The Sinfonia Varsovia Passion Concert in Kamionek, which in 2023 will take place on the 25th of March at 19.30 at the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Victory, probably for the first time brings music from extremely distant periods of music history. The time distance between the oldest and the newest piece of the programme is almost 700 years - from Gregorian chant and medieval polyphony performed by the Basel Ensemble Peregrin, through Haydn's classicism, to the masters of 20th-century music - Paul Hindemith and Witold Lutosławski. The elements of early music performance and contemporary orchestral playing will be combined by Zofia Kiniorska, conductor-in-residence of Sinfonia Varsovia in the 2022/23 season. Free entrance!
Lutosławski's Funeral Music was to be composed for the 10th anniversary of Béla Bartók's death in 1955. The composer did not complete the work until early 1958. He needed time to create a new musical language, which in the following years brought him international fame. Sinfonia Varsovia's performance of Funeral Music will take place on the eve of the 65th anniversary of the work's premiere, performed by Jan Krenz with the Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra.
The concert is co-organized by the National Institute of Music and Dance as part of its own programme ‘Conductor-in-residence’, financed by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage.
More about the programme: https://www.sinfoniavarsovia.org/wydarzenia/koncert-pasyjny-na-kamionku/