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…
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…
Faced with the hustle and bustle of everyday life, new music often tends to explore silence, simplicity and spiritual depth. Arvo Pärt, Frano Parać and Berislav Šipuš create contemplative pieces, rooted in the tradition of…
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…