About the Performance
The highly acclaimed partnership of Donald Runnicles and the BBC SSO appears at the Festival for the first time since his appointment as Chief Conductor.
Strauss catches the humour and humanity of Cervantes's famous tale Don Quixote. The music so effectively conveys the adventures of the tragic knight that it is almost visual. A mix of lush expansiveness and Webern's more famous miniature detail, make Im Sommerwind an unusual and exciting piece. Brahms described his Double Concerto for violin and cello as a ‘strange flight of fancy', inspired by his preoccupation with Baroque music.
'Skride's playing is unfailingly intelligent, her virtuosity is allied to a sure sense of the work's emotional range. Her tone is full but beautifully controlled, and her phrasing throughout has a natural fl air that is compelling' The International Record Review
'shows Vogler to be a heroic interpreter whose way with the cello is just as astounding as Rostropovich's.' The Philadelphia Inquirer
'Runnicles has come home - and already America's loss looks like Europe's gain.' Financial Times
