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czwartek, 5 kwietnia 2012
The Festival’s last concert features Claude Debussy and The Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian. On Good Friday at the Warsaw Philharmonic Hall, it will be performed by the Sinfonia Varsovia orchestra conducted by Sylvain Cambreling and the soloists Sarah-Jane Brandon (soprano), Janina Baechle (mezzo-soprano), Agnieszka Rehlis (alto) and Andrzej ...
czwartek, 5 kwietnia 2012
On 4 April, flautist Jagoda Krzemińska won in the finals of the nationwide competition for the best young classical musician. She will represent Poland in Eurovision Young Musicians Competition on 11 May in Vienna.
środa, 4 kwietnia 2012
Count Egmont, the merry prankster Till Eulenspiegels and the Cossack ataman Taras Bulba are heroes of the three works that will be performed during the Festival’s penultimate concert.
Ludwig van Beethoven: Incidental Music for J.W. Goethe’s drama “Egmont”, Op. 84
The story of Count Egmont, the ...
środa, 4 kwietnia 2012
The Gdańsk Music Festival will be held from 13 to 20 April in Gdańsk. The artist-in-residence is Konstanty Andrzej Kulka, who sets the tone for this year’s festival. Thus, the festival will largely present the work of one of the most eminent violinists in the history of Polish violin playing of recent decades, and his programme will ...
środa, 4 kwietnia 2012
“For 16 years, the Beethoven Festival has marked the beginning of European springtime,” writes Pierre-Jean Tribot in his extensive report in ResMusica, stressing Elżbieta Penderecki’s attention to the wide range of festival offerings and their consistency with the motto of this year’s edition. Not forgetting the stars from ...
wtorek, 3 kwietnia 2012
This artist needs no introduction to the festival audience. Buchbinder has been a regular guest for many years, and during the last year’s Festival he concluded a long series of monographic recitals featuring the pianist’s beloved works, namely Beethoven’s sonatas. Therefore, he couldn’t not show up this year. On Wednesday ...
poniedziałek, 2 kwietnia 2012
The outstanding Swedish Wagnerian singer Irene Théorin, a regular guest at the Bayreuth and Salzburg Festivals, will perform extracts from Wagner’s “Götterdämmerung”. She will be accompanied by the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester, regarded as one of the leading youth orchestras in the world. In 2007, the orchestra ...
niedziela, 1 kwietnia 2012
Italo Montemezzi’s L’amore dei tre re (The Love of the Three Kings) is another work in the series of “Unknown operas”. On 2 April, Łukasz Borowicz will conduct the Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Warsaw Philharmonic Choir and the following soloists: Sara Jakubiak (Fiora) – soprano, Eric Barry (Avito) – ...
sobota, 31 marca 2012
The artists of the Sunday concert: the Artis Quartet from Vienna, Kaja Danczowska (violin), Arto Noras (cello), Edgar Moreau (cello), Michel Lethiec (clarinet) and Yeol Eum Son (piano) will perform a very varied programme of Beethoven, Shostakovich, Stravinsky and Messiaen.
piątek, 30 marca 2012
The first week of the Festival is slowly coming to an end. “To say that this concert was excellent would be an understatement. More than ten hours passed since the last sounds of Alexander Nevsky cantata were heard, but for me the performance still goes on,” writes Marcin Majchrowski about the Thursday ...
