During the concert of the NFM Leopoldinum Orchestra, conducted by Christian Danowicz on October 18, 2025, at 6:00 PM, the music of four composers will be performed: Dmitri Shostakovich, Jerzy Fitelberg, Eugène Ysaÿe, and George Gershwin. All of the featured works were composed in the 1920s or 1930s.
Jerzy Fitelberg’s Concerto for String Orchestra, a work full of energy and distinct rhythms, is an orchestration of his slightly earlier String Quartet No. 2. Fitelberg, an émigré composer, was the son of Grzegorz Fitelberg—a renowned conductor, friend, and promoter of Karol Szymanowski’s music. He studied at the Warsaw Conservatory and later at the Berlin Hochschule für Musik under Walter Gmeindl and Franz Schreker. He was active in Paris and the United States. In 1928, his String Quartet No. 2 won first prize in a composition competition organized by the Association of Young Polish Musicians in Paris.
The evening's soloists will be violinists Karolina Podorska and Magdalena Ziarkowska-Kołacka, as well as pianist Grzegorz Skrobiński.
Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC
Ticket information: https://www.nfm.wroclaw.pl/component/nfmcalendar/event/12562
