Romantic Treasures from CSO in Nicosia and Paphos

Concerts will be given as follows:

Nicosia: Friday 1 November 2019 - Pallas Theatre Paphos Gate, 20:30

Paphos: Saturday 2 November 2019 - Markideion Municipal Theatre, 20:30

R. Schumann: Overture, scherzo & finale, op. 52
Cello concerto in A minor, op. 129
J. V. H. Voříšek: Symphony in D major, op. 24

Soloist: Jakub Otčenášek (cello)
Conductor: Charles Olivieri-Munroe

Supporters: Paphos Municipality

The fruitful stylistic diversity that characterizes the Romantic era in music, manifests in this concert: three Romantic treasures by two immortal masters! Opening the concert, Robert Schumann, a leading exponent of Romantic music, creator of sublime works whose seeming imperfections are nothing else but imaginative poetic manifestations of the Romantic ideal. Bringing the curtain down, is the Czech composer Jan Voříšek, a proponent of an early Romantic style grounded on a forward-looking daring harmonic language cushioned by a touch of Classical f...