Passion and Power at Victoria Hall Methodist Church, Sheffield on Saturday 23rd March 2024

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Passion and Power

Add to my Calendar 23-03-2024 19:30 23-03-2024 21:30 36 Passion and Power This thrilling programme opens with Vítězslava Kaprálová's best known work Military Sinfonietta, which she premiered in 1937 in Prague, becoming the first woman to conduct the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra.  Following will feature a piece by a more familiar Czech composer, Antonín Dvořák.  The Orchestra are delighted to accompany acclaimed cellist, Richard Jenkinson who will play Dvořák’s sumptuous and virtuosic cello concerto.  After the interval the Orchestra will present Brahms' Symphony No. 1 in C minor.  Brahms’ First Symphony, from sketches to finishing touches, took him 21 years to complete.  It begins with the pounding of a broken heart, and ends in a blaze of triumph guaranteed to get your pulse racing! Victoria Hall Methodist Church, Sheffield DD/MM/YYYY

Details

Victoria Hall Methodist Church
Norfolk Street
Sheffield
South Yorkshire
S1 2JB
England

Saturday 23rd March 2024
7:30 PM

Programme

Vítězslava Kaprálová – Millitary Sinfonietta
Antonin Dvorak – Cello Concerto in B minor, Op.104, B.191
~ Interval ~
Johannes Brahms – Symphony no.1 in C minor, Op.68

Performers

Richard Jenkinson – cello

Sheffield Philharmonic Orchestra

Programme Note

This thrilling programme opens with Vítězslava Kaprálová's best known work Military Sinfonietta, which she premiered in 1937 in Prague, becoming the first woman to conduct the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra. Following will feature a piece by a more familiar Czech composer, Antonín Dvořák. The Orchestra are delighted to accompany acclaimed cellist, Richard Jenkinson who will play Dvořák’s sumptuous and virtuosic cello concerto. After the interval the Orchestra will present Brahms' Symphony No. 1 in C minor. Brahms’ First Symphony, from sketches to finishing touches, took him 21 years to complete. It begins with the pounding of a broken heart, and ends in a blaze of triumph guaranteed to get your pulse racing!

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