(Left: Arjan
Tien)
The final concert of the KZN Philharmonic’s
Summer Season will take place on March 5, 2020, at 19h30 in the Durban City
Hall.
For 20 years and more, the Netherlands born
conductor Arjan Tien has built up a staunch support base among South African
concert goers who will be delighted at his return for the closing concert of
the KZN Philharmonic’s Summer Season. Few, if indeed any, will baulk at the
prospect of meeting up with two more Beethoven masterworks on the roster, to be
performed in tandem before Georges Bizet’s classically inspired Symphony in C
brings the Summer Season to a close.
Unlike Mozart, with his incredibly fecund
gift for penning a string of operatic masterworks, Beethoven slaved mightily
over the creation of what in effect was his only opera, Leonore, which after much revision, morphed into its final
incarnation as Fidelio. This tortuous
but ultimately triumphant gestation saw the creation of no fewer than three
splendid Leonore overtures, before
the composer finally settled for the shorter, more compact Fidelio Overture
that today is performed in the opera house. The first of its three predecessors
receives a welcome outing here, given under Maestro Tien’s stylistically
informed baton.
(Right: Tai
Murray)
Composed in 1803 as a carry-over of the
‘sinfonia concertante’ compositional form that gained popularity in the late
18th Century, Beethoven’s Concerto for Violin, Cello, and Piano, commonly known
as his Triple Concerto, was the only concerto he completed for more than one
solo instrument. It was dedicated to Beethoven’s patron, Prince Franz Joseph
Maximilian Fürst von Lobkowitz. Soloists will be Tai Murray (violin), Aristide
du Plessis (cello) and Malcolm Nay (piano).
Like Beethoven’s Triple Concerto, Georges
Bizet’s hugely popular Symphony in C is another work that derives in style and
spirit from an earlier age, being closely modelled on the High Classical era
symphonies of Haydn and Mozart. Such is its fount of creatively argued rhetoric
and structure, however, married to unfailingly inspired melodic content, that
there is never a suggestion of the merely derivative about this delightful
work.
The concert takes place at 19h30 on March
5, 2020, in the Durban City Hall. Booking is at Computicket
To
link direct to the KZN Philharmonic’s website click on the orchestra’s banner advert
on the top of the page or visit kznphil.org.za
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