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According to the government’s decision to keep the current epidemiological restrictions to limit the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, including the closure of the cultural institutions for the audience until the 18th of April, we would like to inform you that the concerts of the Poznan Philharmonic will be broadcast via Internet till that time. You can find more details about the concerts on our website and Facebook profile.

We invite you for the Internet Concert every Friday at 7 pm.

Friday, 9th of April 2021, 7 pm

TRIBUTE TO THE GENIUS
INTERNET CONCERT

PERFORMERS:

Michał FRANCUZ – piano
Tadeusz WOJCIECHOWSKI – conductor
Poznan Philharmonic Orchestra

PROGRAM:

• Igor Stravinsky, “Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments”

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Friday, 16th of April 2021, 7 pm

THE LAST PARISIAN?
INTERNET CONCERT

PERFORMERS:

Tadeusz WOJCIECHOWSKI – conductor
Poznan Philharmonic Orchestra

PROGRAM:

• Joseph Haydn, Symphony in A Major, No. 87

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Friday, 23rd of April 2021, 7 pm

BEETHOVEN OUR CONTEMPORARY
IN A SPRING MOOD
INTERNET CONCERT

PERFORMERS:

Martin STADTFELD – piano
Łukasz BOROWICZ – conductor
Poznan Philharmonic Orchestra

PROGRAM:

• Ludwig van Beethoven, Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major, Op. 58
• Ludwig van Beethoven, Piano Sonata No. 2 in A major, Op. 2 (2nd movement – Largo appasionato) 

Honorary Patronage

Project co-funded by Polish-German Cooperation Fund

This day, the 6th of April, marks the 50th death anniversary of Igor Stravinsky, one of the most ingenious composers of the 20th century. To commemorate the genius Poznan Philharmonic dedicates the next Internet Concert (Friday, 9th of April at 7 pm) to his music. For the first time in Poznan the “Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments” will be [performed, featuring the pianist Michał Francuz and Poznan Philharmonic Orchestra led by Tadeusz Wojciechowski.

Igor Stravinsky began to write the “Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments” in the summer of 1923 and completed it on the 21st of April of the following year. The work waited only a month for its premiere – it was performed for the first time in the Paris Opera on the 22nd of May 1924. The composer himself played the piano part, while Serge Koussevitzky conducted the whole ensemble – he was the one who commissioned the piece for his famous Parisian Concerts Koussevitzky, which he led in the years of 1921-1928 and popularized the works by Sergei Prokofiev, Igor Stravinsky and Maurice Ravel.

By taking up writing the piece, Stravinsky secured the exclusivity for its performance for five years. In that period he performed the Concerto over 40 times! In 1950 the composer introduced a few changes and amendments to the work and in that version it has been performed the most frequently.

In our today’s commemoration of the unusual composer it is worth mentioning that his father, Fyodor Stravinsky, came from a Polish gentry from the Eastern Borderlands Stravinsky with the Sulima coat of arms. The composer’s great-great-grandfather, Stanislaus Stravinsky, went down in history during the Bar Confederation when on the 3rd of November 1771 he took part in the kidnapping of the King Stanisław August Poniatowski.

Rumour has it that Igor Stravinsky had taken steps to apply for the Polish citizenship, the reason being not the blood relation but the property of his first wife, located in Poland. According to one of the story versions the artist gave up due to the long queue before the Polish Consulate in Paris, according to the other one – he was discouraged by the behaviour of the official, who treated Stravinsky as one of those “nagging” Russian emigrants seeking asylum in Western Europe after the Revolution.

PERFORMERS:

Michał FRANCUZ – piano
Tadeusz WOJCIECHOWSKI – conductor
Poznan Philharmonic Orchestra

PROGRAM:

• Igor Stravinsky, Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments
  Largo – Allegro – Più mosso – Maestoso
  Largo
  Allegro

We would like to inform you that the box office will be closed from the 20th of March to the 9th of April.

In the Poznan Philharmonic spring will appear… on the 12th of March. That day at 7 pm, in AMU Concert Hall, the opening concert of the 50th Poznan Music Spring Festival starts.

Once again the Poznan Philharmonic engages in the organization of the symphonic concert within the International Festival of Contemporary Music Poznan Music Spring, referring to the beginning of the Festival dating back to the 1960s, as well as the long-standing tradition of taking part in this event which attracts many auditors and contemporary music lovers.

Year 2021 sees the 50th edition of the Poznan Music Spring. The jubilee, especially the golden one, obliges – that’s why the concert on the 12th of March opening the 50th edition of the Festival will have a really festive spirit (due to the pandemic other Festival concerts are scheduled for autumn). We will listen to four excellent performers in the solo parts of four works: Marzena Michałowska (soprano), Jakub Kaszuba (oboe), Wojciech Jeliński (trombone) and Damian Kurek (trumpet). The three last soloists are the artists of the Poznan Philharmonic Orchestra.

The first work performed during the concert will be a piece written by the founder of the Festival and the patron of the Poznan Philharmonic, Tadeusz Szeligowski: Green Songs, in an orchestration by Maciej Żółtowski prepared specifically for that concert, with participation of the orchestra. One can call it a premiere of the work in a new version.

The subsequent points of the evening will be filled by concertos for wind instruments. Four Dialogues for Oboe and Chamber Orchestra by Tadeusz Baird is a 20th century Polish classic work in the oboe music literature. The piece by Zbigniew Kozub, Concerto for Trombone and Small Orchestra, was composed especially for the evening opening the jubilee Poznan Music Spring and specifically for Wojciech Jeliński. The climax of the concert is the first Poznan performance of Krzysztof Penderecki’s Concertino for Trumpet and Orchestra from 2015, one of the late works of the great composer, the 1st death anniversary of whom we will soon commemorate. Poznan Philharmonic Orchestra will be led by Łukasz Borowicz.

Spanish energy and a steady Austrian town have been merged in a concert held in two editions scheduled for the 4th and the 5th of March at 7 pm in the AMU Concert Hall. The event features Krzysztof Meisinger (guitar), Poznan Philharmonic Orchestra and conductor Marek Pijarowski.

‘I also remember (…) one morning, a couple of months later’, recalled Joaquín Rodrigo, ‘when, standing in my little studio at Rue Saint Jacques in the heart of the Latin Quarter, (…) I heard a voice inside me singing the whole Adagio theme at one go, without hesitation. Immediately afterwards, at a stretch, the theme of the third movement. I quickly understood that a work has been created. Our intuition never misleads us in these cases…’

Concierto de Aranjuez… The magic of place charmed into music… As Aranjuez is a special location, called the oasis of Castile or the Spanish Versaille for a reason. In this small town situated almost 50 kilometres from Madrid, the Spanish rulers of the Bourbon dynasty in the 18th century built a magnificent residence: Palacio Real de Aranjuez. The royal palace is surrounded by gardens covering 300 hectares.

The walk through the lanes, surprising every now and then with an abundance of the vegetation, fountains, sculptures, brooks and ponds is a real feast for the senses. The composer sensed in it the scent of magnolias, bird songs and the spouting of fountains. He was blind from the age of three and within the sounds of the concert he depicted the sensuality of the gardens he had been strolling through with his wife Victoria.

The concert was written in 1939 in Paris. Shortly after it was completed the Spanish civil war had ended and Rodrigo and his wife returned to Spain in September 1939 – in their luggage they carried the manuscript of the Concierto written in Braille format. The premiere was held on the 9th of November 1940 in the Palacio de la Música Catalana in Barcelona. The soloist was the guitarist Regino Sáinz de la Maza.

Concierto de Aranjuez brought Rodrigo international recognition and his name has grown together with Aranjuez for ever. Not only the composer has his monument here, but also… the work itself. In 1991 Juan Carlos, the king of Spain, has ennobled Joaquín Rodrigo Marqués de los jardines de Aranjuez (the marquis of the Aranjuez gardens).

Symphony No. 36 in C Major, KV 425, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is a unique composer record. The piece was written in only four days! When Mozart was travelling from Salzburg to Vienna he stopped in Linz at the house of count Johann Joseph Anton von Thun-Hohenstein. It was the 30th of October 1783. Count Thun scheduled Mozart’s composer concert for the 4th of November, however he didn’t have any of his symphonies with him. So Mozart decided to… write a new symphony, so the concert can take place. He finished it a day before the event. The name of the work – Linz Symphony – derives from its place of origin.

Thursday, 4th of March 2021, 7 pm, AMU Concert Hall
Friday, 5th of March 2021, 7 pm, AMU Concert Hall

CONCIERTO DE ARANJUEZ

PERFORMERS:
Krzysztof MEISINGER – guitar
Marek PIJAROWSKI – conductor
Poznan Philharmonic Orchestra

PROGRAM:

• Joaquín Rodrigo, Concierto de Aranjuez
Allegro con spirito
Adagio
Allegro gentile

• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Symphony No. 36 in C Major, KV 425, Linz
Adagio – Allegro spiritoso
Andante
Menuetto
Finale

Season tickets:

SG (4.03)
DL | MW (5.03)

Tickets: prize: A

We are pleased to announce that the next concerts (on the 4th, the 5th and the 12th of March) will be held in the AMU Concert Hall with audience participation.

According to the decision of the Governmental Crisis Management Team, during the event only half of the auditorium can be filled. While staying in the building of the AMU Concert Hall keeping the sanitary measures is mandatory, including wearing a mask covering both your nose and mouth (in accordance with the recent guidelines it is not allowed to wear visors).

The concerts with the audience participation are held until the 12th of March (check below for the schedule). The conditional opening of philharmonies, theatres and cinemas to the audience for two weeks has been extended by another two weeks. The decision to either prolong it or once again close the institutions will be made by the Governmental Crisis Management Team.

We would like to remind you that the listeners are obliged to follow the rules of procedure of the Poznan Philharmonic Concert Hall during the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as to sign a statement about the current state of health and hand it to the employees of the Poznan Philharmonic when entering the AMU Concert Hall.

Rules of the audience organization in AMU Concert Hall – the Auditorium of the Poznan Philharmonic

Statement of the attendee of the concerts organized by Poznan Philharmonic

Until the 12th of March the ticket office of the Poznan Philharmonic is opened from Tuesday to Friday between 1 pm and 5 pm, as well as an hour before each concert.

POZNAN PHILHARMONIC CONCERTS 4-12.03.2021:

Thursday, 4th of March 2021, 7 pm, AMU Concert Hall, Wieniawskiego Street 1
Friday, 5th of March 2021, 7 pm, AMU Concert Hall, Wieniawskiego Street 1

CONCIERTO DE ARANJUEZ

PERFORMERS:

Krzysztof MEISINGER – guitar
Marek PIJAROWSKI – conductor
Poznan Philharmonic Orchestra

PROGRAM:

• Joaquín Rodrigo, Concierto de Aranjuez
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Symphony No. 36 in C Major, KV 425, “Linz”

Season tickets:

SG (4.03)
DL | MW (5.03)

Tickets: prize: A

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Friday, 12th of March 2021, 7 pm, AMU Concert Hall

OPENING CONCERT OF THE 50th POZNAN MUSIC SPRING

PERFORMERS:

Marzena MICHAŁOWSKA – soprano
Jakub KASZUBA – oboe
Wojciech JELIŃSKI – trombone
Damian KUREK – trumpet
Łukasz BOROWICZ – conductor
Poznan Philharmonic Orchestra
Małgorzata Pawłowska – introduction

PROGRAM:

• Tadeusz Szeligowski, Green Songs (orchestration by Maciej Żółtowski)
• Tadeusz Baird, Four Dialogues for Oboe and Chamber Orchestra
• Zbigniew Kozub, Concerto for Trombone and Small Orchestra – premiere
• Krzysztof Penderecki, Concertino for Trumpet and Orchestra (2015)

Season tickets:
DL | MW

Tickets: prize: A

The works of the Master from Bonn will fill both editions of the 487. Poznan Concert, this time held as part of the cycle “Beethoven Our Contemporary” – on the 25th and the 26th of February (7 pm, AMU Concert Hall). The Poznan Philharmonic Orchestra will be led by an excellent Norwegian conductor Eivind Gullberg Jensen.

Ludwig van Beethoven happily accepted the commission to write the score to the play “Egmont” by Wolfgang von Goethe. He admired the poet’s talent, as well as the libertarian slogans embedded in the text. The work was composed in 1810 and is comprised of several movements, though it is rarely performed as a whole. The overture, functioning as a separate piece, has been enjoying an unfailing popularity and very often appears in concert programmes.

Ludwig van Beethoven undoubtedly began working on the Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 36, completed in autumn 1802, much earlier, as he used to rewrite, correct and hone his works. The premiere performance took place in Vienna, in the Theater an der Wien, on the 5th of April 1803 under the direction of the composer himself.

The music of the Symhony No. 2 is bright and cheerful, although it came into being in Beethoven’s hard times. He completed it during his stay in Heiligenstadt when it turned out that the progressive hearing problems can be incurable… When we rave about it now it may be difficult to understand the modern-day composers who considered it to be too lengthy, artificial and perceived as an exaggerated pursuit of novelty and eccentricity.

Thursday, 25.02.2021, 7 pm, AMU Concert Hall
Friday, 26.02.2021, 7 pm, AMU Concert Hall

487. POZNAN CONCERT
BEETHOVEN OUR CONTEMPORARY
SCHERZISSIMO

PERFORMERS:
Eivind GULLBERG JENSEN – conductor
Poznan Philharmonic Orchestra

PROGRAM:

• Ludwig van Beethoven, Egmont Overture, Op. 84
• Ludwig van Beethoven, Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 36
  Allegro con brio
  Larghetto
  Allegro
  Allegro molto

Season tickets:
KP 1 (25.02)
KP 2 (26.02)

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Honorary Patronage:

Project co-funded by Polish-German Cooperation Fund