Serenade
This is a concert of string orchestra music from five different countries. From Poland we have a work by Górecki who had an extraordinary success with his Symphony of Sorrowful Songs. Ginastera was an Argentine composer who studied with Copland and who taught the famous composer of tangos, Ástor Piazzola. Skalkottas come from Greece and these dance movements are inspired by Greek folk music. The Welsh Karl Jenkins is famous for his “Armed Man – A Mass for Peace”. Palladio was inspired by the sixteenth-century Italian architect Andrea Palladio. The final nationality represented in this concert is Sweden. Wirén’s Serenade is a melodious and beautiful work.