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MUSIC
CPO Winter Symphony Season
Venue: City Hall, Darling St, Cape Town. Tel: (021)
421 7695
Time: -
Price: -
Performances: 7, 14, 21, 23, 28 & 31 Aug 2008
Genre: Classical
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Acclaimed artists performing during this year's Winter Symphony Season
include conductors Benjamin Zander, Theodore Kuchar and Pieter Daniel,
Klará Würtz, Liesl Stolz and Gabriela Montero.
On Thursday 7 August (City Hall), the conductor is South African
Pieter Daniel and the soloist is another local product, the excellent
flautist Liesl Stoltz, playing Rodrigo’s Concerto Pastoral for Flute and
Orchestra. The concert starts with Mozart’s Overture to La finta
giardiniera and the symphony is Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3 (the “Eroica”).
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On Thursday 14 August (City Hall) the acclaimed and prolifically
recorded conductor Theodore Kuchar is on the podium and Pieter Daniel also
appears again - but this time as soloist playing Shostakovich’s Violin
Concerto No. 2. The other works are Mussorgsky’s Night on Bald Mountain
(original version) and Dvorák’s Symphony No. 6.
Theodore Kuchar is again the conductor on Thursday 21 August (City
Hall), with acclaimed Hungarian-born pianist Klará Würtz playing Ravel’s
Piano Concerto in G major. The other works are Dvorák’s Golden Spinning
Wheel and Rachmaninov’s Symphony No.1.
The world-renowned American conductor, inspirational speaker on
leadership and author of The Art of Possibility, Benjamin Zander, is the
conductor on Saturday 23 August (Opera House, Artscape).The prize-winning
pianist, Gabriela Montero, who hails from Venezuela, will play
Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No. 2. The concert starts with Beethoven’s
Coriolan Overture Op. 62 and concludes with Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an
Exhibition (arr. Ravel).
On Thursday 28 August (City Hall) Benjamin Zander is again the
conductor and pianist Gabriela Montero also performs with the CPO again,
this time playing Beethoven’s 5th Piano Concerto. This spectacular
all-Beethoven concert concludes with his Symphony No. 9 with soloists
Sabina Mossolow (soprano), Violina Anguelov (mezzo), Sipho Fubesi (tenor),
Theo Magongoma (bass) and a massed choir consisting of the New Apostolic
Church Choir and the Tygerberg City Choir. Beethoven’s 9th Symphony is
performed again together with his Egmont Overture on Sunday 31 August in
the City Hall.
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