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Kensington Symphony Orchestra

Cadogan Hall

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Kensington Symphony Orchestra returns to Cadogan Hall to perform Nielsen’s Fifth Symphony (1922), likened by the composer to “the division of dark and light, the battle between evil and good”. Alternately explosive and calm, the work features a famous battle between the orchestra and a snare drummer, who is instructed to improvise “as though determined at all costs to stop the progress of the orchestra”. KSO is joined by former BBC Young Musici...

Program

Edvard Grieg - Piano Concerto

Boris Blacher - Orchestral Variations on a Theme by N. Paganini

Carl Nielsen - Symphony No. 5

Composer

Participants

Russell Keable

Conductor

Firoze Madon

Piano

Kensington Symphony Orchestra

Orchestra