The
Cape Philharmonic Orchestra presents the new
Winter Symphony Season starting on
Thursday 28 July to
1 September 2011.
These concerts are on Thursdays at the the Cape Town City Hall at 20h00
On
Thursday 28 July the young Russian
violinist Maria Solozobova performs Paganini’s Violin Concerto. The world renowned
conductor Nicholas Cleobury will conduct the orchestra in this exciting concert which includes Glinka’s 'Capriccio brillante on the Jota Aragonesa' and Tchaikovsky’s second symphony.
Sensational South African
soprano Pretty Yende returns to South Africa to perform with the
Cape Philharmonic on Thursday 4 August, after scooping a top award at the prestigious Operalia 2011 competition in Moscow on Sunday, 24 July 2011.
Yende also won the Zarzuela Award and the Audience’s Choice Prize.
The gala concert for the competition was conducted by world renowned maestro Placido Domingo. Yende sang Bellini’s O mieifedeli… and Ah la pena in lorpiombo by Giménez at the concert.
The multi-award winning singer, Yende will sing the Songs of the Auvergne by Canteloube. Internationally acclaimed maestro
Nicholas Cleobury will conduct the Cape Philharmonic and the
Cape Town Philharmonia Choir of Cape Town in this exciting programme which includes San Gloria by local
composer Péter Louis van Dijk and Dvořák’s Symphony No. 8.
German born
Lothar Hensel (bandoneon) who is no stranger to Cape Town audiences will once again perform on
11 August with the Cape Philharmonic in Piazzolla’s 'An Argentinian in Paris' (for bandooneon, harp, piano and strings) and Astorpia.
Conrad van Alphen will conduct this concert which also includes Mozart’s Symphony No. 39.
On
18 August,
Alexander Fokkens will conduct the curtain raiser: 'An African Symphony' of Van McCoy.
Other South African soloists in this symphony season are young
pianists Petronel Malan and
Jan Hugo who were child prodigies and excelled as pianists in their early teens.
Malan is the soloist on
Thursday 18 August. She performs Gershwin’s Piano Concerto. Other works in this exciting concert include the West Side Story: Overture by Bernstein and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No.4.
Conrad van Alphen will be on the podium.
Jan Hugo will be the soloist in this last concert of the July/August Symphony on
Thursday 1 September. He will perform Mendelssohn’s Piano Concerto. The well-known
conductor Sebastian Lang-Lessing returns to Cape Town to conduct the Cape Philharmonic in this concert which includes Beethoven’s exciting Ruins of Athens Overture and Symphony No. 3.
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