OCTOBER 2015 – JULY 2016
www.cam-phil.org.uk
Conductor’s Introduction
I am delighted to introduce the 2015–16 season, my tenth as principal conductor and
artistic director of the Cambridge Philharmonic.
Over the past decade, we have performed more than 70 concerts together in repertoire
that has encompassed a whole musical alphabet of composers from Adams to
Zimmermann. This season we offer a similarly rich mix of music, starting with Mozart’s
Requiem – and the opportunity for you to join us in a performance of this celebrated
masterwork. Scandinavia is the focus for our first West Road concert of the season
with works by Sibelius, Grieg and the contemporary Finnish composer Magnus
Lindberg, whose Clarinet Concerto was such a success when we performed it with
Mark Simpson a few years ago.
Our annual opera performances have become something of a fixture in the Cambridge
calendar, regularly attracting both a capacity audience and a star-studded cast. Having
performed so much of Jonathan Dove’s concert music in recent years, we are thrilled
that this year’s opera-in-concert will be Dove’s The Adventures of Pinocchio, a piece
that has delighted audiences worldwide.
There will be the chance to hear a musical fairy tale of a very different kind when we
perform Bluebeard’s Castle in May. A brilliant young cast of singers from the Guildhall
School in London will join us for this rare opportunity to hear Bartók’s one-act opera.
Other soloists this season include the inspirational young Romanian pianist Alexandra
Dariescu, our very own leader, violinist Steve Bingham, and some of Britain’s finest
singers, including Rebecca Bottone, Mary Plazas, Jonathan Summers and Stephen
Richardson, whose work takes them from Covent Garden to Salzburg and from La Scala
to the Met.
With choral works by Duruflé and Arvo Pärt, orchestral gems by Janác̆ek and
Rachmaninov, much-loved pieces by Vaughan Williams and Walton – not to mention
our children’s concert, which is part of the Dahl 100 celebrations – there is plenty for
music lovers young and old.
Timothy Redmond
Principal Conductor
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Season Summary
“The world
renowned
Cambridge
Philharmonic…
one of
Cambridge’s
great city
institutions.”
Local Secrets
Saturday 10 October 2015
Come and Sing:
Mozart Requiem
Emmanuel United Reformed Church, Cambridge
Sunday 25 October 2015
Sibelius En Saga
Grieg Piano Concerto
Lindberg Chorale
Sibelius Symphony No. 2
West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge
Saturday 19 December 2015
Dove The Adventures of Pinocchio
West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge
Saturday 23 January 2016
Family Concert:
Roald Dahl at 100
West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge
Saturday 5 March 2016
Arvo Pärt Te Deum
Duruflé Requiem
West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge
Saturday 21 May 2016
Janáček Jealousy
Rachmaninov Spring
Bartók Bluebeard’s Castle
West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge
Saturday 9 July 2016
Walton Te Deum
Vaughan Williams The Lark Ascending
Vaughan Williams A Sea Symphony
Ely Cathedral
Saturday 10 October 2015
Rehearsal 2-5pm | Performance 6pm
Come & Sing!
Mozart
Requiem
“Powerful, radiant singing
from the Phil chorus.”
Cambridge News
“Mozart combines
serenity, melancholy,
and tragic intensity
into one great lyric
improvisation. Over it
all hovers the greater
spirit that is Mozart’s –
the spirit of
compassion, of
universal love, even of
suffering – a spirit that
knows no age, that
belongs to all ages.”
Sunday 25 October 2015 at 6.30pm
Sibelius & Grieg
Leonard Bernstein
Sibelius
Grieg
Lindberg
Sibelius
Conductor
Timothy Redmond
Soprano
Holly Czolacz
Mezzo soprano Beth Moxon
Tenor
Will Blake
Bass
Michael Mofidian
Cambridge Philharmonic Chorus and Orchestra
The season begins with an invitation to join us – not just as audience members, but as members of
the chorus! Mozart’s Requiem is one of the great masterpieces of all time and the chance to sing it
with full orchestra, chorus and four exciting young soloists is not to be missed.
Mozart received the commission to compose what would prove to be his final work from a mysterious
figure acting on behalf of an anonymous patron. As his health began to fail, the ever-superstitious
Mozart feared that he was writing his own requiem and left the work incomplete at the time of his
premature death in 1791, aged only 35.
En Saga
Piano Concerto
Chorale
Symphony No. 2
Conductor
Timothy Redmond
Piano
Alexandra Dariescu
Cambridge Philharmonic Orchestra
Alexandra Dariescu comes to the Cambridge Philharmonic for
Grieg’s Piano Concerto directly from New York. Named by BBC
Music Magazine as a rising star, she featured in Forbes
Magazine’s ‘30 under 30’, won the Prix Maurice Ravel in France
and has
received outstanding reviews around the world.
Framing the programme are two contrasting works by the
Finnish master, Jean Sibelius. “En Saga is the expression of a
state of mind… In no other work have I revealed myself so
completely,” said Sibelius of his early tone poem.
Tickets (unreserved): £15 participants (scores provided), £10 audience
(Students and under-18s £10 on the door)
Tickets from www.cam-phil.org.uk or on the door
Tickets (reserved): £12, £16, £20, £25
(Students and under-18s £10 on the door)
Box Office: 01223 357851 (Cambridge Corn Exchange)
Online: www.cam-phil.org.uk
Emmanuel United Reformed Church, Cambridge
West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge
Alexandra Dariescu
“Alexandra Dariescu
blew their minds…
sheer quality.”
Financial Times
“Music begins where the
possibilities of
language end.”
Jean Sibelius
Saturday 19 December 2015 at 6.30pm
Jonathan Dove’s
The Adventures of Pinocchio
An opera for all the family
Conductor
Timothy Redmond
Pinocchio
Victoria Simmonds
Geppetto
Jonathan Summers
Cricket
Rebecca Bottone
Fire-eater
Stephen Richardson
Blue Fairy
Mary Plazas
Cat
Mark Wilde
Cambridge Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus
Jonathan Dove’s brilliant, captivating and profoundly moving music
has delighted audiences throughout the world. Now, for the first time
in Cambridge, the Philharmonic is proud to present one of the most
successful operas of recent times, The Adventures of Pinocchio – an
opera for all the family.
Saturday 23 January 2016 at 2.00pm and 4.00pm
FamilyConcert
Conductor
Timothy Redmond
Cambridge Philharmonic Orchestra
This year’s family concerts are part of the Roald Dahl 100
celebrations, so you can be sure of some amazing musical
adventures at West Road: there will be music to excite, to surprise
and to inspire. As the BFG once put it, “sometimes human beans is
very overcome when they is hearing wonderous music. They is
getting shivers down their spindels.”
We promise that, in the words of Willy Wonka, “Tremendous
things are in store for you! Many wonderful surprises await you!”
But like all the best surprises, you’ll have to wait and see what
they are!
Dove’s retelling of the Pinocchio story is as exciting, witty and
poignant as you would expect from one of today’s most prolific
and popular composers. This perfect introduction for all ages to the
world of opera is led by members of the original award-winning Opera
North cast and promises to be yet another unforgettable Cambridge
Philharmonic production.
“We loved the
concert…the whole
performance was
absolutely fantastic!”
Audience member
“Matilda said, ‘Never do
anything by halves if
you want to get away
with it. Be outrageous.
Go the whole hog.
Make sure everything
you do is so completely
crazy it’s
unbelievable…’ ”
“Not since Benjamin Britten has a
British composer succeeded in writing
operas which communicate with such
clarity and coherence to their
audience as those by Jonathan Dove.”
The Gramophone
Roald Dahl, Matilda
Tickets (reserved): £12
Box Office: 01223 357851
(Cambridge Corn Exchange)
Online: www.cam-phil.org.uk
Tickets (reserved): £10 (under-18s), £15, £20, £25, £30 (Students £10 on the door)
Box Office: 01223 357851 (Cambridge Corn Exchange)
Online: www.cam-phil.org.uk
West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge
West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge
Saturday 5 March 2016 at 7.30pm
Saturday 21 May 2016 at 7.30pm
Pärt & Duruflé Bluebeard’s
Castle
Pärt
Te Deum
Duruflé Requiem
Conductor
Timothy Redmond
Mezzo soprano Bethan Langford
Baritone
Josep-Ramon Olivé
Janác̆ek
Z̆árlivost (Jealousy)
Rachmaninov Spring
Bartók
Bluebeard’s Castle
Cambridge Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus
Conductor
Timothy Redmond
Baritone (Spring)
Christopher Cull
Judith, Mezzo soprano
Katarzyna Zielinska
Bluebeard, Bass baritone Milan Siljanov
Cambridge Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus
Arvo Pärt and Maurice Duruflé were both profoundly inspired by
the evocative sound of Gregorian plainchant. In the case of
Duruflé, his whole life was infused with the music of the church:
first as a chorister and then as one of France’s foremost organists.
The Requiem, his most celebrated work, was written as a
memorial to his father and, like Fauré’s Requiem, on which it is
based, offers tranquillity, comfort and peace to the listener.
Estonian composer Arvo Pärt began his career as a modernist, but
a radical reappraisal of his style came about when he discovered
the austere beauty of early church music. Now one of the most
successful of all living composers, he has inspired countless
others from Keith Jarrett to Björk. From his extraordinary and
mystical sound world emerges music that is at the same time
ancient and modern, sacred and secular.
“The human voice is the
most perfect
instrument of all.”
Arvo Pärt
“Marshalled to
perfection by conductor
Timothy Redmond.”
Time Out
Based on the Perrault fairy tale Bluebeard, Bartók’s one-act opera
is a sinister and gripping psychological thriller. Judith, newly
married to Bluebeard, arrives at her husband’s castle for the first
time. Finding seven locked doors she insists, against Bluebeard’s
wishes, that they be opened to let light into the gloomy and
forbidding interior. “Are you afraid?”, asks Bluebeard as one by
one, six of his dark secrets are revealed. Judith insists that despite
the rumours about him, her love for her husband outweighs the
fear she feels. But then comes the seventh door…
“The Society’s
concerts are always
interestingly
planned, always
technically highgrade, regularly
well-attended and
always good value
for money.”
Cambridge News
“A nation creates
music – the
composer only
arranges it.”
Belá Bartók
Rachmaninov’s cantata Spring was written immediately after the
Second Piano Concerto. Its lush romantic sound world
underscores a tale of jealousy, a cuckolded husband’s wish for
murderous revenge and the redemptive power of spring.
Tickets (reserved): £12, £16, £20, £25 (Students and under-18s £10 on the door)
Box Office: 01223 357851 (Cambridge Corn Exchange)
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 Corn Exchange)
Online: www.cam-phil.org.uk
West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge
West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge
Saturday 9 July 2016 at 7.30pm
Cambridge Philharmonic Supporters Scheme
The Lark
Ascending
The Cambridge Philharmonic is a charitable
organisation and has to be fully selfsupporting. Our main sources of revenue are
ticket sales, membership fees and the
generosity of Cambridge Philharmonic
Supporters, which include businesses, trusts
and individuals who share our vision, and
whose support we gratefully acknowledge.
Walton
Vaughan Williams
Conductor
Violin
Soprano
Baritone
Coronation Te Deum
The Lark Ascending
A Sea Symphony
Timothy Redmond
Steve Bingham
Eleanor Dennis
Mark Stone
Cambridge Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus
The season ends with the great choral masterpiece, A Sea
Symphony. Setting poetry by Walt Whitman, Vaughan Williams
paints a symphonic picture on a vast Turneresque canvas. His
orchestration, inspired by lessons with Ravel, bursts with colour
and invention and his writing for voices is rooted in the English
choral tradition from which he was so proud to spring.
Vaughan Williams’ violin concerto in miniature, The Lark Ascending
– regularly voted to be the nation’s favourite piece of music by
Classic FM listeners – evokes tranquility, natural beauty and
nostalgia for a world that no longer exists. The soloist is Steve
Bingham, distinguished leader of the Cambridge Philharmonic and
Artistic Director of the Ely Sinfonia.
Tickets (reserved): £15, £20, £25 / (unreserved): £10
(Students and under-18s £10 on the door)
Box Office: 01353 660349 (Ely Cathedral)
Online: tickets.elycathedral.org
“Parry once said to me:
‘Write choral music as
befits an Englishman
and a democrat.’ We
pupils of Parry have, if
we have been wise,
inherited from him the
great English choral
tradition... He has
passed on the torch to
us and is our duty to
keep it alight.”
Vaughan Williams
“Steve Bingham – this
extraordinary
performer.”
The Independent
The Cambridge Philharmonic Supporters
Scheme (CPSS) is open to all and is intended
to give music lovers an opportunity to
become more closely involved with the
Cambridge Philharmonic and its objectives.
We cater for various levels of support and in
return offer a range of benefits. These include
an advance copy of our season brochure
allowing preferential booking,
acknowledgement on the Cambridge
Philharmonic website and in newsletters,
invitations to open rehearsals and the
opportunity to sponsor a concert.
The funding we receive through the
Supporters Scheme is vitally important. It
allows us to be more ambitious with our
programmes, to engage leading musicians to
work alongside our largely non-professional
membership, and to continue to attract the
enviable roster of world class soloists who
perform with the Cambridge Philharmonic
every season.
For information on becoming a Cambridge
Philharmonic Supporter please write to:
[email protected]
For information about concert sponsorship
write to: [email protected]
For their continuing support we would
especially like to thank:
Patrons
total eye care
Principal Benefactors
John Short and Debbie Lowther
The Pye Foundation
Benefactors
Gillian and Edward Coe
Rob and Janet Hook
Donors
David and Jackie Ball
Gerard and Margaret Chadwick
Churchill College
Trinity College
Friends
Emmanuel College
Pembroke College
St John’s College
Cambridge Philharmonic Society, Registered Charity No. 243290
Design & artwork: John Williams. Cambridge Philharmonic photos © Bill Hiskett. Alexandra Dariescu photo © London Studios. Other images:
page 4 courtesy pixabay.com/Peter Kraayvanger; page 8 courtesy pixabay.com/Kismoslek; pages 5, 6, & 9 © Dreamstime; page 7 courtesy
Pixabay.com/WikiImages & Wikimedia Commons; page 10 Skylark © Mikelane45 | Dreamstime.com.
Ely Cathedral
How to book
Tickets for Saturday 9 July available from:
Ely Cathedral Box Office: 01353 660349 tickets.elycathedral.org
Tickets for all other concerts available from:
Corn Exchange Box Office, 3 Parsons Court, Cambridge CB2 3QE: 01223 357851
or book online at www.cam-phil.org.uk
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Family Concert:
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Please note: some
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Wheelchair + companion
Jonathan Dove’s
The Adventures of Pinocchio
An opera for all the family
“Not since Benjamin Britten has a British composer
succeeded in writing operas which communicate
with such clarity and coherence to their audience as
those by Jonathan Dove.”
The Gramophone
Conductor
Timothy Redmond
Pinocchio
Victoria Simmonds
Geppetto
Jonathan Summers
Cricket
Rebecca Bottone
Fire-eater
Stephen Richardson
Blue Fairy
Mary Plazas
Cat
Mark Wilde
Cambridge Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus
Jonathan Dove’s brilliant, captivating and profoundly moving
music has delighted audiences throughout the world. Now,
for the first time in Cambridge, the Philharmonic is proud to
present one of the most successful operas of recent times,
The Adventures of Pinocchio – an opera for all the family.
Dove’s retelling of the Pinocchio story is as exciting, witty and
poignant as you would expect from one of today’s most
prolific and popular composers. This perfect introduction for
all ages to the world of opera is led by members of the
original award-winning Opera North cast and promises to be
yet another unforgettable Cambridge Philharmonic
production.
Tickets (reserved): £10 (under-18s), £15, £20, £25, £30
(Students £10 on the door)
Box Office: 01223 357851 (Cambridge Corn Exchange)
Online: www.cam-phil.org.uk
Bluebeard’s
Castle
Janác̆ek
Z̆árlivost (Jealousy)
Rachmaninov Spring
Bartók
Bluebeard’s Castle
Conductor
Timothy Redmond
Baritone (Spring)
Christopher Cull
Judith, Mezzo soprano
Katarzyna Zielinska
Bluebeard, Bass baritone Milan Siljanov
Cambridge Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus
“The Society’s concerts
are always interestingly
planned, always
technically high-grade,
regularly well-attended
and always good value
for money.”
Cambridge News
“A nation creates music –
the composer only
arranges it.”
Belá Bartók
Based on the Perrault fairy tale Bluebeard, Bartók’s one-act opera
is a sinister and gripping psychological thriller. Judith, newly
married to Bluebeard, arrives at her husband’s castle for the first
time. Finding seven locked doors she insists, against Bluebeard’s
wishes, that they be opened to let light into the gloomy and
forbidding interior. “Are you afraid?”, asks Bluebeard as one by
one, six of his dark secrets are revealed. Judith insists that despite
the rumours about him, her love for her husband outweighs the
fear she feels. But then comes the seventh door…
Rachmaninov’s cantata Spring was written immediately after the
Second Piano Concerto. Its lush romantic sound world
underscores a tale of jealousy, a cuckolded husband’s wish for
murderous revenge and the redemptive power of spring.
Tickets (reserved): £12, £16, £20, £25 (Students and under-18s £10 on the door)
Box Office: 01223 357851 (Cambridge Corn Exchange)
Online: www.cam-phil.org.uk