A concert entitled "Postcard from Poland – three Polish composers from three periods", presenting compositions by Karol Kurpiński, Stanisław Moniuszko and Karol Szymanowski, will take place on 25 October 2019 at 7 p.m. at the Podlasie Opera and Philharmonic.
This evening shall pass marked by three great Polish names and will take the audience to three musical periods: late classicizm, romanticism, and modernism, here called Young Poland. Karol Kurpiński’s opera The Castle of Czorsztyn contained many national hallmarks: polonaise, dumka, cavatina, or folk song. Haunted gothic castle at Lake Czorsztyn haunts the imagination. Romantic associations bring us to Adam Mickiewicz, but from Polish mountains we will travel to Crimea. To eight chosen poems of his Crimean Sonnets, a cantata was composed by Stanisław Moniuszko for solo voices, choir and orchestra. The atmosphere will be completed and divided by Karol Szymanowski’s Violin Concerto inserted between the latter two. This is the first modern violin concerto, which leaves 19th-century tradition for a new expression. It’s a one-part poem with a beautiful sound aura and fantastic and passionate character.
Piotr Wacławik will lead the Orchestra and Choir of the Podlasie Opera and Philharmonic as part of the "Conductor-In-Residence" programme. The solo parts will be performed by Krzysztof Jakowicz and Emil Ławecki. The choir is led by Violetta Bielecka.
The concert is co-organised and co-financed as part of the Institute of Music And Dance’s programme "Conductor-In-Residence".
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