On January 23, 2025, at 7:00 PM, Sinfonietta Cracovia will present the music of three great 20th-century composers: Lutosławski, Wajnberg, and Korngold, at the Cracow Philharmonic. The concert will be an opportunity for the Cracow audience to experience rising stars of the European classical music scene. The conductor will be Sergey Simakov, who won the "Silver Baton" at the Grzegorz Fitelberg International Conducting Competition and the Symphony Orchestra Award of the Silesian Philharmonic in 2023.
The audience will hear a full range of emotions and orchestral colors—from melancholy, through drama, to the enchanting melodies of the serenade. The performance will begin with Musique funèbre by Witold Lutosławski, followed by Concertino for Cello by Mieczysław Wajnberg, with Vilém Vlček, the first prize winner of the 4th Krzysztof Penderecki International Cello Competition in Cracow, performing the solo part. The final piece of this sophisticated sensory feast will be the Symphonic Serenade by Erich Wilhelm Korngold, often regarded as the last representative of Viennese Romanticism.
The concert is co-organized with the Cracow Philharmonic as part of the "Musical Bridges" project. It is also co-organized by the National Institute of Music and Dance as part of the "Musician-in-Residence" program, funded by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. The concert will feature violinist Kornelia Polańska, a student at the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice, in the violin class of Prof. Małgorzata Wasiucionek-Potera.
Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC
Ticket information: https://www.sinfonietta.pl/koncerty/lutoslawski-weinberg-korngold
