On September 28, 2018 at 7:00 p.m., during the concert inaugurating the 73rd artistic season of the National Forum of Music, the world-famous Danish violinist Nikolai Znaider will perform Karol Szymanowski's Violin Concerto No. 2.
Karol Szymanowski wrote his Second Violin Concerto in 1932 and 1933. It was performed for the first time with violinist Paweł Kochański, under the baton of Grzegorz Fitelberg, at the Warsaw Philharmonic on October 6, 1933. Szymanowski’s childhood friends included the pianist Artur Rubinstein and the Paweł Kochański and he often composed with them in mind. After moving to America In the early 1920s, Kochański received a letter from Szymanowski who described writing the Second Violin Concerto as, "squeezed out of me, as out of a desiccated tube of toothpaste." Departing from his earlier modernist style, Szymanowski said the work was "horribly sentimental… beating all records of sentimentality… I am almost ashamed of myself!!"
The programme of the concert will be complemented by Carnival – concert overture, Op. 92 Antonin Dvořák and Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 68 by Johannes Brahms. The NFM Wrocław Philharmonic Orchestra will be led by Giancarlo Guerrero. The project is carried out as part of the celebrations of the 100th anniversary of Poland regaining independence.More information at: http://www.nfm.wroclaw.pl