Polish award-winning young cellist to perform
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The Chamber Music Society of Colombo, presents “The Virtuoso Cello”, a concert featuring Polish cellist Magdalena Sas at the Lionel Wendt Theatre, on Wednesday, May 25 at 7.30 p.m.
Ms. Sas an accomplished and prize-winning young cellist, will perform Joseph Haydn’s First Cello Concerto and Vivaldi’s double Concerto for Violin and Cello in B Flat Minor, together with the Chamber Music Society’s Associate Concertmaster Ursula Nelius.
Ms Sas has performed widely in central Europe. In 2011/12 together with the Vistula String Quartet she was a member of the renowned European Chamber Music Academy in Austria. She was later selected to join the Hulencourt Soloists Chamber Orchestra to work under Guy Braunstein, the former concertmaster of the Berliner Philharmoniker. She currently holds a visiting teacher position for cello, chamber music and string ensembles at the Mehli Mehta Music Foundation (MMMF) in Mumbai.
Haydn’s First concerto, an early work that predates his second concerto by 20 years, nevertheless displays his mastery of form. The work was presumed lost until its serendipitous discovery in the National Museum in Prague in 1961.
Vivaldi’s double concerto for violin and cello is one of the 40 odd concertos he wrote for two instruments. “His innovations in the concerto genre include: regular use of ritornello form (tutti theme alternating with solo episodes) in the fast outer movements, sensitive, passionate slow movements, virtuosic demands for soloists, new and strong effects such as orchestral unison. The Concerto in B-flat Major for Violin, Cello, and Strings, RV 547 demonstrates all of these characteristics”. Michael (brother to Joseph) Haydn’s Symphony no. 25 in G major is a somewhat of a musical curiosity attributed to Mozart until it was authenticated in 1907 by Lothar Perger.
The evening’s concluding item will be a performance of Mozart’s First Symphony in E flat, K. 16, a robust work which belies the fact that the composer was just 8 years old when he created it.This completes the evening’s aural fest of Baroque and Viennese classics.
The concert is supported by the CMSC’s premier sponsor Fairway Holdings.