ICMA and NFM National Forum of Music Wrocław present a spectacular Award Ceremony Gala on 21 April. The rich and varied program for this Gala Celebration conducted by Music Director Giancarlo Guerrero will feature winners of this year’s laureate panel, accompanied by the NFM Wrocław Philharmonic.
Besides the NFM Wrocław Philharmonic there will also be a smaller ensemble on stage, the Spanish group Capella de Ministrers, conducted by Carles Magraner, to add more variety to a program that spans from Early Music to Contemporary, with no less than one singer and eleven instrumental soloists.
The concert will begin with Fryderyk Chopin’s Andante spianato and Grand Polonaise in E flat major performed by Alessandro Marangoni. Then follow the third movement of the Concerto for violin, piano and string orchestra op. 105 by Nikolai Kapustin (Maxim Lando – piano, Tassilo Probst – violin) and the finale of the Romantic Cello Concerto in B minor op. 104 by Antonin Dvořák (Gabriel Schwabe / NAXOS – cello). Camille Saint-Saëns’s Havanaise op 83. is also a work of violin literature. It will be presented by Leonhard Baumgartner (Discovery Award).
Young Artist of the Year, violist Sào Soulez Larivière will perform the Romance op. 85 from the beginning of the 20th century by Max Bruch. We will hear David Geringas perform Kol Nidrei for cello and orchestra op. 47, one of Bruch’s best-known works, based on traditional Hebrew themes. Soprano Ermonela Jaho will present the aria Io son l’umile ancella from Adriana Lecouvreur by the Italian composer Francesco Cilea and the famous Ombra di nube by Licinio Refice.
We will turn to Johann Sebastian Bach’s Capriccio sopra la lontananza del suo fratello dilettissimo, BWV992 with Mahan Esfahani and the works Reproches y quejas, Sim muero de amor and Trátame como quieras peformed by Capella de Ministrers. The repertoire will also include Rhapsodia sinfónica for piano and string orchestra, op. 66 by Joaquín Turina (Josu de Solaun – piano), Elégie for cello and orchestra op. 24 by Gabriel Fauré, played by Marc-André Teruel on the double bass, and ‘con moto’ by the contemporary artist David Philip Hefti, who was awarded in the Composer category.
The gala will end with the Symphonie concertante op. 81 by Joseph Jongen – a composition written in the 1920s for organ with orchestra. The symphony, consisting of four extended movements and crowned with an effective toccata, impresses with the fullness of the sound of both the organ and the symphony orchestra, which wonderfully complements the timbre of the solo instrument. The work will be performed by Karol Mossakowski with the NFM Wrocław Philharmonic. Karol Mossakowski was recognized in the Orchestra Award category, awarded to him on the recommendation of the National Forum of Music.
Tickets for the Gala Concert are on sale here.
