Sreten Krstić and strings of RTS Symphony Orchestra
Strings of the RTS Symphony orchestra will hold a concert on October 16 in the Great Hall of the Kolarac Endowment. Led by a violinist Sreten Krstic, who will this time appear also in the role of ensemble leader. On the program are some of the most significant pieces of classical music composed for string ensemble -„Serrenade for strings“ by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, „Adagio“ for strings by Samuel Barber as well as „Symphony number 5“ by Franz Schubert in the arrangement of Sreten Krstic.
Violinist Sreten Krstic has been the first concertmaster of the Munich Philharmonic since 1980. As a soloist he has performed with famous conductors, such as S. Celibidache, J. Levine, Z. Mehta, H. Vakasugi, V. Neumann, D. Kitayenko and others. He has played in almost all European countries, Japan, America and the former USSR. He is the founder of „Gasteig-Trio Munchen“ string trio, as well as „Philharmonic string sextet“, (Philharmonische Streichsetett). On his iniciative the chamber orchestra „Philharmonic soloists“ was formed of which he was the artistic leader. Since 2011 he has been working as a permanent concertmaster and artistic leader of „Zagreb’s soloists“.
The pieces that will be performed at the concert are among the most significant achivements in the works of their creators. „Serrenade for strings“ by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky is a piece that the composer while writing to Nadezdha fon Mek said he composed from a personal impulse, which came from the freedom of his creative thinking. Samuel Barber, in the strenght and beauty of the second movement of his „String quartet op.11“ finds the inspiration to reorchetrate it for the string orchestra, while „Symphony number 5“ by Franz Schubert inspires Sreten Krstic to rearrange it for the string orchestra.