The 21st Ludwig van Beethoven Easter Festival will run in Warsaw, 2 – 14 April under the motto ‘Beethoven and the Fine Arts’.The festival audience will be able to experience a concert performance of Igor Stravinsky’s opera The Rake’s Progress, and in the series of Unknown Operas Georges Bizet’s opera Djamileh will be presented. Otherwise the program comprises an impressive number of works by Ludwig van Beethoven, overtures, symphonies and concertos. The 16 concerts will feature soloists like Elena Bashkirova, Javier Perianes, Simon Trpceski and Thomas Bauer. Among the orchestras will be Deutsche Radio Philharmonie, hr-sinfonieorchester Frankfurt, Warsaw Philharmonic, National Symphony Orchestra of the Polish Radio, Sinfonia Varsovia, the Poznan Philharmonic under conductors Josep Pons, Alexander Liebreich, Andres Orozco-Estrada, Hubert Soudant, Lukasz Borowicz, Michael Jurowski, Lawrence Foster and Leopold Hager.
Sunday, 2 April, 12:00
Warsaw Philharmonic – Concert Hall
Karol Szymanowski (orch. by G. Fitelberg): Etude in B flat minor
Ludwig van Beethoven: Triple Concerto in C major, Op. 56
Modest Mussorgsky (orch. by M. Ravel): Pictures at an Exhibition
Storioni Trio, Sinfonietta Cracovia, Jurek Dybał
Javier Perianes
Sunday, 2 April, 7:30 pm
Warsaw Philharmonic – Concert Hall
Sergei Rachmaninov: Isle of the Dead, Op. 29
Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5 & Symphony No. 7
Javier Perianes, piano
Deutsche Radio Philharmonie, Josep Pons
Monday, 3 April, 7:30 pm
Warsaw Philharmonic – Concert Hall
Igor Stravinsky: Concerto in E flat major Dumbarton Oaks
Ludwig van Beethoven: Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 61 & Symphony No. 4 in B flat major Op. 60
Tseng Yu-chien, violin
Hong Kong Sinfonietta
Yip Wing-sie
Alexander Liebreich
(c) Bruno Fidrych
Tuesday, 4 April, 7:30 pm
Warsaw Philharmonic – Concert Hall
Igor Stravinsky: The Rake’s Progress
Andrew Strooper (Tom Rakewell), Louise Alder (Anne Trulove),
Krzysztof Szumański (Nick Shadow), Anna Lubańska (Baba the Turk),
Camerata Silesia, The Katowice City Singers’ Ensemble
Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra in Katowice
Alexander Liebreich
Wednesday, 5 April, 7:30 pm
Warsaw Philharmonic – Concert Hall
Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 8 in F major, Op. 93 & Ah! Perfido Op. 65 & Incidental Music for J.W. Goethe’s drama Egmont, Op. 84
Bernarda Bobro, soprano & John Malkovich, narrator
Wiener Akademie, Martin Haselböck
Thursday, 6 April, 7:30 pm
Warsaw Philharmonic – Concert Hall
Giacomo Puccini: Capriccio Sinfonico
Excerpts from Le Villi, La Rondine, La Bohème
Ewa Vesin, soprano, Edgaras Montvidas, tenor, Leopoldo Lo Sciuto, tenor
The Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Massimiliano Caldi
Thursday, 6 April, 5:00 pm
Warsaw Philharmonic Chamber Music
Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata in A major for Piano and Violin “Kreutzer”, Op. 47
Ernest Bloch: Suite No. 1 for Solo Violin
Karol Szymanowski: Mythes, Op. 30
Edvard Grieg: Violin Sonata No. 2 in G major, Op. 13
Veriko Tchumburidze, violin
Aleksandra Świgut, piano
Lukasz Borowicz
(c) Bruno Fidrych
Friday, 7 April, 7:30 pm
Warsaw Philharmonic – Concert Hall
Georges Bizet: Symphony in C major & Djamileh (concert performance)
Jennifer Feinstein (Djamileh), Eric Barry (Haroun), George Mosley (Splendiano), Poznan Chamber Choir, Orchestra of Poznań Philharmonic
Łukasz Borowicz
Saturday, 8 April, 7:30 pm
Warsaw Philharmonic – Concert Hall
Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy: Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64
Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 5 in C sharp minor
Emmanuel Tjeknavorian, violin
hr-Sinfonieorchester, Andrés Orozco-Estrada
Sunday, 9 April, 12:00
Warsaw Philharmonic – Concert Hall
Feliks Nowowiejski: Overture to The Baltic Legend, Op. 28
Andrzej Panufnik: Violin Concerto
Dmitri Shostakovich: Concerto in C minor for Piano, Trumpet, and String Orchestra, Op. 3
Feliks Nowowiejski: March from the oratorio Quo vadis
Patrycja Piekutowska, violin, Anika Vavic, piano, Támas Pálfalvi, trumpet
The Symphony Orchestra of the Feliks Nowowiejski Warmia and Mazury Philharmonic
Piotr Sułkowski
Andres Orozco-Estrada
Sunday, 9 April, 7:30 pm
Warsaw Philharmonic – Concert Hall
Ludwig van Beethoven: Egmont Overture, Op. 84
Sergei Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 4 in G minor, Op. 40
Hector Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique op. / Op. 14
Simon Trpčeski, piano
hr-Sinfonieorchester
Andrés Orozco-Estrada
Monday, 10 April, 7:30 pm
Warsaw Philharmonic – Concert Hall
Stanisław Karłowicz: Stanisław and Anna Oświecim, Op. 12
Max Reger: Vier Tondichtungen nach Arnold Böcklin Op. 128
Richard Strauss: Don Quixote Op. 35
Amit Peled, cello
Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, Hubert Soudant
Tuesday, 11 April, 7:30 pm
Warsaw Philharmonic – Concert Hall
Ghazaros Saryan: Symphonic Images
Aram Khachaturian: Concerto- Rhapsody for Cello and Orchestra
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade, Op. 35
Narek Hakhnazaryan, cello
State Youth Orchestra of Armenia, Sergey Smbatyan
Wednesday, 12 April, 7:30 pm
Warsaw Philharmonic – Concert Hall
Ludwig van Beethoven: Coriolan Overture, Op. 62 & Piano Concerto in E flat major, WoO 4 VI & Symphony No. 6 Op. 68
Julia Zilberquit, piano
Polish Sinfonia Iuventus Orchestra, Michail Jurowski
Thursday, 13 April, 7:30 pm
Warsaw Philharmonic – Concert Hall
Bohuslav Martinů: Les Fresques de Piero della Francesca, H. 352
Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, Op. 37
Paul Hindemith Symphonie „Mathis der Maler“
Elena Bashkirova, piano
Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra in Katowice
Lawrence Foster
Leopold Hager
(c) Casa da Musica / Joao Messias
Friday, 14 April, 7:30 pm
Teatr Wielki – Polish National Opera
Johannes Brahms: Ein deutsches Requiem
Marlis Petersen, soprano
Thomas E. Bauer, baritone
Choir of the Teatr Wielki – National Opera
Sinfonia Varsovia, Leopold Hager
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