NOSPR Chamber Musicians / String Orchestra / Zambrzycki / Deep Strings - NOSPR

In the early 21st century, chamber and string orchestras were somewhat overshadowed as much of their repertoire was taken over by specialist early music and contemporary ensembles. Yet the string orchestra possesses a distinctive, warm sonority, without the sharper sound characteristic of smaller ensembles, while preserving the intimacy of chamber music-making. We will experience this in Johann Sebastian Bach’s much-loved Concerto in D minor for Two Violins, as well as in Giovanni Bottesini's Gran duo concertante, with its unusual virtuoso duet between violin and double bass.

Another ‘hit’ is Gabriel Fauré’s Élégie, featuring another solo instrument: the cello. The work enters into dialogue with the mystery and melancholy of Osvaldo Golijov’s composition – a Kabbalistic tale of Judaism told through sounds that, as the composer himself has said, ‘speak in different languages’.

Adam Suprynowicz

Concert duration: approximately 100 minutes

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