Ticket prices: 60 PLN standard / 40 PLN concession
Ticket prices: 60 PLN standard / 40 PLN concession
Yun Zeng French horn (principal French horn of the Berlin Philharmonic)
Łukasz Podłucki French horn
Krzysztof Stencel French horn
Paweł Piętka French horn
Sinfonia Varsovia
Andreas Wittmann conductor
Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Die schöne Melusine Concert Overture, Op. 32 [11’]
Robert Schumann Konzertstück in F major, Op. 86 for four horns and orchestra [19′]
I. Lebhaft
II. Romanze: Ziemlich langsam, doch nicht schleppend
III. Sehr lebhaft
intermission [15‘]
Antonín Dvořák Symphony No. 8 in G major, Op. 88 [35’]
I. Allegro con brio
II. Adagio
III. Allegretto grazioso
IV. Allegro ma non troppo
Andreas Wittmann is one of the most distinguished members of the Berliner Philharmoniker. He was appointed as an oboist under Herbert von Karajan and later studied conducting as one of Sergiu Celibidache’s final students. Over the years, he also served as the orchestra’s inspector and as director of its Academy. He has a particular fondness for 19th-century symphonic music, which he approaches with sensitivity and precision. The joy of music-making will thus shine through in his interpretation of Dvořák’s Symphony No. 8 – the most light-hearted of the composer’s symphonic works. The first half of the programme will culminate in Robert Schumann’s Konzertstück (literally “concert piece” or “concertante work”) – a rarely heard gem on Polish concert stages. The composer himself considered the piece “something extraordinary” and “one of his finest compositions.” Within the festival programme, it offers another example of the concertante form – this time giving voice to the orchestra’s soloists in the highly unusual scoring of four horns. The soloists will perform under the leadership of Yun Zeng, the young principal horn of the Berliner Philharmoniker. In Schumann’s piece, the horn emerges as the very embodiment of German Romanticism – a hero, an adventurer, a dreamer, a lover, and above all, a poet.
