The Sinfonia Varsovia is conducted by Alexander Liebreich, a former director of the National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra in the southern Polish city of Katowice, who currently serves as artistic director of the Richard Strauss Festival in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.
Prominent German virtuoso Viviane Hagner is the soloist in Brahms’s Violin Concerto in D major.
Meanwhile, Lutosławski’s Funeral Music, which is also on the concert programme, is one of the Polish composer’s early works. It was written to mark the 10th anniversary of the death of Hungarian composer Béla Bartók (1881-1945).
On Wednesday, the Sinfonia Varsovia is scheduled to perform in the northeastern Spanish city of Barcelona.
The concerts are part of the orchestra’s first foreign tour after more than a year as pandemic restrictions are gradually eased across Europe.
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