14th Chopin and his Europe (Chopin i jego Europa) International Music Festival Warsaw 9-31 August 2018
From Chopin to Paderewski
13.08 MONDAY 8.00 p.m. Polish National Opera Symphonic concert SEONG-JIN CHO piano EUROPEAN UNION YOUTH ORCHESTRA GIANANDREA NOSEDA (conductor)
This much anticipated concert began with the World Premiere of Fireworks (2018) commissioned by the European Union Youth Orchestra and the Adam Mickiewicz Institute as part of the '2018 Year of Cultural Heritage' and POLSKA 100. Composed by the multi talented Agata Zubel, it is a spectacular percussive work for very large orchestra that managed to retain a great deal of the traditional orchestral ensemble. Certainly it was brilliantly descriptive in sound of a firework display with Catherine Wheels spinning, rockets climbing into the sky to explode in a shower of stars, a veritable, glittering kaleidoscope of sound. Rhythmically this rather abstract but concrete work had tremendous verve and vitality. I was reminded at times of Olivier Messiaen's Turangalila Symphony in its sybaritic abandonment.
I was mu…
13.08 MONDAY 8.00 p.m. Polish National Opera Symphonic concert SEONG-JIN CHO piano EUROPEAN UNION YOUTH ORCHESTRA GIANANDREA NOSEDA (conductor)
This much anticipated concert began with the World Premiere of Fireworks (2018) commissioned by the European Union Youth Orchestra and the Adam Mickiewicz Institute as part of the '2018 Year of Cultural Heritage' and POLSKA 100. Composed by the multi talented Agata Zubel, it is a spectacular percussive work for very large orchestra that managed to retain a great deal of the traditional orchestral ensemble. Certainly it was brilliantly descriptive in sound of a firework display with Catherine Wheels spinning, rockets climbing into the sky to explode in a shower of stars, a veritable, glittering kaleidoscope of sound. Rhythmically this rather abstract but concrete work had tremendous verve and vitality. I was reminded at times of Olivier Messiaen's Turangalila Symphony in its sybaritic abandonment.
I was mu…
