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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 24th 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.
This year we will celebrate the 140th anniversary of birth and the 65th anniversary of death of the Young Poland composer Ludomir Różycki. It is a great opportunity to recall this work. Friday's concert will begin with Piéta. On the ashes of Warsaw symphonic picture written in 1940-43. The second part of the concert will feature the Symphony in E major Op. 16 by Lev Revucki, a Ukrainian composer, teacher and music activist. This composition was reconstructed in 2020 and brought from besieged Kiev, thanks to which in March 2022 the Polish audience could hear it for the first time.
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