OCTOBER 2017 – JULY 2018

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Season Summary

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Conductor’s Introduction

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Welcome to the 2017–18 season of the Cambridge Philharmonic, one of the UK’sleading music societies. With a full symphony orchestra and a large chorus, theCambridge Philharmonic presents a series of concerts in West Road Concert Hall, the Emmanuel United Reformed Church and Ely Cathedral.

Our season begins in October with Rossini’s Petite messe solenelle, a deliberatelymisnamed work if ever there was one, being neither petite nor particularly solemn either.November’s programme features Dvor̆ák’s turbulent Seventh Symphony andRachmaninov’s magnificently dark tone poem, The Isle of the Dead which together frame aperformance of Britten’s stunning violin concerto. Our soloist, Matthew Trusler, always ahugely popular guest, is a noted exponent of the work and has performed and recorded itto great acclaim.

Our annual opera-in-concert this year takes us to the heart of romantic Russia, forTchaikovsky’s masterpiece, Eugene Onegin. The stunning cast includes many Philharmonicfriends – including Matthew Hargreaves (Pistol, Falstaff), Mark Wilde (Cat, Pinocchio) andYvonne Howard (Auntie, Peter Grimes) – and several artists whom we welcome for the firsttime, including the award-winning Julien Van Mellaerts and Katherine Broderick.

The Cambridge Phil family concerts in January are a highpoint of our season and this yearI’m delighted that we’ll be working once again with my brother, the presenter andbroadcaster, Tom Redmond. Paris has always held great appeal to composers from all overthe world and for our concert in March we bring together works by some of the 20thcentury’s masters who lived and worked there.

Timothy Ridout is one of the most exciting young musicians of his generation and I’mthrilled that he will be joining us in May to play Walton’s viola concerto. That concert alsofeature Elgar’s ever-popular Enigma Variations and we take the opportunity to celebrateLeonard Bernstein’s centenary with a performance of the symphonic suite from On theWaterfront.

The season ends with Mahler’s stunning Eighth Symphony – a work ideally suited for thegrandeur and rich acoustic of Ely Cathedral. We look forward to seeing you at a concert –and thank you for supporting the Cambridge Philharmonic.

Timothy RedmondPrincipal Conductor

Saturday 7 October 2017Rossini Petite messe solennelleEmmanuel United Reformed Church, Cambridge

Saturday 4 November 2017Rachmaninov The Isle of the DeadBritten Violin ConcertoDvor̆ák Symphony No. 7West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge

Saturday 16 December 2017Tchaikovsky Eugene OneginWest Road Concert Hall, Cambridge

Saturday 13 January 2018Family concert Tim and Tom’s Symphonic AdventureWest Road Concert Hall, Cambridge

Saturday 17 March 2018Stravinsky Symphony of PsalmsPoulenc Concerto for 2 PianosRavel Daphnis and Chloé Suite No. 2Poulenc Stabat MaterWest Road Concert Hall, Cambridge

Sunday 20 May 2018Bernstein On the Waterfront: Symphonic SuiteWalton Viola ConcertoElgar Enigma VariationsWest Road Concert Hall, Cambridge

Saturday 7 July 2018Mahler Symphony No. 8Ely Cathedral

Saturday 4 November 2017 at 7.30pm

West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge

ConductorTimothy Redmond

ViolinMatthew Trusler

Cambridge Philharmonic Orchestra

“What I try to do whenwriting down my music isto make it say simply thatwhich is in my heart.”Rachmaninov

“Trusler’s playing is richlynuanced and deeplyempathic.” Westdeutsche Zeitung

Saturday 7 October 2017 at 7.30pm

Emmanuel United Reformed Church, Cambridge

“The language of music iscommon to all generationsand nations; it isunderstood by everybody,since it is understood withthe heart.” Gioacchino Rossini

Open RehearsalSaturday 23 September 2.30 –5.30pm, Emmanuel UnitedReformed Church.

For further details and anapplication form go online towww.cam-phil.org.uk

Tickets (unreserved): £15 (Students and under-18s £10 on the door)Box Office: 01223 357851 (Cambridge Live)Online: www.cam-phil.org.uk

Tickets (reserved): £12, £16, £20, £25(Students and under-18s £10 on the door)Box Office: 01223 357851 (Cambridge Live)Online: www.cam-phil.org.uk

Darkness to Light

Conductor Timothy Redmond Soprano Clare TunneyAlto Hannah BennettTenor Alexander AldrenBass Richard WalsheCambridge Philharmonic Chorus

By the age of 37, Rossini’s 40 operas had made him a wealthyman. William Tell was to be his last, after which he left hisadopted France for Italy all-but retiring from composing.However, after a long illness he returned to Paris – and tomusic – writing many light-hearted vignettes and salonpieces, the greatest of which is the Petite messe solennelle.Rossini described it as ‘the last mortal sin of my old age’.

Packed with stunning melodies and sumptuous harmony, thisdelightful work is a perfect start to the season. And you areinvited to experience the piece close-up at an open rehearsalon Saturday 23 September. Here you will be able to join thePhilharmonic Chorus and conductor Timothy Redmond forthe afternoon and work in detail on this extraordinary music.

The soloists are supported by the Josephine Baker Trust.

Petite Messe Solennelle

Rachmaninov The Isle of the Dead Britten Violin Concerto Dvor̆ák Symphony No. 7

The programme begins with one of the great tone poems of the 20thcentury. Inspired by Böcklin’s iconic painting, Rachmaninov’s dark,brooding music conjures up the stroke of oars in the water and a slowfunereal journey that gradually builds to a huge orchestral climax.

Matthew Trusler’s virtuosic playing has won him acclaim throughoutthe world. Following his unforgettable performance of Shostakovichlast year, he returns to the Cambridge Phil with Britten’s hauntingViolin Concerto, a work composed in Canada, premiered in New Yorkand imbued with an anger and sadness at the Spanish Civil War.

When Dvor̆ák wrote his Seventh Symphony he intended the piece to‘stir the world’. Commissioned by the Royal Philharmonic Societyand first performed in London under the composer’s own baton, it isarguably Dvor̆ák’s finest work.

Rossini

“Powerful, radiant singingfrom the Phil chorus” Cambridge News

Tchaikovsky

Tchaikovsky’s most famous opera, a setting ofPushkin’s timeless verse novel, is a deeply movingtale of love, rejection, jealousy and loss. Tatyana, acountry girl, falls for the dashing society bachelor,Onegin, pouring out her love for him in an impassionedletter. Onegin’s cold response leads to a tragic chain ofevents that affects all those closest to him.

Julien Van Mellaerts and Katherine Broderick, bothKathleen Ferrier Award-winners, lead a stellar cast ofinternational soloists

“The CambridgePhilharmonic’sannual opera isbecoming awonderful localtradition” Local Secrets

Saturday 13 January 2018 at 2.00pm and 4.00pm

West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge

Conductor Timothy RedmondPresenter Tom RedmondCambridge Philharmonic Orchestra

For this year’s Philharmonic Family Concert, conductor Tim Redmond is joined on stage by his brother Tom. Together, they find an old chest full ofmysterious objects which take them on some unexpected musical adventures! With works by Mozart,Wagner, John Williams (and lots more besides) you canlook forward to an action-packed hour of musicalentertainment.

“If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.” Albert Einstein

“Making the music feelfun, accessible and attimes downrightFASCINATING... abrilliant way tointroduce kids toorchestral music.” Cambridge News

Saturday 16 December 2017 at 7.30pm

West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge

Tickets (reserved): £12Box Office: 01223 357851 (Cambridge Live)Online: www.cam-phil.org.uk

Tickets (reserved): £15, £20, £25, £30(Students and under-18s £10 on the door)Box Office: 01223 357851 (Cambridge Live)Online: www.cam-phil.org.uk

Family Concert

Conductor Timothy Redmond

Onegin Julien Van Mellaerts

Tatyana Katherine Broderick

Lensky Thomas Atkins

Olga Bethan Langford

Larina Yvonne Howard

Filippyevna Fiona Kimm

M. Triquet Mark Wilde

Prince Gremin/Zaretsky Matthew Hargreaves

Cambridge Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus

Bernstein On the Waterfront: Symphonic Suite

Walton Viola Concerto Elgar Enigma Variations

“Music can name the unnameable andcommunicate the unknowable.”Leonard Bernstein

Tickets (reserved): £12, £16, £20, £25 (Students and under-18s £10 on the door)Box Office: 01223 357851 (Cambridge Live)Online: www.cam-phil.org.uk

Sunday 20 May 2018 at 7.30pm

West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge

Saturday 17 March 2018 at 7.30pm (pre-concert talk & performance 6.45pm)

West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge

Varèse Ionisation*

Stravinsky Symphony of Psalms Poulenc Concerto for 2 PianosRavel Daphnis et Chloé Suite No. 2Poulenc Stabat Mater

Conductor Timothy Redmond, Finan Jones*

Soprano Margo ArsanePianos Nicolae Mihaila, Thibault CharrinCambridge Philharmonic Orchestra and ChorusGuildhall Percussion Ensemble

Tickets (reserved): £12, £16, £20, £25(Students and under-18s £10 on the door)Box Office: 01223 357851 (Cambridge Live)Online: www.cam-phil.org.uk

Paris entre-deux-guerres, played host to the some of thegreatest creative geniuses who ever lived. Throughout the1920s and 30s, in the salons and concert halls of the Frenchcapital, Gershwin and Copland rubbed shoulders withPicasso and Chagall, Gertrude Stein and Ernest Hemingway,Coco Chanel and Nina Ricci. The music of the time was asvaried as it was brilliant. In this concert, Stravinsky’sausterely beautiful Symphony of Psalms contrasts withthe unabashedly lush sound world of Francis Poulenc.

*A free pre-concert talk at 6.45pm will include aperformance of Varèse’s Ionisation for thirteenpercussionists, conducted by Finan Jones.

FRENCHCONNECTIONS

2018 marks the centenary of Leonard Bernstein, perhaps the most celebrated of all 20th centurymusicians: composer, conductor, pianist and educator, Bernstein’s legacy is extraordinary. Though hewrote so many phenomenal stage works – West Side Story, On the Town and Candide among them –Elia Kazan’s 1954 film On the Waterfront was the only movie Bernstein ever scored.

Composed when he was only 26, Walton wrote his Viola Concerto for Lionel Tertis at the suggestion ofSir Thomas Beecham. With its poignantly beautiful opening and thrilling scherzo, the work quicklybecame one of the central works of the viola repertoire. Timothy Ridout, first-ever British winner ofthe Lionel Tertis International Viola Competition, is the soloist.

It was at a performance of his viola concerto in 1932 that Walton met Elgar for the only time, 33 yearsafter the Enigma Variations first burst into the world and changed English music forever.

ConductorTimothy Redmond

ViolaTimothy Ridout

CambridgePhilharmonic Orchestra and Chorus

“My music is my portrait.” Francis Poulenc

“This music is very, very French.” Stravinsky on Poulenc

MAHLER8Cambridge Philharmonic Supporters Scheme

Ely Cathedral

Mahler described his mighty Eighth Symphonyas ‘a gift to the whole nation’. Whilst itsnickname ‘Symphony of a Thousand’ might bean exaggeration, with eight soloists, severalchoirs and a truly enormous orchestra, it’s nottoo far off the mark. In the summer of 1906,Mahler was concerned that his creative powerswere failing him. He decided to rest from hisusual composing routine, but on his first day ofholiday, ‘the Spiritus Creator took hold of meand shook me and drove me on for the nexteight weeks until my greatest work was done.’Based on the Latin hymn ‘Veni Creator Spiritus’and the final part of Goethe’s Faust, this is acelebration of life, love and the creative spirit.

“Try to imagine the wholeuniverse beginning toring and resound. Thereare no longer humanvoices, but planets andsuns revolving.” Gustav Mahler

The Cambridge Philharmonic is a charitableorganisation and has to be fullyselfsupporting. Our main sources of revenueare ticket sales, membership fees and thegenerosity of Cambridge PhilharmonicSupporters, which include businesses, trustsand individuals who share our vision, andwhose support we gratefully acknowledge.

The Cambridge Philharmonic SupportersScheme (CPSS) is open to all and is intendedto give music lovers an opportunity tobecome more closely involved with theCambridge Philharmonic and its objectives.We cater for various levels of support and inreturn offer a range of benefits. These includean advance copy of our season brochureallowing preferential booking,acknowledgement on the CambridgePhilharmonic website and in newsletters,invitations to open rehearsals and theopportunity to sponsor a concert.

The funding we receive through theSupporters Scheme is vitally important. Itallows us to be more ambitious with ourprogrammes, to engage leading musicians towork alongside our largely non-professionalmembership, and to continue to attract theenviable roster of world class soloists whoperform with the Cambridge Philharmonicevery season.

For information on becoming a CambridgePhilharmonic Supporter or for informationabout concert sponsorship write to: chairman@cam-phil.org.uk

Tickets (reserved): £15, £25, £30 / (unreserved): £10 (Students and under-18s £10 on the door)Box Office: 01353 660349 (Ely Cathedral)Online: tickets.elycathedral.org

Cambridge Philharmonic Society, Registered Charity No. 243290

Design & artwork: John Williams. Cambridge Philharmonic photos: © Joe Howarth,Pete Jones and Bill Hiskett. Cover: Timothy Ridout photo © Kaupo Kikkas; Julien VanMellaerts photo © Diana Roberts; Matthew Trusler photo © Sheila Rock. Page 5:background after Arnold Böcklin. Page 8: background after Cassandre. Page 9:background after Jessie Tarbox Beals. Page 10: Mahler photo courtesy Library ofCongress. Other background images pixabay.com and Wikimedia Commons.

For their continuing support we would especially like to thank:

Principal PatronBill Parker

Patrons

Kevin JudgeJan Littlewood

Principal Benefactors

John Short and Debbie Lowther

Paddy Smith

BenefactorsEdward and Gillian Coe

Rob and Janet Hook

Donors & FriendsEmmanuel College

Trinity CollegeSt John's CollegeChurchill College

Pembroke CollegeJosephine Baker Trust

Gerard and Margaret Chadwick

total eye care

The Pye Foundation

Saturday 7 July 2018 at 7.30pm

Conductor Timothy Redmond Soprano Judith Howarth Soprano Katherine Broderick Soprano Paula SidesMezzo Soprano Heather Shipp Mezzo Soprano Madeleine Shaw Tenor Daniel Norman Baritone Michael DruiettBass Richard Wiegold

Cambridge & Norwich Philharmonic Choruses Cambridge Philharmonic Orchestra

Mahler Symphony No. 8

How to book

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Further informationTo join the Cambridge Philharmonic as aperformer please email:

chorus@cam-phil.org.uk ororchestra@cam-phil.org.uk

For all other enquiries, please email: secretary@cam-phil.org.uk

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By telephone: Cambridge Live 01223 357851Mon - Sat 10.00am to 6.00pm

In person: at the Cambridge Live Box Office 2, Wheeler Street, Cambridge CB2 3QBFrom 12 noon - 6.00pm.

Ely Cathedral concert (Saturday 7th July 2018)Box Office: (Ely Cathedral) 01353 660340 Online: tickets.elycathedral.org

Tickets will also be available on the door for all concerts.

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