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Mieczysław Karłowicz's "Rapsodia litewska" in Malaysia
2011-10-05
In the coming days, 8 and 9 October 2011, the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Jacek Kasprzyk will perform Mieczysław Karlowicz’s symphonic poem Rapsodia litewska, op. 11. The concert will be held at the Petronas Philharmonic Hall in Kuala Lumpur. During the concert, Beethoven’s "Egmont" overture and "Piano Concerto 1" will be heard as well as the suite from B. Bartók’s ballet, "The Miraculous Mandarin".Rapsodia litewska is one of six such pieces of this type in Karłowicz’s compositional output. It was written in 1906 and is his only composition based on original folk music. In it, the composer used several Belarusian folk melodies (writing about Lithuanian melodies, he meant Belarusian music), that he put through an artisitic arrangement. “I have finished a piece,” he wrote in a letter to Adolf Chybiński on 24th November 1906, “which I shall probably name Rapsodia litewska. In it, I tried to conjure the whole sorrow, sadness and eternal slavery of the people whose songs sounded in my childhood. (...) Whether and to what extent I succeeded in pouring, even a part of what hangs, dissolved in the air of every neuk and cranny of those parts, into the form of an orchestral piece, I cannot judge.”
Information about the concert can be found on the website: http://www.mpo.com.my/MPO-Series.aspx?cat=BEETHOVEN%20SOLO%20CONCERTOS
In November, another of Mieczysław Karlowicz’s symphonic poems - „Odwieczne pieśni” - will be performed in New Zealand by the New Plymouth Orchestra conducted by Adam Jasiński.
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