For the generation of Polish-Lithuanian siblings – Vytautas Bacevičius and Grażyna Bacewicz – Karol Szymanowski was an icon of new music. His Masques, Op. 34, belonging to the Impressionist/Expressionist phase, present his interpretation of figures…
Not everyone knows that behind the most famous dog in Polish animation there is a touching story of a composer who planned to write exclusively for adults. Zenon Kowalowski provided the four-legged hero with one…
Last year, the Polish Hatti Vatti project was included in the catalogue of the Belgian R&S label, famous in the world of modern electronic music. Hatti Vatti is an alias of the Gdańsk-based producer Piotr…
The evening will open with the String Quartet in C minor by Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis – a Lithuanian artist who intertwined music and painting into one tale. His String Quartet brings together the classicising outermost…
Antonín Dvořák and George Enescu had the ability to draw on the musical traditions of their nations with lightness and elegance without losing their individual musical languages. Their passion for the culture in which they…
Composed in 1966 The Passion According to St. Luke is one of the most important achievements of 20th century music. Although it was created in a specific context of the millennial anniversary of Christianity in…
Composed in 1966 The Passion According to St. Luke is one of the most important achievements of 20th century music. Although it was created in a specific context of the millennial anniversary of Christianity in…
The richness of folk music has often inspired the “serious” concert repertoire. Originality, sincerity and spontaneity inherent in folk rhythms and melodies gained an artistic quality in compositional arrangements, but they did not lose the…
Not everyone knows that behind the most famous dog in Polish animation there is a touching story of a composer who planned to write exclusively for adults. Zenon Kowalowski provided the four-legged hero with one…
Music, like the art of oratory, often expresses itself as if between the sounds. Such voices can be found in melodically sensitive and frugal pieces by Valentin Silvestrov (Intermezzo), Pēteris Vasks (Plainscapes) and Henryk Mikołaj…