Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra under Uroš Lajovic will present Witold Lutosławski’s Concerto for Orchestra in Gallus Hall in Ljubljana on November 26 and 27, 2015.

The orchestra will also perform Jurij Mihevec’s The Planets – overture for string orchestra and Ludwig van Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major, Op. 58 joined by Dubravka Tomšič Srebotnjak.

Concerto for Orchestra (1950-54) was inspired by Witold Rowicki, who asked Witold Lutosławski to compose a work for the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra that Rowicki had founded in 1950. The composer initially wanted to answer the commission with a relatively short piece – functional and occasional in character, with no particular aesthetic aims. It turned out differently, however: the material demanded a more developed, symphonic form that made use of motifs from Polish folk music and was constructed on a broad plan of clearly neoclassical features. The Concerto was given its first performance on November 26th, 1954, by Warsaw’s National Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Witold Rowicki, to whom the work is dedicated.
(source: www.lutoslawski.org.pl)

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