Over to Bratislava by way of Madrid this week for a concert by Bratislava Festival Orchestra led by Music Director Paul McCreesh and featuring Henning Kragerund, viola and Nicholas Daniel. Oboe in music of Vaughan-Williams, Howells, Barber and Edward Elgar.
Beginning with the Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis and then over to Howells Elegie for Viola and Orchestra, with Henning Kragerud, viola solo, followed by Samuel Barber’s Canzonetta for oboe and strings with Nicholas Daniel, oboe solo. The concert concludes with a performance of Edward Elgar’s Symphony Number 1.
Paul McCreesh is the founder and artistic director of the Gabrieli Consort & Players. With them he has performed in major concert halls and festivals across the world. He has been the artistic director of the Wratislava Cantans Festival in Wrocław, Poland and of the Brinkburn Festival in England.
Paul McCreesh made his name in the music of the Renaissance and Baroque periods, particularly that of Venice. The Gabrieli Consort was founded in 1982 and as of 2020 is still active. McCreesh and the Gabrielis made a successful Proms début in 1992: the second part of the concert was “Music for the Coronation of a Doge, 27 April 1595”.
In recent years Paul McCreesh has also worked with modern instrument orchestras including the DSO Berlin, RSO Berlin, Zurich Chamber Orchestra, Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, Gothenburg Symphony, Sinfónica de Euskadi, Stockholm Philharmonic and Beethovenhalle Bonn, the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra and the Orchestra Sinfonica dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia di Roma.
Enjoy the concert.
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