NOSPR in Chamber Mode / Świder, Haydn, Fauré & Mahler

NOSPR Chamber ensembles
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Thursday

17.11.202219:30

Chamber Hall

Seats

Performers

Łukasz Zimnik – flute

Marek Mleczko – oboe

Roman Widaszek – clarinet

bassoon

Mariusz Ziętek – horn

Piotr Kopiński – piano

Ewa Biegas – soprano

Marcin Majchrowski (Polish Radio Programme 2) – compere

Program

Józef Świder

Lyrical Miniatures

Joseph Haydn

Divertimento in B flat major for wind quintet

Gabriel Fauré

Pavane in F sharp minor, Op. 50 (arr. for wind quintet by Ray Thompson)

Gustav Mahler

'Kindertotenlieder' (arr. for voice, piano and wind quintet by Armin Terzer)

It takes a masterstroke and considerable luck to take concert halls around the world by storm with a short form styled on a slow dance. The wind instruments in Gabriel Fauré’s Pavane are like a soft dress that was worn for a dance at the Spanish court. A softness of sound, however, has its depth – these are also wind instruments that precede the first words of Gustav Mahler’s Kindertotenlieder. There melodic lines are intertwining in secessionist whirls, accompanying an act of expressing pain and love. This is one of Mahler’s most piercing pieces. Bohdan Pociej, an expert on the composer’s body of work, found the cycle show clear signs of expressionism.

[Adam Suprynowicz, translated by Mikołaj Witkowski]

Duration of the concert: approx. 70 minutes