SEASON 2017:18Caird Hall, Dundee

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Welcome to the 2017:18 Season!

OUNDJIAN AND BENEDETTI THU 5 OCT 2017: 7.30PM

Season Concerts

EIN HELDENLEBENTHU 15 MAR 2018: 7.30PM

BEETHOVEN’S PASTORALTHU 2 NOV 2017: 7.30PM

NICOLA BENEDETTI

PETER OUNDJIAN

THOMAS SØNDERGÅRD

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Film Concerts

CLASSICS AT THE MOVIESSUN 17 JUN 2018: 3PM

BRIEF ENCOUNTER LIVE THU 15 FEB 2018: 7.30PM

THE RSNO CHRISTMAS CONCERTTHU 21 DEC 2017: 7.30PM

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RICHARD KAUFMAN (FEATURING THE SNOWMAN)

‘Oundjian and the battle-ready orchestra were led by the brilliant and commanding string section, steadily ratcheting up the tension, stamping, growling and shimmying all the way to the cataclysmic climax in the finale. The orchestra were utterly on fire…’ The Scotsman

PETER OUNDJIAN : RSNO MUSIC DIRECTOR

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NICOLA BENEDETTI

JAN VOGLER

OUNDJIAN AND BENEDETTI

OUNDJIAN CONDUCTS BEETHOVEN’S PASTORAL

Gavin Higgins Velocity* (Scottish premiere)Elgar Violin ConcertoStravinsky The Rite of Spring

Peter Oundjian CONDUCTORNicola Benedetti VIOLIN

John Harbison Double Concerto (Scottish premiere)Brahms Double ConcertoBeethoven Symphony No6 Pastoral

Peter Oundjian ConductorMira Wang ViolinJan Vogler Cello (Artist in Residence)

Peter Oundjian, Nicola Benedetti and the RSNO – the perfect partnership and a stellar start to the new Season! With The Scotsman praising her ‘effortless musicality’, Scottish superstar Nicola’s an artist at the absolute top of her game. Her performance of Elgar’s Violin Concerto will make a gloriously passionate opening before Peter Oundjian and a supersized RSNO blast the roof off in Stravinsky’s revolutionary ballet. The brilliant young British composer Gavin Higgins lights the touch paper.

From cheerful opening to serene finish, there’s no music more life-affirming than Beethoven’s lovely Pastoral Symphony. Hear it for the thunderstorms and shepherds, or simply enjoy the sound of a genius relaxing amidst nature – either way, it’ll refresh your spirit. Peter Oundjian teams up with RSNO Artist in Residence Jan Vogler and violinist Mira Wang in Brahms’ romantic Double Concerto, plus a bit of musical history in the making: a Scottish premiere by the eminent American composer John Harbison.

Bill Chandler (RSNO Associate Leader) in conversation with Peter Oundjian and Gavin Higgins

Ursula Heidecker Allen (RSNO Violin) in conversation with Jan Vogler and Mira Wang

THU 5 OCT 2017: 7.30PM THU 2 NOV 2017: 7.30PM

* Resonate is a PRS Foundation initiative in partnership with Association of British Orchestras, BBC Radio 3 and Boltini Trust

Golden Jubilee

Pre-concert talks are free to ticket holders and are held in the Marryat Hall at 6.45pm

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‘It was a stupendous display from the orchestra…with expansive strings, animated woodwind from which many fine solos emanated and bravo brass and percussion...It was 100% bar-to-bar brilliance’Dundee Courier

LISA ROURKE : SUB-PRINCIPAL VIOLA

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SØNDERGÅRD CONDUCTS EIN HELDENLEBEN

CLASSICS AT THE MOVIES

Brahms Piano Concerto No2 R Strauss Ein Heldenleben

Thomas Søndergård ConductorSunwook Kim Piano

Programme includes:Mendelssohn Symphony No4 Italian (4th movement)Mascagni Intermezzo from Cavalleria RusticanaMendelssohn Wedding March from A Midsummer Night’s DreamWagner Ride of the Valkyries from Die WalküreKhachaturian Sabre Dance from Gayaneh Suite No3Shostakovich Excerpts from The Gladfly

Richard Kaufman Conductor

Richard Strauss liked to blow his own trumpets…and his horns, trombones and tubas. So when he used a colossal orchestra to tell the epic story of an imaginary hero it’s not hard to work out who he actually had in mind! This is Ein Heldenleben – and with Thomas Søndergård conducting, there’s no more stirring introduction to the world of the German Romantics. Well, apart from hearing rising star Sunwook Kim in Brahms’ huge, sunlit Second Piano Concerto.

What do the films Apocalypse Now, The Blues Brothers and Rebel Without A Cause have in common? Answer: they all feature Wagner’s powerful music Ride of the Valkyries. Classical music forms the soundscape in many of cinema’s greatest moments. This June, enjoy a special summer afternoon with the RSNO as we perform some of the finest classical music to be used in film under the baton of Hollywood maestro Richard Kaufman.

Ursula Heidecker Allen (RSNO Violin) in conversation with Thomas Søndergård

THU 15 MAR 2018: 7.30PM SUN 17 JUN 2018: 3PM

THOMAS SØNDERGÅRD

RICHARD KAUFMAN

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‘No reservations from this quarter. What a belter of a concert...full-throated and

red-blooded music-making’The Herald

JOHN WHITENER : RSNO PRINCIPAL TUBA

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RSNO CHRISTMAS CONCERT (FEATURING THE SNOWMAN) BRIEF ENCOUNTER LIVE

Christopher Bell ConductorRSNO Junior Chorus

Dirk Brossé ConductorLeon McCawley Piano

Join us for our annual celebration of all things festive – a mouthwatering spread of Yuletide music old and new. Enjoy a musical flight to the North Pole with the magical Christmas film, The Snowman, shown on the big screen, accompanied by the Orchestra and narrated by a special star guest. Then let the irrepressible Christopher Bell guide you through our Christmas party, filled with seasonal favourites, carols and, of course, a chance for everyone to sing along. The perfect start to your festive celebrations! SPONSORED BY

‘I love you. You love me too. It’s no use pretending it hasn’t happened, ‘cause it has.’ Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard, a station buffet…and one of cinema’s greatest romances. David Lean and Noël Coward’s classic weepie is perfect for a late Valentine’s date – or for anyone who wells up when they hear the music of Rachmaninov. With the RSNO and pianist Leon McCawley performing the soundtrack live, and the film shown on the big screen, this is going to get emotional. Bring a hankie – or two.

THU 21 DEC 2017: 7.30PM THU 15 FEB 2018: 7.30PM

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IN PARTNERSHIP WITH

By arrangement with ITV Studios Global Entertainment, Park Circus Films and Southbank Centre, London.

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‘Singing in the RSNO Chorus is a great way to make friends and meet people you wouldn’t normally encounter in your everyday life.’

KIRSTY, ALTO

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of the RSNO Chorus

Celebrating

175 yearsThe RSNO Chorus is one of Scotland’s most cherished musical treasures. But it also holds a highly unusual, almost certainly unique, position: it was the RSNO Chorus that created its Orchestra, not the other way round. ‘All of us in the RSNO Chorus are aware that this choir was instrumental in the forming of the Orchestra,’ says current RSNO Chorus Director Gregory Batsleer. ‘It’s a great honour to hold, and we know how special this choir is in that respect.’

Both Orchestra and Chorus go right back to Victorian Glasgow in 1843, and Nicol’s Coffee House at 179 Argyle Street. And to Handel’s Messiah – still a firm favourite for the RSNO Chorus and its audiences today. It was in this little-remembered Glasgow establishment that members of a glee club set out to drum up support for the first full Scottish performance of Handel’s choral masterpiece. They’d soon gathered a remarkable 176 members, and the Messiah premiere took place on 2 April 1844, in Glasgow’s City Halls, accompanied by an ad hoc orchestra of 30 players (an embryonic RSNO, although the Orchestra traces its official founding to 1891).

After its first concert, the choir called itself the Glasgow Music Association, and in 1855 it joined forces with the Glasgow Harmonic Society to form the Glasgow Choral Union – a name the choir retained for more than a century. The Choral Union quickly put down firm roots in Glasgow’s musical world, expanding its repertoire hugely and also crucially playing a key role in city life. It was the Choral Union that sang in 1868 to mark the laying of foundation stones for the new University buildings in Gilmorehill, and that also gave a concert of Burns songs in 1877 to mark the unveiling of the Robert Burns statue in George Square.

Both World Wars forced the Choral Union to cut back its activities drastically. But it celebrated its centenary in 1944 with a remarkable event, singing no less than four of the repertoire’s grandest choral works – Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Haydn’s Creation, Elgar’s Dream of Gerontius and Handel’s Messiah – across a five-day festival.

GREGORY BATSLEER : RSNO CHORUS DIRECTOR

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It’s been since 1945, however, that what is now the RSNO Chorus has truly solidified its position as one of Scotland’s key musical ensembles, expanding and broadening its repertoire, inviting eminent names for spectacular collaborations, and also spreading its exemplary music-making overseas.

Benjamin Britten conducted the Choral Union in his own Spring Symphony in 1954. It made the first of its many commercial recordings in 1973, and in 1970, Daniel Barenboim took the choir to Israel for its first overseas tour since 1913, with performances of Brahms’ German Requiem in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, and Bach choral music at the glorious Roman amphitheatre in Caesarea. Further tours to the USA, Israel and Italy followed throughout the 1970s and 1980s, confirming what had become the choir’s truly international standing. Christopher Bell, now Chorus Director of the RSNO Junior Chorus, was instrumental in the RSNO Chorus’ successes as its inspirational and influential Chorus Director from 1989 to 2001.

And by now, the Choral Union had been embraced entirely as a cherished part of what is now the RSNO family. Following the Orchestra’s name change in 1950 to the Scottish National Orchestra, in 1970, what had for more than a century been the Glasgow Choral Union, became the Scottish National Orchestra Chorus. Both groups went on to add Royal to their names in 1991, following the patronage of Her Majesty The Queen (granted in 1977) – and their relationship has grown even closer ever since.

‘It’s a very positive step for any chorus to become fully part of its orchestra,’ agrees Gregory Batsleer. ‘And more recently we’ve been very keen to offer many more choral opportunities to singers throughout Scotland, which we’ve achieved through the launch of the RSNO Chorus Academy.’ This new RSNO Chorus off-shoot is open to all singers, without audition, with the dual aims of developing singers for the main RSNO Chorus, but also offering greater opportunities to Scottish singers of all levels. ‘It shows that there are ways for everyone to be part of the RSNO through singing – and also what a significant part of the RSNO the Chorus actually is.’

‘Performing large choral works with a large symphony orchestra to large audiences – that buzz is something you can’t get anywhere else in life.’

GREGORY BATSLEER, RSNO CHORUS DIRECTOR

TURIN TOUR (1984)

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RSNO CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA IN THE USHER HALL

What ambitions does Batsleer have for the RSNO Chorus now? ‘We want the singers to be thriving in their music-making, and performing exciting works with a full symphony orchestra – and we want the Orchestra’s Seasons to be full of great opportunities for the audience to hear them, too. There’s also a huge appetite for us to go back to touring with the Orchestra, and making important recordings.’

He’s clear, however, that the right way to celebrate the RSNO Chorus’ astonishing 175-year history is to look forward, rather than simply back. ‘The most important thing for a Chorus with such a great tradition and history is that we use both of those as inspiration for what we do next, and that we’re constantly looking at new ways to develop, and to have a relevance to the communities that we serve.’

David Kettle

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Key MomentsThe beginning of every RSNO performance starts with a rehearsal; the moment when the conductor, soloist and Orchestra connect. A moment when they all come together to prepare the performance for you, our audience.

Piano concertos are an integral part of the RSNO’s repertoire. Many great soloists have performed with the Orchestra throughout its 125 year history including Vladimir Ashkenazy, Alfred Brendel, John Lill, Nikolai Lugansky and Steven Osborne.

We want to make a significant investment in the RSNO’s musical excellence and we ask for your generous support. Our ambition is to purchase a new Steinway & Sons Grand Piano. This new piano will enable the Orchestra to provide excellent facilities for visiting artists, enhancing the performances of all our piano concerto performances across Scotland and internationally. It will also be used for small scale orchestral and educational performances, including our schools concerts.

You can make a donation by adding a gift to your subscription payment. Simply complete the box on the booking form with the amount of your donation. Alternatively you can donate online at rsno.org.uk/piano

• Donate a black key for £1,000. • Donate a white key for £100. • Donate a chord – £200 for a two note

chord, £300 for a three note chord.• Donate under £100 and your gift will

be acknowledged as the hammers and strings, essential components of every piano.

Your gift will be acknowledged on our digital donor board located in the foyer of the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. All our donors will be invited to join us for a special piano concerto open rehearsal during the 2017:18 Season.

Thank you for your most generous support and we look forward to sharing more information about this exciting new instrument in due course.

Thank you to the Wolfson Foundation for its lead gift to this appeal.

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RSNO YOUNG AMBASSADORSAre you interested in classical music and aged 16 to 18? Why not become an RSNO Young Ambassador? RSNO Ambassadors attend concerts and spread the word about great classical music to their peers. They have the chance to meet musicians and conductors, and act as a youth advisory board for the Orchestra.

Apply online at rsno.org.uk/engage or email the RSNO Engage Team at engage@rsno.org.uk to find out more about becoming a Young Ambassador.

RSNO TAKEOVER 2018RSNO Takeover is a Music Teacher Award nominated two-day work experience programme for anyone aged 16 to 18 who wants to work in the arts. Fifty young people are given the chance to work across the RSNO. From marketing, press and fundraising, to artistic planning, conducting and performing, participants are involved in every aspect of preparing a classical concert.

If you’re interested in taking part in RSNO Takeover on Monday 18 and Tuesday 19 June 2018, apply online at rsno.org.uk/engage or email the RSNO Engage Team at engage@rsno.org.uk.

RSNO FOR SCHOOLSAlongside our School and Nursery Concerts, the RSNO delivers a series of specially tailored in-school workshops and activities for nursery, primary and secondary school pupils. For further details and enquiries please email the RSNO Engage Team at engage@rsno.org.uk or call 0141 225 3584.

School and youth groups are most welcome to all RSNO Season concerts. Musician meet and greets and special pre-concert talks can be arranged for groups. All tickets are £6 with accompanying adults going free.* Please email groups@rsno.org.uk to book.

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The RSNO has a number of great ticket offers for young people*. Details of each offer can be found at the back of this brochure on p18.* Terms and conditions apply. Offers are subject to availability.

Under 16s go free Under 26s and mature students £6 tickets 14-18s attend for free with friends School and youth groups £6 tickets

TICKET OFFERS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE

The RSNO’s Learning and Engagement programme in Dundee is generously supported by Northwood Charitable Trust.

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We’re taking the train so why don’t you?ScotRail is the RSNO’s Official Transport Provider for the Season. RSNO musicians will not only travel in comfort to all corners of the nation, but will also reduce the environmental impact of a busy touring schedule. We recommend you make tracks for our concerts by taking the train. The Caird Hall is just minutes from Dundee Station. With convenient, fast and frequent services throughout Scotland and a wide range of great value off-peak and group fares, ScotRail is bound to have just the ticket to hit the right note!

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UNDER 26s AND MATURE STUDENTSIf you are aged between 16 and 25 inclusive, or are in full-time education, you can purchase tickets to RSNO Season concerts for £6 each (Christmas and Brief Encounter Live concerts 50% off)*. Proof of age or valid full-time student card must be shown.

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UNEMPLOYEDIf you are of working age and in receipt of unemployment benefit, you can purchase tickets to all RSNO concerts in the Caird Hall for £6 each*.

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SCHOOL GROUPSSchool and school-age youth groups are most welcome to RSNO Season concerts at the Caird Hall. All tickets are £6 with accompanying adults going free* (excludes Christmas and Brief Encounter Live concerts). Please email groups@rsno.org.uk to book.

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CHINA STORYEDN Fri 29 Sep 2017GLW Sat 30 Sep 2017

CHAMBER: PROKOFIEV QUINTETGLW Sun 1 Oct 2017: 2.30pm

OUNDJIAN AND BENEDETTI DND Thu 5 Oct 2017EDN Fri 6 Oct 2017GLW Sat 7 Oct 2017

BEETHOVEN AND SIBELIUSPTH Thu 12 Oct 2017EDN Fri 13 Oct 2017GLW Sat 14 Oct 2017

MENDELSSOHN PIANO CONCERTO No1 EDN Fri 20 Oct 2017GLW Sat 21 Oct 2017ABN Sun 22 Oct 2017: 3pm

PSYCHO LIVEGLW Thu 26 Oct 2017EDN Fri 27 Oct 2017

CHILDREN’S CLASSIC CONCERTS: GHOST TRAINGLW Sat 28 Oct 2017: 3pmEDN Sun 29 Oct 2017: 3pm

BEETHOVEN’S PASTORALDND Thu 2 Nov 2017EDN Fri 3 Nov 2017GLW Sat 4 Nov 2017

SHOSTAKOVICH TWELVE EDN Fri 10 Nov 2017GLW Sat 11 Nov 2017

RSNO SINGING DAY: BRAHMS’ REQUIEMGLW Sat 11 Nov 2017: 10am

CHAMBER: POWERFUL STRINGSGLW Sun 12 Nov 2017: 2.30pm

SCHEHERAZADE EDN Fri 17 Nov 2017GLW Sat 18 Nov 2017

SYMPHONY, SOUP AND A SANDWICH: BEETHOVEN SEVENGLW Wed 22 Nov 2017: 1pm

BEETHOVEN SEVENINV Thu 23 Nov 2017

GENE KELLY: THE LEGACY AN EVENING WITH PATRICIA WARD KELLYGLW Thu 23 Nov 2017

ST ANDREW’S PARTYGLW Sat 25 Nov 2017

BRAHMS’ REQUIEM EDN Fri 1 Dec 2017GLW Sat 2 Dec 2017

CHAMBER: BRAHMS’ HORN TRIOGLW Sun 3 Dec 2017: 2.30pm

MENDELSSOHN VIOLIN CONCERTO EDN Fri 8 Dec 2017GLW Sat 9 Dec 2017

TCHAIKOVSKY FIVE GLW Thu 14 Dec 2017EDN Fri 15 Dec 2017

CHILDREN’S CLASSIC CONCERTS: TINSELTOWNGLW Sat 16 Dec 2017: 1pm & 3pmEDN Sun 17 Dec 2017: 3pm

RSNO CHRISTMAS CONCERTPTH Wed 20 Dec 2017DND Thu 21 Dec 2017EDN Fri 22 Dec 2017 GLW Sat 23 Dec 2017: 2pm & 6pm

HANDEL’S MESSIAHGLW Tue 2 Jan 2018: 3pm

VIENNESE GALALNG Fri 5 Jan 2018DNF Sat 6 Jan 2018INV Wed 10 Jan 2018STR Thu 11 Jan 2018

CHAMBER: NORDIC VIOLAGLW Sun 21 Jan 2018: 2.30pm

KORNGOLD VIOLIN CONCERTOCAR Fri 26 Jan 2018ABN Sun 28 Jan 2018: 3pm

SYMPHONY, SOUP AND A SANDWICH: MENDELSSOHN FOURGLW Wed 31 Jan 2018: 1pm

THE MUSIC OF STAR WARSEDN Fri 2 Feb 2018GLW Sat 3 Feb 2018: 3pm & 7.30pmPTH Sun 4 Feb 2018: 3pm

UNDER THE SKIN OF ELGARGLW Wed 7 Feb 2018

ELGAR ONE EDN Fri 9 Feb 2018GLW Sat 10 Feb 2018

CHAMBER: CLASSIC STRINGS WITH JAN VOGLERGLW Sun 11 Feb 2018: 2.30pm

BRIEF ENCOUNTER LIVEDND Thu 15 Feb 2018EDN Fri 16 Feb 2018GLW Sat 17 Feb 2018

BRUCKNER EIGHTPTH Thu 22 Feb 2018EDN Fri 23 Feb 2018GLW Sat 24 Feb 2018

STRAVINSKY’S FIREBIRDEDN Fri 2 Mar 2018GLW Sat 3 Mar 2018

EIN HELDENLEBEN DND Thu 15 Mar 2018EDN Fri 16 Mar 2018GLW Sat 17 Mar 2018

CHAMBER: CELEBRATING DEBUSSYGLW Sun 18 Mar 2018: 2.30pm

SYMPHONY, SOUP AND A SANDWICH: HAYDN LA PASSIONEGLW Wed 21 Mar 2018: 1pm

COMPOSERS’ HUB WORKSHOPGLW Tue 10 Apr 2018: 10am

WARNER BROS. PRESENTS: GENE KELLY: A LIFE IN MUSICEDN Fri 13 Apr 2018GLW Sat 14 Apr 2018

IN FOCUS: LEONARD BERNSTEINEDN Sun 15 Apr 2018: 1pmGLW Sat 28 Apr 2018: 2pm

SHOSTAKOVICH’S LENINGRAD EDN Fri 20 Apr 2018GLW Sat 21 Apr 2018

BERNSTEIN 100: WEST SIDE STORY EDN Fri 27 Apr 2018GLW Sat 28 Apr 2018

CHAMBER: 20TH CENTURY CHAMBER MASTERWORKSGLW Sun 29 Apr 2018: 2.30pm

BERNSTEIN 100: BERNSTEIN MASS GLW Sat 5 May 2018

UNDER THE SKIN OF BRAHMSGLW Wed 9 May 2018

DER ROSENKAVALIER EDN Fri 11 May 2018GLW Sat 12 May 2018

THE PLANETS EDN Fri 25 May 2018GLW Sat 26 May 2018

SYMPHONY, SOUP AND A SANDWICH: OUNDJIAN & FRIENDSGLW Wed 30 May 2018: 1pm

MAHLER NINE EDN Fri 1 Jun 2018GLW Sat 2 Jun 2018

CLASSIC FM HALL OF FAMEEDN Fri 8 Jun 2018GLW Sat 9 Jun 2018ABN Sun 10 Jun 2018: 3pm

CLASSICS AT THE MOVIESEDN Fri 15 Jun 2018GLW Sat 16 Jun 2018DND Sun 17 Jun 2018: 3pm

All concerts start at 7.30PM unless otherwise noted.

BOX OFFICE NUMBERS

Aberdeen ABN 01224 641122Carlisle CAR 01228 633766Dundee DND 01382 434940Dunfermline DNF 01383 602302Edinburgh EDN 0131 228 1155Glasgow GLW 0141 353 8000Inverness INV 01463 234234Langholm LNG 01387 381196Perth PTH 01738 621031Stirling STR 01786 473544

THANK YOU TORSNO Photography:© Drew Farrell 2017

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