2016 Awards.

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Russian bass Nikolay Didenko graduated from the Moscow Academy of Choral Art in singing and conducting in 2003. He was a soloist at the ‘New Opera’ in Moscow (2003–04), and until 2005 a member of the Houston Grand Opera Studio.

Operatic career highlights so far include La forza del destino (Cologne Opera), La sonnambula (Bolshoi Theatre), Oroveso (Norma) on tour with Europa Galante, Pistola (Falstaff) at Bilbao Opera and Filippo II (Don Carlo) with Cologne Opera, among others. A versatile performer, he is also established on the concert platform, singing Jacopo Fiesco in Simon Boccanegra; Verdi’s Requiem at the Beethoven Festival and with the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg under Alexander Shelley; Penderecki’s Polish Requiem with the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra; a new work by Alexander Raskatov with the NTR at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam; and Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 13 with the Malmö Symphony Orchestra.

Nikolay Didenko opened the 2015/16 season with Benvenuto Cellini at the Cologne Opera. Following tonight’s performance with the London Philharmonic Orchestra he will go on to perform Don Pasquale at the Bolshoi and St Luke’s Passion as part of the Beethoven Festival.

Nikolay Didenkobass


Choir of Clare College, Cambridge

Since the founding of a mixed voice choir in 1971, the Choir of Clare College has gained an international reputation as one of the world’s leading university choirs. Under the direction of Graham Ross, the Choir has been praised for its consistently ‘thrilling’ and ‘outstanding’ performances worldwide. The Choir’s 2015/16 season includes Handel’s Messiah with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, appearances across the UK, live BBC Radio and Television appearances, two recordings for Harmonia Mundi USA, and overseas tours to Notre Dame Cathedral, the USA and a major tour to the Far East.

In addition to live performances, the Choir has produced an impressive discography of more than 40 recordings. Its recordings on the Harmonia Mundi USA label have been released to great critical acclaim. The Choir’s ongoing series of Music for the Church Year, including the most recent Requiem: Music for All Saints & All Souls disc, has received numerous 5-star reviews in the national and international press.

The Choir has toured widely, including the USA, Australia, Japan, China, Russia, the Middle East and mainland Europe, and has commissioned and premiered works by many composers. The Choir most recently performed with the LPO in Elgar's The Dream of Gerontius under Sir Mark Elder in January 2013.

Sopranos Lydia Allain Chapman, Olivia Brett, Catherine Clark, Alice Halstead, Holly Holt, Sophie Horrocks*, Helen Lilley*, Caroline Meinhardt, Madeleine Seale*, Eleanor Smith, Anna Tindall, Sophie Woodhead

Altos Sarah Assaf, Henrietta Box, Helena Cooke, Oliver El-Holiby*, Jess Fisher*, Abigail Gostick*, Guy James, Beatriz dos Santos, Emma Simmons*, Eva Smith-Leggatt*, Rosie Taylor, Eleanor Warner*

Tenors Laurence Booth-Clibborn, Harry Castle, Joshua Cleary, Nils Greenhow*, Benedict Morris, Christopher Loyn*, Alexander Peter*, Hugo Popplewell*, Alexander Porteous, Jackson Riley, Jaliya Senanayake, Alexander Walmsley*

basses Thomas Ashton, Gregory Barber, Leo Benedict, Robin Culshaw*, Laurie Harris, Toby Hession, Christopher Holliday, Charles Littlewood*, Matthew Nixon, Joshua Pacey, Christopher Preston-Bell*, James Proctor*

* Choir of Clare College, Cambridge alumni

graham Ross: Musical Director

Graham Ross has established an exceptional reputation as a sought-after conductor and composer of a broad range of repertoire. He is co-founder and Principal Conductor of The Dmitri Ensemble and Director of Music and Fellow of Clare College,

Cambridge, with whom his performances around the world and his extensive discography have earned consistently high praise. In demand as a regular guest conductor of other ensembles in the UK and abroad, his recent collaborations have included Aurora Orchestra, Aalborg Symfoniorkester, Australian Chamber Orchestra and Salomon Orchestra. His 2015/16 season includes conducting debuts with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, London Mozart Players and Malaysia Philharmonic Orchestra, and concertos with Tasmin Little, Jennifer Pike, Laura van der Heijden and Raphael Wallfisch.

Ross studied music at Clare College, Cambridge and conducting at the Royal College of Music, London. He held a conducting scholarship with the London Symphony Chorus, and has served as assistant conductor for Diego Masson, Sir Roger Norrington and Nicholas Collon.


Programme notes

Written more than two centuries apart, Beethoven’s 'Pastoral' Symphony and Raskatov’s Green Mass have much in common. They are both unambiguous hymns to the glory of nature, to man’s relationship to the world around us, and to the huge rush of joy that the natural world can impart. But while Beethoven, writing in the 19th century, spoke of shepherds in their fields and the merry gatherings of country folk, Raskatov’s 21st-century mass has a much sterner message: to be mindful of our actions, or risk destroying the earth for future generations.

If Raskatov is rather unorthodox in his juxtaposition of secular poems with a setting of the Catholic Mass, then this too is something he shares with Beethoven. For although to our modern ears the pastoral strains of Beethoven’s Sixth Symphony may seem far less radical than the vehemence of his Fifth, it was here that Beethoven broke out of the established symphonic mould to create a wholly new mode of writing, a work whose form, style and content was leaps ahead of anything his contemporaries could contemplate.

Speedread

Beethoven loved nature and the open air. He spent most of his summers away from Vienna in the country retreats of Heiligenstadt, Mödling and Baden, where he would walk the woods and fields notebook in hand, and even back in the city short strolls were a regular part of his work routine. ‘No one can love the countryside as much as I do’, he once said, ‘for surely woods, trees and rocks produce the echo which man desires to hear.’ But nature was not just a balm for the senses; for Beethoven it was evidence of the Creator’s hand. Raised on the tolerant attitudes of the Enlightenment, he had little interest in conventional formal religion, and it was in the outdoors, amidst the wonders of the natural world, that he found himself closest to God. He was hardly alone in that – such feelings were part of the spirit of the early Romantic age – but it was perhaps his unique placing at the threshold of the Classical and Romantic eras in music that allowed such a work as the ‘Pastoral’

Symphony to achieve greatness. ‘More an expression of feeling than painting’, said Beethoven, and it is true that, while the atmosphere of the countryside pervades every bar, the Sixth Symphony can be fully enjoyed without resort to mental pictures of shepherds, peasants and cuckoos.

Even so, the members of the audience at the work’s premiere in a freezing cold Theater an der Wien in December 1808 would have had little difficulty recognising the scene Beethoven was laying out before them. Musical evocations of natural phenomena such as running water, storms and birdsong were familiar from the opera house, as were representations of the countryside’s human population by means of rustic tunes and bagpipe-style drones. There had been pastoral symphonies before, while Haydn’s two great late oratorios The Creation and The Seasons, with their

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Symphony No. 6 in F major, Op. 68 (pastoral)

1 Pleasant, cheerful feelings awakened on arrival in the countryside (Allegro ma non troppo)2 Scene by the brook (Andante molto moto)3 Merry gathering of country folk (Allegro) –4 Thunder Storm (Allegro) –5 Shepherd’s song: benevolent feelings, combined with thanks to the deity, after the storm (Allegretto)


Interval – 20 minutesAn announcement will be made five minutes before the end of the interval.

brilliantly executed evocations of the natural world, were regular fixtures in the Viennese concert calendar. These, then, were not the novelties of the Sixth. What may have struck its first listeners as more radical was its effortlessly laid-back character, and the air of repose with which, uniquely in a Beethoven symphony, it both begins and ends.

The first movement also introduces us to two other important characteristics of the work, namely themes that seem to want to circle back on themselves in leisurely self-perpetuation, and a general contentedness with simple and slow-moving harmonies. When taking a walk in the country there is no need to hurry, as Beethoven proves in the central development section, where a five-note descending figure borrowed from the opening theme is repeated many times over slowly changing chords, its effect like that of turning one’s gaze to admire different vistas within the same landscape.

The second movement is one of Beethoven’s most gorgeous inspirations, and one that he had been harbouring for some time. The watery accompaniment figure had its origin in an idea noted down in a sketchbook from 1802–3, where it carried the heading: ‘murmur of the brook … the deeper the brook, the deeper the sound.’ Deep is the word; the richness and subtlety of Beethoven’s creation give it an unparalleled power to gladden the heart, and so dreamily do we fall under its

spell that it hardly seems out of place when the music twice stops sleepily near the end to allow flute, oboe and clarinet to give us birdsong imitations identified by Beethoven as nightingale, quail and cuckoo.

The last three movements are run together to make an uninterrupted sequence – a move suggested by the programme for sure, but at the same time utterly in keeping with Beethoven’s formal procedures of the time. The third movement is the Symphony’s scherzo, and a robust depiction of bucolic merrymaking. Twice Beethoven pokes fun at the village band (the oboist not sure where to come in, the bassoonist only knowing three notes), and twice the music tips over into an earthier dance in which we can almost hear feet stamping. Eventually the revelries are halted by the menacing rumble of approaching thunder, before the fourth-movement storm hits. When it has run its brief but brutal course and the departing lightning has flashed for the last time, gentle calls given out on clarinet and horn signal the arrival of the finale before going on to form the basis of the movement’s recurring main theme. This hymn of praise is no exultant shout, however, but a joyful and dignified thanksgiving, not just for the brook and the ‘pleasant feelings’ but, we realise, for everything we have witnessed, the storm and the three-note bassoonist included. With a final majestic, swelling peroration, Beethoven ennobles them all.

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Commissioned by the London Philharmonic Orchestra.

1 Kyrie2 The Wild Flower’s Song (countertenor)3 gloria4 Lebensalter (tenor)5 Credo6 Zangezi (bass)7 Sanctus8 Clotilde (soprano)9 benedictus10 preghiera (quartet of soloists)11 Agnus Dei

Alexander Raskatov is no stranger to controversy. His 2010 opera A Dog’s Heart divided the critics – and not just because of its provocative storyline. Based on the novel by Mikhail Bulgakov, which was so controversial in his native Soviet Russia that it was banned for more than 60 years after its first publication, it sees a medical professor replace the testicles and pituitary gland of a dog with those of a human to find out if it would turn him into a man. Raskatov’s retelling of the story cemented his international reputation as one of the foremost Russian composers of his generation. But it also raised questions about the integrity of his personal style, criticism of which he was keenly aware: ‘In A Dog’s Heart I used a lot of things for which people will probably hate me’, he says. ‘But I don’t care – I was free.’

Raskatov’s music seems deliberately to defy definition. While not polystylistic, neither is it easy to classify as post-modern, minimalist, or any other familiar contemporary label. He is determined to resist succinct classification and freely admits to using whichever musical style he feels is appropriate to that particular

piece of music at that particular moment. ‘I am incapable of following just one direction’, he has said. But if Raskatov is magpie-like in his attraction to different genres, his music is still grounded in a distinctly Russian tradition. Like A Dog’s Heart, much of his vocal music is based upon Russian texts, and he has made several arrangements of music by his Russian predecessors – Mussorgsky, Shostakovich, Prokofiev and Schnittke. But his latest work is dedicated to Russia itself.

Green Mass is, as its title suggests, a celebration of Russia’s beautiful green landscapes – ‘a land of forests and fields’ – that Raskatov, who has lived in Paris since 2004, misses deeply. Yet it also reaches out to all of humanity, offering a salient reminder that we have been blessed with just one earth and that it must be protected for the sake of future generations. ‘I think we have done very bad things to our nature,’ Raskatov says. ‘I don’t belong to the Green Party, but if I were to choose a party, I would choose this one, because we all have a responsibility for what we will leave the next generation.’

While the backbone of Green Mass is a setting of the Catholic Mass in Latin, its sections are interspersed with additional movements using secular texts dedicated to the beauty of nature: ‘The Wild Flower’s Song’ (William Blake), ‘Lebensalter’ (Georg Trakl), ‘Zangezi’ (Velimir Khlebnikov) and ‘Clotilde’ (Guillaume Apollinaire), as well as 'Preghiera', the Prayer of St. Francis of Assisi. In keeping with Raskatov’s global message, each uses a different language (English, German, Russian, French and Italian) and each is sung by one of the four vocal soloists, with the four coming together almost unaccompanied in 'Preghiera'. By combining texts both secular and sacred, Raskatov hoped to create a work that was both ‘theistic’ (worshipping God)

green Mass (world premiere)

Elena Vassilieva sopranoIestyn Davies countertenorMark padmore tenorNikolay Didenko bassChoir of Clare College, Cambridge

AlexanderRaskatov born 1953


Alexander Raskatov was born in Moscow in 1953. His mother was a doctor and his father a surgeon, and later a satiric journalist for Krokodil magazine. Alexander studied composition at the Moscow

Conservatory from 1972–78. Since 1979 he has been a member of the Russian Union of Composers and since 1990 he has been a member of the Russian Association of Contemporary Music and Staff Composer of Stetson University in the USA. Since the 1990s he has lived in Germany and France, but

remains firmly connected to Russia and its traditions.

The influences of Stravinsky and Webern can be sensed in Raskatov’s refined sound development and concentrated treatment of material. He has written numerous vocal works based on texts

by contemporary Russian poets. He has also been intensively preoccupied with the Russian Futurists of the 1920s (including Mossolov and Roslavetz) and has completed some of their

fragments. Irina Schnittke entrusted him with the reconstruction of her husband's Ninth Symphony after his death in 1998.

In June 2010 Raskatov's opera A Dog's Heart received its world premiere at the Dutch National Opera in a co-production with English National Opera, where it was seen in

November 2010. The production, by Simon McBurney, has also been staged at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan and the Opéra National de Lyon.

In 2010 at Royal Festival Hall the London Philharmonic Orchestra gave the world premiere of Raskatov's A White Night's Dream, which it also

co-commissioned.

and ‘pantheistic’ (honouring nature), a seemingly incompatible juxtaposition that Raskatov aims to reconcile through music: ‘In one drop of water we can see a cosmos … That’s why the most important musical patterns are not fixed but lead a nomadic life between liturgical and secular texts.’

In his aim to create a synthesis of the spiritual and the earthly, Raskatov produces a work that flies between extremes: from the ‘tranquil and mysterious’ opening Kyrie that appears to breathe itself into life like the very act of creation, to the ferocity of the Gloria, with its destabilising metrical changes and sharp vocal outbursts that at times suggest anger rather than celebration. In between, Raskatov offers a shimmering setting of Blake’s poem ‘The Wild Flower’s Song’, in which the violins, violas and cellos split into a rich fabric of 44 different parts, conjuring an ethereal, dreamlike realm where nature offers a blanket of comfort, away from the harsh realities of modern life. But in almost every glimpse of the natural world, there are shadows lurking beneath the surface – a reminder of our wilful destruction of the earth around us.

Raskatov’s final poetic insertion, ‘Clotilde’, is the most sombre of all, evoking a landscape completely without sunlight, so that even shadows no longer exist. Viewed from this perspective, the text of the Agnus Dei that closes the work takes on new meaning – the words ‘miserere nobis … dona nobis pacem’ (‘have mercy upon us … grant us peace’) sounding like a quiet prayer of forgiveness to God for the sins committed against the natural world. This is not the place for a happy ending: as the choir intones its solemn prayer, the music ebbs away to nothing.

Raskatov programme note and Speedread © Jo Kirkbride.Subtitles operated by Andrew Kingsmill. 'Lebensalter' English translation Alexander Stillmark, by kind permission of Northwestern University Press.'Zangezi' text from The King of Time: Poems, Fictions, Visions of the Future by Velimir Khlebnikov, translated by Paul Schmidt, edited by Charlotte Douglas, copyright © 1985 by the Dia Art Foundation. 'Clotilde' text from Alcools, English translation © 1995 Donald Revell and reprinted by permission of Wesleyan University Press.

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