Viola Concerto - Bonn Opera House - Maxim Rysanov & Beethoven Bonn Orchester

Gabriel finished his Omicron isolation period just in time for the premier of his ‘Viola Concerto’ at the Bonn Opera House on the 14th January 2022. The wonderful violist Maxim Rysanov both performed and conducted the concerto alongside the Beethoven Bonn Orchester.

Since the performance, there have been many excellent newspaper and magazine reviews, the latest from the General Anzeiger:

“The music has the power to stand for itself. How the solo instrument emerges from the orchestral fog of sound in the first movement, how it has to assert itself against heavy accents or a sharp trumpet signal, is exciting to follow. Just like the dialogue between solo and tutti in this rhythmically extremely gripping work is very imaginative and always has surprises in store”.

“In Bonn there was great applause for the soloist, the orchestra and the composer, who had travelled all the way from London”.

To read the review in Papageno Magazine click here.