1st October (Tuesday), 7pm - Concert Hall in CKK Jordanki
The opening concert of the Karol Lipi?ski Violin Festival
Micha? Sta?kiewicz in memoriam
Tickets: 50/40 (BUY TICKET)
Ilya Kaler – violin
Mariusz Smolij – conductor
Toru? Symphony Orchestra
Programme:
Maciej Ba?enkowski – Hommage á Lipi?ski
K. Lipi?ski – Symphony in B flat major Op. 2
J. Brahms – Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 77
The Festival’s opening concert, dedicated to the late Micha? Sta?kiewicz, will present several musical pieces by three composers: Johannes Brahms, Maciej Ba?enkowski and Karol Lipi?ski.
Johannes Brahms’ Violin Concerto in D major Op. 77 builds on Ludwig van Beethoven’s Violin Concerto in D major Op. 61. The virtuoso part for the violin gives little room for the soloist to fully display his or her talent, since the symphonic character of the piece makes it necessary to keep perfect pace with the orchestra. The concert resulted from the composer’s cooperation with the Hungarian violinist and friend Joseph Joachim, the dedicatee of the work.
Concert Op. 77 is technically challenging, but the difficulty lies not only in the complexities of virtuoso acrobatics, but also in striking the right balance between the solo and orchestra parts, which requires a high volume of lusciously overwhelming sound and a high level of mastery in shaping the dramaturgy of the work by means of dynamic, articulative and colour contrasts.
Hommage à Lipi?ski for symphony orchestra by Maciej Ba?enkowski is a composition commissioned by the Toru? Symphony Orchestra. Its world premiere took place on 13 September 2019. A privileged role in the piece is reserved for strings. In his Hommage à Lipi?ski, the composer combines musical tradition with modernity and his own individual style, with its characteristically complex metro-rhythmic solutions and all-pervading vitalism.
Karol Lipi?ski’s Symphony in B flat major Op. 2 No. 3 ‘Sinfonia avec accompagnement de plusieurs instruments’ is the earliest of all symphonies composed by him. Written in 1810, when the composer was residing in Lviv, the four-part work was commissioned for Count Starze?ski’s small orchestra, of which Lipi?ski was a member. It was inspired by Joseph Haydn’s classical symphonies, without which the symphonies by Beethoven, and later by Brahms, Lipi?ski and other masters of Romantic music would never have come to exist.
The concert is sponsored by Tadeusz Paj?k, Honorary Consul of the Republic of Finland in Toru?.