Featuring: Tatjana Vassilieva, László Fenyő, Monika Leskovar – cello Conductor: Krzysztof Penderecki Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 3 in A minor (“Scottish”), op. 56 Penderecki: Concerto Grosso for Three Cellos and Orchestra The Sinfonietta Cravocia was formed in 1990 from young graduate students from the Cracow Music Academy. Today they are one of Poland’s leading chamber orchestras and enjoy a Europe-wide reputation. Since 1992, their artistic director has been the violinist Robert Kabara.... Since 1994, the ensemble has attracted the support of several distinguished patrons, including the Penderecki couple, and have worked with leading world artists and at major festivals. In 1998 they won the European Cultural Prize that is given by the European Cultural Foundation under the patronage of the Council of Europe. Krzysztof Penderecki was born in 1933 and in the 1960s was renowned as a radical and innovative composer. In the nineties he began turning more to the past than the future. The author of Hiroshima and the Polish Requiem has now passed his seventieth birthday but is still looking for new paths – he also wants to express this with his famous hedge maze on his country estate. His Concerto Grosso only alludes to the Baroque genre in its title and structure, which originally featured instrumental groups and soloists in competition and dialogue with each other. The musical language of the piece is individual but there are several neo-Romantic moments, Prokofiev like sarcasm and a number of dramatic sections. The composer wished to create with the work the equivalent of the famous “3 Tenors” production. The work was premiered in Tokyo in 2001. In Budapest, the Cracow orchestra will perform with three top European cellists. Krzysztof Penderecki has been an active conductor since the nineties and besides his own works, frequently and gladly conducts romantic masters, such as the symphonies of Felix Mendelssohn. Mendelssohn visited Scotland in 1829 and not only produced pencil sketches but also musical sketches that eventually became his Symphony in A minor. However, this was a lengthy process and he only completed it in 1842, largely because he was unhappy working with such a moody work. Its four movements, unusually, are performed without a break, as if the movements were merely episodes in a continuous travelogue, progressing from the description of misty land to a joyous Scottish folkdance.
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