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Janáček, Judith Weir and Martinu

Donna Lennard sings Judith Weir's Natural History

Part of the Kensington Symphony Orchestra 60th anniversary

Add to my Calendar 17-05-2016 19:30 17-05-2016 21:30 36 Janáček, Judith Weir and Martinu The penultimate concert of KSO’s 60th season features works by two Eastern European masters. Janáček’s final opera From the House of the Dead is a magnificent, brooding meditation on mortality and life. Martinů’s Fifth Symphony was composed in America at the end of the Second World War, but its heart is fixed on the composer’s Czech homeland. In between, a Western European take on Far Eastern philosophy in the form of Judith Weir’s Taoist Carnival of the Animals, Natural History. St John's Smith Square, London DD/MM/YYYY

Details

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

Programme

Leoš Janáček – From the House of the Dead
Judith Weir – Natural History
~ Interval ~
Bohuslav Martinů – Symphony no.5, H.310

Performers

Russell Keable – Conductor
Donna Lennard – soprano

Kensington Symphony Orchestra

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Programme Note

The penultimate concert of KSO’s 60th season features works by two Eastern European masters. Janáček’s final opera From the House of the Dead is a magnificent, brooding meditation on mortality and life. Martinů’s Fifth Symphony was composed in America at the end of the Second World War, but its heart is fixed on the composer’s Czech homeland. In between, a Western European take on Far Eastern philosophy in the form of Judith Weir’s Taoist Carnival of the Animals, Natural History.

Donna Lennard, soprano

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