Spring season’s English foray
THE DURBAN City Hall will resonate with beautiful sounds of England for the penultimate concert of the KwaZulu-Natal Philharmonic Orchestra Spring Season of its World Symphony Series on Thursday.
The KZNPO continues to bring excellence in musicmaking to the city. The season features top South African and international musicians in an eclectic and carefully created programme of amazing music.
“In this season, we introduced the Passport Series as the orchestra takes audiences on a global tour from Russia to Europe to Scandinavia and to South Africa,” says Bongani Tembe: chief executive and artistic director of the KZNPO.
The evening begins with the brass section of the orchestra performing a work by the Italian Baroque composer Domenico Gabrielli. The brass band is among the oldest community-based musical traditions in Great Britain.
Justus Frantz returns to conduct two concerts, the first of which focuses on England.
The traditional concert structure is flipped as the KZNPO performs a concerto at the end. Russian violinist Sergey Malov joins Frantz and the orchestra to perform one of the giants of the violin concerto repertoire – Edward Elgar’s Violin Concerto in B minor – one of his longest and most powerful works for violin and orchestra.
Malov has performed as a soloist with the London Philharmonic, BBC Symphony, St Petersburg Philharmonic and others, exciting audiences with repertoires ranging from the baroque to modern.
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