Strauss, Bartók, Martinů and Suk at St John's Smith Square, London on Saturday 18th November 2017

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Strauss, Bartók, Martinů and Suk

Add to my Calendar 18-11-2017 19:30 18-11-2017 21:30 36 Strauss, Bartók, Martinů and Suk Award-winning soloist Rosalind Ventris joins Fulham Symphony Orchestra to perform an invigorating programme displaying the wealth of European musical culture and identity prominent at the turn and first half of the twentieth century. First juxtaposing fluttering woodwind melodies with rousing string folk themes in Suk’s Scherzo Fantastique, the orchestra then leaps to fellow Czech Martinů’s Rhapsody Concerto for Viola and Orchestra and his exploration of fantasy and French impressionism through Moravian traditional melodies. Folk music is combined with late romanticism in Bartók’s virtuosic Four Pieces for Orchestra. Finally Richard Strauss’s poignant Tod und Verklärung (Death and Transfiguration) focuses on the internal struggle within and the desire for redemption and resolution of the soul. St John's Smith Square, London DD/MM/YYYY

Details

St John's Smith Square
Smith Square
City of Westminster
London
SW1P 3HA
England

Saturday 18th November 2017
7:30 PM

Programme

Josef Suk – Fantastické Scherzo, Op.25
Bohuslav Martinů – Rhapsody-Concerto, H.337
Béla Bartók – 4 Pieces, Op.12
Richard Strauss – Tod und Verklärung, Op.24

Performers

Rosalind Ventris – viola
Marc Dooley – Conductor

Fulham Symphony Orchestra

Programme Note

Award-winning soloist Rosalind Ventris joins Fulham Symphony Orchestra to perform an invigorating programme displaying the wealth of European musical culture and identity prominent at the turn and first half of the twentieth century.

First juxtaposing fluttering woodwind melodies with rousing string folk themes in Suk’s Scherzo Fantastique, the orchestra then leaps to fellow Czech Martinů’s Rhapsody Concerto for Viola and Orchestra and his exploration of fantasy and French impressionism through Moravian traditional melodies. Folk music is combined with late romanticism in Bartók’s virtuosic Four Pieces for Orchestra. Finally Richard Strauss’s poignant Tod und Verklärung (Death and Transfiguration) focuses on the internal struggle within and the desire for redemption and resolution of the soul.

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