Silesian String Quartet / Masterpieces with a Polish Counterpoint: Krzysztof Meyer - NOSPR

The Silesian Quartet - 44 years of experience, over 150 premieres of chamber works, thousands of performances in the world's most renowned concert halls, more than 60 album recordings, over 20 nominations, 9 "Fryderyk" awards, and the most prestigious of all - the Gramophone Classical Music Award, also known as "the musical Oscar". 

They specialize in discovering, promoting, and recording Polish music - renowned for premiering works under the composers' guidance. Departing from the traditional hierarchical model of music-making, the ensemble emphasizes exchanges with musicians from other chamber groups. Part of this exchange includes regular workshops with musicians, chamber players, and composers. 

In this season, they will combine masterpieces of chamber music with quartets by Polish composers - Witold Lutosławski, Zbigniew Bargielski, Krzysztof Meyer, Henryk Mikołaj Górecki, Joanna Wnuk-Nazarowa, and Andrzej Panufnik. All of this is on the occasion of milestone birthday anniversaries. 

The first concert of the season opens with Claude Debussy's String Quartet in G minor, Op. 10, described as the gateway to 20th-century music. In contrast to these forward-looking pieces, the musicians will also perform Franz Schubert's String Quintet in C major, a work hailed as one of the most romantic in all of chamber music. Interestingly, the quintet was written for two cellos, conceived by the composer to facilitate a dialogue between the violin and cello parts. In the second part, instead of a quintet, we have a peculiar string trio, serving as a harmonic foundation for two equal solo parts. 

The Polish counterpoint of the evening will be Krzysztof Meyer's quartet - the youngest (born in 1943) among all the distinguished Polish composers featured in the seasonal program. Krzysztof Penderecki and Henryk Mikołaj Górecki would have turned 90 years old this year, Witold Lutosławski and Andrzej Panufnik - 110 years, Zbigniew Bargielski - 87 years. 

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Concert duration: approximately 60 minutes