On 21 February 2019, NFM Ensemble invites you to a meeting with Polish chamber music. An unusual kaleidoscope of sounds and musical styles awaits the listeners. The programme of the evening consists of works by five native composers representing different generations. Performed by the chamber musicians of the National Forum of Music, both compositions by famous composers of the 20th and 21st centuries will be performed, as well as a work by Ignacy Feliks Dobrzyński – the master of Polish chamber music of the Romantic period.
Full of extraordinary energy, the Kaleidoscope for M.C.E. by Paweł Szymański was created in 1989 when the composer was 35. The work, according to its title, is based on the continuous processing of the motive that begins it and presents various possibilities of the cello technique. Witold Lutosławski also wrote a solo composition for this instrument. He composed his Sacher Variation in 1975 at the request of Mstislav Rostropovich. Another solo work, this time intended for double bass, is Titane by Elżbieta Sikora – belonging in the realm of compositions for students of music commissioned by the director of the Conservatoire in Angouleme, Jacques Pési.
The fullness of the sound of the string quintet will be revealed in two contrasting compositions by Krzysztof Penderecki and Felix Ignacy Dobrzyński. The first of these composers in his String Quintet "Leaves of an unwritten diary" returns to various stages of his own artistic language development. From the chamber music tradition also grows the work of Dobrzyński, Chopin’s school friend. His Piano Quintet in F major is an artistic reaction to the defeat of the November Uprising and a manifestation of the composer's courage – despite the risk resulting from the political moods, in the third movement Dobrzyński quoted the melody of Mazurek Dąbrowskiego, a military song that was to become Poland’s national anthem in 1918.
More information at: http://www.nfm.wroclaw.pl/component/nfmcalendar/event/6720