For the fourth season, Sinfonietta Cracovia invites us to attend concerts in the Sinfonietta Nova series, showcasing the most interesting and exciting phenomena in contemporary music. This year’s series starts with works by masters of modernity. We will listen to Arvo Pärt’s Berlin Mass in a rendition for orchestra and choir (performed by the Polish Radio Choir – Lusławice) and Zygmunt Krauze’s String Trio, widely quoting Podhale music, which was first performed during last year’s Karol Szymanowski Music Festival in Zakopane. The programme will be completed by the Piccolo Concerto, saturated with Hungarian folk music themes, composed in 2022 by Levente Gyöngyösi and commissioned by Peter Verhoyen, piccolo player of the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra. The small instrument, used by Beethoven for special effects or as a peculiar flavour by Mahler and Ravel, was long seen only as an extension of the orchestral sound of the transverse flute in the highest registers. In recent years, however, it has come increasingly to the fore - its possibilities and beauty will be showcased by Sudety Philharmonic soloist Ildiko Juhasz. The ensemble will be led by Alexander Humala.

Zygmunt Krauze String Trio (2024)
Levente Gyöngyösi Piccolo Concerto (2022)
Arvo Pärt Berlin Mass (version for choir and orchestra, 1997)

Ildiko Juhasz – piccolo flute
Polish Radio Choir – Lusławice
Alexander Humala – conductor
Sinfonietta Cracovia