The Fryderyk Chopin Institute

28/09/2023

🎶 Missed the concert of Collegium Vocale Gent under the artistic direction of Philippe Herreweghe during this year’s Chopin and His Europe Festival? You only have until this Saturday to see its recording!

During this special evening, the concert hall of the Warsaw Philharmonic was filled with sounds of a dozen or so Renaissance and mannerist madrigals, both secular and sacred, by Claudio Monteverdi, Salomone Rossi, Luca Marenzio, Cipriano de Rore, Luzzasco Luzzaschi, Giuseppe Scarani, Marco da Gagliano and Orlando di Lasso – to words by Petrarch and also Dante. The concert was the first part of a cycle planned over several years, symbolically combining the asemantic, purely musical poetry of Chopin’s works with poetry by masters writing two centuries earlier, in the lost paradise of the pre-modern world.

The recording of the concert is available on our YouTube channel.
🎥 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTHUKBT-MmU

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Co-financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of Poland.
PKN ORLEN is the Patron of The Fryderyk Chopin Institute.
Totalizator Sportowy is the Main Partner of The Institute
Co-organiser: Dwójka - Program 2 Polskiego Radia
Partners: Filharmonia Narodowa, Teatr Wielki - Opera Narodowa, PZU, PKO Bank Polski, Lexus, LOT Polish Airlines, Lotnisko Chopina, Yamaha Pianos, Regent Warsaw Hotel
Media patrons: Polskie Radio, Polskie Radio Chopin

28/09/2023

Polish Composers at the Chopin Competition on Period Instruments | Józef Elsner

✒ ‘[...] from Mr Żywny and Elsner the biggest donkey would learn something,’ Chopin said when surprised foreign listeners asked him how he had learned so much in Warsaw. Józef Elsner, professor of composition at the High School of Music, a respected artist and pedagogue, is called the founder of professional music education in Warsaw. He passed on his knowledge and skills not only to Chopin, but also to his colleagues: Józef Nowakowski, Józef Krogulski, Ignacy Feliks Dobrzyński. As a comprehensively educated musician, he possessed a reliable compositional technique firmly rooted in tradition. His works were published by major national and international publishing houses.

🎶 Two polonaises by Elsner, in B-flat major and E-flat major, are included in the repertoire of the Chopin Competition on Period Instruments. Pianists have the opportunity to present them in the first stage.

28/09/2023

Press briefing and public draw of the order of participants in the 2nd International Chopin Competition on Period Instruments ‘The Real Chopin’

The public draw of a letter from which the competition auditions will start is planned for 3 October, 3:00 p.m. CEST at the Fryderyk Chopin Museum in Warsaw. The ceremony will be attended by Prof. Dr hab. Piotr Gliński, the Polish Minister of Culture and National Heritage, and Dr Artur Szklener, Director of The Fryderyk Chopin Institute.

The inauguration of the competition will take place on 5 October at 7:00 p.m. CEST, starring Tomasz Ritter, Naruhiko Kawaguchi, Bruce Liu, {oh!} Orchestra, and the Podlasie Opera and Philharmonic Choir under the direction of Vaclav Luks. You can purchase the tickets at the ticket offices of the Fryderyk Chopin Museum and at bilety.nifc.pl.

The auditions of the participants of the 2nd International Chopin Competition on Period Instruments ‘The Real Chopin’ will start on 6 October at 10:00 a.m. in the Chamber Hall of Warsaw Philharmonic.

27/09/2023

‘After finishing, there was so much clapping that I had to come out a second time and bow,’ Chopin recalled his first Viennese concert. How did the Variations in B flat major sound then? The impression of that evening was brought to us during last year’s Chopin and His Europe Festival, when the Là ci darem la mano Variations were performed by Bruce Liu and the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century under the baton of Marek Moś.

The winner of the 18th Chopin Competition will return to the stage of the National Philharmonic on 5 October! At the inaugural concert of the International Chopin Competition on Period Instruments, Ludwig van Beethoven’s Fantasia for Piano, Mixed Choir and Orchestra, Op. 80 will be performed by Bruce Liu, {oh!} Orchestra and the Podlasie Opera and Philharmonic Choir under the direction of Václav Luks.

👉 Tickets for the opening concert and competition auditions are available at https://bilety.nifc.pl and at the ticket offices of the Fryderyk Chopin Museum.

The 2nd International Chopin Competition on Period Instruments will be held from 5 to 15 October in Warsaw.

25/09/2023

🍂 It seems that Chopin truly loved autumn. When in a relationship with George Sand, he spent the summer months at the writer's home in Nohant. At the end of the summer, the composer always returned to Paris and began giving piano lessons, but in 1843 the serene start of autumn kept him in the countryside a little longer....

Was your September as beautiful as the one 180 years ago at Nohant? And which of Chopin's works do you associate with this moment of the year?

📷: de George Sand a Nohant

24/09/2023

🎶 Polish Composers at the Chopin Competition on Period Instruments | Karol Kurpiński
At the 2nd International Chopin Competition on Period Instruments, alongside works by Fryderyk Chopin, we will also hear polonaises by Polish composers from the first half of the 19th century. The competition repertoire includes, among others, two polonaises: in D minor and G minor by Karol Kurpiński.

Kurpiński was a European known in the circles of the most eminent composers of his time, such as Rossini, Weber, and Mendelssohn. As a conductor, and from 1824 also as the director of the Opera of the National Theatre, he was one of the most important creators of musical life in Warsaw at the beginning of the 19th century. He spoke highly of young Chopin’s compositions, and conducted the premiere of his Concerto in E minor in March 1830.

🎶 Kurpiński’s extensive use of polonaise and mazurka rhythms contributed to their even greater dissemination. Echoes of his style is noticeable in Chopin’s songs and earliest polonaises.

🎹👉 Visit the website of the Chopin Competition on Period Instruments: https://iccpi.pl/pl.

⌛ The second edition of the Competition starts on 5 October!

24/09/2023

Zapraszamy do wysłuchania kolejnego recitalu chopinowskiego z Dom Urodzenia Fryderyka Chopina i Park w Żelazowej Woli. Dziś wystąpi Lukas Geniušas

23/09/2023

✨ Aimi Kobayashi, winner of the 4th prize at the 18th Chopin Competition, celebrates her birthday today! The best wishes from The Chopin Institute 💐!
Let’s celebrate it with music! On the two-disc album released as part of the Blue Series, you will find the complete competition recordings of the artist’s performances.
🎧 Listen to: https://spoti.fi/3sVtIgN

Photo by D. Golik / NIFC

22/09/2023

🍂 As hard as it is to believe, the last Sunday Chopin Recital of the year is already ahead of us. We will end the concert season in Żelazowa Wola with a recital by Lukas Geniušas, winner of the second prize at the 16th Chopin Competition. He will plat selected mazurkas and the Etudes, op. 25 for us.

🎶 We encourage you to listen to a live broadcast of the concert on Sunday, 24 September, at 12:00 noon CEST on our page and YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/
And after that... we will wait for May 2024 🌸

Photo by Ira Polyrnaya

21/09/2023

✨ On 5 October, the 2nd Chopin Competition on Period Instruments starts!

The Competition on Period Instruments gives us a chance to listen to Chopin’s music as played on the pianos he knew. The participants will choose from historical pianos from The Institute's collection (Erards from 1838, 1849 and 1855, Pleyels from 1848 and 1854, Broadwood from 1843), copies of period instruments, and instruments made available by other European collections.

🎹 The full list of the pianos from this year’s edition is available on the Chopin Competition on Period Instruments’ website: https://iccpi.pl/pl

19/09/2023

✨ Tomasz Ritter, Bruce Liu and Naruhiko Kawaguchi. Three winners of Chopin competitions will perform at the opening concert of the 2nd Chopin Competition on Period Instruments on 5 October! 🎶

The winner of the first edition, Tomasz Ritter, will perform Beethoven's Piano Concerto in C minor, Op. 37. Bruce Liu, the triumphant winner of the 2021 Chopin Competition, will perform Beethoven's Fantasy for Piano, Mixed Choir and Orchestra, Op. 80. The piece Bridging Realms, composed for the inauguration by Dai Fujikura, will be played by the 2nd prize (tied) winner of the 1st Chopin Competition on Period Instruments, Naruhiko Kawaguchi.

The soloists will be accompanied on stage by the {oh!} Orchestra under the direction of Václav Luks and the Podlasie Opera and Philharmonic Choir under the direction of Violetta Bielecka.

👉 Tickets for the opening concert and competition auditions are available at: https://bilety.nifc.pl

The 2nd International Chopin Competition on Period Instruments will take place from 5 to 15 October 2023 at Warsaw Philharmonic.

18/09/2023

✨ Karol Kurpinski – composer, conductor, director of the opera stage of the National Theatre in Warsaw was one of the most important figures in Polish musical life in the first half of the 19th century. His work attracted the interest of eminent Dutch conductor Frans Brüggen. The last piece he recorded before his death was The Battle of Mozhaisk, performed by the legendary Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century.

Kurpiński's compositions are also present in the repertoire of the Second Chopin Competition on Period Instruments. The pianists can present his two polonaises: D minor and G minor in the first stage.

This evening, we invite you to listen to the Polonaise in D minor performed by Naruhiko Kawaguchi – winner of the 2nd prize at the 1st edition of the Competition on Period Instruments in 2018. We will listen to him again in Warsaw on 5 October, at the inaugural concert of the 2nd Chopin Competition on Period Instruments.

1. Międzynarodowy Konkurs Chopinowski na Instrumentach Historycznych – Etap IThe 1st International Chopin Competition on Period Instruments – First StageNaru...

17/09/2023

✨ Working with a historical instrument fosters musical discovery. Getting closer to the original instruments, the ones the composer had at his disposal, makes it possible to bring out new qualities in the works, which often cannot be reproduced on a contemporary instrument.

We will listen to the works by Fryderyk Chopin, among others, performed on pianos from his time during the 2nd Chopin Competition on Period Instruments, which will take place on 5-15 October at Warsaw Philharmonic.

📌 Portal of the Chopin Competition on Period Instruments: https://iccpi.pl/pl

17/09/2023

Zapraszamy do wysłuchania kolejnego recitalu chopinowskiego z Dom Urodzenia Fryderyka Chopina i Park w Żelazowej Woli. Dziś wystąpi Tomasz Ritter.

16/09/2023

🍂 The upcoming Sunday Chopin Recital in Żelazowa Wola will be an opportunity to listen to the winner of the 1st International Chopin Competition on Period Instruments, Tomasz Ritter!

🎶 We encourage you to watch a live broadcast of the recital on Sunday, 16 September, at 12:00 noon. It will be available on The Chopin Institute’s page and YouTube channel. Or, if you can come to Żelazowa Wola, you can listen to the concert live 🍁.

14/09/2023

‘I do not need to remind you of her soul – you know what kindness is – and you can think how much good her letters have done me.’ These words of Fryderyk Chopin are perhaps the best description of Justyna Chopin, mother of the composer and his three sisters: Ludwika, Izabella and Emilia.

Justyna Chopin, née Krzyżanowska, was born before 14 September 1782 (date of baptism) in the village of Długie, near Izbica Kujawska. The figure of Chopin’s mother, a quiet and modest person, remains in the shadow of her husband in extant sources. Nevertheless, it was she who had the greatest influence on the children, surrounding them with care and supporting the development of their talents.

Justyna assisted her husband in running the dormitory he founded, taking care of the accommodation, the proper and healthy food and the upbringing of her pupils. ‘She was also slim like her husband, not very handsome, but [...] very kind, gentle and sympathetic,’ recalled Eugeniusz Wielisław Skrodzki. The calm, if somewhat phlegmatic, style of both spouses’ lives gave a steady rhythm to the daily routine at Chopin’s home: they got up early, sat down to dinner at noon, and after the evening meal everyone quickly went to bed.

It seems that this ordered, simple life in the comfort of the family hearth was the source of Justyna’s greatest happiness. Until the end of her life, she remained a devoted housekeeper, mother and grandmother.

13/09/2023

✒ ‘If you liked Clara Wieck, that’s good – because she plays, you can’t do better; if you see her, give her my regards, the same applies to your father.’ Chopin’s opinion of Clara Wieck confirms her reputation of a pianist who was ranked by the contemporaries among the greatest virtuosos of the era.

Clara Schumann née Wieck was born in Leipzig on 13 September 1819. She received the musical education from her father, Friedrich Wieck – a highly regarded piano, singing and composition teacher. Clara’s quickly noticed talent became equally a gift and a curse for her. Her virtuoso abilities were the result of daily, many-hour practice, supervised by her father. In order to ‘strengthen her body,’ Friedrich Wieck also put heavy objects on her back, ordering her to walk at a certain pace for 2¬¬–3 hours each day. At the same time, his education plan for his gifted daughter did not include any additional education beyond learning to read and write – which Clara managed to catch up with only when she was in her twenties.

Clara made her debut as a soloist at Leipzig’s Gewandhaus on 8 November 1830, playing her own variations and a piece by Friedrich Kalkbrenner, among others,. In 1831, she made her first concert tour with her father to Dresden and Weimar, and in February 1832 to Paris. It was then that her playing was first heard by Fryderyk Chopin, who subsequently listened to her twice in Leipzig – during private visits and joint music-making in 1835 and 1836. Chopin’s works figured prominently in her performance programmes – Clara learnt the Variations in B flat major, Op. 2 when she was less than 12 years old. In the 1830s, she also included other works by the Polish composer in her performances.
Clara broke free from her strict father’s guardianship in 1840 by marrying Robert
Schumann against his will. However, the musical marriage did not help her career as a pianist, whose playing interfered with her husband’s composing. She quickly committed herself to domestic duties and the care of eight children. However, Clara still managed to organise concert tours for herself and her husband to North Germany (1842), Russia (1844), Vienna (1846) and the Netherlands (1853). She supported Robert Schumann in his illness, with which he struggled for the last two years of his life, until 1856.
After his death, Clara returned to performing regularly, achieving considerable success. In 1878, she accepted a position as piano teacher at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt am Main, a position she held for the next 14 years.

She died in Frankfurt in 1896.

13/09/2023

🎂 Today is Andreas Staier's birthday! We wish him all the best💐.

The artist is one of the leading contemporary harpsichordists and pianists, particularly appreciated for his interpretations of the Baroque, Classical and Romantic repertoire. In October, he will sit on the jury of the 2nd Chopin Competition on Period Instruments.

Photo: Josep Molina

12/09/2023

✨ The tickets for the inaugural concert of Second International Chopin Competition on Period Instruments are on sale!

You can purchase them:
- in the ticket offices of the Chopin Museum
- at https://bilety.nifc.pl

The inaugural concert of the Second International Chopin Competition on Period Instruments will take place on 5 October 2023 at 7:00 p.m. in the Concert Hall of Warsaw Philharmonic.

🎶 Performers:
Tomasz Ritter – historical piano*
Bruce Liu – historical piano**
Naruhiko Kawaguchi – historical piano***
{oh!} Orchestra
Podlasie Opera and Philharmonic Choir
Violetta Bielecka – choir director
Vaclav Luks – conductor

🎶 Programme:
Dai Fujikura – Bridging Realms*** (work composed for the inauguration of the 2nd International Chopin Competition on Period Instruments)
Ludwig van Beethoven – Piano Concerto in C minor, Op. 37*
INTERMISSION
Ludwig van Beethoven – Fantasia for Piano, Chorus and Orchestra in C minor, Op. 80*

11/09/2023

Today is Tobias Koch's birthday! 💐 The warmest wishes from The Chopin Institute!

The artist, who performs throughout Europe as a soloist, chamber musician and accompanist, is one of the most versatile pianists of his generation. Fascinated by the expressive possibilities of historical instruments, Tobias Koch is also an outstanding specialist in historically informed performance.

In September 2018, he sat on the jury of the 1st International Fryderyk Chopin Competition on Period Instruments organised by The Fryderyk Chopin Institute. He will also be on the jury this year, at the upcoming 2nd edition of the Competition, which will take place from 5 to 15 October in Warsaw.

Photo: Philip Lethen

10/09/2023

🎹 The second edition of the Chopin Competition on Period Instruments is upcoming! It will be held from 5 to 15 October 2023 at Warsaw Philharmonic.
📅 The repertoire of the Competition will include works by Fryderyk Chopin, but also selected works by Johann Sebastian Bach, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, as well as polonaises by Polish composers of the first half of the 19th century: Karol Kurpiński, Maria Szymanowska, Michał Kleofas Ogiński, and Józef Elsner.
The pianists will choose from historical pianos from The Institute's collection (Erards from 1838, 1849 and 1855, Pleyels from 1848 and 1854, Broadwood from 1843), copies of period instruments, and instruments made available by friendly European collections.
🎥 All stages of the Competition will be streamed live.

🎫 Tickets for the competition auditions are now available! You can purchase them at https://bilety.nifc.pl

PKN Orlen is the Patron of The Fryderyk Chopin Institute, and Totalizator Sportowy is the Main Partner.

10/09/2023

Zapraszamy do wysłuchania kolejnego w tym roku recitalu chopinowskiego z Dom Urodzenia Fryderyka Chopina i Park w Żelazowej Woli Dziś wystąpi Szczepan Kończal

10/09/2023

In 3 hours, exactly at 12:00 noon CEST, we invite you to join the Szczepan Kończal’s recital broadcast from the Birthplace of Fryderyk Chopin in Żelazowa Wola.

The live stream will be available to watch on our page and YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/

09/09/2023

🎶 The Sonata in B flat minor, Op. 35 is one of Chopin’s greatest masterpieces. Its most recognisable movement, the Funeral March, wasn’t probably ready until 1836-1837. The remaining movements were already being polished by the composer at George Sand’s mansion, where he stayed after an unfortunate trip to Majorca. The sonata was published in 1839 without any specific dedication. It played a symbolic role in the life of the composer. In a letter to Solange Clésinger dated 9 September 1848, Chopin recounted a mysterious vision that had occurred to him during a concert in Manchester:

✒ ‘When I was playing my Sonata in B flat minor amidst a circle of English friends, an unusual experience befell me. I executed the allegro and scherzo more or less correctly and was just about to start the [funeral] march when suddenly I saw emerging from the half-opened case of the piano the cursed apparitions that had appeared to me one evening in the Chartreuse [on Majorca]. I had to go out for a moment in order to remember myself, after which, without a word, I began to play on.’

Interestingly, the pianist’s temporary indisposition was noticed by an invited critic from the Manchester Guardian magazine, who asked in the following day’s issue: ‘Did Chopin feel unwell?’. We discovered the answer 126 years later, when the composer’s letter to Solange Clésinger was found.

🌙 Today, we encourage you to listen to the Sonata in B flat minor, Op. 35, performed by Dinara Klinton during the second stage of the First Chopin Competition on Historical Instruments in 2018. The pianist sat at an 1837 Erard piano.

1. Międzynarodowy Konkurs Chopinowski na Instrumentach Historycznych – Etap IIThe 1st International Chopin Competition on Period Instruments – Second StageDi...

09/09/2023

✨ On 12 September 2023 at 10:00 a.m. CEST the ticket sales for the inaugural concert of Second International Chopin Competition on Period Instruments will start!
Tickets will be available:
- in the ticket offices of the Chopin Museum
- at https://bilety.nifc.pl

The inaugural concert of the Second International Chopin Competition on Period Instruments will take place on 5 October 2023 at 7:00 p.m. in the Concert Hall of Warsaw Philharmonic.

🎶 Performers:
Tomasz Ritter – historical piano*
Bruce Liu – historical piano**
Naruhiko Kawaguchi – historical piano***
{oh!} Orchestra
Podlasie Opera and Philharmonic Choir
Violetta Bielecka – choir director
Vaclav Luks – conductor

🎶 Programme:
Daji Fujikura – Bridging Realms*** (work composed for the inauguration of the 2nd International Chopin Competition on Period Instruments)
Ludwig van Beethoven – Piano Concerto in C minor, Op. 37*
INTERMISSION
Ludwig van Beethoven – Fantasia for Piano, Chorus and Orchestra in C minor, Op. 80**

08/09/2023

✨ Tonight, on the occasion of Ingolf Wunder’s birthday, we recall his special prize-winning performance of the Polonaise-Fantaisie from the 2010 Chopin Competition.

✒ ‘I would like to finish [...] something else that I don't know how to name,’ wrote Chopin to his family at the end of December 1845, with the Polonaise-Fantaisie in mind. He finished work on the composition the following August, and in late autumn the work appeared on bookstore shelves in Paris, London, and Leipzig.

The Polonaise-Fantaisie is today increasingly regarded as the precursor of the late Chopin’s style. Misunderstood by his contemporaries, it was performed by the most eminent artists of the 20th century: Neuhaus, Horovitz, Rubinstein, Małcużyński.

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08/09/2023

Today is Ingolf Wunder’s birthday! He is the 2nd prize winner at the 16th Chopin Comeptition, we wish him all the best! 🎂💐

The marvellous competition performances of Ingolf Wunder are recorded on an album released by NIFC as part of the Blue series, presenting the most interesting personalities of the past edition of the Competition.

🎧 Listen:
https://bit.ly/3EuEsoN

Photo by W. Grzędziński / NIFC

07/09/2023

🎹 Each period piano is a different challenge for the player, but the effort to ‘read’ it can be worthwhile. The pianists who try to discover the sound possibilities of old instruments know this. This evening we are recalling the documentary “In between”, directed by Jakub Piątek (author of “Pianoforte”), in which outstanding artists, including Martha Argerich, Maria João Pires, Janusz Olejniczak, Nelson Goerner, and Claire Chevallier, talk about their experiences of playing historical pianos.

The works by Chopin, Bach, Mozart, and Polish composers of the first half of the 19th century will be played again on period pianos in October - during the upcoming 2nd International Chopin Competition on Period Instruments in Warsaw.

We invite you to see the documentary by Jakub Piątek: ‘In between’, presenting the idea of the historically informed performance explained by the great piani...

06/09/2023

Next time you travel to Poland, we invite you to visit the shop of The Fryderyk Chopin Institute at the Chopin Airport in Warsaw!

In the Boutique Chopin you can buy albums, books, and facsimiles released by The Chopin Institute, but also high-quality gadgets with the image of the Polish composer. It is a place where you can meet Chopin The Artist and Chopin The Symbol.

The design of the shop refers to the front wall of the Gniński Palace, the headquarters of the Fryderyk Chopin Museum in Warsaw. It has been created thanks to the financial support from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, but also the collaboration with the Chopin Airport.

Ph. D. Jaruga / NIFC

05/09/2023

🎹 In one month, the 2nd Chopin Competition on Period Instruments starts!
The second edition of the Competition will be held from 5 to 15 October 2023 at the Warsaw Philharmonic.

📅 There will be three stages of the Competition: the first and second are solo recitals, during which, in addition to works by Chopin, the pianists will play selected works by Johann Sebastian Bach, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, as well as polonaises by Polish composers of the first half of the 19th century. In the third stage, the six finalists will perform Chopin's works of their choice with orchestra. They will be accompanied by Martyna Pastuszka's {OH} Historical Orchestra.

In the first stage, we will listen to 35 pianists from 14 countries. They will choose from historical pianos from The Institute's collection (Erards from 1838, 1849 and 1855, Pleyels from 1848 and 1854, Broadwood from 1843), copies of period instruments, and instruments made available by friendly European collections.

The pianists will be judged by an international Jury consisting of Paolo Giacometti, Yves Henry, Tobias Koch, Vaclav Luks, Janusz Olejniczak, Olga Paschenko, Ewa Pobłocka, Andreas Staier oraz Wojciech Świtała.

🎫 Tickets for the competition auditions are now available! You can purchase them at:
- https://bilety.nifc.pl
- the ticket offices of the Fryderyk Chopin Museum in Warsaw, Okólnik 1

We encourage you to listen to live broadcasts of the Competition on the Competition website and The Chopin Institute’s YouTube channel.
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Co-financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of Poland.
PKN ORLEN | Fundacja ORLEN is the Patron of The Fryderyk Chopin Institute.
Totalizator Sportowy is the Main Partner of The Institute
Partners: PKO Bank Polski, Lexus, LOT Polish Airlines, Chopin Airport

05/09/2023

03/09/2023

Zapraszamy do wysłuchania kolejnego recitalu chopinowskiego z Dom Urodzenia Fryderyka Chopina i Park w Żelazowej Woli. Dziś wystąpi Tobias Koch.

31/08/2023

✒ ‘The whole work is based on marvellous, tasteful rivalry between the two solo instruments. The pianists swap motifs and phrases, having glorious fun in the process.’ – we read about Mozart’s Concerto for Two Pianos in E-flat major, K. 365. in this year’s Chopin and His Europe program book.

The piece was performed twice during the Festival’s 19th edition. This included an absolutely unique interpretation of a master-student duo consisting of two Chopin Competition winners: Dang Thai Son (1980) and Bruce Liu (2021). The artists were accompanied by the London Mozart Players orchestra under the baton of Marek Moś.

We invite you to watch the entire performance on our YouTube channel:
🎥 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPR8SmXBc64
We also remind you that even though the Festival is slowly coming to an end, you can still rewatch the concerts we broadcast! Here’s a special playlist containing all of them:
⏯ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTHUKBT-MmU&list=PLTmn2qD3aSQuRp-GsN6Ws_f-r7aFqWAsW

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Co-financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of Poland.
PKN ORLEN is the Patron of The Fryderyk Chopin Institute.
Totalizator Sportowy is the Main Partner of The Institute
Co-organiser: Dwójka - Program 2 Polskiego Radia
Partners: Filharmonia Narodowa, Teatr Wielki - Opera Narodowa, PZU, PKO Bank Polski, Lexus, LOT Polish Airlines, Lotnisko Chopina, Yamaha Pianos, Regent Warsaw Hotel
Media patrons: Polskie Radio, Polskie Radio Chopin