2015-02-19

The Witold Lutosławski Festival Chain 12 was held in Warsaw in January/February 2015. During five festival concerts, more than 30 works presenting Lutosławski's output in many intriguing contexts were heard.

Held between the day of birth and the day of death of Witold Lutosławski (January 25 and February 7), the Festival Chain 12 has once again presented the output of the renowned Polish composer on the backdrop of the classics: Johann Sebastian Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven or Fryderyk Chopin, and contemporary composers. During five festival concerts, the audience could hear the works of Scandinavian music (Jean Sibelius or Per Nørgård), which was culturally close to Lutosławski, as well as the pieces by composers who he met in his youth: Karol Szymanowski and Roman Padlewski, alongside those by contemporary classics: Luigi Dallapiccola, György Ligeti, Arvo Pärt, Krzysztof Penderecki, Giacinto Scelsi and Iannis Xenakis, not to mention the music by young Polish composers. The piece that was very well received was Agata Zubel's Pomiędzy odpływem myśli a przypływem snu (In Between the Ebb of Thoughts and the Flow of Sleep).

The festival featured e.g. The Polish Radio Choir, Silesian String Quartet, Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Aukso Chamber Orchestra of Tychy, and such soloists, as: Maciej Grzybowski, Krzysztof Jakowicz, Mariusz Godlewski, Anna Mikołajczyk and Agata Zubel.