Royal Festival Hall
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Resident at Southbank Centre
Wednesday 8 October 2008, 7.30pm
Franz Schubert Overture, Rosamunde
Felix Mendelssohn Piano Concerto No.2 in D minor,
Op.40
INTERVAL
Antonin Dvorak Symphony No.9 (From the New World)
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Kurt Masur conductor
Louis Lortie piano
Dvorak, lured to America to head up a new music college, is often said to have written his Ninth Symphony out of homesickness. But the work is also an orchestral homage to the composer's new home: Dvorak's first movement has its basis in the folk themes of the New World, whilst his cor anglais theme, famously used in the Hovis advertisement, actually comes from the spirituals of the plantation fields. Dvorak entered the New World with optimism, and his symphony shares its soul with the grass roots of the American people - popular music indeed.
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