KZNPO Spring Season opens
The KZNPO 2018 World Symphony Series runs in the Durban City Hall each Thursday between 1 and 22 November.
THE KwaZulu-Natal Philharmonic Orchestra’s (KZNPO) 2018 World Symphony Series runs in the Durban City Hall each Thursday between 1 and 22 November, starting at 7.30pm.
American maestro William Eddins, launches the season on 1 November, taking his bow alongside the evening’s soloist, violinist Rachel Lee Priday. Ms Lee Priday performs Brahms’s magnificent Violin Concerto in D Major. The second half of the evening sees the orchestra paying homage to one of the best loved works of Jean Sibelius, his three-movement Fifth Symphony.
German conductor Justus Frantz takes the podium on 8 November, for an all-Mozart programme. This features performances of the Overture to Lucio Silla; the ground breaking Piano Concerto K 271, a superb debut vehicle to introduce the award-winning young Russian virtuoso, Dina Ivanova, and the Coronation Mass in C Major.
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Japanese master conductor, Yasuo Shinozaki is at the helm of the KZNPO for its third programme of the season on 15 November. Following a performance of Mendelssohn’s rarely heard Fair Melusina Overture, and Samuel Barber’s beautiful Adagio for Strings, South African-born virtuoso, Robert Pickup, Principal Clarinetist of the Philharmonia Zurich Orchestra, takes the spotlight in Carl Maria von Weber’s Clarinet Concerto No 1 in F minor. The programme climaxes with Robert Schumann’s ‘Spring Symphony’.
Daniel Boico, KZNPO’s Associate guest conductor, rounds off the Spring Season with performances of Mendelssohn’s hugely popular ‘Scottish Symphony’, and Balakirev’s rarely heard Overture on Three Russian Themes, before the acclaimed German-Russian pianist, Olga Scheps takes the Durban City Hall by storm as the evening peaks with one of the international concert-going public’s best loved war-horses, Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No 2 in C minor.
Season tickets and bookings for individual concerts are through Computicket. Call 031369 9438, email bookings@kznphil.org.za or visit www.kznphil.org.za.
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