On Sunday, 27 October 2019 at 12 p.m. the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra in Katowice will host a concert with the participation of Janusz Olejniczak on the 170th anniversary of the death of Fryderyk Chopin.
The Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra will perform under the baton of Jerzy Maksymiuk. The programme will include: Ignacy Jan Paderewski – Nocturne in B flat major (instr. Jerzy Maksymiuk), Fryderyk Chopin – Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor, Op. 21, Sergei Prokofiev – Symphony No. 1 in D major 'Classical', Op. 25. The concert will be hosted by Marcin Majchrowski.
Youthful songs are often written out of love. Paderewski composed the Nocturne in B flat major for the beautiful, several years older pianist Raluce Bibesco-Bassaraba, Princess Brancovan, with whom he allegedly had a fiery romance. In the orchestral version, this melancholic miniature's resemblance to the central part of Chopin's Second Piano Concerto will become clear. Iwaszkiewicz once wrote that the first entrance of the piano in Larghetto "sounds like opening a gate to a sanctuary of love and peace." Indeed, the composer confided in Tytus Woyciechowski that when writing this song, he thought about his affection for the singer Konstancja Gładkowska, who six months after Chopin's departure from the country ceased to correspond with him. Prokofiev created his symphony at the idyllic dacha near Petrograd, without access to the piano, away from the hustle and bustle of the war and revolution, away from his first love Nina Mieszczerska, with whom he recently broke off the engagement – after a row with her father who did not intend to give up his daughter to the artist with no fixed income. He composed a concise, condensed pastiche of an eighteenth-century symphony in the style of Haydn. Love often fails composers – each of them, however, transforms emotions into music differently.
The concert is held under the patronage of the PWM Edition as part of the TUTTI.pl project promoting the performances of Polish music.
More information at: http://www.nospr.org.pl/