Wednesday 20 November 2024
7.30pm
Barbican Hall
Guildhall Symphony Orchestra
Alpesh Chauhan OBE conductor
Thomas Adès
Polaris: Voyage for Orchestra
Kaija Saariaho
Orion
Interval
Gustav Holst
The Planets
including:
Colin Matthews
Pluto, the Renewer
In this programme:
The performance duration is approximately 2 hours, including a 20-minute interval.
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The Hon. Emily Benn
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Professor Jonathan Vaughan
Vice-Principal & Director of Music
Armin Zanner
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Welcome
Programming Gustav Holst’s most recognisable orchestral work, The Planets, has been almost inevitable for any symphony orchestra in 2024. Few pieces of classical music from the last century have proved as enduring or as influential, and fewer still have captured the popular imagination as powerfully, so with this year marking the 150th anniversary of the composer’s birth, we knew as we planned our Guildhall Symphony Orchestra season that we would be far from alone in presenting this suite. But it is magnificent music, core to any orchestral musician’s repertoire, and whether or not you have found yourself listening to it on multiple occasions with different orchestras in recent months, let me welcome you to our GSO performance.
Wrapped around The Planets in our programme are three pieces written this century. They share with Holst’s work inspiration from human connections with the celestial. Thomas Adès (whom we are proud to call a Guildhall School alumnus) draws on the concept of the Pole Star as the basis of his musical ideas in Polaris. Kaija Saariaho’s three-movement Orion takes as its prompt the Greek mythological origins of the constellation that we see in the northern hemisphere most brightly during winter. And Colin Matthews’ Pluto, the Renewer, which concludes our concert, is an extension of Holst’s suite (just in case that dwarf planet turns out to deserve a place alongside its giant solar system neighbours after all!).
It is a pleasure for us that Alpesh Chauhan joins Guildhall Symphony Orchestra for the first time to work with our students on this project and to conduct this concert. My thanks to him for his commitment to the next generation of performers, and to you for joining and supporting us here in the Barbican Hall.
Armin Zanner
Vice-Principal & Director of Music
Tonight’s performance by the Guildhall Symphony Orchestra is dedicated to Barbara Reynold, a loyal supporter of the School, who kindly included a gift to Guildhall School of Music & Drama in her Will.
Barbara’s legacy not only provides financial support for our students’ training but also reflects her passion for their work and leaves behind a powerful example of how to make a lasting impact. Guildhall School has a long and distinguished history as a world-class performing arts institution and, thanks to the support of Barbara Reynold and all our donors, we can continue to train aspiring artists into the future.
We celebrate the generosity and thoughtfulness of all who inform us of their intention to support Guildhall School in their Will by inviting them to join the 1880 Society. Contact Meg Ryan at meg.ryan@gsmd.ac.uk / 0203 834 1561 to speak about including a gift in your Will or to arrange a visit to see how you could make a difference to our wonderful students.
Photo © Marco Borggreve
Thomas Adès (b. 1971)
Polaris: Voyage for Orchestra (2010)
14 minutes
Polaris refers to the North Star, or the Pole Star, for centuries a beacon in the heavens used by seafarers as a point of navigation. Thomas Adès’s piece was written for the opening in January 2011 of the Frank Gehry-designed New World Center in Miami Beach, Florida, home to Michael Tilson Thomas’s New World Symphony. On that occasion it was performed alongside a specially created abstract film by video artist Tal Rosner.
Adès scored the piece for a large orchestra, with the brass optionally split into five groups placed in ‘satellite positions’ around the hall. It begins with a solo piano tracing calm but uneven Minimalism-inspired waves, whose profile is picked out by pizzicato violins. A melody begins to form that continually springs back to its starting note, a C-sharp, as it progresses note by note, eventually forming a 12-note sequence (Adès calls it a ‘magnetic series’). The other instruments enter in canon at their own rotational speeds, creating a texture that is both disparate yet homogeneous. On the one hand, there is the sense of a process running its unwavering course. On the other, there are changes of direction. In another enigmatic contrast, the piece embraces soft, heroic-nostalgic American-style writing for trumpet as well as a burning Expressionistic conclusion.
Photo © Maarit Kytöharju
Kaija Saariaho (1952–2023)
Orion (2002)
I. Memento mori
II. Winter Sky
III. Hunter
23 minutes
When Kaija Saariaho passed away last year at the age of 70, the world lost a composer with a unique command of alluring orchestral texture and scintillating colouristic detail. She studied in her native Helsinki and in Darmstadt, and then in Paris at IRCAM, the computer-music research centre run by Pierre Boulez. Her use there of computer analysis to examine sound spectra – the internal properties of sounds and timbres – led her to rethink her approach to harmony and texture, and she remained in the city until the end of her life. She wrote in many genres, and since 2000 created five operas – the last of which, Innocence, received its first UK staging at Covent Garden last year.
Orion is the great hunter from Greek mythology, the son of the sea god Poseidon (Neptune in Roman mythology). After his death he was placed by Zeus in the heavens as a shining constellation of stars. Saariaho’s piece is cast in three movements, the first of which lays out a slow processional tread, overlaid with twinkling crotales (tiny cymbals) and glockenspiel, all suspended in a sound-cloud of mystery. Out of this eventually erupts a more powerful, dramatic section signalled by organ, rumbling bass drum and the arrival of tragically descending scale figures. Short rhythmic figures then break out of the texture leading to an unstable, chaotic release. Having opened in alluring mystery, the movement ends in white heat and violence.
Against a widely spaced orchestral backdrop, ‘Winter Sky’ opens with a sequence of sinuous solos, first an icy piccolo, then violin, clarinet, oboe and muted trumpet. The musical lines unfurl and intertwine, perhaps evoking the glowing beauty of a crowd of constellations. A falling three-note figure, first appearing in the violins, insinuates itself and severely arrests the flow. The instrumentation thins out, drifting ever heavenwards before ending in distantly glinting glass chimes, crotales and bowed vibraphone.
The finale, ‘Hunter’, has a mercurial energy as its title might suggest, and repeating rhythmic motifs from the two earlier movements swirl around in the maelstrom. The momentum scarcely dips and this time the ascent at the end is unmistakably propulsive.
Interval (20 minutes)
Gustav Holst (1874–1934)
The Planets, Op 32 (1914–17)
including:
Colin Matthews (b. 1946)
Pluto, the Renewer (1999–2000)
I. Mars, the Bringer of War
II. Venus, the Bringer of Peace
III. Mercury, the Winged Messenger
IV. Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity
V. Saturn, the Bringer of Old Age
VI. Uranus, the Magician
VII. Neptune, the Mystic
Pluto, the Renewer
57 minutes
Holst shared with his friend Vaughan Williams a fondness for English folk music, but he was also inspired by loftier interests such as Indian mysticism and literature. In 1913, on holiday in Majorca, he reported to his friends that he had recently become interested in astrology. The previous year the astrologer Alan Leo had published a book, The Art of Synthesis, that associated each planet of the solar system with individual characteristics. This may have influenced Holst in devising his orchestral suite along similar lines.
Holst calls for huge forces, including more than 30 wind and brass instruments and a large array of timpani and percussion. Yet, as dense as the writing sometimes is, it is never overwrought. As the conductor Malcolm Sargent, an early champion of the work, noted, “The essence of Holst’s meticulous scoring is clarity.”
With its almost relentless march rhythm, ‘Mars’ is menacing from the start. Brass swirl, timpani rumble. A euphonium solo brings relief but also generates a shocking climax. Out of this a sinister theme rises ominously before the march takes up again. The organ weighs in before an apocalyptic conclusion that rains down brutal blows.
‘Venus’ by contrast is all light and air, opening with a lone, questioning horn and radiantly pulsing chords. A lush violin solo sets off an outpouring of lyricism and serenity.
With its quicksilver spirit ‘Mercury’ is the embodiment of the fleet-footed Winged Messenger. Morse code rhythms tap away (this movement written in 1916, the midpoint of the First World War).
‘Jupiter’ is infused with the spirit of the dance, as befits the Bringer of Jollity. Holst later set the gorgeous tune at the movement’s heart as a hymn to the words ‘I vow to thee, my country’.
As the Bringer of Old Age, ‘Saturn’ opens with distant chords marking time. This is a movement of solemn processions and heavy tread, spiked with clattering alarm, but also contrasts a sense of monumental scale with awestruck wonder.
‘Uranus’ opens with a series of good-humoured dances. One (horns and strings) could almost be a drinking song, another (tubas, introduced by timpani) galumphs around, growing into a grotesque parade. After a seismic cry with belting dissonant chords, the movement quietly snuffs itself out.
The most strangely beautiful, diaphanous (and, appropriately, distant) of the set, ‘Neptune’ glows and shimmers with the mysteries of the beyond. Heavenly high voices drift upwards yet further.
The discovery of Pluto came more than a decade after Holst completed his suite and at the turn of the new millennium Colin Matthews appended a new movement, emerging seamlessly out of Holst’s ‘Neptune’. Conscious of extending the orbit of Holst’s revered work, he dedicated the piece posthumously to Holst’s daughter, Imogen, who, he thought, would have been “both amused and dismayed by this venture”.
Programme Notes © Edward Bhesania
Photo © Benjamin Ealovega
Alpesh Chauhan OBE
conductor
British conductor Alpesh Chauhan is Principal Guest Conductor of the Düsseldorfer Symphoniker and Music Director of Birmingham Opera Company.
Forthcoming 2024/25 season highlights include debuts with Stavanger, Detroit and Vancouver Symphonies, Orchestre National de Belgique, PhilZuid and Orchestre de Auvergne, including at the Evian Festival. He returns to the Oslo Philharmonic, BBC Philharmonic, and Ulster Orchestras, City of Birmingham, BBC Scottish, Melbourne and Adelaide Symphony Orchestras, and Orchestra della Fenice. With his Düsseldorf orchestra, he conducts Das Lied von der Erde as well as opening their new season with Korngold’s Symphony in F-sharp.
Recent guest conducting projects also include with the Atlanta Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Seattle Symphony, Oslo Philharmonic, Hallé, West Australian Symphony, Philharmonia, BBC Symphony, Toronto Symphony, London Philharmonic and Malmö Symphony Orchestra. He also recently programmed Schumann’s Konzertstück with Odense Symphony Orchestra and four horns of the Berliner Philharmoniker. Other regular soloists include Hilary Hahn, Pablo Ferrández and Sir Stephen Hough.
As Music Director of Birmingham Opera Company, Chauhan champions a unique approach to bringing opera to the wider community of Birmingham, following his mentorship by the company’s founder – the late Sir Graham Vick – with their most recent Keith Warner production of Tippett’s New Year being praised for its “exemplary music-making” (The Guardian). Past productions include Wagner’s RhineGold, which was broadcast on SkyArts, and Shostakovich’s Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk for which Chauhan was named Newcomer of the Year at the 2021 International Opera Awards.
Chauhan is particularly well-known for his interpretations of the late Romantic and twentieth century repertoire – with 2024 including Bruckner’s 7th, 8th and 9th symphonies within the anniversary year. He also champions contemporary composers such as Thomas Adès, Anna Clyne, Chaya Czernowin, Henri Dutilleux, Osvaldo Golijov, Sofia Gubaidulina, Zakir Hussain, Nicole Lizée, Jessie Montgomery, John Psathas, Steve Reich, Mark Simpson and George Walker.
Following his debut in 2015, Chauhan was appointed Principal Conductor of the Filarmonica Arturo Toscanini in Parma where he performed complete cycles of the symphonies by Beethoven and Brahms. Other notable opera and stage engagements, alongside the recently critically acclaimed productions of New Year, RhineGold and Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, include West Side Story, and productions of Turandot, including at the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía in Valencia.
A keen advocate of music education for young people, Chauhan is a patron of Awards for Young Musicians, a UK charity supporting talented young people from disadvantaged backgrounds on their musical journeys. He has also worked with ensembles such as the National Youth Orchestra of Scotland and the symphony orchestras of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and the Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM). He was the conductor of the 2015 BBC ‘Ten Pieces’ film which brought the world of classical music into secondary schools across the UK and received a distinguished BAFTA award.
Former Associate Conductor of BBC Scottish Symphony – with whom he appeared at the BBC Proms in 2022 – he continues to appear regularly as a guest conductor and currently partners with them on a Tchaikovsky cycle with Chandos Records. Their first two albums were released to critical acclaim in 2023 and 2024: “Spell-binding Tchaikovsky packs an emotional punch” (BBC Music Magazine).
Born in Birmingham, Chauhan studied cello at the RNCM before continuing there to pursue the prestigious Master’s Conducting Course. He received an OBE in Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II’s 2022 New Year’s Honours for Services to the Arts and was conferred an Honorary Fellow of the RNCM in 2024. In 2022 he received the Conductor Award from the Italian National Association of Music Critics for ‘Miglior Direttore’.
Guildhall Symphony Orchestra
Adès & Saariaho
Violin I
Pedro Marques Rodrigues*
Helena Thomas
Laia Francés Pont
Colby Chu
Elena Toledo
Jessica Hendry
Esme Lewis
Laura Hussey
Helen Rutledge
Zoe Hodi^
Camille Said^
Hayun Lee
Gwyneth Nelmes^
Anastasia Egorova^
Violin II
Ola Lenkiewicz*
Yuno Akiyama
Pak Ho Hong
Malgorzata Podlinska
Lewis Lee
Maria Jimenez
Teresa Wiczkowska
Francisca Davies-Attwood
Kayla Nicol
Gabriella Pedditzi
Ivelina Ivanova^
Paula Guerra^
Viola
Sean Lee*
Emily Clark
Gavin Marnoch
Holly Woods
Rebekah Dickinson
Andrei Gheorghe
Connor Quigley
Min Shim
Jake Mongomery-Smith
Isobel Doncaster^
Teresa Macedo Ferreira^
Cello
Nathanael Horton*
Vasco Ferrão Dias
James Conway
Nia Williams
William Lui
Eryna Kisumba
Kosta Popovic
Natalie Alfille-Cook
Wilbert Chan
Tallulah Halcox
Double Bass
Strahinja Mitrovic*
Cynthia Garduño Meneses
Izzy Nisbett
Aaron Aguayo Juarez
William Holland
Georgia Lloyd^
Flute
Jessie-May Wilson*
Rachel Howie (piccolo)
Justyna Szynkarczyk (piccolo & alto)
Hanna Wozniak (piccolo)
Oboe
Elly Barlow*
Elizabeth Loboda
Aliyah Nelson
Cor anglais
Daisy Lihoreau
Clarinet
Sofia Mekhonoshina*
Kathryn Titcomb
Margot Maurel
Bass Clarinet
Beñat Erro Díez
Bassoon
Miriam Alperovich*
Billy Harrold
CJ Brooke
Contrabassoon
Aidan Campbell
Horn
Sarah Pennington*
Dan Hibbert*
Freya Campbell
Alice Warburton
Jacob Eynon
Ima Kirkwood
Thomas Pinnell
Katie Parker
Owen McClay
Trumpet
Florence Wilson-Toy*
Parker Bruce
Sean Hartman
Freya McGrath
Trombone
Josh Brierley*
Helena Kieser
Bass Trombone
Jamie Cadden
Tuba
Sean Byrne
Timpani
Engin Eskici*
Reuben Hesser
Percussion
Bryony Che*
Cláudia Gonçalves
Ava Kinninmonth
Sum Yin Ng
Kia Lares
Ali Ayaz
Harp
Bethany Caswell*
Sabrina Savenkova
Piano
Adès:
Natalia Medina
Saariaho:
Valentina Wang
Celeste
Natalia Medina
Organ
Mark Ziying Zang
* Section principal
^ Guest Alumni player
Guildhall Symphony Orchestra
Holst & Matthews
Violin I
Ola Lenkiewicz*
Pedro Marques Rodrigues
Pak Ho Hong
Malgorzata Podlinska
Lewis Lee
Maria Jimenez
Teresa Wiczkowska
Francisca Davies-Attwood
Kayla Nicol
Gabriella Pedditzi
Maria Reinon Roig
Paula Guerra^
Gwyneth Nelmes^
Ivelina Ivanova^
Violin II
Yuno Akiyama*
Helena Thomas
Laia Francés Pont
Colby Chu
Elena Toledo
Jessica Hendry
Esme Lewis
Laura Hussey
Helen Rutledge
Zoe Hodi^
Camille Said^
Hayun Lee
Anastasia Egorova^
Viola
Sean Lee*
Emily Clark
Gavin Marnoch
Holly Woods
Rebekah Dickinson
Andrei Gheorghe
Connor Quigley
Min Shim
Jake Mongomery-Smith
Isobel Doncaster^
Teresa Macedo Ferreira^
Cello
Nathanael Horton*
Vasco Ferrão Dias
James Conway
Nia Williams
William Lui
Eryna Kisumba
Kosta Popovic
Natalie Alfille-Cook
Wilbert Chan
Tallulah Halcox
Double Bass
Strahinja Mitrovic*
Cynthia Garduño Meneses
Izzy Nisbett
Aaron Aguayo Juarez
William Holland
Georgia Lloyd^
Flute
Cyrus Lam*
Laura Jastrzebska
Lara Ali (piccolo)
Tamsin Reed (piccolo & alto)
Oboe
Theo Chapple*
Cameron Hutchinson
Elly Barlow (bass oboe)
Cor anglais
Lidia Moscoso
Clarinet
Kathryn Titcomb*
Lily Payne
Pip Tall
Bass Clarinet
Beñat Erro Díez
Bassoon
Maria O'Dea*
Cailin Haq
Miriam Alperovich
Contrabassoon
Aidan Campbell
Horn
Niamh Rodgers*
Alice Warburton
Henry Ward
Sarah Pennington
Katie Parker
Owen McClay
Thomas Pinnell
Trumpet
Sam Balchin*
Seb Carpenter
Jess Malone
Amelia Stuart
Trombone
Sam Cox*
James Bruce
Bass Trombone
Alex Froggatt
Euphonium
Ben Loska
Tuba
Ramon Branch
Timpani
Engin Eskici*
Bryony Che
Percussion
Cláudia Gonçalves*
Lauren Bye
Ava Kinninmonth
Kevin Ng
Harp
Emilia Agajew*
Bibi Afshar-Shirazi
Celeste
Valentina Wang
Organ
Mark Ziying Zang
Choir I
Soprano I
Lily McNeil
Abbey Thomas
Jennifer Zhao
Soprano II
Bori Gun
Julia Guix-Estrada
Alto
Tabitha Jane Smart
Ella Moran
Teresa Campos Sa Cachada
Choir II
Soprano I
Nora Ervik
Sophie Whelan
Sophia Gottfried
Soprano II
Lana Ben Halim
Molly Baker
Alto
Iona Woods
Izzy Dawson
Pamelina Oubinova
* Section principal
^ Guest Alumni player
Names and seating correct at time of publication.
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& Instrument Manager
Phil Sizer
Orchestra Librarian
Anthony Wilson
Music Stage, Logistics & Instrument Manager
Kevin Elwick
Music Stage Supervisors
Shakeel Mohammed
Louis Baily
Thanks
Special thanks to conductor Jack Sheen for helping to prepare the orchestra, chorus master Gary Matthewman and vocal coach Gavin Roberts for preparing the choir, and to each of the following sectional tutors provided by the London Symphony Orchestra:
David Juritz violin I & tutti violins
Simon Blendis violin II
Germán Clavijo viola
Amanda Truelove cello
Colin Paris double bass
Bryn Lewis harp
Elizabeth Burley piano, organ & celeste
Rachel Gledhill timpani & percussion
wind, brass, percussion, harp, piano & celeste:
Daniel Jemison
Dominic Hackett
Gerry Ruddock
Jonathan Hollick
Patricia Moynihan
Patrick King
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