Jonathan Plowright, one of the greatest promoters of the forgotten masters of Polish romantic music, will be a guest of the Silesian Quartet concert, which will take place in the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra Concert Hall in Katowice on April 6, 2019 at 6.00 p.m.
This time, the artists will recall slightly forgotten silhouettes of the last century composers. Central figure will be Mieczysław Weinberg, whose 100th birth anniversary is an excellent opportunity for this musical flashback. According to Marcin Trzęsiok, String Quartet No. 11 in F major, Op. 89 (1966) clearly reveals one of the main features of Weinberg's music – restraint. It is proved by the unprecedented use of mutes: two and a half (from four) parts are played with mutes and this effect is reinforced by the extensive pizzicato parts. It is a quartet full of ambivalence and suspense, in which neither despair nor consolation can be fully understood.
The programme of the concert will also include String Quartet by Tadeusz Baird, who name was once placed next to such giants as Lutosławski, Penderecki or Górecki. The concert will be completed by Piano Quintet in C minor by Ignacy Friedman, who enjoyed the fame of one of the greatest pianists of the 20th century. He grew up in Krakow's Podgórze district but after years of global career, at the outbreak of World War II, he emigrated to Australia. The Sydney Conservatorium of Music awards the prize named after Friedman till this day.
Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.
More information at: http://www.nospr.org.pl/pl/koncerty/1405/kwartet-slaski-jonathan-plowright-wajnberg-w-polsce