{"id":10875,"date":"2025-11-21T14:19:04","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T13:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eufonie.pl\/three-messengers-three-eras\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T14:37:24","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T13:37:24","slug":"three-messengers-three-eras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eufonie.pl\/en\/three-messengers-three-eras\/","title":{"rendered":"Three messengers, three eras"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A dialogue between light and shadow, life and death, expressed in the languages of three great artists of different eras – this is what the concert “Messengers: Bach \/ Schubert \/ \u010ciurlionis” promises to be, which will be held on November 27 at 7:30 pm at the National Philharmonic as part of the iEufonie Festival. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n

The evening will open with the String Quartet in C minor by Mikalojus Konstantinas \u010ciurlionis, a Lithuanian artist who wove music and painting into a single story. His Quartet combines classicizing outer movements with an expressive middle movement, whose melancholy melodics unfold against a chromatic-saturated accompaniment. This will be followed by the Bach Concerto in D minor BWV 1052 – full of vitality, with brilliant dialogues between soloist and orchestra and an atmospheric Adagio in the middle movement. Finally, we’ll hear Franz Schubert’s Quartet in D minor “Death and the Maiden”<\/em> – a dramatic dialogue of life and death, whose final tarantella brings to mind the “dance of death.” <\/p>\n\n

Sergey Krylov will be behind the conductor’s desk, leading the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra, with the outstanding pianist Lukas Geniu\u0161as as soloist. This is a meeting of world-class artists with a repertoire of extraordinary emotional depth. <\/p>\n\n

November 27, 2025 | 7:30 pm | Warsaw Philharmonic <\/strong><\/p>\n\n

For the concert program, see the description: Pos\u0142a\u0144cy: Bach \/ Schubert \/ C\u030ciurlionis<\/a><\/p>\n\n

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The String Quartet in C minor<\/em> by Mikalojus Konstantinas \u010ciurlionis<\/strong> (1875\u20131911), which opens the concert, introduces us into the world of this extremely interesting, although little known, Lithuanian painter, composer, choral conductor and writer, whose 150th birthday we celebrate this year. Although he was primarily associated with Lithuania, Poland also played an important role in his life. He attended the music school of Prince Micha\u0142 Miko\u0142aj Ogi\u0144ski (the grandson of the famous Micha\u0142 Kleofas) in Plung\u0117 in the \u017demaitija region. Thanks to the financial support of the prince, he continued his education at the Music Institute in Warsaw (1894\u20131899) under the supervision of Antoni Sygiety\u0144ski and Zygmunt Noskowski. In Warsaw, he also studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts (1904\u20131906) with Ferdynand Ruszczyc and Konrad Krzy\u017canowski, establishing close contacts with Polish artistic community, including Eugeniusz Morawski, also a composer and painter. Interestingly enough, it was only at the age of thirty that \u010ciurlionis (Polish: Miko\u0142aj Konstanty Czurlanis) learned Lithuanian, partly thanks to his fianc\u00e9e, Lithuanian writer Sofija Kymantait\u0117. Today, it is mainly in Lithuania that the memory of this outstanding painter and musician from the turn of the 20th century has been preserved, considered one of the leading figures of Lithuanian culture. <\/p>\n\n

An author of almost 400 musical works and 300 paintings, \u010ciurlionis<\/strong> created art transcending the boundaries of genres by transferring musical structures to canvas and arranging his painterly visions into sounds. He is best known for his symphonic poems In the Forest and The Sea. Among his chamber compositions, the String Quartet in C minor (arranged for string orchestra by Vilhelmas \u010cepinskis) occupies a special place, with classicising outermost movements and a nostalgic slow movement provided with an expressive melodic line outlined against a dense, highly chromatic accompaniment. <\/p>\n\n

The next compositions featured in the evening\u2019s programme are well known to music lovers, being the so-called \u201cstaples\u201d of classical music canon. The Harpsichord Concerto in D minor, BWV 1052 <\/em>by Johann Sebastian Bach<\/strong> (1685\u20131750), often also performed on the piano, is one of his most admirable works of this kind, from the very first bars impressing with its extraordinary energy and spirit. The outermost movements, reminiscent of Vivaldi\u2019s concertos (especially the Violin Concerto in D major \u201cIl grosso mogul\u201d, RV 208)<\/em>, begin with ritornelli performed in unison, which develop into ingenious dialogues between the soloist and the orchestra. The middle Adagio introduces an atmospheric, melancholic aura, standing in contrast with the dynamic finale. <\/p>\n\n

The famous String Quartet in D minor \u201cDeath and the Maiden\u201d<\/em> by Franz Schubert<\/strong> (1797\u20131828) was written at a time when the composer, although still young, was already seriously ill and felt the end approaching. In the second movement, the outstanding creator of the Romantic Lied used one of his own Lieder, composed a few years earlier to a text by Matthias Claudius, which served as the title of the entire work. The struggle between life and death is reflected through stark contrasts of tempo, rhythm and key, while the final tarantella \u2013 heavily relying on syncopation and sudden turns \u2013 brings to mind the \u2018danse macabre\u2019. The value of the piece was appreciated by Gustav Mahler, who arranged it for string orchestra 70 years after its creation. <\/p>\n\n

Pomimo tego, \u017ce wszystkie utwory zawarte w programie wieczoru zosta\u0142y skomponowane w r\u00f3\u017cnych epokach i reprezentuj\u0105 r\u00f3\u017cne konwencje stylistyczne, charakteryzuj\u0105 si\u0119 one wysokim stopniem ekspresji. \u017badne z prezentowanych dzie\u0142 nie pozostawi s\u0142uchacza oboj\u0119tnym ze wzgl\u0119du na napi\u0119cie, kt\u00f3re si\u0119 w nich kumuluje \u2013 budowane stopniowo lub pojawiaj\u0105ce si\u0119 niczym gwa\u0142towna burza. Wachlarz emocji jest ogromny \u2013 niepohamowana rado\u015b\u0107, kt\u00f3ra mo\u017ce by\u0107 apoteoz\u0105 \u017cycia, zestawiona jest z refleksj\u0105 nad \u015bmierci\u0105. Jest tu zar\u00f3wno \u015bwiat\u0142o, jak i cie\u0144. <\/p>\n\n

Jolanta Guzy-Pasiak<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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