2014 /15 90th Concert Season October - March www.brightondome.org www.brightonphil.org.uk imgartists.com Photo: Boyd Gilmour The BPO was formed in 1925 as the Symphonic String Players. 90th CONCERT SEASON | 2014/15 Welcome to the Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra’s 90th Concert Season It is with great satisfaction that I introduce the programme for the 90th season of the BPO. Through the generosity of our many sponsors the future is looking a lot more secure than I could have imagined possible. I am very proud to be a part of such a wonderful society. Having conducted all last year’s concerts I feel that this is the right moment to share the rostrum with guest conductors, some of whom have previously conducted the BPO, such as Stephen Bell and Richard Balcombe. Ian Brignall, our Concert Manager, and I have enjoyed putting together a varied and popular programme which is a bit like fitting all the pieces together in a jigsaw! A number of the pieces were performed in the very first season of the BPO, while others commemorate the outbreak of World War One. We hope that you will find the results intriguing and invigorating. We start our season on the 5th October with one of the highlights, Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony, and end it with a piece I have been wishing to conduct in Brighton for a long time, Holst’s The Planets. I hope you will enjoy the 90th season, which is entirely the result of the desire to see this orchestral tradition survive in Brighton and Hove. Barry Wordsworth MUSIC DIRECTOR/PRINCIPAL CONDUCTOR SUNDAY 5 OCTOBER 2014 | 2.45PM Barry Wordsworth Conductor Natasha Paremski Piano Glinka Russlan and Ludmilla Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No.2 Op.18 in C minor Shostakovich Symphony No.5 Op.47 Sponsored by: Some Friends of the Philharmonic The 90th season of the Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra opens with a programme of some of Russia’s greatest composers. Glinka, acknowledged by many to be the father of Russian music, wrote two major operas of which Russlan and Ludmilla, first produced in 1842, was his second. Rachmaninov’s second piano concerto is one of the great romantic pieces, featuring in the soundtracks of many films. Written in 1904 when Rachmaninov was recovering from a bout of depression, the concerto is dedicated to the doctor who helped him recover his self-confidence. Shostakovich wrote his fifth symphony in 1937 and its first performance was a huge success with both the public and the state officials, receiving a standing ovation which lasted over half an hour. natashaparemski.com Photo: Boyd Gilmour Photo: Andrea Joynt ...her softly expressive tone gave no inkling of the forces she would unleash... THE GUARDIAN 1.45pm | PRE-CONCERT INTERVIEW with soloists and/or musicians from the performance. SUNDAY 2 NOVEMBER 2014 | 2.45PM Barry Wordsworth Conductor Nicholas Daniel Oboe Brighton Festival Chorus Schubert Marche Militaire Parry I was glad Strauss Oboe Concerto in D major Parry Blest pair of Sirens Elgar Enigma Variations Sponsored by: D. V. Newbold CBE Our second concert of the season opens with a performance of Schubert’s Marche Militaire which was played at the very first season of our founder’s Symphonic String Players in 1925. The Orchestra is joined by the Brighton Festival Chorus in two of the choral repertoires firm favourites by Sir Hubert Parry. The Prince of Wales recently made a TV documentary about Parry, as his music has featured in royal events ever since they were written. Elgar’s Enigma Variations were first performed in 1899 and established Elgar as the leading composer of his generation, spearheading a revival in the international reputation of British Music. Each variation is a musical portrait of a friend of Elgar’s, identified in the score only by their initials or a nickname. ...one of the greatest exponents of the oboe in the world... nicholasdaniel.co.uk Photo: Boyd Gilmour Photo: Eric Richmond THE SUNDAY TIMES 1.45pm | PRE-CONCERT INTERVIEW with soloists and/or musicians from the performance. SUNDAY 7 DECEMBER 2014 | 2.45PM Richard Balcombe John Bradbury Mendelssohn Butterworth Vaughan Williams McCunn Sullivan Arnold Vaughan Williams Coates Conductor Violin Overture to the Hebrides (Fingal’s Cave) A Shropshire Lad The Lark Ascending The Land of the Mountain and the Flood Overture: The Pirates of Penzance Cornish Dances Norfolk Rhapsody No.1 in E minor London Suite Photo: David Gerrard richardbalcombe.com Our third concert in our 90th season is a musical tour round the British Isles, starting in Scotland on the Hebrides, where Felix Mendelssohn was inspired by a visit to the famous Fingal’s Cave on the island of Staffa. We travel south to Shropshire where Butterworth was moved by the poems of A.E. Housman to write his orchestral rhapsody shortly before World War One. Vaughan Williams’s Lark Ascending needs little introduction, as it has always been a top favourite of audiences. Sir Arthur Sullivan’s operettas have been perennial favourites, none more so than The Pirates of Penzance. Vaughan Williams is well known for his interest in searching for English folksongs before they disappeared for ever. His research took him to Norfolk where he found five songs which form the basis of Norfolk Rhapsody No.1. Eric Coates is most famous for his light orchestral waltz By a Sleepy Lagoon, the theme tune for BBC’s Desert Island Discs for over sixty years. 1.45pm | PRE-CONCERT INTERVIEW with soloists and/or musicians from the performance. WEDNESDAY 31 DECEMBER 2014 | 2.45PM New Year’s Eve Viennese Gala Stephen Bell Conductor Susana Gaspar Soprano Our New Year’s Eve Gala whisks us away as usual to Vienna and the waltz music of the Strauss Family. They led the music of Vienna for most of the nineteenth century. By popular acclaim Susana Gaspar returns to delight our New Year’s Eve audience with her operatic performances. This is a fund-raising concert for the John Carewe Brighton Orchestra Trust, supporting the BPO. ...one of the most gifted younger British conductors... INTERNATIONAL RECORD REVIEW askonasholt.co.uk stephenbell.info Photo: Benjamin Ealovega ...fresh from Cardiff Singer of the World. She sang with a beauty and subtlety... BACHTRACK SUNDAY 11 JANUARY 2015 | 2.45PM Andrew Gourlay Conductor Martin Roscoe Piano Brahms Piano Concerto No.1 Op.15 in D minor Beethoven Symphony No.7 Op.92 in A major We start 2015 with two giants of the orchestral repertoire, Brahms and Beethoven. It is well known that Brahms was in awe of Beethoven for much of his early life and yet his Piano Concerto No. 1, written in 1859, breaks new ground stylistically, harmonically and rhythmically, so much so that the audience hissed the first performance in Leipzig. We know better now. Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony was so popular at its first performance that it had to be repeated immediately. Beethoven himself thought it was one of his best works. …I haven’t heard playing from any recent pianist that surpasses Roscoe’s… BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE martinroscoe.co.uk andrewgourlay.com Photo: Eric Richmond ...vivid and exciting orchestration was ardently illuminated by Gourlay... SEEN AND HEARD INTERNATIONAL 1.45pm | PRE-CONCERT INTERVIEW with soloists and/or musicians from the performance. SUNDAY 8 FEBRUARY 2015 | 2.45PM Thomas Carroll Conductor Anthony Hewitt Piano Haydn Symphony No.83 ‘La Poule’ Mozart Piano Concerto No.27 K595 Schubert Symphony No.5 D.485 in B flat major Standing head and shoulders above all other composers of the Classical Period, Haydn and Mozart did more than all the others to develop the symphony and the concerto. Haydn’s sense of humour and joie de vivre are given full rein in Symphony No. 83, nicknamed La Poule [The Hen] after an audience member at the first performance observed that the oboe figure of the first movement sounded like hens clucking. Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 27 was first performed in 1791, the year of Mozart’s death and it proved to be the last work that Mozart himself performed. Mozart was still experimenting with the concerto format even after the many successful concerti he had already written. We welcome Thomas Carroll to the podium as he returns to conduct the orchestra having performed with the BPO as cello soloist two seasons ago. ...Carroll turned in a bravura performance... THE STRAD ...Anthony Hewitt is a remarkably gifted artist... anthonyhewitt.co.uk thomascarroll.co THE GRAMOPHONE 1.45pm | PRE-CONCERT INTERVIEW with soloists and/or musicians from the performance. SUNDAY 1 MARCH 2015 | 2.45PM Stephen Bell Conductor Tamsin Waley-Cohen Violin Beethoven Egmont Overture Bruch Violin Concerto No.1 Sibelius Symphony No.1 Op.39 in E minor Sponsored by: Danny Chapchal Stephen Bell returns to conduct another programme of great favourites. Beethoven’s Egmont Overture was written in 1810 as part of the incidental music to a production of Goethe’s play of the same name. Bruch’s Violin Concerto No. 1 written in 1866 has become a firm favourite of concert-going audiences for its long, expansive and flowing lines, made famous in the twentieth century by violinists like Yehudi Menuhin. Its beautiful tunes and soaring slow movement have made it one of the most romantic of all violin concertos. Tamsin Waley-Cohen is one of the UK’s rising stars since winning the string prize in the Royal Overseas League competition in 2005. In contrast to the Bruch, Sibelius evokes the countryside and starker atmosphere of his native Finland in the intensely nationalistic fervour of his Symphony No. 1. Its dark emotional content has made it a firm favourite as it bids farewell to the 19th century and looks forward to the twentieth. tamsinwaleycohen.com stephenbell.info Photo: Patrick Allen …The most exceptionally gifted young violinist I have ever encountered… RUGGIERO RICCI 1.45pm | PRE-CONCERT INTERVIEW with soloists and/or musicians from the performance. SUNDAY 22 MARCH 2015 | 2.45PM Barry Wordsworth Conductor Raphael Wallfisch Cello Lord Berners Fantaisie Espagnole Walton Cello Concerto Holst The Planets Sponsored by: John Carewe Orchestra Trust. Berners Trust. Our final concert of the season pulls out all the stops with a performance of the eternally popular suite The Planets by Gustav Holst. Written in London while Director of Music of St Paul’s Girls’ School during the First World War its seven movements evoke the astrological characters of each planet. Mars in particular, with its insistent martial rhythms, echoes the time in which it was written. Sir William Walton’s Cello Concerto written in 1956 is one of his most original and atmospheric compositions. Recorded by almost all of the great cellists, we are fortunate that Raphael Wallfisch will be our soloist for this performance. Most of our audience will not have heard of the eccentric Lord Berners, a friend of William Walton, who was composing during the first half of the twentieth century. He was also a gifted artist and writer, publishing a number of books. His ballet music and songs have a distinctly ironic touch. We are very grateful to the Berners Trust for sponsoring this performance of the Fantaisie Espagnole as it requires a large orchestra. raphaelwallfisch.com Photo: Boyd Gilmour Photo: Benjamin Ealovega …Wallfisch was a superlative cello soloist. Performances CLASSICAL ICONOCLAST as brilliant as this can ‘make’ a piece… 1.45pm | PRE-CONCERT INTERVIEW with soloists and/or musicians from the performance. BECOME A FRIEND OR PATRON OF THE BPO As a Friend of the Brighton Philharmonic you will benefit from: This season Patrons of the Brighton Philharmonic will share all Friends benefits, plus: f Exclusive Priority Booking opportunities to secure your seat for the following season f Invitation to a post-concert reception with the conductor and musicians f Discounts on Season Tickets of up to 25% f One free ticket in each season under our ʻFriend of a Friendʼ Scheme f Two free tickets in each season under our ʻFriend of a Friendʼ Scheme f Credit in the programme f Discounted tickets for the Summer Season 2014/15 f Free access to orchestral rehearsals throughout the year f Exclusive Priority Advance Booking for Car Park Discounts f Regular Newsletters Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra 41 George Street, Brighton, BN2 1RJ Tel: 01273 622900 www.brightonphil.org.uk Photo: David Gerrard Photo: David Gerrard For details on becoming a Friend or Patron, and to find out about other ways of supporting the BPO, such as sponsoring a concert or a position in the orchestra, or leaving a bequest in your will to the Brighton & Hove Philharmonic Society (registered charity no. 250921), please contact the BPO. BOOKING INFORMATION FRIENDS PRIORITY BOOKING Deadline for Friends Priority Booking for Full / Extended Season Tickets, Part Season Tickets and Single Tickets - Friday 1 August 2014 at 5pm. All tickets are dispatched week commencing 25 August. For all enquiries on Friends Priority Booking please contact the BPO Office: 01273 622900 or [email protected] PUBLIC BOOKING Public Booking for Full / Extended Season Tickets, Part Season Tickets and Single Tickets opens via Brighton Dome Ticket Office - Monday 1 September 2014 Online www.brightondome.org (£2 per order charge) ALL FRIENDS PRIORITY TICKETS may only be booked via Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra 41 George St Brighton BN2 1RJ ALL TICKETS FOR PUBLIC BOOKING may only be booked via Brighton Dome Ticket Office 29 New Road Brighton BN1 1UG Please note that Season Tickets cannot be booked online By phone 01273 709709 Monday - Saturday, 10am - 6pm (£2 per order charge) In person Brighton Dome Ticket Office, 29 New Road, Brighton BN1 1UG (Monday - Saturday, 10am - 6pm) Tickets can be purchased on the day at the venue ticket office from 1.45pm. Brighton Dome postage charges: • 50p standard postage • £1.50 recorded delivery postage Discounts Under-18s, full time students, and customers on Jobseeker’s Allowance or Income Support are entitled to a discount of at least 50% (proof of status required). Registered disabled customers are entitled to one free ticket for their access assistant or companion. Discounts of 10% are available to groups of 10-19 people and 20% to groups of 20 or more. Family tickets allow up to two children (under 16) at a charge of £1 each when booked simultaneously with a full price adult ticket. SEATING PLAN AND TICKET PRICES SINGLE TICKETS PREMIUM A B C D E £35 £31 £26 £21 £16 £11 £3.50 Photos: David Gerrard Full Season Tickets (7 concerts save 25%) £183.75 £162.75 £136.50 £110.25 £84.00 £57.75 £18.20 Extended Season Tickets £218.75 (8 concerts incl. New Year’s Eve) £193.75 £162.50 £131.25 £100.00 £68.75 £18.20 Part Season Tickets (Concerts 1-3 Save 20%) £84.00 £74.40 £62.40 £50.40 £38.40 £26.40 £8.40 Part Season Tickets (Concerts 5-8 Save 20%) £112.00 £99.20 £83.20 £67.20 £51.20 £35.20 £11.20 Photos: David Gerrard SEASON TICKETS 90th CONCERT SEASON | 2014/15 Pre-concert interviews Join presenter Peter Back as he interviews one of the performers before each concert*, for a fascinating insight into the music and the life of a musician. (Tickets £3.50 each) *except 31 December Programmes Part-season programmes will be available at Brighton Dome from 5 October and 31 December (Friends may pre-order from the BPO) at £3.50. Complete with programme notes and performers’ biographies, they provide an in-depth look at each of the concerts. Previous concert programmes are available from our online archive at www.brightonphil.org.uk The Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra is grateful to the following for their support in 2014/15: Friends, Patrons and Life Members of the Brighton & Hove Philharmonic Society, Brighton Dome, D. V. Newbold CBE, Julian Pelling, Martin and Frances Lindsay-Hills, anonymous sponsors and sponsors of orchestral chairs, The John Carewe Brighton Orchestra Trust, the University of Brighton and Sapphire IT Ltd. Photos: David Gerrard The Brighton Philharmonic would like to thank the Brighton Dome for their continued generosity and support, without which it would not be possible to present this and future seasons. The Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra is managed and promoted by the Brighton & Hove Philharmonic Society Ltd (Registered Charity No.250921) Music Director: Barry Wordsworth D.LITT President John Lill CBE Vice-Presidents: John Carewe, Jackie Lythell OBE Ronald Power MBE, David House Chair: Karen Platt Administrator: Catherine Stead Concert Manager: Ian Brignall The Brighton & Hove Philharmonic Society reserve the right to substitute artists and vary programmes if necessary. Design: Mark Attwell [email protected] Flowers are kindly supplied by Gunns, 6 Castle Square, Brighton. Presentation champagne is kindly donated by Neil Gershon. The Steinway concert pianos chosen and hired for these performances are supplied and maintained by Steinway & Sons. GENERAL INFORMATION DITCHLING D OA NR DO T DS AN GL EN NE PL M HA AT H C BUCKINGHAM PLACE W RD BRIGHTON STATION Low tariff pay & display on-street parking can be found in the Edward Street area (see map ) 7 days a week between 9am-8pm. Cloakroom Door Times Sundays: 1.15pm New Year’s Eve: 2.00pm Latecomers will not be admitted until a suitable break in the performance. Some performances contain no suitable breaks until the interval. GRA ND P A SWOO EDWA RD OL DS TEI NE ENGLISH CHANNEL Refreshments For more information on Brighton & Hove car parks, on-street pay & display zones and parking tariffs, visit www.brighton-hove.gov.uk Black Lion Street KING S RO AD City College’s car park in Whitecross Street (see map ) is open to the public at weekends. Street signs and road markings indicate where on-street pay & display parking is in operation, please check signs for operation times and exact prices. KING REE T H ST RE ET T ST R EET CHU RCH ST NOR T W ES 9 RAD E R ICHMOND PL E Y ST SU R R QUE EN’S ROA D ST WES TER N RO AD A 25 Whitecross Street TRAFA LGAR ST SYDN EY D ROA DYKE The Lanes underground car park, Black Lion Street (see map ), operated by Brighton & Hove City Council, is being refurbished with improved lighting, décor and equipment for credit/debit card payments. LE CHEAPS IDE Parking The NCP Theatre Car Park on Church Street, just 2 minutes from Brighton Dome (see map ), offers a reduced rate of £5.50 for all Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra attendees for parking between 1pm & 6pm on concert days. Simply collect a voucher either before the concert, during the interval or after and use as a follow-on ticket. W ES Brighton Dome is on Church Street in central Brighton, 15 minutes walk from Brighton Station. ON Travel ST JAM D ST ST ES’S ST MARIN E PARAD E MADEI RA DR IVE BRIGHTON PIER Brighton Dome’s Foyer Café opens at 10am for speciality teas and coffees, cake, cream teas and light lunches. A free cloakroom facility is available at all BPO concerts. Access The Concert Hall has specially designed seat positions, lift access and toilet facilities for wheelchair users. There is a Sennheiser radio frequency assisted hearing system in the Concert Hall. Please ask for your unit on arrival, allowing plenty of time before the performance. Guide dogs are welcome. To discuss your requirements prior to your visit please contact Brighton Dome Access Line on 01273 261541. Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra 41 George Street Brighton BN2 1RJ Tel: 01273 622900 Fax: 01273 697887 [email protected] www.brightonphil.org.uk @BPO_orchestra Photography: Front cover (left to right): Raphael Wallfisch by Benjamin Ealovega Andrew Gourlay Tamsin Waley-Cohen by Patrick Allen Rear cover (left to right): Nicholas Daniel by Eric Richmond Natasha Paremski by Andrea Joynt Anthony Hewitt
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