On the 23rd of June 2018, another concert of the Polish Sinfonia Iuventus Orchestra will take place at the Witold Lutoslawski Concert Studio of Polish Radio. Taking part in the concert will be talented cellist Filip Syska, while the Orchestra will be led by Andrey Boreyko, a world-class conductor.
Hector Berlioz is regarded as the precursor and main representative of the romantic trend of programme music, the idea of which was to combine musical narration with non-musical literary content, a specific idea or artistic vision. The flagship example of this idea is the Symphonie fantastique, which evocatively presents an “episode from the artist’s life” with its sounds. This brilliant work is indeed the first and very characteristic manifesto of the new, thoroughly romantic genre.
Sometimes non-musical references are determined by a quotation from another composer’s work, or by the use of a “code”, in which the alphabetic (or solmisated) names of the notes are arranged into a specific word. This is what Krzysztof Meyer’s composition is like. The initial episode refers to the introduction of Brahms” Symphony No. 1, not only in its motifs and rhythm, but also in its instrumentation. The second reference to the German composer is a recurring motif built on the notes of B-Re-A-H-Mi-Es.
Shostakovich’s Cello Concerto No. 1 in E minor was one of over a hundred (!) works dedicated to the charismatic master of this instrument, Mstislav Rostropovich, and his first performances. In his concert, composer particularly emphasizes the cantilena capabilities of the cello, which are used in Rostropovich’s performance in an unparalleled way. The work will be performed by Filip Syska, a renowned soloist and chamber musician, who was also a musician of the Polish Sinfonia Iuventus Orchestra. Behind the conductor’s pulpit is Andrey Boreyko, a bandleader of great international renown, who was the music director of the Düsseldorfer Symphoniker for many years, the Orchestre National de Belgique and Naples Philharmonic in Florida.
Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.
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