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2015/16
full
season
2015
/16
Esa-Pekka Salonen
Principal Conductor and
Artistic Advisor
Concerts
September 2015 – September 2016
Royal Festival Hall
Esa-Pekka Salonen © Sonja Werner
Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall
Myths and Rituals: Esa-Pekka Salonen presents the
70th Anniversary season headline festival, exploring
the musical life and legacy of Igor Stravinsky
70th Anniversary Gala Concert: Christoph von Dohnányi
leads a stellar cast for Beethoven’s great Choral Symphony
Esa-Pekka Salonen and Lang Lang join forces
for three concerts featuring piano concertos
by Grieg, Bartók and Prokofiev
Vladimir Ashkenazy performs
Rachmaninov’s major orchestral works
Andris Nelsons returns to London to
conduct Bruckner’s Eighth Symphony
Jakub Hrůša leads Mahler’s mighty Symphony No. 3
Paavo Järvi continues his Nielsen Symphony Series
The Trumpet Shall Sound: Håkan Hardenberger leads
a celebration of the trumpet, performing works
by B.A. Zimmermann and Rolf Martinsson
Philharmonia at the Movies: including James Bond,
BBC Planet Earth in Concert, Charlie Chaplin
and Brian Tyler
Free early-evening chamber music performances
featuring Philharmonia players with programmes designed
to complement the main evening concert
AT A
GLANCE
Philharmonia at the Movies
SL
Salonen/Lang Lang
M Sunday Matinee Series
TS
The Trumpet Shall Sound
R Rachmaninov Project
S
Stravinsky: Myths and Rituals
PM
N Nielsen Series
SEPTEMBER 2015
NOVEMBER 2015
Sun 27/7.30pm
Dohnányi et al.
SCHUMANN Piano Concerto/
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 9
Sun 1/3.00pm
Salonen/Steinbacher
DUBUGNON Caprice
for Orchestra/ BRAHMS Violin Concerto/
SIBELIUS Symphony No. 5
OCTOBER 2015
Thu 1/7.30pm
Dohnányi/Widmann
IVES The Unanswered Question/
BERG Violin Concerto /
SCHUBERT Symphony No. 9
Sun 4/7.30pm
Temirkanov/Matsuev
TCHAIKOVSKY Piano Concerto
No. 1/BRAHMS Symphony No. 4
Thu 8/7.30pm
Payare/Trifonov
TCHAIKOVSKY Fantasy Overture,
Romeo and Juliet /
RACHMANINOV Piano Concerto
No. 4; Rhapsody on a Theme
of Paganini/MUSSORGSKY
Pictures at an Exhibition
Thu 15/7.30pm
Hrůša/Trifonov
SMETANA Overture, The Bartered
Bride/RACHMANINOV Piano
Concerto No. 2/
DVOŘÁK Symphony No. 7
Thu 22/7.30pm
Collon et al.
STRAVINSKY Fireworks/
CHIN Clarinet Concerto/
WAGNER 'Prelude' and
'Liebestod' (Tristan und Isolde)/
LIGETI Atmosphères/RAVEL
Daphnis et Chloé, Suite No. 2
Sun 25/7.30pm
Carl Davis
JAMES BOND: THE
ULTIMATE SOUNDTRACKS
PM
Sun 6/7.30pm
Nelsons/Hardenberger
ZIMMERMANN Trumpet
Concerto, Nobody knows de
trouble I see/BRUCKNER
Symphony No. 8
Thu 10/7.30pm
Rhorer/Ehnes
BERLIOZ L'enfance du Christ/
LALO Violin Concerto/
DELIBES Coppélia/
TCHAIKOVSKY Swan Lake
Thu 5/7.30pm
Ashkenazy/Chopin Prize-winner
BERLIOZ Le carnaval romain/
CHOPIN Piano Concerto No.1 or 2/
RACHMANINOV Symphony No. 2
Sun 13/3.00pm
Hill/The Bach Choir
J. STRAUSS II Overture,
Die Fledermaus/SCHUBERT
Ave Maria/ TCHAIKOVSKY
Nutcracker (excerpts)/
TRAD. Christmas Carols
Thu 12/7.30pm
Valcuha/Sokolov
WEBER Overture, Der
Freischütz/MENDELSSOHN
Violin Concerto/BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 3, Eroica
Thu 19/7.30pm
Järvi/Coles
HAYDN Symphony No. 100,
Military/ NIELSEN Flute
Concerto; Symphony No. 5
Thu 26/7.30pm
Esa-Pekka Salonen/Lang Lang
GRIEG Piano Concerto; Peer
Gynt (incidental music)
DECEMBER 2015
Tue 1/7.30pm
Salonen/Lang Lang
BEETHOVEN Overture,
Namensfeier/BARTÓK Piano
Concerto No. 2/BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 2
Thu 3/7.30pm
Salonen/Lang Lang
PROKOFIEV Romeo and Juliet;
Piano Concerto No. 3/
SCRIABIN The Poem of Ecstasy
Thu 11/7.30pm
Hrůša/Fink
MAHLER Symphony No. 3
Sun 14/3.00pm
Collins/Pogostkina
St Valentine's Day Gala
Thu 18/7.30pm
Altinoglu/Fray
RAVEL Ma mère l'oye/ DEBUSSY
La mer/ MOZART Piano
Concerto No.24/ RAVEL La valse
Sun 21/7.30pm
Gatti/Volodos
WEBER Overture, Oberon/
BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No.
3/SCHUMANN Symphony No. 2
Sun 28/7.30pm
Sokhiev/Suwanai
SCHUBERT Overture, Rosamunde/
BEETHOVEN Violin Concerto/
MARCH 2016
JANUARY 2016
Sun 24/3.00pm
John Wilson et al.
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Overture,
The Wasps/FINZI Clarinet
Concerto/VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
A Sea Symphony
Thu 28/7.30pm
Rouvali/Hardenberger
SIBELIUS Lemminkäinen's
Return/MARTINSSON Bridge,
Trumpet Concerto No. 1/
PM Sun 31/7.30pm
George Fenton
BBC PLANET EARTH
IN CONCERT
FEBRUARY 2016
Thu 4/7.30pm
Shani
MOZART Piano Concerto No. 20/
Thu 3/7.30pm
Ashkenazy/Yoo
RACHMANINOV The Rock/
SIBELIUS Violin Concerto/
Sun 6/7.30pm
Serebrier/Gabetta
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
The Lark Ascending/ELGAR
Cello Concerto/POWELL
A Prussian Requiem
Thu 17/7.30pm
Hrůša /Biss
MENDELSSOHN Overture, Calm
Sea and Prosperous Voyage/
BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto
No. 1/BRAHMS Symphony No. 1
APRIL 2016
Sun 3/3.00pm
Temirkanov/Lugansky
BEETHOVEN Overture, Coriolan/
BRAHMS Piano Concerto No. 1/
ELGAR Enigma Variations
Thu 7/7.30pm
Yamada/Little/Fukuda/Chen
ELGAR Cockaigne/
HOLST A Song of the Night/
PANUFNIK Bessarabia for solo
violin (world première)/
WAXMAN Carmen Fantasie/
BRAHMS Violin Concerto
PM Sun 10/3.00pm
Carl Davis
CHARLIE CHAPLIN
ON SCREEN
Thu 14/7.30pm
Ashkenazy/Berezovsky
RACHMANINOV Isle of the Dead/
PROKOFIEV Piano Concerto
No. 2/RACHMANINOV
Symphonic Dances
Sun 17/7.30pm
Matheuz/Fischer et al.
WALTON Crown Imperial/
VIVALDI Concerto from
The Four Seasons/
BARTÓK Violin Concerto No.1/
TCHAIKOVSKY Francesca
da Rimini
Sun 24/7.30pm
Blomstedt
MOZART Symphony No. 39/
BRUCKNER Symphony
No. 4, Romantic
Thu 19/7.30pm
Järvi/van de Wiel
HAYDN Symphony No.83, The
Hen/NIELSEN Clarinet Concerto;
Symphony No. 3
Thu 26/7.30pm
Salonen et al.
STRAVINSKY Renard; Mavra;
Les noces JUNE 2016
Thu 2/7.30pm
(at St John's, Smith Square)
Salonen et al.
STRAVINSKY In memoriam
Dylan Thomas; Requiem
Canticles; In memoriam T S Eliot;
Mass; Elegy for JFK; Cantata
Thu 9/7.30pm
Heras-Casado/Shaham SHOSTAKOVICH Festive
Overture/TCHAIKOVSKY
Violin Concerto/PROKOFIEV
Symphony No.5
Thu 23/7.30pm
Dohnányi/Helmchen
PÄRT Fratres/BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No.4; Symphony
No.6, Pastoral
SEPTEMBER 2016
MAY 2016
Thu 5/7.30pm
Gardner/Helmchen
MOZART Overture,
Die Zauberflöte/ BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 2/
ELGAR Symphony No. 2
PM Sat 7/7.30pm
Brian Tyler
BRIAN TYLER LIVE: FILM
MUSIC FOR STARS, CARS &
SUPERHEROES
Sun 15/7.30pm
Salonen
STRAVINSKY Symphonies of
Wind Instruments; Agon;
The Rite of Spring
Sun 25/7.30pm
Salonen
STRAVINSKY Orpheus; Apollon
musagète; Perséphone
Thu 29/7.30pm
Salonen
STRAVINSKY Oedipus rex;
Symphony of Psalms
PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA
70TH ANNIVERSARY GALA
CONCERT
Sunday 27 September 2015, 7.30pm
Christoph von Dohnányi conductor
Martin Helmchen piano
Charlotta Larsson soprano
Ruxandra Donose mezzo-soprano
Robert Dean Smith tenor
James Rutherford bass
Rodolfus Choir
Philharmonia Voices
SCHUMANN Piano Concerto
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 9, Choral
Our 70th Anniversary Season opens
with a work that has been celebrated
throughout the Philharmonia
Orchestra’s esteemed performance
history, led by one of its greatest
conductors. Beethoven’s Ninth
Symphony is a work of epic proportions,
erupting in an ‘Ode to Joy’ choral finale.
Before it, Schumann’s Piano Concerto
is performed by the superlative pianist,
Martin Helmchen.
This concert is supported by trustees
of the Philharmonia Trust
See page 34 for prices
Thursday 1 October 2015, 7.30pm
Carolin Widmann violin
IVES The Unanswered Question
BERG Violin Concerto
SCHUBERT Symphony No. 9, Great
So profound was the impact of
Schubert’s Great Ninth Symphony
that when Robert Schumann first
encountered the manuscript he
described it as ‘transporting us into
a world where I cannot recall having
ever been before’. The great Viennese
tradition can also be savoured in Berg’s
Violin Concerto, a heartbreaking lament
composed to ‘the memory of an angel’.
YURI
TEMIRKANOV
Sunday 4 October 2015, 7.30pm
Yuri Temirkanov conductor
Denis Matsuev piano
TCHAIKOVSKY Piano Concerto No. 1
BRAHMS Symphony No. 4
A combination of heroic bravura
and Russian ‘big tunes’ has made
Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto
one of the most popular of them all.
Its intensity is felt from its famous
opening flourish of grandiose piano
chords. Completing the programme
is a performance of Brahms’s
captivating symphonic swansong,
a supreme distillation of a lifetime’s
creative achievement.
6pm, pre-concert chamber
music recital, Royal Festival Hall.
Featuring Mendelssohn’s String Octet,
by the Philharmonia Chamber Players.
FREE admission.
Carolin Widmann © Marco Borggreve
Christoph von Dohnányi
© Tristram Kenton / Lebrecht Music & Arts
6pm, pre-concert talk, Royal
Festival Hall. David Whelton celebrates
70 years with a panel of distinguished
guests. FREE admission.
CHRISTOPH
VON
DOHNÁNYI
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RACHMANINOV PIANO
CONCERTO CYCLE: TRIFONOV
RAVEL &
UNSUK CHIN
ESA-PEKKA
SALONEN
Sunday 1 November 2015, 3.00pm
(please note start time)
Rafael Payare conductor
Daniil Trifonov piano
Jakub Hrůša conductor
Daniil Trifonov piano
Nicholas Collon conductor
Kari Kriikku clarinet
Alwyn Mellor soprano
TCHAIKOVSKY Fantasy Overture,
Romeo and Juliet
RACHMANINOV Piano Concerto No. 4
RACHMANINOV Rhapsody on a Theme
of Paganini
MUSSORGSKY (arr. Ravel) Pictures at
an Exhibition
SMETANA Overture, The Bartered Bride
RACHMANINOV Piano Concerto No. 2
An all-Russian extravaganza focussing
on Rachmaninov’s final works for piano
and orchestra, performed by Daniil
Trifonov as part of his Rachmaninov
Piano Concerto Cycle. These pieces are
bookended by two of the most popular
works in the repertoire, conducted by
Rafael Payare, who makes his Royal
Festival Hall début.
This concert is supported
by an anonymous donor
Dynamic conductor Jakub Hrůša makes
a welcome return to perform two Czech
works of distinction: Smetana’s Overture
to The Bartered Bride – a work that
heralded the birth of Czech opera; and
Dvořák’s mighty Seventh Symphony,
a work often described as the
composer’s greatest. Daniil Trifonov
concludes his Rachmaninov Cycle with
the Second Piano Concerto, one of the
most popular works of all time.
Supported by The Meyer Foundation
6pm, Music of Today, Royal Festival
Hall. A composer portrait of Param Vir,
conducted by Kwamé Ryan with Soumik
Datta (sarod).
STRAVINSKY Fireworks
CHIN Clarinet Concerto (UK première)
WAGNER ‘Prelude’ and ‘Liebestod’
(Tristan und Isolde)
LIGETI Atmosphères
RAVEL Daphnis et Chloé, Suite No. 2
The magical sound-worlds of Stravinsky,
Wagner, Ligeti and Ravel provide the
perfect complement to Unsuk Chin
(Artistic Director of the Music of Today
series) in this sonically brilliant feast
for the ears. This beguiling programme
offers an enticing opportunity to
hear the first UK performance of
Chin’s dazzling Clarinet Concerto, a
Philharmonia Orchestra co-commission.
This concert is supported by Vincent
Meyer and the Philharmonia Orchestra
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Esa-Pekka Salonen conductor
Arabella Steinbacher violin
DUBUGNON Caprice for Orchestra
(UK première)
BRAHMS Violin Concerto
Described by the New York Times as
‘driven by a playful modern sensibility’,
the captivating inspiration of Richard
Dubugnon raises the curtain on
Brahms’s Violin Concerto, performed
by sensational German violinist Arabella
Steinbacher. The Fifth Symphony is one
of Sibelius’s most original reworkings
of symphonic form, much-adored for
its triumphant finale featuring its
famous ‘swan call’ motif.
This concert is supported by Vincent
Meyer and the Philharmonia Orchestra
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Arabella Steinbacher © Peter Rigaud
Daniil Trifonov © Dario Acosta/DG
Festival Hall. Nicholas Collon in
conversation. FREE admission.
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ASHKENAZY:
RACHMANINOV & CHOPIN
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Thursday 5 November 2015, 7.30pm
Vladimir Ashkenazy conductor
Prize-winner of the Warsaw
International Fryderyk Chopin Piano
Competition 2015 piano
BERLIOZ Le carnaval romain
CHOPIN Piano Concerto No. 1 or 2
Tonight’s concert gives music-lovers
a unique opportunity to hear the
London début of the prize-winner
of the 2015 International Fryderyk
Chopin Competition. One of the
supreme interpreters of Chopin’s
music, Rachmaninov’s maxim that
music should above all ‘exalt’ goes
into overdrive in the ecstatic melodic
euphoria of his Second Symphony.
6pm, pre-concert chamber music
recital, Royal Festival Hall. Featuring
Wagner, Paganini & Villa-Lobos,
performed by the Philharmonia Chamber
Players. FREE admission.
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JURAJ
VALCUHA
Juraj Valcuha conductor
Valeriy Sokolov violin
WEBER Overture, Der Freischütz
MENDELSSOHN Violin Concerto
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 3, Eroica
Beethoven’s Eroica Symphony, for many
the greatest symphony ever written,
is conducted by Juraj Valcuha, who
makes a welcome return to the Royal
Festival Hall. The composer famously
tore the title page in half in a fit of rage
on hearing that its original dedicatee,
Napoleon, had crowned himself
emperor. Mendelssohn employed
a magician’s sleight-of-hand to create
a violin concerto that ebbs and flows
with supreme inevitability, performed
this evening by the outstanding
Valeriy Sokolov.
Supported by The Meyer Foundation
Hall. A composer portrait of Julian
Anderson, conducted by Antony
Hermus. FREE admission.
PAAVO JÄRVI:
NIELSEN
SERIES
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Paavo Järvi conductor
Samuel Coles flute
HAYDN Symphony No. 100, Military
NIELSEN Flute Concerto
NIELSEN Symphony No. 5
Both Haydn and Nielsen rejoiced in
the unconventional, lulling audiences
into a false sense of security before
suddenly taking them out of their
comfort zones. In his 100th Symphony,
Haydn startles his listeners with
a ‘military’ outburst during the slow
movement, whereas Nielsen lets rip
with a side-drum frenzy that threatens
to obliterate the entire orchestra.
6pm, pre-concert talk,
Royal Festival Hall. Samuel Coles in
conversation. FREE admission.
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SALONEN/LANG LANG SERIES
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Following the hugely successful Beethoven Piano Concerto Cycle,
which Esa-Pekka Salonen and Lang Lang gave in London in 2012,
they continue their artistic collaboration with three programmes
reflecting their shared musical enthusiasms.
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Lang Lang piano
Peer Perez Øian stage director
its ‘Morning’ and ‘In the Hall of the
Mountain King’ scenes.
This concert is supported by
Festival Hall. Peer Perez Øian in
conversation with Andrew Mellor.
FREE admission.
Thursday 3 December 2015, 7.30pm
Lang Lang piano
BEETHOVEN Overture, Namensfeier
BARTÓK Piano Concerto No. 2
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 2
PROKOFIEV Romeo and Juliet
(excerpts)
PROKOFIEV Piano Concerto No. 3
SCRIABIN The Poem of Ecstasy,
Symphony No. 4
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Lang Lang piano
Bartók’s Second Piano Concerto,
a work of formidable pianistic and
orchestral challenges that never fails
to set the pulse racing, is the second
concerto performed by Lang Lang in
this mini-series. To finish, Beethoven’s
farewell to conventional symphonic
Classicism, a staggering testimony of
musical willpower composed in the face
of encroaching deafness.
GRIEG Piano Concerto
GRIEG Peer Gynt (incidental music)
The third and last of Lang Lang’s
concerts with the Philharmonia in this
series. Having cultivated a reputation
as the ‘bad boy’ of Russian music,
Prokofiev’s musical rehabilitation
began with his radiantly melodic Third
Concerto, a pianistic tour-de-force
that appears almost restrained when
set beside the apocalyptic eruptions
of Scriabin’s Poem of Ecstasy, a superheated magnum opus generated by
cataclysmic waves of sound.
Lang Lang © Xun Chi
Esa-Pekka Salonen © Clive Barda
The opening concert of three featuring
Esa-Pekka Salonen and star pianist
Lang Lang has a performance of Grieg’s
Piano Concerto, a work that marked
the start of a glittering career and
put Norway on the musical map. The
second half of this concert features
a semi-staging of Grieg’s incidental
music for Ibsen’s Peer Gynt, famous for
Tuesday 1 December 2015, 7.30pm
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ANDRIS NELSONS/
HÅKAN HARDENBERGER
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Sunday 6 December 2015, 7.30pm
Andris Nelsons conductor
Håkan Hardenberger trumpet
ZIMMERMANN Trumpet Concerto,
Nobody knows de trouble I see
BRUCKNER Symphony No. 8
Bruckner’s awe-inspiring Eighth
Symphony, a veritable cathedral of sound,
is conducted here by Andris Nelsons, the
recently appointed Principal Conductor
of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
In the first half of the concert, soloist
Håkan Hardenberger opens his series
The Trumpet Shall Sound with a
performance of Bern Alois Zimmermann’s
jazz-inspired trumpet concerto.
CHRISTMAS AT THE BALLET
Thursday 10 December 2015, 7.30pm
Jérémie Rhorer conductor
James Ehnes violin
BERLIOZ L'enfance du Christ (excerpts)
LALO Violin Concerto
DELIBES Coppélia (excerpts)
TCHAIKOVSKY Swan Lake (excerpts)
With Christmas only just around
the corner, what better way to usher
in the seasonal celebrations than
with a selection from Berlioz’s most
captivatingly lyrical score, L’enfance
du Christ? Popular melodies abound
in two ballet favourites Coppélia
and Swan Lake, and there’s also
a rare chance to be thrilled by the
pyrotechnical wizardry of Lalo’s
Violin Concerto.
This concert is supported by the Friends
of the Philharmonia Orchestra
The performance of Lalo's Violin Concerto is supported by
Palazzetto Bru Zane – Centre de
musique romantique française
CAROLS AT CHRISTMAS
Sunday 13 December 2015, 3.00pm
David Hill conductor
The Bach Choir
Andris Nelsons © Marco Borggreve
Programme to include:
J. STRAUSS II Overture, Die Fledermaus
SCHUBERT Ave Maria
TCHAIKOVSKY The Nutcracker
(excerpts)
TRAD. Christmas Carols
Join the acclaimed Bach Choir in
raising the roof of the Royal Festival
Hall singing festive carols including 'O
Come all Ye Faithful', 'The Twelve Days
14
of Christmas', and 'Hark! The Herald
Angels Sing', alongside favourite
orchestral works guaranteed to get you
into the Christmas spirit.
Presented in partnership
with Raymond Gubbay Ltd
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GREAT BRITISH CLASSICS
John Wilson conductor
Mark van de Wiel clarinet
Sally Matthews soprano
Roderick Williams baritone
Bristol Choral Society
Gloucester Choral Society
Philharmonia Voices
Three classics of British music that
find their respective composers at
their very peak. This ranges from
Finzi’s golden flow of nostalgic lyricism
to the Sea Symphony’s surging drama,
culminating in a finale that drifts
gently towards uncharted waters
via a meditative stream of poetics.
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Overture,
The Wasps
FINZI Clarinet Concerto
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Symphony No. 1,
A Sea Symphony
Santtu-Matias Rouvali conductor
Håkan Hardenberger trumpet
music recital, Royal Festival Hall,
Philharmonia Brass with Håkan
Hardenberger. FREE admission.
SIBELIUS Lemminkäinen's Return
MARTINSSON Bridge, Trumpet
Concerto No. 1
Post-concert recital, Clore Ballroom
at Royal Festival Hall, Håkan
Hardenberger Both Sides Now.
FREE admission.
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Thursday 28 January 2016, 7.30pm
The perfect foil for the haunting
melodic inspiration of Sibelius’s Second
Symphony, Rolf Martinsson’s Bridge
is set to be one of the highlights in the
Philharmonia’s The Trumpet Shall Sound
series, played tonight by acclaimed
Swedish virtuoso Håkan Hardenberger
whose name is ingeniously encoded into
the virtuoso solo part.
Håkan Hardenberger © Marco Borggreve
Sunday 24 January 2016, 3.00pm
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SANTTU-MATIAS ROUVALI/
HÅKAN HARDENBERGER
LAHAV SHANI
Thursday 4 February 2016, 7.30pm
Lahav Shani conductor/piano
MOZART Piano Concerto No. 20, K466
Brilliant young Israeli conductorpianist Lahav Shani, recent winner
of the prestigious Gustav Mahler
International Conducting Competition,
presents two highly volatile
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masterworks ranging from the searing
intensity and brooding power of
Mozart’s D minor Concerto to
Mahler’s exhilarating symphonic
début, where a combination of melodic
flair and scintillating élan climaxes in
one of the most joyously uplifting codas
in the orchestral repertoire.
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MAHLER 3: JAKUB HRUŠA
Bernarda Fink mezzo-soprano
Philharmonia Voices
spent on the shore of an Austrian
mountain lake. It culminates with the
composer’s vision of earth and heaven
in a captivating slow movement that
enshrines the universal ideals of
human love and forgiveness.
A six-movement epic in which ‘nature
acquires a voice and tells profound
secrets’ (Mahler), the glorious Third
Symphony takes us on a profound
emotional journey. Inspired by the
beauty of the natural world, the
symphony was an outcome of time
This concert is supported by members
of the Conductors’ Circle
Featuring Mozart & Schoenberg’s
Verklärte Nacht, by the Philharmonia
Chamber Players. FREE admission.
ALAIN ALTINOGLU
Alain Altinoglu conductor
David Fray piano
RAVEL Suite, Ma mère l'oye
DEBUSSY La mer
MOZART Piano Concerto No. 24, K491
RAVEL La valse
A programme of musical enchantment
offsetting the Classical poise and
elegance of Mozart against the
fastidious sensuality of La Belle
Époque, the magic of which is evoked
in the surging textures of La mer,
closely followed by the epitome of its
inevitable implosion in the dancing
oblivion of La valse. French conductor
Alain Altinoglu, a regular with the
Metropolitan Opera, New York
and Wiener Staatsoper, makes his
Philharmonia début.
Supported by The Meyer Foundation.
Hall. A portrait of cellist Isang Enders,
conducted by Darrell Ang and featuring
music by Salonen, Boulez and Ligeti.
FREE admission.
ST. VALENTINE’S DAY GALA
Michael Collins conductor
Alina Pogostkina violin
SAINT-SAËNS ‘Bacchanale’ from
Samson et Dalila
MASCAGNI 'Intermezzo' from
Cavalleria rusticana
BRUCH Violin Concerto No. 1
MENDELSSOHN Overture,
The Hebrides
MAHLER Adagietto, Symphony No. 5
J STRAUSS II Waltz,
Roses from the South
BIZET Carmen Suite
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The perfect way to celebrate St.
Valentine’s Day, this afternoon’s
concert overflows with unforgettable
melodies, ranging from the dramatic
seascapes of Mendelssohn’s Hebrides
Overture to the pulsating rapture
of Mahler’s Adagietto and earthy
excitement of Saint-Saëns’s
'Bacchanale'.
See page 34 for prices. This concert
is not available as part of a subscription.
Alain Altinoglu © Marco Borggreve
Sunday 14 February 2016, 3.00pm
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DANIELE
GATTI
TUGAN
SOKHIEV
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Daniele Gatti conductor
Arcadi Volodos piano
Tugan Sokhiev conductor
Akiko Suwanai violin
Esther Yoo violin
WEBER Overture, Oberon
BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 3
SCHUMANN Symphony No. 2
SCHUBERT Overture, Rosamunde
BEETHOVEN Violin Concerto
DVOŘÁK Symphony No. 9,
From the New World
RACHMANINOV The Rock
SIBELIUS Violin Concerto
Against the backdrop of worsening
mental health, Schumann plunged
into the depths of his restless spirit
to produce his Second Symphony.
In the words of the composer, it is
‘full of struggle: capricious, refractory’.
By the final movement, light conquers
darkness with a tender salute to his
‘distant beloved’, the wife on whom
the burden of his illness fell.
ASHKENAZY: RACHMANINOV
PROJECT
A virtuosic feast for the ears,
Beethoven’s Violin Concerto is one of
the central works of the repertoire, this
evening performed by the sensational
Japanese violinist, Akiko Suwanai.
Tugan Sokhiev conducts Dvořák’s Ninth
Symphony, inspired by the composer’s
experiences of the ‘New World’ of
America, yet hints of longing for his
distant homeland.
The Philharmonia Orchestra depends
on generous philanthropic support from
individuals, companies and grant-making
organisations to realise our artistic
ambitions and continue to perform with
the world’s great artists throughout the
UK and beyond.
Daniele Gatti © Primo Gnani
The Rachmaninov Project continues
with his captivating Third Symphony,
conducted by one of its greatest
interpreters: Vladimir Ashkenazy.
Powered by an ever-evolving theme,
or 'motto', this final symphony carries
Rachmaninov's trademark sweeping
romanticism, shot through with
moments of darker emotional intensity.
PLAY YOUR PART
This concert is supported by the Principal
Friends of the Philharmonia Orchestra
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Thursday 3 March 2016, 7.30pm
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FIRST WORLD WAR
COMMEMORATION
Sunday 6 March 2016, 7.30pm
José Serebrier conductor
Sol Gabetta cello
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS The Lark
Ascending
ELGAR Cello Concerto
JOHN POWELL A Prussian Requiem
(world première)
An evening of music commemorating
the First World War, featuring
renowned film composer John Powell’s
new oratorio, A Prussian Requiem.
Rising-star cellist Sol Gabetta performs
Elgar’s masterpiece, a haunting
elegy for those lost in the Great War.
Vaughan Williams’s nostalgic,
ever-fresh The Lark Ascending
completes the programme.
HRUŠA:
BRAHMS AND
BEETHOVEN
Thursday 17 March 2016, 7.30pm
TEMIRKANOV:
ELGAR
ENIGMA
VARIATIONS
Jonathan Biss piano
Sunday 3 April 2016, 3.00pm
MENDELSSOHN Overture,
Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage
BRAHMS Symphony No. 1
Yuri Temirkanov conductor
Nikolai Lugansky piano
Brahms declared that his First
Symphony took over 20 years to
complete, and was referred to as
‘Beethoven’s Tenth’ by Hans von Bülow,
the conductor for the symphony’s
première. Before it, Jonathan Biss
performs Beethoven’s bold and brilliant
First Piano Concerto.
BEETHOVEN Overture, Coriolan
BRAHMS Piano Concerto No. 1
ELGAR Enigma Variations
A majestic series of character portraits,
Elgar's Enigma Variations pay heartfelt
and humorous tribute 'to my friends
pictured within'. Identified by the
initials titling each variation, Elgar
touchingly captures his wife, his many
musical friends (and their pets) as
well as his close friend and publisher,
August Jaeger, the 'mighty hunter'
of the celebrated 'Nimrod' variation.
Sol Gabetta ® Uwe Arens
Featuring Mozart & Schubert, by
the Philharmonia Chamber Players.
FREE admission.
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MENUHIN COMPETITION
Yehudi Menuhin
Celebrating the centenary of
the legendary violinist Yehudi
Menuhin – who performed with
the Philharmonia throughout
his life – the famous Menuhin
Competition, including an 11-day
festival of concerts and events,
returns to London for the first
time in 12 years.
ASHKENAZY: RACHMANINOV
PROJECT
R
Thursday 14 April 2016, 7.30pm
Boris Berezovsky piano
sequences of defiant march rhythms,
heavy nostalgia and eerie waltzing
towards a demonic finale, capped by
Rachmaninov's musical spectre, the
Dies Irae (‘Day of Judgement’) chant,
marking his creative apotheosis.
Please note, subscription discounts do not apply.
RACHMANINOV The Isle of the Dead
PROKOFIEV Piano Concerto No. 2
RACHMANINOV Symphonic Dances
OPENING
CONCERT
GALA
CONCERT
One of the most electrifying
orchestral works of the last century,
Rachmaninov’s Symphonic Dances
hurtles us through gripping
Thursday 7 April 2016, 7.30pm
Kazuki Yamada conductor
Tasmin Little violin *
Jiafeng Chen violin **
Rennosuke Fukuda violin ***
Ray Chen violin ****
Diego Matheuz conductor
Julia Fischer violin *
Junior Competition winner violin **
Senior Competition winner violin ***
HERBERT BLOMSTEDT:
BRUCKNER
WALTON Crown Imperial
VIVALDI Concerto from
The Four Seasons **
Concerto movement to be announced ***
BARTÓK Violin Concerto No. 1 *
TCHAIKOVSKY Francesca da Rimini
ELGAR Overture, Cockaigne
HOLST A Song of the Night *
PANUFNIK Bessarabia for solo
violin (world première) **
WAXMAN Carmen Fantasie ***
BRAHMS Violin Concerto ****
Four former winners of the Menuhin
Competition take us on an absorbing
musical journey of works intimately
connected with Yehudi Menuhin.
From the powerhouse Romanticism
of the Brahms Concerto and Franz
Waxman’s pyrotechnical wizardry, to
the soaring eloquence of Holst’s A Song
of the Night and a world première from
composing sensation Roxanna Panufnik.
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To celebrate Yehudi Menuhin’s vibrant
legacy the Philharmonia presents the
winners of the Menuhin Competition
2016, alongside dazzling virtuoso and
1995 winner Julia Fischer playing
Bartók’s haunting First Violin Concerto.
Tchaikovsky’s symphonic fantasia paints
a graphic musical picture of Francesca
da Rimini, a beauty who was
immortalised in Dante's Divine Comedy.
Herbert Blomstedt conductor
MOZART Symphony No. 39, K543
BRUCKNER Symphony No. 4, Romantic
Supported by The Meyer Foundation.
Hall. A composer portrait of Friedrich
Goldmann, conducted by Tito
Ceccherini. FREE admission.
The renowned Herbert Blomstedt
returns to the Philharmonia. Having
rejected his First Symphony as ‘too
wild and daring’, the Second as
‘nonsense’ and ‘unplayable’ and the
Third as ‘unperformable’, the Viennese
instantly embraced Bruckner’s glorious
Fourth Symphony with its irresistible
combination of flowing lyricism,
spiritual intensity and earth-shaking
orchestral eruptions.
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EDWARD
GARDNER:
ELGAR
Thursday 5 May 2016, 7.30pm
JÄRVI:
NIELSEN
SERIES
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Edward Gardner conductor
Paavo Järvi conductor
Mark van de Wiel clarinet
MOZART Overture, Die Zauberflöte
ELGAR Symphony No. 2
HAYDN Symphony No. 83, The Hen
NIELSEN Clarinet Concerto
NIELSEN Symphony No. 3
Elgar often spoke of a cryptic meaning
to some of his works, and at the head
of his Second Symphony he tantalises
us with a literary clue from poet Percy
Shelley: ‘Rarely, rarely, comest thou
Spirit of Delight’. Before this, the
influences of Mozart and Haydn can
be heard in Beethoven’s Second Piano
Concerto, performed by star pianist
Martin Helmchen.
One of music's great originals, Nielsen
wrote his Clarinet Concerto for his
friend, the clarinettist Aage Oxenvad.
Playful and peppered with sparks of
wit, the concerto acts out a musical
battle of wills between the clarinet
and snare drum. The composer’s
Third Symphony grows from an
opening motif that Nielsen is said
to have jotted down on his sleeve
while riding a streetcar.
Edward Gardner © Benjamin Ealovega
Supported by the Meyer Foundation.
Hall. A composer portrait of Dieter
Ammann, conducted by Roland Kluttig
with Pierre Strauch (cello).
FREE admission.
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HERAS-CASADO: RUSSIAN
MASTERWORKS
Thursday 9 June 2016, 7.30pm
Pablo Heras-Casado conductor
Gil Shaham violin
SHOSTAKOVICH Festive Overture
TCHAIKOVSKY Violin Concerto
PROKOFIEV Symphony No. 5
Pablo Heras-Casado conducts a trio
of Russian masterpieces. Initially
deemed ‘unplayable’, Tchaikovsky’s
Violin Concerto is still considered to be
one of the most technically challenging
works for violin. Prokofiev’s Fifth
Symphony is dazzlingly orchestrated
and full of brilliant solos, ominous
percussion and triumphant melodies.
Featuring Prokofiev & RimskyKorsakov, by the Philharmonia
Chamber Players. FREE admission.
DOHNÁNYI: BEETHOVEN
PÄRT Fratres
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 6, Pastoral
Beethoven's enchanting Fourth Piano
Concerto sits alongside the rolling
expanse of his Sixth 'Pastoral' Symphony;
depicting open fields, a babbling brook,
a village dance and a storm's thundering
timpani. Inspired by the ideals of
monastic brotherhood, Arvo Pärt's Fratres
('Brothers') is a hypnotically entrancing
score layered with the echoing sound
of bells.
Supported by the Meyer Foundation.
Hall. Composers Academy concert
presented in partnership with the
Royal Philharmonic Society.
FREE admission.
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MYTHS AND RITUALS
Stravinsky's Journeys
TALES
S
Esa-Pekka Salonen Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor
Storytelling lies at the heart of the music of Igor Stravinsky. Taking inspiration
from all manner of ancient myths and rituals – from Russian folklore, via the
stories of the Greeks, to primitive and religious ritual practices – Stravinsky
remade these tales to speak forcefully of his own age. In Myths and Rituals,
Esa-Pekka Salonen leads a journey of discovery across Stravinsky’s music, from
the early Russian ballets to the late, great works of the American years. There
we shall find a music of both ebullient celebration and melancholy lament, a
music full of rhythmic energy and melodic subtlety, and, above all, a music of
extraordinary imagination, power and beauty. Jonathan Cross: Series Consultant
Myths and Rituals is supported by Vincent Meyer and the Philharmonia Orchestra
RITUALS
S
Sunday 15 May 2016, 7.30pm
Karole Armitage choreographer
STRAVINSKY Symphonies of Wind
Instruments
STRAVINSKY Agon
STRAVINSKY The Rite of Spring
Most famously in The Rite of Spring,
premièred on the eve of the First World
War, the listener is confronted with a
powerful and frightening spectacle of
human sacrifice. The later, abstract
ceremonies of the Symphonies of Wind
Instruments and Agon – each written,
respectively, after each of the two world
wars – reflect poignantly on personal
and collective loss.
Across his creative life Stravinsky was
continually exploring new ways of
presenting ritual through music in order
to make it relevant to his own time.
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Irina Brown stage director
Soloists to be announced
Philharmonia Voices
STRAVINSKY Renard
STRAVINSKY Mavra
STRAVINSKY Les noces
Though he left Russia for good in
1914, Russia never left Stravinsky. In
these three tales – semi-staged for this
performance by renowned Russian
theatre director Irina Brown – he looks
back nostalgically to the country of his
birth: in a pantomime-like burlesque
about the Fox, the Cock, the Tomcat
and the Ram; in a little opera buffa
based on a comic poem by Pushkin,
which playfully recalls the music of
Glinka and Tchaikovsky; and in a
glorious celebration, tinged with
sadness, of a Russian peasant wedding.
Festival Hall. Telling tales: Series
Consultant Jonathan Cross introduces
the music in tonight's programme.
FREE admission.
FAITH
St John's Smith Square, SW1P 3HA
(please note venue)
S
David Edwards stage director
Colin Grenfell lighting designer
Allan Clayton tenor
Hélène Hébrard mezzo-soprano
Philharmonia Voices
STRAVINSKY In memoriam
Dylan Thomas
STRAVINSKY Requiem Canticles
STRAVINSKY Introitus (T S Eliot
in Memoriam)
STRAVINSKY Mass
STRAVINSKY Elegy for JFK
STRAVINSKY Cantata
Stravinsky reconverted to the Orthodox
faith in 1926. The Church and its rites
became for this émigré composer
a powerful symbol of the Russian
motherland he had lost. A gentle sense
of lament colours all his great, late
ecclesiastical works, especially the
moving Requiem Canticles, his last
major composition. Lament, too, is
at the heart of his personal tributes
to three great writers and friends, to
whom he bids a touching farewell.
Tickets: £25, £18, £10 (restricted view)
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MYTHS
S
Sunday 25 September 2016, 7.30pm
Soloists to be announced
Philharmonia Voices
STRAVINSKY Orpheus
STRAVINSKY Apollon musagète
STRAVINSKY Perséphone
This concert offers the rare
opportunity to hear Stravinsky’s
alluring melodrama based on the
Homeric hymn to the goddess
Persephone, retold in collaboration
with the French novelist and poet
André Gide. Two further ancient
Greek deities, Apollo and Orpheus,
take to the stage as a result of the
extraordinary and enduring creative
partnership between Stravinsky and
the choreographer George Balanchine,
inspiring music of great subtlety and
exquisite beauty.
TRAGEDY
S
Thursday 29 September 2016, 7.30pm
Soloists and chorus to be announced
STRAVINSKY Oedipus rex
STRAVINSKY Symphony of Psalms
Monumental. Formal. Stylised. To a text
by Cocteau derived from Sophocles and
translated back into Latin, Stravinsky's
Oedipus rex is a chilling retelling of the
tragic myth. A work that abandons
sentiment, it confronts the spectator with
the true horror of the 'infernal machine'
of fate. The Latin Psalms, too, seemingly
so ancient, so distant, speak here of
the tragedy of exile through a music of
electrifying austerity and intensity.
6pm, pre-concert talk,
Royal Festival Hall. An introduction
to the evening's programme.
FREE admission.
philharmonia.co.uk/digital
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EXPLORE | WATCH | BOOK ONLINE
PHILHARMONIA AT THE MOVIES
CHARLIE
CHAPLIN
ON SCREEN
JAMES BOND: BBC PLANET
THE ULTIMATE EARTH IN
SOUNDTRACKS CONCERT
Sunday 25 October 2015, 7.30pm
Carl Davis conductor
Mica Paris vocals
Lance Ellington vocals
Hazel Fernandes vocals
Sarah Brown vocals
Featuring music from the great Bond
films. A fabulous roster of vocalists,
including British soul star Mica Paris,
joins Carl Davis for this celebration in
time for the release of the 24th Bond
film starring Daniel Craig, Spectre.
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Carl Davis conductor
Sunday 31 January 2016, 7.30pm
Saturday 7 May 2016, 7.30pm
DAVIS Kid Auto Races at Venice (1914)
CHAPLIN A Dog’s Life (1918)
CHAPLIN Shoulder Arms (1918)
George Fenton conductor/composer
An event for all the family that combines
George Fenton’s sublime music with
stunning HD footage from the awardwinning BBC TV series, Planet Earth.
Chaplin's own music accompanies our
two main feature films in which Charlie
strikes up a friendship with a stray dog
that leads him into farcical antics, whilst
in Shoulder Arms, hapless Charlie is sent
over the top whilst fighting in the First
World War. Davis's score to Kid Auto
Races at Venice accompanies the first
ever film appearance of Chaplin’s ‘little
tramp’ character.
See page 34 for prices. Please note,
subscription discounts do not apply
philharmonia.co.uk/movies
Brian Tyler conductor/composer
Step into a world of the superhuman
and action thriller with the composer/
conductor Brian Tyler for an evening
of unforgettable film scores from some
of the world’s biggest box office films.
Music includes Tyler’s scores to Marvel
films The Avengers: The Age of Ultron,
Thor: The Dark World and Iron Man III,
Furious 7 and Teenage Mutant Ninja
Turtles, alongside classic film scores
that influenced Tyler to become one
of the world’s most recognised and
exciting film composers working today.
Shoulder Arms film still © Park Circus
1.30pm, pre-concert talk,
Royal Festival Hall. Carl Davis
introduces the afternoon's
programme. FREE admission.
Shot from the BBC’s Planet Earth © Fred Olivier
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BRIAN TYLER
LIVE: FILM
MUSIC FOR
STARS, CARS &
SUPERHEROES
philharmonia.co.uk/movies
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SPONSORS AND SUPPORTERS
The Philharmonia Orchestra is grateful to its sponsors and supporters who
make possible the quality and diversity of its work. The Philharmonia Orchestra’s
2015/16 Royal Festival Hall season would not be possible without the particular
support of Mr Vincent Meyer and The Meyer Foundation.
The Philharmonia would also like to thank the following major donors,
Trusts and Foundations, and Corporate Partners:
•Mrs Joscelyn Fox
•Mercedes and Michael Hoffman
•Sir Sydney & Lady Lipworth
•The Zvi & Ofra Meitar Family Fund
•Mr & Mrs G Modiano
•Dr David Potter CBE
•Mr Geoff Richards
•The Rev’d John Wates OBE
and Mrs Carol Wates
•Andor Charitable Trust
•The Assessment Network
•The Boltini Trust
•The Classic FM Foundation
•The Ernest Cook Trust
•Dunard Fund
•Esmée Fairbairn Foundation
•Fidelity Foundation
•The Amaryllis Fleming Foundation
Major Partners
Partners
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Memorial Charity
•Pierre Fournier Award
•Edwin Fox Foundation
•The Hugh Fraser Foundation
•Friends of Art in Education
•J Paul Getty Jnr
Charitable Trust
•Hattori Foundation
•The Monument Trust
•Paul Morgan Charitable Trust
•The Edith Murphy Foundation
•NADFAS
•Orchestras Live
•Palazzeto Bru Zane
•The Prince of Wales’s
Charitable Foundation
GETTING TO SOUTHBANK CENTRE’S
ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL
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Golden Jubilee and Waterloo bridges.
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London SE1 8XX
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Bridge; 77, 211, 381, 507 stop in
York Rd and Stamford St.
24-hour bus information 020 7222 1234
Southbank Centre has 2 car
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Evening discounted rates
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Please note, from September 2015
the Hayward Gallery Car Park will be
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Essential Repair And Maintenance
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Paul’s Cathedral, Festival Riverside
and Festival Terrace are lined with
shops and a range of restaurants,
linking the constantly evolving
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tremendous as ever”
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