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Concert promoting the world premiere of the album “Paul Kletzki - The Complete String Quartets” Bacewicz String Quartet

Event as part of the program “Culture near you”

Performers:
Bacewicz String Quartet composed of:Ludwika Maja Tomaszewska-Klimek — 1st violin
Hanna Drzewiecka-Borucka — 2nd violin
Róża Wilczak — viola
Małgorzata Smyczyńska-Szulc — cello

Programa:
Ludwig van Beethoven — String Quartet Op. 18 No. 4 [25'] Allegro ma non tanto
Andante scherzoso almost allegretto
Menuetto: Allegretto - Trio
Allegro — Prestissimo

Grażyna Bacewicz — 4th String Quartet [25'] Andante. Allegro molto
Andante
Allegro giocoso

BREAK

Paweł Klecki — String Quartet in C minor Op. 13 No. 2 — Polish premiere [40'] Allegro moderato
Sustained Adagio - Cantabile Andante - Very Sustained - Sustained Adagio Tempo - Cantabile Walking
Final: Allegro

Concert host: Karol Furtak (Polskie Radio)

Listeners can take care of children between the ages of 3 and 10 in the Philharmonic Playhouse. To buy a ticket, click here.

Paweł Klecki, a composer born in Łódź, died 53 years ago, but still has not received due popularity. Hardly anyone knows that in the years 1915-1919 he played in the Łódź Symphony Orchestra — the predecessor of the Łódź Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra. His achievements as a conductor and composer remain poorly known in Poland (he left symphonies, chamber works, songs). Fortunately, the Bacewicz String Quartet — a band whose members are associated with musical institutions in Łódź (philharmonic, opera, academy) — decided to record all four string quartets of this composer on record. These works, created over two decades, illustrate the evolution of his musical language: from late Romanticism to modernism. Of particular interest is the unfinished 4th String Quartet from 1942, with a bold approach to tonality, which was carefully edited for the needs of the recording. All Klecki quartets retain their traditional form, but attract attention with their rich emotionality. As Ewa Kowalska-Zać writes, Klecki treated string quartets “as a form of expression that, with the help of a communicative convention anchored in tradition, can perfectly serve to establish an agreement with the listener”.

String Quartet Op. 18 No. 4 by Ludwig van Beethoven performed by Quatuor Mona: