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DIGITAL CONCERTSFABIAN GABEL: FAURÉ & RAVEL This concert forms part of the CBSO Miniature Collection, and was filmed at Symphony Hall, Birmingham

Fabien Gabel – Conductor

Fauré Suite from Pelléas et Mélisande 18’

Ravel Mother Goose Suite 21’

Mother Goose opens her book, and magical tales just tumble out. An enchanted garden, a mysterious spinning wheel; a tiny empress taking a bath in a walnut shell – in Ravel’s ravishing Mother Goose suite, every detail is transformed into music that sparkles in the ear. Meanwhile, by the shores of an ancient sea, two lovers slip out of a castle for a rendezvous with destiny: fairy stories aren’t just for children, and deep emotions stir beneath the pastel tints and graceful dances of Fauré’s Pelléas et Mélisande. Guest conductor Fabien Gabel makes a very welcome return with two musical stories of fantasy and longing, all painted in glowing colours by composers who knew exactly how to make the imagination take flight. So if you’re sitting comfortably… we’ll begin! This concert was filmed at Symphony Hall in December 2020.

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Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924)

Suite from Pelléas et Mélisande, Op.80 Prélude: quasi adagio

La Fileuse: andantino quasi allegretto

Sicilienne: allegretto molto moderato

Mort de Mélisande: molto adagio

Though not the greatest example of European theatre round the turn of the 20th century, Maurice Maeterlinck’s Pelléas et Mélisande did touch directly on the aesthetic nerve of the time. Debussy completed the first version of his Pelléas et Mélisande opera only three years after the play was published, although it took a further seven years and much revision before it was first performed in 1902. It was also in 1902 that Schoenberg, working in Berlin and apparently unaware of Debussy’s triumph with the opera in Paris, wrote his symphonic poem, Pelleas und Melisande. In the meantime Gabriel Fauré had conducted his incidental music for Pelleas and Melisande in English at the Prince of Wales Theatre in London in 1898. Sibelius’ equally inspired incidental music was written for a production of the play in Swedish in Helsinki in 1905.

Fauré was not an entirely uncritical admirer of Maeterlinck’s writing but he clearly found himself in sympathy with the melancholy poetry of Pelléas et Mélisande. There were eight pieces of incidental music in all – including a song for Mrs Patrick Campbell as Mélisande – and, although they were written in a hurry (with the scoring for small orchestra undertaken by Fauré’s pupil Charles Koechlin) – they present a poignant portrait of Maeterlinck’s unhappy heroine. The four pieces selected and re-orchestrated by Fauré for the concert suite, are a fascinating and moving example of musical characterisation.

The Prélude is based on a theme which, in its restricted movement in seconds and minor thirds, reflects the introverted, essentially private personality of Mélisande. A second theme, introduced by solo cello and woodwind and distinguished by its compassionate falling sixth, might be taken to represent Mélisande as Golaud, her future husband, sees her when he first finds her by the fountain in the forest –which seems to be confirmed towards the end of the movement when the sound of his hunting horn echoes between repeated fragments of cello melody.

La Fileuse accompanies Mélisande innocently at work at her spinning wheel. A characteristic Mélisande theme rises gently in seconds and third on a solo oboe and then falls down a sixth. The spinning wheel runs quietly but persistently on upper strings, continuing through the middle section and the introduction of a new theme on horn and clarinet. The spinning falters only at the climax of the movement where, perhaps, Mélisande’s mind wanders from her work and turns towards Golaud’s younger half-brother, Pelléas.

The Sicilienne was originally a cello and piano piece written for a quite different occasion. The quality of the melody introduced by flute over harp arpeggios and the modestly resourceful construction on just one theme should be persuasive enough to settle any doubts as to its propriety here.

The funereal implications of the Mort de Mélisande, which originally introduced the last act of the play, are unmistakable. So too is the subject of the lament as the melody in the flute and clarinets rises and falls in the second and thirds. The audience at the Prince of Wales Theatre in 1898 would also have recognised the first entry of the violins as an allusion to Mélisande’s song. The central climax is based on the theme of the middle section of La Fileuse and the compassionate falling sixth from the Prélude. The first theme returns fortissimo on the strings before a last echo of the song and a sadly modal approach on solo flute to the final chord.

The Mort de Mélisande was one of several Fauré pieces performed at the composer’s funeral in 1924.

Programme note © Gerald Larner

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Maurice Ravel (1875–1937)

Mother Goose (Ma Mère l’Oye)SuitePavane de la Belle au bois dormant

Petit Poucet

Laideronnette, Impératrice des Pagodes

Les entretiens de la Belle et de la Bête

Le Jardin féerique

Though a life-long bachelor with no family of his own, Ravel was happy in the company of children and at home in their world. It was for the two youngest children, Jean and Mimie, of his great friends the Godebskis that he wrote his Mother Goose – for four hands at one piano – to encourage them in their practising. One of his most enchanting creations, it is all the more inspired for the severe limitations imposed by the restricted technique of two small children.

Three years later, in 1911, Jacques Rouché, director of the Paris Opéra, asked Ravel to arrange a little ballet from his Mother Goose music. So he made orchestral transcriptions of the five movements and added introductory and connecting material to suit the scenario he had in mind.

In the first part of the ballet, which is not included in the concert suite, Princess Florine pricks her finger at her nurse’s spinning

wheel and faints. To the sound of a gentle Pavane de la Belle au bois dormant (Sleeping Beauty’s Pavane) – beginning with a solo flute over a counterpoint on muted horn in unison with plucked, muted violins – she is gently carried to a couch where she will dream the time away until she is reawakened in the approved fairy-tale manner.

She dreams of Petit Poucet (Tom Thumb) feeling his way on woodwind through the forest of strings, marking the path with crumbs which, alas, are eaten by hungry birds calling on piccolo and flute and twittering in glissando harmonics and trills on solo violin. As Laideronnette, Impératrice des Pagodes (Little Ugly, Empress of the Pagodas), Florine is marooned on the Island of the Pagodins – tiny creatures of crystal, porcelain and precious stones – who sing to her and play (in pentatonic modes of course) on walnut-shell theorbos and almond-shell viols.

In Les entretiens de la Belle et de la Bête (Conversations of Beauty and the Beast), Florine is Beauty in conversation with the Beast – she in a modest waltz tune on clarinet, he gruff but increasingly passionate on double bassoon, and the two together in an intimate duet. The Beast is finally transformed into a handsome prince with his theme high on solo violin and cello. In the meantime, in Le Jardin féerique (The Enchanted Garden) – and in music as expressive as any Ravel ever wrote – the sleeping princess is discovered by Prince Charming, who awakens her with a kiss.

Programme note © Gerald Larner

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FABIEN GABELConductor Hailed as “boldly evocative,” Fabien Gabel is recognised internationally as one of the stars of a new generation of conductors, having established a broad repertoire ranging from core symphonic works to contemporary new works and championing lesser-known works by French composers. He has been the Music Director of the Orchestre Symphonique de Québec since 2012 and Music Director of the innovative Orchestre Français des Jeunes since 2017.

Recent highlights include debuts with the San Francisco Symphony, Utah Symphony, West Australian Symphony, Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien, and Lucerne Symphony Orchestra, performances with the Orchestre Symphonique de Québec of works by Chausson, Ravel, Duparc, Dutilleux, Aubert, Schmitt, Dubugnon, Rebel, Tomasi, and Poulenc, and collaborations with world-class soloists including Augustin Hadelich, Juho Pohjonen, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Michael Barenboim, Ana María Martínez, Philippe Jaroussky, and more. In 2019-20 he returned to conduct the Houston Symphony Orchestra, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, and Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse.

His conducting has taken him across the globe to lead top orchestras including the London Symphony Orchestra, Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris, Cleveland Orchestra, NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester, Seoul Philharmonic, National Symphony Orchestra D.C., Frankfurt Radio Symphony, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Oslo Philharmonic, Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, Antwerp Symphony Orchestra, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, Tonkünstler Orchester, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Warsaw Philharmonic, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Tasmania Symphony, Milwaukee Symphony, Deutsches Symphonie Orchester, Orchestre National de Bordeaux Aquitaine, Orchestre National d’Île-de-France, and Danish National Symphony Orchestra.

Gabel has worked with the world’s most formidable soloists including Emanuel Ax, Seong-Jin Cho, Gidon Kremer, Christian Tetzlaff, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Alina Pogostkina, Julian Steckel, Johannes Moser, Antonio Meneses, Marc-André Hamelin, Beatrice Rana, Gautier Capuçon, Simone Lamsma, Xavier de Maistre, and Bertrand Chamayou, and singers such as Anne Sophie Von Otter, Michael Schade, Petra Lang, Jennifer Larmore, Measha Brueggergosman, Danielle de Niese, Natalie Dessay, and Marie-Nicole Lemieux.

Gabel first attracted international attention in 2004 winning the Donatella Flick competition in London, which subsequently led to his appointment as the London Symphony Orchestra’s Assistant Conductor for two seasons. Since then, the orchestra has engaged him regularly as a Guest Conductor.

Born in Paris into a family of accomplished musicians, Gabel began studying trumpet at the age of six, honing his skills at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris, which awarded him a First Prize in trumpet in 1996, and later at the Musik Hochschule of Karlsruhe. He went on to play in several Parisian orchestras under the direction of prominent conductors such as Pierre Boulez, Sir Colin Davis, Riccardo Muti, Seiji Ozawa, Simon Rattle and Bernard Haitink. In 2002, Fabien Gabel pursued his interest in conducting at the Aspen Summer Music Festival, where he studied with David Zinman, who invited him to appear as a guest conductor at the Festival in 2009. He has worked as an assistant to Bernard Haitink and Sir Colin Davis.

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CITY OF BIRMINGHAM SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

VIOLIN IEugene TzikindeleanJonathan Martindale *

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Colin TwiggJane Wright Kirsty Lovie *Mark Robinson #

Elizabeth Golding #

Colette Overdijk *

VIOLIN IIPeter Campbell-Kelly *Kate Suthers*Moritz Pfister Catherine Arlidge *

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Gabriel Dyker * #

Heather Bradshaw * #

Bryony Morrison *Georgia Hannant *

VIOLAChris Yates *

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Angela Swanson #

Catherine Bower *David BaMaung *Amy Thomas #

Elizabeth Fryer * #

Jessica Tickle *

CELLOEduardo Vassallo *

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Miguel Fernandes *Helen Edgar *

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Jacqueline Tyler * #

Catherine Ardagh-Walter * #

DOUBLE BASSAnthony Alcock *Julian Atkinson *

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Jeremy WattJulian Walters *

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FLUTEMarie-Christine Zupancic *

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Veronika Klirova *

PICCOLOHelen Benson

OBOEEmmet Byrne *

COR ANGLAISRachael Pankhurst *

CLARINETOliver Janes *Joanna Patton *

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BASSOONNikolaj Henriques *

CONTRABASSOONMargaret Cookhorn *

HORNElspeth Dutch *

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Jeremy Bushell *Mark Phillips *

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Martin Wright #

Oliver Johnson

TRUMPETJonathan Holland *

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Richard Blake *

TROMBONERichard Watkin * Anthony Howe *#

BASS TROMBONEDavid Vines *

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TUBAGraham Sibley *

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TIMPANIMatthew Hardy *

PERCUSSIONAdrian Spillett *

Andrew Herbert *Toby Kearney *Cliff Pick

HARPKatherine Thomas

CELESTEBen Dawson

# Recipient of the CBSO Long Service Award * Supported player

Under the baton of its Music Director Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (CBSO) is the flagship of musical life in Birmingham and the West Midlands, and one of the world’s great orchestras.

Based in Symphony Hall, the ochestra gives over 150 concerts each year in Birmingham, the UK and around the world, playing music that ranges from classics to contemporary, film music and even symphonic disco. With a far-reaching community programme and a family of choruses and ensembles, it is involved in every aspect of music-making in the Midlands. But at its centre is a team of 75 superb professional musicians, and a 100-year tradition of making the world’s greatest music, right here in the heart of Birmingham.

That local tradition started with the orchestra’s very first symphonic concert in 1920 – conducted by Sir Edward Elgar. Ever since then, through war, recessions, social change and civic renewal, the CBSO has been proud to be Birmingham’s orchestra. Under principal conductors including Adrian Boult, George Weldon, Andrzej Panufnik and Louis Frémaux, the CBSO won an artistic reputation that spread far beyond the Midlands. But it was when it discovered the young British conductor Simon Rattle in 1980 that the CBSO became internationally

famous – and showed how the arts can help give a new sense of direction to a whole city.

Home and Away

Rattle’s successors Sakari Oramo (1998-2008) and Andris Nelsons (2008-15) helped cement that global reputation, and continued to build on the CBSO’s tradition of flying the flag for Birmingham. As the only professional symphony orchestra based between Bournemouth and Manchester, the orchestra tours regularly in Britain – and much further afield. The orchestra has travelled to Japan and the United Arab Emirates in previous seasons, and in December 2016 made its debut tour of China. And its recordings continue to win acclaim. In 2008, the CBSO’s recording of Saint-Saëns’ complete piano concertos was named the best classical recording of the last 30 years by Gramophone.

Now, under the dynamic leadership of Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, associate conductor Michael Seal and assistant conductor Jaume Santonja Espinós, the CBSO continues to do what it does best – playing great music for the people of Birmingham and the Midlands.

Meet the Family

The CBSO Chorus – a symphonic choir made up of “amateur professionals”, trained by Simon Halsey cbe – is famous in its own

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These groups are sometimes called the “CBSO family” – over 650 amateur musicians of all ages and backgrounds, who work alongside the orchestra to make and share great music. But the CBSO’s tradition of serving the community goes much further. Its Learning and Participation programme touches tens of thousands of lives a year, ranging from workshops in nurseries to projects that energise whole neighbourhoods. And everyone’s welcome at CBSO Centre on Berkley Street. As well as being a friendly, stylish performance venue for the lunchtime concert series Centre Stage and contemporary jazz concerts by Jazzlines, the CBSO’s rehearsal base is home to Birmingham Contemporary Music Group and Ex Cathedra. Now in its Centenary year, the CBSO, more than ever, remains the beating heart of musical life in the UK’s Second City.

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Lillie Johnson Charitable TrustThe Kobler TrustJames Langley Memorial TrustThe Leverhulme TrustLG Harris TrustLJC FundLimoges Charitable TrustThe S & D Lloyd CharityThe Helen Rachael Mackaness Charitable TrustThe McLay Dementia TrustThe James Frederick & Ethel Anne Measures CharityMFPA Trust Fund for the Training of Handicapped

Children in the ArtsMillichope FoundationThe David Morgan Music TrustThe Oakley Charitable TrustThe Patrick TrustThe Misses C M Pearson & M V Williams

Charitable TrustPerry Family Charitable TrustThe Bernard Piggott Charitable TrustPRS Foundation’s The Open Fund for OrganisationsThe Radcliffe TrustThe Rainbow Dickinson TrustThe Ratcliff FoundationClive & Sylvia Richards CharityRix-Thompson-Rothenberg FoundationThe M K Rose Charitable TrustThe Rowlands TrustRVW TrustThe Saintbury TrustThe E H Smith Charitable TrustF C Stokes TrustSutton Coldfield Charitable TrustC B & H H Taylor 1984 TrustG J W Turner TrustThe Roger & Douglas Turner Charitable TrustGarfield Weston FoundationThe Wolfson FoundationThe Alan Woodfield Charitable Trust

Supporter of Schoolsʼ Concerts

Strategic Partners

www.prsformusicfoundation.com

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Partners in Orchestral Development

William King Ltd

THANK YOU The support we receive from thousands of individual donors, public funders, businesses and private foundations allows us to present extraordinary performances and to create exciting activities in schools and communities. Your support makes such a difference and is much appreciated.

For more information on how your organisation can engage with the CBSO, please contact Simon Fairclough, CBSO Director of Development, on 0121 616 6500 or sfairclough@cbso.co.uk

Thank you also to our Major Donors, Benefactors, Circles Members, Patrons and Friends for their generous support.

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BOARDChair David Burbidge cbe dlDeputy Chair David RoperElected Trustees Tony Davis Jane Fielding Susan Foster Joe Godwin Emily Ingram Sundash Jassi Chris Loughran Lucy Williams

Birmingham City Council Nominated Trustees Cllr Sir Albert Bore Cllr Alex Yip

Player Nominated Trustees Elspeth Dutch Helen Edgar

Additional Player Representative Margaret Cookhorn

Hon Secretary to the Trustees Mark Devin

CBSO DEVELOPMENT TRUSTChair Chris Loughran dl

Trustees Charles Barwell obe Gordon Campbell Wally Francis John Osborn cbe David Pett

Hon Secretary to the Trustees John Bartlett

CAMPAIGN BOARDChair David Burbidge cbe, dl Susan Foster Peter How Jamie Justham Her Honour Frances Kirkham cbe Chris Loughran dl John Osborn cbe

Honorary Medical Advisors:

Dr Rod MacRorie. Association of Medical Advisors to British Orchestras/BAPAM

Professor Sir Keith Porter. Consultant, University Hospitals Birmingham

PLAYERS’ COMMITTEEChair Jo Patton Vice Chair Mark Phillips Richard Watkin Andy Herbert Kirsty Lovie Colette Overdijk Heather Bradshaw Matthew Hardy* Recipients of the CBSO Long Service Award † Part-time employee # Volunteer

MANAGEMENTChief Executive Stephen Maddock obe*PA to Chief Executive Niki Longhurst*†

Head of Orchestra Management (Maternity Cover) Adrian RutterOrchestra Manager Claire Dersley*Assistant Orchestra Manager Alan JohnsonPlatform Manager Peter Harris*Assistant Platform Manager Robert Howard Librarian Jack Lovell-Huckle Co-Librarian William Lucas

Head of Artistic Planning Anna MelvillePlanning & Tours Manager Hannah MuddimanProject Manager Claire GreenwoodAssistant Planning Manager Maddi Belsey-Day

Director of Learning and Engagement Lucy GalliardLearning & Participation Manager Katie LucasCommunity Projects Officer Adele FranghiadiYouth Ensembles Officer Rebecca NicholasSchools Officer Carolyn Burton Chorus Manager Poppy Howarth Children’s & Youth Chorus Officer Ella McNameeResearch Assistant Adam Nagel*†

Marketing Consultant Katy Raines Director of Marketing and Communications Gareth Beedie Interim Head of Marketing Maria HowesCRM and Insight Manager Melanie Ryan*†Publications Manager Jane Denton†Digital Content Producer Hannah Blake-Fathers Marketing Volunteer Christine Midgley*#

Director of Development Simon FaircloughHead of Philanthropy Francesca Spickernell Membership & Appeals Manager Eve Vines†Events & Relationship Management Executive Megan BradshawDevelopment Operations Officer Melanie AdeyDevelopment Administrator Bethan McKnight† Trust Fundraiser Fiona Fox

Director of Finance Annmarie WallisFinance Manager Dawn DohertyPayroll Officer Lindsey Bhagania†Assistant Accountant Graham IrvingFinance Assistant (Cost) Susan PriceHR Manager Hollie DunsterCBSO Centre Manager Niki Longhurst*†Technical and Facilities Supervisor Tomoyuki MatsuoAssistant CBSO Centre Manager Peter Clarke*Receptionist Sev Kucukogullari†

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