The Review - MUSIC - Classical & Jazz with TONY KIELY Published: 7 February 2008
Michael Tilson Thomas is set to take part in the Belief Series
Tilson Thomas joins LSO on night of romance
PREVIEW: THE BELIEF SERIES Barbican Hall
PRINCIPAL guest director Michael Tilson Thomas is set to join the London Symphony Orchestra for the next concert in its Belief series on Sunday.
The concert will focus on two European masters of Romanticism, Dvorak and Janacek.
Completed in 1889, Dvorak’s Eighth Symphony came at a period in his life when the composer had finally freed himself from his many financial burdens, enabling him to move to a small country house in southern Bohemia.
Here, among the natural beauty of the countryside, Dvorak found contentment, with his feeling that he was “cut off from the world” shining through in one of his most relaxed and cheerfully nationalist works.
Glagolithic Mass is one of the many marvels of Janacek’s late years – a vibrant vernacular Mass by a non-believer celebrating both the Slavonic national identity and the pulsating energy of nature.
Of this work, Janacek said: “I felt a cathedral grow out of the giant expanse of the woods.”
• Michael Tilson Thomas conducts the LSO at the Barbican Hall on Sunday February 10 at 7.30pm. Tickets cost £6-£30. Book online at www.thecnj.co.uk or telephone 020 7638 8891
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