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Concert Season Coda 2021 Lighthouse, Poole
Welcome to our final six concerts in the
2020/21 BSO Concert Season
I am immensely proud of everything that has We have assembled a strong line-up of artists
been achieved by the Orchestra in recent months, and programmes with music which resonates
leading the way in live symphonic performances as we come out of lockdown towards a more
during lockdown, and bringing hope and joy to positive future. I cannot think of a more
audiences across the world. appropriate way to finish this extraordinary
We are delighted to present this third instalment and unique season than the famously ‘socially
of concerts, which have all been designed for our distanced’ final six chords of Sibelius’ glorious
specially extended stage and socially distanced Fifth Symphony.
orchestral layout. Whilst we aren’t yet allowed to Thank you once again for your incredible
have an audience back in the hall, I know that our support during this eventful season; it means so
livestreams mean so much, to so many, and that much to us. I hope you enjoy our season ‘coda’
each week more than a full hall is watching the and we look forward to many more musical
BSO perform online. I am sure sometimes we adventures in the months and years ahead.
can hear you clapping!
Whilst playing in such a distanced layout Dougie Scarfe Chief Executive
presents great challenges for our musicians, the
way everyone has adjusted to the ‘new normal’
has been magnificent. There is undoubtedly a
special quality to the sound, with all the space –
something our brilliant digital team have worked
so hard to capture for you.
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Glorious Orchestral Sublime BSO Artist-in-
Melody Postcards Beauty Residence Recital
Walton Mozart Schoenberg Schumann
Henry V Suite Symphony No.35 ‘Haffner’ Verklärte Nacht Kreisleriana
Vaughan-Williams Mendelssohn Brahms Clara Schumann
Symphony No.5 The Hebrides Overture Symphony No.1 Three Romances for
Mendelssohn Violin and Piano
Mark Wigglesworth Symphony No.4 ‘Italian’ Alexander Soddy Franck
Conductor Conductor Sonata for Violin and Piano
Andreas Ottensamer
Conductor Benjamin Grosvenor
Piano
Hyeyoon Park
Violin
Laurence Olivier's film of Launched by a stirring call to Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured It was during a time of tormented
Henry V broke new ground in attention Mozart’s brilliant Night) betrays Schoenberg’s love courtship that Schumann’s
several artistic aspects; not Haffner Symphony marked a big of Brahms in its intricate textures compositions had become
least of these was Walton's departure for the period. The and interwoven lines; it is an more experimental and complex.
score, which brilliantly achieved finale, which Mozart requested ecstatically sensual evocation of His Kreisleriana was a product of
a convincing “period” feel. The be played “as fast as possible” new love transcending the this fertile, fraught period. The
movements of the concert suite bubbles over with comic-opera burden of old sin. It took Brahms music swings violently and
are arranged in a neat, vivaciousness. Mendelssohn’s more than twenty years to suddenly between agitation and
symmetrical arch, packed with musical Hebridean postcard approach the challenge of his first lyrical calm, dread and elation.
beautiful tunes – rousing, tender conjures up the grandeur of symphony – it was no “laughing Romances were one of Clara
and melancholy. For all its Fingal’s Cave, the swelling of the matter” to write a symphony Schumann’s favourite
warmth, melodic generosity and sea, the light on the water and after Beethoven! – incorporating
compositional forms, which is
seeming spaciousness, Vaughan the fury of the waves breaking ideas and innovations that
perhaps why this particular work
Williams’ Fifth Symphony is also on the cliffs. Mendelssohn’s clear moved symphonic writing
is so effective – the three
an intricate, highly sophisticated joy in evoking the soul of Italy is forward. Opening with dramatic
contrasting movements bursting
work. The tonal ambiguity of its present throughout his Fourth intensity, it gives way to peace
opening is ultimately resolved in Symphony. Extroverted from the and serenity; the finale has been with character. Franck’s lone
radiant orchestral polyphony, outset, conjuring up sunny skies described as “one of the Sonata in A Major remains his
recalling the spirit of the and radiant landscapes in a sublimest utterances human best-known chamber work.
Elizabethan choral masters. virtually flawless assembly of airy ears have heard” – its hymn-like From its expansive opening to
and fiery dances, it never lets the theme commuted into a glorious the famous finale, the music
excitement lapse for a moment. and magnificent conclusion. flows with melodic fluency and
effortless poise.
Dedicated with thanks
to our loyal members
Wednesday
12 May
Wednesday
19 May bsolive.com
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The Song of Hopes and
Nature Dreams
Beethoven Mendelssohn BSO Concert Season Coda 2021
Symphony No.6 ‘Pastoral’ A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Live from Lighthouse, Poole
Wagner Scriabin
Die Meistersinger Suite Rêverie
Sibelius
Mark Wigglesworth Symphony No.5
Conductor
Kirill Karabits Digital tickets:
Conductor Concert livestream digital ticket If you cannot watch live for any
£9 (incl. VAT) per concert reason, all performances will be
available to view on demand for
Season digital subscription 30 days after each livestream.
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Beethoven’s love of nature shines Light and carefree, Mendelssohn’s Pre-concert talks:
through in his Sixth Symphony. incidental music depicts the fairy As a digital ticket holder you Online 30-minute talks will
The opening Awakening of realm of Shakespeare’s play with will have automatic access to be available for each concert.
Cheerful Feeling upon Arriving in enchanting, perhaps even the premium page where you Presented by former BSO Head
the Country is followed by the enchanted, music full of will find the embedded video of Projects, Andrew Burn, and
aptly flowing grace of a Scene by other-worldly yet subtle energy. link for the concert when you illustrated with musical
the Brook, complete with calls of Scriabin’s Rêverie, for all its log in to your BSO account at extracts, they are a valuable
a nightingale, quail and cuckoo. brevity, is packed full of luscious www.bsolive.com. Full details insight into the music being
The Merry Assembly of Country harmonies interwoven to create will be sent in due course and performed.
Folk is interrupted by a violent a swirling dreamscape that ebbs you will receive a reminder
thunderstorm, but soon a mood and flows mysteriously. One of email, together with viewing A pdf concert programme
of serenity is restored by the final, the really great, late-Romantic link, each Monday prior to the for each concert will also
uplifting Shepherds’ Song of symphonies, Sibelius’ Fifth has concert date. be downloadable.
Thanksgiving. Wagner's comic an epic quality; a sweep and
opera Die Meistersinger von grandeur which triumphs over Whilst the BSO will endeavour to perform all concerts as listed, given the continuing
Nürnberg is his most human, with passing feelings of anxiety to uncertainty of the current situation, there may be the necessity to change
programmes and/or artists due to safety requirements or changes to government
no gods, potions or mythical celebrate the heroic, optimistic guide-lines or travel restrictions. If the concert has to be cancelled in its entirety
journeys. Inspired by the real 16th power of life. The gorgeous and an alternative livestream is not possible, all ticket money will be refunded.
century Master Singer’s Guild of opening sunrise is best described
Nuremberg and their famous by Sibelius himself. “God opens Benjamin Grosvenor appears courtesy of Decca Classics
songwriting competitions, the His door for a moment and
story is a metaphor for Wagner’s His orchestra plays.” This was
own musical struggle. no boast!
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