Programme
- Jessie MontgomeryOverture (Irish premiere)
- Elgar
- Cello Concerto
- SibeliusSymphony No. 7
- GriegPeer Gynt
- Suite No. 1Renowned for its poignant, introspective character, Elgar’s Cello Concerto, was the composer’s final major orchestral work, composed in the aftermath of the First World War and when the composer was in ill health. Blending lyrical warmth with quiet anguish and disillusionment, this is music of extraordinary emotional depth which will be brough to life by German cellist
- Daniel Müller-Schottas soloist, praised for his “intense expressivity” and “bold, fiery technique” (
- The New York Times).
About
The concerto’s enduring fame owes much to Jacqueline du Pré, whose 1965 recording with Sir John Barbirolli and the London Symphony Orchestra remains legendary. (Barbirolli, a regular visitor to Ireland during his lifetime was influential in advocating for a ‘proper concert hall in Dublin’, an ambition realised in 1981 with the opening of the National Concert Hall.) The programme also features American composer, Jessie Montgomery’s Overture, which she describes as “a one-movement orchestral tutti steeped in harmonic textures inspired by a fusion between jazz and American classical harmonies, Ba
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