Mozart’s Serenata Notturna is one of his happiest and most entertaining works. It brims with comic contrasts creating a sound-world of its own. Principals Christian Elliott and Malachy Robinson and their ICO colleagues present the world premiere of Ian Wilson’s Seventh Seal – a new concerto for cello and double bass, commissioned by the ICO. Zehetmair’s arrangement of Anton Bruckner’s String Quintet, a brilliant Romantic work, is symphonic in scale but intimate in character, full of tension and passion.

Programme

W. A. Mozart (1756-91)
Serenade No. 6, K.239 "Serenata Notturna"
Ian Wilson (b. 1964)
The Seventh Seal
Anton Bruckner (1824-96)
String Quintet in F Major, WAB 112
(arr. Zehetmair for string orchestra )

Irish Chamber Orchestra
Thomas Zehetmair Director/Violin