I solisti di Pavia

On offer is a rich and diverse musical journey through music written for strings.There’s quite a bit of difference between the three pieces for solo cello: there’s one of Rossini’s most inspired pieces, Péchés de vieillesse; then Grand Tango, which Piazzolla composed in 1982 for Rostropovic; and then Twin Legends, composed by Roberto Molinelli in 2004 and commissioned by the musicians themselves. Two significant twentieth-century works for string orchestra top off the program: Romanza Op. 42 by Finnish Sibelius, and  Bartók’s Divertimento, which was completed shortly before the composer’s exile in the United States.