Name: Nicola Benedetti & Philharmonia Chamber Players
Start: 2024-05-26T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2024-05-26T00:00:00.000Z
Location: South Bank Centre

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Nicola Benedetti

Violin I

Nicola Benedetti & Philharmonia Chamber Players

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Queen Elizabeth Hall

Nicola Benedetti & Philharmonia Chamber Players: Souvenir de Florence, op. 70 Tchaikovsky, P. I. (+1 More)

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Souvenir of Florence

Verklärte Nacht op. 4

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South Bank Centre

The ever-popular violinist Nicola Benedetti leads a group of soloists from the Philharmonia Orchestra in vivid chamber music inspired by art and poetry.

When Tchaikovsky visited Florence, he fell in love with the place, its art and its music. His Souvenir de Florence preserves some of the wonder he felt there.

When Schoenberg read ‘Verklärte Nacht’ by the poet Richard Dehmel, he was moved to turn it into a wordless tone-poem, fuelled by his own new-found passion for the woman who later became his wife.

Both composers, writing in a flood of inspiration, chose the luscious sounds of a string sextet for their purposes, creating works that made the most of the ensemble’s capacity for rich harmonies and lavish expression.

Benedetti leads a group of soloists from the Philharmonia Orchestra in a celebration of this irresistible medium.

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Nicola Benedetti & Philharmonia Chamber Players by Tchaikovsky, P. I., Schoenberg, Arnold, Sun 26 May 2024, From (2024/2024), South Bank Centre, London, United Kingdom

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