The performance will also feature the London Philharmonic Choir and soloists: soprano Juliana Grigoryan, mezzo-soprano Agnieszka Rehlis and bass Kostas Smoriginas, with Edward Gardner on the conductor’s podium.
The concert focuses on 20th-century Central European music from Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic.
In addition to Szymanowski’s Stabat Mater, the programme includes Rustic Suite and Waving Farewell by Vítězslava Kaprálová, as well as Béla Bartók’s The Wooden Prince.
Gardner, the London Philharmonic Orchestra's principal conductor, has championed Polish music for many years. His discography includes several recordings of works by Szymanowski and Witold Lutosławski.
Born in 1882 in Tymoszówka, now in Ukraine, Szymanowski was one of the most prominent composers of the 20th century. He is widely regarded as a figure who brought Polish music of the first half of the century into the European mainstream.
After initially studying music at home, he moved to Warsaw, where he took private lessons in harmony and composition and later studied under Zygmunt Noskowski at the Warsaw Music Institute.
He travelled extensively across southern Europe, North Africa and the United States.
After Poland regained independence, his music developed a strong sense of national consciousness, reflected in works such as the ballet Harnasie and Stabat Mater.
His diverse output includes numerous piano works, two violin concertos and the opera King Roger, which was staged at London’s Royal Opera House in 2015.
Szymanowski died in March 1937 at a sanatorium in Lausanne, Switzerland, and was given a state funeral in Kraków, southern Poland.
A museum dedicated to his life and work is open to the public at the Atma villa in the Tatra resort town of Zakopane, where he lived toward the end of his life.
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