A concert entitled "Old Masters" will take place on 27 October 2019 at 6 p.m. in the chamber hall of the National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra in Katowice. The New Music Orchestra conducted by Szymon Bywalec – the oldest Polish ensemble specializing in contemporary music performance – will present the works of masters and precursors of the most famous currents in contemporary music.
The program will include Capriccio for piano and orchestra by Igor Stravinsky – with the participation of the soloist Gabriela Szendzielorz-Jungiewicz, Chamber concert for 13 instruments by György Ligeti, and Chain I for chamber orchestra by Witold Lutosławski.
Witold Lutosławski's composition was premiered at the "Warsaw Autumn" festival in 1984. The composer himself wrote about his work as follows: "The title Chain 1 suggests both the form used in this work and the intention of composing more 'Chains' in the future. In a work composed in chain-form the music is devided in two strands. Particular sections do not begin at the same moment in each strand, nor do they end together. In other words, in the middle of a section in one strand a new section begins in the other. In Chain I the principle of chain-form serves to conceruct the greater part of the piece. Toward the end the texture becomes more complex and consists of several individual parts played ad libitum which form a network of melodies to be played cantabile. I have composed Chain 1 for the fourteen principal players of the London Sinfonietta as a souvenir of our common music-making".
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