The National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra invites you on 8 March 2021 at 7.30 p.m. for the online premiere of a concert recorded by medici.tv. The music of Stanisław Skrowaczewski, Roxanna Panufnik and Sergei Prokofiev will be performed by the National Radio Symphony Orchestra under the baton of the renowned conductor Marin Alsop.
Roxanna Panufnik composed Two Composers, Four Hands for double string orchestra on the centenary of Lutosławski's birth and a year before her father's jubilee. The title alludes to the friendship between Panufnik and Lutosławski, who earned a living during the occupation by performing in a duet in art cafes in Warsaw. The piece was not written for piano but for two separate ensembles, reflecting the essence of that collaboration. Sergei Prokofiev composed his Symphony No. 1 in D major, Op. 25 without the aid of a piano, treating it as a kind of exercise of the imagination. We will also hear Stanisław Skrowaczewski's Concerto for English horn performed by Piotr Pyc, a soloist of the NOSPR Orchestra, which Skrowaczewski led as the first guest conductor in the last years of his life.
More information at: https://nospr.org.pl/pl/kalendarz/nospr-marin-alsop-piotr-pyc-2