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Phoenix Concert Hall - Fairfield Halls
Park Lane
Croydon
London
CR9 1DG
England
Programme
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Symphony no.31 in D major 'Paris', K.297/300a
Georges Bizet – Symphony in C major no.1
Maurice Ravel – Pavane pour une Infante Defunté
Camille Saint-Saens – Cello Concerto no.1 in A minor, Op.33
Performers
Sheku Kanneh-Mason – Cello
Jaime Martín – Conductor
London Mozart Players
Other concerts in this Series (+)
Programme Note
Resident orchestra London Mozart Players bring a stylish programme of music with a distinctly French theme to the Phoenix Concert Hall in January 2020, with very special guest, BBC Young Musician 2016 winner – cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason.
‘Cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason has become a global phenomenon’ The Telegraph
LMP brings some Gallic charm to Croydon with a concert full of elegant delights. The programme includes Mozart’s Paris Symphony with its thrilling opening and Bizet’s youthful masterpiece, his Symphony in C – an homage to his mentor Charles Gounod. Before Ravel’s beautifully orchestrated Pavane pour une infante défunte, the crème de la crème of young British talent joins the orchestra for Saint-Saëns Cello Concerto No. 1 – one of the best-loved of 19th-century concertos.
Sheku Kanneh-Mason will bring all his virtuosic skills to Saint-Saëns’ gorgeous work. Rather than a Romantic cliché of soloist in conflict with the orchestra, the composer integrates the cello into the orchestral fabric, while ingeniously keeping the cello front and centre throughout this lyrical and enchanting piece.
No need to cross the Channel for style and elegance, just come to Croydon’s finest concert venue
