© Protected - Selected Classical Music in Poland and the Europe of Chopin - Reviewer's Notebook

There was an atmosphere of excitement and anticipation in the full to capacity Warsaw Philharmonic this evening, the second concert in the official public 'debut' this season of the Music and Artistic Director Andrzej Boreyko.   He has a long distinguished relationship with the orchestra dating back to 2007.  As Artistic Director of the orchestra, he will conduct not only during their subscription series in Warsaw, but he will also participate in all the main Polish Festivals (for example Chopin and his Europe , the Warsaw Autumn International Festival of Contemporary Music and the Ludwig van Beethoven Easter Festival ).  This was his first subscription concert as Artistic Director and this season he will also tour to Japan with the orchestra.  Andrzej Boreyko - conductor Ewa Vesin - soprano Piotr Anderszewski - fortepian Bartosz Michalowski - Choirmaster Warsaw National Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir The concert opened ...

  Stanisław Moniuszko (1819-1872) Print by Jean Baptiste Adolphe Lafosse (1810-1879); publlié par l'Editeur J.K. Wilczyński (1850)/ public domain; source: Biblioteka Narodowa Michael Moran will be covering this competition in his customary detailed manner  but using this website link  https://wp.me/p7R7tt-i7 or https://michael-moran.org/2019/09/16/the-stanislaw-moniuszko-international-competition-of-polish-music-in-rzeszow-20-27-september-2019/ Official website of the Competition http://www.konkursmuzykipolskiej.pl/en/

Friday, 6 September, 7:00 pm The Royal Castle – Great Hall Plac Zamkowy 4 Józef Elsner – A Pole by Choice The piano used in these concerts was a 1843 Broadwood  Józef Elsner (1769-1854) was not only a composer and teacher of Chopin but founded the Warsaw Conservatory not long after the first European music Conservatory, the  Conservatoire National de Musique,  was founded in Paris.    He contributed an inestimable amount to the growth and development of music in Poland as part of a more general education at the Main School of Music, a part of the Warsaw University. Elsner was a respected composer of opera and chamber music, grounded in the classical Germanic musical tradition through his studies as a young man in Breslau (Wroclaw) and Vienna. Most interestingly he was deeply influenced by the educational methods of the Swiss Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi. He treated education as the planting and growth of a 'seed' that developed organicall...

  Stanisław Moniuszko (1819-1872) Print by Jean Baptiste Adolphe Lafosse (1810-1879); publlié par l'Editeur J.K. Wilczyński (1850)/ public domain; source: Biblioteka Narodowa Michael Moran will be covering this competition in his customary detailed manner  but using this website link  https://wp.me/p7R7tt-i7 or https://michael-moran.org/2019/09/16/the-stanislaw-moniuszko-international-competition-of-polish-music-in-rzeszow-20-27-september-2019/ Official website of the Competition http://www.konkursmuzykipolskiej.pl/en/

From Chopin to Moniuszko All Photos Wojciech Grzedzinski And so another fine edition of  Chopin and His Europe  (Chopin i jego Europa) concludes with a concert that was rather inspiring and certainly expressing optimistic signs for the future of orchestral music in Warsaw. Many fine concerts ahead! 0 1.09.19 Sunday 20:00 Warsaw Philharmonic Concert Hall Symphonic Concert Performers Alena Baeva  violin Andrey Boreyko  conductor Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra Program Witold Lutosławski Symphonic Variations Probably, there are many works that can be indicated is symbolic final of the interwar period in music. However, perhaps the Symphonic Variations by Witold Lutosławski deserves a special place. The composer created this orchestral firework in 1936 and we can hear references to Szymanowski’s music in it. I was sonically overwhelmed by this performance and am constantly astonished at the vivid musical imaginat...