Kraków Philharmonic Oratorio Concert
Friday, March 24, 2023, 7:30 PM
“Had Brahms never written anything but this one work, it would alone have sufficed to rank him with the best masters,” wrote one of Brahms’s biographers on the Schicksalslied, an orchestrally accompanied choral setting of a poem written by Friedrich Hölderlin. The Kraków Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir under the baton of Maestro Antoni Wit take on the work of the great German composer along with his Alto Rhapsody and Scriabin’s Symphony No. 1 with the last of the six movements featuring vocal parts for a choir and two solo voices doomed by Scriabin’s publisher as “unperformable”.
Johannes Brahms Schicksalslied Op. 54, words by F. Hölderlin
Johannes Brahms Rapsodia for alto, choir and orchestra Op. 53
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Alexander Scriabin Symphony No. 1 in E minor Op. 26
Ewa Marciniec –alto
Rafał Bartmiński – tenor
Kraków Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir
Piotr Piwko – choirmaster
Antoni Wit – conductor
Kraków Philharmonic Hall
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Besides their weekly symphony concerts, the Kraków Philharmonic also organises master recitals and educational concerts for children and young people.
The Karol Szymanowski Philharmonic Hall in Kraków was the first philharmonic to open in Poland after the Second World War. Besides the weekly symphony concerts, it organises master recitals and educational concerts for children and young people, while the summer meetings with music assume the form of chamber concerts of slightly lighter character. A hallmark of the Kraków Philharmonic repertoire is its programme of oratorios, which the Philharmonic can present thanks to its extensive and varied lineup: the orchestra, mixed choir, and boys choir. The Kraków Philharmonic has become recognised for its promotion of the works of Karol Szymanowski in Poland and abroad.
The Philharmonic Hall frequently hosts concerts by special guests, for example, at major festivals.
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