Conductor Sabin Păutza
Soloists
Mihai Sârbu – horn
Iasmina Florentina Breșneni – bassoon
Bogdan Alexandru Costache – violin
Programme
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Concerto in E flat major for horn and orchestra K. 447
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Concerto in B flat major for bassoon and orchestra K. 191
Pablo de Sarasate – Fiddler’s songs op.20
Camille Saint Saens – Introduction and Rondo capriccioso op.28
Evening dedicated to classical-romantic works of art
By the general reasoning, Mozart was one of the greatest creators of instrumental concerts from the entire history, who, just as Vivaldi, has placed the “production” of this genre in the center of his work. Mozart was unsurpassed in the XVIIIth century, while his works were models of perfect balance between soloist and orchestra, between symphonic development and virtuosity. The symphonic evening scheduled on Thursday, September 15th, is exclusively dedicated to instrumental virtuosity, while the parts initiating it are autographs by Mozart, presented as rarities in the current concert programmes.
The concerto for bassoon in B flat major K 191, one of his early compositions, written for the Prince Archbishop of Salzburg’s court orchestra, and the Concerto in E flat major for horn and orchestra K. 447, written in his years of maturity, spent in Vienna, urge for a new prospect of Mozart’s compositional territory, a sonorous world accessible solely to the virtuosos, to those who know how to blend the orchestra experience with the roles dedicated to the main voices in the concert parts.
Hornist Mihai Sârbu and bassoonist Iasmina Florentina Breşneni are the partners of master Sabin Păutza for the first part of the evening dedicated to classical-romantic works of art, which continues, after the break, with Zigeunerweisen op. 20, the most famous work by Pablo de Sarasate, the great violinist of the second half of the XIXth century, and Introduction and Rondo capriccioso op.28 by Camille Saint Saens, the musical part created as an homage to the famous Spanish virtuoso.
Valued until today for the inexhaustible range of effects, the two masterpieces of XIXth century welcome the interpretation of one of the most relevant presence on today’s concert stages, violinist Bogdan Alexandru Costache.
