NOSPR/Hermus/ Fröst/Endless Tales

Before the concert, at 6.30 p.m., we invite you to the chamber hall for a meeting with editor Jakub Puchalski, 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.

“Music is life and, like it, it is inextinguishable,” reads the preface to the score of Carl Nielsen's Symphony No. 4. The composer leaves no understatement, because he immediately translates this written credo into sounds with bursts from the opening, madly even affirming existence. But the work is far from one-dimensionality — after all, it repaints the shades of existence. Through the four parts, it flows without interruption and constantly evolves, and the frequent twists of the narrative allow us to look at the desire to live from many different sides. In the end, it triumphs with truly primordial power, as reflected in the famous stormy dialogues of the cauldrons in the finale.

Shapes, styles and states change even more boldly in Anders Hillborg's Clarinet Concerto, in addition to dazzling with a variety of colors, as befits the title Peacock's Tales. From the beginning we fall into the trap of composition, because the soloist is a seducer, a hero and at the same time the narrator of this story. Who to follow? The virtuoso instrumentalist is both a masked dancer and a mime in the light of Jupiters. He stands on the stage as on an opera stage and thus begins a fascinating story without words — fascinating, especially when it is spun by Martin Fröst, the addressee of the song's dedication.

On the other hand, in Edvard Grieg's Lyrical Suite — orchestrated by four piano miniatures from Op. 54 — we are our own guides, although we follow the artist's instructions. But it remains a matter of our imagination, under which night sky Notturno takes place and what dwarves parade briskly in the final March. If someone still claims that Scandinavian music is cool, lyrical and restrained, then this program is just for him.

Piotr Mika (“The Musical Movement”)

Duration of the concert (including the break): approx. 100 minutes

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Performers: NOSPR; Martin Fröst — clarinet

Program: Edvard Grieg — Lyrical Suite Op. 54; Anders Hillborg — Clarinet Concerto Peacock Tales (Millennium); Carl Nielsen — Symphony No. 4, Op. 29