season brochure pdf - Barbican

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classical music 

2013 –14 

Contents 

Welcome 2 

Barbican Presents 3 

London Symphony Orchestra – 

our Resident Orchestra 5 

Barbican Associate Ensembles 7 

2013–14 concert listings 9 

Gergiev’s Berlioz 9 

Barbican International 

Associate Residencies 15 

Barbican Britten 19 

Young Artists at the Barbican 21 

Baroque Opera and Oratorio 23 

Milton Court 29 

Birtwistle at 80 39 

Do more at the Barbican 47 

Information and booking 51 

Index of performers 53 

Find out more 

Find out more about the concerts 

across the season by visiting 

barbican.org.uk where you can: 

watch concert footage 

and interviews 

listen to music clips 

download our Barbican 

Classical Music podcast

Welcome to our 2013–14 

season. I am delighted to 

introduce another superb 

programme of the best that 

classical music has to offer. 

This is an exciting season for us, and in so 

many ways. Across several of our venues, we 

host Barbican Britten – an incisive exploration 

of Benjamin Britten’s music in his centenary 

year – taking in music both sacred and secular 

with the involvement of students from the 

Guildhall School of Music & Drama. We also 

celebrate the 80th birthday of one of Britain’s 

most significant contemporary composers, Sir 

Harrison Birtwistle. Valery Gergiev and the 

London Symphony Orchestra explore in depth 

the music of Berlioz, and Yuja Wang is the 

focus of this season’s UBS Soundscapes LSO 

Artist Portrait. The BBC Symphony Orchestra 

welcomes its exciting new chief conductor, 

Sakari Oramo. The Academy of Ancient 

Music and Britten Sinfonia perform their first 

full seasons here as associate ensembles, 

with many of their concerts in Milton Court 

Concert Hall, the Guildhall School of Music 

& Drama’s new state-of-the-art venue, about 

which you can read more on page 29. 

We are incredibly fortunate to have such a 

remarkable array of prestigious international 

ensembles making the Barbican their London 

home, and it is these close artistic partnerships 

that make it possible for us to offer such a 

rich and diverse season of concerts stretching 

from Baroque opera to the most cuttingedge 

contemporary classical music. 

Alongside the concerts of our resident and 

associate orchestras and ensembles, this 

season the Barbican brings together its 

own distinctive season of concerts under 

the banner of Barbican Presents. We look 

forward to international associate residencies 

from Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig and 

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam, 

a Maxim Vengerov artist spotlight and our 

Baroque opera series. 

I’d like to thank the Barbican’s growing 

community of supporters, without whom 

it would not be possible to present 

this outstanding season. We are very 

grateful for their commitment. 

To find out more about how you can 

support the Barbican and its work 

visit barbican.org.uk/support-us 

I hope you will be able to enjoy 

the many wonderful experiences 

that this season will bring. 

Angela Dixon 

Head of Music 

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Resident Orchestra 

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Barbican 

Presents 

Barbican Presents is our own 

curated season of concerts 

by the very best international 

ensembles and artists. 

Alongside concerts by our resident and 

associate ensembles, this ambitious series of 

concerts features an extraordinary line-up 

of artists and covers an eclectic spectrum 

of music from Baroque to new commissions. 

Solo instrumental recitals sit in contrast to 

semi-staged opera, and many of our concerts 

form part of larger focuses that benefit 

from performances across the Barbican 

Centre and beyond, making this the most 

comprehensive and diverse international 

series in London. Regardless of age or 

experience audiences and local communities 

have plenty of opportunities to get involved 

in our programme.

Barbican Presents ... 

the music of our time 

We are constantly seeking new voices, 

and contemporary music is a vital part 

of our series. Working closely with our 

international partners, we commission new 

music from the world’s foremost composers 

and present it in innovative ways. 

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Rosemary Joshua 


outstanding 

international artists 

Each season we are proud to feature the 

world’s finest instrumentalists and singers. 

Some have been coming to the Barbican 

regularly for many years and others have 

recently shot to stardom. Across our venues, 

we can feature artists in recital, concerto 

or opera. Working closely with the artists 

themselves, we are able to present innovative 

projects that allow them to express new sides 

to their artistry. Many of today’s greatest 

artists call the Barbican their London home. 

Riccardo Chailly 


early music 

We celebrate a broad range of Baroque 

music featuring the finest operas, oratorios 

and instrumental works rarely heard in the 

concert hall, brought to life in captivating 

performances by specialist period instrument 

ensembles from across the UK and Europe. 

Maxim Vengerov © Naim Chidiac 


international associate 

orchestras 

In partnership with our five international 

associate orchestras, we are bringing 

a unique orchestral experience to 

London audiences. Listen to their best 

programmes and projects, engage 

with their new commissions and 

chamber music and get involved in 

creative family and learning events. 

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Resident 

Orchestra

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LSO clarinettist Chi-Yu Mo © Kevin Leighton 

London 

Symphony 

Orchestra 

Resident Orchestra 

Sensational performances have made the 

LSO one of the best-loved and most inspiring 

orchestras in the world. 

A typical week might see them on stage in 

the Barbican Hall with Principal Conductor 

Valery Gergiev; recording the soundtrack 

to the latest Hollywood blockbuster (the 

LSO have an 80-year partnership with 

Abbey Road Studios where they recorded 

Star Wars and Harry Potter); or making 

ground-breaking contributions to digital 

music-making (they pioneered the YouTube 

Symphony Orchestra, the world’s first online 

youth orchestra, and set up their own label, 

LSO Live, to capture the excitement and 

power of the live concert experience). 

The year 2012 was a special one for the 

LSO: they appeared at both the opening 

and closing ceremonies of the London 2012 

Olympics as well as at every major European 

festival (including the BBC Proms) over the 

summer, and gave the first of their annual 

outdoor concerts with Valery Gergiev in 

Trafalgar Square to over 10,000 people. 

They have been the Barbican’s Resident 

Orchestra for 31 years, ever since the 

Barbican first opened its doors, and in March 

2013 they celebrated ten years since LSO 

St Luke’s was transformed from a former 

church to the dynamic music education and 

performance centre it is today – the home of 

LSO Discovery, with community at its heart. 

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Associate 

Ensembles 

Sakari Oramo © Heiki Tuuli and Octavia 

BBC Symphony 

Orchestra 

Associate Orchestra 

One of the UK’s finest orchestras, the BBC 

Symphony Orchestra performs a distinctive 

and exciting range of music from works at 

the heart of classical music to brand-new 

pieces from today’s leading composers. 

The orchestra performs extensively as 

Associate Orchestra of the Barbican and as 

the backbone of the BBC Proms. Led by its 

conducting team of Sakari Oramo, Semyon 

Bychkov, Jirˇ í Be ˇ lohlávek and Sir Andrew 

Davis as well as Artist in Association Oliver 

Knussen, the orchestra makes numerous 

recordings at its home in Maida Vale, 

performs throughout the world, and runs an 

innovative education programme. All BBC SO 

concerts at the Barbican are broadcast 

on BBC Radio 3 and streamed online. 

This season the BBC SO welcomes its 

new Chief Conductor Sakari Oramo. 

Acclaimed for his performances of new 

and old British music as well as first-rate 

interpretations of core repertoire, Oramo 

and the BBC SO had an instant connection 

on first working together in 2011, and this 

promises to be a great musical partnership.

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Academy of 

Ancient Music 

Associate Ensemble 

Recently praised by the Financial Times for 

‘transmitting the kick of an energy drink’, 

the Academy of Ancient Music has been 

giving global performances of Baroque 

and classical music for 40 years. 

Under Music Director Richard Egarr, the 

AAM maintains the pioneering spirit and 

artistic excellence that has characterised the 

orchestra since its early days. In 2012 alone 

it performed at the Thames Diamond Jubilee 

Pageant, made a world premiere recording, 

had a performance named as one of the 

top ten of the year by the Guardian and 

became Associate Ensemble at the Barbican. 

The orchestra was founded in the 1970s 

by Christopher Hogwood, and was at 

the cutting edge of a musical revolution. 

Inspired by performing on period 

instruments and rediscovering original 

sound worlds, the AAM combines worldclass 

artistry with the latest scholarship. 

This 2013–14 season marks the AAM’s 40th 

anniversary, showcasing the full range 

of the orchestra’s music making from the 

dawn of the Baroque to the Romantic era. 

Jacqueline Shave, Britten Sinfonia © Harry Rankin 

Britten 

Sinfonia 

Associate Ensemble 

Britten Sinfonia is one of the world’s most 

celebrated and pioneering ensembles. 

The orchestra is acclaimed for its virtuoso 

musicianship, an audacious approach to 

concert programming that makes bold, 

intelligent connections across 400 years of 

repertoire, and a versatility that is second to 

none. Britten Sinfonia break the mould by 

not having a principal conductor or director, 

instead choosing to collaborate with a range 

of the finest international guest artists from 

across the musical spectrum, resulting in 

performances of rare insight and energy. 

This season Britten Sinfonia perform in 

all the main performance spaces across 

the Barbican, presenting works from 

Bach through to the very latest new music. 

A stellar line-up of collaborators includes 

Ian Bostridge, Imogen Cooper, Iestyn Davies, 

Paul Lewis, King’s College Choir, Cambridge 

and many more. The orchestra will also play 

a major part in the Barbican’s Britten and 

Birtwistle celebrations. 

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Valery Gergiev © Alberto Venzago 


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Gergiev’s 

Berlioz 

‘Berlioz can take, and maybe should 

take, more sonic substance than 

some conductors dare give him. But 

this is also ecstatically unpredictable 

music that requires both quicksilver 

responses and the ability to sustain 

the longest of melodic lines. Both 

qualities are exactly what makes 

Gergiev the theatrical opera 

conductor he is’ Los Angeles Times 

The LSO’s Principal Conductor, Valery 

Gergiev is a long-time Berlioz champion, 

conducting his works internationally with 

the Vienna Philharmonic and with the 

Mariinsky Orchestra. Autumn 2013 will 

see him share his interpretations with 

London audiences, catching the anarchic 

undercurrents of Berlioz’s scores as surely 

as their rapturous refinements. Symphonic 

dramas form the backbone of this 

series, to which Berlioz gives more than 

a nod to Beethoven as his inspiration.

Symphonie fantastique, subtitled An 

Episode in the Life of An Artist, is arguably 

the most famous of all Berlioz‘s works. Its 

five movements tell the story of a gifted 

artist with a vivid imagination who moves 

through the depths of despair and falls 

into an opium-fuelled hallucinatory 

stupor over unrequited love. In the 

words of Leonard Bernstein, ‘Berlioz 

tells it like it is. You take a trip, you wind 

up screaming at your own funeral!’. 

Featuring virtuoso solo violist Antoine 

Tamestit, Harold in Italy might look like 

a concerto from the outset but is actually 

a dramatic symphony with viola obligato, 

the viola being Harold on his wanderings. 

Paganini induced Berlioz to write a work 

for solo viola: ‘I have no suitable music. 

Would you like to write a solo for viola? 

You are the only one I can trust for this 

task’, he begged. Berlioz had a desire to 

keep orchestra and soloists on equal par, 

and on seeing the score, with all its rests 

in the soloist part allowing the orchestra 

its moment, Paganini refused to play it. 

Following that refusal, it might seem 

surprising that, on hearing Harold in 

Italy, Paganini publicly knelt before 

Berlioz and hailed him as Beethoven’s 

heir. He gave Berlioz the extremely 

generous gift of 20,000 francs, which, 

after paying off his many debts, he used 

to put his full focus towards a very 

important work – Romeo and Juliet. 

Berlioz looked towards his predecessor 

and is much indebted to Beethoven’s 

Symphony No 9. Again, in a surprising 

role reversal, the two main characters 

are represented by the orchestra, the 

rest by the singers and chorus. 

Overture, Waverley; 

Les Nuits d’été 

Symphonie Fantastique 

31 Oct & 14 Nov / Page 16 

Overture, Benvenuto Cellini; 

The Death of Cleopatra; 

Harold in Italy 

1 & 12 Nov / Page 16 

The Damnation 

of Faust 

3 & 7 Nov / Page 17 

Romeo & Juliet 

6 & 13 Nov / Page 17 

All concerts are in the Hall 

unless otherwise stated 

September 2013 

Sun 15 Sep 7pm 

London Symphony Orchestra/ 

Noseda 

Verdi Rigoletto 

Concert performance 

London Symphony Orchestra 

Gianandrea Noseda conductor 

Dimitri Platanias Rigoletto 

Desirée Rancatore Gilda 

Giuseppe Filianoti Duke of Mantua 

Gábor Bretz Sparafucile 

Julien Dran Matteo Borsa 

Jean-Luc Ballestra Marullo 

José Maria Lo Monaco Maddalena 

Madeleine Shaw Giovanna 

Matthew Hargreaves Count Ceprano/Usher 

Valeria Tornatore Countess Ceprano/Page 

Arutjun Kotchinian Count Monterone 

London Symphony Chorus 

Tickets £10–37 

Part of LSO multibuy 

Wed 18 Sep 8pm 

Kronos Quartet/Kimmo 

Pohjonen/Samuli Kosminen 

Uniko (UK premiere) 

Maverick Finnish accordionist Kimmo Pohjonen 

and sampling guru Samuli Kosminen join forces 

with Kronos Quartet in an adventurous and 

emotionally charged piece around the concept 

of dreams. 


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Thu 19 Sep 7.30pm 


Sir Colin Davis 

Mozart Piano Concerto No 17 

Dvorˇ ák Symphony No 5 


Sir Colin Davis conductor 

Mitsuko Uchida piano 



Sun 22 Sep 

Total Immersion: 

The Rite of Spring 1913 

A day of music and film marking the 

100th anniversary of Stravinsky‘s 

The Rite of Spring. 

10.30am Film, Cinemas 

Ballets Russes 

USA, 2005 Dir Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine 

Tickets £6 

2pm Film, Cinemas 

Riot at the Rite 

UK, 2005 Dir Andy Wilson 

Tickets £6 

5pm Talk, Frobisher Rooms 

An exploration of Stravinsky’s 

The Rite of Spring 

Admission free 

Limited availability, but admission guaranteed 

with a day pass 

Sir Colin Davis © Matthias Creutziger 

Sun 22 Sep 7.30pm 

BBC Symphony Orchestra/ 

Vedernikov 

Weber orch Berlioz Invitation to the Dance 

Chopin Andante spianato 

Chopin Grande polonaise brillante 

Borodin Polovtsian Dances 

Chopin arr Stravinsky Grande valse brillante 

Stravinsky The Rite of Spring 

BBC Symphony Orchestra 

Alexander Vedernikov conductor 

Alexei Volodin piano 


Part of BBC SO multibuy 

Day passes available. 

See page 51 for details 

Wed 25 Sep 7.30pm 


Dausgaard 

Strauss Burleske for Piano and Orchestra 

Mahler Symphony No 6 


Thomas Dausgaard conductor 

Barry Douglas piano 



Sat 28 Sep 7.30pm 

Academy of Ancient Music/ 

Monteverdi L’Orfeo 

Monteverdi L’Orfeo 

Concert hall staging 

Academy of Ancient Music 

Richard Egarr director / harpsichord 

John Mark Ainsley Orfeo 

Sophie Bevan Euridice 

Daniela Lehner La Musica / Speranza 

Nathan Berg Caronte 

Thomas Hobbs Apollo / Pastore 

Choir of the AAM 

Orpha Phelan stage director 


Part of AAM multibuy

Sun 29 Sep 7.30pm 


Noseda 

Britten Four Sea Interludes 

Prokofiev Piano Concerto No 3 

Britten Sinfonia da Requiem 

Shostakovich Symphony No 6 


Gianandrea Noseda conductor 

Nikolai Lugansky piano 



10am–5pm 

LSO Discovery Day: Shostakovich 

Full day tickets £17 (£13.50 concessions) 

October 2013 

Thu 3 Oct 7.30pm 


Harding 

Mussorgsky Night on the Bare Mountain 

Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto 

Stravinsky Firebird Ballet (original version) 


Daniel Harding conductor 

Lisa Batiashvili violin 

Part of UBS Soundscapes 



Fri 4 Oct 7.30pm, Milton Court 

Guildhall Symphony Orchestra 

Elgar Cockaigne Overture 

Beethoven Symphony No 9, Choral 

James Gaffigan conductor 

Katherine Broderick soprano 

Cátia Moreso mezzo-soprano 

Timothy Robinson tenor 

Derek Welton baritone 

Tickets on sale from 2 May 

Emanuel Ax © Henry J Fair 

Thu 10 Oct 7.30pm 


Haitink 




Bernard Haitink conductor 

Emanuel Ax piano 




Britten Sinfonia/Paul Lewis 

Stravinsky Three pieces for string quartet 

Anna Clyne Within her Arms 

(London premiere) 

Mozart Piano Concerto No 12 in A major 

Maw Little Concert 

Haydn Symphony No 60, Il distratto 

Britten Sinfonia 

Paul Lewis piano / director 

Jacqueline Shave violin / director 

Nicholas Daniel oboe 


Part of Britten Sinfonia multibuy 

Tue 15 Oct 7.30pm 


Haitink 





Emanuel Ax piano 




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Tue 15 Oct 7.30pm, Milton Court 

BBC Singers 

Copland In the Beginning 

Eric Whitacre Three Songs of Faith; 

Waternight; Sleep 

Steve Reich The Desert Music 

(chamber version) 

BBC Singers 

David Hill conductor 

Jennifer Johnston mezzo-soprano 

Endymion 



Northern Sinfonia 

Mozart Divertimento in D major, Salzburg 

Symphony No 1 

Mozart Sinfonia Concertante in E flat major 

for violin and viola 

Mozart Symphony No 39 

Thomas Zehetmair violin / conductor 

Ruth Killius viola 




Gewandhausorchester Leipzig 

Chailly/Brahms Cycle 

Barbican international 

associate residency 

Brahms Concerto in A minor for violin, 

cello and orchestra 

Brahms Symphony No 1 


Riccardo Chailly Gewandhauskapellmeister 

Leonidas Kavakos violin 

Enrico Dindo cello 


Leonidas Kavakos, Decca © Daniel Regan 

Wed 23 Oct 6pm, Milton Court 

Gewandhaus Quartet 



Brahms String Quartet No 1 in C minor, Op 51 


Tickets £3 

Wed 23 Oct 7.30pm 





Brahms Piano Concerto No 2 in B flat major 




Arcadi Volodos piano 


Thu 24 Oct 7.30pm, Milton Court 


Alina Ibragimova 

Haydn Violin Concerto No 1 

Haydn Symphony No 45, Farewell 


Mozart Violin Concerto No 5, Turkish 


Alina Ibragimova director / violin 


Part of AAM multibuy

Sat 26 Oct 7.30pm 


Minkowski 

Poulenc Figure humaine 

Poulenc Concerto for two pianos 

and orchestra in D minor 

Roussel Symphony No 3 

Ravel Mother Goose – suite 


Marc Minkowski conductor 

Guillaume Vincent piano 

David Kadouch piano 

BBC Singers 



Singers at Six 6pm, St Giles’ Cripplegate 

The BBC Singers perform music by Poulenc, 

Milhaud, Tailleferre and Auric conducted by 

Paul Brough, with pianists Guillaume Vincent 

and David Kadouch 

Tickets £10 (£8 to ticket holders 

for the evening concert) 

Sun 27 Oct 2.30pm 

LSO Discovery Family Concert 

Berlioz Symphonie fantastique 

Timothy Redmond conductor 

Rachel Leach presenter 

Tickets £5 under-16s, £10 adults 

Marc Minkowski © Marco Borggreve 

Sun 27 Oct 8pm 

LSO String Ensemble 

Tchaikovsky Serenade for string orchestra 

Bartók Divertimento for string orchestra 

Dvorˇ ák Serenade for string orchestra 

Roman Simovic director 









Brahms Piano Concerto No 1 in D minor 



Pierre-Laurent Aimard piano 


Wed 30 Oct 6pm, Milton Court 




Brahms String Quartet No 2 in A minor, Op 52 


Tickets £3 

Wed 30 Oct 7.30pm 





Brahms Violin Concerto 




Leonidas Kavakos violin 



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International 

Associates 

Writer and broadcaster 

James Jolly looks forward 

to the season‘s Barbican 

International Associate 

Residencies. 

The two European orchestras that have 

chosen to make their ‘home from home’ at 

the Barbican are also two of the world’s 

finest – and oldest. The Gewandhaus 

Orchestra Leipzig, now headed by the Italian 

Riccardo Chailly, can claim to be the world’s 

oldest, tracing its roots back to 1743. This 

partnership, one of the most exciting currently 

around, arrives in London for four concerts 

at the end of October. Amsterdam’s Royal 

Concertgebouw Orchestra makes a trio of 

appearances in London in April 2014 under its 

music director Mariss Jansons. 

Riccardo Chailly © Gert Mothes 

Both ensembles have a remarkable tradition, 

but neither Jansons nor Chailly dwell on the 

past; they draw on it to energise the future. 

These international associate orchestras bring 

music that lies at the heart of their tradition. 

For Chailly, his four concerts this autumn 

feature the four symphonies by Johannes 

Brahms paired with the same composer’s four 

concertos (two for piano, one for violin and 

one for violin and cello). Brahms appeared 

in Leipzig on thirteen occasions as conductor 

and pianist, entrusting the Gewandhaus 

Orchestra with the first performance of four 

of his most important works. It’s a fact that 

appeals to Chailly, but he’s the first to alight on 

Arnold Schoenberg’s famous comment about

Mariss Jansons © Marco Borggreve 

‘Brahms the Progressive’. Just as Chailly 

and his orchestra gave us, on their last visit, 

a Beethoven cycle for a new millennium, 

expect a similar revaluation of this similarly 

much-loved symphonic oeuvre. 

The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra 

Amsterdam‘s residency features the 

music of Anton Bruckner, introduced to 

the orchestra’s repertoire in the 1950s by 

Eduard van Beinum, explored in depth 

by Bernard Haitink and Chailly, and now 

cherished by Jansons. Together they give us 

three of the most popular symphonies, Nos 

4, 7 and 9, and pair each with music by the 

three giants of the classical period, Haydn, 

Mozart and Beethoven. Writing of Jansons’s 

recorded Bruckner, Gramophone’s 

Richard Osborne said, ‘Listening to these 

performances, I was reminded of Karajan’s 

remark about the great Czech conductor 

Václav Talich: “He had a great genius 

for … drawing the orchestra together 

and controlling it as a single expressive 

instrument.” In these powerfully articulated 

accounts of Bruckner’s Third and Fourth 

symphonies, Mariss Jansons exhibits that 

very quality.’ 


22 & 23 Oct / Page 13 

29 & 30 Oct / Page 14 

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra 

Amsterdam 

3 – 5 Apr / Pages 37 and 38 

Thu 31 Oct & Thu 14 Nov 7.30pm 


Gergiev 

Berlioz 

Overture, Waverley 

Les nuits d’été 

Symphonie fantastique 


Valery Gergiev conductor 

Karen Cargill mezzo-soprano 



November 2013 

Fri 1 & Tue 12 Nov 7.30pm 


Gergiev 

Berlioz 

Overture, Benvenuto Cellini 

The Death of Cleopatra 

Harold in Italy * 




Antoine Tamestit viola * 



Sat 2 Nov 7.30pm 


Oramo 

Tristan Murail New work 

(BBC co-commission, world premiere) 

Shostakovich Piano Concerto No 1 in C minor 

Mahler Symphony No 1, Titan 


Sakari Oramo conductor 

Olli Mustonen piano 

Sergei Nakariakov trumpet 




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Sun 3 & Thu 7 Nov 7pm 


Gergiev 

Berlioz The Damnation of Faust 



Olga Borodina Marguerite 

Michael Spyres Faust 

Ildar Abdrazakov Mephistopheles 




Sun 3 Nov 10am–5pm 

LSO Discovery Day: Berlioz 

Full day tickets £17 (£13 concessions) 

Mon 4 Nov 7.30pm, Milton Court 

Mariinsky Stradivarius 

Ensemble 

Grieg Holberg Suite 

Strauss Metamorphosen 

Shostakovich Chamber Symphony 

Mariinsky Stradivarius Ensemble 


UK tour supported by BP 


Tue 5 Nov 7.30pm, Milton Court 

Thomas Adès and Friends 

Britten Suite for violin and piano 

Gerald Barry Low 

Adès Lieux retrouvés 

Stravinsky The Soldier’s Tale – Suite 

Adès Catch 

Adès Court Studies 

Thomas Adès piano 

Anthony Marwood violin 

Louise Hopkins cello 

Matthew Hunt clarinet 

Alumni of the Guildhall School return to 

perform a special recital in the opening season 

of Milton Court, the school’s new building. 


Wed 6, Thu 7, Sat 9 Nov 7.45pm 

Barbican Theatre 

Barbican Britten: Phaedra 

Richard Alston Dance 

Company/Britten Sinfonia 

Four dance works to music by Britten 

Britten 

Lachrymae 

Phaedra (Barbican co-commission, 

world premiere) 

Sechs Hölderlin Fragmente (Barbican cocommission, 

world premiere) 

Les Illuminations 


Richard Alston Dance Company 

Pekka Kuusisto violin / viola / director 

Allison Cook mezzo-soprano 

Robin Tritschler tenor 

Huw Watkins piano 


20% discount on Sat 9 Nov when you book tickets 

for Illuminating Britten on 8–10 Nov. 


Wed 6 & 13 Nov 7.30pm 


Gergiev 

Berlioz Romeo and Juliet 



Olga Borodina mezzo-soprano 

Ildar Abdrazakov bass 




Olga Borodina

Thu 7 Nov 7.30pm, Milton Court 

Graham Johnson and Friends 

Graham Johnson, one of the world’s leading 

accompanists and Senior Professor at 

the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, 

joins prestigious alumni who return to 

the school for an evening of song. 


Fri 8–Sun 10 Nov, 

Milton Court and Barbican Centre 

Barbican Britten: 

Illuminating Britten 

We celebrate Benjamin Britten’s 

100th birthday with a three-day 

exploration of his life and work. 

With generous support 

from the Britten-Pears Foundation 

Tickets £95 (£50 concessions) 


Fri 8 Nov 7.30pm 

Barbican Britten: Bostridge/ 

Our Hunting Fathers 

Purcell arr Britten Chacony in G minor 

Britten Young Apollo 

Tippett Fantasia Concertante on a theme 

of Corelli 

Britten Our Hunting Fathers 

Britten Suite on English Folk Tunes, 

A Time There Was 


Paul Daniel conductor 

Ian Bostridge tenor 

Lara Melda piano 


20% discount when you book tickets for 

Illuminating Britten on 8–10 Nov. 


Sun 10 Nov 7pm, Royal Albert Hall 


Bychkov 

Britten War Requiem 


Semyon Bychkov conductor 

Marina Poplavskaya soprano 

Andrew Kennedy tenor 

Roderick Williams baritone 

BBC Symphony Chorus 

Crouch End Festival Chorus 

The Choristers of 

Westminster Abbey 

Event in association with the 

Royal British Legion 


Tickets available from the Royal Albert Hall 

Box Office on 0845 401 5034 and online at 

royalalberthall.com 

Ian Bostridge © Ben Ealovega 

Thu 14 – Sat 16 Nov 8pm, 

St Giles’ Cripplegate 


Curlew River 

Multimedia staging by Netia Jones 

A parable for church performance 

Britten Curlew River 

Ian Bostridge Madwoman 

Gwynne Howell Abbot 

Neal Davies The Traveller 

Peter Coleman-Wright The Ferryman 

William Lacey music director 


Britten Sinfonia Voices 

Eamonn Dougan director, 


Tickets £40 


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Benjamin Briten © Roland Haupt 


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Britten 

Britten expert and 

documentary maker 

John Bridcut introduces 

the Barbican’s Britten 

Centenary celebrations. 

For us today, one of the chief delights of 

Britten is that he excels across such a range of 

different types of music. He wrote concertos, 

orchestral pieces, ballets, song cycles, chamber 

music, children’s music, a feast of works for 

the cello – and choral music to die for. 

He set himself exacting standards, stripping 

his music back, thinning the texture to avoid 

what he regarded as the ugly wash of overscoring. 

He turned from the grand-opera 

triumph of Peter Grimes to chamber-sized 

operas such as the delightful comedy about 

a greengrocer, Albert Herring, in which he 

conjures a full orchestral sound from just a 

baker’s dozen of musicians, and the tiny but 

enchanting sound-world of his ‘church parable’, 

Curlew River – an opera in all but name. 

When he was ill at school, he wrote the 

enchanting miniature for unaccompanied choir 

A Hymn to the Virgin, which remains a jewel

in his crown – not bad for a sixteen-yearold. 

One of the last pieces he wrote (once 

again struggling with illness) was Sacred 

and Profane, settings of medieval lyrics 

for unaccompanied choir. In between 

came the perfect Hymn to St Cecilia (with 

words by W H Auden), written on another 

bed of pain – this time he was stuck in his 

sweaty, airless cabin on a ship crossing the 

Atlantic at the height of the U-boat war. 

As a pacifist, Britten took no part in the 

war, but it coincided with the first flowering 

of his mature talent – notably with his 

Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings. It 

came seven years after his first major 

work for voice and orchestra, Our Hunting 

Fathers, of which he was sufficiently proud 

to count it as his real ‘opus one’ – meaning 

he regarded it as the starting point for 

his career as a professional composer. 

Between these two vocal works came Les 

Illuminations, delicious settings of Rimbaud 

for high voice and strings. The music is both 

innocent and sensual (like much of Britten’s 

work), and coincided with his burgeoning 

love affair with the tenor, Peter Pears. 

When the Hungarian composer Zoltán 

Kodály died a few years before him, 

Britten praised his beauty of sound, his 

freshness, his ‘multum in parvo’. ‘Less is 

more’ is always a good motto, but this 

sounds like Britten’s own musical manifesto. 

Illuminating Britten is generously supported 

by the Britten-Pears Foundation 

Phaedra / Richard Alston Dance 

Company 6,7 & 9 Nov / Page 17 

Illuminating Britten 8–10 Nov / Page 18 

Bostridge / Our Hunting 

Fathers 8 Nov / Page 18 

War Requiem 10 Nov / Page 18 

Curlew River 14–16 Nov / Page 18 

The Sixteen on Britten’s 100th 

Birthday 22 Nov / Page 22 

Albert Herring 23 Nov / Page 22 

Serenade for Tenor, Horn and 

Strings 24 Nov / Page 22 

Mon 18 Nov 7.30pm 

Artist Spotlight: 

Maxim Vengerov/ 

Polish Chamber Orchestra 

Mozart Violin Concerto No 3, Strasburg 

Mozart Violin Concerto No 5, Turkish 

Tchaikovsky Sérénade mélancolique 

Tchaikovsky Souvenir d’un lieu cher 

Tchaikovsky Valse-Scherzo 

Maxim Vengerov violin / director 

Polish Chamber Orchestra 


Wed 20 Nov 7.30pm, Milton Court 

ECHO Rising Stars: 

Pablo Held Trio 

Nominated by Kölner Philharmonie 

Hailed as one of the ‘most exciting young 

groups of German jazz’, the Pablo Held 

Trio perform in the intimate surroundings 

of Milton Court Concert Hall. 

Pablo Held Trio 


Wed 20 Nov 7.30pm 


Harding 

Schubert Symphony No 5 

Mahler Das Lied von der Erde 



Christianne Stotijn mezzo-soprano 

Burkhard Fritz tenor 




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Juliette Bausor 


2013 – 1 4 

Young Artists 

Ben Eshmade discovers 

that young talent is thriving 

at the Barbican. 

‘Well I did see them here first!’ you’ll casually 

boast to anybody who will listen. Who are you 

talking about? Well, the future classical stars of 

tomorrow who will be coming to the Barbican 

over the next year. 

Nurturing and showcasing the classical stars of 

tomorrow, both those studying at the Guildhall 

School of Music & Drama and the best 

artists and ensembles from across Europe, is 

important to both the Barbican and the LSO, its 

resident orchestra. 

This season Milton Court Concert Hall is host 

to ECHO Rising Stars, a series of concerts by 

young artists handpicked by members of the 

European Concert Hall Organisation. Former 

artists in this long-established series include 

violinist Janine Jansen, cellist Quirine Viersen 

and bass-baritone Jonathan Lemalu. But it’s 

clarinettist Dionysis Grammenos (playing 

Chopin, Fauré and Poulenc), the Van Baerle 

Trio (Haydn, Jeths and Brahms) or perhaps the 

jazz of The Pablo Held Trio who will have the 

chance to wow you over the coming year. 

At LSO St Luke’s, the beautiful Hawksmoor 

church that’s now HQ of the LSO’s music 

education programme, LSO Discovery, you 

might find a young composer frantically 

scribbling down their ideas or Guildhall 

students experiencing a snapshot of 

professional music life in masterclasses with 

LSO players. A flagship project is the Panufnik 

Young Composers Scheme which allows six 

composers each year a chance to write a 

three-minute piece for the LSO. You’ll get a 

chance to hear these pieces performed as 

part of a public workshop at LSO St Luke’s in 

February 2014. 

The composers, the conductors and the 

virtuosos of tomorrow are available to hear 

today. So reserve your seat and get ready to 

do a little boasting. 

ECHO Rising Stars 20 Nov, 13 Dec, 24 Jan, 

28 Feb, 7 Mar, 11 Apr, 16 May 

Panufnik Young Composers 

Workshop 7 Feb

Thu 21 Nov 7.30pm, Milton Court 


Anna Prohaska 

Locke Incidental music from The Tempest 

Purcell Instrumental and Vocal Suite from 

The Fairy Queen 

Purcell Solo Songs 

Arne Overture in B flat major 

Handel ‘Vo far guerra’ from Rinaldo 

Handel ‘Ah! Spietato!’ from Amadigi di Gaula 

Handel Sinfonia from Saul 

Handel ‘Let the bright Seraphim’ from Samson 



Anna Prohaska soprano 


Part of AAM multibuy 

Fri 22 Nov 7.30pm, Union Chapel 


The Sixteen on Britten’s 

100th Birthday 

Britten 

Hymn to the Virgin 

Shepherd’s Carol 

New Year Carol 

Hymn to Saint Cecilia 

Five Flower Songs 

Ballad of Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard 

Sacred and Profane 

The Sixteen 

Harry Christophers conductor 

Frances Kelly harp 

Christopher Glynn piano 

Tickets £20 

Sat 23 Nov 7pm 


Albert Herring 

Britten Albert Herring 

Semi-staged performance 


Steuart Bedford conductor 

Paul Curran director 

Christine Brewer Lady Billows 

Gaynor Keeble Florence Pike 

Gillian Keith Miss Wordsworth 

Roderick Williams Mr Gedge 

Adrian Thompson Mr Upfold 

Matthew Rose Superintendent Budd 

Marcus Farnsworth Sid 

Andrew Staples Albert Herring 

Kitty Whately Nancy 

Catherine Wyn-Rogers Mrs Herring 



Sun 24 Nov 7.30pm, Milton Court 


Serenade for Tenor, Horn 

and Strings 

Nico Muhly Three Songs for tenor and violin 

Bartók Fourth movement from Quartet No 4 

Britten Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal 

Erkki-Sven Tüür Lighthouse 

Judith Weir ‘I give you the end of a golden 

string’ (London premiere) 

Arne Nordheim ‘Individualisierte 

Höhemessung der Lagen’ from Partita für Paul 

Nico Muhly Material in E flat for violin and 

drone from orchestra 

Bartók Third movement from Quartet No 4 

Berg arr Schnittke Kanon 

Arvo Pärt Cantus in Memoriam 

Benjamin Britten 

George Crumb ‘God Music’ from 

Black Angels 

Britten Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings 


Mark Padmore tenor 

Pekka Kuusisto violin / director 

Stephen Bell horn 




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2013 – 1 4 

Broadcaster Graeme Kay 

looks forward to a season of 

Baroque opera and oratorio. 


Baroque 

Synonymous with extravagance and 

irregularity when applied to architecture, 

in music the Baroque meant a remarkable 

flowering of invention, as composers such 

as Gabrieli and Monteverdi established 

a new principle of contrast in their music, 

creating strikingly innovative spatial, 

harmonic and textural effects. You can bathe 

in the freshness and vitality of the Baroque, 

tapping into its new forms of emotional 

engagement as we present a season of 

drama, passion and belief, in the company 

of the greatest names of the Baroque – Bach, 

Handel, Monteverdi, Rameau and Vivaldi. 

The Academy of Ancient Music, this year 

celebrating its 40th anniversary, kick off with 

Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo. Written in 1607, this 

searing retelling of the legend of Orpheus 

and Eurydice is the most enduringly popular 

music drama in the entire history of music. 

The AAM is back with a seasonal 

performance of Handel’s great oratorio, 

Messiah. Born in controversy due to

librettist Charles Jennens’s skilful but 

unprecedented weaving together of the 

Christmas and Easter stories, Messiah’s 

emotional truth, expressed through 

brilliantly evocative music, has become 

deeply etched in the public imagination. 

Harry Christophers conducts Handel’s 

last oratorio Jephtha; often successfully 

staged, the oratorio plumbs rarely visited 

depths of musical emotion as warrior 

Jephtha returns from a triumph in battle, 

predicated on sacrificing the first person 

he sees. That person turns out to be his 

daughter … The Handel cycle concludes 

with Theodora (8 Feb 2014), a drama 

of self-sacrificing love and martyrdom 

in the face of unshakeable beliefs, 

containing some of the composer’s 

most affecting music. 

The French Baroque is represented by 

the great opera composer Jean-Philippe 

Rameau and Christoph Rousset conducts 

Les Talens Lyriques in Les Indes galantes – 

a portmanteau opera-ballet consisting of 

four love stories set in exotic lands. Here, 

bizarre scenarios and daring musical 

innovations take full advantage of the new 

Baroque spirit. And the opera-oratorio 

strand concludes with a Good Friday 

performance of Bach’s St John Passion 

(18 April 2014). By introducing a narrator 

(Evangelist), named characters, and 

specific locations, Bach’s Passions break 

out of the oratorio convention to build 

musical dramas of captivating intensity. 

Monteverdi L’Orfeo / AAM 

28 Sep / Page 11 

Handel Messiah / AAM 

7 Dec / Page 26 

Handel Jephtha / The Sixteen 

14 Jan / Page 28 

Handel Theodora / 

The English Concert 

8 Feb / Page 31 

Rameau Les Indes Galantes / 

Les Talens Lyriques 

6 Mar / Page 35 

Bach St John Passion / 


18 Apr / Page 40 

Thu 28 Nov 7.30pm 


Harding 

Schubert Symphony No 8, Unfinished 

Wagner Act Two from Tristan and Isolde 



Katarina Dalayman Isolde 

Peter Seiffert Tristan 

Christianne Stotjin Brangäne 



Daniel Harding 

Fri 29 Nov 7.30pm, Milton Court 


Schoenberg Pelleas und Melisande 

Strauss Ein Heldenleben 


Takuo Yuasa conductor 



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Janine Jansen, Decca © Harald Hoffmann 

December 2013 

Sun 1 Dec 7.30pm 

Patrick Doyle 60th Birthday 

Concert / LSO 

Featuring Patrick Doyle’s film scores including 

Henry V (1989), Hamlet (1996), Much Ado About 

Nothing (1993) and As You Like It (2006). 


Frank Strobel conductor 



Wed 4 Dec 7.30pm 

BBC Symphony Orchestra/Pons 

Schreker Overture, Die Gezeichneten 

Busoni Berceuse élégiaque 

Ravel Shéhérazade 

Ravel Pavane pour une infante défunte 

Schoenberg Chamber Symphony No 1 


Josep Pons conductor 

Nora Gubisch soprano 



Thu 5 Dec 7.30pm 



Beethoven Violin Concerto 

Dvorˇ ák Symphony No 7 



Nikolaj Znaider violin 



Fri 6 Dec 7.30pm 

Janine Jansen and Friends/ 

Bach Violin Concertos 

JS Bach 

Concerto for violin in E major 

Concerto for violin in D minor 

Concerto for violin in A minor 

Concerto for violin and oboe in C minor 

Tickets £15–45

Sat 7 Dec 7.30pm 

Choir of King’s College, 

Cambridge/ 

Britten Saint Nicolas 

Arvo Pärt Cantus in Memoriam 

Benjamin Britten 

Britten A Ceremony of Carols 

Britten Saint Nicolas 


Stephen Cleobury conductor 

James Gilchrist tenor 

Choir of King’s College, Cambridge 



Murray Perahia/Academy 

of St Martin in the Fields 

Stravinsky Concerto in E flat major, 

Dumbarton Oaks 

Haydn Symphony No 77 in B flat 

Beethoven Piano Concerto No 5, Emperor 

Academy of St Martin in the Fields 

Murray Perahia piano / director 




Tilson Thomas 

Liszt Mephisto Waltz 


Tchaikovsky Symphony No 5 


Michael Tilson Thomas conductor 

Simon Trpcˇ eski piano 

Supported by LSO Friends 


Multibuy discounts will not 

be applied to this concert. 

Fri 13 Dec 1pm, Milton Court 


János Balázs 

Nominated by Palace of Arts Budapest 

Beethoven Variations on God save the King 

Schubert Impromptu in B flat major 

Chopin Andante spianato 

et grande polonaise brillante 

Dubrovay Faust the Damned Paraphrases 

Ravel ‘Scarbo’ from Gaspard de la nuit 

Liszt Mephisto Waltz No 1 

János Balázs piano 


Sun 15 Dec 2pm 

Berlioz L’enfance du Christ 

Berlioz L’enfance du Christ 


François-Xavier Roth conductor 


Yann Beuron tenor 

Marcus Farnsworth baritone 

Christopher Purves bass 




Tue 17 Dec 7pm 


Messiah 

Handel Messiah 


Bernard Labadie conductor 

Lydia Teuscher soprano 

Iestyn Davies counter-tenor 

Jeremy Ovenden tenor 

Andrew Foster-Williams bass 





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Simon Keenlyside 

Programme to include: 

Britten Songs and Proverbs of William Blake 

Strauss Hymnus, Hochzeitslied, Sehnsucht 

Schubert Alinde, Herbstlied, Der Wanderer, 

Himmelsfunken, Abschied 

Simon Keenlyside baritone 

Malcolm Martineau piano 




Tilson Thomas 

Rimsky-Korsakov Dubinushka 

Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No 1 

Prokofiev Symphony No 5 


Michael Tilson Thomas conductor 

Evgeny Kissin piano 




Fri 20 Dec 7.30pm 


Gardner 

Wagner Overture, Faust 

Wagner Wesendonck-Lieder 

Webern Passacaglia 

Wagner Tristan and Isolde, Prelude (Act 1) 

Berg Seven Early Songs 

Strauss Death and Transfiguration 


Edward Gardner conductor 

Christine Brewer soprano 



January 2014 

Sun 5 Jan 7pm 

National Youth Orchestra/ 

Daniel 

Larry Goves New work for orchestra 

and electronics 


National Youth Orchestra 

of Great Britain 

Paul Daniel conductor 


Wed 8 Jan 7.30pm 


Oramo 

Beethoven Symphony No 3, Eroica 

Colin Matthews Traces Remain 

(BBC commission, world premiere) 

Schumann Konzertstück 



Horn players from the BBC SO 




The BBC Singers perform partsongs by Brahms, 

Mendelssohn and Robert and Clara Schumann. 

Conducted by Paul Brough. 

Tickets £10 (£8 to ticket holders 

for the evening concert) 

Fri 10 Jan 7.30pm 


Vengerov in recital 

Programme to include 

Elgar Violin Sonata 

Prokofiev Violin Sonata No 2 

and works by Shostakovich, Kreisler and 

Brahms 

Maxim Vengerov violin 

Itamar Golan piano 

Tickets £15–65

Sat 11 Jan 7.30pm 

Magdalena Kožená/ 

Les Violons du Roy 


Haydn Arianna a Naxos 

Mozart ‘Non più di fiori’ 

from La clemenza di Tito 

Haydn Symphony No 85, La Reine 

Mozart ‘Parto, parto’ from La clemenza di Tito 

Mozart ‘Deh per questo istante solo’ from 

La clemenza di Tito 

Mozart ‘Mi tradi’ from Don Giovanni 

Les Violons du Roy 

Magdalena Kožená mezzo-soprano 

Bernard Labadie conductor 


Sun 12 Jan 7.30pm 



Haydn The Creation (sung in German) 



Marlis Petersen soprano 

Jeremy Ovenden tenor 

Gerald Finley bass 




Sat 4 Jan 10.30am–4.30pm, 

LSO St Luke’s 

LSO Discovery Singing Day: 

Haydn The Creation 

Tickets £17 (includes music hire) 

Tue 14 Jan 7pm 

Handel Jephtha/The Sixteen 

Handel Jephtha 

The Sixteen 

Harry Christophers conductor 

James Gilchrist tenor 

Sophie Bevan soprano 

Robin Blaze counter-tenor 

Matthew Brook bass 


Katia and Marielle Labèque © Umberto Nicoletti 

Thu 16 Jan 7.30pm 


Bychkov 

Martinu ˚ Concerto for two pianos 

Shostakovich Symphony No 7, Leningrad 


Semyon Bychkov conductor 

Katia & Marielle Labèque piano 





Vengerov and Friends 

Prokofiev Overture on Hebrew Themes 

Shostakovich Piano Trio No 2 

Brahms Clarinet Quintet 


Ilya Gringolts violin 

Lawrence Power viola 

Antonio Meneses cello 

Itamar Golan piano 

Sharon Kam clarinet 



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CGI illustration of Milton Court Concert Hall 

29 2013 – 1 4 


Milton Court 

Milton Court Concert Hall – 

an exciting new venue for 

Barbican concerts. 

From September 2013, the Guildhall School of 

Music & Drama reaches across Silk Street as 

Milton Court opens its doors on stunning new 

performance spaces, rehearsal rooms and 

teaching accommodation. 

Milton Court’s beautiful, state-of-the-art 

600-seat concert hall will be a significant and 

welcome addition to the existing venues for 

classical music at the Barbican. Alongside 

the Barbican Hall, the church of St Giles’ 

Cripplegate and LSO St Luke’s it will enable us 

to enhance our programme with concerts by 

smaller ensembles and young artists. 

Our associate ensembles, the Academy of 

Ancient Music and Britten Sinfonia, each 

give several performances in Milton Court 

Concert Hall this season along with concerts 

by musicians from the Mariinsky Theatre, 

Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig and the BBC 

Singers, among others. Look out for concerts 

by the very best international young artists 

in the European Concert Halls Organisation 

(ECHO) Rising Stars series. 

See page 52 for a map of our family 

of music venues.

Tue 21 Jan 7.30pm 


Sir John Eliot Gardiner 

Mendelssohn Overture, Hebrides 

Schumann Piano Concerto 

Mendelssohn Symphony No 3, Scottish 


Sir John Eliot Gardiner conductor 

Maria João Pires piano 






Volkov 

Grisey Mégalithes (UK premiere) 

Hugues Dufourt Piano Concerto 

(UK premiere) 

Pierre Boulez Cummings ist der Dichter 

Beethoven Symphony No 7 


Ilan Volkov conductor 

Nicolas Hodges piano 

BBC Singers 




LSO Brass Ensemble 

Bach Toccata and Fugue in D minor 

Scarlatti Sonata for keyboard 

Ewald Quintet No 1 

Koetsier Kinderzircus Music 

Crespo Suite Americas 

Brass on Broadway Arr. Dudley Bright 

LSO Brass Ensemble 



Thu 23 Jan 7.30pm, Milton Court 

Guildhall Chamber Orchestra 

Programme to be announced 

Guildhall Chamber Orchestra 

Alexander Janiczek conductor / leader 

Tickets on sale from 1 November 

Fri 24 Jan 1pm, Milton Court 

ECHO Rising Stars: Quatuor Voce 

Nominated by Cité de la Musique Paris 

Adès Arcadiana 

Beethoven String Quartet Op 59, No 2 

Quatuor Voce 




Bringuier 


Gérard Pesson Ravel à son âme 

(UK premiere) 

Marc-André Dalbavie Flute Concerto 

(UK premiere) 

Ravel Boléro 


Lionel Bringuier conductor 

Michael Cox flute 





Sir Antonio Pappano 

Sir Peter Maxwell Davies Fanfare: 

Her Majesty’s Welcome 

Brahms Violin Concerto 

Walton Symphony No 1 


Sir Antonio Pappano conductor 

Janine Jansen violin 

LSO On Track 





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2013 – 1 4 



Andreas Scholl 

Vivaldi Stabat Mater 

Wassenaer Concerto Armonico No 2 

Vivaldi Salve Regina 

Wassenaer Concerto Armonico No 3 

Pergolesi Stabat Mater 


Andreas Scholl counter-tenor 

Klara Ek soprano 

Tickets £15 – 45 

Multibuy discounts will not be 

applied to this concert. 

February 2014 

Sun 2 Feb 7.30pm 

Artist Spotlight: Vengerov/ 

LSO/Pappano 

Elgar In the South 

Britten Violin Concerto 

Sir Peter Maxwell Davies Symphony No 10 

(world premiere, LSO commission) 


Sir Antonio Pappano conductor 





10.30am–5.30pm 

LSO Discovery Day: 

Sir Peter Maxwell Davies 


Maxim Vengerov © Naim Chidiac 

Wed 5 Feb 7.30pm 



Panufnik Sinfonia Sacra 

Dvorˇák Violin Concerto 

Panufnik Lullaby 

Dvorˇák Symphony No 9, From the New World 



Anne-Sophie Mutter violin 




Sat 8 Feb 6.30pm 

Handel Theodora/ 


Handel Theodora 


Harry Bicket conductor 

Rosemary Joshua soprano 

Sarah Connolly mezzo-soprano 

Tim Mead counter-tenor 

Andrew Kennedy tenor 

Neal Davies bass 

Choir of Trinity Church Wall Street 



UBS Soundscapes: 

LSO Artist Portrait – Yuja Wang 

Beethoven Piano Concerto No 3 

Rachmaninov Symphony No 2 


Jaap Van Zweden conductor 

Yuja Wang piano 


Part of LSO multibuy

Yuja Wang 

Thu 13 Feb 7.30pm 


LSO Artist Portrait Yuja Wang 


Ravel Daphnis and Chloé 


James Gaffigan conductor 




Fri 14 Feb 7.30pm, Milton Court 

Imogen Cooper and 

Britten Sinfonia Winds 

Mark Simpson New work (London premiere) 

Beethoven Quintet in E flat for piano and 

winds 

Mozart Serenade No 10 for winds in B flat, 

Gran Partita 


Imogen Cooper piano 



Sat 15 Feb 


Thea Musgrave 

A day of music, film and discussion 

celebrating the music of Thea Musgrave. 

11am Talk, Frobisher Rooms 

An introduction to the music of Thea Musgrave 


Limited availabillity, but admission guaranteed with 

a day pass 

1pm Concert, Hall 

Chamber music by Thea Musgrave 

Guildhall Ensembles 

Tickets £12 

3pm Talk, Frobisher Room 

An introduction to the music in this 

evening’s concerts 


Limited availability but admission guaranteed with 

a day pass 

5pm Concert, St Giles’ Cripplegate 

Thea Musgrave 

Rorate coeli 

Ithaca 

Momento creatoris 

Midnight 

On the Underground 

BBC Singers 

Paul Brough conductor 

Tickets £12 (unreserved seating) 

Thea Musgrave © Christian Steiner 


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2013 – 1 4 

7.30pm Concert 

Thea Musgrave 

The Seasons 

Horn Concerto 

Songs for a Winter's Evening 

Turbulent Landscapes 


Martyn Brabbins conductor 

Martin Owen horn 

Lisa Milne soprano 







Rimsky-Korsakov Scheherazade 

Alexandre Bloch conductor 

Rachel Leach presenter 

Tickets £5 under 16s, £10 adults 




Yuja Wang Piano Recital 





Wed 19 Feb 7.30pm, Milton Court 

Mariinsky Brass Ensemble 

Programme to include 


(arranged for brass ensemble) 

Mariinsky Brass Ensemble 



Thu 20 Feb 7.30pm 



Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No 3 

Stravinsky Petrushka 






Sat 22 Feb 7.30pm 


Gabel 

Chausson Soir de fête 

Bruno Mantovani Concerto for two pianos 

(UK premiere) 

Debussy Nocturnes 



Fabien Gabel conductor 

François-Frédéric Guy piano 

Varduhi Yeritsyan piano 

BBC Singers 





Harding 

Huw Watkins Flute Concerto (world premiere, 

LSO commission) 

Mahler Symphony No 1, Titan 



Adam Walker flute 

LSO commission supported by the 

Borletti-Buitoni Trust 



Wed 26 Feb 7.30pm, Milton Court 

Tasmin Little and Martin Roscoe 

Guildhall School alumna and renowned 

violinist Tasmin Little joins pianist Martin Roscoe, 

Professor of Piano at the school, for a special 

recital. 


Tickets on sale from 1 November 

Thu 27 Feb 7.30pm, Milton Court 


Richard Tognetti 

Vivaldi Concerto in D for violin, two oboes and 

two horns 

Fasch Concerto in D minor for lute 

Pisendel Concerto Grosso No 1 in E flat major 

Vivaldi Concerto in B minor for four violins 

Veracini Ouverture No 5 

Bach Concerto in D major for three violins 

Vivaldi Concerto in F major for violin, 

two oboes, two horns and bassoon 


Richard Tognetti director / violin 



Fri 28 Feb 1pm, Milton Court 


Leticia Muñoz Moreno 

Nominated by L’Auditori Barcelona and Palau 

de la Música Catalana 

Granados Sonata for violin and piano 

Franck Violin Sonata 

Falla Suite Populaire Espagnole 

Ravel Tzigane 

Leticia Muñoz Moreno violin 

Ana-Maria Vera piano 


Fri 28 Feb 7.30pm 

Artist Spotlight: Vengerov/ 


Beethoven Concerto for violin, cello 

and piano 

Rimsky-Korsakov Scheherazade 


Maxim Vengerov conductor / violin 

Antonio Meneses cello 

Igor Levit piano 


March 2014 

Tue 4 Mar 7.30pm 

Leif Ove Andsnes/Beethoven 

Beethoven 

Sonata No 11 in B flat major 

Sonata No 28 in A major 

Variations in F major 

Sonata No 23 in F minor, Appassionata 

Leif Ove Andsnes piano 


Leif Ove Andsnes © Ozgur Albayraka 


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2013 – 1 4 

Thu 6 Mar 6.30pm 

Rameau Les Indes Galantes/ 


Rameau Les Indes Galantes 


Christophe Rousset director / harpsichord 

Carolyn Sampson Hébé, Phani, Fatime 

Benoît Arnould Bellone, Huascar, Alvar 

Eugénie Warnier Amour, Roxane, Zima 

Judith Van Wanroij Emilie, Atalide 

Kenneth Tarver Valère, Tacmas 

Anders J. Dahlin Carlos, Damon 

Thomas Dolié Osman, Adario 

Choeur Sagittarius 


French artists supported by the Institut français 

Thu 6 Mar 7.30pm, Milton Court 

Britten Sinfonia/ 

Patricia Kopatchinskaja 

Brahms arr Paul Angerer Chorale Preludes 

Tigran Mansurian Four Serious Songs after 

Brahms 

Bartók Romanian Dances 

Janácˇ ek arr Richard Tognetti String 

Quartet No 1, Kreutzer Sonata 

Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in D minor 


Patricia Kopatchinskaja violin / director 



Fri 7 Mar 1pm, Milton Court 


Van Baerle Trio 

Nominated by Het Concertgebouw Amsterdam 

and BOZAR Brussels 

Haydn Piano Trio in E flat major 

Jeths Chiasmos 

Brahms Piano Trio No 2 in C major 

Van Baerle Trio 


Sat 8 Mar 


Villa-Lobos 

A day of music and film celebrating 

the work of Villa-Lobos 

11am Talk, Frobisher Rooms 

An introduction to the music of Villa-Lobos 


Limited availability but admission guaranteed with 

a day pass. 

1pm Concert, Milton Court 

Chamber and vocal music by Villa-Lobos 

Guildhall Ensembles 

Tickets £12 

3pm Film, Cinemas 

Descobrimento do Brazil (Brazil, 1936) 

Humberto Mauro‘s 1936 film about the claiming 

of Brazil for Portugal in 1500. 

Dirs Humberto Mauro and Ano de Lançamento 

Shown in Portuguese with an introduction by Simon 

Wright 

Tickets £6 

5pm Concert, Milton Court 

Villa-Lobos 

Amerindian Legends 

Ave Maria 

Pater Noster 

As costureiras 

Bendite Sabecloria 

Bachiana Brasileira No 9 

BBC Singers 

Celso Antunes conductor 

Tickets £12 

7pm BBC SO Learning Performance, 

Barbican Foyer 

The culmination of a BBC SO Learning project 

Free

7.30pm Concert 

Villa-Lobos 

Uirapuru 

Descobrimento do Brazil – Primeira Missa 

no Brazil 

Choros No 8 for two pianos and orchestra 

Bachianas brasileiras No 5, for soprano and 

cello ensemble 

Bachianas brasileiras No 4 

From Floresta do Amazonas: Canção do 

Amor (Love Song) and Melodia Sentimental 

(Sentimental Melody) 

Chôros No 10 for chorus and orchestra 



Anu Komsi soprano 

Martin Roscoe piano 

Kathyrn Stott piano 






Mon 10 Mar 7.30pm 

Dmitri Hvorostovsky 

Programme to include romances by 

Rachmaninov and Glière on poems by 

Alexander Pushkin and Sviridov’s 

St Petersburg: a vocal poem. 

Dmitri Hvorostovsky bass 

Ivary Ilja piano 


Dmitri Hvorostovsky © Pavel Antonov 

Wed 19 Mar 7.30pm 


Cambreling 

Mozart Sinfonia Concertante 

Messiaen Éclairs sur l’Au-delà … 


Sylvain Cambreling conductor 

Veronika Eberle violin 

Antoine Tamestit viola 




Mariinsky Wind Quintet 

Taffanel Quintet in G minor 

Ligeti Six Bagatelles 

Milhaud Suite La chimenée du roi René 

Mozart Fantasia in F minor for mechanical 

organ (arranged for wind quintet) 

Evgeny Petrov New work 

Mariinsky Wind Quintet 



Alina Ibragimova © Sussie Ahlburg 

Sun 23 Mar 7.30pm 


Sir John Eliot Gardiner 

Mendelssohn Overture, Ruy Blas 

Schumann Violin Concerto in D minor 

Mendelssohn Symphony No 4, Italian 


Sir John Eliot Gardiner conductor 

Alina Ibragimova violin 




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Wed 26 Mar 7.30pm, Milton Court 


Angelika Kirchschlager 

JC Bach Grand Overture No 2 

Mozart Lieder: Abendempfindung, 

Das Veilchen and Als Luise die Briefe 

WFE Bach Sinfonia in C major 

Haydn Scena di Berenice 

JCF Bach Concerto for fortepiano and viola 

Mozart Concert arias: Ch’io mi scordi di te, 

Alma grande e nobil core and Al desio di chi 

t’adora 


Richard Egarr director / fortepiano 

Angelika Kirchschlager mezzo-soprano 

Jane Rogers viola 



Wed 26 Mar 7.30pm 


Oramo 

Sibelius Pohjola’s Daughter 

Esa-Pekka Salonen Violin Concerto 

(UK premiere) 

Shostakovich Symphony No 5 in D minor 



Leila Josefowicz violin 




The BBC Singers perform choral works from 

Soviet Russia conducted by Stephen Cleobury. 

Tickets £10 (£8 to ticket holders for the 

evening concert) 

Leila Josefowicz © Henry J Fair 


Leila Josefowicz 

Schubert Sonata in A, Grand Duo 

Xenakis Dikhthas 

Stravinsky Duo Concertante 

Schubert Rondo in B minor 

Leila Josefowicz violin 

John Novacek piano 


Sun 30 Mar 7.30pm 


Gergiev 

Scriabin Symphony No 1 

Liszt Piano Concerto No 2 

Scriabin Symphony No 4, The Poem of Ecstasy 



Denis Matsuev piano 




April 2014 

Thu 3 Apr 7.30pm 

Royal Concertgebouw 

Orchestra Amsterdam/Jansons 



Mozart Violin Concerto in G major 

Bruckner Symphony No 4, Romantic 


Amsterdam 

Mariss Jansons conductor 

Frank Peter Zimmermann violin 

Tickets £15–65

Fri 4 Apr 7.30pm 





Haydn Cello Concerto in C 

Bruckner Symphony No 7 


Amsterdam 


Truls Mørk cello 


Sat 5 Apr 6.30pm 





Beethoven Piano Concerto No 1 



Amsterdam 


Lars Vogt piano 


Sun 6 Apr 7.30pm 


Sir Andrew Davis 

Elgar The Dream of Gerontius 


Sir Andrew Davis conductor 

Sarah Connolly mezzo-soprano 

Stuart Skelton tenor 

Brindley Sherratt bass 




Wed 9 Apr 7.30pm 

El na Garancˇ a in recital 

Programme to include songs by Schumann 

and Strauss 

El na Garancˇ a mezzo-soprano 


Elina Garancˇ a © Karina Schwarz 



Gergiev 

Messiaen L’ascension 

Scriabin Symphony No 5, Prometheus, 

Poem of Fire 

Scriabin Symphony No 2 



Denis Matsuev piano 


Supported by LSO Patrons 



Fri 11 Apr 1pm, Milton Court 


Juliette Bausor 

Nominated by The Sage Gateshead 

Dutilleux Sonatine 

Poulenc Sonata 

Charlie Piper New commission 

Messiaen Le Merle Noir 

Prokofiev Sonata in D major 

Juliette Bausor flute 

Alasdair Beatson piano 



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Sir Harrison Birtwistle © HAnya Chlala Arean PAL 

39 classical music 2013 – 1 4 

Birtwistle 

at 80 

Guardian music critic 

Andrew Clements introduces 

Birtwistle at 80. 

For Harrison Birtwistle, music and theatre have 

always been inextricably linked. One of his earliest 

pieces, composed when he was just eleven, was 

a work for three mimes and a solo clarinet (his 

own instrument), and even in his instrumental and 

orchestral works ever since, there has always been 

an unrevealed drama shaping the music. Yet when 

he was director of music at the National Theatre in 

the 1980s, he often found himself recommending 

that directors didn’t need music in their productions; 

for him, music has always been too precious, 

too necessary, to squander for the sake of it. 

Appropriately then, the Barbican’s celebration of 

Birtwistle’s 80th birthday next year is centred upon 

performances of two of his major music-theatre 

works, both collaborations with major British 

poets. The series begins with Martyn Brabbins 

conducting the BBC Symphony Orchestra in a 

concert staging of Gawain, a tale of derring-do 

set in the court of King Arthur, with a libretto by 

David Harsent based upon the medieval poem 

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. And there’s also 

a chance to see again the ‘mechanical pastoral’, 

as Birtwistle called it, Yan Tan Tethera, originally 

intended for television. With a libretto by Tony 

Harrison it’s set in an English pastoral world in 

which shepherds count sheep and summon up 

magic spells to counter the dark forces of evil. 

While Birtwistle has always been adept at 

covering his technical tracks as a composer – 

he once claimed that the vast musical structure 

of Gawain was based on a single chord – 

landscapes, whether real or imaginary, ritual or 

mundane, have always featured prominently in 

his musical world. He is in his way as profoundly 

English a composer as any of his predecessors 

from the early part of the 20th century, and the 

final concert in the Barbican tribute places his 

works – the haunting beautiful choral piece 

Fields of Sorrow and the Dürer-inspired clarinet 

concerto Melancolia I – alongside pieces by 

Gustav Holst and Ralph Vaughan Williams. 

Gawain 16 May / Page 43 

Earth Dances 20 May / Page 43 

Birtwistle at 80: Study Afternoon 

25 May / Page 44 

Knussen / BCMG 25 May / Page 44 

Yan Tan Tethera 29 May / Page 44 

Fields of Sorrow 30 May / Page 44

Sat 12 Apr 7.30pm 


Sir Andrew Davis 

Elgar The Apostles 


Sir Andrew Davis conductor 

Nicole Cabell Blessed Virgin / Angel Gabriel 

Sarah Connolly Mary Magdalene 

Paul Groves St John / Narrator 

Brindley Sherratt Judas 

Gerald Finley St Peter 

Jacques Imbrailo Jesus 




Come and Sing Elgar 2pm, 

City of London School for Girls 

A workshop singing extracts from Elgar’s 

The Dream of Gerontius and The Apostles. 

Tickets £5 



Gergiev 

Messiaen Les offrandes oubliées 

Chopin Piano Concerto No 2 

Scriabin Symphony No 3, The Divine Poem 



Daniil Trifonov piano 



Fri 18 Apr 6pm 

Good Friday: 

Bach St John Passion 

Bach St John Passion 


Jacqueline Shave director / violin 

Julia Doyle soprano 

Iestyn Davies counter-tenor 

Nicholas Mulroy Evangelist 

Jeremy Budd tenor 

Matthew Brook bass 

Eamonn Dougan Pilate / director, 





LSO Eclectica at the Barbican: 

Mystic and Sufi 

Arvo Pärt Fratres 

Arvo Pärt Symphony No 3 

Arrangements of works by Dhafer Youssef 


Kristjan Järvi conductor 

Dhafer Youssef oud / vocals 



Sat 26 Apr, Milton Court 

The Arditti Quartet: 

40 Years Young 

A celebration of the Arditti Quartet and its 40 

years of breaking the boundaries of new music. 

Compered by Tom Service, the day will include 

performances of classic works commissioned 

by the ensemble and new works written for the 

occasion, intermingled with informal insights 

and conversation. 

11am Session 1 

Jonathan Harvey String Quartet No 1 

Brice Pauset New work (world premiere) 

Elliott Carter String Quartet No 5 

György Kurtág Aus der Ferne III & V 

Helmut Lachenmann Grido 

Arditti Quartet 

Tickets £15 

Iestyn Davies 


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3pm Session 2 

James Clarke New work (world premiere) 

Hector Parra Leaves of Reality 

Hilda Paredes New work (world premiere) 

Georg Friedrich Haas String Quartet No 2 

Ligeti String Quartet No 2 


Tickets £15 

7.30pm Session 3 

Wolfgang Rihm Fetzen I & II 

Toshio Hosokawa Silent Flowers 

Brian Ferneyhough String Quartet No 3 

Harrison Birtwistle New work (world 

premiere) 

Pascal Dusapin String Quartet No 5 

Xenakis Tetras 


Tickets £15 

Book all three Arditti Quartet sessions 

in Milton Court Concert Hall on 26 Apr 

and receive a 20% discount 



Gatti 



Daniele Gatti conductor 



May 2014 

Thu 1 May 7.30pm 


Znaider 

Strauss Don Juan 

Brahms Double Concerto 

Strauss Also sprach Zarathustra 


Nikolaj Znaider conductor 

Roman Simovic violin 

Tim Hugh cello 

Sponsored by Baker & McKenzie 



Sat 3 May 7.30pm 


Oramo 

Debussy Prélude à l’après midi d’un faune 

Pascal Dusapin Violin Concerto (UK premiere) 

Honegger Rugby 

Elgar Enigma Variations 



Renaud Capuçon violin 



Sun 4 May 7.30pm 


Sir Mark Elder 

Strauss Wind Serenade 


Strauss Macbeth 

Strauss Till Eulenspiegel 


Sir Mark Elder conductor 

Imogen Cooper piano 



10am–5.30pm 

LSO Discovery Day: Richard Strauss 

Full day tickets £17 (£13.50 concessions)

Wed 7 May 7.30pm 

Julia Lezhneva/ 

Il Giardino Armonico 

The sensational young Russian soprano sings 

music from Handel’s Italian journey including: 

Handel 

Sinfonia from Agrippina 

‘Pugneran con noi le stelle’ from Rodrigo 

Concerto grosso in G minor Op 6 No 6 

Saeviat tellus inter rigores 

Concerto grosso in D major Op 6 No 5 

‘Pensieri, voi mi tormentate’ from Agrippina 

‘Un pensiero nemico di pace’, 

‘Lascia la spina’,‘Come nembo che fugge col 

vento’ from Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno 

Geminiani Concerto Grosso in D minor No 6, 

La Follia 

Il Giardino Armonico 

Giovanni Antonini director 

Julia Lezhneva soprano 




Sir Mark Elder 

Mozart Symphony No 38, Prague 

Strauss Extracts from Der Rosenkavalier 


Sir Mark Elder conductor 

Soloists include 

Anne Schwanewilms Marschallin 

Sarah Connolly Octavian 

Lucy Crowe Sophie 

Supported by LSO Premier 



Gil Shaham © Christian Steiner 

Fri 9 May 7.30pm 


Oramo 

Dukas The Sorcerer’s Apprentice 

Bright Sheng Violin Concerto 

(BBC commission, UK premiere) 

Bartók Concerto for Orchestra 



Gil Shaham violin 




The BBC Singers perform choral music by Zoltán 

Kodály plus works by some of his Hungarian 

contemporaries. Conducted by James Morgan. 

Tickets £10 (£8 for ticket holders 

to the evening concert) 

Mon 12 May 7pm 

The Gold Medal 

The Guildhall School’s most prestigious prize 

will this year be awarded to an instrumentalist. 

Each finalist will perform a programme of music 

to a Barbican audience and will be judged by 

an esteemed jury panel. 

Tickets on sale from 17 February 2014 


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Tue 13 May 8pm 

Kronos Quartet 

Newly commissioned works marking the Kronos 

Quartet’s 40th anniversary including: 

Bryce Dessner New work (world premiere) 

Philip Glass String Quartet No 6 (UK premiere) 

Kronos Quartet 


Wed 14 May 7.30pm 


Heras-Casado 

Ravel Alborada del gracioso 

Prokofiev Violin Concerto No 2 



Pablo Heras-Casado conductor 

Roman Simovic violin 



Fri 16 May 1pm, Milton Court 


Dionysis Grammenos 

Nominated by Megaron, the Athens 

Concert Hall 

Bassi Rigoletto Fantasia di Concerto 

Rachmaninov Vocalise 

Fauré Après un rêve 

Giacoma Tosca fantasia 

Schumann Three Romanzen 

Chopin Nocturne in C sharp minor 

Poulenc Sonata for clarinet and piano 

Sarasate Carmen Fantasy 

Dionysis Grammenos clarinet 

Karina Sposobina piano 


Hélène Guilmette © Julien Faugèrer 

Fri 16 May 7pm 

Birtwistle at 80: Gawain 

Harrison Birtwistle Gawain 



Martyn Brabbins conductor 

John Lloyd Davies director 

Cast to include: 

Leigh Melrose Gawain 

Sir John Tomlinson Green Knight 

Laura Aiken Morgan 

Jennifer Johnston Hautdesert 

Jeffrey Lloyd Roberts Arthur 

William Towers Baldwin 

Thomas Walker Ywain 

Rachel Nicholls Guinevere 

BBC Singers 


Tue 20 May 7.30pm 

Birtwistle at 80: Earth Dances 

Harrison Birtwistle Earth Dances 

Brahms Piano Concerto No 1 



Paul Lewis piano 



Sat 24 May 7.30pm 

Poulenc/ 

Les Mamelles de Tirésias 

Fauré Requiem 

Poulenc Les Mamelles de Tirésias 

Concert staging 


Ludovic Morlot conductor 

Kenneth Richardson director 

Cast to include: 

Hélène Guilmette Thérèse 

Jean-François Lapointe Husband 

Thomas Morris Journalist from Paris 

Werner van Mechelen Policeman / 

theatre director 

BBC Singers 



Part of BBC SO multibuy

Claire Booth © Sven Arnstein 

Sun 25 May 3pm, Frobisher Room 4 

Birtwistle at 80: 

Study Afternoon 

An afternoon exploring the music of 

Sir Harrison Birtwistle. 

Free to ticket holders of the Birtwistle at 80 events. 

Limited capacity, please book early to avoid 

disappointment. 

 

Sun 25 May 7.30pm, Milton Court 

Birtwistle at 80: Knussen/BCMG 

Harrison Birtwistle 

Cantus Iambeus 

Monody for Corpus Christi 

Tragoedia 

Fantasia on all the Notes 

Four Poems by Jaan Kaplinski 

Virelai (Sus une fontayne) 

Silbury Air 

Birmingham Contemporary Music Group 

Oliver Knussen conductor 

Katrien Baerts soprano 


Tue 27 May 7.30pm, Milton Court 


Bach 

Bach Orchestral Suite No 3 in D major 

Bach Harpsichord Concerto in E major 

Bach Harpsichord Concerto in A major 

Bach Orchestral Suite No 4 in D major 






Birtwistle at 80: Yan Tan Tethera 

Harrison Birtwistle Yan Tan Tethera 



Baldur Brönnimann conductor 

John Lloyd Davies director 

Roderick Williams Alan 

Omar Ebrahim Caleb / Raven 

Claire Booth Hannah 

Daniel Norman Piper / Bad’un 


Eamonn Dougan director, 



Fri 30 May 7.30pm, Milton Court 

Birtwistle at 80: Fields of 

Sorrow/ Britten Sinfonia 

Vaughan Williams Fantasia on a Theme 

of Thomas Tallis 

Holst If You Love Songs 

Lovely Venus 

David’s Lament for Jonathan 

The Fields of Sorrow 

Harrison Birtwistle The Fields of Sorrow 

Harrison Birtwistle Melancolia I 

Vaughan Williams Flos Campi 


Baldur Brönnimann conductor 

Maxim Rysanov viola 


Eamonn Dougan director, Britten Sinfonia 

Voices 



Pre-concert performance 6pm 

Birtwistle’s The Tree of Strings played by the 



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June 2014 

Sun 1 Jun 7.30pm 


Sir Simon Rattle 

Beethoven Violin Concerto 

Henze Being Beauteous 



Sir Simon Rattle conductor 

Veronika Eberle violin 

Anna Prohaska soprano 




Thu 5 Jun 7.30pm 

Haitink at 85 

Schumann Overture, Manfred 

Berg Violin Concerto 

Beethoven Symphony No 6, Pastoral 


Chamber Orchestra of Europe 

Isabelle Faust violin 


Fri 6 Jun 7.30pm 


Kavakos 

Beethoven Overture, Prometheus 

Beethoven Triple Concerto 

Beethoven Symphony No 3, Eroica 


Leonidas Kavakos conductor / violin 

Tim Hugh cello 

Enrico Pace piano 



Sat 7 Jun 7.30pm 

Haitink at 85 

Ravel Suite, Le tombeau de Couperin 

Ravel Piano Concerto in G major 


Chamber Orchestra of Europe 


Jean-Yves Thibaudet piano 


Tue 10 Jun 7.30pm 

Evgeny Kissin 

Schubert Sonata in D major 

Scriabin Sonata No 2 in G sharp minor 

Scriabin Selection of Etudes from Op 8 

Evgeny Kissin piano 


Evgeny Kissin © Felix Broede 




Bruch Scottish Fantasy 

Dvorˇák Symphony No 8 



Nicola Benedetti violin 




Fri 13 Jun 7.30pm, Milton Court 


Mozart Overture, Don Giovanni 

Bartók Viola Concerto 

John Casken That Subtle Knot 


Thomas Zehetmair violin / conductor 

Ruth Killius viola 







Tickets £5 under-16s, £10 adults 




Luisi 




Fabio Luisi conductor 

Lise de la Salle piano 



Sat 21 Jun 7pm 


Three last symphonies 

Mozart Symphony No 41, Jupiter 

Haydn Symphony No 104, London 

Beethoven Symphony No 9, Choral 


Richard Egarr conductor 

Elizabeth Watts soprano 

Daniela Lehner mezzo-soprano 

Benjamin Hulett tenor 

Andrew Foster-Williams bass 


AAMplify new generation choir 



Elizabeth Watts © Dylan Thomas 



Luisi 

Strauss Ein Heldenleben 

Beethoven Mass in C 


Fabio Luisi conductor 

Christiane Oelze soprano 

Anna Stéphany mezzo-soprano 

Timothy Oliver tenor 




10.30am–5.30pm 

LSO Discovery Singing Day: 

Beethoven Mass in C 

Tickets £17 (includes music hire) 


London Symphony Orchestra / 

Nott 


Messiaen Turangalîla-Symphonie 


Jonathan Nott conductor 

Cynthia Millar ondes Martenot 

Steven Osborne piano 




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2013 – 1 4 

Do more 

at the Barbican 

Audiences of all ages and levels of 

experience can get more involved with 

performances at the Barbican. 

Barbican Guildhall Creative Learning, LSO 

Discovery, BBC SO and our other artistic 

partners create a huge range of activities that 

complement the main concert programme. 

Here’s a glimpse of some of the events in the up 

coming season. 

Music in-depth 

Fri 8–Sun 10 Nov 2013 

Illuminating Britten 

A weekend of varied events exploring the life 

and music of Benjamin Britten. The Barbican 

and Guildhall School of Music & Drama 

join forces to present three days of concerts, 

films, mini-recitals and discussions, featuring 

musicians who knew Britten personally or who 

have a special understanding of his music. 

Curated by the film-maker, John Bridcut. 

With generous support from 

the Britten-Pears Foundation 


29 Sep & 3 Nov 2013 

and 2 Feb & 4 May 2014 

LSO Discovery Days 

Take an in-depth look at some of our featured 

composers on an LSO Discovery Day, with 

focuses on Shostakovich, Berlioz, Sir Peter 

Maxwell Davies and Strauss by the LSO’s 

family of artists. 


Sat 23 Nov 2013 & Sun 6 Apr 2014 

2–5pm 

BBC SO Study Afternoons 

This season find out more about Elgar’s 

oratorios and Britten’s Albert Herring at the 

BBC SO study afternoons. 

Free to ticket-holders to the evening BBC SO 

concerts on these dates

25 May 2014 

Birtwistle at 80: 

Study Afternoon 

Learn more about Sir Harrison Birtwistle in 

a study afternoon dedicated to his music as 

part of our series celebrating the composer’s 

80th birthday. 

Singing 

Sat 4 Jan & Sun 22 Jun 2014 

LSO Singing Days 

Whether you sing in a local choir, or haven’t 

sung since school, this is an exciting opportunity 

to get to grips with a classic work. Some sightsinging 

ability is required. 

Sat 12 Apr 2014 2–5pm 

BBC SO Come and Sing 

Members of the BBC Singers and BBC 

Symphony Chorus invite you to an afternoon 

workshop singing excerpts from The Dream of 

Gerontius and The Apostles. The workshop is 

suitable for people who are able to read music 

and all voices are welcome. 

For families 

2 & 3 Nov 2013 and 1 & 2 Mar 2014 

Barbican Weekender 

Twice a year the Barbican and Guildhall 

team up and invite the public to take part in a 

variety of inspiring, free activities across two 

days, incorporating music, dance, film, theatre 

and visual art. Past themes have included 

Urban Stories, technology, neuro science and 

surrealism. We look forward to welcoming you, 

your family and friends to the next Barbican 

Weekender. 

Sun 27 Oct 2013, Sun 16 Feb 

& Sun 15 Jun 2014 

LSO Discovery Family 

Concerts 

Children and their families can experience the 

power of an orchestra for the first time and 

bring their own instruments to join in during 

the concerts. Make a day of it with pre-concert 

workshops and foyer activities. 

BBC SO Plus Family 

A series of family-friendly workshops that 

take place before selected BBC Symphony 

Orchestra concerts at the Barbican, giving 

family groups with children aged 8–16 the 

chance to experience live classical music. 

Dates to be confirmed. 

Please check our website for details. 

For emerging artists 

Wed 8 Oct 2013 

LSO/Guildhall Masterclasses 

The LINK Alliance masterclass series continues 

with Emanuel Ax working with musicians from 

the Guildhall School. 

23–31 Oct 2013 and 2–5 Apr 2014 

Barbican Guildhall 

Masterclasses 

Watch musicians from our international 

associate orchestras Leipzig Gewandhaus 

and Royal Concertgebouw passing on their 

skill and passion to students from the Guildhall 

School in a series of engaging masterclasses 

that are free for the public to attend. 


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BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concerts 2013/14 

MOZART CHAMBER MUSIC 

Thu 26 Sep; 3, 10, 17, 24 & 31 Oct; 

7 & 14 Nov 2013 1pm 

Featuring: 

Christian Blackshaw piano 

London Winds 

Aronowitz Ensemble 

Chiaroscuro String Quartet 

Ebène String Quartet and more … 

BARRY DOUGLAS AND FRIENDS 

Thu 23 Jan; 6, 13 & 20 Feb 2014 1pm 

Pianist Barry Douglas returns to LSO St Luke’s in Spring 2014 performing 

alongside musicians he has worked with throughout his career so far. 

SCHUBERT CHAMBER MUSIC 

Thu 27 Feb; 6, 13 & 20 Mar 2014 1pm 

Featuring: 

Cédric Tiberghien & Christian Ihle Hadland 

playing Schubert piano duets 

Nicola Benedetti, Leonard Elschenbroich & Alexei Grynyuk 

playing Schubert trios 

Doric String Quartet 

playing Schubert’s String Trio & Quartet in G major 

Signum String Quartet & cellist Nicolas Altstaedt 

playing Schubert’s String Quintet in C major 

RUSSIAN ROMANTIC PIANO WORKS 

Thu 27 Mar; 3, 10 & 17 Apr 2014 1pm 

Featuring pianists: 

Nikolai Demidenko 

Yevgeny Sudbin 

Boris Giltburg 

Denis Kozhukin 

performing works by Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov, Prokofiev and more … 

TICKETS £10 (£9 concessions) 

lso.co.uk/lunchtimeconcerts | 020 7638 8891

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Performer index 

Conductors 

Name 

Page 

Antonini Giovanni 42 

Antunes Celso 35 

Bedford Steuart 22 

Bicket Harry 31 

Bloch Alexandre 33 

Brabbins Martyn 33, 43 

Bringuier Lionel 30 

Brönnimann Baldur 44 

Brough Paul 32 

Bychkov Semyon 18, 28 

Cambreling Sylvain 36 

Chailly Riccardo 13, 14 

Christophers Harry 22, 28 

Cleobury Stephen 26 

Daniel Paul 18, 27 

Dausgaard Thomas 11 

Davis Sir Andrew 38, 40 

Davis Sir Colin 11, 25, 28, 31, 45 

Egarr Richard 11, 22, 37, 44, 46 

Elder Sir Mark 41, 42 

Gabel Fabien 33 

Gaffigan James 12, 32 

Gatti Daniele 41 

Gergiev Valery 16, 17, 37, 38, 40 

Gardiner Sir John Eliot 30, 36 

Gardner Edward 27 

Haitink Bernard 12, 45 

Harding Daniel 12, 20, 24, 33, 43 

Heras-Casado Pablo 43 

Hill David 13 

Janiczek Alexander 30 

Jansons Mariss 37, 38 

Järvi Kristjan 40 

Knussen Oliver 44 

Labadie Bernard 26, 28 

Luisi Fabio 46 

Minkowski Marc 14 

Morlot Ludovic 43 

Noseda Gianandrea 10, 12 

Nott Jonathan 46 

Oramo Sakari 16, 27, 36, 37, 41, 42 

Pappano Sir Antonio 30, 31 

Pons Josep 25 

Rattle Sir Simon 45 

Redmond Timothy 14 

Roth François-Xavier 26 

Rousset Christophe 35 

Strobel Frank 25 

Name 

Page 

Tilson Thomas Michael 26, 27 

Vedernikov Alexander 11 

Volkov Ilan 30 

Yuasa Takuo 24 

Zehetmair Thomas 13, 46 

Znaider Nikolaj 41 

Zweden Jaap Van 31 

Soloists 

Abdrazakov Ildar 17 

Adès Thomas 17 

Aiken Laura 43 

Aimard Pierre-Laurent 14 

Ainsley John Mark 11 

Andsnes Leif Ove 34 

Arnauld Benoît 35 

Ax Emanuel 12 

Baerts Katrien 44 

Balázs János 26 

Ballestra Jean-Luc 10 

Batiashvilli Lisa 12 

Bausor Juliette 38 

Beatson Alasdair 38 

Bell Stephen 22 

Benedetti Nicola 45 

Berg Nathan 11 

Beuron Yann 26 

Bevan Sophie 11, 28 

Blaze Robin 28 

Booth Claire 44 

Borodina Olga 17 

Bostridge Ian 18 

Bretz Gábor 10 

Brewer Christine 22, 27 

Broderick Katherine 12 

Brook Matthew 28, 40 

Budd Jeremy 40 

Cabell Nicole 40 

Capuçon Renaud 41 

Cargill Karen 16, 26 

Coleman-Wright Peter 18 

Connolly Sarah 31, 38, 40, 42 

Cook Allison 17 

Cooper Imogen 32, 41 

Cox Michael 30 

Crowe Lucy 42 

Dahlin Anders J 35 

Dalayman Katarina 24 

Daniel Nicholas 12

Name 

Page 

Davies Iestyn 26, 40 

Davies Neal 18, 31 

Dindo Enrico 13 

Dolié Thomas 35 

Dougan Eamonn 40 

Douglas Barry 11 

Doyle Julia 40 

Dran Julien 10 

Eberle Veronica 36, 45 

Ebrahim Omar 44 

Ek Klara 31 

Farnsworth Marcus 22, 26 

Faust Isabelle 45 

Filianoti Giuseppe 10 

Finley Gerald 28, 40 

Foster-Williams Andrew 46 

Fritz Burkhard 20 

Garancˇ a El na 38 

Gilchrist James 26, 28 

Glynn Christopher 22 

Golan Itamar 27, 28 

Grammenos Dionysis 43 

Gringolts Ilya 28 

Groves Paul 40 

Gubisch Nora 25 

Guilmette Helene 43 

Guy François-Frédérick 33 

Hargreaves Matthew 10 

Hobbs Thomas 11 

Hodges Nicolas 30 

Hopkins Louise 17 

Howell Gwynne 18 

Hugh Tim 41, 45 

Hulett Benjamin 46 

Hunt Matthew 17 

Hvorostovsky Dmitri 36 

Ibragimova Alina 13, 36 

Ilya Ivary 36 

Imbrailo Jacques 40 

Jansen Janine 25, 30 

Johnson Graham 18 

Johnston Jennifer 13, 43 

Josefowicz Leila 37 

Joshua Rosemary 31 

Kaddouch David 14 

Kam Sharon 28 

Kasminen Samuli 10 

Kavakos Leonidas 13, 14, 45 

Keeble Ganor 22 

Keenlyside Simon 27 

Name 

Page 

Keith Gillian 22 

Kelly Frances 22 

Kennedy Andrew 18, 31 

Killius Ruth 13, 46 

Kirchschlager Angelika 37 

Kissin Evgeny 27, 45 

Komsi Anu 36 

Kopatchinskaja Patricia 35 

Kotchinian Arutjun 10 

Kožená Magdalena 28 

Kuusisto Pekka 17, 22 

Labeque Katia 28 

Labeque Marielle 28 

Lapoint Jean-François 43 

Leach Rachel 14, 33 

Lehner Daniela 11, 46 

Levit Igor 34 

Lewis Paul 12, 43 

Lezhneva Julia 42 

Little Tasmin 34 

Lloyd Roberts Jeffrey 43 

Lo Monaco José Maria 10 

Lugansky Nikolai 12 

Martineau Malcolm 27 

Marwood Anthony 17 

Matsuev Denis 37, 38 

Mead Tim 31 

Mechelen van Werner 43 

Melda Lara 18 

Melrose Leigh 43 

Meneses Antonio 28, 34 

Millar Cynthia 46 

Milne Lisa 33 

Moreno Leticia Muñoz 34 

Moreso Catia 12 

Mørk Truls 38 

Morris Thomas 43 

Mulroy Nicholas 40 

Mustonen Olli 16 

Mutter Anne-Sophie 31 

Nakariakov Sergei 16 

Nicholls Rachel 43 

Novacek John 37 

Oelze Christiane 46 

Oliver Timothy 46 

Osborne Steven 46 

Ovenden Jeremy 28 

Owen Martin 33 

Pace Enrico 45 

Padmore Mark 22 


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Name 

Page 

ˇ 

Perahia Murray 26 

Petersen Marlis 28 

Pires Maria João 30 

Platanias Dimitri 10 

Pohjonen Kimmo 10 

Poplovskaya Marina 18 

Power Lawence 28 

Prohaska Anna 22, 45 

Purves Christopher 26 

Rancatore Désiree 10 

Robinson Timothy 12 

Rogers Jane 37 

Roscoe Martin 34, 36 

Rose Matthew 22 

Rysanov Maxim 44 

Salle Lise de la 46 

Sampson Carolyn 35 

Scholl Andreas 31 

Schwanewilms Anne 42 

Shaham Gil 42 

Shave Jacqueline 12, 40 

Shaw Madeleine 10 

Sherratt Brindley 38, 40 

Simovic Roman 14, 41, 43 

Skelton Stuart 38 

Sposobina Karina 43 

Spyres Michael 17 

Staples Andrew 22 

Stephany Anna 46 

Stotijn Christianne 20 

Stott Kathryn 36 

Tamestit Antoine 16, 36 

Tarver Kenneth 35 

Teuscher Lydia 26 

Thibaudet Jean-Yves 45 

Thompson Adrian 22 

Tognetti Richard 34 

Tomlinson Sir John 43 

Tornatore Valeria 10 

Towers William 43 

Trifonov Daniil 40 

Tritschler Robin 17 

Trpc eski Simon 26 

Uchida Mitsuko 11 

Vengerov Maxim 20, 27, 28, 31, 34 

Vera Ana-Maria 34 

Vincent Guillaume 14 

Vogt Lars 38 

Volodin Alexei 11 

Volodos Arcadi 13 

Name 

Page 

Walker Adam 33 

Walker Thomas 43 

Wang Yuja 31, 32, 33 

Wanroij Judith Van 35 

Warnier Eugénie 35 

Watkins Huw 17 

Watts Elizabeth 46 

Whately Kitty 22 

Welton Derek 12 

Williams Roderick 18, 22, 44 

Wyn-Rogers Catherine 22 

Yeritsyan Varduhi 33 

Youssef Dhafer 40 

Zimmerman Frank Peter 37 

Znaider Nikolaj 25 

Composer index 

Adès Thomas 17, 30 

Arne Thomas 22 

Bach Johann Christian 37, 40 

Bach Johann Christoph Friedrich 37 

Bach Johann Sebastian 25, 30, 34, 44 

Bach Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst 37 

Barry Gerald 17 

Bartók Bela 14, 22,35, 42, 46 

Bassi Luigi 43 

Beethoven Ludwig van 12, 25, 26, 27, 30, 31, 

32, 33, 34, 38, 45, 46 

Berg Alban 11, 22, 27, 45 

Berlioz Hector 14, 16, 17, 26 

Birtwistle Harrison 41, 43, 44 

Borodin Alexander 11 

Boulez Pierre 30 

Brahms Johannes 13, 14, 27, 28, 30, 35, 41, 43, 

45 

Britten Benjamin 12, 17, 18, 22, 26, 27, 31 

Bruch Max 45 

Bruckner Anton 37, 38, 46 

Busoni Ferruccio 25 

Casken John 46 

Carter Elliot 40 

Chausson Ernest 33 

Chopin Frédéric 11, 26, 40, 43 

Clarke James 41 

Clyne Anna 12 

Copland Aaron 13 

Crespo Enrique 30 

Crumb George 22

Name 

Page 

ˇ 

ˇ 

˚ 

Dalbavie Marc-André 30 

Debussy Claude 33, 41 

Dessner Bryce 43 

Doyle Patrick 25 

Dubrovay László 26 

Dufourt Hugues 30 

Dukas Paul 42 

Dusapin Pascal 41 

Dutilleux Henri 38 

Dvor ák Antonin 11, 14, 25, 31, 45 

Elgar Edward 12, 27, 31, 38, 40, 41 

Ewalde Victor 30 

Falla Manuel de 34 

Fasch Johann 34 

Fauré Gabriel 43 

Ferneyhough Brian 41 

Franck César 34 

Geminiani Francesco 42 

Giacoma Carlo Della 43 

Glass Philip 43 

Glière Reinhold 36 

Goves Larry 27 

Granados Enriqué 34 

Grieg Edvard 17 

Grisey Gérard 30 

Haas Georg Friedrich 41 

Handel George Frideric 22, 26, 28, 31, 42 

Harvey Jonathan 40 

Haydn Joseph 12, 13, 26, 28, 35, 37, 38, 46 

Henze Hans Werner 45 

Holst Gustav 44 

Honegger Arthur 41 

Hosokawa Toshio 41 

Janac ék Leos 35 

Jeths Willem 35 

Koetsier Jan 30 

Kreisler Fritz 27 

Kurtág György 40 

Lachenmann Helmut 40 

Ligeti György 36, 41 

Liszt Franz 26, 37 

Locke Matthew 22 

Mahler Gustav 11, 16, 20, 27, 33, 41 

Mansurian Tigran 35 

Mantovani Bruno 33 

Martinu Bohuslav 28 

Matthews Colin 27 

Maw Nicholas 12 

Maxwell Davies Sir Peter 30, 31 

Mendelssohn Felix 30, 35, 36 

Name 

Page 

Messiaen Olivier 36, 38, 40, 46 

Milhaud Darius 36 

Monteverdi Claudio 11 

Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus 11, 12, 13, 20, 28, 

32, 36, 37, 41, 42, 45, 46 

Muhly Nico 22 

Murail Tristan 16 

Musgrave Thea 32, 33 

Mussorgsky Modest 12 

Nordheim Arne 22 

Panufnik Andrzej 31 

Paredes Hilda 41 

Parra Hector 41 

Pärt Arvo 22, 26, 40 

Pauset Brice 40 

Pergolesi Giovanni 31 

Pesson Gérard 30 

Petrov Evgeny 36 

Piper Charlie 38 

Pisendel Johann 34 

Poulenc Francis 14, 38, 43 

Prokofiev Sergei 12, 26, 27, 28, 32, 38, 43 

Purcell Henry 18, 22 

Rachmaninov Sergei 31, 33, 36, 43 

Rameau Jean-Philippe 35 

Ravel Maurice 14, 25, 26, 30, 32, 34, 43, 45 

Reich Steve 13 

Rihm Wolfgang 41 

Rimsky-Korsakov Nikolaj 27, 33, 34 

Roussell Albert 14 

Salonen Esa-Pekka 37 

Sarasate Pablo de 43 

Scarlatti Domenico 30 

Schoenberg Arnold 24, 25 

Schreker Franz 25 

Schubert Franz 20, 24, 26, 27, 37, 45 

Schumann Robert 27, 30, 36, 38, 43, 45 

Scriabin Alexander 37, 38, 40, 45 

Sheng Bright 42 

Shostakovich Dmitri 12, 16, 17, 28, 37, 43 

Sibelius Jean 37 

Simpson Mark 32 

Strauss Richard 11, 17, 24, 27, 38, 41, 42, 46 

Stravinsky Igor 11, 12, 17, 26, 33, 37 

Sviridov Georgy 36 

Taffanel Paul 36 

Tchaikovsky Pyotr Ilyich 12, 14, 20, 26, 27 

Tippett Michael 18 

Tüür Erkki-Sven 22 

Vaughan Williams Ralph 44 


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Name 

Page 

Veracini Francesco Maria 34 

Verdi Giuseppe 10 

Villa-Lobos Heitor 35, 36 

Vivaldi Antonio 31, 34 

Wagner Richard 24, 27 

Walton William 30 

Wassenaer Unico Wilhelm van 31 

Watkins Huw 33 

Weber Carl Maria von 11 

Webern Anton 27 

Weir Judith 22 

Whitacre Eric 13 

Youssef Dhafer 40 

Xenakis Iannis 37, 41 

Orchestra 

& Ensemble index 

Academy of Ancient Music 11, 13, 22, 26, 31, 

34, 37, 44, 46 

Academy of St Martin in the Fields 26 

AAMplify new generation choir 46 

Arditti Quartet 40, 41 

BBC Singers 13, 14, 30, 31, 33, 35, 37, 43 

BBC Symphony Chorus 18, 26, 36, 38, 40, 

43 

BBC Symphony Orchestra 11, 14, 16, 

18, 22, 25, 26, 27, 28, 30, 33, 34, 36, 37, 38, 40, 

41, 42, 43 

Birmingham Contemporary 

Music Group 44 

Britten Sinfonia 12, 17, 18, 22, 26, 32, 35, 40, 

44 

Britten Sinfonia Voices 18, 40, 44 

Chamber Orchestra of Europe 45 

Choeur Sagittarius 35 

Choir of King’s College, Cambridge 26 

Choir of the AAM 11, 26, 46 

Choir of Trinity Church Wall Street 31 

Crouch End Festival Chorus 18 

Endymion 13 

Gewandhausorchester Leipzig 13, 14 

Gewandhaus Quartet 13, 14 

Guildhall Chamber Orchestra 30 

Guildhall Ensembles 32, 35 

Guildhall Symphony Orchestra 12, 24 

Il Giardino Armonico 42 

Kronos Quartet 10, 43 

Les Talens Lyriques 35 

Name 

Page 

Les Violons du Roy 28 

London Symphony Chorus 10, 17, 28, 31, 37, 

38, 46 

London Symphony Orchestra 10, 

11, 12, 16, 17, 20, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 30, 31, 32, 33, 

36, 37, 38, 40, 41, 42, 43, 45, 46 

LSO Brass Ensemble 30 

LSO On Track 30 

LSO String Ensemble 14 

Mariinsky Brass Ensemble 33 

Mariinsky Stradivarius Ensemble 17 

Mariinsky Wind Quintet 36 

National Youth Orchestra 

of Great Britain 27 

Northern Sinfonia 13, 46 

Pablo Held Trio 20 

Polish Chamber Orchestra 20 

Quatuor Voce 30 

Richard Alston Dance Company 17 


Amsterdam 37, 38 

The Choristers of Westminster Abbey 18 

The English Concert 31 

The Sixteen 22, 28 

Van Baerle Trio 35

Premiere index 

2013 

Date Piece Page 

18 Sep Kimmo Pohjonen 10 

Samuli Kosminen 

Uniko 

(UK premiere) 

11 Oct Anna Clyne 12 

Within her Arms 


2 Nov Tristan Murail 16 

New work 

(BBC co-commission, world premiere) 

6, 7 & 9 Richard Alston Dance 17 

Nov Dance Company 

Phaedra 

(Barbican co-commission, world premiere) 

6, 7 & 9 Richard Alston 17 

Nov Dance Company 

Sechs Holderlin Fragmente 

(Barbican co-commission, world premiere) 

24 Nov Judith Weir 22 

I give you the end of a golden string 


2014 

5 Jan Larry Goves 27 

New Work 


8 Jan Colin Matthews 27 

Traces Remain 

(BBC commission, world premiere) 

22 Jan Gérard Grisey 30 

Megalithes 

(UK premiere) 

22 Jan Hugues Dufourt 30 

Piano Concerto 

(UK premiere) 

29 Jan Gérard Pesson 30 

Ravel á son âme 

(UK premiere) 

29 Jan Marc-André Dalbavie 30 

Flute Concerto 

(UK premiere) 

2 Feb Sir Peter Maxwell Davies 31 

Symphony No 10 

(LSO commission, world premiere) 

14 Feb Mark Simpson 32 

New work 


Date Piece Page 

22 Feb Bruno Mantovani 33 

Concerto for Two Pianos 

(UK premiere) 

23 Feb Huw Watkins 33 

Flute Concerto 

(LSO commission, world premiere) 

26 Mar Esa-Pekka Salonen 37 

Violin Concerto 

(UK premiere) 

26 Apr Brice Pauset 40 

New work 

(world premiere) 

26 Apr James Clarke 41 

New work 


26 Apr Hilda Paredes 41 

New work 


26 Apr Harrison Birtwistle 41 

New work 


3 May Pascal Dusapin 41 


(UK premiere) 

9 May Bright Sheng 42 


(BBC commission, UK premiere) 

13 May Bryce Dessner 43 

New work 

(UK premiere) 


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