(Right: Conductor
Wolfram Christ. Photo by Reiner Pfisterer)
The KwaZulu-Natal Philharmonic Orchestra’s
2019 Spring Season, featuring a stellar line-up of international and local
talent, runs in the Durban City Hall every Thursday from October 31 to November
21, 2019, each World Symphony Series concert starting at 19h30.
“As we usher in our exciting Spring Season
programme, we encourage all our loyal supporters to introduce new friends,
family members, peers and associates, to the wonderful experience of sharing
great music with each other”, says Bongani Tembe, the Orchestra’s Chief
Executive and Artistic Director. “The City of Durban is blessed with the finest
acoustic venue in this country. The KZN Philharmonic is proud to have the
iconic City Hall’s spacious facilities as our mainstage concert platform,
enabling us to present many of the world’s leading musicians for the delight of
our audience.”
(Left: Avigail
Bushakevitz)
The celebrated German maestro Wolfram
Christ returns to the podium to launch the season on October 31.
An evening of
Mozart concert gems opens with Eine
Kleine Nachtmusik, one of the best-loved of all classical compositions.
The
programme’s centerpiece is the exquisitely crafted Violin Concerto No 5 in A
Major. Performed by Avigail Bushakevitz, its popular ‘Turkish’ soubriquet
derives from the exotic middle section of its third movement.
The magnificent
Symphony No 39 K543 in E-flat, one of the miraculous trilogy of works that
crowned the great Austrian composer’s symphonic oeuvre in 1788, concludes the
programme.
(Right: Matilda
Lloyd)
Daniel Boico takes the podium for the
second concert of the season on November 8, with a boldly curated programme.
This juxtaposes Haydn’s brilliant Trumpet Concerto in E Flat, spotlighting the
young British virtuoso Matilda Lloyd as soloist, against an eclectic mix of
choral highlights which showcase the golden sounds of some of Durban’s leading
choirs.
Joining forces with each other, the Clermont Community Choir, Durban
Symphonic Choir; SA Singers; and Joyful Sounds perform a selection of music by
Handel, Haydn and Mendelssohn, alongside select musical highlights by acclaimed
home-grown composers such as Koapeng, Sibisi, Moerane and Hofmeyr.
(Right: Roderick
Cox)
Roderick Cox makes his bow on November 14.
The
rising young German based American conductor opens his programme with Ravel’s
neo-baroque masterpiece, Le Tombeau de
Couperin.
(Left: Dmitry
Shishkin)
Durban concert goers will then be
introduced to one of the most dazzling gifted young pianists to come out of
Russia in decades, when the multi-award winning Dmitry Shishkin takes
centre-stage to perform Tchaikovsky’s B-flat minor Piano Concerto.
After
intermission, Brahms’s sublime Symphony No 4 brings the evening to a close.
(Left: Megan-Geoffrey
Prins)
Rounding off the season on November 21,
conductor Conrad van Alphen opens his programme on a celebratory note with
Dvořák’s ebullient Carnival Overture.
Chopin’s Piano Concerto No 2 in F minor
heralds the arrival on the Durban’s concert scene of South African pianist,
Megan-Geoffrey Prins, this year’s prodigiously gifted Standard Bank Young
Artist for Music, and the evening closes on a high with Dvořák’s ever-rewarding
New World Symphony.
Season tickets, and bookings for individual
concerts in the KZN Philharmonic’s star-studded Spring Season, are available at
Computicket outlets. Call 0861 915 8000, or book online at www.computicket.com.
For more information call 031-369 9438, email bookings@kznphil.org.za or visit
www.kznphil.org.za
(To
link direct to the KZN Philharmonic’s website click on the orchestra’s banner advert
on the top of the page)
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