{"id":4718,"date":"2018-11-03T10:39:24","date_gmt":"2018-11-03T10:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.larkreviews.co.uk\/?p=4718"},"modified":"2018-11-03T10:39:50","modified_gmt":"2018-11-03T10:39:50","slug":"4718","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/?p=4718","title":{"rendered":"BPO 11th November 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Brighton Phil<\/strong> is delighted to welcome international pianist Freddy Kempf to Brighton Dome for the second concert in their 2018\/19 season, for a programme of music by Rossini, Beethoven and Dvo?\u00e1k.<\/p>\n

The concert opens with the overture to Rossini\u2019s opera Semiramide, <\/em>of which the orchestra\u2019s Artistic Administrator Ian Brignall says: \u201cThis is full of tunes, it\u2019s an orchestral showcase \u2013 everybody will be smiling at the end of this.\u201d Conductor Freddy Kempf agrees: \u201cThe opera is not so well known but I think everyone will recognise the overture. It\u2019s been used in many Hollywood films, so people will definitely recognise the melodies. And as is typical with Rossini, although it\u2019s not the most intricate writing, yet it\u2019s so effective. It will really set the scene for the concert.\u201d<\/p>\n

Then Freddy will perform Beethoven\u2019s dramatic Piano Concerto No.3<\/em> whilst directing the orchestra from the keyboard. This is a real favourite of his: \u201cI love the Romanticism in the slow movement. I feel that he\u2019s written it almost as an improvisation because there are a lot of incomplete things in the score, so I\u2019m trying to improvise a little bit. And the fact that there isn\u2019t a conductor there makes it a little easier for us because a lot of the time the orchestral players can pretty much sense what the soloist is doing and this way I don\u2019t have to communicate that to a conductor to sort of reinforce that to the orchestra, so it should work really well. I remember when I was a lot younger and learning pieces for the first time I loved the Emperor [piano concerto] probably the most and now that I\u2019ve played them all, now more and more I tend to love this third piano concerto.\u201d<\/p>\n

The concert closes with Dvo?\u00e1k\u2019s Seventh Symphony<\/em> which Freddy is looking forward to conducting: \u201cThis is probably my favourite Dvo?\u00e1k symphony and I\u2019m really delighted to be able to do it in this concert. I love the way he incorporates so many folk melodies and folk rhythms, especially dances. I want to bring out what the strings can do, but I also want to concentrate on that dance aspect. I feel emotionally very close to Dvo?\u00e1k even though he didn\u2019t write a mature piano concerto, and he didn\u2019t really write anything for solo piano, he just used it in chamber music, so it\u2019s a great way for me to experience Dvo?\u00e1k.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tickets are \u00a312.50-\u00a339.50 (50% student\/U18 discount) from Brighton Dome Ticket Office, (01273) 709709, www.brightondome.org<\/a><\/p>\n

Discounted parking (just \u00a36) available at NCP Church Street Car Park between 1-6pm<\/p>\n

Sunday 11 November 2018, 2.45pm<\/strong><\/p>\n

Concert sponsored in memory of Philip Wilford<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra<\/strong><\/span><\/h6>\n
Freddy Kempf Piano\/Director<\/strong><\/span><\/h6>\n
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RossInI Overture: Semiramide<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/h6>\n
Beethoven Piano Concerto No.3 in C Minor Op.37<\/strong><\/span><\/h6>\n
Dvo?\u00e1k Symphony No.7 in D Minor Op.70<\/strong><\/span><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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