Name: Winter Concert November 2024
Start: 2024-11-16T19:30:00
Location: Smith Square Hall

London is set to become the epicenter of musical brilliance with a series of remarkable concerts featuring the works of Witold Lutosławski. From the meditative Third Symphony by Philip Glass performed by the Scottish Ensemble at Southbank Centre on September 29, 2024, to Martin Fröst's dance-based chamber music at Wigmore Hall on September 30, 2024, the events promise to enthrall. Join City of London Sinfonia and Dr. Simon Clark for a global journey from Antarctica to the Arctic at Smith Square Hall on October 15, 2024. The Fulham Symphony Orchestra’s Winter Concert on November 16, 2024, and the London Philharmonic Orchestra’s presentation of Tan Dun’s Water Concerto on March 29, 2025, will further elevate the celebration of Lutosławski’s masterworks.

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Fulham Symphony Orchestra

Hannah Kendall’s ‘The Spark Catchers’ pays tribute to the women and girls employed at a match factory in London’s East End, who went on strike in 1888 protesting their hazardous working conditions. It is inspired by a poem by Lemn Sissay, commissioned for the London 2012 Olympics.

A selection of Debussy’s piano Préludes, reimagined for orchestra by Colin Matthews, evokes the Alhambra’s imposing Wine Gate, a mischievous water nymph, a portrait of ‘the girl with the flaxen hair’, and a legendary cathedral rising from the sea.

The concert concludes with Mahler’s Fifth Symphony, which spans extremes of emotion, from the darkness of its opening funeral march to an exuberant finale, with the famous Adagietto at its heart.

Winter Concert November 2024

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