The programme will feature works by Chopin, Brahms, Dvořák, and Grażyna Bacewicz, one of the most prominent female composers of the 20th century.
Highlights include Chopin’s Piano Concertos and Bacewicz’s Divertimento for Strings.
The orchestra will perform under the baton of its music director, American conductor Marin Alsop, with acclaimed Japanese pianists Hayato Sumino and Masaya Kamei as soloists in the Chopin pieces.
Marin Alsop. Photo: GIAN EHRENZELLER/PAP/EPA
This will mark NOSPR’s seventh tour of Japan.
Founded in 1935 in Warsaw by conductor Grzegorz Fitelberg, the ensemble was reestablished in the southern city of Katowice after World War II and has remained based there since.
NOSPR has long been regarded as one of Poland’s leading cultural ambassadors, representing the country at top classical music festivals and on tours across Europe, the Americas, Australia and New Zealand.
The orchestra has a strong legacy of collaboration with leading Polish composers, including Witold Lutosławski, Henryk Mikołaj Górecki and Krzysztof Penderecki, and has premiered many of their works.
Its discography includes more than 200 CDs for major labels such as Decca, EMI, Philips, Chandos and Naxos.
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