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On January 13, 2019 at 6:00 p.m., the works of Franciszek Araszkiewicz and Michał Pawełek will be performed in the headquarters of the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra in Katowice.

The New Music Orchestra, known for its fondness for avant-garde music, new experiences and experiments, will perform unconventional works during the event entitled "Concert for tables, brain waves and electronics (in a box). In addition to the unique aural sensations, we will be able to admire graphics Diabolus in musica by Ewa Synowiec and a graph of the conductor's brain waves that will be displayed during the performance of the selected compositions.

In the interpretation of the New Music Orchestra under the baton of Szymon Bywalec, we will hear Thierry De Mey's piece with the unusual instrumentation – Musique de table for 3 drummers and tables. The programme will also include the experimental Innerealization for chamber orchestra and electronics controlled by brain waves and electromagnetic fields composed by Franciszek Araszkiewicz. The evening will end with the performance of Simeia for chamber orchestra and electronics by Michał Pawełek.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

Information on tickets at: http://www.nospr.org.pl/pl/koncerty/1397/orkiestra-muzyki-nowej-koncert-na-stoy-fale-mozgowe-i-elektronike-w-pudeku 

Francesco Cilèi's Adriana Lecouvreur in a new staging by Sir David McVicar will be broadcast from The Metropolitan Opera to cinemas on January 12, 2019. The main roles will be performed by Piotr Beczała and Anna Netrebko. The Warsaw Cinema Praha invites you to broadcast at 6.35 p.m.

Adriana Lecouvreur occupies a unique place in the repertory: largely dismissed by experts from its premiere in 1902 to the present day yet cherished by its fans for the dramatic possibilities provided by the lead roles. The opera is a deft combination of frank emotionalism and flowing lyricism, with pseudo-historical spectacle. Based on a play by Eugène Scribe, the story was inspired by the real-life intrigues of famed actress Adrienne Lecouvreur and the legendary soldier—and lover—Maurice of Saxony. Cilea's operatic retelling quickly became a favorite of charismatic soloists. The title character in particular is a quintessential diva role.

The score of Adriana Lecouvreur relies on elegance and a deft weaving of themes rather than symphonic grandeur. There are nods to a neo-Rococo style, especially in Act III’s dance sequences, but generally the score serves to showcase the singers. Lyricism abounds in the solos, particularly in the tenor’s “La dolcissima effigie” in Act I and Adriana’s Act I aria “Io son l’umile ancella,” whose arching line and theme of the singer as “the humble handmaiden of the creative genius” have made it a soprano anthem of sorts.

The list of places in Poland where you can watch broadcasts from Met is available here.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

More information at: http://www.kinopraha.pl

A concert devoted to Sławomir Czarnecki, president of the Warsaw branch of Polish Composers' Union, on the occasion of the 50th jubilee of artistic work, will take place on January 12, 2019 in the Warsaw headquarters of the PWM Edition.

The evening will be filled with Czarnecki's chamber music of patriotic overtone: Wierch Fantasia, Funeral Sonata, Mazurkas for piano, Capriccio Zawrat, Kuyavian Sonata, and Trio "Perseids" (to the memory of heroes who died for freedom). The works will be presented by the composer's friends – well-known Polish artists from Warsaw, Poznań, Gdańsk, Bydgoszcz: violinists Paul Preuss, Krzysztof and Jakub Jakowicz, viola player Lech Bałaban, cellist Filip Syska, double bass player Andrzej Kaczanowski, flutist Klaudia Grad. The piano part will be performed by Larysa Miszkowska-Wiltos, Radosław Kurek, Witold Kawalec, and Krzysztof Sowiński.

Admission free!

On January 12, 2019 at 7:00 p.m., the State Music School Complex in Elbląg will host a New Year's concert of the Elbląg Chamber Orchestra and its guests.

Marcin Zdunik, who dominated the 6th International Witold Lutosławski Cello Competition by winning the first prize, the Grand Prix title and nine other prizes, will perform as soloist along with Karolina Nowotczyńska, concertmaster of the EOK. The orchestra will be led by Marek Moś. The programme will include: Fantasy for cello and orchestra, Op. 52 by Mieczysław Wajnberg,recorded by Marcin Zdunik and the Sinfonia Varsovia Orchestra, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante KV 364 (arr. for violin, cello and string orchestra) and Adagio and Fugue in C minor KV 546 (arr. for string orchestra), as well as Wojciech Kilar's Orawa.

The concert is organised under the patronage of the PWM Edition as part of the TUTTI.pl project promoting performances of Polish music.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

Information on tickets at: http://www.eok.elblag.eu/pl/news/nowy-rok-z-fenomenem-wiolonczeli 

The National Forum of Music Wrocław Philharmonic invites you to a unique musical trip to Scotland on January 11, 2019 at 7.00 p.m. The programme of the concert will include two works inspired by the beauty of this country, whose authors are German composers – Max Bruch and Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy.

This time we will go to Scotland through ... Moldova. It will be due to the opening Rhapsody on Moldavian Themes by Mieczysław Weinberg – a "rediscovered" Polish-Jewish composer. In his artistic output, this work appears as a rather light piece, being a charming picture of Moldovan and Balkan folklore. In this amazingly captivating music, we can also hear a klezmer dance tune that reminds of the composer's roots. Rhapsody was written during Weinberg's stay in Russia and improved the composer's position on the Moscow music scene. Among the performers of the work was Dawid Oistrakh, who presented his interpretation during a concert in Moscow in 1953.

Among the "Scottish" works that will be presented during the concert, we will find Scottish Fantasy by Max Bruch, written in 1880 for the legendary Spanish violinist Pablo de Sarasate, and Symphony No. 3 by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, inspired by the composer's first visit in Scotland in 1829. The NFM Orchestra will perform under the baton of Gabriel Chmura. The outstanding Russian virtuoso Boris Belkin, lecturer at the Conservatorium Maastricht, will perform as a soloist.

More information at: http://www.nfm.wroclaw.pl/component/nfmcalendar/event/6540