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Monday, 15 March 2010
Nearly 2000 artists performing, 50,000 people in the halls, hundreds of tourists last year. These numbers speak for themselves. The Beethoven Festival, lead by Elżbieta Penderecka, its artistic director, is one of Poland’s most important: Warsaw’s smart calling card and highlight. It brings together famous artists, music lovers, ...
Sunday, 14 March 2010
To this day, Hector Berlioz’s Grande Messe des morts causes major interpretation controversies, which prove that their subject is a masterpiece. Conducting its performance by Sinfonia Varsovia: maestro Charles Dutoit, with Paul Groves (tenor) as a solist.
Hector Berlioz, one of the most powerful personalities of the ...
Wednesday, 10 March 2010
We have already become accustomed to juxtaposing Chopin with jazz, but not with fado – or at least not yet. Now, an innovative project – Our Chopin Affair – is being prepared by the famous Portuguese singer Mísia. She has been compared to the legendary singer of the fado, Amália Rodrigues. Flowing in her veins is ...
Friday, 5 March 2010
A guest of the 14th festival, devoted to the phenomenon of the piano, will be Nelson Goerner. The artist will perform a recital, including the works by Beethoven, Chopin and Schumann, and conduct master classes for young pianists. Stanisław Dybowski on the Argentinian virtuoso.
Tuesday, 2 March 2010
Marcin Majchrowski (Polish Radio): Do you remember your first encounter with Beethoven’s music?
Paavo Järvi: I cannot say when exactly it was – yet definitely in childhood. I was raised in the family of a conductor [Neeme Järvi – ed.], who frequently played at home, and took me to rehearsals.
Monday, 1 March 2010
Seemingly such a project should not excite any interest. One might ask what another set of the nine Beethoven masterpieces is for, especially after the recordings by Toscanini and Solti, Karajan, Kleiber and Abbado, and in recent decades also by Norrington, Goodman, Gardiner and Immerseel. When you listen to the interpretations by Paavo ...
Friday, 26 February 2010
All of Beethoven’s symphonies under Paavo Järvi and performed by the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen made an appearance as guest at the Beethovenfest in Bonn and the Salzburger Festspiele. In March, they arrive in Warsaw.
Paavo Järvi and the chamber orchestra from Bremen with which he collaborates have recently caused ...
Friday, 26 February 2010
Krzysztof Penderecki’s Symphony No. 8 Songs of Transitoriness will resound again in Poland. This time, we will hear the work during the Chopin Year in Baltic Philharmonic Hall, at 7 pm on 28th February. The programme of the concert includes also Sławomir Zamuszko’s 89 Degrees North, and – quite naturally – Fryderyk ...
Thursday, 25 February 2010
The latest disc recorded by Artur Ruciński, and published by the Polish Radio and Ludwig van Beethoven Association, was nominated to the Fryderyk 2010 Award in the category Album of the Year – Vocal Recital. The awards will be presented on 19th April – in the Polski Theatre (pop music categories), and in the Salesian Basilica ...
Tuesday, 23 February 2010
Elżbieta Penderecka was presented with the “Golden Thought” (Złota Myśl) award from the “Science and Health” (Nauka i Zdrowie) Foundation. Elżbieta Penderecka received the award for her contribution to the development of Polish science and culture. The ceremony was held on 21st February at Kraków Philharmonic ...
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