The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra will perform at the Łódź Philharmonic on 17 October 2019 at 8 p.m., presenting the works by Mieczysław Karłowicz and Fryderyk Chopin.
RPO is one of the leading British ensembles. Its main conductors were: Rudolf Kempe, Antal Doráti, Walter Weller, André Previn, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Yuri Temirkanov, Daniele Gatti and Charles Dutoit. The orchestra resides in London's Cadogan Hall, also performs at the Royal Festival Hall and Royal Albert Hall. Currently, the orchestra constantly cooperates, among others with Pinchas Zukerman, Alexander Shelley and Polish conductor Grzegorz Nowak, who will lead the concert in Łódź. Foreign tours are a permanent and important element of the ensemble's activity. RPO gives concerts in many prestigious halls around the world, with artists of the highest rank.
The programme will be filled with works by Polish composers. Its core will be three symphonic poems by Mieczysław Karłowicz, a representative of the Young Poland movement in music, whose promising career was interrupted 110 years ago by the tragic death in the Tatra Mountains. The concert's soloist will be Konrad Binienda, Polish pianist living in Ohio (USA), who will perform the Allegro de concert in A major, Op. 46 by Frederic Chopin on the 170th anniversary of the composer’s death.
A pre-concert meeting at 7.15 p.m. will be led by Andrzej Sułek.
Full programme available at: https://filharmonia.lodz.pl/pl/wydarzenia/royal-philharmonic-orchestra-goscinny-koncert-symfoniczny