Presented by
Festival Kultura Natura
PROGRAMME
JEAN SIBELIUS: Symphony no. 7 in C major op. 105
BENJAMIN BRITTEN: Les Illuminations op. 18
FRANZ SCHUBERT: Symphony in C major D 944 The Great
- Conductor Thomas Søndergård
- Soprano Claire Booth
ABOUT THIS CONCERT
This concert at NOSPR Concert Hall is part of the second edition of Festival Katowice Kultura Natura. Invited as “Orchestra in Residence”, the MCO will play two different programmes under the batons of Ilan Volkov and Thomas Søndergård, each with soprano Claire Booth as soloist.
The MCO’s two concert programmes shed light on different aspects of the concept “Spirituality”, the theme chosen for this year, the second edition of the festival. This concert, conducted by Thomas Søndergård, deals the symbolism of light and the struggle between darkness and light: Benjamin Britten’s song cycle Les Illuminations for soprano and string orchestra is framed by Sibelius’s Symphony no. 7 and Schubert’s Great Symphony D 944, both in "the key of light", C major.
It is the MCO’s second collaboration with Thomas Søndergård after his successful debut at Musikfest Berlin in September 2015. Soprano Claire Booth returns to work with the MCO for the third time, after tours to Lucerne in 2009 and Aldeburgh in 2015.
This concert concludes this short tour, the orchestra’s second visit to Poland. The Festival Katowice Kultura Natura was founded in 2015 by Alexander Liebreich, Artistic Director and Chief Conductor of the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra (NOSPR). Their newly built home, NOSPR Concert Hall, has already become a cultural landmark, revitalising the post-industrial landscape of Katowice.
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