Chamber music concert #2

AN EXCEPTIONAL CONCERT IN TRIBUTE
TO KRZYSZTOF PENDERECKI (1933-2020)

proposed by musicians of the Nice Philharmonic Orchestra,
the Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional de la Ville de Nice - Pierre Cochereau,
and the National Museums of the XX^o century in the Alpes-Maritimes.

This concert is a tribute to the Polish composer and conductor Krzysztof Penderecki (1933-2020), who is well known and appreciated in the world of music and cinema. During the evening, his compositions will be played by internationally renowned soloists and accompanied by the screening of Anna Schmidt's film Paths Through The Labyrinth (2014, Poland, duration : 55 min).

Program of Monday, November 6, 2023
Cadenza for alto
Aria for piano  (in memoriam Paolo II)
Capriccio for Radovan. for horn
Ouverture and For Arto for cello
Prelude for clarinet
Capriccio for violin

Performers
Violin: Petteri Livonen
Viola: Hartmut Rohde
Cello: Arto Noras
Clarinet: Michel Lethiec
French horn: André Cazalet
Piano: Oliver Triendl

"Krzysztof Penderecki is one of the greatest composers of the 20th and 21st centuries. An extraordinary musical and historical career. Alongside the man who became a legend in his own lifetime, both in Poland (it's unimaginable in France for a national composer to be so famous!) and throughout the world, there was a simple, generous, humanist man. Along with the friends present this evening, we had the privilege and the good fortune to rub shoulders with him often, in concerts, in recordings, in his homes in Krakow and Luslawice.

He created a large family around him, from the youngest performers he loved to introduce to the most famous international soloists and conductors. For his 60th birthday, I was able to fulfil my dream of inviting to the Pablo Casals Festival the man whose work I admired, and not just his clarinet pieces...
He came to Prades so naturally, always available to listen to students, teachers and the public, and renewed his residency for several years.
This is the man we'd like you to get to know better, by showing the wonderful film Paths through the Labyrinth, which its director, Anna Schmidt, has generously allowed us to present this evening, and by playing his miniatures, to which he devoted a very special affection".

Michel Lethiec, clarinettist.

To find out more about the work of Krzysztof Penderecki, click here

PRACTICAL INFORMATION

Concert in the auditorium of the Marc Chagall national Museum
Duration: about 1 hour
Reservation recommended at the Opera box office on +33 (0)4 92 17 40 79
To access the online booking, click here.

To discover the full programme of Opera concerts for the 2022-2023 season at the Chagall Museum, click here.

Violin concert, in the museum auditorium, in the presence of Marc Chagall's stained glass windows The Creation of the World (detail, 1971-1972). Nice, Musée national Marc Chagall © Photo: DR / musées nationaux du XXe siècle des Alpes-Maritimes © ADAGP, Paris, 2023. 
Krzysztof Penderecki. Photo : DR, 2023