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On the 30^th of September, 2023 at 7:30 p.m., a unique concert titled ‘Laboratory of New Sacred Music’ will take place in St. Catherine's Church, in Gdańsk.

The Polish Chamber Choir will premiere a 5-part work by Marek Raczyński, Threni, commissioned by the ensemble. This choir, celebrating its 45^th anniversary this year, will also perform premieres of works awarded in the 26^th International Musica Sacra Nova Composition Competition, and will present the work Domine Iesu Christe by creator of the competition - Paweł Łukaszewski.

Composition Threni by Marek Raczyński was created as part of the ‘Composer's Commissions’ programme implemented by the National Institute of Music and Dance. The textual layer of this composition for choir, saxophone, double bass and drums consists of fragments of Jeremiah's Lamentations.

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On the 1^st of September, 2023, the album Henryk Mikołaj Górecki. Church songs will be released. It was created on the occasion of the 90th anniversary of the world-famous composer's birth. The entire recording of this collection of works for a cappella mixed choir performed by the Apertum Cor Singing Ensemble conducted by Kamil Gojowy will be available on popular streaming services. The concert premiere of the album will take place on the 30^th of September at 19.00 in the Basilica of St. Anthony in Rybnik, on the 6^th of November at 6.00 p.m. at the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice and on the 6^th of December at 7.30 p.m. in the Church of St. Apostles Peter and Paul in Katowice. Free entrance!

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We have three harpsichord music concerts, three world premieres and contemporary music workshops conducted by Dr. Aleksandra Gajecka-Antosiewicz with an original lecture entitled ‘Elżbieta Chojnacka. Inspiration and passion. The 2nd Festival will be held from the 29^th of September to the 1^st of October, 2023 at the Elżbieta Chojnacka Palace in Rybna.

During the inaugurating concert, the harpsichordist Hanna Balcerzak will premiere ‘Invention’ by Philip Czapłowski. The programme will also include, among others: works by Zygmunt Krauze and Marian Sawa.

During Saturday's concert, harpsichord tangos (sic!) from the collection of Elżbieta Chojnacka (M. Nyman, M. Ohana, J. Wiener) will be performed. There will also be works by the king of tango (Astor Piazzolla), contemporary composers (Tomasz Kamieniak and Krzysztof Olczak) and further premieres. For the first time we will hear ‘Sonata for two flutes and piano’ by Grażyna Pstrokońska-Nawratil and ‘Tango for accordion and harpsichord’ by Leszek Kołodziejski. The performances will be Aleksandra Gajecka-Antosiewicz, Leszek Kołodziejski, Agata Kielar-Długosz, Łukasz Długosz and Andrzej Jungiewicz.

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A long-standing tradition is the presence of works of the patron of the Opole Philharmonic - Józef Elsner - during the concert inaugurating of the new artistic season. On the 29^th of September, 2023 at 7 p.m. a unique work will be performed. The 72^nd season will open with the Overture from the opera The Sacrifice of Abraham, followed by Ludomir Różycki's Violin Concerto, interpreted by the recognized violinist Janusz Wawrowski.

The Sacrifice of Abraham is one of two works on biblical themes (along with the unpreserved Judgment of Solomon) and the only melodrama in Elsner's oeuvre. The piece will be presented by the Opole Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Przemysław Neumann.

Violin Concerto (1944) by Ludomir Różycki is the last opus in life of the creator of the Polish national ballet. The latest reconstruction of the work will be performed in Opole, in which Ryszard Bryła used not only the preserved piano reduction, but also included - previously considered lost - fragments of the score's manuscripts along with the composer's instrumentation instructions.

More: https://filharmonia.opole.pl/wydarzenia/inauguracja-72-sezonu-filharmonii-opolskiej/ 

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Concert on the 29^th of September, 2023 at 7:00 p.m. at the Silesian Philharmonic will be a herald of the upcoming 11^th Grzegorz Fitelberg International Competition for Conductors. Relationships with the Patron of the Competition will be reflected in the programme.

Silesian Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra conducted by Yaroslav Shemet, who will be a member of the jury in November, will perform works by Karol Szymanowski, Stanisław Skrowaczewski - honorary chairman of the jury of the 7^th Fitelberg Competition, as well as the 7^th Symphony by Ludwig van Beethoven, which will effectively conclude this musical meeting.

The concert will open with Karol Szymanowski's Concert Overture in E major - the first orchestral piece written by him, premiered in 1906 by Grzegorz Fitelberg. A few years later, the Patron of the International Conductors' Competition, together with Szymanowski, prepared a new instrumentation of the work - a version that will be played on the 29^th of September at the Silesian Philharmonic.

More: https://filharmonia-slaska.eu/production/beethoven-vii-symfonia-grzybowski-shemet-orkiestra-symfoniczna/