{"id":15232,"date":"2025-01-14T18:51:26","date_gmt":"2025-01-14T17:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/?p=15232"},"modified":"2025-03-10T15:44:41","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T14:44:41","slug":"daniel-hope-with-the-polish-chamber-orchestra-of-sinfonia-varsovia-journey-to-mozart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/2025\/01\/14\/daniel-hope-with-the-polish-chamber-orchestra-of-sinfonia-varsovia-journey-to-mozart\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniel Hope with the Polish Chamber Orchestra of Sinfonia Varsovia: \u201cJourney to Mozart\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em>Polish Chamber Orchestra: \u201cglistening dynamism \u2026 sculpted, strongly-contoured playing\u201d<\/em> \u2013<strong> The Independent<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Sunday, February 23 at 7:30 PM<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irsymphonic.org\/about-us\/\">Indian River Symphonic Association<\/a><\/strong><br>Community Church of Vero Beach<br>1901 23rd Street, Vero Beach, FL 32960<br><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tix.com\/ticket-sales\/irsymphonic\/6409\/event\/1377714\">Tickets<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Monday, February 24 at 7:00 PM<br>Beyond The Stage Pre-Concert Talk at 6:30 PM<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kravis.org\/\">Kravis Center<\/a> <\/strong>Persson Hall<br>701 Okeechobee Boulevard, West Palm Beach, FL 33401<br><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kravis.org\/events\/daniel-hope-and-the-polish-chamber-orchestra-of-sinfonia-varsovia\/\">Tickets<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Friday, February 28 at 8:00 PM<br><a href=\"https:\/\/schwartz.emory.edu\/\">Schwartz Center for Performing Arts<\/a><\/strong><br>Emerson Concert Hall<br>1700 N. Decatur Road, Atlanta GA 30322<br><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/arts.emory.edu\/events.html?trumbaEmbed=view%3Devent%26eventid%3D172543774\">Tickets<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Sunday, March 2 at 6:30 PM<br><a href=\"https:\/\/vilarpac.org\/\">Vilar Performing Arts Center<\/a><\/strong><br>8 Avondale Lane, Beaver Creek, CO 81620<br><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/vilarpac.org\/event\/daniel-hope\/\">Tickets<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:31px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>PROGRAM:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714-1787)<\/strong><br>&#8222;Dance of the Furies&#8221; from<em> Orfeo ed Euridice<\/em>, Wq. 30<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)<\/strong><br>Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in G Major, Hob. VIIa:4<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">I. Allegro moderato<br>II. Adagio<br>III. Finale: Allegro<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Wojciech Kilar (1932-2013)<\/strong><br><em>Orawa<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)<\/strong><br>Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 3 in G Major, KV216<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I. Allegro<br>II. Adagio<br>III. Rondeau: Allegro<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Franz Joseph Haydn<\/strong><br>Symphony No. 49 in F minor \u2018La passione\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I. Adagio<br>II. Allegro di molto<br>III. Menuet e Trio<br>IV. Presto<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>PROGRAM SUBJECT TO CHANGE<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The Polish Chamber Orchestra performs across the United States this February and March with versatile violinist Daniel Hope, &#8222;the most exciting British string player since Jacqueline du Pr\u00e9&#8221; (New York Times). The &#8222;Journey to Mozart&#8221; program includes violin concertos by Haydn and Mozart, Haydn&#8217;s Symphony No. 49 in F minor 'La passione,&#8217; and works by Gluck and the Polish composer Wojciech Kilar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the first time the Polish Chamber Orchestra has toured in the U.S. since 2006. The ensemble was formed in 1972 and has performed in the world&#8217;s most prestigious concert halls under conductors Charles Dutoit, Yehudi Menuhin, and Mstislav Rostropovich, among others. Their performances and recordings have garnered international attention over decades, praised for their &#8222;glistening dynamism&#8221; and &#8222;sculpted, strongly-contoured playing&#8221; (The Independent). The Polish Chamber Orchestra operates under the auspices of Sinfonia Varsovia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8222;I am thrilled to perform this profound program with the Polish Chamber Orchestra,&#8221; says Daniel Hope. &#8222;I am excited for U.S. audiences to experience the unparalleled musicianship of this fantastic orchestra with whom I have had a long-lasting artistic relationship. Making music with them is an absolute joy.&#8221; Read Daniel Hope&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.earrelevant.net\/2025\/02\/violinist-daniel-hope-discusses-reunion-with-polish-chamber-orchestra-for-historic-u-s-tour-atlanta-concert\/\">interview <\/a><\/strong>with EarRelevant. The podcast interview with Sinfonia Varsovia director Janusz Marynowsi is available at direct links: <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?si=5fW6CHxuLeHCIdCG&amp;v=aNIOe908TWU&amp;feature=youtu.be\">YouTube<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/creators.spotify.com\/pod\/show\/roger-humphrey\/episodes\/Janusz-Marynowski-e2uulm1\">Spotify<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/janusz-marynowski\/id1477499834?i=1000692773424\">Apple<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:31px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" data-id=\"15264\" src=\"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2025\/01\/fot.-serwis-SV-2024.12.09-535-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15264\" srcset=\"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2025\/01\/fot.-serwis-SV-2024.12.09-535-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2025\/01\/fot.-serwis-SV-2024.12.09-535-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2025\/01\/fot.-serwis-SV-2024.12.09-535-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2025\/01\/fot.-serwis-SV-2024.12.09-535-1120x630.jpg 1120w, https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2025\/01\/fot.-serwis-SV-2024.12.09-535.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\"><strong>PROGRAM NOTES <\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Gluck: <em>Dance of the Furies<\/em> from Orfeo ed Euridice, Wq. 30<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A musical time-traveler would certainly be delighted and doubtless surprised to land in Vienna or any of the other great cities of the Habsburg Empire in the mid-1700s. There they would discover the correspondence between the rapidly evolving forms of the symphony, the concerto, the ballet, and the opera, close not just in terms of compositional styles but also, and perhaps above all, of the vitality and passion embedded in the language of the music itself. The sounds of street songs, tavern dances, fairground troupes, and military bands also filtered into the world of the concert hall and opera house, sometimes used for the sake of irony, sometimes for the sake of wit, often to add aesthetic variety and fresh colors to already colorful compositions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Empress Maria Theresa was present at the first performance of Orfeo ed Euridice, given at the Burgtheater in Vienna in 1762. Gluck\u2019s work marked a root-and-branch reform of the \u2018serious\u2019 style of Italian opera with which audiences were familiar, stripping away many of its convoluted conventions to uncover the all-too-human drama at the heart of one of the best known of all Greek myths. In keeping with the prevailing attitudes of the Enlightenment, Gluck struck the ideal balance between reason and sentiment, the former applied to matters of form, harmony, and phrasing, the latter to his music\u2019s power to stir the affections. Orfeo ed Euridice soon found favor across Europe; one production, staged for Prince Nikolaus I of Esterh\u00e1zy in 1776, was conducted by Joseph Haydn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Dance of the Furies was added to the French-language version of the opera that Gluck created in 1774 for the Acad\u00e9mie Royal in Paris, where it crowns the dramatic opening scene of the second act. \u2018This opera displays the fine talents of the dancers with lively effect,\u2019 noted the Mercure de France after the revised work\u2019s first performance. The piece, which the composer recycled from the final number of his ballet Don Juan, harnesses the energy of the malign spirits, the Furies, who have struggled to prevent Orfeo from entering the Underworld to rescue his beloved Euridice only to be tamed by the eloquence of his singing. Their fleeting display of tender mercy gives way to the quivering arpeggios, demonic descending scales, and blaring horn calls of the Furies\u2019 dance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Haydn: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in G Major, Hob. VIIa:4<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Haydn was sufficiently competent as a violinist to play professionally for court balls in Vienna in the mid-1750s. Throughout the following decade, having taken up the post of assistant Kapellmeister to the Esterh\u00e1zy family in 1761, he composed little other than instrumental music; he also assumed responsibility for raising the standards of the court orchestra at the Esterh\u00e1zy\u2019s palace at Eisenstadt. Haydn had the good fortune to work with the Eisenstadt band\u2019s concertmaster, Luigi Tomasini, who had been brought to the court from Italy as a page in the early 1750s and later studied violin with Mozart\u2019s father, Leopold. Tomasini and Haydn became close friends, the latter standing as godfather to several of the former\u2019s children. The first of the concertos for violin listed in Haydn\u2019s personal catalogue of works was, according to a note in the composer\u2019s hand, \u2018fatto per il luigi\u2019 (\u2018made for Luigi\u2019).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in G major appears in the thematic catalogue of compositions issued in 1769 by Breitkopf, the Leipzig-based music publisher. While the work\u2019s absence from Haydn\u2019s own catalogue and certain anomalies in its earliest sources have prompted some scholars to doubt its authenticity, the music\u2019s strength of invention and wit present a cast-iron case for attributing it to the composer. Judged not least by the formal simplicity of its outer movements and want of technical fireworks, the work perhaps pre-dates Haydn\u2019s early years at Eisenstadt, possibly written in the late 1750s for the concert master of Count Morzin\u2019s court orchestra; it is likely, however, that it was performed by Tomasini, who would have graced the work\u2019s flourishes with his refined artistry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The concerto opens with an extended orchestral introduction, the elegant principal theme of which is taken up and embellished by the soloist, before serving as a ritornello for the full ensemble. Haydn spices the movement\u2019s pleasing galant style with brief diversions into the minor mode and passages of spirited dialogue for soloist and orchestra. Melody rules the work\u2019s Adagio. Here the solo violin sings an exquisite aria-without-words, its line reinforced by a sonorous accompaniment forged within the movement\u2019s home key of C major or its near-relatives. Haydn\u2019s studies of counterpoint in the stile antico, the \u2018old style\u2019, left their mark on the G-major Concerto\u2019s irresistible finale; likewise, his fascination with the expressive power of folk music to conjure familiar images or emotions associated with popular entertainments registers in the little drone effects he adds to the solo part. The movement unfolds as a study in the art of repetition, simple in its raw material yet rich in the variety of its melodic gestures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Kilar: <em>Orawa<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Repetition and the subtle development of rhythmic patterns are central to Orawa, Wojciech Kilar\u2019s symphonic poem for string chamber orchestra. The work, written in 1986 for the strings of the Polish Chamber Orchestra, draws its inspiration, and much of its vibrant energy, from the traditional dances of the Tatra highlanders from southwest Poland. It takes its title from the dialect preserved in the village of Orawka and surrounding settlements near the border of Poland and Slovakia. Best known for his soundtrack scores, including those for Roman Polanski\u2019s The Pianist and Francis Ford Coppola\u2019s Bram Stoker\u2019s Dracula, Kilar, who studied with Nadia Boulanger in Paris in the early 1960s, was equally at home (and imaginative) in writing for the concert hall. Orawa captures the generous spirit of Tatra folk music and of the people who created it. \u2018It is pretty much a piece for a magnified folk band and one of the rare examples where I\u2019ve been happy with my work,\u2019 the composer confided in a collection of conversations published posthumously in 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Mozart: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 3 in G Major, KV216<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mozart\u2019s all-round early education was provided by his father, the violinist, composer, and music theorist, Leopold Mozart. In addition to learning the skills of literacy and numeracy, and receiving moral and religious instruction, the boy\u2019s tuition included comprehensive training in the performance and composition of music. He began playing the keyboard at the age of four and added violin and organ to his studies two years later. According to Leopold\u2019s colleague, the Salzburg court trumpeter and violinist Johann Andreas Schachtner, writing in January 1763, the five-year-old Wolfgang was able to play the second violin part in a trio for two violins and viola before he had received a lesson on the instrument: \u201cYou don\u2019t need to have studied to play second violin,\u201d he said, before proving his point. A near-contemporary report from Salzburg, published in the German city of Augsburg, recalled how \u2018the boy can now not only play from the violin clef, but also from the soprano and bass clefs, and takes part in everything on a small violino piccolo made specially for him, having already appeared with a solo [piece] and a concerto at the Salzburg court. Has he then learned this since the New Year?\u2019 Many years later Mozart\u2019s father, a stern critic, expressed frustration that his son, universally feted as a keyboard player, could be the \u2018premier violinist\u2019 in Europe, if only you will do yourself credit and play with energy, with your whole heart and mind\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is possible that Mozart composed his five Violin Concertos, the last four of which were written between June and December 1775, to demonstrate his solo artistry as incumbent concertmaster of the Prince-Archbishop of Salzburg\u2019s court orchestra. The Violin Concerto No.3 in G major KV 216, created in September 1775, heralds a remarkable development in the quality and maturity of Mozart\u2019s music. The work\u2019s melodic invention, rhythmic elan, and emotional intensity, especially but not exclusively in the central Adagio, echo the expressive language of its composer\u2019s recent stage works, La finta giardiniera and Il r\u00e8 pastore among them. Indeed, it begins with a ritornello constructed from music originally composed for the aria \u2018Aer tranquillo\u2019 from Il r\u00e8 pastore, first performed in Salzburg in April 1775. The deftly crafted, often dramatic interactions between soloist and ensemble in the first movement underline the concerto\u2019s theatrical, heart-on-sleeve character.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mozart changes scene in the Adagio, softening its mood by introducing two flutes in lieu of the opening movement\u2019s pair of oboes and sustaining the soloist\u2019s sublime melodic line above a bed of gently pulsating triplet figures. In the spirit of opera, the work delivers a surprise midway in its lively rondo finale: rather than make a decisive final return to his triple-time main theme, three orchestral chords raise the curtain on an Andante episode, a beguiling gavotte cast in duple time, which in turn gives way to a new tune based on \u2018The Strassburger\u2019, a popular hit of the day. Mozart allows the music to meander towards a solo cadenza and the celebratory return of the rondo theme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Haydn Symphony No. 49 in F minor<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Haydn\u2019s Symphony No.49 in F minor projects the fluid nature of musical categories during the mid-1700s. The work, written for the Esterh\u00e1zy court orchestra and dated to 1768 in the composer\u2019s autograph manuscript, follows the traditional form of the church or \u2018da chiesa\u2019 symphony. Scholarly consensus suggested that the symphony was conceived for performance during Holy Week, a proposition supported by its early acquisition of the name La passione and an anecdote that it received its first performance on Good Friday. Recent research, however, raises the prospect that it was inspired by a German translation of a French comedy popular with Viennese audiences, concerned not least with the antics of a \u2018good-natured\u2019 English Quaker, all far removed from Christ\u2019s suffering on the cross.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Each of the symphony\u2019s four movements, cast in the same key of F minor, opens with an idea based on four notes (C, D-flat, B-flat and C), possibly derived from an ancient plainsong melody. Haydn opens with a solemn Adagio, the fluctuating rhythmic energy and momentary pauses of which would certainly suit the ritual recollection of Christ\u2019s Passion. The symphony\u2019s emotional intensity has been likened to the expressive movement in German literature known as Sturm und Drang (\u2018Storm and Stress\u2019), an analogy that works well in the case of La passione. The wild energy of the work\u2019s second movement, for instance, appears to project a vivid tone-painting of the earthquake that struck upon the instant of Jesus\u2019 death. Haydn heightens the music\u2019s expressive turbulence by confronting the listener with sudden repetitions of his thrusting main theme which he punctuates with foreshortened, anxious-sounding developments of the movement\u2019s thematic material.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Haydn scholar H.C. Robbins Landon aptly described the Minuet and Trio of La passione as \u2018a kind of oasis between the quick movements.\u2019 The Minuet\u2019s noble bearing, however, is depressed by its unsettling shifts between the minor and major modes; only the Trio, with what Robbins Landon calls \u2018the gunmetal gleam of its high horn notes,\u2019 offers respite from the symphony\u2019s prevailing melancholy. Haydn\u2019s four-note unifying motif returns in the Presto finale, albeit disguised by its absorption into a modified melodic line, serves as the monothematic idea that binds the movement together and propels the work to its emphatic close.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\"><strong>ABOUT THE ARTIST<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Violinist <strong>Daniel Hope<\/strong> has been performing worldwide as a soloist for more than 30 years. He is celebrated for his musical creativity and his commitment to humanitarian causes. An exclusive Deutsche Grammophon artist since 2007, Hope travels the globe as both chamber musician and soloist, collaborating with leading orchestras and conductors. Music Director of the Zurich Chamber Orchestra since 2016, in 2018 he took up the same position with San Francisco\u2019s New Century Chamber Orchestra. In 2019, he became Artistic Director of the Frauenkirche Dresden, and he has been President of the Beethoven-Haus in Bonn since 2020, succeeding Joseph Joachim and Kurt Masur. Hope is a welcome guest in famous concert halls and at renowned festivals from New York&#8217;s Carnegie Hall to the Sydney Opera House, from Salzburg to Aspen and Tanglewood, from Schleswig-Holstein and Gstaad to the BBC Proms in London. He works regularly with conductors including Christoph Eschenbach, Simon Rattle, Vladimir Jurowski, Iv\u00e1n Fischer and Christian Thielemann, as well as with the major symphony orchestras in Berlin, Boston, Chicago, London, Los Angeles, Paris, Tokyo and many others. He works closely with the leading composers of our time, such as Alfred Schnittke, Gy\u00f6rgy Kurt\u00e1g, Mark-Anthony Turnage, T\u014dru Takemitsu and Tan Dun. His discography includes more than 30 albums, which have received awards including the German Record Critics\u2019 Prize, the Diapason d&#8217;Or of the Year, the Edison Classical Award and the Prix Caecilia and are regularly acclaimed by the press (New York Times: &#8222;one of the best albums of the year\u201d; Gramophone: \u201ctop choice of all available recordings\u201d).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hope studied violin with Zakhar Bron, Itzhak Rashkovsky and Felix Andrievsky and completed his training at London\u2019s Royal Academy of Music. He worked closely with his mentor Yehudi Menuhin, with whom he gave numerous concerts. Hope holds the Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany and was awarded the European Culture Prize in 2015. He lives with his family in Switzerland and plays the &#8222;Ex-Lipi\u0144ski&#8221; Guarneri del Ges\u00f9 from 1742, which is generously made available to him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Polish Chamber Orchestra<\/strong> was formed in 1972 as a group of 24 musicians from the Warsaw Chamber Opera\u2019s ensemble who had a desire to perform chamber orchestral repertoire away from the theatrical stage. The Orchestra has performed at venues such as Barbican Center and Albert Hall in London, Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Kennedy Center in Washington, Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall in New York City. It has showcased many distinguished soloists including Gidon Kremer and Yehudi Menuhin. It performed under such conductors as Charles Dutoit, Yehudi Menuhin, and Mstislav Rostropovich. The ensemble\u2019s breakthrough moment came when its 1977 British tour resulted in a multi-record contract with EMI. The Orchestra won multiple awards, including the Wiener Fl\u00f6tenuhr for best Mozart recording.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Polish Chamber Orchestra operates under the auspices of Sinfonia Varsovia and is both a standalone orchestra and a cultural institution administrated by the capital city of Warsaw focusing on the chamber orchestra repertoire, maintaining the highest quality of performance, precision and vividness for which it has become known.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Polish Chamber Orchestra of Sinfonia Varsovia<br>Mr. Janusz Marynowski, Director<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-1 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>FIRST VIOLIN<br>Adam Siebers, concertmaster<br>Artur Gadzala<br>Karolina Gutowska<br>Magdalena Krzyzanowska<br>Krzysztof Oczko<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SECOND VIOLIN<br>Kamil Staniczek<br>Olivia Bujnowicz-Wadowska<br>Ewelina Misztal<br>Artur Konowalik<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>VIOLA<br>Mateusz Doniec<br>Tomasz Rosinski<br>Jacek Nycz<br>Mariusz Kisielinski<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>CELLO<br>Krystyna Wisniewska<br>Mateusz Blaszczak<br>Jan Lewandowski<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>DOUBLE BASS<br>Karol Kinal<br>Mateusz Wadowski<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>OBOE<br>Paulina Sochaj<br>Adam Szlezak<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>HORN<br>Pawel Pietka<br>Roman Sykta<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:31px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The 2025 US tour of the Polish Chamber Orchestra is co-financed by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"150\" 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Chamber Orchestra: \u201cglistening dynamism \u2026 sculpted, strongly-contoured playing\u201d \u2013 The Independent\\nSunday, February 23 at 7:30 PMIndian River Symphonic AssociationCommunity Church of Vero Beach1901 23rd Street, Vero Beach, FL 32960Tickets\\nMonday, February 24 at 7:00 PMBeyond The Stage Pre-Concert Talk at 6:30 PMKravis Center Persson Hall701 Okeechobee Boulevard, West Palm Beach, FL 33401Tickets\\nFriday, February 28 at 8:00 PMSchwartz Center for Performing ArtsEmerson Concert Hall1700 N. Decatur Road, Atlanta GA 30322Tickets\\nSunday, March 2 at 6:30 PMVilar Performing Arts Center8 Avondale Lane, Beaver Creek, CO 81620Tickets\\nPROGRAM:\\nChristoph Willibald Gluck (1714-1787)\\\"Dance of the Furies\\\" from Orfeo ed Euridice, Wq. 30\\nFranz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in G Major, Hob. VIIa:4\\nI. Allegro moderatoII. AdagioIII. Finale: Allegro\\nWojciech Kilar (1932-2013)Orawa\\nWolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 3 in G Major, KV216\\nI. AllegroII. AdagioIII. Rondeau: Allegro\\nFranz Joseph HaydnSymphony No. 49 in F minor \u2018La passione\u2019\\nI. AdagioII. Allegro di moltoIII. Menuet e TrioIV. Presto\\nPROGRAM SUBJECT TO CHANGE\\nThe Polish Chamber Orchestra performs across the United States this February and March with versatile violinist Daniel Hope, \\\"the most exciting British string player since Jacqueline du Pr\u00e9\\\" (New York Times). The \\\"Journey to Mozart\\\" program includes violin concertos by Haydn and Mozart, Haydn's Symphony No. 49 in F minor 'La passione,' and works by Gluck and the Polish composer Wojciech Kilar.\\nThis is the first time the Polish Chamber Orchestra has toured in the U.S. since 2006. The ensemble was formed in 1972 and has performed in the world's most prestigious concert halls under conductors Charles Dutoit, Yehudi Menuhin, and Mstislav Rostropovich, among others. Their performances and recordings have garnered international attention over decades, praised for their \\\"glistening dynamism\\\" and \\\"sculpted, strongly-contoured playing\\\" (The Independent). The Polish Chamber Orchestra operates under the auspices of Sinfonia Varsovia.\\n\\\"I am thrilled to perform this profound program with the Polish Chamber Orchestra,\\\" says Daniel Hope. \\\"I am excited for U.S. audiences to experience the unparalleled musicianship of this fantastic orchestra with whom I have had a long-lasting artistic relationship. Making music with them is an absolute joy.\\\" Read Daniel Hope's interview with EarRelevant. The podcast interview with Sinfonia Varsovia director Janusz Marynowsi is available at direct links: YouTube, Spotify, Apple.\\nPROGRAM NOTES \\nGluck: Dance of the Furies from Orfeo ed Euridice, Wq. 30\\nA musical time-traveler would certainly be delighted and doubtless surprised to land in Vienna or any of the other great cities of the Habsburg Empire in the mid-1700s. There they would discover the correspondence between the rapidly evolving forms of the symphony, the concerto, the ballet, and the opera, close not just in terms of compositional styles but also, and perhaps above all, of the vitality and passion embedded in the language of the music itself. The sounds of street songs, tavern dances, fairground troupes, and military bands also filtered into the world of the concert hall and opera house, sometimes used for the sake of irony, sometimes for the sake of wit, often to add aesthetic variety and fresh colors to already colorful compositions.\\nEmpress Maria Theresa was present at the first performance of Orfeo ed Euridice, given at the Burgtheater in Vienna in 1762. Gluck\u2019s work marked a root-and-branch reform of the \u2018serious\u2019 style of Italian opera with which audiences were familiar, stripping away many of its convoluted conventions to uncover the all-too-human drama at the heart of one of the best known of all Greek myths. In keeping with the prevailing attitudes of the Enlightenment, Gluck struck the ideal balance between reason and sentiment, the former applied to matters of form, harmony, and phrasing, the latter to his music\u2019s power to stir the affections. Orfeo ed Euridice soon found favor across Europe; one production, staged for Prince Nikolaus I of Esterh\u00e1zy in 1776, was conducted by Joseph Haydn.\\nThe Dance of the Furies was added to the French-language version of the opera that Gluck created in 1774 for the Acad\u00e9mie Royal in Paris, where it crowns the dramatic opening scene of the second act. \u2018This opera displays the fine talents of the dancers with lively effect,\u2019 noted the Mercure de France after the revised work\u2019s first performance. The piece, which the composer recycled from the final number of his ballet Don Juan, harnesses the energy of the malign spirits, the Furies, who have struggled to prevent Orfeo from entering the Underworld to rescue his beloved Euridice only to be tamed by the eloquence of his singing. Their fleeting display of tender mercy gives way to the quivering arpeggios, demonic descending scales, and blaring horn calls of the Furies\u2019 dance.\\nHaydn: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in G Major, Hob. VIIa:4\\nHaydn was sufficiently competent as a violinist to play professionally for court balls in Vienna in the mid-1750s. Throughout the following decade, having taken up the post of assistant Kapellmeister to the Esterh\u00e1zy family in 1761, he composed little other than instrumental music; he also assumed responsibility for raising the standards of the court orchestra at the Esterh\u00e1zy\u2019s palace at Eisenstadt. Haydn had the good fortune to work with the Eisenstadt band\u2019s concertmaster, Luigi Tomasini, who had been brought to the court from Italy as a page in the early 1750s and later studied violin with Mozart\u2019s father, Leopold. Tomasini and Haydn became close friends, the latter standing as godfather to several of the former\u2019s children. The first of the concertos for violin listed in Haydn\u2019s personal catalogue of works was, according to a note in the composer\u2019s hand, \u2018fatto per il luigi\u2019 (\u2018made for Luigi\u2019).\\nThe Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in G major appears in the thematic catalogue of compositions issued in 1769 by Breitkopf, the Leipzig-based music publisher. While the work\u2019s absence from Haydn\u2019s own catalogue and certain anomalies in its earliest sources have prompted some scholars to doubt its authenticity, the music\u2019s strength of invention and wit present a cast-iron case for attributing it to the composer. Judged not least by the formal simplicity of its outer movements and want of technical fireworks, the work perhaps pre-dates Haydn\u2019s early years at Eisenstadt, possibly written in the late 1750s for the concert master of Count Morzin\u2019s court orchestra; it is likely, however, that it was performed by Tomasini, who would have graced the work\u2019s flourishes with his refined artistry.\\nThe concerto opens with an extended orchestral introduction, the elegant principal theme of which is taken up and embellished by the soloist, before serving as a ritornello for the full ensemble. Haydn spices the movement\u2019s pleasing galant style with brief diversions into the minor mode and passages of spirited dialogue for soloist and orchestra. Melody rules the work\u2019s Adagio. Here the solo violin sings an exquisite aria-without-words, its line reinforced by a sonorous accompaniment forged within the movement\u2019s home key of C major or its near-relatives. Haydn\u2019s studies of counterpoint in the stile antico, the \u2018old style\u2019, left their mark on the G-major Concerto\u2019s irresistible finale; likewise, his fascination with the expressive power of folk music to conjure familiar images or emotions associated with popular entertainments registers in the little drone effects he adds to the solo part. The movement unfolds as a study in the art of repetition, simple in its raw material yet rich in the variety of its melodic gestures.\\nKilar: Orawa\\nRepetition and the subtle development of rhythmic patterns are central to Orawa, Wojciech Kilar\u2019s symphonic poem for string chamber orchestra. The work, written in 1986 for the strings of the Polish Chamber Orchestra, draws its inspiration, and much of its vibrant energy, from the traditional dances of the Tatra highlanders from southwest Poland. It takes its title from the dialect preserved in the village of Orawka and surrounding settlements near the border of Poland and Slovakia. Best known for his soundtrack scores, including those for Roman Polanski\u2019s The Pianist and Francis Ford Coppola\u2019s Bram Stoker\u2019s Dracula, Kilar, who studied with Nadia Boulanger in Paris in the early 1960s, was equally at home (and imaginative) in writing for the concert hall. Orawa captures the generous spirit of Tatra folk music and of the people who created it. \u2018It is pretty much a piece for a magnified folk band and one of the rare examples where I\u2019ve been happy with my work,\u2019 the composer confided in a collection of conversations published posthumously in 2014.\\nMozart: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 3 in G Major, KV216\\nMozart\u2019s all-round early education was provided by his father, the violinist, composer, and music theorist, Leopold Mozart. In addition to learning the skills of literacy and numeracy, and receiving moral and religious instruction, the boy\u2019s tuition included comprehensive training in the performance and composition of music. He began playing the keyboard at the age of four and added violin and organ to his studies two years later. According to Leopold\u2019s colleague, the Salzburg court trumpeter and violinist Johann Andreas Schachtner, writing in January 1763, the five-year-old Wolfgang was able to play the second violin part in a trio for two violins and viola before he had received a lesson on the instrument: \u201cYou don\u2019t need to have studied to play second violin,\u201d he said, before proving his point. A near-contemporary report from Salzburg, published in the German city of Augsburg, recalled how \u2018the boy can now not only play from the violin clef, but also from the soprano and bass clefs, and takes part in everything on a small violino piccolo made specially for him, having already appeared with a solo [piece] and a concerto at the Salzburg court. Has he then learned this since the New Year?\u2019 Many years later Mozart\u2019s father, a stern critic, expressed frustration that his son, universally feted as a keyboard player, could be the \u2018premier violinist\u2019 in Europe, if only you will do yourself credit and play with energy, with your whole heart and mind\u2019.\\nIt is possible that Mozart composed his five Violin Concertos, the last four of which were written between June and December 1775, to demonstrate his solo artistry as incumbent concertmaster of the Prince-Archbishop of Salzburg\u2019s court orchestra. The Violin Concerto No.3 in G major KV 216, created in September 1775, heralds a remarkable development in the quality and maturity of Mozart\u2019s music. The work\u2019s melodic invention, rhythmic elan, and emotional intensity, especially but not exclusively in the central Adagio, echo the expressive language of its composer\u2019s recent stage works, La finta giardiniera and Il r\u00e8 pastore among them. Indeed, it begins with a ritornello constructed from music originally composed for the aria \u2018Aer tranquillo\u2019 from Il r\u00e8 pastore, first performed in Salzburg in April 1775. The deftly crafted, often dramatic interactions between soloist and ensemble in the first movement underline the concerto\u2019s theatrical, heart-on-sleeve character.\\nMozart changes scene in the Adagio, softening its mood by introducing two flutes in lieu of the opening movement\u2019s pair of oboes and sustaining the soloist\u2019s sublime melodic line above a bed of gently pulsating triplet figures. In the spirit of opera, the work delivers a surprise midway in its lively rondo finale: rather than make a decisive final return to his triple-time main theme, three orchestral chords raise the curtain on an Andante episode, a beguiling gavotte cast in duple time, which in turn gives way to a new tune based on \u2018The Strassburger\u2019, a popular hit of the day. Mozart allows the music to meander towards a solo cadenza and the celebratory return of the rondo theme.\\nHaydn Symphony No. 49 in F minor\\nHaydn\u2019s Symphony No.49 in F minor projects the fluid nature of musical categories during the mid-1700s. The work, written for the Esterh\u00e1zy court orchestra and dated to 1768 in the composer\u2019s autograph manuscript, follows the traditional form of the church or \u2018da chiesa\u2019 symphony. Scholarly consensus suggested that the symphony was conceived for performance during Holy Week, a proposition supported by its early acquisition of the name La passione and an anecdote that it received its first performance on Good Friday. Recent research, however, raises the prospect that it was inspired by a German translation of a French comedy popular with Viennese audiences, concerned not least with the antics of a \u2018good-natured\u2019 English Quaker, all far removed from Christ\u2019s suffering on the cross.\\nEach of the symphony\u2019s four movements, cast in the same key of F minor, opens with an idea based on four notes (C, D-flat, B-flat and C), possibly derived from an ancient plainsong melody. Haydn opens with a solemn Adagio, the fluctuating rhythmic energy and momentary pauses of which would certainly suit the ritual recollection of Christ\u2019s Passion. The symphony\u2019s emotional intensity has been likened to the expressive movement in German literature known as Sturm und Drang (\u2018Storm and Stress\u2019), an analogy that works well in the case of La passione. The wild energy of the work\u2019s second movement, for instance, appears to project a vivid tone-painting of the earthquake that struck upon the instant of Jesus\u2019 death. Haydn heightens the music\u2019s expressive turbulence by confronting the listener with sudden repetitions of his thrusting main theme which he punctuates with foreshortened, anxious-sounding developments of the movement\u2019s thematic material.\\nThe Haydn scholar H.C. Robbins Landon aptly described the Minuet and Trio of La passione as \u2018a kind of oasis between the quick movements.\u2019 The Minuet\u2019s noble bearing, however, is depressed by its unsettling shifts between the minor and major modes; only the Trio, with what Robbins Landon calls \u2018the gunmetal gleam of its high horn notes,\u2019 offers respite from the symphony\u2019s prevailing melancholy. Haydn\u2019s four-note unifying motif returns in the Presto finale, albeit disguised by its absorption into a modified melodic line, serves as the monothematic idea that binds the movement together and propels the work to its emphatic close.\\nABOUT THE ARTIST\\nViolinist Daniel Hope has been performing worldwide as a soloist for more than 30 years. He is celebrated for his musical creativity and his commitment to humanitarian causes. An exclusive Deutsche Grammophon artist since 2007, Hope travels the globe as both chamber musician and soloist, collaborating with leading orchestras and conductors. Music Director of the Zurich Chamber Orchestra since 2016, in 2018 he took up the same position with San Francisco\u2019s New Century Chamber Orchestra. In 2019, he became Artistic Director of the Frauenkirche Dresden, and he has been President of the Beethoven-Haus in Bonn since 2020, succeeding Joseph Joachim and Kurt Masur. Hope is a welcome guest in famous concert halls and at renowned festivals from New York's Carnegie Hall to the Sydney Opera House, from Salzburg to Aspen and Tanglewood, from Schleswig-Holstein and Gstaad to the BBC Proms in London. He works regularly with conductors including Christoph Eschenbach, Simon Rattle, Vladimir Jurowski, Iv\u00e1n Fischer and Christian Thielemann, as well as with the major symphony orchestras in Berlin, Boston, Chicago, London, Los Angeles, Paris, Tokyo and many others. He works closely with the leading composers of our time, such as Alfred Schnittke, Gy\u00f6rgy Kurt\u00e1g, Mark-Anthony Turnage, T\u014dru Takemitsu and Tan Dun. His discography includes more than 30 albums, which have received awards including the German Record Critics\u2019 Prize, the Diapason d'Or of the Year, the Edison Classical Award and the Prix Caecilia and are regularly acclaimed by the press (New York Times: \\\"one of the best albums of the year\u201d; Gramophone: \u201ctop choice of all available recordings\u201d).\\nHope studied violin with Zakhar Bron, Itzhak Rashkovsky and Felix Andrievsky and completed his training at London\u2019s Royal Academy of Music. He worked closely with his mentor Yehudi Menuhin, with whom he gave numerous concerts. Hope holds the Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany and was awarded the European Culture Prize in 2015. He lives with his family in Switzerland and plays the \\\"Ex-Lipi\u0144ski\\\" Guarneri del Ges\u00f9 from 1742, which is generously made available to him.\\nThe Polish Chamber Orchestra was formed in 1972 as a group of 24 musicians from the Warsaw Chamber Opera\u2019s ensemble who had a desire to perform chamber orchestral repertoire away from the theatrical stage. The Orchestra has performed at venues such as Barbican Center and Albert Hall in London, Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Kennedy Center in Washington, Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall in New York City. It has showcased many distinguished soloists including Gidon Kremer and Yehudi Menuhin. It performed under such conductors as Charles Dutoit, Yehudi Menuhin, and Mstislav Rostropovich. The ensemble\u2019s breakthrough moment came when its 1977 British tour resulted in a multi-record contract with EMI. 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Decatur Road, Atlanta GA 30322Tickets\nSunday, March 2 at 6:30 PMVilar Performing Arts Center8 Avondale Lane, Beaver Creek, CO 81620Tickets\nPROGRAM:\nChristoph Willibald Gluck (1714-1787)\"Dance of the Furies\" from Orfeo ed Euridice, Wq. 30\nFranz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in G Major, Hob. VIIa:4\nI. Allegro moderatoII. AdagioIII. Finale: Allegro\nWojciech Kilar (1932-2013)Orawa\nWolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 3 in G Major, KV216\nI. AllegroII. AdagioIII. Rondeau: Allegro\nFranz Joseph HaydnSymphony No. 49 in F minor \u2018La passione\u2019\nI. AdagioII. Allegro di moltoIII. Menuet e TrioIV. Presto\nPROGRAM SUBJECT TO CHANGE\nThe Polish Chamber Orchestra performs across the United States this February and March with versatile violinist Daniel Hope, \"the most exciting British string player since Jacqueline du Pr\u00e9\" (New York Times). The \"Journey to Mozart\" program includes violin concertos by Haydn and Mozart, Haydn's Symphony No. 49 in F minor 'La passione,' and works by Gluck and the Polish composer Wojciech Kilar.\nThis is the first time the Polish Chamber Orchestra has toured in the U.S. since 2006. The ensemble was formed in 1972 and has performed in the world's most prestigious concert halls under conductors Charles Dutoit, Yehudi Menuhin, and Mstislav Rostropovich, among others. Their performances and recordings have garnered international attention over decades, praised for their \"glistening dynamism\" and \"sculpted, strongly-contoured playing\" (The Independent). The Polish Chamber Orchestra operates under the auspices of Sinfonia Varsovia.\n\"I am thrilled to perform this profound program with the Polish Chamber Orchestra,\" says Daniel Hope. \"I am excited for U.S. audiences to experience the unparalleled musicianship of this fantastic orchestra with whom I have had a long-lasting artistic relationship. Making music with them is an absolute joy.\" Read Daniel Hope's interview with EarRelevant. The podcast interview with Sinfonia Varsovia director Janusz Marynowsi is available at direct links: YouTube, Spotify, Apple.\nPROGRAM NOTES \nGluck: Dance of the Furies from Orfeo ed Euridice, Wq. 30\nA musical time-traveler would certainly be delighted and doubtless surprised to land in Vienna or any of the other great cities of the Habsburg Empire in the mid-1700s. There they would discover the correspondence between the rapidly evolving forms of the symphony, the concerto, the ballet, and the opera, close not just in terms of compositional styles but also, and perhaps above all, of the vitality and passion embedded in the language of the music itself. The sounds of street songs, tavern dances, fairground troupes, and military bands also filtered into the world of the concert hall and opera house, sometimes used for the sake of irony, sometimes for the sake of wit, often to add aesthetic variety and fresh colors to already colorful compositions.\nEmpress Maria Theresa was present at the first performance of Orfeo ed Euridice, given at the Burgtheater in Vienna in 1762. Gluck\u2019s work marked a root-and-branch reform of the \u2018serious\u2019 style of Italian opera with which audiences were familiar, stripping away many of its convoluted conventions to uncover the all-too-human drama at the heart of one of the best known of all Greek myths. In keeping with the prevailing attitudes of the Enlightenment, Gluck struck the ideal balance between reason and sentiment, the former applied to matters of form, harmony, and phrasing, the latter to his music\u2019s power to stir the affections. Orfeo ed Euridice soon found favor across Europe; one production, staged for Prince Nikolaus I of Esterh\u00e1zy in 1776, was conducted by Joseph Haydn.\nThe Dance of the Furies was added to the French-language version of the opera that Gluck created in 1774 for the Acad\u00e9mie Royal in Paris, where it crowns the dramatic opening scene of the second act. \u2018This opera displays the fine talents of the dancers with lively effect,\u2019 noted the Mercure de France after the revised work\u2019s first performance. The piece, which the composer recycled from the final number of his ballet Don Juan, harnesses the energy of the malign spirits, the Furies, who have struggled to prevent Orfeo from entering the Underworld to rescue his beloved Euridice only to be tamed by the eloquence of his singing. Their fleeting display of tender mercy gives way to the quivering arpeggios, demonic descending scales, and blaring horn calls of the Furies\u2019 dance.\nHaydn: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in G Major, Hob. VIIa:4\nHaydn was sufficiently competent as a violinist to play professionally for court balls in Vienna in the mid-1750s. Throughout the following decade, having taken up the post of assistant Kapellmeister to the Esterh\u00e1zy family in 1761, he composed little other than instrumental music; he also assumed responsibility for raising the standards of the court orchestra at the Esterh\u00e1zy\u2019s palace at Eisenstadt. Haydn had the good fortune to work with the Eisenstadt band\u2019s concertmaster, Luigi Tomasini, who had been brought to the court from Italy as a page in the early 1750s and later studied violin with Mozart\u2019s father, Leopold. Tomasini and Haydn became close friends, the latter standing as godfather to several of the former\u2019s children. The first of the concertos for violin listed in Haydn\u2019s personal catalogue of works was, according to a note in the composer\u2019s hand, \u2018fatto per il luigi\u2019 (\u2018made for Luigi\u2019).\nThe Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in G major appears in the thematic catalogue of compositions issued in 1769 by Breitkopf, the Leipzig-based music publisher. While the work\u2019s absence from Haydn\u2019s own catalogue and certain anomalies in its earliest sources have prompted some scholars to doubt its authenticity, the music\u2019s strength of invention and wit present a cast-iron case for attributing it to the composer. Judged not least by the formal simplicity of its outer movements and want of technical fireworks, the work perhaps pre-dates Haydn\u2019s early years at Eisenstadt, possibly written in the late 1750s for the concert master of Count Morzin\u2019s court orchestra; it is likely, however, that it was performed by Tomasini, who would have graced the work\u2019s flourishes with his refined artistry.\nThe concerto opens with an extended orchestral introduction, the elegant principal theme of which is taken up and embellished by the soloist, before serving as a ritornello for the full ensemble. Haydn spices the movement\u2019s pleasing galant style with brief diversions into the minor mode and passages of spirited dialogue for soloist and orchestra. Melody rules the work\u2019s Adagio. Here the solo violin sings an exquisite aria-without-words, its line reinforced by a sonorous accompaniment forged within the movement\u2019s home key of C major or its near-relatives. Haydn\u2019s studies of counterpoint in the stile antico, the \u2018old style\u2019, left their mark on the G-major Concerto\u2019s irresistible finale; likewise, his fascination with the expressive power of folk music to conjure familiar images or emotions associated with popular entertainments registers in the little drone effects he adds to the solo part. The movement unfolds as a study in the art of repetition, simple in its raw material yet rich in the variety of its melodic gestures.\nKilar: Orawa\nRepetition and the subtle development of rhythmic patterns are central to Orawa, Wojciech Kilar\u2019s symphonic poem for string chamber orchestra. The work, written in 1986 for the strings of the Polish Chamber Orchestra, draws its inspiration, and much of its vibrant energy, from the traditional dances of the Tatra highlanders from southwest Poland. It takes its title from the dialect preserved in the village of Orawka and surrounding settlements near the border of Poland and Slovakia. Best known for his soundtrack scores, including those for Roman Polanski\u2019s The Pianist and Francis Ford Coppola\u2019s Bram Stoker\u2019s Dracula, Kilar, who studied with Nadia Boulanger in Paris in the early 1960s, was equally at home (and imaginative) in writing for the concert hall. Orawa captures the generous spirit of Tatra folk music and of the people who created it. \u2018It is pretty much a piece for a magnified folk band and one of the rare examples where I\u2019ve been happy with my work,\u2019 the composer confided in a collection of conversations published posthumously in 2014.\nMozart: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 3 in G Major, KV216\nMozart\u2019s all-round early education was provided by his father, the violinist, composer, and music theorist, Leopold Mozart. In addition to learning the skills of literacy and numeracy, and receiving moral and religious instruction, the boy\u2019s tuition included comprehensive training in the performance and composition of music. He began playing the keyboard at the age of four and added violin and organ to his studies two years later. According to Leopold\u2019s colleague, the Salzburg court trumpeter and violinist Johann Andreas Schachtner, writing in January 1763, the five-year-old Wolfgang was able to play the second violin part in a trio for two violins and viola before he had received a lesson on the instrument: \u201cYou don\u2019t need to have studied to play second violin,\u201d he said, before proving his point. A near-contemporary report from Salzburg, published in the German city of Augsburg, recalled how \u2018the boy can now not only play from the violin clef, but also from the soprano and bass clefs, and takes part in everything on a small violino piccolo made specially for him, having already appeared with a solo [piece] and a concerto at the Salzburg court. Has he then learned this since the New Year?\u2019 Many years later Mozart\u2019s father, a stern critic, expressed frustration that his son, universally feted as a keyboard player, could be the \u2018premier violinist\u2019 in Europe, if only you will do yourself credit and play with energy, with your whole heart and mind\u2019.\nIt is possible that Mozart composed his five Violin Concertos, the last four of which were written between June and December 1775, to demonstrate his solo artistry as incumbent concertmaster of the Prince-Archbishop of Salzburg\u2019s court orchestra. The Violin Concerto No.3 in G major KV 216, created in September 1775, heralds a remarkable development in the quality and maturity of Mozart\u2019s music. The work\u2019s melodic invention, rhythmic elan, and emotional intensity, especially but not exclusively in the central Adagio, echo the expressive language of its composer\u2019s recent stage works, La finta giardiniera and Il r\u00e8 pastore among them. Indeed, it begins with a ritornello constructed from music originally composed for the aria \u2018Aer tranquillo\u2019 from Il r\u00e8 pastore, first performed in Salzburg in April 1775. The deftly crafted, often dramatic interactions between soloist and ensemble in the first movement underline the concerto\u2019s theatrical, heart-on-sleeve character.\nMozart changes scene in the Adagio, softening its mood by introducing two flutes in lieu of the opening movement\u2019s pair of oboes and sustaining the soloist\u2019s sublime melodic line above a bed of gently pulsating triplet figures. In the spirit of opera, the work delivers a surprise midway in its lively rondo finale: rather than make a decisive final return to his triple-time main theme, three orchestral chords raise the curtain on an Andante episode, a beguiling gavotte cast in duple time, which in turn gives way to a new tune based on \u2018The Strassburger\u2019, a popular hit of the day. Mozart allows the music to meander towards a solo cadenza and the celebratory return of the rondo theme.\nHaydn Symphony No. 49 in F minor\nHaydn\u2019s Symphony No.49 in F minor projects the fluid nature of musical categories during the mid-1700s. The work, written for the Esterh\u00e1zy court orchestra and dated to 1768 in the composer\u2019s autograph manuscript, follows the traditional form of the church or \u2018da chiesa\u2019 symphony. Scholarly consensus suggested that the symphony was conceived for performance during Holy Week, a proposition supported by its early acquisition of the name La passione and an anecdote that it received its first performance on Good Friday. Recent research, however, raises the prospect that it was inspired by a German translation of a French comedy popular with Viennese audiences, concerned not least with the antics of a \u2018good-natured\u2019 English Quaker, all far removed from Christ\u2019s suffering on the cross.\nEach of the symphony\u2019s four movements, cast in the same key of F minor, opens with an idea based on four notes (C, D-flat, B-flat and C), possibly derived from an ancient plainsong melody. Haydn opens with a solemn Adagio, the fluctuating rhythmic energy and momentary pauses of which would certainly suit the ritual recollection of Christ\u2019s Passion. The symphony\u2019s emotional intensity has been likened to the expressive movement in German literature known as Sturm und Drang (\u2018Storm and Stress\u2019), an analogy that works well in the case of La passione. The wild energy of the work\u2019s second movement, for instance, appears to project a vivid tone-painting of the earthquake that struck upon the instant of Jesus\u2019 death. Haydn heightens the music\u2019s expressive turbulence by confronting the listener with sudden repetitions of his thrusting main theme which he punctuates with foreshortened, anxious-sounding developments of the movement\u2019s thematic material.\nThe Haydn scholar H.C. Robbins Landon aptly described the Minuet and Trio of La passione as \u2018a kind of oasis between the quick movements.\u2019 The Minuet\u2019s noble bearing, however, is depressed by its unsettling shifts between the minor and major modes; only the Trio, with what Robbins Landon calls \u2018the gunmetal gleam of its high horn notes,\u2019 offers respite from the symphony\u2019s prevailing melancholy. Haydn\u2019s four-note unifying motif returns in the Presto finale, albeit disguised by its absorption into a modified melodic line, serves as the monothematic idea that binds the movement together and propels the work to its emphatic close.\nABOUT THE ARTIST\nViolinist Daniel Hope has been performing worldwide as a soloist for more than 30 years. He is celebrated for his musical creativity and his commitment to humanitarian causes. An exclusive Deutsche Grammophon artist since 2007, Hope travels the globe as both chamber musician and soloist, collaborating with leading orchestras and conductors. Music Director of the Zurich Chamber Orchestra since 2016, in 2018 he took up the same position with San Francisco\u2019s New Century Chamber Orchestra. In 2019, he became Artistic Director of the Frauenkirche Dresden, and he has been President of the Beethoven-Haus in Bonn since 2020, succeeding Joseph Joachim and Kurt Masur. Hope is a welcome guest in famous concert halls and at renowned festivals from New York's Carnegie Hall to the Sydney Opera House, from Salzburg to Aspen and Tanglewood, from Schleswig-Holstein and Gstaad to the BBC Proms in London. He works regularly with conductors including Christoph Eschenbach, Simon Rattle, Vladimir Jurowski, Iv\u00e1n Fischer and Christian Thielemann, as well as with the major symphony orchestras in Berlin, Boston, Chicago, London, Los Angeles, Paris, Tokyo and many others. He works closely with the leading composers of our time, such as Alfred Schnittke, Gy\u00f6rgy Kurt\u00e1g, Mark-Anthony Turnage, T\u014dru Takemitsu and Tan Dun. His discography includes more than 30 albums, which have received awards including the German Record Critics\u2019 Prize, the Diapason d'Or of the Year, the Edison Classical Award and the Prix Caecilia and are regularly acclaimed by the press (New York Times: \"one of the best albums of the year\u201d; Gramophone: \u201ctop choice of all available recordings\u201d).\nHope studied violin with Zakhar Bron, Itzhak Rashkovsky and Felix Andrievsky and completed his training at London\u2019s Royal Academy of Music. He worked closely with his mentor Yehudi Menuhin, with whom he gave numerous concerts. Hope holds the Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany and was awarded the European Culture Prize in 2015. He lives with his family in Switzerland and plays the \"Ex-Lipi\u0144ski\" Guarneri del Ges\u00f9 from 1742, which is generously made available to him.\nThe Polish Chamber Orchestra was formed in 1972 as a group of 24 musicians from the Warsaw Chamber Opera\u2019s ensemble who had a desire to perform chamber orchestral repertoire away from the theatrical stage. The Orchestra has performed at venues such as Barbican Center and Albert Hall in London, Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Kennedy Center in Washington, Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall in New York City. It has showcased many distinguished soloists including Gidon Kremer and Yehudi Menuhin. It performed under such conductors as Charles Dutoit, Yehudi Menuhin, and Mstislav Rostropovich. The ensemble\u2019s breakthrough moment came when its 1977 British tour resulted in a multi-record contract with EMI. The Orchestra won multiple awards, including the Wiener Fl\u00f6tenuhr for best Mozart recording.\nPolish Chamber Orchestra operates under the auspices of Sinfonia Varsovia and is both a standalone orchestra and a cultural institution administrated by the capital city of Warsaw focusing on the chamber orchestra repertoire, maintaining the highest quality of performance, precision and vividness for which it has become known.\nPolish Chamber Orchestra of Sinfonia VarsoviaMr. Janusz Marynowski, Director\nFIRST VIOLINAdam Siebers, concertmasterArtur GadzalaKarolina GutowskaMagdalena KrzyzanowskaKrzysztof Oczko\nSECOND VIOLINKamil StaniczekOlivia Bujnowicz-WadowskaEwelina MisztalArtur Konowalik\nVIOLAMateusz DoniecTomasz RosinskiJacek NyczMariusz Kisielinski\nCELLOKrystyna WisniewskaMateusz BlaszczakJan Lewandowski\nDOUBLE BASSKarol KinalMateusz Wadowski\nOBOEPaulina SochajAdam Szlezak\nHORNPawel PietkaRoman Sykta\nThe 2025 US tour of the Polish Chamber Orchestra is co-financed by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland."},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"pl-PL","@id":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/2025\/01\/14\/daniel-hope-with-the-polish-chamber-orchestra-of-sinfonia-varsovia-journey-to-mozart\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2025\/01\/fot.-serwis-SV-2024.12.09-162-1.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2025\/01\/fot.-serwis-SV-2024.12.09-162-1.jpg","width":1500,"height":844},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/2025\/01\/14\/daniel-hope-with-the-polish-chamber-orchestra-of-sinfonia-varsovia-journey-to-mozart\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Daniel Hope with the Polish Chamber Orchestra of Sinfonia Varsovia: \u201cJourney to Mozart\u201d"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/#website","url":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/","name":"Instytut Polski w Nowym Jorku","description":"Instytuty Polskie","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"pl-PL"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/#\/schema\/person\/c732b2695ee92026d080eec35471c7f1","name":"stypulkowskaa","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"pl-PL","@id":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/a29bb1802c91e057084d5d112dd59dc4?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/a29bb1802c91e057084d5d112dd59dc4?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"stypulkowskaa"},"url":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/author\/stypulkowskaa-2\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15232"}],"version-history":[{"count":47,"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16407,"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15232\/revisions\/16407"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}