Event listing: Cleveland Orchestra 01 | Usher Hall | Tue 21 Aug 2012 at 20:00

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Usher Hall Edinburgh, Scotland, EH1 2EA, United Kingdom

Dates/times in London time zone

Festival: Edinburgh International Festival

Programme

Lutosławski, Witold (1913-1994)	Concerto for Orchestra
Smetana, Bedřich (1824-1884)	Má vlast (My Fatherland)

Performers

The Cleveland Orchestra
Franz Welser-Möst	Conductor

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Má vlast: freedom, resilience and Czech identity

Cameron Kelsall, 25th February

Má vlast is a universal and contemporary piece: we look into what makes it so powerful, and how the Czech Philharmonic has made it a landmark piece within its repertoire.

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Cleveland Orchestra 01 - Lutosławski & Smetana

Alan Coady, 23rd August

The Cleveland Orchestra's two Slavic programmes form part of a larger Polish thread woven into this year's EIF. Witold Lutosławski's 1954 Concerto for Orchestra struck me as an ideal opening to the first concert. Its reliance on folk tunes, collected from the Masovia region (north of Warsaw) by ethnographer Oskar Kolberg, assures an unmistakably Polish flavour.

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