Before the concert, at 6.30 p.m., we invite you to the chamber hall for a meeting with editor Róża Światczyńska (Program 2 of 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.
“Only drums, cannons, all kinds of human misery!” — wrote Beethoven in the summer of 1809, when Napoleonic troops stormed Vienna, and the composer protected the remains of his hearing by covering his ears with pillows. It was in these circumstances that the V Piano Concerto in E flat major was created, a monumental work in which the orchestra is a full-fledged partner of the soloist. The piece, kept in heroic key in E flat major, also contains a personal content: joy, tenderness and anxiety. In the first part there are echoes of military music (cauldrons, marches), but it is not a praise of war — on the contrary, it is rather a struggle with the traumas of war reality, which Beethoven melts into pure gold. The second part of the concert brings a moment of silence in one of the most heavenly melodies that have come out from under the hand of the composer. And the attacca passes into the finale — a lively, sweeping dance. In the second part of the evening there will be music of post-war Poland: Lutosławski's Concerto for Orchestra (1954), an elaborate neoclassical symphonic form, one of the most perfect in Polish music. The uniqueness of the work is the combination of Masovian folklore with baroque polyphony and compositional technique of 20th century classics (inspired mainly by the works of Béla Bartók). Lutosławski himself judged the Concerto critically — he saw in it a testimony of the times when “he wrote as he could, and not as he wanted”.
Piotr Matwejczuk (Polish Radio)
Duration of the concert (including the break): approx. 100 minutes
More concerts as part of the S1 symphonic concert series.
Performers: NOSPR; Fabian Müller — piano
Program: Ludwig van Beethoven — Piano Concerto V in E flat major, Op. 73; Witold Lutosławski — Concerto for orchestra
NOSPR
NOSPR/Alsop/Müller/Great Classics, Great Neoclassicism
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“Only drums, cannons, all kinds of human misery!” — wrote Beethoven in the summer of 1809, when Napoleonic troops stormed Vienna, and the composer protected the remains of his hearing by covering his ears with pillows. It was in these circumstances that the V Piano Concerto in E flat major was created, a monumental work in which the orchestra is a full-fledged partner of the soloist. The piece, kept in heroic key in E flat major, also contains a personal content: joy, tenderness and anxiety. In the first part there are echoes of military music (cauldrons, marches), but it is not a praise of war — on the contrary, it is rather a struggle with the traumas of war reality, which Beethoven melts into pure gold. The second part of the concert brings a moment of silence in one of the most heavenly melodies that have come out from under the hand of the composer. And the attacca passes into the finale — a lively, sweeping dance. In the second part of the evening, music of post-war Poland will be played: Lutosławski's Concerto for Orchestra (1954), an extensive neoclassical form
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