La Folle Journée de Varsovie – A Duel for Strings

A New World

Performances

THE PROGRAMME

Bohuslav Martinů Double Concerto for two string orchestras, piano and timpani

Krzysztof Penderecki Emanations for two orchestras

Ralph Vaughan Williams Fantasia on themes by Thomas Tallis

PERFORMERS:

Emmanuel Strosser piano

Piotr Kostrzewa timpani

Sinfonia Varsovia

Jurek Dybał conductor

The 9th edition of the world's largest classical music festival will arrive to Warsaw on the last weekend of September, having stopped over in France, Japan, and Russia. In the course of three festival days, the event's 55 concerts will welcome nearly 1000 artists from across the globe. 

'This year we focus on composers who left their home countries, either for political or personal reasons, searching for a new land to live and work in,' says René Martin, the originator and artistic director of the festival. 'In Warsaw, Poland, where we now celebrate 100 since the country regained its sovereignty, this theme has a special significance. For that reason, Polish music will be strongly present in the concert's programmes,' adds Janusz Marynowski, director of Sinfonia Varsovia.

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