Piano Recital on Karol Szymanowski’s 80th Death Anniversary

Pianist Radosław Sobczak will give a recital commemorating the 80th anniversary of Karol Szymanowski’s death on January 31, 2017 at the Warsaw Philharmonic.

The programme includes compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach, Franz Schubert, Alberto Ginastera and Karol Szymanowski.

"Exuberant virtuosity is a distinguishing feature of Schubert’s great Fantasie in C Major, Op. 15 on the motifs of the song Der Wanderer. Even today this fantasy remains one of the most demanding tests of instrumental skill. The work exemplifies an important source of Romantic inspiration: references to a vocal piece, its musical motifs and its text. (…) Sonata No. 2 [by Karol Szymanowski] marks an important stylistic caesura in the composer’s output, ending the post-Romantic phase which had begun with his earliest surviving music - Preludes written by an 18-year-old Szymanowski at the frontier manor in Tymoszówka (now Timoshivka in Ukraine). Still distinctly influenced by Chopin and Scriabin, they already foreshadow his later musical explorations and bear testimony to the young artist’s highly original talent." (source: www.filharmonia.pl)

Tickets available on-line at: www.filharmonia.bilety24.pl