Through the Looking Glass
Thursday 30th April
7.30pm – St. Peter’s Methodist Church
St. Peter’s Street,
Canterbury, Kent
CT1 2BE
Soprano: Olga Pasiecznik
Piano: Maciej Grzybowski
Silesian String Quartet
- Violin I: Szymon Krzeszowiec
- Violin II: Arkadiusz Kubica
- Viola: Łukasz Syrnicki
- Violoncello: Piotr Janosik
Karol Szymanowski Songs of a Fairy Princess
Pawel Szymanski Through the Looking Glass III - UK premiere
Krzysztof Penderecki String Quartet 3 - UK premiere
Witold Lutosławski String Quartet
Paul Max Edlin Ô saisons, ô châteaux – world premiere
Six of Poland’s most eminent musicians join together for a unique concert of works that focus on a world of musical enchantment. Szymanowski’s Songs of a Fairy Princess are a coloratura's dream - more high-flying vocalisations than songs in the usual sense. Szymanski’s music is full of contradictions, simultaneously eclectic and yet highly original. Edlin’s new song cycle explores a world of surreal nostalgia in settings of the French poet Arthur Rimbaud. Lutosławski’s colourful quartet explores diverse compositional techniques such as aleatorism and punctualism. Finally, Sounds New proudly presents the first UK performance of Penderecki’s recent third string quartet.
Tickets: £12 FULL, £10 SOUNDS NEW FRIENDS, £6 STUDENTS
(Free to students aged 8-22 as part of Cavatina Ticket Scheme, available at the door)
This concert is supported by CAVATINA.
A Part of the Polska Year in the UK 2009-2010!
This concert is supported by the Polish Cultural Institute in London.
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