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Concert Season Spring 2021 Lighthouse, Poole
Welcome to the Spring 2021
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra Season
from Lighthouse, Poole
I am deeply proud of all that has been achieved by and head office team, and are working closely with
the Orchestra in recent months, leading the way in government on how we can safely start to rollout
the return to live symphonic performances, and performances away from our home base. Once
bringing hope and joy to audiences across the world. again, all our concerts this spring will be available
We are delighted to present this second series of to watch from home via digital livestream and,
concerts, which have all been designed for our subject to any ongoing restrictions, by a socially
specially extended stage and socially distanced distanced audience in the hall too. Thank you
orchestra layout. From the most well-known pieces once again for your incredible support during this
in the repertoire to some interesting and lesser-known eventful year, your support means so much to us.
works, this blend of music will provide a perfect I look forward to going on many musical adventures
showcase for the wonderful musicians of the BSO with you and your great Orchestra in 2021.
and guest artists. We continue to work tirelessly to
ensure the safety of our musicians, guest artists Kirill Karabits Chief Conductor
Series Sponsor
bsolive.com
“Bournemouth has become the first British orchestra to launch Wednesday Wednesday Wednesday Wednesday
an autumn season of live music-making... a joyous statement 6 January 13 January 20 January 27 January
7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm
from a band that sounded thrilled to be back in business”
The Times, October 2020
Past Reflections Love Lost Heroic Glorious
and Found Beethoven Melody
Ravel R Strauss Fauré Wagner
Le tombeau de Couperin Träumerei am Kamin Pelléas et Mélisande Suite Die Meistersinger Suite
Couperin Mahler Beethoven Vaughan-Williams
Suite from L’Apothéose de Lully Songs of a Wayfarer Symphony No.3 ‘Eroica’ Symphony No.5
R Strauss Brahms
Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme Suite Symphony No.2 Karl-Heinz Steffens Mark Wigglesworth
Conductor Conductor
Kirill Karabits David Hill
Conductor Conductor
Jennifer Johnston
Mezzo-soprano
Perhaps one of Ravel’s most Dreaming by the Fireside is a An orchestral gem popular with Wagner’s musical drama
personal creations Le tombeau tender and poignant symphonic concert audiences, Fauré’s suite Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
de Couperin is a memorial to interlude from Strauss’ comic is a symphonic masterpiece holds a unique place in his
the fallen in the First World War. opera Intermezzo in which the chosen from incidental music to output. Among his stage works,
Bursting with colour and heroine sits alone by her fireplace, Maurice Maeterlink’s symbolist it is the only one missing
inventiveness, he reimagines the daydreaming of a lover. Mahler’s drama.Whereas Mozart delighted, supernatural elements and the
clarity and rhythmic liveliness of early song cycle depicts an Beethoven confounded and his only one not a tragedy. Inspired
its Baroque forebears. Couperin incredible sadness on his epic ‘Eroica’ proved to be the by the real 16th century Master
in turn depicts the elder breakup with Johanna Richter. watershed between the Classical Singer’s Guild of Nuremberg,
composer’s elevation to Mount With texts very much of the and Romantic periods. Although the story is a metaphor for
Parnassus whilst the elegant, German Romantic tradition – his earlier works had shown Wagner’s own musical struggle.
witty and tender music of Lully themes of unrequited love, flashes of what was to come, the For all its warmth, melodic
himself, enlivened by Strauss’ departure, nature as a comforter Third Symphony, by contrast, generosity and seeming
colourful orchestration and – musically, they are unmistakably opens with two staggering spaciousness, Vaughan Williams’
counter-melodies, is central to Mahler’s own. Unlike the First chords that announce to the Fifth Symphony is also an
his bold adaptation of Moliere’s Symphony, which took Brahms world the arrival of a new talent intricate, highly sophisticated
famous comedy. over 20 years to complete, work and a man never to be forgotten. work. The tonal ambiguity of
on the Second went smoothly. its opening is ultimately resolved
It was finished in just four months in radiant orchestral polyphony,
and is often described as the recalling the spirit of the
cheerful alter ego to its solemn Elizabethan choral masters.
predecessor.
Supported by Supported by Supported by Supported by
Heidi Bone & Jake Robbins The Michael & Ilse Katz Foundation John & Ruth Lang Allianz Musical Insurance
Wednesday Wednesday Wednesday Wednesday
3 February 10 February 17 February 24 February
7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm
Born in the USA More Voices Bruckner Hough plays
from the East with Kirill Brahms
Copland Borodin Mozart Schumann
Fanfare for the Common Man In the Steppes of Central Asia Horn Concerto No.4 Genoveva Overture
Mason Bates Nurymov Bruckner Brahms
Auditorium (UK premiere) Symphony No.2 Symphony No.0 ‘Nullte’ Piano Concerto No.1
Gershwin Rimsky-Korsakov
Catfish Row: Symphonic Suite ‘Antar’ Kirill Karabits Sir John Eliot Gardiner
Suite from Porgy and Bess (Symphony No.2) Conductor Conductor
Felix Klieser Stephen Hough
Kirill Karabits Kirill Karabits French Horn Piano
Conductor Conductor
Copland took the title of his Borodin’s score begins, “Out of Mozart’s Fourth Horn Concerto Schumann’s overture to his
Fanfare from US Vice-President the silence of Central Asia is a winsome gallop through the tragic opera Genoveva sets the
Henry Wallace who dubbed the come the sounds of a peaceful Austrian countryside. It’s most mood and foreshadows the
20th century “the century of the Russian song. There are heard, famous for its rollicking third story’s path from the brooding
common man.” Comprising the too, the melancholy strains of movement, a popular party intensity of C minor to the
simplest imaginable materials, Eastern melodies and the piece for French horn players, ecstatic joy of C major,
Copland’s sense of timing in stamping of approaching horses but such vivid and varied ground duplicating his hero Beethoven’s
their deployment is masterful. and camels.” Evoking the spirit is covered here that you’ll feel progression in the famed Fifth
Auditorium begins with the of his homeland, Turkmen like you’ve been on a bracing Symphony. The monumental
premise that an orchestra, like composer Chary Nurymov’s highly hike. The designation Nullt, or First Piano Concerto occupied
a person, can be possessed. charged mini symphony could No.0, for Bruckner's early D minor Brahms for at least five years.
Ghostly processed recordings almost be a film score to some Symphony has perhaps brought After beginning a two-piano
of a baroque ensemble haunt it. epic battle. Rimsky-Korsakov’s it a certain ridicule; the odd sonata in 1854, he soon realised
Realising that Porgy and Bess was masterful abilities for orchestral name comes from an inscription that the musical material
too long, Gershwin cut down the colour and tunefulness were by the composer on the title page. required orchestral treatment
score for its New York production already evident in his early three It is an extremely attractive and recast the opening as the
and extracted a suite later symphonies, and especially symphony – lighter and more first movement. Later adding
entitled Catfish Row. It contains magical in the Second. Exotic accessible than the more the jaunty finale, followed by
beloved passages such as folk tales, such as the legend of frequently heard First and Second. the radiant slow movement,
“Summertime” and “Bess, You Is the Arab Antar, never ceased to adjustments were made up
My Woman” as well as less fascinate him throughout his life. to and even beyond the first
familiar music. performances in 1859.
Supported by Supported by Principal Academic Partner Supported by Supported by
the Stacey family University of Exeter Dave & Jan Pointer Sir Neville & Lady Simms
Wednesday Wednesday Wednesday Wednesday “Welcome back, BSO;
3 March 10 March 17 March 24 March let’s hope this is just the beginning”
7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm
The Telegraph, October 2020
Defiant BSO Artist-in- Sunwook plays Easter Passion
Shostakovich Residence Recital Beethoven
Schubert Schumann Beethoven Penderecki
Symphony No.3 Kreisleriana Piano Concerto No.4 Prelude for Peace
Liadov Clara Schumann Schumann Haydn
The Enchanted Lake Three Romances Symphony No.4 (original version) The Seven Last Words
Shostakovich Franck of Christ on the Cross
Symphony No.9 Sonata in A Major Kirill Karabits (orchestral version)
Conductor
Marta Gardolińska Benjamin Grosvenor Sunwook Kim Kirill Karabits
Conductor Piano Piano Conductor
Hyeyoon Park
Violin
Schubert’s concise Third It was during a time of tormented In this most lyrical, poetic and Penderecki described his
Symphony, written in 1815 during courtship that Schumann’s fantastical of his concertos, four-minute, brass Prelude as
an explosion of creativity which compositions had become Beethoven’s Fourth Piano a distillation of his childhood
saw over 200 compositions more experimental and complex. Concerto, one of his most daring memories from the period of
written, foreshadows ideas that His Kreisleriana was a product keyboard works – ardent yet German occupation and
would expand the scale of the of this fertile, fraught period. melancholy, heroic yet ethereal, communist regime that came
symphony. Liadov’s fantastical The music swings violently and anguished yet whimsical. There to dominate Poland after the
tone poem is one of the most suddenly between agitation and is a bucolic freeness to its war, leading to a sense of final
atmospheric depictions of a lyrical calm, dread and elation. opening, but it only takes a few liberation. Haydn "translated"
lake, inhabited by fairies and Romances were one of Clara minutes for it to explode into the seven last short sentences
wood sprites, in the moonlight. Schumann’s favourite restless action. Schumann’s uttered by Christ from the
Shostakovich’s Ninth Symphony compositional forms, which is Fourth Symphony is a sinuous Cross (according to the gospels
was written in a fateful year – perhaps why this particular and structurally taught work. of Matthew, Luke and John)
1945 – and subverted the work is so effective – the three Its four thematically connected into a sequence of seven slow,
expectations of the Russian contrasting movements bursting movements are played without prayerful, meditative sonatas,
musical world. Devoid of pompous with character. Franck’s lone pause, enhancing the poetic framed by an intense introduction
grandeur; it is a transparent, Sonata in A Major remains his flow of the solemn grandeur of and a short, explosive coda.
classically-oriented work belying best-known chamber work. the music before reaching its It was commissioned in 1783
a complex emotional landscape From its expansive opening to volatile and explosive ending – for the Good Friday service at
riddled with Shostakovich’s the famous finale, the music and its threat of insurrection, the Oratorio de la Santa Cueva,
irreverent sense of humour. flows with melodic fluency and violence, terror and madness. Cádiz.
effortless poise.
Supported by Supported by
Terence & Annette O’Rourke Richard Lewis
bsolive.com
Additional Concerts
Saturday 20 February Saturday 13 March BSO Spring Season 2021
7.30pm 7.30pm Live from Lighthouse, Poole
Symphonic Hollywood
ABBA Classics
Pete Harrison Conductor Pete Harrison Conductor
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Annie Skates, Emma Kershaw,
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