The Sinfonietta Cracovia orchestra makes sure that the sky above Kraków (and its concert halls as well) is always star-studded. How? The Stars with Sinfonietta cycle does the trick!

The focal point of the season 2024/2025 opening concert will be Piano Concerto No. 2, intended as a tour de force of young Beethoven, who, having moved from provincial Bonn, wanted to mark his presence as a composer and virtuoso in Vienna, the musical capital of the world at the time. The composer himself was not particularly happy with it, but history would have it otherwise – Ludwig van Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat major (like his other four concerts for that instrument) is regarded as an outstanding work and often serves as a demonstration of the soloist’s technical skills and musicianship. A great choice for the inaugural concert of Sinfonietta Cracovia’s new season (still in its 30th anniversary year!), especially since Aleksandra Świgut, an award-winning pianist with an original style, will sit behind the keyboard. The programme of the evening under the baton of Katarzyna Tomala-Jedynak will be complemented by Landscape – an illustration of a melancholic view born in the imagination of Andrzej Panufnik, and the famous quartet Death and the Maiden by Franz Schubert, this time in Gustav Mahler’s dramatic arrangement for string orchestra.

Andrzej Panufnik Landscape (1962)
Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat major, Op. 19
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Franz Schubert String Quartet No. 14 in D minor "Death and the Maiden" D 810 (1824, arranged for string orchestra by G. Mahler)

Aleksandra Świgut piano
Sinfonietta Cracovia
Katarzyna Tomala-Jedynak conductor