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Dresdner Musikfestspiele: British Orchestra Sensation I — Benedetti, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Gardner

Dresden, Kulturpalast — Main Hall

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About the Event

Everything about the first of the London Philharmonic Orchestra's two guest performances at the Kulturpalast is quintessentially British: the renowned English orchestra and its principal conductor Edward Gardner are bringing Nicola Benedetti to Dresden, one of the most sought‐after violinists and influential artists of the present day from the United Kingdom. The program also comes from the island: the late Romantic composer Edward Elgar, considered the greatest English composer after Henry Purcell, who died in 1695, wrote his violin concerto at the suggestion of Fritz Kreisler, who is said to have looked at the draft score and said, “With this, I will make Queen's Hall tremble.” Elgar's First Symphony, premiered two years earlier in Manchester by the Hallé Orchestra under the baton of Hans Richter, to whom it was dedicated, was received with equal euphoria by the audience and described in the press as “the finest thing ever put on paper by an English composer.”

Program

  • Edward Elgar – Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in B minor, op. 61
  • Edward Elgar – 1. Sinfonie As‐Dur op. 55
Program is subject to change

Artists

Soloist, Violin: Nicola Benedetti

Violinist Nicola Benedetti has captivated audiences and critics alike with her musicality and poise. Hilary Finch recently wrote in The Times,“ it was thrilling to hear and watch Nicola Benedetti in a truly risk‐taking performance that lived so much in the body and fused the sinews of the violin and the nerve‐system of the player”. This sums up Nicola’s ability to communicate and enthrall audiences with dynamic and energy‐filled performances.
Throughout her career, Nicola’s desire to perform new works has shown her to be one of the UK’s most innovative and creative young violinists. Nicola’s choice of the Szymanowski Violin Concerto for the BBC Young Musician of the Year, her success in which catapulted her to fame in 2004, was just the beginning of her focus on less‐often programmed repertoire and new music. She has recorded newly commissioned works by John Tavener and James Macmillan, has studied jazz with Wynton Marsalis and others, and explored authentic baroque performance. Her performances of all repertoire are influenced by this wide‐range of interests and study.
In recent seasons Nicola has performed with almost all of the UK and Ireland’s major symphony orchestras including the London Philharmonic, Philharmonia and City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestras, and as word of her immense musicality and ability to reach audiences has spread, she has received invitations to work with a list of international orchestras that include the Deutsche Symphony Orchestra in Berlin, the Tonhalle Orchestra in Zurich, NDR Orchester in Llubjiana, Het Brabants Orkest, the Orchestre de Picardie, KBS Symphony and the Japan Philharmonic. Nicola’s busy schedule has also seen her perform in North America with the Vancouver, Colorado, Phoenix and Indianapolis Symphony Orchestras.

Conductor: Edward Gardner
Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra

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Kulturpalast, Schlossstr. 2, Dresden, Germany — Google Maps

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