Just as Karol Szymanowski continuously sought his place in life, he surprised listeners with stylistic change new ideas in his music. He was a post-romanticist, an impressionist and an expressionist (at the same time!), and finally a folklorist – he was all of these, although each at a different time. The programme of the Szymanowski / Poland / World Festival, with which the Kraków Philharmonic opens the new artistic season, testifies to the richness of his styles and inspirations. It includes the Concert Overture in E major – the first orchestral work by a young artist fascinated by Richard Strauss, Masques – a triptych with complicated atonal harmony and dense texture (in an orchestral arrangement by Jan Krenz) and Harnasie, which originates from Podhale (in an arrangement for... accordion duo!). The context for the Polish composer's oeuvre will be provided by works by his contemporaries and those drawing on his heritage (Mahler, Martinů and Stravinsky as well as Młynarski and Bacewicz). The festival guests include soloists: violinist Bomsori Kim, pianists Marek Kozák and Federico Colli, the accordion duo Zimka & Ochwat, as well as the Poznań Philharmonic Orchestra and the Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra Olomouc.

5 September 2024, 7:30pm
Bomsori Kim – violin
Poznań Philharmonic Orchestra
Łukasz Borowicz – conductor
Grażyna Bacewicz Overture for String Orchestra
Erich Korngold Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35
Emil Młynarski Symphony in F major “Polonia”

6 September 2024, 7:30pm
Marek Kozák – piano
Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra Olomouc
Hamar Zsolt – conductor
Karol Szymanowski Concert Overture in E major, Op. 12
Antonín Dvořák Piano Concerto in G minor, Op. 33
Bohuslav Martinů Symphony No. 1

13 September 2024, 7:30pm
14 September 2024, 6pm
Federico Colli – piano
Kraków Philharmonic Orchestra
Sascha Goetzel – conductor
Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 5 in E flat major “Emperor”, Op. 73
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Karol Szymanowski Concert Overture in E major, Op. 12
Richard Strauss Suite from Der Rosenkavalier

19 September 2024, 7:30pm
Magdalena Kulig – mezzosoprano
Piotr Lempa – bass
Maciej Zimka – accordion
Wiesław Ochwat – accordion
Karol Szymanowski

• Harnasie (selection, arr. Duo Zimka&Ochwat)
• The Swan, Op. 7 (arr. Wiesław Ochwat)
• Three Fragments from Poems by Jan Kasprowicz, Op. 5 (arr. Maciej Zimka)

Gustav Mahler

• Kindertotenlieder (arr. Maciej Zimka)
  • Nun seh' ich wohl, warum so dunkle Flammen
  • Wenn dein Mütterlein tritt zur Tür herein
• Rückert-Lieder (arr. Maciej Zimka)
  • Um Mitternacht
  • Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen

20 September 2024, 7:30pm
21 September 2024, 6pm
Opening of Kraków Philharmonic’s 80th artitic season
Andrzej Lampert – tenor
Kraków Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir
Piotr Piwko – choirmaster
Alexander Humala – conductor
Karol Szymanowski Harnasie, Op. 55
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Igor Strawiński The Rite of Spring

4 October 2024, 7:30pm
5 October 2024, 6pm
Marcin Zdunik – cello
Kraków Philharmonic Orchestra
Dawid Runtz – conductor
Karol Szymanowski Masques (arr. for orchestra Jan Krenz)
Antonín Dvořák Cello Concert in B minor, Op. 104
Richard Strauss Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks, Op. 28