27th Ludwig van Beethoven Easter Festival:
the closing concert

26 March–7 April 2023

See photo: Proj. graf.: Grzegorz Kozera

7 April 2023 Friday 19:30 Moniuszko Auditorium

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FESTIVAL PROGRAMME

In the course of the festival's thirteen days, the audience will have a chance to listen to ten symphony and five chamber music concerts featuring a range of outstanding soloists, conductors and ensembles who perform in Warsaw and other Polish cities at the invitation of Elżbieta Penderecka, the festival director. The programme revolves around the central theme of this year's edition 'Beethoven: Between East and West', to shine a light on the coexistence of eastern and western cultures in music. Alongside the Bonn-born genius's masterpieces, we will hear music by Wolfgang A. Mozart, Fryderyk Chopin, Henryk Wieniawski, Gustav Mahler, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Maurice Ravel, George Gershwin, Benjamin Britten, Witold Lutosławski, Leonard Bernstein, Mieczysław Weinberg, Valentin Silvestrov, Toshio Hosokawa, and Faustas Latėnas.

Special emphasis has been placed on Krzysztof Penderecki's music as we mark the late composers 90th birthday this year. During the opening concert Chiyoung Chung will lead the Korea National University of Arts Symphony Orchestra in a rendition of Penderecki's Symphony No. 5 'Korean', with one of the most exciting pianist of the young generation, Chloe Jiyeong, as the soloist.

The festival will close with Seven Gates of Jerusalem performed by the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir under Sergey Smbatyan and soloists Iwona Hossa, Karolina Sikora, Adam Zdunikowski, and Piotr Nowacki. The third anniversary of Krzysztof Penderecki's death on 29 March will be marked with a chamber concert of his music performed by the Apollon Musagète Quartet, Leticia Moreno, Claudio Bohórquez, Manuel Escauriaz Martinez-Peñuel, Andrzej Ciepliński, and Łukasz Krupiński. The concert will be transmitted by TVP Kultura.

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