Orkiestra Muzyki Nowej / Minimal music / Journeys into the unknown

Date & Time

Sun, Jan 19, 2025, 18:00

Venue

Narodowej Orkiestry Symfonicznej Polskiego Radia, Concert Hall (Katowice)

Overture – solo concerto – symphony. Every melomaniac has probably participated in an evening composed in this manner at least once. Nevertheless, some of them are certainly unaware of their indebtedness to Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy in this area. It was he who proposed the simple pattern in 1835, when he became music director of the Gewandhaus in Leipzig, and his fame soon helped it to become accepted throughout Europe. Does it, however, remain effective to this day – after Anton Webern’s... Read full text

Keywords: New music, Subscription Concert

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Musicians

Szymon Bywalec	Conductor
Orkiestra Muzyki Nowej
Jakob Kullberg	Cello

Program

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