The 1st International Music Festival of Central-Eastern Europe was closed by Zoltán Fejérvári – a Hungarian piano virtuoso – accompanied by the Budapest Festival Orchestra conducted by excellent Iván Fischer. Works of Antonín Dvořák and Ludwig van Beethoven could…
From 30 November to 1 December 2018, a conference entitled National Identities – European Universality. Music and Musical Life in Central-Eastern Europe (1918–2018) was held at the Institute of Musicology of the University of Warsaw.…
JACASZEK/PAHKINEN/STRØNEN is a performative trio consisting of composer Michał Jacaszek, Sweden-based Finnish dancer and choreographer Virpi Pahkinen and Norwegian percussionist Thomas Strønen. As part of the EUFONIE Festival, the artists presented a premiere performance – a special project in which live music…
Performed on 30 November 2018 at the Warsaw Philharmonic, Górecki’s moving Symphony of Sorrowful Songs did not leave anyone indifferent. PHOTOS: PROGRAMME: Henryk Mikołaj Górecki, Symphony no. 3 – Symphony of Sorrowful Songs, op. 36…
Four compositions by young composers from the Visegrad Group countries performed by the excellent New Music Orchestra were juxtaposed with authentic Carpathian folklore in the spontaneous interpretation of the VOŁOSI ensemble. PHOTOS: The Eufonie Festival…
29 listopada 2018 r. w Teatrze Polskim w Warszawie dwa kwartety smyczkowe z Czech: Kwartet Smyczkowy im. Zemlinsky’ego oraz Kwartet Pražák, zaprezentowały utwory kompozytorów słowackich, austriackich i polskich, łącząc się na koniec w wykonaniu przebojowego, a zarazem niezwykle wymagającego Oktetu smyczkowego George’a Enescu.…
On 27 November 2018, the Lviv Philharmonic Orchestra performed a programme permeated with motifs associated with the Polish and Ukrainian tradition. Borys Lyatoshynsky’s Poem based on Mickiewicz’s Grażyna and the Carpathian Concerto by Myroslav Skoryk, tinged…
On 26 November 2018, at the A. Szyfman Polish Theatre in Warsaw, we could hear Polish and Hungarian folk music. The Polish folk group VOŁOSI joined forces on stage with acclaimed Hungarian violinist Félix Lajkó! Félix Lajkó – VIOLIN WOŁOSI…
On 25 November 2018, at the WARSawy Theatre, reinterpretations of works by Norwegian artist Arne Nordheim, associated with the “Warsaw Autumn” and the Experimental Studio of Polish Radio, were performed by the Biosphere (Geir Jenssen) and Deathprod (Helge…
On 26 November 2018, in the Concert Hall of the Chopin University of Music in Warsaw, a ceremony of awarding the title of doctor honoris causa to Maestro Arvo Pärt was held – one of the most…