3rd International Music Festival of Central and Eastern Europe
Warsaw, 19–27 November 2021
Kordegarda. Gallery of the National Centre for Culture
What is Romanticism About. Instruments and Forms
Open-air educational exhibition
Kordegarda. Gallery of the National Centre for Culture
What is Romanticism About. Instruments and Forms
Open-air educational e
2:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m., Centrum Kreatywności Targowa (The Targowa Centre of Creativity)
Dialogue with Jewish Cantors
Exhibition of a sound and spatial installation by Alvin Curran Daven Mir Dos
The event was co-organized by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute and the National Centre for Culture Poland
7:30 pm, Warsaw Philharmonic, Concert Hall
Ernst von Dohnányi: Symphonic Minutes
Franz Liszt: Mephisto Waltz No. 1
***intermission***
Zoltán Kodály: Te Deum
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Bożena Bujnicka – soprano
Urszula Kryger – alto
Karol Kozłowski – tenor
Wojciech Gierlach – bass
Warsaw Philharmonic Choir
Bartosz Michałowski – choir director
Sinfonia Varsovia
Zsolt Nagy – conductor
10:00 p.m., The Targowa Centre of Creativity
Dialogue with Jewish Cantors
Vernissage of a sound and spatial installation by Alvin Curran Daven Mir Dos*
The event is co-organized by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute and the National Centre for Culture Poland
7:30 pm, Warsaw Philharmonic, Concert Hall
Ludomir Rogowski: Dubrovacke impresje for symphony orchestra
Arvo Pärt: Fratres
***intermission***
Dora Pejačević: Symphony in F-sharp minor, Op. 41
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Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra
Anu Tali – conductor
10:00 p.m., Palladium Theatre
Adam Bałdych: Górecki Transformed**
Own interpretations and improvisations on Henryk Mikołaj Górecki’s string quartets
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Adam Bałdych – violin
Michał Barański – double bass
Łukasz Ojdana – piano
Dawid Fortuna – percussion
2:15 p.m., Archcathedral Basilica of St. John the Baptist
Vocal recital
Programme:
Henryk Mikołaj Górecki, Modest Mussorgsky, Mykola Lysenko
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Tomasz Konieczny – bass-baritone
Lech Napierała – piano
4:00 p.m., The Holy Trinity Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession
Ēriks Ešenvalds: Stars
Henryk Mikołaj Górecki: Totus Tuus, Op. 60
Ēriks Ešenvalds: A Drop in the Ocean
Gustav Mahler: Die zwei blauen Augen / arr. by Clytus Gottwald
Anton Bruckner: Ave Maria
Gustav Mahler: Adagietto / arr. by Gerard Pesson
Anders Hillborg: Mouyayoum
Pēteris Vasks: The Tomtit’s Message
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Latvian Radio Choir
Sigvards Klava – conductor
7:30 p.m., Warsaw Philharmonic, Concert Hall
Marţian Negrea: Izbuc from the symphony suite Through the Apuseni Mountains, Op. 20
Ludomir Różycki: Violin Concerto
***intermission***
Jean Sibelius: Symphony No. 1 in E minor, Op. 39
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Janusz Wawrowski – violin
Sinfonia Varsovia
Monika Wolińska – conductor
7:30 p.m., Royal Castle, the Great Assembly Hall (Ballroom)
György Ligeti: Andante and Allegretto for string quartet
Aleksander Lasoń: String Quartet No. 4
***intermission***
Juliusz Zarębski: Piano Quintet in G minor, Op. 34
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Veronika Böhmová – piano
Silesian Quartet
7:30 pm, Warsaw Philharmonic, Concert Hall
Arvo Pärt: Swansong
Jean Sibelius: Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 47
***intermission***
Erkki-Sven Tüür: Incantation of Tempest for string orchestra
Jean Sibelius: Symphony No. 5 in E-flat major, Op. 82
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Veriko Tchumburidze – violin
Estonian National Symphony Orchestra
Olari Elts – conductor
7:30 p.m., Warsaw Philharmonic, Chamber Hall
Cello recital
George Enescu: Sonata in F minor for cello and piano, Op. posth., I mov.
Franz Schubert: Sonata in A minor ‘Arpeggione’ for cello and piano
***intermission***
Mieczysław Karłowicz: Serenade in G major for cello and piano
Giya Kancheli: Herio Bichebo
Mieczysław Weinberg: Cello Sonata No. 2, Op. 63
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Anastasia Kobekina – cello
Luka Okros – piano
7:30 pm, Warsaw Philharmonic, Concert Hall
Leoš Janáček: Suite for Strings
Ladislav Kupkovič: Cantica slovaca four Slovak songs for string ensemble
Bela Bartók: Romanian Folk Dances for string orchestra
Henryk Mikołaj Górecki: Concerto for harpsichord or piano and orchestra, Op. 40
***intermission***
Antonín Dvořák: Biblical Songs, Op. 99
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Anna Górecka – piano
Bogdan Warchal Slovak Chamber Orchestra
Ewald Danel – conductor
Katowice City Singers’ Ensemble “Camerata Silesia”
Anna Szostak – choir preparation
10:00 p.m., Akwarium Club
Polish Radio Experimental Studio – interpretations
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Markus Popp (Oval)
Jacek Sienkiewicz
7:30 pm, Warsaw Philharmonic, Concert Hall
Krzysztof Penderecki: Symphony No. 2 “Christmas”
***intermission***
Edvard Grieg: Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 16
Giya Kancheli: Morning Prayers
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Lukáš Vondráček – piano
Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra
Andrzej Boreyko – conductor
The concert is co-organized by the Warsaw Philharmonic and the National Centre for Culture
7:30 p.m., Royal Castle, the Great Assembly Hall (Ballroom)
Vocal recital
Programme:
Mykola Lysenko, Viktor Kosenko, Jean Sibelius
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Olga Pasiecznik – soprano
Natalia Pasiecznik – piano
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7.30 p.m., Warsaw Philharmonic, Concert Hall
The NOSPR under Rossen Gergov, with phenomenal clarinett ist David
Krakauer – a strong accent for the start of this year’s Eufonie Festival.
Josef Suk as an outstanding Czech composer of the late 19th / early 20th
centuries, defi nitely unjustly neglected in Poland. Mathew Rosenblum’s
Lament / Witches’ Sabbath recalls a family tale from Eastern Europe’s
hardest ti mes, when an inhuman regime fuelled hatred and xenophobia.
Lutosławski’s Symphony No. 3 is a must for everyone interested
in contemporary music. Three very diff erent works; three aspects
of Central-Eastern Europe’s cultural complexity.
Josef Suk (1874–1935): Fantastic Scherzo (Fantasti cké scherzo) in G Minor Op. 25
for orchestra (1902–1903)
Mathew Rosenblum (ur. 1954): Lament / Witches’ Sabbath for solo clarinet and orchestra (2017)
Witold Lutosławski (1913–1994): Symphony No. 3 (1983)
David Krakauer – clarinet
Mathew Rosenblum – live electronics
Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra
Rossen Gergov – conductor
10.00 p.m., Warsaw Philharmonic, Chamber Music Hall foyer
The concert-spectacle Incantati ons is a treat for all those who feel
uneasy watching a usually unimpressive classical concert, where
there is litt le is to be seen, especially from the back rows of a large
concert hall. In a performance show, the performati ve element is
crucial, and music is not only to be heard, but also to determine stage
movement and other, frequently improvised visual eff ects. The dancers
have notably been prepared by the famous Jacek Przybyłowicz,
the singer is vocalist-ethnographer Weronika Grozdew-Kołacińska,
and electronics is the work of Aleksandra Bilińska. The whole,
as the composer explains, is about women…
Incantations** (2019) –
Aleksandra Bilińska – electronics
Weronika Grozdew-Kołacińska – vocals
Jacek Przybyłowicz – choreography
5.00 p.m., Archcathedral Basilica of St John the Baptist
Contemporary music is usually associated with the search for new,
surprising types of sound and sonic combinati ons, frequently rather
diffi cult for the unaccustomed ear. A new piece may often prove a whole
brave new world, to be painstakingly explored as if it were a previously
unknown people with its own culture, language and customs.
The composers featured in this concert are likewise explorers, but –
a notable point – they explore traditi on not less than modernity, studying
prayer, meditati on, and… silence. Those who have ever looked for such
elements in music should feel at home in this repertoire, presented by real
experts in the fi eld: Collegium Musicale under conductor Endrik Üksvärav.
Paweł Łukaszewski: Popule meus* for mixed unaccompanied choir (2019)
Erkki-Sven Tüür (ur. 1959): The Wanderer’s Evening Song (Rändaja õhtulaul)
for mixed choir to a text by Ernst Enno (2001)
Paweł Łukaszewski (ur. 1968): Corpus Christi responsoria for unaccompanied choir (2018)
Arvo Pärt (ur. 1935): Virgencita* for mixed unaccompanied choir (2012)
Arvo Pärt: Kleine Litanei* for mixed unaccompanied choir (2015)
Arvo Pärt: I usłyszałem głos…* (Ja ma kuulsinhääle…) for mixed unaccompanied choir (2017)
Collegium Musicale
Endrik Üksvärav – conductor
7.30 p.m., Palladium Theatre
Many a regime has sentenced it to annihilati on and oblivion in this land,
where it fl ourished in the past. In Poland it is now being revived by
such centres as Pogranicze – Borderland of Arts, Cultures and Nati ons,
with Sejny Theatre and its orchestra. It also has its world-famous
ambassadors such as David Krakauer, whose versati le virtuosity brings
klezmer music back to life and creati vely confronts it with other
styles to create new musical worlds. Krakauer’s concert with the
Sejny Theatre Klezmer Orchestra presents klezmer music in its full
splendour and capti vati ng power.
Concert programme:
David Krakauer’s compositions and traditional songs arranged by David Krakauer and Sejny Theatre Klezmer Orchestra
David Krakauer – clarinet
Sejny Theatre Klezmer Orchestra
10.00 p.m., Hybrydy Club
New electronic music from Ukraine
Fans of electronic music will welcome the performance by three
Ukrainian DJs as a highlight of this autumn. Vakula, Voin Oruwu
and Zavoloka are acclaimed arti sts in their own country, and they are
scoring ever greater successes in the internati onal scene. Their sets
fuse many genres in surprising and innovati ve ways, which is quite a feat
in this much exploited fi eld. Their performances frequently combine music
with multi media shows, and our concert will be no excepti on.
Vakula
Voin Oruwu
Zavoloka
17:00 – Teatr Palladium
Synaesthesis, Lithuania’s leading new music ensemble, has invited young
Lithuanian and Polish composers – Dominykas Digimas, Julius Aglinskas,
Jagoda Szmytka, Piotr Bednarczyk as well as sculptor and interactive
object artist Vėjas Aliukas – to collaborate on the performance
of their works. It is not a traditi onal music concert. The music will trigger
an interplay of lights which share with sounds the functi on of narrator
in this show.
Audio-visual project …before, between and after… recalls
the events that accompanied Lithuania regaining independence in 1990.
The project uses the following compositions:
Dominykas Digimas: Another Point of View and Walking through three points
Julius Aglinskas: Being (Observing) and Between the Silence
Jagoda Szmytka: Greetings From a Dopplegaenger
Piotr Bednarczyk: Connected
Synaesthesis Contemporary Music Ensemble
7.30 p.m., Warsaw Philharmonic, Concert Hall
The five composers featured in this programme, representing five
different countries, were all strongly aff ected by living under
20th-century totalitarian regimes. Three of those states – Ukraine
(Sylvestrov), Georgia (Kancheli) and Latvia (Vasks) – were part
of the USSR unti l 1991. The other two artists were émigrés: Bartók,
who fled Hungary and fascism in 1940 to settle in the United States,
and Panufnik, who defected to Great Britain in 1954. Are traces of their life experience also present in any form in their music?
Valentin Silvestrov (ur. 1937): Hymn – 2001 for string orchestra (2001)
Giya Kancheli (ur. 1935): A Little Daneliade for violin, piano and strings (2000)
Andrzej Panufnik (1914–1991): Cello Concerto (1991)
Pēteris Vasks (ur. 1946): Musica dolorosa for string orchestra (1983)
Béla Bartók (1881–1945): Divertimento for string orchestra (1939)
Narek Hakhnazaryan – cello
AUKSO – Chamber Orchestra of the City of Tychy
Marek Moś – conductor
10.00 p.m., Palladium Theatre
Highly regarded by connoisseurs, loved by audiences, much liked by
film fans; inspiring not only for the ear, but also for the imagination;
very Polish, but known throughout the world – all this can be said about
the music of Wojciech Kilar.
Francesco Tristano listens to and interprets this music through the prism of the piano and of his own avant-garde electronic music. After his reading of Bach, now there comes the time for our Kilar, creatively reworked in contact with the mastery
and artistic sensitivity of the Luxembourgian artist.
Francesco Tristano: Conversations with Wojciech Kilar**
Film themes from:
Bram Stoker’s Dracula, The Portrait of a Lady, The Pianist. Leper,
Pan Tadeusz: The Last Foray in Lithuania, The Ninth Gate
excerpts from:
Orawa, Exodus
and other compositions
Francesco Tristano – piano and electronics
7.30 p.m. – Museum of John Paul II Collecti on, Rotunda Hall
Solng of Death** – the global information society is a place where great discoveries are possible not just for archaeologists in the ruins of the Pompeii, where
Roman artefacts are still being dug up, but also for attentive students
of online catalogues, such as that of the University Library of Erlangen-
Nürnberg. For decades we have been taught at school that the priceless
monument of Polish literature, Master Polikarp’s Dialogue with Death,
has only been incompletely preserved. However, Professor Wiesław Wydra
has now unearthed its complete version, and the fascinati ng and passionate
collaboration of this scholar with a group of excellent musicians has made it
possible for us to hear previously unknown sections of this work.
Jan Frycz – monodrama
Adam Strug, Monodia Polska – songs
7.30 p.m., – Warsaw Philharmonic, Chamber Music Hall
The string quartet is a serious and noble genre, which has to do with
the unity and at the same time the fullness of its sound. Like many other
chamber music forms, it was formerly meant primarily for domestic use.
Only with time did the contemplation of professional performances gain
the upper hand and largely replace amateur music-making. Nowadays
concert presentations of quartets usually att ract the most demanding
audience. The Pavel Haas Quartet demonstrates to us the possible
relations between music and extra-musical content: Shakespeare
in the first piece, the so-called absolute music in the second,
and a tale of great love in the third…
Ľubica Čekovská (ur. 1975): A Midsummer Quartet* (2019)
Béla Bartók (1881–1945): String Quartet No. 4 (1928)
Leoš Janáček (1854–1928): String Quartet No. 2 ‘Inti mate Lett ers’ („Listy důvěrné”, 1928)
Pavel Haas Quartet
7.30 p.m., The Royal Castle in Warsaw – Museum, The Great Assembly Hall (Ballroom)
When praising the Jagiellon era as the true golden age of Polish
culture, the best perspective is that of the Italian opera. Admittedly,
it is not going to be a lesson in actual political history. Rather, we will see
Poland in the context of what was long considered as the ideal of music
(both composers and performers) and of its social reception. Outstanding
soloists accompanied by {oh!} Orkiestra Historyczna under Martyna
Pastuszka have already won the hearts of many demanding music
enthusiasts for Vinci’s Gismondo. The splendid, stylish setting
of Warsaw’s Royal Castle seems wonderfully to suit this truly royal,
18th-century music.
Leonardo Vinci (ok. 1696–1730): Gismondo, re di Polonia (ok. 1726–1727) – Opera in three acts, concert version
Max Emanuel Cenčić – Gismondo / Sigismund
Nian Wang – Ottone / Otto
Suzanne Jerosme – Cunegunda / Cunigunde
Aleksandra Kubas-Kruk – Primislao / Premislaus
Jake Arditti – Ernesto / Ernest
Dilyara Idrisowa – Giuditta / Judith
Vasily Khoroshev – Ermanno / Hermann
{oh!} Orkiestra Historyczna
Martyna Pastuszka – music directiohn
7.30 p.m., – Warsaw Philharmonic, Concert Hall
I, CULTURE Orchestra is a unique project. Inaugurated as the flagship
ensemble of the International Cultural Programme of the Polish Presidency
of the EU Council in 2011 (implemented by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute),
it has developed over the last 8 years into an excellent orchestra made up
of the most gifted musicians of our region, winning acclaim in collaborati on
with eminent soloists and conductors in the best venues throughout Europe.
The programme comprises music by Grażyna Bacewicz, Peter Eötvös, Antonín
Dvořak, as well as Stanisław Moniuszko’s truly fantasti cal ‘Fairy Tale’ Overture.
Grażyna Bacewicz (1909–1969): Overture for orchestra (1943)
Peter Eötvös (ur. 1944): Violin Concerto No. 2 „DoReMi” (2011–2012; 2013)
Stanisław Moniuszko (1819–1872): ‘Fairy Tale’ – Fantastical Overture for orchestra (1847–1848)
Antonín Dvořak (1841–1904): Symphony No. 7 in D Minor Op.70 (1885)
Leticia Moreno – violin
I, CULTURE Orchestra
Marta Gardolińska – conductor
This concert is co-organised by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute and the National Centre for Culture Poland
7.30 p.m., Warsaw Philharmonic, Concert Hall
Dmitri Shostakovich and Mieczyslaw Weinberg had much in common.
These close and long-ti me friends loved to talk about music and
play it together. For decades they shared the difficult realities of life
in the Soviet capital. Both experienced the favour and disfavour of the
communist authorities. At this concert, we will hear their great works
in the masterful interpretations of Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra
under Gabriel Chmura, with Gidon Kremer as the soloist.
Mieczysław Wajnberg (1919–1996): Sinfoniett a No. 1 Op. 41 (1948)
Mieczysław Wajnberg: Violin Concerto Op. 67 (1960)
Dymitr Szostakowicz (1906–1975): Symphony No. 6 in B Minor Op. 54 (1939)
Gidon Kremer – violin
Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra
Gabriel Chmura – conductor
This concert is co-organised by Warsaw Philharmonic and the National Centre for Culture Poland
10.00 p.m., Hybrydy Club
In the wake of last year’s riveti ng performance by VOŁOSI and Félix
Lajkó, this year we present another concert of best class folk music, this
time by bands from Poland and Slovakia. Sokół Orchestra will play Polish
music under the dedicated performer of such repertoire, Przemek Sokół.
Their programme includes the earliest traces of Polish (or perhaps still
pan-Slavic) culture, much respected by musicologists and ethnographers,
though unfortunately poorly documented. The repertoire of the Slovak
Pacora Trio, mostly composed by the band members, draws on folk
cultures close to those musicians.
PaCoRa Trio
Sokół Orchestra
7.30 p.m., Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
The Festival’s grand finale, Krzysztof Penderecki’s A Polish Requiem,
is a work which, through the figures of the dedicatees of its successive
sections, directs the audience’s att ention to the tragic events of Poland’s
most recent history, from the Katyń massacre, the WWII uprisings in the
Warsaw Ghetto and then in the whole city, the Polish protests of 1970 on
the Baltic coast, as well as to great personaliti es: Father Maximilian Maria
Kolbe, Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński and Pope John Paul II. The monumental
music cycle emerged slowly and gradually along with the free Polish state,
over the period of 25 years, while the liturgical texts of the Mass for the
Dead situate this work in the great history of the Requiem genre.
Krzysztof Penderecki (ur. 1933): A Polish Requiem for four solo voices (SATB),
two mixed choirs and orchestra (1980–2005)
Iwona Hossa – soprano
Anna Radziejewska – alto
Rafał Bartmiński – tenor
Tomasz Konieczny – bass
Warsaw Philharmonic Choir
Sinfonia Varsovia
Zsolt Nagy – conductor
* Polish premiere
** World premiere – commissioned by the National Centre for Culture Poland
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Warsaw, 23 November – 1 December 2018
‘Eufonie’ is a new music festival referring to the tradition of regional community of the majority of the countries described today as Central and Eastern Europe, stretching from the Balkans, through Romania and Austria, the Visegrad Group countries, Ukraine and Belarus, to the Baltic states, sometimes extended to include Scandinavia. That area is a fascinating melting pot of clashing Eastern and Western influences, bursting with cultural energy that has often defined the identity of nations deprived of their own states.
We want the history of the region and its present day to be reflected by the new festival, hence the cultural events within the project will present music of different eras and styles: from classical music, through musical experiments, to ambitious popular music. The performers will be renowned artists from Central and Eastern Europe, but the festival concert venues will also feature soloists and ensembles from other parts of the world.
During this year’s edition of the Festival – organized in the special year of the 100th anniversary of Poland regaining its independence – we will hear, among others, works by Karol Szymanowski, Béla Bartók, Henryk Mikołaj Górecki, Antonín Dvořák or Arvo Pärt. The extensive programme will provide the opportunity to present a comprehensive overview of the region of Central and Eastern Europe, to discover new cultural contexts and to search for musical inspiration.
The patron of the 1st International Music Festival of Central-Eastern Europe is PKN ORLEN S.A. Note: the link will open in a new tab
Financed from the funds of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage under the Multiannual Programme NIEPODLEGŁA 2017–2022.
23 November, Friday, 8.00 p.m., Grand Theatre – Polish National Opera, Moniuszko Auditorioum
Krzysztof Penderecki was born on 23 November 1933. The Festival’s opening concert pays homage to this great master of Polish 20th-century music. It is at the same time the closing event of the Krzysztof Penderecki Festival organised by the Ludwig van Beethoven Association to celebrate the composer’s 85th birthday. The concert programme includes Krzysztof Penderecki’s works performed by world-class artists and the Maestro’s close friends.
Metamorphosen – Concerto per violino ed orchestra no. 2 (1992–1995)
Anne-Sophie Mutter – violin
Sinfonia Varsovia
Krzysztof Penderecki – conductor
*** INTERMISSION ***
Concerto grosso per tre violoncelli ed orchestra (2000–2001)
Frans Helmerson, Ivan Monigetti, Arto Noras – cellos
Sinfonia Varsovia
Christoph Eschenbach – conductor
*** INTERMISSION ***
Dies illa for three soloists (soprano, mezzo-soprano, bass), three mixed choirs and orchestra (2014)
Johanna Rusanen – soprano
Anna Radziejewska – mezzo-soprano
Nikolay Didenko – bass
Leonard Slatkin – conductor
Warsaw Philharmonic Choir
National Forum of Music (NFM) Choir
Poznań Chamber Choir
Sinfonia Varsovia
The Concert has been organised by the Ludwig van Beethoven Association, the Krzysztof Penderecki European Centre for Music, and the National Centre for Culture Poland.
24 November, Saturday) 7.30 p.m. , Warsaw Philharmonic Concert Hall
A concert presenting the works of four composers who led the music of their respective countries into the era of national independence. Enescu in Romania, Szymanowski in Poland, Sibelius in Finland and Bartók in Hungary are nowadays considered national composers. After 1918, in the new sovereign states, they laid the foundations for national styles in the music of their countries. At the same time they took care to incorporate the national ingredients into the wider current of European art. Today, their compositions belong to the canon of 20th-century music.
George Enescu (1881–1955): Romanian Rhapsody in D major, Op. 11 No. 2 for orchestra (1901)
Karol Szymanowski (1882–1937): Violin Concerto No. 1, Op. 35 (1916)
*** INTERMISSION ***
Jean Sibelius (1865–1957): Finlandia – symphonic poem, Op. 26 (1899)
Bela Bartók (1881–1945): Concerto for Orchestra (1943)
Akiko Suwanai – violin
Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra in Katowice
Lawrence Foster – conductor
25 November, Sunday, 5.00 p.m. , Teatr WARSawy
A re-interpretation of works by Arne Nordheim, a Norwegian composer associated with the Warsaw Autumn Festival and the Polish Radio Experimental Studio. Scandinavian sounds combined with Polish inspirations, in versions for live electronics.
Biosphere (Geir Jenssen) & Deathprod (Helge Sten): Nordheim Transformed (1998
25 November, Sunday, 7.30 p.m. , Museum of John Paul II Collection, Rotunda Hall
Arvo Pärt is Estonia’s most eminent composer. Having emigrated from the USSR in 1980, he lived in Vienna and Berlin. His unique works, drawing on medieval music but at the same time profoundly modern and spiritual, have conquered the commercialised world of the West. Today, he is a household name for nearly every music lover. A concert of his music is a veritable feast of sublime musical spirituality.
Arvo Pärta (b. 1935)
Fratres for violin, string orchestra and percussion (1977)
Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten for string orchestra and bell (1977)
Adam’s Lament for mixed choir and string orchestra (2010)
*** INTERMISSION ***
Salve Regina for mixed choir, celesta and string orchestra (2001/2011)
Te Deum for three choirs, string orchestra, prepared piano and wind harp (1985)
Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir
Tallinn Chamber Orchestra
Tõnu Kaljuste – conductor
26 November, Monday 12 noon, Fryderyk Chopin University of Music Concert Hall
Organiser: Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw
26 November, Monday, 7.30 p.m. , Arnold Szyfman Polish Theatre in Warsaw, Kameralna Stage
The Polish folk group VOŁOSI and the acclaimed Hungarian violinist Félix Lajkó in a programme of Polish and Hungarian folk music. Joint music-making and the joy of improvisation based on folk elements.
Improvised music
Félix Lajkó – violin
VOŁOSI ensemble
27 November, Tuesday, 7.30 p.m. , Warsaw Philharmonic, Concert Hall
The Lviv National Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra presents a programme of music steeped in the Polish and Ukrainian traditions: a symphonic poem by Boris Lyatoshinsky, based on the themes of Adam Mickiewicz’s Grazhyna, Myrosław Skoryk’s folk-sounding Carpathian Concerto, and the dances of Karol Szymanowski, who was born in Timoshovka near Kiev. The most recent face of Polish music is represented by Hanna Kulenty’s energetic double concerto, performed jointly by Polish cellists and the Ukrainian orchestra.
Karol Szymanowski (1882–1937): Four Polish Dances (1926)
transkrypcja na orkiestrę: Grzegorz Fitelberg
Hanna Kulenty (ur. 1961): DoubleCelloConcerto (2018)*
*** INTERMISSION ***
Borys Latoszyński (1895–1968): Grażyna – ballada symfoniczna wg Adama Mickiewicza op. 58 (1955)
Myrosław Skoryk (ur. 1938): Koncert karpacki na orkiestrę (1972)
Magdalena Bojanowicz, Bartosz Koziak – wiolonczele
Orkiestra Lwowskiej Obwodowej Filharmonii Narodowej
Wolodymyr Sywochip – dyrygent
* World premiere; co-financed from the Fund for the Promotion of Culture provided by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage, as part of the ‘Composing Commissions’ programme implemented by the Institute of Music and Dance
28 November, Wednesday, 7.30 p.m. , Arnold Szyfman Polish Theatre in Warsaw, Kameralna Stage
Four works by young composers from the Visegrád Group countries performed by the excellent Orkiestra Muzyki Nowej (New Music Orchestra), juxtaposed with authentic Carpathian folklore in the vivid interpretations of the VOŁOSI group. Musical colours and shades of the Carpathians in modern and folk versions.
Jana Kmiťová (ur. 1976): Gesichtsstudien (2017)
Martin Wiesner (ur. 1985): Raindrops on Plastic Rooftops for Orkiestry Muzyki Nowej (2017)
András Gábor Virágh (ur. 1984): Metamorphosis for 14 players (2017)
Jakub Szafrański (ur. 1988): The Carpathians
Orkiestra Muzyki Nowej (New Music Orchestra)
Szymon Bywalec – conudctor
Zespół VOŁOSI – improvised music
Concert under the honorary patronage of His Excellency Dušan Krištofík, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Slovak Republic to Poland
29 November (Thursday) 7.30 p.m. , Arnold Szyfman Polish Theatre in Warsaw, Kameralna Stage
Two Czech string quartets play pieces by Slovak, Austrian and Polish composers. They combine their forces in the end to perform the very demanding and extremely ear-catching 40-minute-long String Octet by the Romanian composer George Enescu.
Roman Berger (ur. 1930): Songs from Zaolzie for string quartet (2004)
Alexander von Zemlinsky (1871–1942): String Quartet No. 1 in A major, Op. 4 (1896)
Stanisław Moniuszko (1819–1872): String Quartet No. 1 in D Minor (1839)
Kwartet Smyczkowy im. A. Zemlinsky’ego (Zemlinsky Quartet)
*** INTERMISSION ***
George Enescu (1881–1955): Octet for Strings in C Major, Op. 7
Zemlinsky Quartet
Pražák Quartet
Concert under the honorary patronage of:
His Excellency Ivan Jestřáb, PhD, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Czech Republic to Poland and His Exellency Ovidiu Dranga, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Romania to the Republic of Poland
National Identities – European Universality: Music and Musical Life in Central Europe (1918–2018)
30 November (Friday), 10.30 a.m. – 6.00 p.m. , Institute of Musicology, University of Warsaw
Ball Room of the Tyszkiewicz-Potocki Palace
Organisers: Polish Composers’ Union, Institute of Musicology, University of Warsaw, National Centre for Culture Poland
30 November (Friday), 1.00 p.m. Institute of Musicology, University of Warsaw, Ball Room of the Tyszkiewicz-Potocki Palace
Béla Bartók (1881–1945): Suite, Op. 14 for piano (1916)
Leoš Janáček (1854–1928): On an Overgrown Path – little pieces for piano (1902–1911)
Béla Bartók (1881–1945): 15 Hungarian Peasant Songs for piano (1914-1918)
Zoltán Kodály (1882–1967): Dances of Marosszék for piano (1923–1927)
Zoltán Fejérvári – piano
30 November (Friday) 7.30 p.m. , Warsaw Philharmonic, Concert Hall
The most known Polish symphony, a masterpiece of 20th-century music – Górecki’s deeply moving Symphony of Sorrowful Songs will leave no one indifferent.
Henryk Mikołaj Górecki (1933–2010): Symphony No. 3 – Symphony of Sorrowful Songs, Op. 36
for solo soprano and orchestra (1976)
Aleksandra Kurzak – soprano
Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra
Jacek Kaspszyk – conductor
30 November (Friday), 10.00 p.m. , Teatr WARSawy
Jacaszek/Pahkinen/Strønen is an international performative trio consisting of Polish composer Michał Jacaszek, Finnish/Swedish dancer and choreographer Virpi Pahknen and Norwegian drummer Thomas Strønen. This special premiere performance project, prepared for the Eufonie Festival, is a fusion of live music and dance inspired by the phenomenon of trees: their shapes, movement, changes and sound.
Catalogue of Trees (2018)*
Michał Jacaszek – electronics
Virpi Pahkinen – choreography, dance
Thomas Strønen – percussion
* World premiere – commissioned by the National Centre for Culture Poland
National Identities – European Universality: Music and Musical Life in Central Europe (1918–2018)
1 December (Saturday), 9.30 a.m. – 5.00 p.m. , Institute of Musicology, University of Warsaw
Ball Room of the Tyszkiewicz-Potocki Palace
1 December (Saturday), 7.30 p.m. Warsaw Philharmonic, Concert Hall
An excellent Hungarian orchestra in a programme of symphonic music by the Czech Romantic master Antonín Dvořak and by the artist who set the trends for Romantic composers all over Europe, Ludwig van Beethoven. His Piano Concerto No. 1 will serve here as a point of reference, providing a valuable musical context.
Antonín Dvořák (1841–1904)
Legends, Op. 59, version for orchestra ( (1881)
Slavonic Dances, Op. 46, version for orchestra (1878)
4 Choruses, Op. 29 (1878), version for orchestra – No. 4 – Opuštěný (The Forsaken One) (1878)
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827): Piano Concerto No. 1 in C Major, Op. 15 (1798–1780)
***INTERMISSION***
Antonín Dvořák: Symphony No. 6 in D Major, Op. 60 (1880)
Zoltán Fejérvári – piano
Budapest Festival Orchestra
Iván Fischer – conductor
Concert under the honorary patronage of Her Excellency Orsolya Zsuzsanna Kovács, PhD, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Hungary to Poland
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