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The 1^st Timeless Film Festival Warsaw will open with a screening of the film The Martyrdom of Joan of Arc, directed by Carl Th. Dreyer (1929) combined with the premiere of the music to the film at the Warsaw Philharmonic!

On the 8^th of April, 2024 at 7.30 p.m. the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir will perform a symphony commissioned by Stefan Wesołowski for the new festival.

The motion picture was listed as one of the best films of all time according to "Sight & Sound" magazine (2022).

Ticket information: https://timelessfilmfestival.pl/pl/program/meczenstwo-joanny-darc/ 

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

Thanks to the 'Polish Music Scene' programme, organised by the National Institute of Music and Dance, the LutosAir Quintet will perform on the stage of the Zielona Góra Philharmonic on the 6^th of April 2024 at 7 p.m.

The quintet was founded in 2013 and is one of the ensembles of the National Forum of Music in Wrocław. This versatile wind instrument ensemble has given concerts in England, Germany, Egypt and Denmark. It performs early and recent music, including jazz, and premieres works by many Polish composers. It has already recorded several albums featuring 20^th and 21^st century music.

During the upcoming concert, the ensemble will present compositions by Régine Wieniawski, Andrzej Panufnik, Antoni Szałowski and Wojciech Łukaszewski.

The concert is co-organised by the National Institute of Music and Dance as part of the 'Polish Music Scene' programme, financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage.

Additional information: http://filharmoniazg.pl/events/scena-muzyki-polskiej-koncert-kameralny-2/ 

Since 2019, the Cracow Philharmonic has been organizing a festival named after its Patron - one of the most outstanding Polish and world composers of the turn of the 19^th and 20^th centuries. The prologue of this year's fifth edition of the "Szymanowski / Poland / World" Festival will take place on the 6^th of April, 2024 at 6 p.m.

An opportunity to encounter Karol Szymanowski's music in the concert hall in Zwierzyniecka 1 will be a concert with the participation of the Cracow Philharmonic Orchestra and Women's Choir, who will perform the cycle of six Songs of a Mad Muezzin for voice and orchestra, Op. 42 to the words of Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz. The solo part in this work will be performed by one of the most renowned Polish singers, Urszula Kryger.

Concert repertoire also includes the famous Planets Op. 32 by Gustav Holst and will be led from the conductor's desk by Martyn Brabbins.

Ticket information: https://filharmoniakrakow.pl/public/program/festiwal-szymanowski--polska--wiat---prolog%20-8 

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

Szymanowski and Pergolesi – Cardim and Klug. Two moving choreographic interpretations of Stabat Mater will be presented for the first time on the Pegasus Stage with live music on the 5^th and 6^th of April, 2024 at 7 p.m.

The works will be performed by the ballet, soloists, choir and orchestra of the Stanisław Moniuszko Grand Theater in Poznań, conducted by Jacek Kaspszyk.

Ticket information: https://opera.poznan.pl/pl/stabat-mater-wieczor-baletowy-cardimclug 

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

Yaroslav Shemet, an outstanding Polish-Ukrainian conductor, currently serves as the artistic director of the Silesian Philharmonic and music director of the Baltic Opera. The programme of his concert with the NFM Wrocław Philharmonic on the 5^th of April, 2024 at 7:00 p.m. includes works by three composers: the symphonic poem Zjednoczenie by Borys Latoszyński, Violin Concerto No. 2 in D major, KV 211 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Symphony No. 2 in B-flat major by Karol Szymanowski. The legendary violinist Krzysztof Jakowicz will perform with the orchestra.

Szymanowski's Second Symphony, written between 1909 and 1910, is one of the most interesting works representing the first phase of the composer's work, when he was still influenced by the music of Richard Strauss and Max Reger. The premiere took place in 1911 in Warsaw, and the symphony soon appeared in Vienna, Leipzig, Munich and Cracow, where it was received enthusiastically. Although it is composed of two parts, they contain the traditional four part symphonic sections.