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Another week of daily work of the Cracow Philharmonic ensembles with Łukasz Borowicz, the institution's first Guest Conductor, will result in oratorio concerts on the 24^th of February at 7.30 p.m. and on the 25^th of February 25, 2023 at 18.00. The dates of the events are the anniversary of the days when a year ago the world was informed about the tragic events in Ukraine, which is why these concerts were dedicated to the memory of the victims on the first anniversary of the outbreak of the war. The culmination of the programme will be the world premiere of the original version of Roman Palester's Fifth Psalm.

The programme opens with Prelude and Death Scene of Isolde from Richard Wagner's musical drama.

The second in the programme will be Psalm No. 5 by Roman Palester to the words of the Baroque poet Wespazjan Kochowski, with the solo part of the baritone Mariusz Godlewski.

The concert will close Francis Poulenc's Stabat Mater.

Małgorzata Koch

Ticket information: https://filharmoniakrakow.pl/public/program/koncert-oratoryjny-144-2 

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

Thanks to the orchestra parts preserved in the Warsaw Music Society, it was possible to reconstruct the score of the Piano Concerto in E minor, Op. 11 by Fryderyk Chopin, orchestrated by Adam Münchheimer. For the first time after more than 130 years, a version of Chopin's masterpiece unknown to the contemporary listener will be performed by the Tadeusz Baird and Tymoteusz Bies Zielona Góra Philharmonic Orchestra on the 24^th of February, 2023 at 19.00. During the concert ‘Solidarity with Ukraine’ the orchestra conducted by Rafał Kłoczko will also perform works by Lew Rewucki and Ludomir Różycki.

Chopin's Concerto in E minor in Münchheimer's instrumentation was first performed at the concert inaugurating the summer music festival in Warsaw's Swiss Valley in 1892. The solo part was performed by Aleksander Michałowski – an outstanding Polish pianist, an excellent interpreter of Chopin's music. The version of Chopin's Concerto, enthusiastically received by the audience and critics, was performed several times with the participation of the pianist.

On the 24^th of February, 2023, the opening of the Contemporary Music Space Hashtag Lab will take place - the first and only permanent stage for new music in Poland. The Hashtag Ensemble and the Sphere of Harmony Foundation invite you  to visit its premises at 29 Barska Street on February 24-25, where concerts, meetings with artists led by Ewa Szczecińska, the opening of the mural and the premiere of the interactive installation will take place. Admission to all events is free!

For the next 4 years at Hashtag Lab - a social cultural institution of the capital city of Warsaw - there will be concerts, educational workshops, classes for children and master classes.

The programme of the first project in the new space includes the premiere of the interactive installation #NetworkMusic of Wojciech Błażejczyk. Anyone willing can hear the address of their own website converted into sounds in the #NetworkMusic installation. For this purpose, you can send an e-mail with your website address to: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

We will also hear a Venetian video-opera on the patio with music by Salvatore Sciarrino, dj set by Rafał Ryterski (Poland) and Vład Błyzniuk (Ukraine). In addition, we can take part in the Polish premiere of Surge by the composers' duo Martyna Kosecka & Idin Samimi Mofakham - this is the musicians' voice on the crimes taking place in Iran.

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Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

Concert of bassoonist Prof. Katarzyna Zdybel-Nam - accompanied by pianist Szczepan Kończal - will be an excellent opportunity to listen to the bassoon repertoire created mainly in the 19^th and 20^th centuries, and the premiere of compositions for bassoon by Paweł Mykietyn.

Minimalist, virtuosic and requiring great precision Mykietyn's work was commissioned and dedicated to Katarzyna Zdybel-Nam. This evening we will also hear the Sonata for bassoon and piano by the Polish composer Juliusz Łuciuk, who died less than two years ago.

In addition, the programme includes works by Roger Boutry, Robert Schumann, Georg Philipp Telemann and François Devienne.

Ticket information: https://www.nfm.wroclaw.pl/component/nfmcalendar/event/9679 

Radzimir Dębski will share with the Warsaw audience the effects of a unique symphonic project created together with the NFM Wrocław Philharmonic Orchestra in tribute to Master Krzysztof Penderecki. On the 20^th of February, 2023 at 17.30 and 20.00 at the Grand Theatre - Polish National Opera, a concert will take place as part of the Hommage Krzysztof Penderecki series.

Krzysztof Penderecki's works will be performed by the orchestra conducted by Maciej Tworek, the Master's assistant for many years. In turn, works by Radzimir Dębski will be conducted by the composer himself. It is worth noting that the Threnody of the Warsaw Ghetto and Hommage, composed especially for this occasion, will have their Warsaw premieres.

The concerts will also take place on the 29^th of March in Wrocław, on the third anniversary of the Professor's death, and on the 1^st of April at the Krzysztof Penderecki European Center for Music in Lusławice, which is the partner of the concerts.

Press release

Ticket information: https://goingapp.pl/polecamy/hommage