Before the concert, at 6.30 p.m., we invite you to the chamber hall for a meeting with the editor Piotr Matwieczuk (Program 2 of the Polish Radio), who will discuss the works performed that evening. Entrance to the lecture is free, to participate in the lecture is entitled to show a subscription card or a ticket to the concert. The lecture will also be broadcast live on YouTube.
Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 3 in D minor (1896) is the longest piece of this genre by the Austrian composer and one of the most monumental symphonic works in general. The formal and sonic momentum goes hand in hand with the aesthetic of contrast typical of the composer: irony appears next to pathos, next to the openwork texture — with thick-cut marching rhythms. Rural dance styles or luminous, hymnic climaxes are adjacent to dark, heavy masses of sound and onomatopoeias of everyday life. The third consists of six parts in two large chapters, with an extremely elaborate opening link and a final in the form of an extensive adagia. It is a broad panorama of nature and human experience; a cosmogonic tale in which the world is born from “unfathomable silence and sings, and sounds.” It also presents all the entities that exist in it and arranges them hierarchically. At the top we find love — the highest form of existence. It is about her that this exuberant adagio deals with, the first such ending of a symphony in Mahler's work. Love is presented in the Third as a feeling that sets the world in motion — in no sense temporal, but eternal, supernatural, “the supreme truth, the source of all existence.”
Piotr Matwejczuk (Polish Radio)
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Performers: NOSPR; Rinat Shaham — alto; K. Szymanowski Philharmonic Choir in Krakow; Janusz Wierzgacz — choir preparation; K. Szymanowski Philharmonic Boys and Girls Choir in Krakow; Lidia Matynian — choir preparation; Polish Radio Choir - Lusławice; Dawid Ber — choir preparation; Singers Ensemble of the City of Katowice Camerata Silesia; Anna Szostak — choir preparation
Program: Gustav Mahler — Symphony No. 3 in D minor
NOSPR
Season Inauguration/NOSPR/Alsop/Shaham/Birth of the World
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Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 3 in D minor (1896) is the longest piece of this genre by the Austrian composer and one of the most monumental symphonic works in general. The formal and sonic momentum goes hand in hand with the aesthetic of contrast typical of the composer: irony appears next to pathos, next to the openwork texture — with thick-cut marching rhythms. Rural dance styles or luminous, hymnic climaxes are adjacent to dark, heavy masses of sound and onomatopoeias of everyday life. The third consists of six parts in two large chapters, with an extremely elaborate opening link and a final in the form of an extensive adagia. It is a broad panorama of nature and human experience; a cosmogonic tale in which the world is born from “unfathomable silence and sings, and sounds.” It also presents all the entities that exist in it and arranges them hierarchically. At the top we find love — the highest form of existence. It is about her that this exuberant adagio, the first in his work, is about her
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