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08 September 2026 Wrocław (Wroclaw) (Poland)
Horizon
NFM Orkiestra Leopoldinum - NFM, ORLEN Main Hall
Program Info: NFM Orkiestra Leopoldinum Alexander Sitkovetsky – violin, artistic director of the NFM Leopoldinum Orchestra Bartłomiej Nizioł – violin TBA – narrator
The Leopoldinum Orchestra, which has existed for almost fifty years, has already included two generations of musicians, thanks to which we can talk about the maturity and established character of the ensemble. The function of its artistic director primus inter pares is currently held by Alexander Sitkovetsky. During the festival, he will be accompanied by a virtuoso equal to him, Bartłomiej Nizioł. The violinists and the orchestra will look together into the elusive horizon.
What is on the horizon of our existence? Emptiness, madness, or perhaps transgression? In Andrzej Panufnik's work, the boundary of the sky dissolves into gray, and time almost stops. The composition from the early 1960s was supposed to be, among other things, a memory of the Polish landscape – the author lost it for many years when he fled Stalin's Polish to Great Britain in 1954. The longer we stare into the distance with the artist, the more intense the resonances of Panufnik's harmonica. However, when we look away, the horizon line will continue to lead indefinitely. Perhaps this is where modernism dissolves into postmodernism and we begin to lack a point of reference – reads Alfred Schnittke's Concerto grosso : an auditory journey through a forgotten dream. In 1977, the composer dreamed of a stylistic utopia, in which the mixed suggestions of Baroque music, contemporary language and tango would not produce a comic effect. The first of a series of the artist's concerti grossi is a wild ride. Nizioł and Sitkovetsky will navigate this multidimensional sea.
After the intermission, the famous Illuminated Night will be played – a sextet from the last years of the nineteenth century, in which Arnold Schönberg still uses the language of Romanticism. The theme of the work is forgiveness and affirmation of life – two lovers reach a certain limit, and after crossing it, they experience the eponymous transformation. In the piece, the future leader of the expressionists consciously made a mistake regarding the principles of harmony. In this way, like the protagonists, he crossed the shadow trail, heading towards a completely new musical world. Before us is the horizon of expression as it was seen in 1899.
Program: Andrzej Panufnik - Landscape Alfred Schnittke - Concerto grosso nr 1 (1977): Several film scores found their way into this concert - "The Ascent", directed by Larissa Shepitko, USSR 1976; "The Tale of How Tsar Peter Married His Moor", directed by Alexander Mitta, USSR 1976; the tango from "Agony", directed by Elem Klimov, USSR 1974-82) *** Arnold Schönberg - Transfigured Night op. 4
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