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Royal Fanfares and the Subtleties of Nature | Karmenova/Sinfonia Varsovia/Klauza

Sinfonia Varsovia and a Wieniawski Competition Laureate to Open the Music Gardens Festival!

The jubilee edition of Warsaw’s Music Gardens Festival will open with a concert by Sinfonia Varsovia conducted by Michał Klauza, featuring Kazakh violinist Meruert Karmenova, laureate of the 16th International Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition in Poznań (2022).

In the courtyard of the Royal Castle in Warsaw, the fanfare of brass instruments will meet the delicacy of strings. The opening night’s program blends the royal splendor of Music for the Royal Fireworks by George Frideric Handel—first performed in the gardens of Vauxhall in London in 1749—and the ceremonial prelude to Te Deum by Marc-Antoine Charpentier, with the natural sounds of Vivaldi’s famous Four Seasons and the meditative birdsong of The Lark Ascending by Ralph Vaughan Williams. This “bird music” will be accompanied by ambient sounds of nature collected by Emiter (Marcin Dymiter), a sound artist and pioneer of field recordings in Poland. The program will be rounded out by Violoncelles, vibrez!—a contemporary piece by cello virtuoso Giovanni Sollima, popularized by the classical crossover duo 2Cellos.

Performers:

• Meruert Karmenova, violin (Second Prize and Special Award at the 16th Wieniawski Competition)

• Marcel Markowski, cello

• Krystyna Wiśniewska, cello

• Marcin Dymiter, field recordings

• Sinfonia Varsovia

• Michał Klauza, conductor

Program:

• Marc-Antoine Charpentier – Prelude to Te Deum H.146 [5′]

• Antonio Vivaldi – Violin Concerto in E major “Spring” RV 269 from The Four Seasons, Op. 8 [11′]

• Giovanni Sollima – Violoncelles, vibrez! for two cellos and string orchestra [13′]

• Antonio Vivaldi – Violin Concerto in G minor “Summer” RV 315 from The Four Seasons, Op. 8 [10′]

Intermission

• Ralph Vaughan Williams – The Lark Ascending for violin and orchestra [13′]

• George Frideric Handel – Music for the Royal Fireworks HWV 351 [19′]

Co-organizer: Sinfonia Varsovia