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Concert Season brightonphil.org.uk
2021/22
violinist Thomas Gould
26 September 2021
Young Apollo: Britten, Mozart and Piazzolla
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7 November
Playing with Fire: Handel, Bach, Rebel and Vivaldi
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14 November
Coffee Concert: Folk-Inspired
Frank Martin, Shostakovich and Dvorák
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5 December
A Celtic Christmas: Kathryn Tickell and Friends
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Welcome Events 18 December
Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol
back! Conductor Laureate Barry Wordsworth
Diary Page 8
joins us for a sublime programme of 31 December
Ravel, Fauré and Mendelssohn, with New Year’s Eve: Viennese Classics
It’s an enormous pleasure to the young Chinese pianist Junyan Chen. Page 10
welcome you back for our 2021/22
season, to a glorious range of BPO’s imaginative chamber concerts 13 February 2022
performances. The Brighton continue too, from Gershwin and Amy The European Connection: Ravel, Fauré
Philharmonic has been performing in Beach to Schumann, Shostakovich and Mendelssohn
Brighton Dome for nearly a century, and Dvorák. And look out for Christmas Page 12
and their concerts are for everyone: treats: Charles Dickens’s A Christmas
for classical concert-goers and Carol with stirring brass, and Viennese Tickets from 20 February
students, young people and families. classics to ring in the New Year, Coffee Concert: New Worlds
with the outstanding young soprano brightonphil.org.uk Gershwin, Amy Beach and Schumann
We open the season with Mozart’s Rebecca Bottone. brightondome.org Page 19
most popular piano concertos,
and close with Brahms and Elgar. As BPO’s new Music Director, Brighton Dome 6 March
In between there are sizzling Piazzolla I welcome you to a wonderful season Ticket Office Silent Classics: Buster Keaton and Oliver Twist
tangos, the award-winning folk of music and creativity! 01273 709 709 Page 14
musician Kathryn Tickell, film and live Church Street
music with Neil Brand, and a fiery Joanna MacGregor CBE Brighton BN1 1UE 27 March
Baroque programme with the great Music Director Season Finale: Brahms, Elgar and Mozart
Canadian soprano Gillian Keith. Page 16
Ticket Prices; about the BPO
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Sunday 26 September 2021 3
2.45pm
Brighton Dome
In a vivacious opening to our 2021 Three sizzling Piazzolla tangos,
Young season, Brighton Philharmonic
Orchestra’s Music Director Joanna
showing off the BPO strings, preface
Mozart’s perhaps most famous
Apollo MacGregor directs two of Mozart’s
most cherished piano concertos
from the keyboard, mixed with the
concerto – K467 – with one of his
dreamiest slow movements, famously
referenced in the 1960s film Elvira
excitement of Britten and Piazzolla. Madigan. The wit and crackle of
Mozart’s woodwind writing, alongside
Mozart wrote his sophisticated Piazzolla’s award-winning Libertango,
Jeunehomme concerto in Salzburg makes this concert a true celebration
in 1777, when he was just twenty-one: as we return to Brighton Dome.
Alfred Brendel calls it ‘one of the
greatest wonders of the world.’
Britten It’s paired with another youthful
Young Apollo Op.16 piece, Benjamin Britten’s exuberant
Young Apollo, for piano, string quartet
Mozart
and string orchestra – a work that
Concerto in E flat major K 271
announced Britten as both virtuoso
Jeunehomme
performer and composer.
Piazzolla arr. MacGregor
Three Tangos: Michelangelo 70,
Milonga del Angel, and Libertango
Mozart
Concerto in C major K 467
Elvira Madigan
Joanna MacGregor
conductor/piano
Thomas Gould
leader
Tickets: £39.50 / 33 / 27 / 19 / 12.50
Sunday 7 November 2021 5
2.45pm
Brighton Dome
Gillian Keith’s profoundly incisive
Great and intelligent singing radiates
sensitivity… she traverses the filigree
Baroque: with seasoned panache, and
gloriously instinctive nuancing.
Playing Gramophone
with Fire
Rebel Robert Howarth
Les Eléméns conductor/harpsichord
Bach Gillian Keith
Brandenburg Concerto no.2 in soprano
F major for trumpet, flute, oboe and
Ruth Rogers
violin BWV 1047
leader
Purcell
‘Dido’s Lament’ from
Dido and Aeneas This feast of Baroque music Robert Howarth and the BPO are
celebrating the elements – earth, fire, joined by the superb Canadian
Handel
air and water – is directed from the soprano Gillian Keith, whose
‘Piangèro’ and ‘Da Tempeste’ from
harpsichord by Robert Howarth, who performances at the Royal Opera
Giulio Cesare HWV 17
conducts regularly at Opernhaus House, BBC Proms, Boston Early Music
Vivaldi Zürich, Opera North and The Festival and Netherlands Opera draw
Winter from The Seasons RV 297 Academy of Ancient Music. the highest accolades. Her ‘elemental’
arias include Purcell’s Dido’s Lament,
Vivaldi
Exhilarating concertos – Bach’s Handel’s Da Tempeste, and the
Concerto La Tempesta di Mare
Brandenburg Concerto no.2, featuring irrepressibly joyful Let the Bright
in F major for flute, oboe, bassoon and
the piccolo trumpet, and Vivaldi’s Seraphim. Ruth Rogers leads a virtuoso
strings RV 570
Winter for violin – balance Handel’s ensemble of players in this exciting
Handel colourful Music for the Royal Fireworks programme.
‘Let the Bright Seraphim’ from and François Rebel’s shocking Les
Samson HWV 57 Eléméns, whose movements – Le
Cahos, L’Eau, L’Air, La Terre, La Feu Tickets: £39.50 / 33 / 27 / 19 / 12.50
Handel
– signify some of the most shocking
Music for the Royal Fireworks
Baroque music ever written.
HWV 351
Sunday 5 December 2021 7
2.45pm
Brighton Dome
To say that Kathryn plays pipes is like
A Celtic saying Shakespeare was a bit of a
writer… one of the true stars of folk music.
Christmas: Living Tradition
Kathryn Tickell
and Friends A fabulous first collaboration
between Brighton Philharmonic
Orchestra and the great Kathryn
Kathryn Tickell Tickell. Kathryn is the foremost
Northumbrian pipes/violin exponent of Northumbrian pipes,
a composer, a brilliant performer
Amy Thatcher
and raconteur, whose work is deeply
accordion
rooted in the landscapes and
Joanna MacGregor bountiful heritage of folk music.
conductor/piano
Kathryn Tickell was awarded Musician
Thomas Gould
of the Year in the BBC2 Folk Awards,
leader
received the Queen’s Medal for
Music, and was the Artistic Director
for the Festival of the North East, a
Tickets: £39.50 / 33 / 27 / 19 / 12.50
celebration of the arts across her
beloved Northumbria. Her long-time
collaboration with Sting includes
developing the music theatre-show
The Last Ship in New York.
With special guests including the
clog-dancer and accordionist Amy
Thatcher, Kathryn Tickell and Joanna
MacGregor are old musical partners.
Together they curate an afternoon of
new and traditional music, as well as
folk-inspired orchestral works by James
MacMillan and Vaughan Williams.
Saturday 18 December 2021 9
3pm and 7pm
St. Luke’s Church, Queen’s Park
Charles
Dickens’
A Christmas
Carol Christmas arrives early with two
festive performances of Charles
Dickens’ classic A Christmas Carol,
Michael Maloney narrated by Michael Maloney (Truly,
narrator Madly, Deeply, RSC, The White
Queen) and accompanied by the
Joanna MacGregor
BPO Brass Quintet.
conductor/piano
BPO Brass Quintet Abridged by Richard Williams, the
much-loved story of Ebenezer Scrooge,
John Ellwood
Tiny Tim and the spirits of Christmas
Julie Ryan
Past, Present and Future is for
trumpets
absolutely everyone. Sparkling brass
John James arrangements of Ding Dong Merrily on
horn High, God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen,
I Saw Three Ships Come Sailing In,
Lindsay Shilling
Coventry Carol, O Come O Come
trombone
Emmanuel, Es ist ein Ros entsprungen –
John Elliott and many more – support this seasonal
tuba tale of redemption and good cheer.
Each performance lasts 70 minutes.
Abridged and directed by
Richard Williams
After 168 years, A Christmas Carol
continues to be relevant: Dickens
created a fable that cut through
Tickets £20 / 16
materialism, and rekindled the delight
and family tickets available
and generosity of Yuletide – along
with plum pudding, goose, roasted
chestnuts and Christmas punch,
called ‘Smoking Bishop’. So now we’ve
created our own Christmas tradition –
come and join us!
Friday 31 December 2021 11
2.45pm
Brighton Dome
New Year’s
Eve: Viennese
Classics
Stephen Bell
conductor
Rebecca Bottone
soprano
Out with the old and in with the new: Highlights include Johann Strauss’
what better way to celebrate, than The Blue Danube and Voices of
with the BPO’s Viennese concert on Spring, alongside Johann Senior’s
New Year’s Eve? Radetzky March; younger brother
Josef is represented with his delightful
Conductor Stephen Bell returns for an Sphärenklange waltz. An extract from
afternoon of musical fizz and fun, in a Lehár’s comic opera Giuditta, together
concert of favourites from the Strauss with waltzes and polkas from the heady
family and the wonderful world of days of 19th century café society,
Viennese operetta. He’s joined by the provides the perfect opportunity to sip
‘vocally dazzling’ (Bachtrack) young a glass of champagne and welcome in
soprano Rebecca Bottone, whose the New Year – with panache!
recent appearances include Aix-en
Provence Festival, Royal Opera House
and Stephen Sondheim’s A Little Night Tickets: £39.50 / 33 / 27 / 19 / 12.50
Music at Paris Châtelet.Sunday 13 February 2022 13
2.45pm
Brighton Dome
The
European This gorgeous programme,
Connection conducted by BPO’s Conductor
Laureate Barry Wordsworth, travels
from the Inner Hebrides to the
Spanish Court, jazzy Paris and on to
Italy: music of warmth and lyricism,
with a dash of fairy tale magic.
Mendelssohn It’s topped and tailed by two favourite
The Hebrides Op.26 Fingal’s Cave works. Mendelssohn’s overture was
inspired by his 1829 visit to Staffa Island,
Fauré
capturing the lapping of the Atlantic
Pavane Op.50
and echoes of the mysterious cave,
Ravel named after the Gaelic warrior Finn.
Piano Concerto in G major He continued working in Italy,
starting his Italian symphony. The
Ravel
slow movement reflected a religious
Mother Goose Suite
procession in Naples; the saltarello
Mendelssohn and the tarantella animated his fiery
Symphony no.4 in A major Op.90 Italian outer movements.
Fauré’s immensely popular Pavane
Barry Wordsworth entered the repertoire of Diaghilev’s
conductor Ballets Russes, evoking princesses
of the Spanish Golden Age; and the
Junyan Chen
Pavane of the Sleeping Princess opens
piano
Ravel’s delicate Mother Goose Suite,
Robert Gibbs which began life as a set of piano
leader duets. Tom Thumb, Beauty and the
Beast and an Enchanted Garden
make up this most wondrous of scores.
Tickets: £39.50 / 33 / 27 / 19 / 12.50 Elegant Paris jazz – as well as a
profoundly beautiful slow movement
– informs Ravel’s scintillating piano
concerto, performed by the 21 year-old
virtuoso from Shanghai, Junyan Chen.Sunday 6 March 2022 15
2.45pm
Brighton Dome
Silent Brighton Philharmonic joins forces
with Neil Brand – improvising pianist,
Classics film historian and composer – in this
exciting performance of silent film
and live music.
with A series of TV documentaries on the
Neil Brand history of film music, along with his
own plays, have established him as
the most expert of film aficionados,
whether extolling the brilliance of his
beloved Laurel and Hardy, or the
One Week (1920) expressionism of Fritz Lang. For the
starring Buster Keaton last thirty years Neil has played at the
Barbican and the BFI National Theatre,
Oliver Twist (1922)
and at festivals throughout the world,
starring Jackie Coogan
including Australia and New Zealand,
and Lon Chaney
Scandinavia, and in Italy, where he
has inaugurated the School of Music
and Image. Neil Brand’s profound
Neil Brand
knowledge of this most radical era
presenter
of movie-making has enthralled
Joanna MacGregor audiences, and here he introduces
conductor/piano Buster Keaton’s hilarious One Week
– whose final train images, as Buster
Matthew Fairclough
is trying to transport his home, are
sound projection
unforgettable – and his own 70-minute
score to Oliver Twist, made in 1922.
Tickets: £39.50 / 33 / 27 / 19 / 12.50
Jackie Coogan was Hollywood’s
first child actor. He starred in Charlie
Chaplin’s The Kid, then made Oliver
Twist the following year, when he
was eight. He had a long career;
he devoted himself to charity work and
to ‘Coogan’s Law’, protecting child
actors. He remained friends with the
great actor Lon Chaney, who – apart
from playing Fagin – is known as The
Phantom of the Opera.Sunday 27 March 2022 17
2.45pm
Brighton Dome
Season
Finale:
Brahms, Elgar
and Mozart
Elgar BPO’s 2021/22 season closes with
Introduction and Allegro Op.47 a powerful programme conducted
by the eminent conductor Sian
Mozart
Edwards, known for her work at
Symphony no.41 K 551 Jupiter
Glyndebourne and English National
Brahms Opera, as well as with Los Angeles
Piano Concerto no.1 in D minor Op.15 Philharmonic, Orchestra de Paris
and St. Petersburg Philharmonic.
Sian Edwards The Elgars had been on holiday in
conductor Cardiganshire, West Wales in 1901,
where Edward heard ‘distance singing
Joanna MacGregor
of folk songs’; he jotted down a theme
piano
which reappeared in his exhilarating Our final work is Brahms’ magisterial
Thomas Gould work Introduction and Allegro, a first piano concerto, reflecting a
leader virtuoso and highly idiomatic piece turbulent youth: his devotion to Clara
of writing for string quartet and string Schumann, a broken engagement to
orchestra. The strings continue their Agathe von Siebold, and his struggle
Tickets: £39.50 / 33 / 27 / 19 / 12.50 work-out – joined by wind, brass for greatness. Initially an orchestral
and timpani – in Mozart’s audacious, work, then a two-piano piece, the
energetic Jupiter, with its breathtaking D minor concerto became the biggest
five-part counterpoint in the last concerto yet written. Symphonic, tragic,
movement. It’s a fitting farewell to romantic and ultimately triumphant,
Mozart the symphonist, at the peak it’s a satisfying climax to our own
of his prowess. dramatic year.Attenborough Centre 19
for Creative Arts
Sussex University
Coffee
Concerts
Sunday 14 November 2021 Sunday 20 February 2022
11am 11am
Folk-Inspired New Worlds
Frank Martin Gershwin Ruth Rogers
Trio on Popular Irish Folk Tunes Lullaby for String Quartet; Summertime violin
Shostakovich Amy Beach Kathy Shave (14 November) and
Piano Trio no.2 in E minor Op.67 Piano Quintet in F sharp minor Op.67 Nicky Sweeney (20 February)
violins
Dvorák Schumann
Piano Quintet no.2 in A major Op.81 Piano Quintet in E flat major Op.44 Jon Thorne
viola
Peter Adams
Presented by Brighton Dome in George Gershwin’s Summertime is
cello
association with Strings Attached partnered by his lovely, bluesy Lullaby
the Brighton Philharmonic is proud to for string quartet, written when he Joanna MacGregor
take part in this acclaimed monthly was nineteen. We follow it with fellow piano
series. Music Director Joanna American composer Amy Beach:
MacGregor, violinist Ruth Rogers and her mighty 1907 Piano Quintet, music Tickets for both Coffee Concerts
Brighton Philharmonic’s star players of unabashed élan and Brahmsian on sale September 2021
come together in two richly-curated beauty. Beach’s orchestral romanticism
chamber programmes. is a legacy of Schumann’s life-affirming
Piano Quintet. At a time when chamber
Frank Martin’s Trio on Popular Irish music was leaving the salon for the
Tunes deftly weaves traditional public sphere, Schumann reinvented
melodies, creating an Irish medley the form as quasi-symphonic, resulting
with character and affection. in this impassioned, evergreen
Shostakovich’s 1944 piano trio – masterwork.
brilliant, and dark – is permeated with
klezmer. The second half twinkles to For details of the whole series at ACCA
Dvorák’s magnificent Piano Quintet in from October, including the Adelphi
A major, whose folk-tinged melodies and Maxwell Quartets, please go to
and lyrical warmth should be imbibed www.brightondome.org
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(6 concerts excluding NYE, 25% discount) access to rehearsals
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