The Polish Orchestra Sinfonia Iuventus invites you to a symphony concert inaugurating the 11th artistic season of the ensemble, which will take place in the concert hall of the National Philharmonic in Warsaw on October 8, 2018 at 7.00 p.m. The programme includes works of Mendelssohn, Moniuszko and Karłowicz.

The greatest solo concertos in musical literature are often the product of the collaboration of a great composer with an outstanding virtuoso – this can also be said of Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64, the late masterpiece by Felix Mendelssohn composed for his friend, Ferdinand David. The premiere took place on the 13th of March 1845, and the work was immediately received with enthusiasm by the audience, and from that moment on, it has not departed concert stages, remaining one of the greatest musical hits of all time. The audience of the inaugural concert will hear this masterpiece performed by Krzysztof Jakowicz, one of the most outstanding Polish violinists.

Before the era of the great symphonic poems, whose master was to be Mieczysław Karłowicz, concerto overtures played a similar role in narrative, programmatic forms. Stanisław Moniuszko’s popular Fairy Tale from 1848 is an example of such suggestive music, whose contrasting themes form a fascinating “story” – but we never find out what it is about. The composer left this to the listener’s imagination without betraying any literary programme.

Mieczysław Karłowicz’s Rebirth Symphony corresponds to the Classic-Romantic framework of the four-movement cycle, and its ideological basis is a comprehensive, original programme (published in Słowo Polskie before the Lviv premiere in 1903), in the Young Poland style. It speaks of a “gloomy, malicious singing” and a slow awakening of a soul immersed in lethargy (part I), contemplation of the world bathed in the rays of the sun (part II), the temptations of trivial pleasures to which the soul is exposed (part III) and finally – the eponymous rebirth of the human spirit to the call of the “eternal slogan”.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

More information at: www.sinfoniaiuventus.pl