SOUNDS OF WINDS with Cyprus Symphony Orchestra Wind Section
Soloist - Gareth Griffiths, trumpet. Conductor Zoe Tsokanou
Markideion Municipal Theatre, Paphos
Thursday 17 June - 8.30pm
Safepass/Coronapass will be required.
Tickets: €12, €7 (18-26 yrs, pensioners), €5 (under 18). Box Office: Online at www.cyso.interticket.com.
Antonín Dvořák, Jean Françaix, Gordon Jacob.
Information: Tel: 22463144, www.cyso.org.cy
A programme dedicated purely to music for wind instruments, under the baton of conductor Zoe Tsokanou and CySO’s principal trumpetist Gareth Griffiths as the soloist. The concert presents a fine selection of three pieces composed between 1878 and 1974 featuring characteristic sound colours from the composers’ countries of origin: Antonín Dvořák (Bohemia), Gordon Jacob (England) and Jean Francaix (France).
Dvořák’s Serenade for wind instruments in D minor (1878) is a magnificent work whose composition was sparked by a fascination of the Czech composer with one of Mozart’s wind serenades. Here too, Dvořák does what he is so famous and admired for: combining beautifully the classical serenade genre with traditional Czech and Bohemian dance forms, rhythms and melodic patterns.
Francaix’s Le gay Paris (1974) for trumpet and wind ensemble is a light-hearted piece full of humorous dialogues between the soloist and the wind instruments.
We close our concert with Jacob’s Old Wine in New Bottles (1959) that is based on four early English folk songs, to which the composer adds his own unique musical twist, thus making them all the more enjoyable and fun.
A. Dvořák: Serenade for wind instruments, op. 44
J. Françaix: Le Gay Paris for trumpet and wind ensemble
G. Jacob: Old Wine in New Bottles
Soloist: Gareth Griffiths (trumpet)
Conductor: Zoe Tsokanou
