Held under the motto “Remembering Together,” the concert will round off observances of Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom HaShoah).
The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra will be conducted by prominent Polish conductor Łukasz Borowicz.
The programme of the concert includes the Adagietto from the opera Paradise Lost by Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki (1933-2020); The Trumpet Concerto by Polish-Jewish composer Mieczysław Weinberg (1919-1996), with Reinhold Friedrich as the soloist; and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7.
The same programme will be repeated on April 20 in Haifa, and on April 22 again in Tel Aviv. On April 23 in Tel Aviv, C.M. von Weber’s Second Clarinet Concerto will be performed instead of Weinberg’s work, with Yevgeny Yehudin as the soloist.
Borowicz currently serves as music director of the Philharmonic Orchestra in Poznań, western Poland.
Łukasz Borowicz. Photo: PAP/Jacek Bednarczyk
The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra is named after Polish violinist Bronisław Huberman, who founded it in 1936. Then known as the Palestine Philharmonic, the orchestra provided refuge from Nazi persecution to nearly 1,000 European Jews.
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