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During the concert in the Chamber Hall of the National Forum of Music on the 30^th of March, 2023 at 19.00 the singer Szymon Komasa will appear, who will present songs by Polish composers. In addition, the repertoire will be enriched by works by Johannes Brahms and masterpieces of French music of Claude Debussy or Erik Satie - arranged for two pianos, with Sophia Muñoz and Adam Kośmieja as performers. 

Stefan Kisielewski believed in the idea of ​​pure music, free from any senses and meanings. However, he made an exception by composing vocal lyrical miniatures to the words of Konstanty Ildefons Gałczyński in the 1950s, reflecting the intimate nature of poetry and contradicting the main idea of ​​his own work. Komasa will perform two of them, belonging to the Seven Songs cycle: The Blind Sleepwalker's Prayer and The Request for Happy Isles. 

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Chamber musicians of the Warsaw Philharmonic and NOSPR will present works for harp, flute, clarinet and string quartet by such composers as Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel, Osvaldo Golijov, André Jolivet and Aleksander Tansman on the 30^th of March 2023 at 7.30 p.m. at NOSPR premises.

We will also hear the neoclassical Sonata for two violins by Aleksander Tansman - a position rarely present onstage, but worth listening to!

More: https://nospr.org.pl/pl/kalendarz/2-12 

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For the first time in Poland Daniela Cardim and Edward Clug - icons of world contemporary choreography, together with dancers of the Grand Theater in Poznań, will present their visions of Stabat Mater by Karol Szymanowski and Giovanni Battista Pergolesi on the 29^th and 30^th of March, 2023 at 19.00.

In the choreographic interpretations we will find a rich spectrum of emotions - from suffering and mourning, to the affirmation of life, from the breath-holding sense of loss, to the acceptance of what fate brings. The two parts of the performance create a story about a woman-mother. The synergy of sound and movement, the multidimensionality of the message, the perfect interpretation of the dancers of the Ballet of the Grand Theater in Poznań - Stabat Mater by Daniela Cardim and Edward Clug is a performance for today's times.

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More: https://opera.poznan.pl/pl/stabat-mater-wieczor-baletowy-cardimclug 

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Polish Chamber Musicians' Association invites you to the 3^rd Easter Chamber Music Festival, which this time will take place at the Palace in Stary Kisielin - Zielona Góra Cultural Center on March 26 - April 4, 2023. The programme of each concert will include Polish music - romantic and the latest. Admission to the events is free.

During this year's edition, performances of artists associated with Zielona Góra are planned, as well as concerts of recognized Polish instrumentalists, including Jakub Jakowicz, Katarzyna Budnik, Marcin Zdunik, Grzegorz Mani. The piano duo Krzysztof Książek and Agnieszka Zahaczewska-Książek, winners of the International Competition of Polish Music, organized by the National Institute of Music and Dance, will perform works by M. Moszkowski, J. Zarębski and S. Rachmaninov. During the concert on the 26^th of March, we will hear Marcin Zdunik's latest Piano Quartet, which was composed as part of the ‘Composers' Commissions’ programme implemented by the National Institute of Music and Dance.

From the 26^th of March to the 7^th of April, 2023, the 27^th edition of the Ludwig van Beethoven Easter Festival will take place in Warsaw. During the 13 festival days, we will listen to 10 symphonic and 5 chamber concerts, during which many recognized soloists, conductors and ensembles invited by Elżbieta Penderecka , the general director of the Festival, will perform.

The program of concerts was built around the motto of this year's edition – ‘Beethoven - between East and West’, highlighting the problem of the coexistence of cultures of the East and the West in music. In addition to the works of the master from Bonn, we will hear works by, among others, Fryderyk Chopin, Henryk Wieniawski, Witold Lutosławski and Mieczysław Wajnberg. The programme will also include the Polish premiere of the Violin Concerto ‘Genesis’ by Toshio Hosokawa.

The programme of the Festival particularly emphasizes the works of Krzysztof Penderecki, whose 90^th birthday falls this year. On the 29^th of March the third anniversary of Krzysztof Penderecki's death will be celebrated with a chamber concert of his works (the concert will be recorded by TVP Kultura).

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Detailed programme: www.beethoven.org.pl