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Thursday 4 October 2012

Fairfield Halls7.30 pm

Gérard Korsten ConductorNikolai Demidenko Piano

ROXANNA PANUFNIKGreat Dickens! (world première) 4'

CHOPINPiano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, B53/Op.11 40'

INTERVAL

MOZARTSerenade No. 7 in D major, K 250 (248b), Haffner 58'

Founded by Harry Blech in 1949 as the UK’s first chamber orchestra, the London Mozart Players (LMP) is regarded as one of the UK’s finest ensembles. Under the leadership of Music Director Gérard Korsten, the orchestra is internationally renowned for its outstanding live performances and CD recordings, and is particularly known for its definitive performances of the core Classical repertoire. The LMP also plays an active part in contemporary music, giving many world premières and commissioning new works, especially by British composers. In recent years, the LMP has premièred new works by composers including Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Tarik O’Regan, Sally Beamish, Cecilia McDowall, Lynne Plowman, and Fraser Trainer. In March 2011 the LMP appointed Roxanna Panufnik as Associate Composer.

Since 1989, the LMP’s home has been Fairfield Halls, Croydon, thanks to generous funding from the London Borough of Croydon. This residency includes a series of subscription concerts at the hall and numerous education and community activities throughout the borough. Touring is a major part of the orchestra’s schedule, with regular appearances at festivals and concert series throughout the UK and abroad. It has strong relationships with other major UK venues, including Turner Sims Concert Hall, Southampton, and is the Orchestra in Residence for Grayshott Concerts. Overseas, the LMP has visited Spain, Belgium, France and Germany.

The 2012/13 season marks the third year of conductor Gérard Korsten’s term as the LMP’s fifth Music Director, continuing the strong Classical tradition developed by Andrew Parrott, Matthias Bamert and Jane Glover. The season sees the orchestra continuing to work with established artists including Howard Shelley and Anthony Marwood, whilst building new relationships with bright new stars including Nicola Benedetti and Leonard Elschenbroich. Acclaimed young violinist Chloë Hanslip performs with the LMP in the celebrations of Fairfield Halls’ fiftieth anniversary, and we welcome back exciting young conductor Nicholas Collon in April 2013. The LMP’s association with Korsten also continues the introduction of some of the best European soloists to our Fairfield season.

The LMP has developed an extensive and highly regarded education, community and audience development programme, LMP Interactive, and is particularly committed to developing new audiences in outer London boroughs as well as rural areas across the nation. Its association with the South Holland district in Lincolnshire brings the orchestra into the heart of the Fenland communities. Working with educational institutions also brings inspiring and valued relationships, providing a professional grounding for young musicians. The LMP is associated with Royal Holloway University of London, Wellington College, Wimbledon College, Portsmouth Grammar School and the Whitgift Foundation Schools in Croydon. Recent projects include ‘Side-by-side in Shepshed’ that saw composer and animateur Fraser Trainer work with seven schools in Leicestershire to build a new youth orchestra for the area, which performed alongside the LMP in a family concert. In Croydon, a Start project funded by the Prince's Foundation for Children & the arts, includes children from primary and special needs schools working together to perform at the LMP’s annual Schools’ Concert in Fairfield Halls. Other ongoing ventures include visiting care homes and concert demonstrations in primary and secondary schools.

The LMP receives project funding from Arts Council England, Orchestras Live and South Holland District Council. In addition, the LMP receives grants from trusts, foundations and many individuals, particularly the Friends of the LMP in Croydon.

Recording has played a major part in the orchestra’s life for many years. Its acclaimed Contemporaries of Mozart series with Matthias Bamert for Chandos numbers over 20 CDs to date, with the latest release of Boccherini proving a success with the critics. A recording with Canadian pianist Alain Lefèvre of works by Mendelssohn, Shostakovich and Mathieu for Analekta was awarded a Canadian Juno Award. The LMP has an online CD shop, www.shop.lmp.org, which has a large range of LMP's recordings on sale.

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Born in South Africa, Gérard Korsten began his career as a violinist after studying with Ivan Galamian at the Curtis Institute and with Sándor Végh in Salzburg. Following his studies in the US and Europe, he became Concertmaster and Assistant Music Director of the Camerata Salzburg and later Concertmaster of the Chamber Orchestra of Europe from 1987-1996 after which he left the COE to concentrate on conducting. Gérard Korsten is currently Music Director of the London Mozart Players and Principal Conductor of the Symphonieorchester Vorarlberg Bregenz.

Korsten held positions as Principal Conductor of the State Theatre in Pretoria and the Uppsala Chamber Orchestra before he was appointed Music Director of the Orchestra del Teatro Lirico di Cagliari from 1999-2005. In Cagliari he conducted the first Italian performances of Richard Strauss’s Die ägyptische Helena, Weber’s Euryanthe, Delius’s A Village Romeo and Juliet and Schubert’s Alfonso und Estrella, as well as the productions of the core operatic repertoire including Die Zauberflöte, Don Giovanni, Lucia di Lammermoor, Carmen, Die Fledermaus, Tosca, Aïda, The Barber of Seville and Don Pasquale.

Since then Gérard Korsten has appeared in most notable opera houses and concert halls around Europe including Teatro La Scala Milan (Le nozze di Figaro), Maggio Musicale Florence (Così fan tutte), Teatro Reggio di Parma (La sonnambula), Teatro Lirico Verdi Trieste (Don Pasquale and La fille du régiment), Opéra de Lyon (Ariadne auf Naxos, Henze’s L’Upupa und der Triumph der Sohnesliebe, Siegfried and La traviata), Royal Swedish Opera (Don Giovanni), Netherlands Opera (Così fan tutte), English National Opera (Aïda) and Glyndebourne Festival Opera (Albert Herring).

His past orchestral engagements have included concerts with the Budapest Festival Orchestra, Salzburg Mozarteum, Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai Turin, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie, Swedish Radio Symphony, Yomiuri Nippon and Melbourne Symphony orchestras. His recordings include Tchaikovsky’s Serenade and Souvenir de Florence with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe on Deutsche Grammophon, Die ägyptische Helena, Euryanthe and Alfonso und Estrella with Orchestra del Teatro Lirico di Cagliari on CD and DVD with Dynamic, as well as a DVD recording of Don Pasquale released on TDK. His 2011 DVD of Le Nozze di Figaro (La Scala 2006) has been awarded a Diapason D’Or and was the Critic's Choice in the Opera News in February 2012.

Last season Gérard Korsten toured with the Irish Chamber Orchestra in the US and with the London Mozart Players in Spain. He returned to Opéra National de Lyon, conducting performances of Offenbach’s La Vie Parisienne and he conducted concerts with the Budapest Festival Orchestra, Megaron Camerata and Camerata Salzburg in both Vienna and Salzburg.

In the 2012/13 Gérard Korsten makes his debuts with the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie in three concerts in Saabruecken, Kaiserlautern and Mainz and with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra in Australia. He conducts a new production of Don Giovanni at Dijon Opera with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe and returns to the BBC Scottish Symphony, Latvia National Symphony, the Hong Kong Philharmonic, and SWR Sinfonieorchester Freiburg, among others.

GÉRARD KORSTEN Conductor

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Nikolai Demidenko’s passionate pianism sees him in worldwide demand. Frequent London recitals have included the Great Performers series at the Barbican, the International Piano Series at the Southbank Centre, and recently in the London Pianoforte Series at Wigmore Hall – a Schubert recital performed to a great acclaim in the national press.

Demidenko is renowned for his authoritative performances of the Russian concerto repertoire, such as Prokofiev, Rachmaninov and Tchaikovsky, and he has worked with many conductors and orchestras throughout the world. He has a flourishing relationship with the St Petersburg Philharmonic and Yuri Temirkanov, with whom he performs regularly. He also enjoys a fruitful collaboration with several Russian artists who have made their homes in London; a cello and piano duo with Leonid Gorokhov; piano quartets with the exciting new Hermitage String Trio; and a two-piano partnership with Dmitri Alexeev, who, as well as Demidenko, studied at the Moscow Conservatoire withDmitri Bashkirov.

Demidenko performs a wide range of repertoire, specialising in Chopin, Bach, Clementi, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Mussorgsky and Scarlatti. Festival appearances include venues in Aldeburgh, Beijing, Dubrovnik, Eilat, Glasgow, New York, Oslo, Singapore and Warsaw.

Concerto engagements in recent and upcoming seasons include appearances with the Adelaide Symphony, Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona i Nacional de Catalunya, NCPA Orchestra Beijing, Melbourne Symphony, Orchestre National de France, Philharmonia Orchestra, Queensland Symphony,

Singapore Symphony, Orquesta Nacional de España, St Petersburg Philharmonic, Sinfonieorchester St Gallen, Poznan Philharmonic, Yomiuri Nippon Symphony, and the Ulster and Hallé orchestras.

For Hyperion Records Nikolai Demidenko has recorded albums of Bach–Busoni, Chopin, Clementi, Liszt, Medtner, Mussorgsky, Prokofiev, Rachmaninov, Schubert and Schumann, concertos by Chopin, Medtner (which won a Gramophone Award), Scriabin, Tchaikovsky and Weber, as well as the complete Prokofiev Concertos with the London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Alexander Lazarev. For the Munich-based AGPL label he has recorded Beethoven’s Hammerklavier Sonata, a collection of Scarlatti sonatas and a Chopin CD which won the Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik. Autumn 2008 saw the release of a new Chopin CD, including his first recording of the Twenty-four Preludes for Onyx Classics. This CD won the MIDEM 2010 Special Chopin Award for a new recording.

NIKOLAI DEMIDENKO Piano

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Great Dickens! (world première)

When the London Mozart Players asked for an upbeat overture to open their 2012/13 season, their request coincided with the celebration of Charles Dickens’s bicentenary. Listening to David Owen Norris’s fascinating BBC Radio 4 Dickens’s podcast, I was immediately attracted to a famous 19th century street ballad performed on the show, The Cat’s-Meat Man, that Dickens was often heard to sing at his soirées. This wonderfully evocative tune (The White Cockade which was also used for many other Victorian ballads) combined with the highly theatrical and emotional mood-swings described in Simon Callow’s excellent Dickens biography Charles Dickens and the great Theatre of the World, has inspired Great Dickens! and I owe both Simon and David (not to mention, Charles Dickens) much gratitude for their help and inspiration, during the composition process.

This piece lasts approximately 4 minutes and is dedicated to the London Mozart Players.

© Roxanna Panufnik

Roxanna Panufnik studied composition at the Royal Academy of Music and, since then, has written a wide range of pieces – opera, ballet, music theatre, choral works, chamber compositions, and music for film and television – which have been performed all over the world.

Highlights of her works include the Westminster Mass, commissioned for Westminster Cathedral Choir on the occasion of Cardinal Hume's 75th birthday, The Music Programme, an opera for Polish National Opera's millennium season which received its UK premiere at the BOC Covent Garden Festival, and settings for solo voices and orchestra of

Vikram Seth's Beastly Tales – the first of which was commissioned by the BBC for Patricia Rozario and City of London Sinfonia. All three Tales are available on disc.

Roxanna has a particular interest in world music – a recent culmination of this was “Abraham”, a violin concerto commissioned by Savannah Music Festival for Daniel Hope, incorporating Christian, Islamic and Jewish music. This was then converted into an overture, commissioned by the World Orchestra for Peace, and premiered in Jerusalem under the baton of Valery Gergiev.

Recent premières were her oratorio Dance of Life (in Latin and Estonian), incorporating her fourth mass setting, for multiple Tallinn choirs and the Tallinn Philharmonic Orchestra (commissioned to mark their tenure of European Capital of Culture 2011) and Four World Seasons for violinist Tasmin Little and the London Mozart Players, which was broadcast live on BBC Radio 3, launching the Music Nation Weekend, celebrating the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad.

2012/13 sees numerous premieres in both Europe and the USA with the choirs of Westminster and Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedrals, Philadelphia’s St Mark’s Episcopal Church, the Welsh Sinfonia and the London Mozart Players (with whom she has been appointed inaugural Associate Composer).

Roxanna's compositions are published by Peters Edition Ltd and have been recorded on many labels including Warner Classics and EMI Classics.

Further information on www.roxannapanufnik.com.

ROXANNA PANUFNIK (b. 1968)

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FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN(1810-1849)

Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, Op. 11

I Allego maestoso II Romance: Larghetto III Rondo: Vivace

Frédéric Chopin was born to a French émigré father (a schoolteacher working in Poland) and a cultured Polish mother. He grew up in Warsaw, taking childhood music lessons (in Bach and the Viennese Classics) from Wojciech Zywny and Jósef Elsner before entering the Conservatory (1826-9). He made up his own music almost at once, quickly recognizing the intimate relationship between improvising and composing. Public and critical acclaim increased during the years 1829-30 when he gave concerts in Vienna and Warsaw, but his despair over the political repression in Poland, coupled with his musical ambitions, led him to move to Paris in 1831; he quietly took the city by storm. Three months after Chopin arrived, Robert Schumann wrote a review of the young composer's newly published variations on Là ci darem la mano from Mozart's Don Giovanni that included the now-famous line, “Hats off, gentlemen – a genius!” Chopin had not yet played a single note for the Parisian public.

Chopin performed the E minor concerto in Warsaw in October 1830 during one of his ‘farewell’ concerts before leaving Poland. It was the first of his two piano concertos to be published, and was therefore given the designation as Piano Concerto No. 1 at the time of publication, although it was actually written immediately after what was later published as Piano Concerto No. 2.

In this concerto, it is apparent that Chopin had little interest in the traditional balance between soloist and orchestra. The very simplicity of the orchestra’s accompaniment is instrumental in achieving an intimate quality that is seldom heard in such works,

giving the soloist rhythmic liberty and the freedom to explore the full expressive range of the piano. Chopin gives the seemingly traditional, sonata-form, first movement Romantic treatment through free use of the form and his sensitive melodies. The concerto opens with an extended orchestral tutti in which Chopin presents all of the first movement's main themes. The piano enters with the forceful opening theme and an ornamented version of its more passionate answer. The second theme, a flowing cantabile melody followed by an orchestral tutti ends the lengthy exposition. The development begins with a major-key treatment of the second theme and continues with piano passage-work. After a full recapitulation, the movement ends with a final orchestral statement of the opening themes.

A ‘programme’ for the other-worldly Romance: Larghetto was given by Chopin himself, in a letter to his friend Titus Woyciechowski as having “...a romantic, calm, and partly melancholy nature. It is intended to convey the impression one receives when the eye rests on a beloved landscape that recall beloved memories – for example, a fine moonlit spring night.” Throughout the movement, the piano weaves a rhythmically free melody above a sparse accompaniment. Towards the end of the movement, there is a plaintive interruption by the soloist, and a quick return to the quiet character of the opening.

The final movement is a cheerful rondo whose theme evokes some native dance, a suitably extrovert contrast to the poetic intensity of the preceding movements, and to the extreme delicacy of the closing pages of the slow movement in particular. Despite its exuberance, it is filled with delicacy, ideally preserving the unity and balance of the work. © Elizabeth Boulton

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WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART(1756-1791)

Serenade no 7 in D major, K 250 (248b) Haffner

I Allegro maestoso – Allegro moltoII AndanteIII Menuetto, TrioIV Rondo: Allegro V Menuetto galante; TrioVI AndanteVII Menuetto; Trio I, Trio II VIII Adagio – Allegro assai

Siegmund Haffner had become the wealthiest citizen in Salzburg and a very respected man by the time of his death in 1772. He left four daughters and one son. In July 1776, one of the daughters – Marie Elisabeth – married Franz Xaver Späth and music was commissioned from Mozart for the occasion by Marie’s brother, Siegmund Haffner. Although busy, Mozart promised to do what he could. The result was the original serenade version of the Haffner symphony, K385, from 1782, which was redacted to celebrate Siegmund Haffner junior’s ascent to the aristocracy.

One of the interesting questions posed by Mozart’s Salzburg years is why, between summer 1774 and spring 1778, he suspended his symphony writing. It may have been that after fairly prolific symphony writing he had wearied of the form and had nothing to say, or that the Archbishop Colloredo had an influence. Whatever the reason, his music from this time shows a distinct move towards entertainment music in his divertimenti and serenades for various ensembles. The serenade had become a popular form among such early Classical composers as Boccherini, Dittersdorf and Michael Haydn and was generally scored for wind instruments, double bass

and two violas. In western Austria, Salzburg and parts of Bavaria, however, the orchestral serenade dominated. Its multi-movement structure, never strictly prescribed and including as many movements as ten, was championed by Leopold Mozart, who composed more than 30 such works by 1757, all of them now lost.

Mozart’s serenades display more extrovert brilliance than the expressivity and intimacy of the symphonies but the serenade heard tonight represents the peak of Mozart’s achievement in this genre. Scored for two oboes/flutes (alternating), two bassoons, two horns and two trumpets, with strings, it reflects both concerto – with three minuets interpolated with a violin concerto – and symphonic writing and heralds Mozart’s sudden maturity, while not betraying for one moment the haste in which it was written. The movements flow, but with passage after passage foretelling the music of Mozart’s Vienna period: the profoundly disturbing emotional quality that underlies so much of the apparently gay atmosphere through sudden harmonic changes that alter the emotion of the piece or through poignant chromatic passing notes.

However, there is room for humour. It was written to be played in celebration and in an outside setting. Listen, therefore, for some appropriately ‘rustic’ notes.

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Principal FundersLondon Borough of Croydon

Public FundersOrchestras LiveSouth Holland District Council

Trusts & foundationsThe Andor Charitable TrustThe Concertina Charitable TrustCroydon Relief in Need CharitiesThe Foyle FoundationThe Matthew Hodder Charitable TrustThe Austin & Hope Pilkington TrustThe Prince’s Foundation for Children & the ArtsN. Smith Charitable SettlementThe Steel Charitable Trust

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benefactorsAnonymous x 4Graham HarmanAndré & Rosalie HoffmannGillian PerkinsSir Roger & Lady SandsMr & the late Mrs K SmithPeter & Sheelagh SmithMr D & Mrs M Wechsler

life friendsMichael & Barbara Hill

golden supportersAnonymous x 19Morag BeierMr & Mrs C ClementiMrs Patricia CoeMrs Jill DaltonMr Quintin GardnerGeoff & Mary HearnMr & Mrs F HercliffeBrian & Doreen HitchingDavid & Beatrix HodgsonMargaret Jones MVOMr & Mrs A J LambellDerek & Deirdre LeaMr John MeadDerek & Bunty MillardGillian NobleHazel & Geoffrey OttonMr J B PriceRos & John RawlingRobert Keith RobertsonDavid RobinsonChristine RobsonMiss A E StoddartJean-Anne & John TillotsonBarbara Tower

silver supportersAnonymous x 20Mr Michael BlackMr Nick CullMiss Rowena ForbesHeather HarrisChantal KeastNick & Jane MallettMr Dennis ProtheroeMr & Mrs M RiversMr Brian J StockerMrs Marion SunleyMrs R WhittinghamMr B E & Mrs P B Woolnough

bronze supportersAnonymous x 10Mr George BrayThe Revd Canon Martin & Mrs Mary GoodladMr I A HamlynMrs P HirstMrs JMP MarlowMr and Mrs C McCarthyMrs N RobertsMrs Claire SmithMr David SmithMrs Judith Spencer-Gregson

FORTHCOMING CONCERTS

Friday 2 November 7.30pmFAIRFIELD AT 50 CELEBRATIONRoxanna Panufnik Fairfield Fanfare Bruch Violin Concerto Arnold The Fairfield OvertureWalton Coronation te deumParry Blest Pair of SirensColeridge-Taylor Petite Suite de Concert

Conductor Hilary Davan Wetton Violin Chloë HanslipPresenter Katie Derham

Thursday 13 December 7.30pm

Mozart Symphony No. 29 K. 201/186aBritten Les Illuminations Schubert Symphony No. 4, ‘Tragic’ Conductor Gérard KorstenSoprano Sally Matthews

PatronHRH The Earl of Wessex KG GCVO

Music DirectorGérard Korsten

Associate ConductorHilary Davan Wetton

Associate ComposerRoxanna Panufnik

Council of Management

ChairmanRowan Freeland

Chair of the Audit CommitteeRosamund Sykes

Daniel BentonDan DaviesSimon FunnellGillian PerkinsDavid Wechsler

Administration

Managing DirectorSimon Funnell

General ManagerDavid Wilson

Marketing & PR ManagerChloë Brookes

Concerts & Projects ManagerCaroline Molloy

financial consultantChristopher Wright

Orchestral LibrarianMartin Sargeson

InternEmily Curwen

London Mozart PlayersFairfield HallsPark LaneCroydonCR9 1DG

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