St Paul Chamber Ensemble - Concert in Poznań, Poland. 9th November 2018

An orchestral recital by the St Paul Chamber Ensemble, in collaboration with the Rotondo Choir of Poznan, during a tour in Poland which included this concert at the San Padre Pio di Pietralcina Parish Church in Poznan. Mro Mark Agius’s recent work, the Messa da Requiem was originally premiered at St John’s Co-Cathedral last March to high critical acclaim.
In his welcoming speech at the official opening of the tour in Kepno, HE the Ambassador of Malta to Poland, Dr John Paul Grech, expressed his appreciation of the initiative and of the collaboration between the respective entities to make it happen. Upon being called upon to receive a commemorative gift at the end of the evening, Dr Grech further lauded Mro Agius on the emotional intensity of the composition and its sensitive rendering by the orchestra, choir and soloists and augured that this would be but the first of other such initiatives.