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Royal Philharmonic Orchestra performs Mendelssohn and Chopin
Part of the Summer Music in City Churches 2024 Festival
Add to my Calendar 06-06-2024 19:30 06-06-2024 21:30 36 Royal Philharmonic Orchestra performs Mendelssohn and Chopin The world-famous Royal Philharmonic Orchestra opens the festival with a programme of joyful, romantic music. Finzi's Introduction to Love's Labours Lost (written for a production of Shakespeare's play) sets the tone for the whole week. Acclaimed French pianist Elizabeth Sombart joins the orchestra for Chopin's Second Piano Concerto with its slow movement of great beauty inspired, apparently, by the composer's love for another. Mendelssohn's Italian Symphony encapsulates the composer's love affair with Italy, full of exuberance and sunshine. Forms part of ten days of concerts of beautiful music, around themes of love, romance and Shakespeare performed in one of the historic churches within London's Square Mile. St Giles-without-Cripplegate, London DD/MM/YYYYDetails
St Giles-without-Cripplegate
Fore Street
City of London
London
EC2Y 8DA
England
Programme
Gerald Finzi – Overture to Love’s Labour’s Lost
Frédéric Chopin – Piano Concerto no.2 in F minor, Op.21
Felix Mendelssohn – Symphony no.4 in A major 'Italian', Op.90
Performers
Pierre Vallet – Conductor
Elizabeth Sombart – piano
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
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Programme Note
The world-famous Royal Philharmonic Orchestra opens the festival with a programme of joyful, romantic music. Finzi's Introduction to Love's Labours Lost (written for a production of Shakespeare's play) sets the tone for the whole week. Acclaimed French pianist Elizabeth Sombart joins the orchestra for Chopin's Second Piano Concerto with its slow movement of great beauty inspired, apparently, by the composer's love for another. Mendelssohn's Italian Symphony encapsulates the composer's love affair with Italy, full of exuberance and sunshine.
Forms part of ten days of concerts of beautiful music, around themes of love, romance and Shakespeare performed in one of the historic churches within London's Square Mile.
