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JPO 2018 World Symphony Series Summer Season

Thursday Mar 22 20:00       27 St Andrews Rd, Parktown
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The Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra presents its World Symphony Series this March at the Linder Auditorium, one of Joburg's most acoustically impressive concert venues.

The 2018 series sees a host of guest international conductors and musicians taking to the Joburg stage including Canadian-Caribbean conductor Kwamé Ryan, Dutch maestro Arjan Tien, celebrated German violinist Daniel Röhn, Indian-American pianist Pallavi Mahidhara and Britain’s charismatic father-son duo Alexander Baillie (cello) and Max Baillie (violin).

The World Symphony Series summer programme runs as follows:

March 7 & 8: Kwamé Ryan conducts the orchestra through works by Handel, Mozart and Beethoven. The evening opens with Handel’s sprightly sinfonia, The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba, followed by Mozart’s dramatic D minor Piano Concerto K466 and concludes with Beethoven’s great Hymn to Nature, his ‘Pastoral’ Symphony.  

 March 14 & 15: Lykele  Temmingh conducts an all-French programme, opening with the Overture to Gabriel Fauré’s 1919 neo-classical Masques et Bergamasques Suite, Debussy’s masterly symphonic poem Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun and Camille Saint-Saëns’s spectacular Symphony no 3 in C minor. In addition the evening sees South African flautist Liesl Stoltz playing two contrasting short works: Cécile Chaminade's decorative one-movement Flute Concertino in D major; and François Borne’s sultry Fantaisie brillante .

March 21 & 22: The season comes to a close with a dramatic programme directed by Dutch conductor Arjan Tien of three contrasting masterpieces: Mozart’s Don Giovanni Overture, Sibelius’s Second Symphony and Brahms’s  A minor Concerto for Violin, Cello and Orchestra featuring the evenings soloists Max and Alexander Baillie.

Date

Venue

Mar 7 2018 20:00
Mar 8 2018 20:00
Mar 14 2018 20:00
Mar 15 2018 20:00
Mar 21 2018 20:00
Mar 22 2018 20:00
Linder Auditorium
27 St Andrews Rd, Parktown
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