(William
Charlton-Perkins. Pic by Clinton Marius)
Going out on a high.
Music lovers in Durban and surrounds can
look forward to two not-to-be-missed appearances in the city this week by the
acclaimed German-Russian pianist Olga Scheps. Noted for the intensely lyrical
quality of her playing, 32-year old Scheps, dubbed ‘The Poet of the Piano’,
will give a recital for Friends of Music on Tuesday November 20, and is the
KZNPO’s soloist in the final concert of its current symphony season in the
Durban City Hall on Thursday November 22. Both events start at 19h30.
(Olga
Scheps)
Scheps’s FOM programme includes: Mozart’s
Piano Sonata in A minor K 310; the Piano Sonata No 7 in D Major Opus 10 No 3 by
Beethoven; Three Movements from Petrouchka
by Stravinsky; Alexander Scriabin’s Valse Opus 38; and Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker Suite, arranged by Mikhail
Pletnev. She will play Rachmaninoff’s hugely popular Piano Concerto No 2 in
Thursday’s concert, which sees Daniel Boico, KZNPO Associate guest conductor,
on the podium for a programme that also includes Mendelssohn’s Scottish Symphony
and Balakirev’s Overture on Three Russian Themes. Booking is through
Computicket and tickets are also available at the door.
(Elsabé
Richter & Willem Bester)
Baroque 2000’s next concert is a
Celebration of St Cecilia, Patroness of Music. The programme, featuring music
by George Frideric Handel, includes the Overture to his Venetian opera, Agrippina, and the sublimely beautiful Ode for St Cecilia’s Day. Soloists
Elsabé Richter (soprano) and Willem Bester (tenor) from the University of the
Free State Opera Department team with the Choir of the Lutheran Church in
Wartburg, conducted by Lance Phillip.
This Baroque 2000 event is on November 25
at 15h00 at the Church of the Mariannhill Monastery. Tickets R150 at the door. -
William Charlton-Perkins
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